Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? Is the card being recognised? What are you trying to do? What have

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
unarchive 617940 reopen 617940 thanks This bug still exists. See message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg9.html and despite that it says there are no followups there are!, starting at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg9.html The reason(s) for this bug

reopening 617940 and archive software (was Re: xsesssion-errors)

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 04:25:54PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So what now? If the bug needs re-opening, unarchive it and reopen it: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control Probably something like this to cont

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: ¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html No mention about security support in that post either ..., or was it in another thread? Are you wearing your glasses now? Don't need them! You don't spell Security

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: When they are only different in version, then what is bad about having packages from Debian-multimedia, and why should I remove them? Read this: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ Also, just found this:

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:37:28PM +0200, lee wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:29:32PM +0200, lee wrote: Fvwm-crystal is awesome. Huh? Compare apt-cache show fvwm-crystal with apt-cache show awesome They are completely different

Re: Display settings issue

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post. Reformatted] On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0530, Bilal mk wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: Please also attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and any file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (if any of exists). See

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
Jude, If ls -al /dev/mixer is not there, check that the package oss-compat is installed? If not sure post output of apt-cache policy oss-compat Hopefully this will fix it. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:06:30PM +0200, lee wrote: Having that said, alsa doesn't fully work in that the microphone input of the on-board sound card is dead ever since audacious did something to it. Pulseaudio won't fix that, and better don't ever run audacious ... Start a new thread, and no

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:21:59AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Hi list, I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press Fn + Up/Down to set the screen contrast level. On the others,

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:39:59PM +0200, lee wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: Read this: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ Also, just found this: http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/06/debian-project-leader-stefano.html That's interesting

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:29:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 05 sep 12, 00:04:24, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian? You can build them yourself using the build dependencies

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:29:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:24:52 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: (...) Please keep debian-user in CC. Why?! Because I opened it on behalf of debian-user. The people whom are affected by this bug are in a better position to see

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 04:11:04PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:34:43 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: ¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html No mention about security support in that post

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 10:56:45AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/12 08:21 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Interesting statement. Squeeze (6) is still STABLE. After Wheezy (7) is moved from TESTING to STABLE, Squeeze will be fully

Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 04:24:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: I wonder why people is so reluctant about installing packages from the outside when this involves upstream projects which are well-known and trustworthy :-? It adds another layer of unnecessary complexity. If you can do everything

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 02:11:33AM -0400, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 01:40 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 10:56:45AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/12 08:21 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Interesting statement

Re: Installation

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 02:23:10PM -0700, Weaver wrote: But this, again, is not what is being advocated. I see nothing wrong with a small educational process being incorporated into the install procedure. There is the installation-guide¹. It wouldn't be a good idea to put screes of

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:55:21PM +0200, lee wrote: Disapproved is as much an adjective as deprecated. Not when I went to school. English is not your native language? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:26:15PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 10 sep 12, 14:06:07, Camaleón wrote: disk (well, buy enclosed in quotes because a high percent of Windows users do not pay a cent for their OS, you know...). An Microsoft has no real incentive to force them to, because

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:06:33PM +0200, lee wrote: And where's the 40GB (or whatever size it is) Blueray image that has all the packages plus all the stuff from non-free plus a life system plus lots of documentation on it so that I can simply download that and boot and press a button and

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:49:39PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I installed the Debian version of Linux Mint to have a look at it and noticed a comment in the onsite forum asking when 'the KDE Version' would be coming out. I found aptitude underneath it all and laughed. Why? Unless, I'm wrong, it

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 05:38:10PM +0200, Veljko wrote: Not that hard to comprehend. My boss sees backup as necessary evil. And only after I pushed it. Before I got here, there was no backup. None whatsover. I was baffled. And I had situation few days on my arrival, that one of databases got

Re: Adding entry to /dev

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:04:37PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - How do I add a new entry to /dev; eg, /dev/sdb? Short answer: You don't. Have you installed a hard disk and it is not being seen by the OS? Are you plugging in a USB device and it is not being seen by the OS?

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim you posts, thanks.] On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:01:13AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Le 11/09/2012 04:23, Weaver a écrit : I get the point. It's just not an accurate or germaine one...because you quoted out of context. it's germane, now. Germaine has been a firstname for some

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:52:47PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: don't install German language packages. To post English output of commands on a German mailing list wouldn't be good. Don't you mean German output? Anyway, to post English output if your locale is non-English, just prepend LC=C

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:44:48PM +0200, lee wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:06:33PM +0200, lee wrote: And where's the 40GB (or whatever size it is) Blueray image that has all the packages plus all the stuff from non-free plus

Re: Installation

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:19:35AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If you want to rip audio CD's to MP3's with e.g. Sound Juicer, you want to have the gstreamer0.10-lame package from e.g. www.deb-multimedia.org. - http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs root@tal:~# apt-cache policy libmp3lame0

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:36:08AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I have experimented with pulseaudio to reroute audio to a different machine via the network, but the setup seemed too complicated and fragile for me so I just use the laptop's speakers for the occasional youtube video or so.

Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:48:33PM +0200, lee wrote: Julian De Marchi jul...@jdcomputers.com.au writes: My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable type, so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia GPUs. You might be out of luck depending on what

Re: deprecated (Re: What Version To Install On iMac?)

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:26:09PM +0200, lee wrote: The administrator installed disapproved software. Since then, many No. That would have got you a smack over the hand with a ruler. :) users have had trouble with the system and the administrator became deprecated. Doesn't seem right.

Re: Satellite P870 issues - Video + ethernet [SOLVED]

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:53:21AM +1000, Julian DeMarchi wrote: I still can't use the nvidia card, but I think these features will come with time. Patience... :-) Is the GT630M not supported? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed,

Re: Installation

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:21:37PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: libmp3lame0 is a replacement for gstreamer0.10-lame and it's in the official repositories? Yes it is in the official repositories, and presume its a replacement, not sure if it is a direct replacement, you will have to check

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:16:55AM +0200, lee wrote: Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com writes: have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find my primary use of the GUI is email,

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:06:42PM +0200, lee wrote: Are you referring to grub figuring it out when booting or to grub figuring it out while it's being installed? (In any case, I don't know any of the answers ...) tal% less /boot/grub/device.map (hd0)

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:36:36AM -0700, Weaver wrote: […] Finish Partitioning and Write to Disc At the top is an annotation which says: “This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mountpoints. Select a partition to modify its

Re: rigmarole about debian and radeon

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:30:29PM +0200, lavcina wrote: What do you mean by OTOH? http://catb.org/jargon/html/O/OTOH.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: Missing Files Prevent Installation/Execution of Applications

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:42:34PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Google turned out to be my friend and I installed the 32 bit libraries with apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk. Having accomplished that I installed PyRx successfully and it now runs on my 64 bit Debian system.

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:56:50PM +0200, lee wrote: We seem to already have that! See http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Am I stupid or wasn't that there a couple days ago? I looked at these pages the other day and didn't see it anywhere. I'll try it out when I set up my VM. Ummm, I

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: flashgot I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. apt-get show clive -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Installation

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:15:23PM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Unless you submit it against d-i as a patch, there *is* no onward. If it gets rejected, there should be an explanation as to why. Patches are still being accepted against

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:34:47PM +0200, lee wrote: need it. This requirement is ridiculous. It has come up only about 12 years ago --- and aren't things nowadays supposed to be easier than they were instead of being more difficult? Believe me, its a lot easier now than it was 12 or so

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 07:17:36PM +0200, lee wrote: That's perfect and wonderful, thank you! Sure the bug can be closed. Hopefully the submitter can close their own bugs? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:21:10AM +0200, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: You seem to have misunderstood that Christian's one of d-i's maintainers (he also seems to be a big fan of fonts!): Well, I didn't know any of this, and he didn't mention it. I could help with

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:12:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: Okay, I agree the user does not need to hold a MS in Computer Science as a previous requirement for installing an OS and managing a computer. But an MS in Astronomy (Astrophysics?) won't help you build a telescope either. Remember, a

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:24:46PM +0200, lee wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 06:31:52, lee wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: If you have an OEM license, it can't be transferred to a different PC:

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, lee wrote: They even have begun to use different keys to get into the BIOS quite some time ago. Really? Have you got a source for that allegation? That's just retarded, stupid and braindead. Why don't they make computers easier to use by always

PerlMagick (was ... Re: Installation)

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:36:48PM +0200, lee wrote: Crop a picture with imagemagic? I just found out you can actually do that, and it starts a lot faster than gimp. I sometimes use it to display an image or for converting images and taking screenshots. It's Huh! All you need is perlmagick.

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:53:21PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this on the list. We all can think whatever we want -and we can be wrong or right as we don't have all

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:54:26PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 4:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should be self reliant. Only when they search and can't

Re: pppd shutdown

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Have you found the problem yet? On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, I'm on dialup using pppd and loosing the connection often in the middle of fetching mail or loading some URL in the browser. I'm hoping for suggestions to help me debug the problem.

Re: command line interface tool question

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:13:10AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: What command line interface tool or tools does Linux have available to snag a graphical image of what's on the screen and save that image in a file? If you're running lynx and you come up on a website with a captcha on a form

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:01:51AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the

Re: Installation

2012-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:02:33AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/25/2012 02:56 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, lee wrote: They even have begun to use different keys to get into the BIOS quite some time ago. Really? Have you got a source

Re: Installation

2012-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 03:06:05AM -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: System installation should be as automated as is possible. In fact, the installer should ask as few questions as possible. The trouble is there are many different desirable setups depending on what you want to use it for. I wouldn't

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:29:14AM +1000, geoff wrote: You should fix your clock. Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. The most recent point release went into my system on Sunday. Upon rebooting the keyboard and mouse are inactive. The mouse is usb, and can be activated by

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:58:25PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: turn into this: append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- ^^ console=ttyS2,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS2,19200 Now all seems to be working. Weird. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:10:02PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/1/12 11:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Sorry. There's a typo, intited should be initrd. Ahh! OOPs didn't read whole thread. Still, it does show the reason why you should copy 'n' paste instead of laboriously typing it out by

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:58:39PM +1000, geoff wrote: Yep, everything works fine in root. I'd also tried creating another user account, and it displayed the same behaviour as my other user account. OK. What packages were upgraded? The log in /var/log/dpkg should help you here. Obviously,

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:53:23AM +0900, Satoru Otsubo wrote: Syntax error on line 2 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf What about this syntax error? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:58:06AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Any ideas of how to retrieve a multi-media file from here? http://www.tlcentre.sfu.ca/archive/convocation/2012/ A click on the first link makes Iceweasel show the directory,

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:05:02PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I can not configure rtorrent to close on low disk space - it just closes on start after several seconds. In ~/.rtorrent.rc I have: schedule = watch_low_diskspace,300,1200,close_low_diskspace=1 That

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:39:05AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Chris. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: I have: schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M Does it work for You - meaning if You have 11 MB free space - does it down load

Re: Re (2): retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:36:42AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 05:55:41 +1300 ... but something still seems amiss. If you, or anybody else for that mattter, solves the rtmpdump incantation - could you post the correct

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
[Jude, not sure which part of the post you were responding to.] On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:07:48PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: googling WARNING: Received FLV packet before play()! Ignoring. gets: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/rtmpdump

Re: rtorrent on low_disk_space.

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 01:04:34PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: You wrote: I have: schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=10M I was tight on space at one stage, and the default was no good for me, so I added that to my .rtorrent file which solved it. Oh, great! I wonder

Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:03:11PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Members, I just downloaded the Debian netinst.iso file called debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso. The file is only 191 MB because it installs the most basic Debian system. I then acquire the rest via the internet. Yep, that is

Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Is this the link for the live CD? http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Thats one. There is also knoppix, and various others. I ask because I attempted to install Ubuntu awhile back and their LiveCd was a snap to find and download but

weirdness mounting phone

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this behaviour when plugging in my Galaxy Y into my wheezy laptop ---8- - root@tal:~# [1132299.352535] cdc_acm 1-1:1.1: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem. root@tal:~# mount

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 09:36:28PM +0100, Lisi wrote: Yes, and you don't need to say su root. Just su is enough. True, but then su on its own won't source root's environment, whereas su - will source root's environment as though you'd actually logged in as root. Try them both to see

Re: doc resources

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:06:07PM -0700, james gray wrote: are the files and one directory in /usr/share/doc/aptitude available online. at this time. with the limited resources available. i am not able to print out the material. what would be the online address to read and print

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:58:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:52 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: Also I was just trying to respond to everyone's reply. You don't need to do that. +1 :) Honestly, you don't need to, unless there is something pertinent to add. -- If

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 06:58:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: It was a struggle initially but I learned. It was my first real progress with certain things that needed to be done with Linux. I had no idea that files needed to be verified before burning to CD. They don't. It is just an added

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:44:19PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 00:41:46 Wally Lepore wrote: Now I can finally join the ranks of Debian users and ask operational questions, help others and start the

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:41:30AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Actually, for downloading iso images I had high speed download link. But at now, my server does not have high speed internet connection at the moment so I thought that if I can make use of the other iso image CDs to install

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:14:58AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Thank you very much for your help. At now, I can read from the install CDs. On my centos, I learned how to install extra programs from my install CDs , as the following : #yum -disablerepo=\* -enablerepo=c6-media install gimp

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:37:55AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: I found how to install packages from CD, as : #apt-get install gcc Ahh! Should have read whole thread. :) But can you please let me know where can I find the list of available and useful programs that I can try to install them

Re: DVD-RAM, Raspberry Pi and other toys - Was: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:37:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: spend more time with Computers, then I really would lose any real world social contacts, would feed myself with more junk foot. Has that got anything to do with putting your foot in your mouth? SCNR -- If you're not careful, the

aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and apt-cache, ... root@tal:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-get root@tal:~# apt-cache policy aptitude aptitude: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.6.8.1-2

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 05:37:03PM +0200, lee wrote: Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com writes: In fact, its very time consuming to have to structure emails in that fashion and its not something I look forward to. A decent MUA would make things a lot easier for you. Gnus is said to

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:14:23PM +0100, Joe wrote: And finally, there are a few people who are just plain prickly... but one of the most important of all freedoms is the freedom to offend. Once that is outlawed, censorship becomes trivial to implement. Bollocks. -- If you're not careful,

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 06:00:35PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Chris Bannister writes: Last I looked, Gnus was a newsreader... You didn't look very closely. Gnus works quite well for both news and email and offers all the advantages of a newsreader such as groups, killfiles, scoring

gnus MUA

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:07:25PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote on Oct 18th? If you know, and enjoy LISP then configuring it will be an enjoyable experience.? No need for any elisp. All configuration can be done via menus. Interesting. A newcomer to Linux who is advised to use

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:02:02PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear package-teams, please do not put everything to multiarch! Just let me explain, why I think so. As already reported here, many users (and me too) got into a lot of problems, beccause the 32-bit nvidia drivers are now

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Here is what appears to have changed since my last night's upgrade: [UPGRADE] ffmpeg:amd64 7:0.11.1-dmo5 - 7:1.0-dmo1 [UPGRADE] gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:amd64 0.10.13-5 - 1:0.10.13-dmo1 [UPGRADE] libxine2-ffmpeg:amd64 1.2.2-4 - 1:1.2.2-dmo3

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored /somewhere/. You mean it doesn't work out of the box and requires some configuration? Hey, JFYI most good

Re: PS/2 Keyboard and Mice not working (USB is) on X

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 01:59:38PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:53 +0530, paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Or is my MoBo giving up? tl;dr No, Debian dropped working PS/2 equipment for versions ex stable a long time ago. In my case only the mouse doesn't work anymore, the

Re: PS/2 Keyboard and Mice not working (USB is) on X

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:07:30PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: So please help the OP to get it working. It's working for some of you, so if it isn't working for others, they spread FUD? It is, when you say debian have dropped support for PS/2 keyboards and mice. -- Religion is excellent stuff

Re: PS/2 Keyboard and Mice not working (USB is) on X

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 04:27:08PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: FWIW Not working: Trekker Wheel Mouse 2.0A PS/2 Compatible What testing have you done? i.e. Does it work in another computer? Does another type of PS/2 mouse work in the problem computer? Does gpm work in console mode: a)

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should work. But with 512 byte sectors you have a 2 TB limit when you use MBR partitioning. 3 TB

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:17:28AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: Split was indeed the answer, using it as ... split -b 4000m /home/boztu/irishceltic.iso .. and it splits the 18.9 gb file into 3.9 gb files which just need to be renamed as xaa.iso, or xab.iso/xac.iso, and then the image

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:47:11AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: I am creating an iso with genisoimage prepatory to burning it to dvd for backing up of my music collection, and on checking the resulting disc I'm finding that the mp3 name is truncated to the first word of its title. I feel that

Re: [OT] Mails coming from joe1assis...@gmail.com

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:04:38PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: I am not receiving anything like that. Have you happened to post about this issue earlier to this list or am I just imagining it? By the way, this looks like a reason to GPG sign everything, like I am doing. There is sometimes

Re: [OT] Mails coming from joe1assis...@gmail.com

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 04:11:37PM +, Camaleón wrote: Hello, Is just me who receives this sort of e-mails when replying to certain messages of this mailing list? I'm now getting this which pretends to be from myself so I guess the other posts I received were also faked in the same

Re: [OT] Mails coming from joe1assis...@gmail.com

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:28:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:28:30 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:52:05 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, That could be the common link for those who receive these messages

Re: [OT] Mails coming from joe1assis...@gmail.com

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:10:13PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Yes, I received 2-3 but someone must have marked then as Spam on gmail. They have stopped now for me. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg01786.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg01792.html ? That

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts!] On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:24:10AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 01/05/2012, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: Why don't you just rename your files, replacing the spaces with underscores? It's easy enough to do and to reverse... Thats exactly what i've

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: Thanks for your help. It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get. The following command # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree worked just fine. $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree failed

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 11:38:26AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: Often I use something like: rsync --archive --one-file-system --hard-links --human-readable --inplace --numeric-ids --delete ... to

Re: wpa_supplicant drops connection frequently

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:24:18PM +0800, Yuanle Song wrote: In the last two days, my wireless connection is very unstable. It drops every few minutes and when it is connected, it's very slow and unusable. Could you help me to debug this problem? Here is the hardware, software and network

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