Re: Segfault after dist-upgrade

2013-07-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 13 July 2013 09:40:38 Anne Forker wrote: > I have had this post-invoke test error before when I executed apt-get -f > dist-upgrade with some libs preloaded (I moved the libc6.so following > http://blog.i-al.net/2013/03/a-copy-of-the-c-library-was-found-in-an-unexpe > cted-directory/). H

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 23 January 2013 16:58:52 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > But I cannot push this further all by myself. > > Poke the individual Debian maintainers - they're smart people :-) They are also busy people. They will be more likely to move if *their* users are complaining ;-) , or even better

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give > > > > > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I > > > typically open up a different session and use vim/emacs to merge the > >

Re: how to fix logical bad sectors

2012-08-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 27 August 2012 13:21:41 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Aug 27 12:11:37 lion kernel: [6.347932] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > Aug 27 12:11:37 lion kernel: [6.348008] ata1.00: error: { UNC } > Aug 27 12:11:37 lion kernel: [6.372478] ata1.00: configured for > UDMA/133 Aug 27 12:

Re: demande d'information

2012-07-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 11 July 2012 19:16:09 Ismail El-yaakouby wrote: > j'ai le plaisir de vous demander de repondre a ce probleme et merci > > Je voudrais savoir comment je peux cacher ou masquer le curseur de la > souris pour les ecrans tactiles sous linux (ubuntu) Cette liste de distribution est une

Re: Git and Quilt

2012-07-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 09 July 2012 15:26:50 Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > I have a core project on which I maintain a set of patches using Quilt. > This allows me to make changes to the project without touching the files > so I can upgrade to new versions easily. I don't really see the point. Couldn't you get a s

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 05 July 2012 04:29:51 Carl Fink wrote: > I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" even > though libvirtd is running. As mentioned in /usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/README.debian, "Access to the libvirt socket is controlled by membership in the "libvirt" group.

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

2012-06-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 23 June 2012 21:51:22 green wrote: > T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 11:19 -0600: > > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > > hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP > > will be used only occasionally, not a production en

Re: Looking for wine-bin_1.4.1-1_amd64.deb.

2012-06-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday 17 June 2012 15:29:55 Sthu Deus wrote: > I want to update wine packages up to unstable versions - for amd64 > arch. But I see no, say You have to install the 32 bits version through multiarch: enable i386 arch on your machine: dpkg --add-architecture i386 update package catalog: a

Re: BD-R not getting finalized

2012-05-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 21 May 2012 23:37:10 Bhasker C V wrote: > :-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/INVALID FIELD IN CDB]: Input/output > > error > /dev/sr1: reloading tray > > I am not trying to rule out a possibility of error in the BD-R media but > 2 in a row is something which makes me suspect factors ot

Re: Debian and EFIKA MX Smartbook

2012-03-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Friday 16 March 2012 13:45:03, Robert Pommrich a écrit : > > I've tried armhf-2GB_2022.img.xz . > > Would you please explain a bit more detailed what is this exactly? Is it > an installer or a live system or an already installed debian? If it is > an installed debian, which packages are in

Re: Debian and EFIKA MX Smartbook

2012-03-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 05 March 2012 12:27:11 Robert Pommrich wrote: > Is there anybody who owns one and has Debian installed? I've bought its sibling: the smarttop [1] > 1. The support of the armhf architecture starts with wheezy. But there > are no install images, except those on [3], right? When can one ex

Perl 5.12 transition in progress -> Perl packages are not installable currently

2011-05-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi all, On Sunday, in collaboration with the release team, Dominic uploaded perl 5.12-6 to unstable. This necessarily causes around 400 packages to be uninstallable with the new perl. The release team will be scheduling binNMUs in due course; in the meantime, if you find such a package, there is _

Re: Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

2011-02-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
[ Sorry for the late reply ] Le jeudi 10 février 2011 02:55:36, Rob Owens a écrit : > > Did you have other configuration issues ? > > I didn't have any major issues, but I did have to manually merge several > config files. If I know I modified the config file previously, I keep > my existing con

Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

2011-02-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello I'm working on a project that aim to ease configuration upgrades during package upgrade. [1] Since a lot of people will upgrade them system from Lenny to Squeeze, I'd be interested in feedback on the upgrade of configuration files. Did the upgrade process stopped to ask you question abou

Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 22:22:14 Malte Forkel wrote: > In the end, I would like to write a simple merge skript for > configuration files. This has been suggested before, e.g. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=32877. Has anybody > already implemented this? ucf is able to perform

Advices regarding hdparm multcount option

2009-07-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
But, hdparm warns that -m is a dangerous option. What is your opinion on this ? Is this really dangerous ? Or is it only when playing with too high mulcount value ? All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they w

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
pufrequtils and edit at will. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
rience gparted wrecks Vista partition. You should use Vista internal tools to resize the partition. You should be able to find the procedure with google. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want.&q

Re: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host:

2008-11-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
ontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#selftest-failed http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#corrupt-sectors All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
nations. In fact, I needed a simpler setup for my laptop. Using 'wpa-conf' is enough to bring the wifi on my laptop. The only trick is that I need to specify 'scan_ssid = 1' for my freebox V5 wifi AP. All the best -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions re

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

2008-09-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 15 September 2008 14:36:01 Dominique Dumont wrote: >> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> 2. Can wpa_supplicant and dhclient talk to each other so that dhclient >> >>doesn

Re: Can ssh-vulnkey scan known-hosts

2008-05-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
h-vulnkey did warn me about some keys in my know_hosts file. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need advanced samples of sshd_config

2008-05-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
(But be sure to remove or replace any confidential information) Thanks for any help. [1] http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Need advanced samples of sshd_config

2008-05-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
(But be sure to remove or replace any confidential information) Thanks for any help. [1] http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's npviewer? A "proxy" daemon that will load and run 32 bits flashplugin on behalf of your 64 bits browser. Wihtout it you cannot have flash on amd64 arch. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions req

Re: intel 3945 wireless

2008-04-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
945 a try instead. This may be a good starting point: http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDM XDMCP error

2008-04-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
XDMCP. I can also log in with KDM > locally on the remote machine. Where should I start tracing the > problem? May be check /var/log/kdm.log ... HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
to an internal IDE (or sata) cable - use dd_rescue to copy the image to a file (can be long) (or gddrescue) - fsck the copied image. Do not run fsck on a failing disk, it will make thing worse. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, n

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
- check the content of /dev/disk/by-id - plug your thumb-drive - check the new entries in /dev/disk/by-id - add this kind of line to your fstab: /dev/disk/by-id/ auto rw,noatime,user 0 0 HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
side, to be sure that a usb-device is always mounted on the same point, I use an entry from /dev/disk/by-id/ instead of relying on /dev/sdd1. On the other hand, if I do not want to control exactly where to mount the device, I let KDE handle it. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
all I > obtained was confusion. I looked in the READMEs and googled a bit, but > I did not find anything relevant. Yes, I've seen some error message related of diversion of libGL while installing fglrx-driver. I had to: - de-install fglrx-driver - remove all libGL diversion (with dpkg-div

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
sides this, this board works perfectly. (You may need Debian Lenny to get AC3 pass-thru on the SPDIF output) Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: [OT] smart reporting trouble

2007-07-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
Check the doc on http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner

Re: Building fglrx on Lenny

2007-07-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
> make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.21-2-k7' > make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2 What's version of fglrx are you using ? (latest fglrx 8.38 compiles fines on my 2.6.21 machine ) HTH -- Dom

Re: Mounting USB HDs the same every time.

2007-07-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
ue I have is that I always have to actually click on > each drive before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure > why, but I don't think the drives are getting mounted at bootup. The last field on your fstab line must be 2 instead of 0. But be sure that your usb drive are po

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Linas ½virblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To make it work _without_ the hack? No, it will not help. The check > is performed by fglrx_drv.so, which is not built, but distributed in > binary form, and it has the check hardcoded. Ok. Thanks for the info. -- Dominique Dumo

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
ver-xorg-core 1.3.0 is installed. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
-xorg-core 1.3.0. So you will have to hold xserver-xorg-core to 1.1.1-21 until (at least) the next release. Furthermore, xv is broken with 8.36.5. So currently, I'm stuck with: - fglrx 8.35.* - kernel 2.6.18 - xserver-xorg-core 1.1.1-21 HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering succes

Re: OT: DVD formats

2007-05-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
E mount this disc, it will mount it with iso9660 without udf. In this case, the files are truncated. ls -l reports a 3.1GB file instead of 7.4GB. So I had to "mount -t udf " the disc as root. When the disc was mounted as udf, I could see the whole file and verify its content with md5su

Re: OT: DVD formats

2007-04-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
on the symptoms ? -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Burn files > 4 GB to DVD

2007-04-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
: # -r : Rock ridge avec des perm uid et gid correct # -allow-limited-size: requis pour des fichiers > 2GB # -f: follow sym link (pas de symlink avec udf) genisoimage -udf -f -r -J -allow-limited-size -o ~/video2/dvd.iso * Then I burn the image on a dual layer dvd. You can probably do everythi

Re: SSH through another computer

2007-04-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
without storing it in host1? May be something like (untested): $ ssh -N -L 20022:host2:22 host1 $ ssh -p 20022 localhost The first command create a tunnel from localhost:22022 to host2 port 22 The second connects ssh to host2 through the tunnel. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering succ

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
t you can set up the bridge in a separate script. Search with google. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel for AMD Ahtlon (was: Removing redundant kernels)

2006-11-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
> installation. My understanding of the hardware is that the AMD > processor is fully compatible with the Pentium IV and therefore a > '-686' kernel would seem appropriate. You should use the '-k7' version. So you should install the linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 pa

Re: udf maximum file size 1GiB ?

2006-11-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
want more details. Until then, we're stuck. Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA and SoundBlaster clash ???

2006-09-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wondering if other people have similar problem. Let me rephrase: Does anyone have a similar setup and *cannot* reproduce the problem ? If yes, I may have a H/W problem... Thanks -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful

SATA and SoundBlaster clash ???

2006-09-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
ail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17399.html [2] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/4583a755034699de -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686

2006-09-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
"S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there is no package called linux-image-2.6.17-2-686-smp > > which on should i install ?? i need smp Starting from 2.6.17, all kernel image provided by Debian are smp. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

2006-07-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
mymovie2.avi mymovie3.avi --outfile > dvd.iso > > Can anyone help me? You can try mkdvd: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UN

Re: diagnosing hard-locks

2006-07-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
d by par2 (See the end of bug #296387 [1] ). This program always failed on big jobs (~ 10GB). Once I removed the suspect RAM, everything worked smoothly again: - no kernel locks or oops - par2 ran fine. HTH [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296387 -- Dominique Dumont &quo

Re: memtest+ won't load SOLVED

2006-07-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now on to finding the source of my hard locks. ugh./ Be sure to check the temperature of your CPU. (been there) In my case, I had to vacuum the fan and re-mount properly (with enough grease) the fan mount. HTH -- Dominiq

Re: Problems with SkyStar 2 DVB-S card

2006-06-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
re stuck, no more ideas left except trying the fresh > install :-) If somebody has ideas or have already had similar > situation would you please help. Vladi. Tough question. May be you should ask directly on linux-dvb mailing list [1]. Cheers [1] http://linuxtv.org/lists.php -- Domini

Re: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
s. I did not think that a Lithium battery could be exhausted after only 2 years or so. Apparently, my mobo consumes more power than my watch Now that I've replaced the battery, wake-up works normally. Thanks for the help. (and sorry for the late reply) -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering

Re: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
e between rtc and genrtc wrt wakeup feature... So I guess that "something" must be done during shutdown which is not properly done in some cases. Anyway, before digging further, I'll try the dummy kernel trick. Until now, I used the standard boot/reboot sequence. Thanks for the

Re: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
til 2.6.11, the automatic wake-up worked perfectly. Since, I have quite a lot of trouble even if I don't try to change the wake-up time. Setting up the wake-up time through bios or nvram-wakeup does not improve the problem. Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutio

Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ? (was: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe without 2.6.15 ?)

2006-03-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
ng similar issues or not. If yes, I'd like to discuss the issue so I can refine the problem and submit a bug to the kernel package. Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNS

Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe without 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
issue so I can refine the problem and submit a bug to the kernel package. Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Ati Radeon 9000 pro + Debian Sarge + DRI : not working

2005-11-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
module. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-11-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
re not" commercial ones. You can also use wine + dvdshrink. Works fine on my station. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: support for nvidia nforce2?

2005-08-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
chip interfere with the ALC650. The spec of Soundstorm chip is not public and nobody from alsa project did the reverse engineering. (there was one volunteer but he has no HW). See https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=411 for details Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering s

Re: support for nvidia nforce2?

2005-08-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
an a7n8x deluxe). The only hitch is that the SPDIF output cannot output properly dolby digital. But this won't bother you if you're not setting up a home-theater PC. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they

Re: Call for Mentor

2005-07-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
ed perl debian list: mailto:debian-perl@lists.debian.org HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: e2fsck problem

2005-06-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
14 15:58:04 2005 Mount count: 6 Maximum mount count: 20 HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: videoconferencing tools

2004-12-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Does anybody have experience in this field and is able to recommend me > some platform/projects that we may look into? VLC may help you in the video streaming part of your project. See http://videolan.org/ HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
EON(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 85 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 92 kHz, PixClock max 160 MHz (II) RADEON(0): End of Monitor1 EDID data -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner --

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
ervative resolution. Once you have a display, then slowly increase the resolution (and/or frame rate). When I get home I'll send you my Xfree config file (radeon 9200 with 1280x1000 video). Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need,

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
o use it as DVI is much better. Can't say much without looking at your Xfree86 log. Is there any line beginning with (EE) in it ? HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUB

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-02 Thread Dominique Dumont
incompatibility list: http://www.leenooks.com/1 But there's no guarantee that this list is complete. As suggested in this thread, you also must use google to find more info on your board. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they

Re: Debian and Win XP

2004-10-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Shane Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given that I need to know how to make a bootable Linux > cdrom with ntfsresize on it. Check out systemrescuecd. It's a live cd with ntfsresize. http://www.sysresccd.org/ Cheers -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful sol

Re: Radeon 9200 & AGP 8x

2004-10-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
he agpgart module. Here's What I use in my modutils: # load agpgart before radeon so DRI can work # when X11 is launched add below radeon agpgart Hope this helps. -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kur

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
spam processing. Have you tried the '-m' switch on spamd ? You may need to use perl5.8.x to avoid signal handling bugs mentionned in spamd man page. See "PERL_SIGNALS" in perlrun and "Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)" in perlipc for details. HTH -- Dominique Dum

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
refully the error reported by apt: It fails on another libquantum-* package (libquantum-entanglement-perl instead of libquantum-superpositions-perl). Looks like libquantum-*-perl packages are badly packaged. So remove all libquantum-* package with dpkg until apt is happy. HTH -- Dominique D

Re: Upgrade to latest firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-07-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
had the same kind of problem. In my case, the old bookmarks are in .firefox. The new set of bookmarks is created in .mozilla/firefox. So, stop firefox, move the .mozilla/firefox directory out of the way and restart firefox. Hopefully you'll get your bookmarks back (I did). HTH -- Dom

Re: alsa not working

2004-06-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
John van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only thing to remain is to actually find the alsa modules. > They do not appear to be included with the kernel image (OSS modules are). > > I could not find a package with alsa modules for the latest 2.4.26 kernel > (only for 2.4.25). > Am I cor

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Wow, Ian's being rather optimistic in thinking that RPM can overcome >> it's own shortcomings to stop sucking. Such as, 1) distro-dependent >> RPMs, RPM isn't standardized like Deb is. 2) Naming conventions. RPM >> isn't standardized. 3) Per-file depend

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: >> Currently there is big chicken and egg problem with Debian in the >> corporate world. Corporate guys want to be able to install software >> from ISV (like Oracle). > > I understand what you are saying. But they can install oracle and > others today. My c

Debian, rpm and corporate world (was: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?)

2004-05-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: >> and I found that it can't find files it need in deb DB,I had been >> tried to install it on debian, >> #rpm -ivh myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm >> the program will prompt: myproduct need perl >5.6, and the bash must >> be installed > > As other people have writt

Re: nForce lockups back

2004-04-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
"Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try changing your udma settings to udma3 f.i. Do this with > hdparm. Worked for me. Theoretically this might be slower on your > HDD performance, but it is a working workaround for the hangs. You can also try to boot with idle=poll paramete

[not yet :-( fixed] Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But, the suggestion by Dominique Dumont already proved to be the solution! > Changing the default udma5 to 3 with hdparm resolved the issue. I tested with > moving some really big files (300 M) from a VFAT partition to ext3 and vice >

Re: [fixed] Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like you may be loosing performance in disk reads. It may also > be worthwhile for you to investigate disabling apic. Also consider > reporting your lower UDMA mode solution to Andrew Morton on LKML. Please keep me posted. Cheers -- [EMAIL

Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-09 Thread Dominique Dumont
Matthijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes. It turned out that the default DMA setting was too high on my machine >> (Asus A7n8x deluxe nforce2). > > I'm wondering: was the DMA setting too high for your hard disk? I.e. a > UDMA-3 hard disk running on UDMA-5, or is there a problem in the > kernel

Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyone else experienced this problem? Or maybe someone knows how I can dig >> deeper into this problem? I am a bit lost... > > You could try turning APIC off. This was discussed yesterday, I > believe. In my case, turning APIC off did not make my ma

Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone else experienced this problem? Or maybe someone knows how I can dig > deeper into this problem? I am a bit lost... Yes. It turned out that the default DMA setting was too high on my machine (Asus A7n8x deluxe nforce2). Check it with hdparm -I /dev

Re: Grub/Lilo problems

2004-02-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Roscoe Joao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a catch, anyway: knoppix gives you a complete RAM based > working environment, so you must to sure that you're working in the > real HD filesytem (find the right partition, mount it read/write, and > maybe, chroot to it) to make all this work. Mou

Re: Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

2003-09-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Got virus attacked on the Windows section of a dual boot machine that runs > Debian (latest Woody) and Windows 98. Windows got into such a state between > the virus and me messing with it that I ended up reformatting the C: drive > and reinstalling

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-07-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I need to know a fast way to convert 1600x1200 to 800x600 pictures from > the command line. Any ideas on how to do this? Another way (in true unix style ;-) ) is to use the pnm package: anytopnm oldfile | pnmscale --reduce ... | pnmtoxxx newfi

Re: Perl Modules and CPAN

2003-02-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm finding that a lot of times I end up installing perl modules from > CPAN in order to obtain stable versions or versions with functionality > that I need. > > The problem that I run into with this method is that I end up with > either two sets of softwa

Re: Debian unstable: GNU Ghostscript 7.05 Problems after updating

2002-12-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > > after having updated my system this morning, gv and gs report: > > GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps > > How can I solve this problem? > I explained the workaround in bug #173493 [1]: As a workaround, you can set

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-28 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jörg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody > > For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I > have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and > .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png > for pdflatex in ord

Re: perl lint

2002-11-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > is there something to clean up perl code similar to other "lint" > > type applications? > > The -w flag ("perl -w script.pl" or "#! /usr/bin/perl -w") enables lots > of warnings abou

Re: pam .76.5 and xscreensaver lockouts

2002-10-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
"Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anybody else having this problem? I have the same kind of problem. Here's the output of xscreensaver in verbose mode: xscreensaver: ungrabbing server. xscreensaver: pam_start ("xscreensaver", "domi", ...) ==> 0 (Success) xscreensaver: pam

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Irvin Temp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ive been playing with Wine(version in woody) and MS Offcie 2000. I was to configure > > wine manually and using winesetup... I also installed MS Office 2000 and was able > > to launch the MS WORD, EXCEL and POWERPPOINT apps. My problem here > > is whe

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, be careful if you are trying to upgrade from testing to unstable. > I tried it last night and got stuck in some kind of conflict between coreutils > and fileutils, where you were somehow going to have to temporarily remove > fileutils because of t

Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop

2001-09-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
"David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. > I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you > count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 > works well on the exac

Re: XISP no longer works

2001-09-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pulling from Sid (unstable), and a couple of months ago my XISP > dialer stopped working. pon still works fine. I figured I had just > been bitten by an unstable bug, and figured I'd ride it out till the > fix. I finally check the Bug Tracking System, an

Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others

2001-09-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' > window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. > > I have the same problem with gnumeric cells but only for a > mag

Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others

2001-09-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Calvin Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Dominique, > > With reference to your great message on below, > > DD> Hello > > DD> When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' > DD> window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. > > Please give some informa

Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others

2001-09-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. I have the same problem with gnumeric cells but only for a magnification above 75%. And if I type 6 letters in a gnumeric cell, only 3 square blocks are shown. (co

Re: overhead slides?

2000-05-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:22:23AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides? > > > > Something like seminar.sty (latex) would be ideal, but thats in > > tetex-nonfree. Also, gs often produces the following

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