order of IDE drives in lenny

2007-05-07 Thread Towncat
I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the onboard controlle

order of IDE drives in lenny ..

2007-05-07 Thread Towncat
I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the onboard controller

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Joe Hart wrote: > Tim Wood wrote: >> I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. > >> My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx >> driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full >> 1680*1050 resolution. The problem now as repo

google earth, pango

2007-05-07 Thread Gregor
Hi, I have a problem. 2 tools I have tried give me such an output and wont work: 1. pcsx2 (NOT from debian repository) (:5861): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread David Fuchs
On 5/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:27:26PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > I mounted (read-only) some of the virtual volumes, to see if the data is > still there... it seems as if there is some 'offset' on the file system, > i.e. > when looking at som

Re: IFConfig location

2007-05-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.05.07 13:03, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Why is IFConfig in "/sbin"? Now I have to run it as "/sbin/ifconfig" > everytime. Moving it to "/bin" will allow non-super users to get information > about networking easily. it's in /sbin so users who don't care about system things won't be annoyed

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The newest fglrx-driver from ATI 8.36.5 supports kernel 2.6.20.x. But > for the other problem, the detection of X.org 1.3.0.0, I'm not sure. >From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). But, it cannot use xserver-xorg-core 1.3.0. So

Re: timeline application?

2007-05-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sudev Barar wrote: On 06/05/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an application that draws timelines? > > That makes much more sense graphically than in prose... Project planners like planner, kfocus & opensched might do the trick, as might vector drawing apps like inkscape,

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread robin putters
On 5/7/07, Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. There is lots of information in the BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/fglrx-driver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That sounds like poor implementation, the critical bit is not to let it > iterate without it having worked the first time. I still don't see anything > wrong with the concept as long as it's implemented right, although I've > never dealt with a system on the scale you're talking about. The prob

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Vibhav Sharma
David Claughton wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from For example? - These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by now. I wouldn't be

swap

2007-05-07 Thread Francesco Pietra
Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for swap file) to a raid1 system? The system consists of ---Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE mother board ---Two WD Raptor 150GB each ---Two Dual Opteron ---16 GB ram In computations, I can presently offer 96GB as swap (my home), though it is not enough. A

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: > I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. > > My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx > driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full > 1680*1050 res

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 04:53, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for > swap file) to a raid1 system? > > The system consists of > > ---Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE mother board > ---Two WD Raptor 150GB each > ---Two Dual Opter

Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Francesco Pietra
Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just as additional space where to point the swap file thanks francesco --- Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 02:53:07 -0700 (PDT) > From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: swap > To: debian-users , >

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominique Dumont wrote: >> From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). I would recommend using 2.6.21 on new HP laptops. Not sure about this particular one, but on some models ACPI is totally broken with anything before 2.6.21-rc5. And

RE: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-07 Thread Jan Sneep
That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba can't seem to find the printer automatically and the help doesn't seem to be su

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/07/07 04:53, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for >> swap file) to a raid1 system? > >> The system consists of > >> ---Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE mother board >> ---Two WD Raptor 150G

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I was without internet connection over the weekend, therefore I can only follow up on this now. I don't want to give the impression that I just wanted to rile people up without really participating in the discussion. ] On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 18:20:31 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 4 May

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: >> > Tim Wood wrote: > > I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. > > My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx > driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 gi

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Montag, den 07.05.2007, 02:53 -0700 schrieb Francesco Pietra: > Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for > swap file) to a raid1 system? I guess an non-mirrored drive will have a better performance than a raid1-ed one but still will slow your system down immensely. If getting more

HOWTO:rebuild the Debian kernel + nvidia

2007-05-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, To use the proprietary nvidia driver with the latest Debian kernel in Sid you'll run into troubles. There are two ways around it: 1. Use the Debian kernel and change modpost + the nvidia driver, as documented here: http://grizach.servebeer.com/nvpatch/index.php 2. Change the Debian ker

Migrating a Server to debian

2007-05-07 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I have an "old" server here that runs gentoo and is quite unmaintainable because it hasn't been updated now it still works but I'm not sure for how long :) This is the hardware that's in it [1] I'm especially interested in reports of this one: 06:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technolog

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-07 Thread steef
Gregor wrote: Hi, I have a problem. 2 tools I have tried give me such an output and wont work: 1. pcsx2 (NOT from debian repository) (:5861): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the c

Message Acknowledgement

2007-05-07 Thread OrderInfo
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Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Francesco Pietra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-users" ; "debian64" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 6:10 AM Subject: Fwd: swap Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just as additional space where to point the swap file thanks f

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Linas ½virblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But, it cannot use xserver-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. > > It can use 1.3.0 just fine, it just refuses to do so because of a dumb > version check performed by the driver.

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominique Dumont wrote: > If it's a dumb check, I guess I should try also to re-build the fglrx > driver *once* xserver-xorg-core 1.3.0 is installed. To make it work _without_ the hack? No, it will not help. The check is performed by fglrx_drv.so, wh

installing X libraries?? -- need your help!

2007-05-07 Thread lommels
Hello! I'm new in Linux. I installed Debian Linux "Etch" for Intel x86-CPU. Everything is ok. Then I tried to install a kdm theme called "QtCurve- KDE3-0.48.5" and I have to compile it. So I installed the gcc and g++ packages and the kernel sources. This was decribed by an article I googled. Then

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Dominique Dumont wrote: > >>> From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). > > I would recommend using 2.6.21 on new HP laptops. Not > sure about this particular one, but on some models ACPI is totally > broken w

Re: installing X libraries?? -- need your help!

2007-05-07 Thread Cédric Lucantis
> Hello! > > I'm new in Linux. I installed Debian Linux "Etch" for Intel x86-CPU. > Everything is ok. Then I tried to install a kdm theme called "QtCurve- > KDE3-0.48.5" and I have to compile it. So I installed the gcc and g++ > packages and the kernel sources. This was decribed by an article I > g

Mount problem for an external USB hard drive

2007-05-07 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
I've a new error when I connect an external USB hard drive. A message tells me: === hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000 === So, the user (usar samiel:group samiel, uid 1000) cannot see the device. That user is present in plugdev group and in ha

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 Dumont "Delivering succes

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-07 Thread Gregor
steef wrote: Gregor wrote: Hi, I have a problem. 2 tools I have tried give me such an output and wont work: 1. pcsx2 (NOT from debian repository) (:5861): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an

Re: Mount problem for an external USB hard drive

2007-05-07 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/7, Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've a new error when I connect an external USB hard drive. A message tells me: === hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000 === So, the user (usar samiel:group samiel, uid 1000) cannot see the devic

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > After a bit of investigation, I just want to point out that the hacks > that you provided are illegal. They directly violate the ATI license > agreement that one agrees to when installing the proprietary drivers in > the first place

Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

2007-05-07 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. I had this working in sarge, but somehow things have changed in etch, and I can't see Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal. Currently I have installed packages like cjk-latex, hbf-kanji48, ttf-kochi-mincho, among the japanese-related packages I can remember. In gnome-terminal, going to Terminal-

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:38:30AM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > On 5/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:27:26PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > yes, / on md0 does get fsck'd cleanly, whether in single boot or > 'normal' boot. I can get into a root shell w

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> After a bit of investigation, I just want to point out that the hacks >> that you provided are illegal. They directly violate the ATI license >> agreement that one agrees to when installing the proprietary

Re: reporting problems with unstable

2007-05-07 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 06 May 2007 21:07:20 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnfinn Ringvold wrote: > > > Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such > > problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users > > sending in reports? > > Anybody can report bugs. I

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:34:30 -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: > Graham Seaman wrote: > > > > After upgrading the server to etch (without any major problems) cups no > > longer sees the printer. Cups is running ok, and knows about the > > printer, but the web interface always displays the message: >

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:11AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just > as additional space where to point the swap file > thanks Running a raid1 system with non raid swap just doesn't make sense. If the swap drive fails, your system dies horrib

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Vibhav Sharma wrote: David Claughton wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from For example? - These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by

Closed Ports problem

2007-05-07 Thread Lucas Prado Melo
My computer is running Debian Etch. At the beginning, everything was fine but after I'd tried to change my proxy configurations some ports seemed to be closed. Iceweasel and other internet browsers are working fine, but I can't play wesnoth over the internet or use aMsn, Gaim and MLDonkey. I still

Re: getting à TnB "loopi" puppet cam to work?

2007-05-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 12:27 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > running through a store i came across that webcam disguised as a > dog-puppet (http://www.t-nb.com)... and bought it without much thinking > about drivers... > > now at home i would like to get it working, but alas i can't get

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Gregor
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hello all, Ever since I bought my AMD64 system (AMD 64 3000+, Asus K8U-X motherboard) I've been experiencing random freezes, in which the system completely stops to respond, or sometimes automatic reboots. Sometimes the system halts during boot with a message such

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread David Fuchs
> yes, / on md0 does get fsck'd cleanly, whether in single boot or > 'normal' boot. I can get into a root shell w/o any filesystem related > errors. Good. Now if only debian's single-user mode didn't start all kinds of extras that need /usr and /var > the problem are all other mounts, which

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
- These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by now. Esp. since in one case the problem prevents logins. This is a flawed argument. They might not care about this problem. Can you use gmail? They might

Re: Closed Ports problem

2007-05-07 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:30:52AM -0300, Lucas Prado Melo wrote: > My computer is running Debian Etch. At the beginning, everything was > fine but after I'd tried to change my proxy configurations some ports > seemed to be closed. Iceweasel and other internet browsers are working > fine, but I can

etch in amd64: system freezes

2007-05-07 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear list, I have installed etch in a new AMD64 machine. My problem is the following: after a very little activity in the Gnome desktop, the system freezes (even an open window terminal freezes) and only a hard reboot bring the system back. If during the boot I interrupt the window manager with

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I was afraid that it would turn out to be something along this line. > > I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for > a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down in > my server room. Then

Re: order of IDE drives in lenny ..

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:04:28AM -0700, Towncat wrote: > I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used > to be etch, now lenny.) I have > a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an > IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the >

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Wood
My thanks for all the comments. I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months old, ACPI works on both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 kernels in the 686 and AMD64 versions.

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting > Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've > gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba > can't seem t

Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 08:09 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > Thank you for your efforts! > > I convert it to pdf with ps2pdf, then open it with Adobe Reader of Windows, > > it's fine. > > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:10 -0700, Serena Ca

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:54:18PM +0200, Gregor wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >So I took of the "old" 512Mb ram module, because it should be the > >one with problems, since the crashes happened already when I had only > >that one. The system still crashed. Just to be sure, I put it on

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 10:29 +0200, Gregor wrote: > Hi, I have a problem. > > 2 tools I have tried give me such an output and wont work: > > 1. pcsx2 (NOT from debian repository) > [snip] > (:5861): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: > assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP (fon

Re: etch in amd64: system freezes

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:47:20PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I have installed etch in a new AMD64 machine. My problem is the > following: after a very little activity in the Gnome desktop, the system > freezes (even an open window terminal freezes) and only a hard reboot > bring the s

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:11AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just > > as additional space where to point the swap file > > thanks > > Running a raid1 system with non raid s

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 05:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/07/07 04:53, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for > > swap file) to a raid1 system? > > > > The system consists of > > > > ---Tyan S2895 T

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote: > My thanks for all the comments. > > I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the > Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. > > In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months old, ACPI works on > both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > I've part-time admin'd (contracted) a couple of systems that required > 128GB of swap during batch processing "middle of the night" setups. > Primarily because of the inner looping of some of the jobs and the > amount of "stored" info

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Francesco Pietra
Len, Patrick: Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work on long runs. The mentioned Tyan mother board has 4 SATA ports, two, I suppos

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Len, Patrick: > Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. > > Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting > in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at > WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jan Sneep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070507 05:56]: > That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting > Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've > gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba > can't seem to find the

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was afraid that it would turn out to be something along this line. I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down i

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:15 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > I've part-time admin'd (contracted) a couple of systems that required > > 128GB of swap during batch processing "middle of the night" setups. > > Primarily because of th

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Atis
If I open a terminal session then; dgwicks:~$ konqueror Floating point exception dgwicks:~$ That's not normal. Can you describe what system you have - hardware and software (sorry, maybe you said distro somewhere before, but i'm too lazy to follow). Can you provide output of: aptitude search l

Re: order of IDE drives in lenny

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Towncat wrote: I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the o

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-07 Thread Gregor
For the second problem, I can suggest installing googleearth-package. as root: apt-get install googleearth-package make-googleearth-package As far as the first problem, I have the following pango (and pango related) packages installed and receive no problems like you posted:

does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost, ntp, but nothing to the internet. It also runs shorewall for good measure. Everything works f

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:54:18PM +0200, Gregor wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: So I took of the "old" 512Mb ram module, because it should be the one with problems, since the crashes happened already when I had only that one. The system still crashed. Just to b

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 11:28, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> Len, Patrick: >> Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. >> >> Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting >> in

Re: etch in amd64: system freezes

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear list, I have installed etch in a new AMD64 machine. My problem is the following: after a very little activity in the Gnome desktop, the system freezes (even an open window terminal freezes) and only a hard reboot bring the system back. If during the boot I inter

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 11:33, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer > (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and > providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smartho

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Atis wrote: If I open a terminal session then; dgwicks:~$ konqueror Floating point exception dgwicks:~$ That's not normal. Can you describe what system you have - hardware and software (sorry, maybe you said distro somewhere before, but i'm too lazy to follow). Can you provide output of: apti

Re: order of IDE drives in lenny

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Bob McGowan wrote: Towncat wrote: I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/

Re: etch in amd64: system freezes

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:47:20PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear list, > > I have installed etch in a new AMD64 machine. My problem is the > following: after a very little activity in the Gnome desktop, the system > freezes (even an open window terminal freezes) and only a hard reboot

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:27:23AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^

Re: VNC usage

2007-05-07 Thread peasthope
Roberto C. Sanchez & others, At Sun, 8 Oct 2006 15:11:51 -0400 Roberto wrote, "The advantage is that vncserver assumes that it is being run by a specific user. ... For a system-wide solution you want XDMCP. ... Please check `man xrdb`." Thanks! I have `man xrdb`, have skimmed through and will

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Len, Patrick: > Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. > > Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting > in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at > WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work

RE: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-07 Thread Jan Sneep
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 7, 2007 11:19 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I setup printer? > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > That's a great tip ... now do you have any

Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread bobsetch
Hello! I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a gnome desktop with some games but I have no idea how to get a word processor

Re: Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! Hi Bob, > > I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and > am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was > helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appear

TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Amy Templeton
Hey all, So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've had to remove some TeX component or other because it now won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that means it's time to get with the program and upgrade to TeXLive, since it actually updates, but I've also heard tell that peopl

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:07:44PM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > > That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick > > tip for getting > > > Samba to share that p

Re: Mount problem for an external USB hard drive

2007-05-07 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > So the device is mounted but you can not read it. If yes look at > /etc/fstab and see if umask is set for your /dev/sda* devices, setting > umask=022 for the mount point should work. No, because I'm using automount, so the entry cannot be in fstab. I edited /etc/pmount.al

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > had to remove some TeX component or other because it now > won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that means it's > time to get with the progr

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer > (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and > providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost, > ntp,

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Johannes, On 5/4/07, about unclutter you wrote: The following works fine for KDE: 11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/unclutter $ chmod u+x .kde/Autostart/unclutter I did the following: $ cd ~/.kde/Autostart $ nano unclutter (and entered "#!/b

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > had to remove some TeX component or other because it now > won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that m

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:30:01AM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: > I just did apt-get update and upgrade (unstable) Well. Unstable is sometimes unstable :-) > and now I get this > message at boot: > Setting up ALSA ... warning: > 'alsactl restore' failed with error message > 'alsactl: load_st

Re: Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and > am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was > helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 7 May 2007 15:06:50 -0400 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 > > Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > > > had to remov

Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I seem to have lost my video after moving from xfree86 to xorg. The error reported in my xorg log (after many pages of no errors) - (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),         915GM,

OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
I have a background with rh and slack. Am a programmer and prefer the command line. A long-term debian user persuaded me to try ubuntu when I showed an interest in debian. To make a long story short, I've ended up with the kubuntu 7.04, because earlier (and presumably more stable) ubuntu distros di

etch dual boot on amd-64 system preparations

2007-05-07 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear Debian folks, currently I have installed FreeBSD 6 and Ubuntu Breezy on my AMD 64 system. Everything worked fine, but I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu partition. Due to EOL of Breezy, the difficult upgrade method of Ubuntu amd-64, the fact that I am curious about Debian and I can't loose any

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:06:50 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 >> Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've >> > had to remove some TeX component

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Rick Thomas wrote: > > http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html What you do to those people is add an X-Message header to your reply telling them they have a virus called Microsoft Outlook. Or do the two-spaces-then-START thing or whatever it is that makes O

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