Re: Samba

2009-04-24 Thread Martin
Hi, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Lynn Kilroy wrote: > [...lengthy config file that has probably been created without consulting man smb.conf and http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/...] > > > Logfile is actually missing.  I just looked for it.  Unless it's hidden or >

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2009-04-24 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:23:55PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: Manpages for STL classes are under the STL class name; e.g., try "man std::string". No, I meant doxygen documentation for the apis of C++ library... Sorry, I thought

Re: how to resolve the dependency problem when installing k3d in debian sid?

2009-04-24 Thread 明覺
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-24 07:14 +0200, 明覺 wrote: > >> when i install k3d in debian sid, it says dependency problem >> - >> minjue:~# i k3d >> Reading package lists

Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-24 Thread Henk Koster
Running mixed testing/Sid, and after a recent upgrade any text file (like a directory listing) gets printed on my CUPS printer with a hideously stretched and enlarged (Courier) font, far removed from the default 10 chars/inch and 6 lines/inch. Other file types, like PDF-files produced with pdfl

Re: Whatzit.

2009-04-24 Thread Desktop
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Re: web monitoring tool?

2009-04-24 Thread Martin
Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Depo Catcher wrote: > > I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. > > mrtg isn't supported any longer? > I tried rtg, but it seemed like it was really complex to setup. > > I just want a simple monitor that will graph cpu, memory, disk, etc. I've been play

Re: web monitoring tool?

2009-04-24 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Depo Catcher wrote: > > I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. > > mrtg isn't supported any longer? > I tried rtg, but it seemed like it was really complex to setup. > > I just want a simple monitor that will graph cpu, memory, disk, etc. Take a look to munin

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Your parallel with "unregistered aliens" is extremely malaprop, even > more so in the context of an > operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating system. > I like to think it was just an (unwitty) attempt at being "funny"? Agreed, yet there's a techical question in there. Wha

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:13, John Hasler wrote: > Felix Miata writes: >> My question was quite serious, and not just about a simple way to not >> start X on boot. 2 in Debian is everything. 2 in non-debian distros is >> multiuser instead of single. 3 adds full networking. 5 adds X. Why is it >>

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread machiner
Reply to: pob...@fuzzydev.org Original Message Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:08:29 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] You misunderstand me. Hearing people say that they would rather contribute to another source, esp one where they may have an e

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread machiner
Reply to: hs.sa...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:25:39 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] Indeed. The Gentoo documentation is the best that I have ever seen as well. - On Fri,

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Indeed.  The Gentoo documentation is the best that I have ever seen as well. > I think that you could leverage this. _Don't_ be a documentation site. Find some other Debian information to specialize in, such as CLI humour, comparisons between the "Debian Way" and the "Ubuntu/Fedora/Gentoo/* Way"

Network tester substitution with two linux notebooks

2009-04-24 Thread Paal Marker
I have had several network testers here now for measure the connections in LAN between server rooms terminations to outtakes in the building. After a year or so they fail, Tired of sending back to seller and get new. I know there are better quality to buy rather them I have tried, but expencive

Re: openoffice_impress troubles konqueror??

2009-04-24 Thread steef
hi david, looked at htop while converting the large odp-file into a ppt (ms) file. cpu-use rose till a *100* percent :( a new proof for openoffice as a cpu and memory-eater. yet i will keep using it: the program has great advantages too. the scientists i know live IMO under the heel of p

Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Again on X resolutions, recently dist-upgraded unstable on amd64. Are there any X gurus out there? - Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 (C51PV chipset) on an Asus M2NPV-VM, having max 1920x1440 (@75Hz) on VGA[1]. - Monitor: Asus VW222U, max 1680x1050[2]. - Driver: nv. # xrandr Screen 0: minimum 6

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 24. 04. 2009 03:22:12 je jida...@jidanni.org napisal(a): > Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) > $ man cruft > cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained > files) > > Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just > # cruft -d / > wil

Re: livecd accessibility

2009-04-24 Thread Thorny
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:51:38 -0700, Don Raikes posted: > Hi all: > > Sorry for the cross-posting, but I wasn't sure which list would be better > for this question. > > Does the current i386 livecd have any accessibility support enabled in it? > Is either orca, or brltty installed and/or running

iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Erik Xavior
When I set noexec option on my home partition/mount point, I get the following error on Debian Lenny, With Iceweasel 3.0.6, GNOME: http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/249/93353289.jpg Has someone seen similar? thank you!

Re: regarding upgrade

2009-04-24 Thread Thorny
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:31:47 -0400, machiner posted: > Reply to: edua...@kalinowski.com.br > Original Message Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:21:51 -0300 RE: Re: regarding > upgrade [See Original Message Below] > > They do "reappear" after a grub update. Personally, I "usually" remove an > unused ke

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:23:16 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Jerome BENOIT writes: > > Why do you not install acroread from debian multi-media ? > > Some of us prefer not to install closed-source software when we can > avoid it. Including me. I am st

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 24. 04. 2009 13:26:21 je Nuno Magalhães napisal(a): > > Your parallel with "unregistered aliens" is extremely malaprop, > even > > more so in the context of an > > operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating > system. > > I like to think it was just an (unwitty) attempt at

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank McCormick wrote: >Including me. I am still wondering what these websites are looking > for. They tell you you don't have Adobe even before Firefox has a > chance to give you a prompt We don't have a chance to investigate this without an url to test... Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:38:04AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini was heard to say: > ll /usr/share/doc/libstdc++6-4.3-doc/libstdc++/html/ > total 132 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4045 2008-04-11 00:53 api.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1862 2008-02-12 03:39 bk02.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1821 2008-02-

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:52 -0400, machiner wrote: > This list is not exclusive to developers. Many people read it. Sure, I'd > love a > dev or 2, and I clearly asked, to contribute to the site. Why wouldn't I? > But, I'd > be just as happy, and I think the community the site serves woul

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Kemp
> Is there an option to autoremove unused files? deborphan can be used to remove packages that were installed for dependencies alone and are no longer needed. http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Removing_unnecessary_packages_with_deborphan apt-get and aptitude both have simila

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) > $ man cruft > cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) > > Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just > # cruft -d / > will probably produce tons of output on

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:18:23AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > We plan to buy an HP proliant ML115 G5 for server backup. The CPUs > would be amd opteron 64bit. And there is embedded sata raid controller. > I will use raid1 on two 1T harddrives. > > I would like to

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to > the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see > if it sees the drives. Note that embedded sata "raid" controllers are > generally f

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:45:31 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > >Including me. I am still wondering what these websites are > > looking for. They tell you you don't have Adobe even before > > Firefox has a chance to give

RE: Network tester substitution with two linux notebooks

2009-04-24 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: paa...@online.no >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: Network tester substitution with two linux notebooks >Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:02:33 +0200 (MEST) > >>I have had several network testers here now for measure the >connections in LAN between se

Re: regarding upgrade

2009-04-24 Thread machiner
Reply to: thorntreeh...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:59:20 -0700 RE: Re: regarding upgrade [See Original Message Below] Wicked. Thanks for that. - On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:59:20 -0700 thorntreeh...@gmail.com wrote: >On Thu, 23 Apr

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2009-04-24 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:38:04AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini was heard to say: ll /usr/share/doc/libstdc++6-4.3-doc/libstdc++/html/ total 132 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4045 2008-04-11 00:53 api.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1862 2008-02-12 03:39 bk02.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Menes
Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little memory refresher with. I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on bootup. I know there was a way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). Can someone tell me how to just boot

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, > bypassing X? Thanks! Did you search?[1] Checkout update-rc.d, the links in /etc/rc2.d/ and their targets. HTH [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=boot+debian+to+command+line&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.debian:en-US:unoffi

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Robert Menes: > Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, > bypassing X? It's in the Debian Reference. 8.1.4 "Let me disable X on boot!" www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-no-x-start Sid is mentioned here, but it works for squeeze and lenny as well. -

Re: livecd accessibility

2009-04-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:51:38PM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: > Hi all: > > Sorry for the cross-posting, but I wasn't sure which list would be better for > this question. > > Does the current i386 livecd have any accessibility support enabled in it? > Is either orca, or brltty installed and/or run

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Menes
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bob Cox wrote: > I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with > "startx" when required. So how can I disable gdm so it doesn't start automatically? --Rob -- Nobody's ever lost in life...they're merely taking the scenic route. =

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Menes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bob Cox > wrote: > >> I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with >> "startx" when required. > > So how can I disable gdm so it doesn't start automatically? > > --Ro

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:52:08 -0400, Robert Menes (viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bob Cox > wrote: > > > I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with > > "startx" when required. > > So how can I disable gdm so it doesn't sta

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36 -0400, Robert Menes (viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doin

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 16:54:47 +0100, Harry Rickards (hricka...@l33tmyst.com) wrote: > Try installing the sysv-rc-config tool (with apt-get install > sysv-rc-config or aptitude install sysv-rc-config), and run > sysv-rc-config as superuser (root.). If you're using gdm as you're login > manager

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/24 16:54 (GMT+0100) Harry Rickards composed: > Try installing the sysv-rc-config tool (with apt-get install > sysv-rc-config or aptitude install sysv-rc-config), and run > sysv-rc-config as superuser (root.). If you're using gdm as you're login > manager, remove it from your default run

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, >> bypassing X? If you're just doing this temporarily, put a line "exit" up near the top of the /etc/init.d/?dm startup file. Then if you want X, type "startx". - -- Glenn English

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a litt

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Kent West
Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). > > Can

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:07:15 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:23:16 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT writes: > > > Why do you not install acroread from debian multi-media ? > > > > Some of us prefer not to install closed-source software when we can > > avoid it.

Re: Network tester substitution with two linux notebooks

2009-04-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Paal Marker wrote: > I have had several network testers here now for measure the connections in > LAN between server rooms terminations to outtakes in the building. After a > year or so they fail, Tired of sending back to seller and get new. I know > there are better quality to buy rather them I

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wrote: > On 2009/04/24 16:54 (GMT+0100) Harry Rickards composed: > >> Try installing the sysv-rc-config tool (with apt-get install >> sysv-rc-config or aptitude install sysv-rc-config), and run >> sysv-rc-config as superuser (root.). If yo

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Felix Miata : On 2009/04/24 16:54 (GMT+0100) Harry Rickards composed: Try installing the sysv-rc-config tool (with apt-get install sysv-rc-config or aptitude install sysv-rc-config), and run sysv-rc-config as superuser (root.). If you're using gdm as you're login manager, remove it fr

Re: livecd accessibility

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Osamu Aoki, le Sat 25 Apr 2009 01:07:40 +0900, a écrit : > As I understand, there is option for Braille installer. (I think it was > choice fot image with GUI installer) The braille installer is available in _all_ images. The speech installer is only available with the GUI installer. As for the l

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090424055608.gb20...@big.lan.gnu>, Paul E Condon wrote: >In the aptitude-create-state-bundle description, they give a list of > exactly what they (the documenters of the aptitude program no less) > believe to be the sum total of what is needed to recreate a living apt > system. This list is:

locale message error

2009-04-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear debianners, I just installed lenny in my girlfriend laptop. We live in Brazil, and initially I chooses pt-br as the default language of the system. After this, I've changed my mind, and moved to the en_US.UTF-8 locales. But now, each time the desktop is loaded, appears and inoffensive but an

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Florian Kulzer wrote: > There are websites that check for the presence of the acroread plugin > before they even give you the chance to download a PDF. This is usually > a misguided attempt at being user friendly: Someone assumes that the > visitors cannot handle PDFs without the plugin and that th

lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Don Raikes
Hi, Yesterday I had to re-install lenny on my gateway desktop computer. I had totally messed up my prior install, and wanted to start clean. The install (from dvd1) went very smoothly, however, when I reboot the system just sits there. It doesn't ever seem to boot at all. I am blind, so I cann

IceApe on Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Felix Miata
After reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2009/02/msg00411.html and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511477 the current status of IceApe is about as clear as Mud. It refused to install via apt-get, synaptic, and gnome-app-insta. I did get xulrunner-dev installed, but that did

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:13:54AM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > www.debian.org/usr/share/doc/ or usr.share.doc.debian.org/ where you > could find all docs from debian packages. It would be nice (I think) aptitude install dwww Now look at http://localhost/dwww A site providing that to all pack

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
"H.S." writes: > Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: >>> I thought I asked you a question. >>> >> >> There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of >> running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm >> person

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this system back on its feet? Have you tried using a liveCD (like LFS's[1], good for rescue stuff) and check the usual suspects? HTH, Nuno [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to > > the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see > > if it sees

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:05:00PM -0400, debian debian wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Robert Menes > wrote: > > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > > memory refresher with. > > > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > >

Re: iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Erik Xavior wrote: >When I set noexec option on my home partition/mount point. That's generally a bad idea. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide

Fw: IceApe on Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Jozsef

Re: iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Erik Xavior
I just thought that would be a good idea :O what's the biggest point to not set the noexec on /home?

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread debian debian
You could always boot into single user mode (add "single" or "s" to the kernel boot options) Kevin Systems Administrator http://blog.stardothosting.com On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refreshe

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thank you very much for your reply! > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the > kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel bu

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Thank you very much for your reply! > > > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a pro

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > > > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the > > > kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel but debian can't > > > inclu

Re: iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Erik Xavior wrote: >what's the biggest point to not set the noexec on /home? Users don't have anywhere to put scripts or custom binaries. You may also get random breakage due to programs using small, temporary scripts without the user's knowledge. As a user of my own systems, that's simp

Re: iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Erik Xavior
thanks for the correction :) ok, then... problem solved :D >what's the biggest point to not set the noexec on /home? Users don't have anywhere to put scripts or custom binaries. You may also get random breakage due to programs using small, temporary scripts without the user's knowledge. As a u

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/4/24 Don Raikes : > I guess that is my problem (what are the usual suspects)? Me neither, i was just shooting blanks :) You say you installed the system (repeatedly), so i assume you got as far as "Let's reboot into your new system". I never had a system failing at that point... It's hard to

hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid. I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no answers. FWIW the monitor is a Dell 770 Horizontal scan range : 30 - 70 kHz (automatic) Vertical scan range : 50 - 160 Hz (au

Re: locale message error

2009-04-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear debianners, > > I just installed lenny in my girlfriend laptop. We live in Brazil, and > initially I chooses pt-br as the default language of the system. > After this, I've changed my mind, and moved to the en_US.UTF-8 > locales. But now, each time the desktop i

Drupal6 on Lenny:Access Denied error

2009-04-24 Thread John W Foster
I got drupal installed and it seems to be working though the installation took a lot of effort to get it working since there are not any "debian" instructions that tell you exactly what to do. Now the issue is that having set up the admin user and being able to log in as that user, I can NOT get to

virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I've installed virtualbox from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a usb camera at the moment). It appears under devices->usb devices->camera 0100 but it is grayed out and I can't mark it. I tried adding write

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:36, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix > the resolution? > > Running Debian sid.  I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no > answers. > > FWIW the monitor is a Dell 770 > Horizontal scan range :

why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. Is there any advantage compared with software raid? Thanks, -

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Scott
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:36, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid. I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no answers. FWIW the monitor is a Dell 770 Horizontal sc

RE: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Don Raikes
Hi Nuno, I followed the instructions from this page: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps searching for something to load. I am wond

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:27:32PM EDT, Carl Johnson wrote: > "H.S." writes: > > > Michael Pobega wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: > >>> I thought I asked you a question. > >>> > >> > >> There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of > >> r

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. > > I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. It is cheap to do, but makes

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid >and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. It allows lesser operating systems to boot from software RAID-1 (and I thin

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 16:06, Paul Scott wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:36, Paul Scott wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can >>> fix >>> the resolution? >>> >>> Running Debian sid.  I have spent lots

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I haven't had that problem before, i can't really help (plus it's a friday night and most of the list answers from their work places i guess). The only drive that failed on me just became completely unusable, period. It would make a snaping sound repeatedly (like releasing something that was h

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be > rust

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 04. 2009 17:53:08 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Dear Debianites, > > is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily > disable > passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two > passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d/ > com

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Raikes wrote: Hi Nuno, I followed the instructions from this page: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps searching for something

Gnome Users/Groups utility not working

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Hi, list! Anyone else noticed this: on a fresh Lenny install, when you start the GUI utility for setting users and groups (System/Administration/Users and Groups), it pops up a message about it being incompatible with your current system. Then it goes on offering you a list of available system

Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-24 Thread Depo Catcher
I'm trying to install on a Core2Duo with this: debian-501-amd64-netinst The two disk drives are SATA Seagate 500 Gigs and Sata Intel SSD 32 Gigs. I boot off CD and install over network which works fine. It asks if I want to install Grub and saves it's safe since it's the only OS. I say yes and

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > >and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debi

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:12PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > Dear debian community, > > > > Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid > > and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. > > > > I wonder why th

Fw: Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-24 Thread Jozsef

how to open kdevelop project?

2009-04-24 Thread 明覺
I downloaded a kdevelop project, it has k3dsurf.kdevelop, k3dsurf.pro, etc files, I guess kdevelop should be able to open this project, but unforturnitely kdevelop only simply opens the specifed file, not the whole project, how could i make kdevelop to open the whole project? thanks -- My platfo

Re: Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-24 Thread David Bernier
Depo Catcher wrote: I'm trying to install on a Core2Duo with this: debian-501-amd64-netinst The two disk drives are SATA Seagate 500 Gigs and Sata Intel SSD 32 Gigs. I boot off CD and install over network which works fine. It asks if I want to install Grub and saves it's safe since it's the o

Filtering spam with spamasssasin on kmail

2009-04-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Article on http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Mail#Using_Spamassassin_with_a_Mail_Readeris not specific on kmail. At least can anyone give some pointers or point me to related article. TIA -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Re: how to open kdevelop project?

2009-04-24 Thread 明覺
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:04 PM, 明覺 wrote: > I downloaded a kdevelop project, it has k3dsurf.kdevelop, k3dsurf.pro, > etc files, I guess kdevelop should be able to open this project, but > unforturnitely kdevelop only simply opens the specifed file, not the > whole project, how could i make kdeve

how to solve the dependency problem when installing kde in sid?

2009-04-24 Thread 明覺
When i installed kde in sid, it needs kdeaddons which is not included in sid, so i added the source of testing packages, which has the kdeaddons package of version 4:3.5.9-2, but still, sid complains that "kde: Depends: kdeaddons (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed", how to solve this

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread steef
Paul Scott wrote: Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid. I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no answers. FWIW the monitor is a Dell 770 Horizontal scan range : 30 - 70 kHz (automatic) Vertical scan rang

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 25 April 2009 08:20:17 steef wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I > > can fix the resolution? > > > > Paul Scott > > hi paul, > > read this thread with much intererest. i knew the same problem. several > times i installed