Re: How to install Eclipse 3.5 on Debian 5 (lenny) stable release ?

2010-01-10 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey there, Yes, as far as I know that would work, but if you are not careful you will end up upgrading you'er whole system to sid (as someone who added unstable sources to his Lenny install once by accident and ended up in dependency hell with half the system upgraded and half not). Also sid is

Re: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports

2010-01-14 Thread Angus Hedger
http://www.openoffice.org/ On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 14 January 2010 11:00:06 Paul Cartwright wrote: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports OOo 3 ?? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Nvidia GT220 inquiry

2010-01-29 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I haven't upgraded my Testing partition in at least two weeks, in order to avoid any problems with the new linux kernel in a period of time that I needed a well-functioning computer for my exams. Right now

Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos

2010-01-31 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward J. Shornock ed.shorn...@gmail.com writes: On 30.01.2010 20:57, Merciadri Luca wrote: Nuno Magalhãesnunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt writes: On Sat,

Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos

2010-01-31 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: On 01/31/2010 07:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: Some animations, multimedia applications or control buttons for validating user input data that are embedded in a flash container need to call external (x)html code

Re: Games in Linux?

2010-02-01 Thread Angus Hedger
Hello, See: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ and http://appdb.winehq.org/ Regards, Angus. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Juhana Sadeharju kou...@nic.funet.fiwrote: Has anyone written a document which explains all about GNU/Linux gaming? Introduces worth of playing games. Explains how to

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com : but you need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel It was true 2 years ago. Most CPUs are now OK, unless those on netbooks. But who would virtualize on

Kernel opps'es and lock-up under heavy TCP/IP traffic - Squeeze AMD64

2010-02-04 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey there. I have been finding when I am doing anything network intensive (for example bit-torrent) I have been getting alarmingly regular kernel oops's, also on one occasion the system has locked up around the time one of these oops's occurred. One of the submitted kernel oopses:

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-01 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: snip Thanks for all the suggestions. I had a go with the above site using the powerful command: #dpkg --force-depends --force-architecture --force-overwrite -i to install the suggested libs:

Re: Driver for Gigabyte NVidia GV-N220OC-1GI card?

2010-03-02 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, As far as I know, Lenny and squeeze do not have the newest nVidia binary driver packaged, and I think you need the newest ( 19X.XXX ) driver to use that card, I cant check because nVidias website seems to be down at the moment though. There is two ways to install the nVidia driver the

Re: Driver for Gigabyte NVidia GV-N220OC-1GI card?

2010-03-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Angus Hedger demide...@gmail.com wrote: snip 1) The easy automatic way, with sgfxi: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html Wow ! The script is 6268 line long

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: snip You're right Angus, and I did take precautions, that is why I was still able to post to the newsgroup, however I thought maybe an extra emphasis wouldn't hurt. I'm not confident that getting the

Re: wrong resolution with ATI and open source drivers

2010-03-03 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, Maybe try setting up the drivers with sgfxi? http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html Regards, Angus.

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-04 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, I have used this guide before to install fonts: http://www.wikihow.com/Install-True-Type-Fonts-on-Ubuntu http://www.wikihow.com/Install-True-Type-Fonts-on-UbuntuIt says Ubuntu but it works fine for debian (done it on lenny and squeeze) Regards, Angus. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM,

Re: Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-05 Thread Angus Hedger
I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website (195.36.08, URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_195.36.08.html), which I understand covers many more GPUs than my GT220 causes X

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Freeman eve...@worldwidehtml.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:50:12PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: Should I go NTFS now for my data files? (keeping the main Lenny root filesystem on an

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Aioanei Rares debian.dev.l...@gmail.com wrote: Squeeze is testing at the moment, so what is written in the wiki regarding testing works for you. Just follow the instructions

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-09 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: thib put forth on 3/8/2010 5:10 PM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: I'm constantly Googling trying to find new ones. Apparently (and unfortunately), thoughtful, thorough, and fair comparative Linux filesytem benchmarking

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Angus Hedger
snip On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I noticed that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) is listed by aptitude as being

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:37 + Angus Hedger demide...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Angus, When you get a new kernel via apt the old one is not removed, In the past, the new kernel has been made the default kernel

Re: [OT] iceweasel vs. Firefox

2010-03-21 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 2010-03-21 07:54, John Hasler wrote: Stephen Powell writes: This is off topic, but why exactly did Debian have to rebrand Firefox as iceweasel for their distribution? Mozilla owns the FIREFOX trademark and

Re: which kernel

2010-03-21 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: Recently the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel was posted to testing. When it was added to the grub menu it was put *after* the 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel. Which is the newer kernel? If 2.6.32-3 is newer why was it placed in second position?

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Jen fluffy_bunny_1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hello, I can't read your message. I'm not sure if its because of the screen reading software I'm using, so could you send it in plain text, in case it's my accessibility software? Cheers, Jen! snip Hey, Its a

Re: Where is this deb.opera.com repository still coming from?

2010-03-24 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Tech Geek techgeek12...@gmail.com wrote: I was under the impression that whenever you run apt-get update it reads the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and fetches the contents of it but apparently something else is going on too... So somtime

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jen fluffy_bunny_1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I've installed linux-image-2.6.32-4-i686, but I can't boot in to the new kernel. I have also installed the latest version of grub. What do I now have to do to get my machine to boot from the new kernel? I've been told

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva mura...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC.  Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed.  Today the player starts but the video is squished horizontally (it

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matteo Riva mura...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger demide...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Do you use the debian multimedia repo? Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only thing I could do to fix

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
snip Is vlc really in d-m?  It's in my sources.list ('apt-cache policy' demonstrates it), but vlc only seems to be in Debian. m...@haggis:~$ apt-cache policy vlc vlc:  Installed: 1.0.6-1  Candidate: 1.0.6-1  Version table:  *** 1.0.6-1 0        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/main

Re: Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system

2010-07-07 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:30 AM, John W Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 21:57 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system. I have a DVD Player thet simply does not work with Debian. I've never used one b/4 on Linux so

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

2010-07-18 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-07-18 11:22 +0200, Jason Filippou wrote: 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

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-25 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might find interesting. All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the

Re: Debian Squeeze - Wine 1.2

2010-07-29 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: 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

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-08 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Alexander Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with deb packages. the current situation is 2.6.35 is avail in experimental (?!) with out a linux-kbuild packages - last time I asked about this it was

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-09 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:10:10 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: I have been fumbling my way though building custom kernels on debian using this guide http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm. Though, I have been

Re: I was told to MSN somebody

2010-08-11 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I was told to MSN somebody. So which MSN replacement program do you folks recommend of $ apt-cache search MSN | wc -l 53 given that I don't use KDE etc. but just nodm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Alexander Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi Well its still doesn't work.  I am trying to build the VB kernel modules and well it fails. I need to build the linux-kbuild-2.6.35, working with linux-source just doesn't work ... (I don't want to build a new

Strange google chrome gdk error.

2010-08-13 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, I have this odd error that has been bugging me, and I haven't been able to google up anything to help me fix it, only stuff I could find was from 2002 on a freeBSD mailing list. To summarise my problem; I have a quite resource heavy windows program i run in WINE via playonlinux, after

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:50 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: The latest version of my kernel building web page, revised yesterday (http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm), recommends

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey! On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:50 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote: The only issues I ran into when building headers via make-kpkg where as follows, Make sure you use the same -append-to-version -stuff-here line as you do when building your kernel, or they wont match up and it wont find

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: snippy I don't think that this is a bug.  I think you're trying to mix and match two different ways of doing things.  There are two basic ways of creating an out-of-kernel-source-tree module from source: (1)

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, Sorry for the double, but forgot something! On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: snippy $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \   --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image Quick question, is there an

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:27:12 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: ... $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \   --initrd --rootcmd

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jangita jang...@jangita.com wrote: Hello Good people, snip Questions are (without starting a which is the best war...) 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? If you want a gtk+ based DE, try xfce, I find KDE a bit flashy for

Re: module-assistant not detecting kernel headers

2010-08-23 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:12:35 -0400 Anticept . antic...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using a custom built kernel that I've created with make-kpkg using the debian kernel source, and I've also created and installed kernel-source and kernel-headers with that same utility. I need to rebuild the alsa

Re: playing ARF files

2010-08-23 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:26:46 +0200 mess-mate messm...@free.fr wrote: Hi all, I need playing back a lesson downloaded as an *.arf file. VLC can't (squeeze/amd64). Any other appl i don't knox ? kind regards Looks like you have two options, installing the WebEx player in WINE, or converting

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Angus Hedger
. Your reply should always be beneath what you're replying to. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ia64? amd64

2010-09-02 Thread Angus Hedger
AMD64, because if you where using Itanium cpu's you would know ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

2010-09-04 Thread Angus Hedger
. J. [1]http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Angus Hedger
-offtopic If you still want to build your own kernel, build it off the updated debian src, or build the kernel modules into there own package. Or if you want to use a newer mainline, think about building the ati driver as well ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key

Re: [debian-user] Any one getting aptitude frozen on update with Translation-en bzip2 ?

2010-09-05 Thread Angus Hedger
http://ftp.uk.debian.org. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Angus Hedger
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Re: libept0 -- Needed or not?

2010-09-05 Thread Angus Hedger
not seem to clear -- libept0. So do I allow it to be uninstalled or should I wait longer for the update? It seems to have been replaced with libept1, So it should be fine to be removed. thanks, --b No problem. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-05 Thread Angus Hedger
_any_ writes in hda6? Yup! Thanks! Rodolfo Good luck! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-06 Thread Angus Hedger
as rw and do it from there. But if you cant do that, then I suppose it should be ok. I dont *think* shutting down will cause any problems, but I am not 100% sure. Excuse so many questions, but the issue is a major one. Thanks Rodolfo -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Angus Hedger
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Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Angus Hedger
DDR2 @ 800mhz Squeeze AMD64 with 2.6.35.4 kernel nVidia 260GTX with newest blob. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:02:25 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 08. 09. 2010 01:20:22 je Angus Hedger napisal(a): [1] http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=4I7n Great link, thanx! No problem, due to not having anything better todo, I did some

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:12:56 -0500 Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: On 09/08/2010 08:50 AM, Angus Hedger wrote: No problem, due to not having anything better todo, I did some comparisons of windows 7 vs Debian, see here [1] and [2], I ran everything I could get to finish the test and install

Re: aptitude called chromium-browser obsolete

2010-09-08 Thread Angus Hedger
come out, and considering they don't support older versions in terms of security updates. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Angus Hedger
that it's to be integrated into the browser. (Well, the Google version, anyway.) I wonder how that's going to work. Only on windows! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Angus Hedger
for correcting my misapprehension about the future of flash implementation in chromium-browser. Your welcome! Regards, Gilbert -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-08 Thread Angus Hedger
working canvus and hopefully 2D acceleration (At the moment, turning it all on results in the browser just outputting a black screen inside the ui), WebGL is already working (with command line switches). [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-09 Thread Angus Hedger
kernel headers. [1] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-headers-2.6-searchon=namessuite=allsection=all -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Angus Hedger
. ;) Thanks. [1] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: apt and qt4-X11 bugs in testing upgrade?

2010-09-10 Thread Angus Hedger
is pretty low! Thanks! I'm selfishly relieved that it wasn't something specific to my machine :-) :-)) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
here [1], I just changed from using the 32bit one under nsplugins and it seems faster/more stable! [1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
directed friends to debian and they haven’t had any problems installing it, be it the squeeze alpha 1 installer or others. Not that I have had to reinstall debian in a long time, so I am not to up-to date with how the installer looks at the moment ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
Regards Dale [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Debian_LibStick Slightly OT: I like the look of some of the bits you have in your conky set-up in that screenshot, any chance of getting a copy? ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:57:43 +1200 Bruce Ward bmw...@orcon.net.nz wrote: snip (Note this is a toy laptop - 48MB RAM - running Lenny with a PCMCIA wireless card with a Marvell chip) snip Bruce ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Angus Hedger
:-) Well, it's better than nothing... Greetings, At least this new x64 flashplugin is more stable than the 32bit one under nsplugins, thats all I ask of the stupid thing. Works fine with chrome v7-dev/ff3.6.9 both x64, still pegs a core or so playing videos, sigh! -- Regards, Angus

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Angus Hedger
and drop it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it should be picked up by pretty much everything! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Angus Hedger
. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-18 Thread Angus Hedger
/raid would need to be able to sustain around about 120-200MB/s. So it would need to be a highend FPGA/Raid, but the whole thing could probs be had for around about £1000 + disks. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Help me understand these dependencies (xorg/video drivers)

2010-09-21 Thread Angus Hedger
pending actions. sudo aptitude then press e or click actions cancel pending actions. Also, can I safely remove every xserver-xorg-video-* except the one I'm using? Yup Thanks. Good luck. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc

Re: Help me understand these dependencies (xorg/video drivers)

2010-09-21 Thread Angus Hedger
actions. sudo aptitude then press e or click actions cancel pending actions. Apparently there are no pending actions, I still can't understand why those packages are being installed. Did the solver give you any other options? -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public

Re: Help me understand these dependencies (xorg/video drivers)

2010-09-21 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:14:20 +0200 Matteo Riva mura...@gmail.com wrote: snippy Ah yes, removing xserver-xorg-video-all solved it, thanks. Glad to hear it, I have always found xorg to have the most, sensitive dependencies ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key

Re: Re (2): WMP and Flash in Squeeze

2010-09-21 Thread Angus Hedger
://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

2010-09-23 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: The Matrix, coming for us :-) Greetings, Quick, check for dead pixels! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ERROR: Firmware file b43/ucode5.fw not found

2010-09-24 Thread Angus Hedger
remember doing anything else than installing b43-fwcutter on lenny but sure enough /lib/firmware on lenny has /b43 and /b43legacy and on sid it doesn't so the firmware is missing. What am I doing wrong? Hugo Try installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package. -- Regards, Angus Hedger

Re: Can I have a working VLC in Lenny, and transcode, and ffmpeg?

2010-09-25 Thread Angus Hedger
perfectly for me here (I am using AMD64 rather than i386, so ymmv, but it should be fine!) Good luck [1]http://www.transcoding.org/transcode?Building_Transcode -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-25 Thread Angus Hedger
naive about anything? Your comments much appreciated. If you want such a complex set-up, try using LVM [1]. Myself, I would just have 80gig hdd's in raid 1 /boot 500meg / Rest 500gig HDD's /home Thanks a lot for your time, [1]http://wiki.debian.org/LVM -- Regards, Angus Hedger

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
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Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:37:34 -0400 Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sun September 26 2010, Angus Hedger wrote: Sorry for the long post! wow, if I was looking for a card, that would be exactly the info I would want, no less!! great post! One trys ones best, thanks! I

Re: Netbook Potential

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
on. There are quite a few different ones around, if you can find one that is already running some kind of Linux, getting debian on there wouldn’t be so hard ;) Thanks snippy [1]http://devio.us/~nextvolume/via_arm/viewtopic.php?id=4t_id=41 -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key

Re: Netbook Potential

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
, it is almost disposable. Sorry for the double post, but i found this [1] which seems to be a linux distro aimed at the cpu in that smartbook/notebook/somethingbook [1]http://projectgus.com/files/abrasive_mirror/wm8505_linux/ -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Angus Hedger
video acceleration works so much better with the nVidia blob and vdpau. It all really depends on your workload requirements! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-28 Thread Angus Hedger
. Enjoy! -M Thanks! Was wondering when it would make its way there, saved me the trouble of checking ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-28 Thread Angus Hedger
don’t remember having any such problems with xfce under lenny, and my friend who runs lenny/xfce isnt online at the moment so i cant check, but I thing it is probs a problem with your machine. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description

Re: xfce4: periodic random backdrop change

2010-09-29 Thread Angus Hedger
=projectsname=wally Thanks for that, I have been looking for a GUI wallpaper changer that knows what todo with xfce, cheers! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread Angus Hedger
/ProductDetail?prodID=28201 [5] http://www.mypreciouskid.com/child-locator.html -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:21:56 +0800 Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: 在 2010-09-30四的 18:20 +0100,Angus Hedger写道: 183M (ish) less without LoS http://www.babysecurity.co.uk/products/2077/Loc8tor-Plus-Homing-Tracker-Locator-%26-Personal-Panic-Alarm.html (UK link) Thanks a lot

Re: What is blocking my sound?

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
? Thanks. :) Linux has handled hyperthreading since 2.4.x. As for performance, see here [1] in general it doesn’t hurt performance, but doesn’t help much either. [1] http://java-monitor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=552 -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
to do some of my own. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ECS 6100 PM-K2-v7 BB-3801G

2010-10-03 Thread Angus Hedger
/Barebones/Novatech/BB-3801G.html [2]http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ECS 6100 PM-K2-v7 BB-3801G

2010-10-03 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:20:03 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2010 10:05:11 Angus Hedger wrote: snippy I had a real hard time finding out what the motherboard was, is it this? [1]. It should all work fine, its very standard hardware. Sorry. :-) My bad to use

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-03 Thread Angus Hedger
the nVidia kernel modules in lockset with new stock kernels Run # nvidia-xconfig This will setup the xorg.conf Then reload X Also see [1] [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Installation-1 -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-03 Thread Angus Hedger
. The 6 series is still supported 195.36.31 series which is the newest in squeeze, its even still supported in the newest 2xx driver. It seems the nouveau driver has some problems with the 6100. -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-03 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:37:20 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/3/2010 2:27 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/3/2010 2:04 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: As I said, things are working fine it's just that I'm curious as to why the nvidia driver was not found. You need the following

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-03 Thread Angus Hedger
2nd screen, so I cant comment there. Sven -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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