Re: acer driver

[Jonathan Kaye]

Wayne Topa wrote:

> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>> Wayne Topa wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that
>>> card?  Does it have any software for that card installed?  Did the card
>>> work in WindBloz?  If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it
>>> working using the ndiswrapper package.
>>>
>> Hi again Wayne,
>> On the Acer website they do have the Windows XP driver for the Aspire
>> 3500. It's called Atheros Wireless LAN B+G Driver 4.0.0.14001. I can give
>> it a try with ndiswrapper.
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
> 
> Sure you can.  Get that and the ndiswrapper (which I have not used) and
> go for it!!
> 
> Good Find Jonathan!!
> 
> Wayne
More info:
1. dmesg results seem to be good:
[   14.270854] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[   14.358992] ndiswrapper: driver net5211 (,11/15/2006,5.1.1.9) loaded
[   14.359358] ndiswrapper :00:0b.0: enabling device (0010 -> 0012)
[   14.359593] ndiswrapper (ZwClose:2198): closing handle 0xf78975a8 not
implemented
[   14.969994] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
[   15.196018] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[   15.186802] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2,
WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
2. ifconfig seems more like you described. Entries only for eth0, lo and
wlan0. wlan0 looks like this:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0e:9b:cf:bc:0c
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
  Interrupt:17 Memory:e201-e202
Cheers,
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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[Ron Johnson]

On 08/21/08 18:09, Paul Johnson wrote:

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:


They're trying to tell you something...


The Debian lists are not the place to be a racist bastard, Ron.


Sure it is!  Canada is Evil and must be DESTROYED

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Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[John O Laoi]

I found the following link very useful
when I was getting the UK dictionary to work:

 http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:openofficeukdict

John

Re: acer driver

[Jonathan Kaye]

Wayne Topa wrote:

> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>> Wayne Topa wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that
>>> card?  Does it have any software for that card installed?  Did the card
>>> work in WindBloz?  If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it
>>> working using the ndiswrapper package.
>>>
>> Hi again Wayne,
>> On the Acer website they do have the Windows XP driver for the Aspire
>> 3500. It's called Atheros Wireless LAN B+G Driver 4.0.0.14001. I can give
>> it a try with ndiswrapper.
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
> 
> Sure you can.  Get that and the ndiswrapper (which I have not used) and
> go for it!!
> 
> Good Find Jonathan!!
> 
> Wayne
Hi Wayne,
Seems to work. ndiswrapper seemed happy with the set up and nicely installed
the XP drivers. I'm not near an AP but I noticed that kwifimanager has a
green bar indicating dl-ul speed now that it didn't have before. We'll take
the laptop to an AP point and give it a try. I'll report the results later
in the day.
Cheers,
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Re: udev and kernel (testing)

[Mumia W..]

On 08/21/2008 06:44 PM, Glenn Becker wrote:


Hello all -

I am running a testing box. Recently (end of last week, maybe?) I did an 
update, & one of the packages that -wanted- to update was udev; however, 
later in the installation process I was dumped to a debconf screen that 
indicated the new udev would be incompatible with the kernel I was 
running, & that I needed to upgrade the kernel (to 2.6.18 or newer) 
first or risk rendering the system unusable.




 =-O

I left the answer to the "upgrade anyway?" question on that screen at 
"no", and the update pretty much bailed at that point.




Good idea.

So for a few days now I have put a "hold" on udev via aptitude, 


Another smart move.

since I 
don't see a newer kernel available ... I guess I'm wondering whether I 
would be wise to try rolling my own. I did it once, but it was a long 
time ago. Mainly I'm curious why a newer one hasn't shown up (perhaps 
it's me doing something stupid - I'm always open to that option!). Maybe 
on the other hand I should just leave the hold on udev?

[...]


I'm very confused. Can you post your sources.list? I'm most sure that, 
if you run Debian testing (Lenny), you have access to 2.6.24 (and 
possibly later kernels). Anyway, Etch, which is older than Lenny, has 
2.6.18, so you can't be running a recently updated (< 1yr.) testing 
distribution without having at least 2.6.18.


Also, please post the exact output of your package manager when you 
attempt to upgrade. Use the --simulate option to do this safely.



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Re: debian sound and audio drivers. - explained - please ???

[Mumia W..]

On 08/21/2008 08:25 PM, Michael Habashy wrote:

Can anyone direct me to a FAQ about Debian Audio and Sound drivers??
[...]


Although these documents are ancient, they may provide some useful 
information. Install the doc-linux-text package and read these:


/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Alsa-sound.gz
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Sound-HOWTO.gz
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.gz

The Linux kernel documentation also has some files that describe the 
sound system; I hope they are not too obtuse for you; they are for me :-\


If you install the kernel documentation, you'll find the sound files for 
ALSA in ./Documentation/sound/alsa. Don't bother with 
./Documentation/sound/oss unless someone tells you to look in there. OSS 
is a very ancient Linux sound system that ALSA has largely replaced.




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Re: debian sound and audio drivers. - explained - please ???

[Kelly Clowers]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone direct me to a FAQ about Debian Audio and Sound drivers??
>
> I had an issue with sound, so i basically installed everything under the sun.
>
> Do not know what i did, but got it to work. Unfortunately I think some
> drivers are stepping on other drivers.
>
> I think i install pulseaudio, alsa, and the kitchen sink.
>
> How can i know what is really work and how can i check to disable the rest 
> ?
>
> when i run lspci |grep audio, I get the following:
>
> rider:/# lspci |grep audio
> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
> Audio Controller (rev a2)
> rider:/home/mjh#
>
> when i run lsmod , i get the following :
>
> rider:/# lsmod |grep audio
> snd_usb_audio  88736  0
> snd_usb_lib21888  1 snd_usb_audio
> snd_hwdep  15240  1 snd_usb_audio
> snd_pcm89096  6
> snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd65256  16
> snd_usb_audio,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
>
>
> My current issue is that the audio for the is very low, no matter how
> high i raise the volume.

Well, the drivers are unlikely to step on each other like that, however
the user-lever sound stuff might. Right now it sounds like there may
be places to adjust the sound level that you haven't checked yet.

likely volume controls from most low level to highest level:

alsa volume - set with alsamixer, alsamixergui or gnome-alsamixer

pulse-audio volume - set with pavucontrol/pulse-audio volume

App volume control - in media player, etc.

Have you checked all of these, and are you running Gnome,
KDE3, KDE4, or other?


Cheers,
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Re: trying to get tyan s2895 audio working --tyan support does not like debian.....help.

[Michael Habashy]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Florian Kulzer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 14:46:06 -0400, Michael Habashy wrote:
>>> after being on the phone with Tyan -- i have realized how useless they are.
>>> I am trying to get the audio working on the board.
>>> I have a debain 4.0 AMD 64 version.
>>>
>>> i did an lspci on my server and got this:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio 
>>> Controller (rev a2)
>>
>> Post the output of:
>>
>> lsmod | grep snd
>>
>> cat /dev/sndstat
>>
>> cat /proc/asound/cards
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> Thank you.
>
>
> rider:/# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_usb_audio  88736  0
> snd_usb_lib21888  1 snd_usb_audio
> snd_seq_dummy   8580  0
> snd_seq_oss37248  0
> snd_seq_midi   13632  0
> snd_seq_midi_event 12544  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq59520  6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_rawmidi31392  2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_device 13204  5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> snd_hwdep  15240  1 snd_usb_audio
> snd_intel8x0   39592  4
> snd_ac97_codec106456  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_ac97_bus7296  1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss48672  0
> snd_mixer_oss  21888  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm89096  6
> snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer  29192  4 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd65256  16
> snd_usb_audio,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore  15392  1 snd
> snd_page_alloc 15504  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
>
>
>
> rider:/# cat /dev/sndstat
> Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux rider 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 22:30:01 UTC 2008 x86_64
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 10: ALSA emulation
>
> Card config:
> NVidia CK804 with AD1981B at 0xb0002000, irq 209
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: NVidia CK804 (DUPLEX)
>
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Timers:
> 7: system timer
>
> Mixers:
> 0: Analog Devices AD1981B
>
>
>
> rider:/# cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [CK804  ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
>  NVidia CK804 with AD1981B at 0xb0002000, irq 209
> rider:/#
>

I honestly do not know what i loaded or what i did, i think i got
something to work.
But i feel that becasue i tried to load so many different packages, i
think some are stepping on top of each other.

any help would be appriciated.  I do not know what is the difference
between drivers and audio packages.


thanks
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Re: trying to get tyan s2895 audio working --tyan support does not like debian.....help.

[Michael Habashy]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Florian Kulzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 14:46:06 -0400, Michael Habashy wrote:
>> after being on the phone with Tyan -- i have realized how useless they are.
>> I am trying to get the audio working on the board.
>> I have a debain 4.0 AMD 64 version.
>>
>> i did an lspci on my server and got this:
>
> [...]
>
>> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio 
>> Controller (rev a2)
>
> Post the output of:
>
> lsmod | grep snd
>
> cat /dev/sndstat
>
> cat /proc/asound/cards
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Thank you.


rider:/# lsmod | grep snd
snd_usb_audio  88736  0
snd_usb_lib21888  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_dummy   8580  0
snd_seq_oss37248  0
snd_seq_midi   13632  0
snd_seq_midi_event 12544  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq59520  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi31392  2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 13204  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep  15240  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_intel8x0   39592  4
snd_ac97_codec106456  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus7296  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss48672  0
snd_mixer_oss  21888  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm89096  6
snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer  29192  4 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd65256  16
snd_usb_audio,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore  15392  1 snd
snd_page_alloc 15504  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm



rider:/# cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux rider 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 22:30:01 UTC 2008 x86_64
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
NVidia CK804 with AD1981B at 0xb0002000, irq 209

Audio devices:
0: NVidia CK804 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Analog Devices AD1981B



rider:/# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [CK804  ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
  NVidia CK804 with AD1981B at 0xb0002000, irq 209
rider:/#


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udev and kernel (testing)

[Glenn Becker]

Hello all -

I am running a testing box. Recently (end of last week, maybe?) I did 
an update, & one of the packages that -wanted- to update was udev; 
however, later in the installation process I was dumped to a debconf 
screen that indicated the new udev would be incompatible with the kernel I 
was running, & that I needed to upgrade the kernel (to 2.6.18 or 
newer) first or risk rendering the system unusable.


I left the answer to the "upgrade anyway?" question on that screen at 
"no", and the update pretty much bailed at that point.


So for a few days now I have put a "hold" on udev via aptitude, since I 
don't see a newer kernel available ... I guess I'm wondering whether I 
would be wise to try rolling my own. I did it once, but it was a long 
time ago. Mainly I'm curious why a newer one hasn't shown up (perhaps 
it's me doing something stupid - I'm always open to that option!). Maybe 
on the other hand I should just leave the hold on udev?


Thanks,

Glenn

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debian sound and audio drivers. - explained - please ???

[Michael Habashy]

Can anyone direct me to a FAQ about Debian Audio and Sound drivers??

I had an issue with sound, so i basically installed everything under the sun.

Do not know what i did, but got it to work. Unfortunately I think some
drivers are stepping on other drivers.

I think i install pulseaudio, alsa, and the kitchen sink.

How can i know what is really work and how can i check to disable the rest ?

when i run lspci |grep audio, I get the following:

rider:/# lspci |grep audio
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
Audio Controller (rev a2)
rider:/home/mjh#

when i run lsmod , i get the following :

rider:/# lsmod |grep audio
snd_usb_audio  88736  0
snd_usb_lib21888  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep  15240  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm89096  6
snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd65256  16
snd_usb_audio,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer


My current issue is that the audio for the is very low, no matter how
high i raise the volume.

thanks
mjh


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Re: Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:47:29AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> >From rsync(1):
> 
>  --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs
>  --delete-before receiver deletes before transfer (default)
> 
>  --delete-during receiver deletes during xfer, not before
>  --delete-after  receiver deletes after transfer, not before
> 

--delete is --delete-after . --del is --delete-during .

Originally there were only --delete-before and --delete-after . Thus the
"default" (--delete) became --delete-after as it is the safer of the
two.

--delete-during was added later on. It is normally the one you'd like to
use. To make it easier (but still not brak semantics), they added the
option --del that means --delete-during .

Unless the server is too old to support --delete-during , just use --del .
If it is too old, you'll simply get a syntax error message saying so.

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Re: interface for tar

[Mag Gam]

FUSE looks really good. I am going to investigate it.

TIA


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
>> > Sharchar:
>> >
>> > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called
>> > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for
>> > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images?
>> > Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos
>>
>> Here is what we have for auto-mounting ISO images.
>
> Actually, I think that the .isos directory is badly named because we're not
> talking about ISO9660 at all.
>>
>> $ cat /etc/auto.master
>> #
>> /var/www/netinst/cds/etc/auto.netinst-cd
>>
>> $ cat /etc/auto.netinst-cd
>> cd1 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image1.iso
>> cd2 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image2.iso
>>
>> This will still be require a file system to mount.
>>
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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[H.S.]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:04 -0700, consultores1 wrote:
> 
>> I'm having the same situation, it looks that the Canadian dictionary
>> doesn't exist yet! and by default it use U.S. dictionary.
>>
>> My preference in this case is to use British dictionary, but i can't.
> 
> Make sure the en-gb packages are installed?
> 

In addition, and I not sure about this since I haven't tried, one might
also need to be using a en_GB.UTF-8 locale. Would love to be enlightened
on this though.

->HS


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epson R380 printer

[Paul Cartwright]

I have an Epson R380 printer setup. My problem is, whenever I print a
text doc, using gedit or Kate, it finishes printing, but it doesn't do a
form feed, so the paper is stuck in the printer. The printer continues
to say "printing" yet Debian says the printer is idle.
not sure how to fix that..
here is the printer admin info:


Gutenprint_USB_Printer_1
 (Default
Printer)


*Description:* EPSON USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)
*Location:* Local Printer
*Printer Driver:* Epson Stylus Photo R380 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2
*Printer State:* idle, accepting jobs, published.
*Device URI:* epson:/dev/usb/lp0


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[slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

[gary turner]

Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html 
standards.  It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to 
html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice.


There are areas where I need guidance.

The Debian Emacs packages install the file(s) already byte compiled.  Is 
this from unmodified source from the mode maintainer's version as 
available on the home site, and would there be any issues if it isn't?


Does this test procedure seem complete/safe enough?
 mv ./html-helper-mode.elc html-helper-mode.elc.orig
 cp ~/hhm/html-helper-mode.el ./html-helper-mode.el
 Take a run through all the cookies.

Would it be out of line to post a link to my mods for d-u members to test?

cheers,

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Re: lynx upgrade issue?

[i'll teach you to turn away.]

Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TD> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:50:19PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. 
wrote:
>>   gotcha. ok, so it loads lynx now without incident, but it's still 
>> using default oldlynx colors, which is at least a step better than default 
TD> Some people would modify the file under /etc - but that's not necessary.
TD> I set $LYNX_CFG to point to my own file, and put at the top
TD> include:lynx.cfg
TD> and then in that file, modify the color settings. For example:
TD> COLOR:6:brightblue:green

ok. so now i can run the oldlynx script & not get the default 
colors... but it's still showing the new colors. it's ignoring my 
COLOR:6:whatever stuff entirely. here's what i did:

in ~/.bash_profile, added:
export LYNX_CFG=/home/crank/.lynx/lynx.cfg

in ~/.lynx/lynx.cfg:
include:/etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg
COLOR:0:lightgray:black
COLOR:1:cyan:black
COLOR:2:red:black
COLOR:3:green:black
COLOR:4:white:black
COLOR:5:white:black
COLOR:6:brightcyan:black
COLOR:7:black:lightgray

...where'd i go wrong?

thanks, my coding hero.

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Re: Increasing screen resolution

[Sudev Barar]

>2008/8/21 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

[SNIP]

> Section "Monitor"
>   Identifier "Monitor0"
>   VendorName "Unknown"
>   ModelName  "Unknown"
>   HorizSync   30.0 - 110.0
>   VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
>   Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
>
> I'd like to increase the resolution up to 1600x1200 with a higher refresh
> rate as well if possible. My monitor can take it, but my xorg.conf file no
> longer seems to have the section wherein one can tweak those settings.
>

In the snipped section above commenting out vert and horz refresh
lines and adding a modeline for resolution should work.

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Re: trying to get tyan s2895 audio working --tyan support does not like debian.....help.

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 14:46:06 -0400, Michael Habashy wrote:
> after being on the phone with Tyan -- i have realized how useless they are.
> I am trying to get the audio working on the board.
> I have a debain 4.0 AMD 64 version.
> 
> i did an lspci on my server and got this:

[...]

> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio 
> Controller (rev a2)

Post the output of:

lsmod | grep snd

cat /dev/sndstat

cat /proc/asound/cards

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Re: compatibility

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:43 -0400, Kenn Bannerman wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate
> whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: 
> 
> AutoCAD 
> Adobe Photoshop et al 
> SoundForge 

The vendors should be able to provide you with that information if
they're willing to stand behind their products (if not, why are you
working with those vendors to begin with).

Also, consider open alternatives.  There are many CAD and graphics
editing programs, and there's few things that Photoshop can do that GIMP
can't.

If all else fails, you should check the WineHQ appdb.
http://appdb.winehq.org/

In any case, this is probably not the mailing list you're looking for
for this question.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum

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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:04 -0700, consultores1 wrote:

> I'm having the same situation, it looks that the Canadian dictionary
> doesn't exist yet! and by default it use U.S. dictionary.
> 
> My preference in this case is to use British dictionary, but i can't.

Make sure the en-gb packages are installed?

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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> They're trying to tell you something...

The Debian lists are not the place to be a racist bastard, Ron.

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Re: KDE Automount stopped working

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:34:53 -0400, Kumar Ravichandran wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:19:56AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]

> > How is the overall state of your system, is it fully upgraded? I ask
> > because your version of Mutt is too new for Etch, but older than what
> > you should have for up-to-date Lenny or Sid. Is it possible that you ran
> > into a problem that has long been fixed on current Lenny/Sid, or a bug
> > that is only present for a certain mix of more-or-less outdated
> > packages?
> 
> Well, my initial install was from the Etch DVDs, but I had a mixture
> of Etch and lenny for a while. I recently did a dist-upgrade to lenny,
> but have a few sid packages from somewhere (I think during a failed
> KDE 4.1 install attempt). Anyway, I had Etch/lenny when the automount
> stopped working. I hope that answers your question.

The automatic handling of removable media requires that many different
components work together - the kernel, udev, hal, dbus, assorted KDE
libraries and services. I am not too surprised that it does not work
with the kind of mix that you seem to have on your system.

I suggest that you make up your mind which branch of Debian you want to
use and then downgrade/upgrade/remove/add packages as is necessary until
your entire system comes from that one branch only.

You can use the following command to find out which ones of your
currently installed packages do not belong to your intended target
archive ("testing" in this example, replace this string if you decide on
something else):

aptitude -F '%p%t' search '~S ~i !~Atesting' | column -t

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Re: Errors DirMngr

[Robin]

2008/8/21 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:21, Zaki Akhmad wrote:
>> Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D
>> No more dirmngr errors
>
> No. Expect more bugs from unstable.
>>
>> -za,
>
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You do Debian no favours with comments like that.

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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[consultores1]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:47 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/21/08 13:48, H.S. wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I
> >> use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I
> >> select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the
> >> dictionary does not work.
> >>
> >> So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo in Debian Lenny?
> >>
> >>
> >> I have these installed:
> >> $> dpkg -l *myspell* | grep ^i
> >> ii  libmyspell3c2  1:3.1-18   MySpell spellchecking library
> >> ii  myspell-en-gb  1:2.4.0-2  English_british dictionary for myspell
> >> ii  myspell-en-us  1:2.4.0-2  English_american dictionary for myspell
> > 
> > They're trying to tell you something...
> > 
> 
> Could you please keep the sarcasm away and at least give me a benefit of
> the doubt that I have looked at this problem with some minimum care? But
> I will spell it out for you: I know it is not installed. So, where can I
> find it in Debian? Does Debian even have it, even though it has en_ca
> locale? What am I missing here?
> 

Hello H.S.

I'm having the same situation, it looks that the Canadian dictionary
doesn't exist yet! and by default it use U.S. dictionary.

My preference in this case is to use British dictionary, but i can't.


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automounting in xfce

[John O Laoi]

I've tried some of these solutions.

However, when I insert a CD say, and run

# fdisk -l

it does not even see the CD volume,

so there is no device to mount.


 What could be causing that?

John

Re: Ugly java applet fonts

[Rob Gom]

Hi,
I have filed a bugreport against this issue - 495988. If you have any
comments, feel free to include them to that report.

Regards,
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Re: Dual-Layer DVD+R under Gnome?

[ReikoShea]

I also had a similar issue.  I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.24 and it
resolved the issue.

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 17:30 -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> I have a Dell DVD+-RW GSA-H73N drive, and K3B recognizes it as
> dual-layer with double-layer support. However, anytime I put a
> DVD+R DL
> disc in the drive, I get a message from dmesg saying "I can't
> find any
> tracks on this disc!" and I/O errors if I attempt to write to
> the disc.
> Both Nautilus and k3b fail when attempting to write ISOs to
> the drive.
> 
> Anyone else have a similar drive that is burning DL discs, or
> know how I
> can probe a little deeper here?
> 
> Have you tried looking for a firmware update for your drive? It might
> be that the drive is incompatible with this specific media. I had this
> problem with a NEC drive once that was solved through an upgrade.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cassiano Leal
> 


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Re: Dual-Layer DVD+R under Gnome?

[Cassiano Leal]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I have a Dell DVD+-RW GSA-H73N drive, and K3B recognizes it as
> dual-layer with double-layer support. However, anytime I put a DVD+R DL
> disc in the drive, I get a message from dmesg saying "I can't find any
> tracks on this disc!" and I/O errors if I attempt to write to the disc.
> Both Nautilus and k3b fail when attempting to write ISOs to the drive.
>
> Anyone else have a similar drive that is burning DL discs, or know how I
> can probe a little deeper here?
>

Have you tried looking for a firmware update for your drive? It might be
that the drive is incompatible with this specific media. I had this problem
with a NEC drive once that was solved through an upgrade.

Cheers,
Cassiano Leal

Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

[Curt Howland]

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On Thursday 21 August 2008, Andrew Sackville-West 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still
> respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need*
> them anymore.

I tried that, no joy. I tried copying in the "Synaptics" device, just 
like in the previous xorg.conf, and also as settings inside 
the "configured mouse". Neither made any difference.

I also discovered that while KDE will let me change the magnitude of 
the scroll events, it will not allow me to turn them off. I cannot 
set "scroll" to "0", only "1" or more.

On Thursday 21 August 2008,  
"Felipe Gallois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in 
> laptops anymore

Yet this is what is in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device 
to /dev/input/event8
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" 
(type: MOUSE)
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device 
to /dev/input/event8
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found

so it seems that it is in fact getting loaded. The old configuration 
is just being ignored.

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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[H.S.]

Eric Gerlach wrote:

> 
> If I recall correctly, for the longest time one just didn't exist for
> OOo.  OpenOffice.org offers the following page (disclosure: I haven't
> tried it):
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing how you make out.

I was trying to avoid that method :)

This way, as I understand this correctly, the dictionary gets installed
only for the user. I wanted to have it installed system wide.

Thanks.

> Cheers,
> 


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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[Eric Gerlach]

H.S. wrote:

Hello,

In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I
use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I
select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the
dictionary does not work.

So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo in Debian Lenny?


I have these installed:
$> dpkg -l *myspell* | grep ^i
ii  libmyspell3c2  1:3.1-18   MySpell spellchecking library
ii  myspell-en-gb  1:2.4.0-2  English_british dictionary for myspell
ii  myspell-en-us  1:2.4.0-2  English_american dictionary for myspell

Thanks in advance.


If I recall correctly, for the longest time one just didn't exist for 
OOo.  OpenOffice.org offers the following page (disclosure: I haven't 
tried it):


http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

I'd be interested in knowing how you make out.

Cheers,

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Dual-Layer DVD+R under Gnome?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

I have a Dell DVD+-RW GSA-H73N drive, and K3B recognizes it as
dual-layer with double-layer support. However, anytime I put a DVD+R DL
disc in the drive, I get a message from dmesg saying "I can't find any
tracks on this disc!" and I/O errors if I attempt to write to the disc.
Both Nautilus and k3b fail when attempting to write ISOs to the drive.

Anyone else have a similar drive that is burning DL discs, or know how I
can probe a little deeper here?

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Network Bandwitch incremental and less

[Enrico Farabollini]

Hello Guys,
I recently installed Lenny on my laptop, the strange thing is that I 
have the speed sheet dynamics I went from 60 Mbytes a few KByte.

Any idea.
Hello



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Re: emacs not installable

[Nishita Desai]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Eric Gerlach
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Try adding a line like:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main
>
> then run "aptitude update" and try it again.

That did it! Thanks a LOT.

Nishita


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Re: emacs not installable

[Felipe Gallois]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 17:02, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
>
> Nishita Desai wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
>>> How does your sources.list look?
>>>
>>
>> sources.list:
>>
>> #
>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
>> Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main
>>
>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
>> Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main
>>
>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
>>
>
> You might need to add a mirror.  I think with that sources.list you'd only
> be able to install security updates.
>
> Try adding a line like:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main
>
> then run "aptitude update" and try it again.
>
> Cheers,


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Re: emacs not installable

[Eric Gerlach]

Nishita Desai wrote:

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
How does your sources.list look?


sources.list:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib


You might need to add a mirror.  I think with that sources.list you'd 
only be able to install security updates.


Try adding a line like:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main

then run "aptitude update" and try it again.

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Re: compatibility

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Kenn Bannerman escreveu:


I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate 
whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as:


AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop et al
SoundForge


No Linux distribution is compatible with those programs. And no 
distribution will ever be, until the producers of those softwares create 
Linux versions for them.



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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[H.S.]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/21/08 13:48, H.S. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I
>> use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I
>> select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the
>> dictionary does not work.
>>
>> So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo in Debian Lenny?
>>
>>
>> I have these installed:
>> $> dpkg -l *myspell* | grep ^i
>> ii  libmyspell3c2  1:3.1-18   MySpell spellchecking library
>> ii  myspell-en-gb  1:2.4.0-2  English_british dictionary for myspell
>> ii  myspell-en-us  1:2.4.0-2  English_american dictionary for myspell
> 
> They're trying to tell you something...
> 

Could you please keep the sarcasm away and at least give me a benefit of
the doubt that I have looked at this problem with some minimum care? But
I will spell it out for you: I know it is not installed. So, where can I
find it in Debian? Does Debian even have it, even though it has en_ca
locale? What am I missing here?


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Re: Icons on Gnome desktop

[andy]

Johan Grönqvist wrote:

andy skrev:
My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., 
but when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on 
the desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it is 
called), I can double click the device icon and then it will appear 
on the desktop.


Anyone have any suggested fixes to this minor inconvenience?




You could try to run gconf-editor and look for apps->nautilus->desktop 
to check if "Volumes visible" is checked. If that does not solve it, I 
do not know.


/ johan



Thanks Johan

I think that I see where my question was ambiguous. I should've made 
clearer that once I've clicked on the device in "computer", the icon 
loads onto the desktop. What I wanted to find out how to do was to have 
that icon come onto the desktop automatically whenever a device is found 
and automounted.


But thanks for gconf-editor - news to me and helpful ... thank you!!

Cheers

Andy

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Re: compatibility

[Chris Burkhardt]

Kenn Bannerman wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether
> they are compatible with certain software programs such as:

A better strategy would be to ask the software vendors whether or not their
program is supported under Linux.

- Chris


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Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

[Wackojacko]

Adam Hardy wrote:

However, using

#chkrootkit -x lkm

and

#/usr/lib/chkrootkit/chkproc -v -v


Wacko,
you haven't got a script that does that have you? (Identifying the 
process that is hidden from /proc/PID?) Seems a bit laborious doing it 
manually more than once.



Adam


As per my original mail above, these two commands will show you the 
hidden processes.


First one asks chkrootkit why it thinks there is an LKM Trojan on the 
system.


Second one is the helper script run by chkrootkit that lists the hidden 
processes but can be run directly.


I am still seeing output from these commands, but the daily chkrootkit 
email warning of LKM Trojan has now disappeared!!


HTH

Wackojacko


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Re: compatibility

[andy baxter]

Kenn Bannerman wrote:


I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate 
whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as:


AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop et al
SoundForge

Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.

Linux is a quite different operating system to Windows, so you can't
assume that a program written for Windows will run in Linux unless it
has been specifically ported to this platform. However there are similar
programs written for Linux which will do much the same job. I suggest
that you try for yourself installing a version of Linux, and look at
some of these programs to see if they meet your needs. You can install
linux side by side with windows on your hard disk if you want. Many (but
not all) Windows programs can also run under linux using a windows
compatibility layer called 'Wine', so you could look at that too.

I don't know of any linux programs similar to AutoCAD (though others
here might do), but Photoshop is roughly equivalent to a linux program
called the GIMP. For Soundforge, there are a variety of Linux based
tools which cover a similar field - look at Rezound, Audacity, and
Ardour for a start.

andy


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Re: Icons on Gnome desktop

[Johan Grönqvist]

andy skrev:
My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., but 
when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on the 
desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it is called), I 
can double click the device icon and then it will appear on the desktop.


Anyone have any suggested fixes to this minor inconvenience?




You could try to run gconf-editor and look for apps->nautilus->desktop 
to check if "Volumes visible" is checked. If that does not solve it, I 
do not know.


/ johan


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Re: compatibility

[Felipe Gallois]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:25, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:23, Shachar Or wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote:
> > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether
> > > they are compatible with certain software programs such as:
> >
> > You mean distributions, I assume.
> >
> > > AutoCAD
> > > Adobe Photoshop et al
> > > SoundForge
> >
> > These are software built for Microsoft Windows and will not run on linux
> > natively. For these programs to work on linux you'll need the software
> > called wine. Check out http://winehq.org. Wine can be installed in
> Debian
> > GNU/Linux easily. I recommend the wine package that's mentioned in the
> > winehq website. For compatibility of specific programs check
> > http://appdb.winehq.org .
> >
> > On another note there are free software alternatives for many knows
> Windows
> > software.
> >
> > I don't know about AutoCAD. Can anyone recommend anything?
> >
> > Photoshop can be replaced by The GIMP in some cases.
> >
> > For SoundForge... There is at least one good free sound editor for Linux.
> > Don't remember.
>
> Audacity, perhaps.
> >
> > > Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.
> > >
> > > Thanks very much.
> > >
> > > Yours sincerely,
> > >
> > > Kenn Bannerman
> >
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audacity can do a pretty decent job

the only downfall is that the sound drivers are not as good as in windows

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Re: compatibility

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:23, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote:
> > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether
> > they are compatible with certain software programs such as:
>
> You mean distributions, I assume.
>
> > AutoCAD
> > Adobe Photoshop et al
> > SoundForge
>
> These are software built for Microsoft Windows and will not run on linux
> natively. For these programs to work on linux you'll need the software
> called wine. Check out http://winehq.org. Wine can be installed in Debian
> GNU/Linux easily. I recommend the wine package that's mentioned in the
> winehq website. For compatibility of specific programs check
> http://appdb.winehq.org .
>
> On another note there are free software alternatives for many knows Windows
> software.
>
> I don't know about AutoCAD. Can anyone recommend anything?
>
> Photoshop can be replaced by The GIMP in some cases.
>
> For SoundForge... There is at least one good free sound editor for Linux.
> Don't remember.

Audacity, perhaps.
>
> > Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> >
> > Kenn Bannerman
>
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Re: emacs not installable

[Felipe Gallois]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:20, Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
> > How does your sources.list look?
>
> sources.list:
>
> #
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
> Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
> Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main
>
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
>
> Nishita
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Re: compatibility

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote:
> I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether
> they are compatible with certain software programs such as:

You mean distributions, I assume.
>
> AutoCAD
> Adobe Photoshop et al
> SoundForge

These are software built for Microsoft Windows and will not run on linux 
natively. For these programs to work on linux you'll need the software called 
wine. Check out http://winehq.org. Wine can be installed in Debian GNU/Linux 
easily. I recommend the wine package that's mentioned in the winehq website. 
For compatibility of specific programs check http://appdb.winehq.org .

On another note there are free software alternatives for many knows Windows 
software.

I don't know about AutoCAD. Can anyone recommend anything?

Photoshop can be replaced by The GIMP in some cases.

For SoundForge... There is at least one good free sound editor for Linux. 
Don't remember.
>
> Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Kenn Bannerman

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Re: emacs not installable

[Nishita Desai]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
> How does your sources.list look?

sources.list:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

Nishita


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Re: emacs not installable

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-08-21 21:15 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:

> Try installing emacs22-gtk.

That package does not exist in Etch.

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emacs not installable

[Nishita Desai]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: emacs not installable
To: Felipe Gallois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Felipe Gallois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try emacs21 for the X version
> or emacs21-nox for the console one!

Thanks for your reply.

According to synaptic, 'emacs' is a meta-package which points to
emacs21. In any case, both these packages give me the error:
emacs21-nox:
 Depends: emacs21-bin-common but it is not going to be installed

emacs21-bin-common gives the error:
emacs21-bin-common:
 Depends: emacs21-common but it is not going to be installed

emacs21-common gives the error:
emacs21-common:
 Depends: emacsen-common (>=1.4.10) but it is not installable

Nishita


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Re: emacs not installable

[Luca Bruno]

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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:55 +0530
"Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:
> 
> ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
>   emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> 
> Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
> I can't find this package anywhere.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nishita
> 

Try installing emacs22-gtk.

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Re: emacs not installable

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:

I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error
messages.

> ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
>   emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
> I can't find this package anywhere.

Well, it's there: http://packages.debian.org/etch/emacsen-common

How does your sources.list look?

Sven


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Re: compatibility

[Felipe Gallois]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:08, Michael Mohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> Am 21.08.2008 um 20:43 schrieb Kenn Bannerman:
>
>
> I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether
> they are compatible with certain software programs such as:
>
> AutoCAD
> Adobe Photoshop et al
> SoundForge
>
> Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.
>
>
> WTF?
>

well... they won't be compatible
that's it
if you REALLY need them, stick with windows
otherwise, find some similar apps

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Re: compatibility

[Michael Mohn]

Am 21.08.2008 um 20:43 schrieb Kenn Bannerman:



I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate  
whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as:


AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop et al
SoundForge

Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.


WTF?

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emacs not installable

[Nishita Desai]

Hello,

I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:

ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
  emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
I can't find this package anywhere.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Nishita


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Re: Very slow install

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:56, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Nishita Desai escreveu:
> > I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would
> > still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo
> > shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS?
>
> No, 32 versus 64-bits has nothing to do with the number of
> processors/cores. Check your BIOS settings, to see if for some reason
> multi-core support is disabled.

And check for BIOS upgrades, perhaps.

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compatibility

[Kenn Bannerman]

I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether 
they are compatible with certain software programs such as:

AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop et al
SoundForge

Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision.

Thanks very much.

Yours sincerely,

Kenn Bannerman

Re: Very slow install

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:50, Nishita Desai wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
> >> I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
> >> s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
> >> partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?
> >>
> >> I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.
> >
> > Perhaps you can try the etchnhalf netinstall.
>
> I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would
> still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo
> shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS?

It is a waste of bits! Use amd64 :(

What does 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' say?
>
> Thanks to all who replied.
>
> Nishita

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Re: Very slow install

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Nishita Desai escreveu:

I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would
still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo
shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS?
  


No, 32 versus 64-bits has nothing to do with the number of 
processors/cores. Check your BIOS settings, to see if for some reason 
multi-core support is disabled.



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Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[Ron Johnson]

On 08/21/08 13:48, H.S. wrote:

Hello,

In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I
use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I
select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the
dictionary does not work.

So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo in Debian Lenny?


I have these installed:
$> dpkg -l *myspell* | grep ^i
ii  libmyspell3c2  1:3.1-18   MySpell spellchecking library
ii  myspell-en-gb  1:2.4.0-2  English_british dictionary for myspell
ii  myspell-en-us  1:2.4.0-2  English_american dictionary for myspell


They're trying to tell you something...

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Re: Very slow install

[Nishita Desai]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
>> I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
>> s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
>> partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?
>>
>> I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.
>
> Perhaps you can try the etchnhalf netinstall.

I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would
still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo
shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS?

Thanks to all who replied.

Nishita


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Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

[H.S.]

Hello,

In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I
use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I
select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the
dictionary does not work.

So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo in Debian Lenny?


I have these installed:
$> dpkg -l *myspell* | grep ^i
ii  libmyspell3c2  1:3.1-18   MySpell spellchecking library
ii  myspell-en-gb  1:2.4.0-2  English_british dictionary for myspell
ii  myspell-en-us  1:2.4.0-2  English_american dictionary for myspell

Thanks in advance.


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Re: Very slow install

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
> I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
> s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
> partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?
>
> I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.

Perhaps you can try the etchnhalf netinstall.
>
> Thanks,
> Nishita
>
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Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:46:49AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:30, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > >> http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/
> > what's wrong with the files *.bin
> In VirtualBox OSE 1.6.2 it boots from the floppy, apparently and all I see is 
> the cursor in the firt line, not blinking and the CPU stays idle.

I cannot help about VirtualBox, but you can try other virtualization
methods (such as quemu, bochs) or a real hardware to understand if the
problem is in the *.bin files 

I suspect that the problem is not in the files, but in some
incompatibility with VirtualBox (or of your configuration of
VirtualBox). VirtualBox documentation/googling/forums might help.

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Re: Very slow install

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:59, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
> > I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
> > s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
> > partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?
> >
> > I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.
>
> Did you select the encrypted setup?
>
> What is displayed on the screen?
>
> Press + to see the installer log and tell us what's written there.

Did you get this message?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Nishita
> >
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RE: Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'

[Tammo Schuelke]

The during or after options should be a bit faster because rsync already knows 
what to delete and doesn't have to scan for changes, but especially after may 
cause problems if a directory changes into a file or the other way round. I 
don't know how rsync handles such cases, the option should probably be combined 
with force. Also, deleting the files before the transfer reduces the space 
required for the operation and reduces the risk of running out of space. On the 
other hand, if for some reason the transfer fails, you still have valid copies 
of the files on the receiving end. Just my thoughts on this.

> -Original Message-
> From: Kenneth Jacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:47 PM
> To: debian-user
> Subject: Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'
> 
> >From rsync(1):
> 
>  --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs
>  --delete-before receiver deletes before transfer (default)
> 
>  --delete-during receiver deletes during xfer, not before
>  --delete-after  receiver deletes after transfer, not before
> 
> 
> I've always just used the first option (--delete).
> 
> Can anyone suggest when I might use one of the last two?
> 
> Thanks!
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RE: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?

[Tammo Schuelke]

If you have an existing userbase, you can't just switch to public key 
authentication, depending on the type of customer. pubkey auth is also 
generally inconvenient if people tend to use different computers.
This is also a problem we just ran into. Fortunately, recent versions of 
OpenSSH support match blocks and chroot. This allows you to a) selectively 
enable/disable password authentication, which reduces the possibility of a 
successful brute force attack, and b) re-root anybody to their respective homes 
so even if somebody successfully breaks into your system, there's no much he 
could do then. It also allows you to completely disable FTP access, which not 
only prevents passwords being transmitted in plain text but also closes a hole 
in your firewall setup.
Combined with thorough system monitoring (prelude, snort, samhain, zabbix...) 
and a generally strict security policy (proper file system permissions, mount 
options and so on, any proactive security measures), any system can be made 
pretty hard to attack. On the other hand, as the recent key vulnerabilities 
caused by the Debian OpenSSL version have shown 
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html), you 
can't make sure that the programs your security policy relies on don't have 
holes in themselves.
"Pretty hard to attack" is usually just a question of how skilled and 
persistent the attacker is. A script kiddy running a simple brute force attack 
can usually easily be blocked by having something like denyhosts running in the 
background. Somebody who really wants to break into your system and actually 
knows what to look for won't be stopped by such measures.
If somebody from within the system tries to do bad things, you usually have a 
valid contract with that person which makes it easy to sue him for any damages 
or downtimes caused. Depending on the user type, it would also be possible to 
mount the user fs noexec and only allow access to a read-only fs containing 
executables from within his chroot (proactive approach again).

> -Original Message-
> From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:21 PM
> To: Michael Tautschnig
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?
> 
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > * use a Firewall to prevent other IP address to connect to your ssh
> > > service. restrict just to yours (iptables script can be easy to find on
> > > the web)
> > Well, I should have added that my hosts must be world-wide accessible using
> > password-based authentication, so this is no option.
> 
> In the long term, switch to key-based auth.
> 
> > I'm not a huge fan of security by obscurity, so I'd rather stick with 22 for
> > now.
> 
> Switch to key-based auth.  Brute-forcing the keys is much harder.
> 
> Meanwhile, you really should do something to reduce your attack surface, so
> fail2ban and the like, plus non-standard ports are a damn good idea while
> you implement the proper "fix" (drop passwords).
> 
> > What remains open is what could one do proactively? I don't really feel like
> > striking back, but getting rid of the attackers would be kind of nice...
> 
> Strike against a botnet?  That's a waste of effort, really, with very few
> exceptions.
> 
> --
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>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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Re: Ugly java applet fonts

[Rob Gom]

Thank you very much for your answer.
I have checked debconf-utils output and it was indeed bitmap fonts set
to true. However, after unsetting it, look didn't change.
I have proceed further and tried to decompile java classes, but they
were so obfuscated, that I had to give up (I wanted to check which
fonts the applet tries to use).
I have also checked /usr/lib/jvm for font string, but there were too
many of them. I only noticed that there is latin-1 in many strings,
whereas I use latin-2 primarily ...
I will check further ...
Regards,
Robert


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Increasing screen resolution

[andy]

Hi

I have started a new thread on this to avoid hijacking a similar thread 
from someone else.


My current screen resolution is 1400x1050 with a refresh rate of 50Hz.

This is my xorg.conf file:


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  Thu Feb 14 
18:20:37 PST 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "Layout0"
   Screen  0  "Screen0"
   InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
   RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load   "nvidia"
   Load   "dbe"
   Load   "extmod"
   Load   "type1"
   Load   "freetype"
   Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   # generated from default
   Identifier "Mouse0"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "auto"
   Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
   Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   # generated from default
   Identifier "Keyboard0"
   Driver "kbd"
   Option  "XkbRules"  "xorg"
   Option  "XkbModel"  "pc105"
   Option  "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "Monitor0"
   VendorName "Unknown"
   ModelName  "Unknown"
   HorizSync   30.0 - 110.0
   VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Device0"
   Driver"nvidia"
   Option"IgnoreDisplayDevices""TV"
   Option  "Coolbits""1"
   Option  "RandRRotation""1"
   Option  "AddARGBGLXVisuals""1"
   Option  "TripleBuffer""0"
   Option  "DynamicTwinView""1"
   VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device "Device0"
   Monitor"Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth24
   SubSection "Display"
   Depth   24
   EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
   Option  "Composite""1"
#Option  "RENDER""0"
EndSection

I'd like to increase the resolution up to 1600x1200 with a higher 
refresh rate as well if possible. My monitor can take it, but my 
xorg.conf file no longer seems to have the section wherein one can tweak 
those settings.


I am using an Nvidia GeForce 8500GT card on a Lenny machine.

How would I go about increasing the resolution?

Thanks

Andy

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Icons on Gnome desktop

[andy]

Hello

Minor issue really, but would be nice if I could sort it out, so help 
would be welcomed:


My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., but 
when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on the 
desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it is called), I 
can double click the device icon and then it will appear on the desktop.


Whenever I switch over to Xfce4 or even KDE for a change, the icon 
appears on the desktop automagically.


Anyone have any suggested fixes to this minor inconvenience?

Cheers

Andy

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Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'

[Kenneth Jacker]

>From rsync(1):

 --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs
 --delete-before receiver deletes before transfer (default)

 --delete-during receiver deletes during xfer, not before
 --delete-after  receiver deletes after transfer, not before


I've always just used the first option (--delete).

Can anyone suggest when I might use one of the last two?

Thanks!
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Re: Which USB stick for Debian root filesystem

[Wayne Topa]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello.

Today, I have experienced file system crash on my USB
stick. I had been running Debian on it for less than two months, and
today it just started having problems reading some files. I ran fsck
and... let's just say there was not much left from my file system 


Yes,
I heard that USB sticks are not very reliable. But it died after only
two months! I was expecting it to run without problems for at least a
year or so.

In the light of this, I really don't know what USB
drive should I chose now. My previous USB was an cheap A-Data (which
now sounds like a very poor choice). Are other memory sticks (Kingston,
OCZ, etc) more reliable?

Please share some of your experience.
Which USB drives would you recommend, and which are not good for 24/7
usage as Linux root file system?

I don't want to install my
system on a hard drive because of power consumption and heat. I really
want to use USB drive, but I need something that will last for more
than two months.




I have been using Sandisk and Kingston sticks for over 2 years (gee has 
it been that long) and they are still working.  I don't know what you 
have in your /etc/fstab for you system but the following is what I use.


/dev/sdb1   /media/flash vfatrw,user,noauto,noatime 0   0
^^^
the noatime was said to be necessary for long USB stick life.  It seens 
to have worked here.


YMMV

Wayne


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Re: acer driver

[Wayne Topa]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Wayne Topa wrote:



If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that
card?  Does it have any software for that card installed?  Did the card
work in WindBloz?  If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it
working using the ndiswrapper package.


Hi again Wayne,
On the Acer website they do have the Windows XP driver for the Aspire 3500.
It's called Atheros Wireless LAN B+G Driver 4.0.0.14001. I can give it a
try with ndiswrapper.
Cheers,
Jonathan


Sure you can.  Get that and the ndiswrapper (which I have not used) and 
go for it!!


Good Find Jonathan!!

Wayne


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Re: where is ath9k?

[Wayne Topa]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Wayne Topa wrote:


Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Wayne Topa wrote:



<-- SNIP -->


me.  Guess which ones I use.  :-)


Sorry I wasn't able to help you get it running.

Au contraire, thanks a lot for helping me. Right now the pcmia or usb wifi
card seems the best option. Any recommendations on that score?


I like the pcmcia cards but I also use 3 different usb adapters.  I 
prefer the pcmcia cards because they all work with madwifi.  I only 
bought cards that were madwifi compatable.


I would suggest you search for a pcmcia card that has the features/price 
you like.  Then go to the madwifi Compatibility page and make sure the 
Manuf. and that model/version is supported. If not, keep looking.


I like the Netgear WG511U 3.3v/Cardbus pcmcia cards because that work 
great.  Never had a problem with them and by following all the Tips 
given in the UserDocs on the madwifi site I had no problems using then 
in any mode. I have them working on an IBM T40 & two 770 (2) laptops, a 
HP ze4420us laptop, and an old 586 desktop with a pcmcia adapter.



Best regards and good luck in your search!

Wayne


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Re: Ambit?

[Wayne Topa]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Wayne Topa wrote:


Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Wayne Topa wrote:
Output of lspci -vvv
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg
NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr-



Here's what I found on the Madwifi compatibility page:

Ah, you didn't find a listing for AMBIT Microsystem Corp.  That means,

^ on the madwifi compatibility page

to me, that it is not compatible with madwifi.  If it was, AMBIT would
have be listed there.


Just to be sure I understand, the line with Subsystem: AMBIT shown above
doesn't count as a listing. Is that correct?
Cheers,
Jonathan



The madwifi Compatibility page did not have a listing for a company 
named AMBIT.  So I don't think that AMBIT is compatiable.


Wayne


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Iceape (mozilla browser) Bookmarks list does not scroll during drag drop

[H.S.]

Hello,

On Debian Testing, if I drag a link to the Bookmarks menu the menu opens
fine. I have a large list of bookmark folders in it and I need to bring
the link (mouse button still depressed) to the little down-arrow near
the bottom of the list to make the list scroll up. However, it just
stays there and doesn't scroll up.

In effect, I can drag a link and drop it only in the bookmarks which are
visible when the Bookmarks menu drops down. I cannot bring up the
bookmark folder which are not shown and need to be scrolled up.

Is this just me or do others see this too? I have Iceape 1.1.11-1.

Thanks in advance,
->HS


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Very slow install

[Nishita Desai]

Thank you Jayakrishnan and Shachar for your replies.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jayakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> facing similar issue (on an AMD64 machine). He had to disable USB
> devices in BIOS to get his installation working. Wierd, but that is
> what happened. This could be a BIOS bug.

I tried this, hasn't worked.

I also tried installing Ubuntu's amd64 version to similar results
(with USB on and off). I am yet to try any non-debian-based system but
I'd rather not do that!


Nishita


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Re: automounting in xfce

[Chris Burkhardt]

John O Laoi wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> 
> I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman.
> 
> This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert!
> 
> 
> The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for
> sid:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/thunar-volman
> 
> 
> However, when I issue
> 
> # aptitude show -t sid thunar-volman
> 
> I get
> 
> E: Unable to locate package thunar-volman

That is because you do not have the sid repositories listed in your 
sources.list.

However, the thunar-volman package requires Thunar version 0.5.1 or later, and
the Etch Thunar is only at 0.4.0.

You could try installing Thunar from the etch-backports (it has version 0.9.0)
and then installing thunar-volman from Lenny. To do that you need to add
backports and testing repository lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib

then do:

apt-get uninstall thunar
apt-get -t etch-backports install thunar
apt-get -t lenny install thunar-volman

If that doesn't work, or is too much trouble, there are other automounting
solutions you can look into. For example, ivman is in etch:
http://ivman.sourceforge.net/

Hope that helps,
- Chris


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Re: automounting in xfce

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:22:46AM +0100, John O Laoi wrote:
> Thanks for the help.

I've looked into this a bit more. You're running etch. etch's thunar
does not depend on, and probably can't use
thunar-volman. http://packages.debian.org/etch/thunar tells us that it
suggests hal and pmount. This is likely what handles automounting for
thunar. You should make sure these are installed. That's all the
advice I have onthis problem, though, as I'm badly out of date on xfce.


> 
> 
>  I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman.
> 
> This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert!
> 
> 
>  The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for
> sid:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/thunar-volman
> 
> 
>  However, when I issue
> 
> # aptitude show -t sid thunar-volman
> 
> I get
> 
> E: Unable to locate package thunar-volman
> 

you don't have any sid sources in your sources.list. To get sid
packages, you'd have to add a sid source and then do aptitude
update. *BUT* I'm not advocating that *at all*. Don't do it. Use etch
backports to get packages that aren't in etch. until you have better
knowledge of debian systems, mixing sid with etch is a bad idea.

A


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Re: interface for tar

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> > Sharchar:
> >
> > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called
> > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for
> > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images?
> > Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos
>
> Here is what we have for auto-mounting ISO images.

Actually, I think that the .isos directory is badly named because we're not 
talking about ISO9660 at all.
>
> $ cat /etc/auto.master
> #
> /var/www/netinst/cds/etc/auto.netinst-cd
>
> $ cat /etc/auto.netinst-cd
> cd1 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image1.iso
> cd2 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image2.iso
>
> This will still be require a file system to mount.
>
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Re: KDE Automount stopped working

[Kumar Ravichandran]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:19:56AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 22:49:22 -0400, Kumar Ravichandran wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:05:42AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > How long did you wait after these messages appeared? On my system it
> > > takes about 2-5 seconds more for the following to show up:
> > > 
> > > 23:50:53.743: volume_uuid_487F_1EC0 added
> > > 23:50:53.878: 
> > > storage_serial_Prolific_Technology_Inc__USB_Mass_Storage_Device added
> > > 23:50:53.880: 
> > > storage_serial_Prolific_Technology_Inc__USB_Mass_Storage_Device property 
> > > info.interfaces = {'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable'} (new)
> > > 
> > > You should see similar output eventually, or something might be wrong
> > > with HAL.
> > > 
> > 
> > You are right, I don't get any further messages. What do you suggest I
> > do about Hal? I have tried reinstalling it already.
> 
> How is the overall state of your system, is it fully upgraded? I ask
> because your version of Mutt is too new for Etch, but older than what
> you should have for up-to-date Lenny or Sid. Is it possible that you ran
> into a problem that has long been fixed on current Lenny/Sid, or a bug
> that is only present for a certain mix of more-or-less outdated
> packages?

Well, my initial install was from the Etch DVDs, but I had a mixture
of Etch and lenny for a while. I recently did a dist-upgrade to lenny,
but have a few sid packages from somewhere (I think during a failed
KDE 4.1 install attempt). Anyway, I had Etch/lenny when the automount
stopped working. I hope that answers your question.

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Regards,

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Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:27:11AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi. Up to date Sid.
> 
> Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver  "synaptics"
> Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
> Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
> Option  "Protocol"  "auto-dev"
> Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false"
> Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"   "false"
> EndSection
> 
> and the very annoying "scroll" areas were gloriously gone.
> 
> But now, after the change in X where most of the specific 
> configuration options are autodetected, I'm back to having "scroll" 
> areas.
> 
> So I put the following into the only place available in the new 
> xorg.conf
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
> Driver  "mouse"
> Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false"
> Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"   "false"
> EndSection
> 
> but the annoying "scroll" remains.
> 
> Suggestions?

just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still
respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need* them
anymore.

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Re: no network connection

[Ed Sutter]

I can run gconf-editor, but there is no NetworkManagerApplet
under apps.

I see that there is something called NetworkManager and
NetworkManagerDispatcher
under /usr/sbin; but when I run gconf-editor, there's no
apps->NetworkManagerApplet
entry.

continued thanks...


I might be assuming wrong things here. Do you have network-manager-gnome 
installed? Are you even logging into GNOME?


If you are logging into GNOME and do not have network-manager-gnome, try 
installing it and then check gconf-editor again. If you already had 
network-manager-gnome, try reconfiguring it ($ sudo dpkg-reconfigure 
network-manager-gnome).


If you have no need for Network Manager at all (or if the above does not 
solve your problem), which actually seems to be your case, you could 
also try this:


Uninstall any network-manager packages ($ sudo aptitude remove 
network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-kde) and setting 
your interface to auto (in /etc/network/interfaces):


auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Either approach should work in theory. Please post any further doubts.


Ok, my problem appears to be resolved.  Just to recap...
I am running GNOME, and according to dpkg -l network-manager was installed.
I was unable to find network-manager-applet in gconf-editor->apps.
So, I uninstalled network-manager and network-manager-gnome, and at the
moment that appears to have resolved the problem.  My system now comes
up with the network enabled.
Note that I made no changes to /etc/network/interfaces to resolve this.
Thanks for the help.
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Re: Connecting two computers using an ethernet cable

[Rick Morneau]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:55:21PM +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> >On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:05:35 -0600
> >Rick Morneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>I have two computers that I would like to transfer files
> >>between.  One runs Debian Etch r3 and the other runs
> >>Fedora Core 2.  They both have ethernet boards.
> >>
> >>Can I just connect them with an ethernet cable and run
> >>some program or other to transfer data between them?
> >>
> >
> >Yes.  You'll need either a crossover cable or a switch / hub and
> >two patch cables.
> >
> >  
> These days most ethernet cards will autodetect and adapt to crossover or 
> straight cable. Configure ethernet on both machines with static 
> adresses. Pick any that you want, but make sure that they are two 
> different adresses and on the same net. Something like:
> ---/etc/network/interfaces on machine 1:---
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
>  address 192.168.0.1
>  netmask 255.255.255.0
> ---/etc/network/interfaces on machine 2:---
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
>  address 192.168.0.2
>  netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> -
> Then do ifup eth0 on the two machines. run ping  ip-adress> to test.
> Check manual-pages interfaces(5) and ifup(8).
> 
> Then on to setting up sshd, nfs, samba or ftp to transfer files. In 
> other words: be prepared to spend some time if you have not done this 
> before. You will learn a lot of usefull stuff though.
> 

Thanks!  This looks like exactly what I need.  I'll give it a try.


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Re: interface for tar

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> Sharchar:
> 
> Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called
> /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for
> /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images?
> Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos

Here is what we have for auto-mounting ISO images. 

$ cat /etc/auto.master
#
/var/www/netinst/cds/etc/auto.netinst-cd

$ cat /etc/auto.netinst-cd
cd1 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image1.iso 
cd2 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image2.iso 

This will still be require a file system to mount. 

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Re: where are properties of X ?

[Brad Rogers]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:47:46 +0100
"abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello abdelkader,

> Here is the content of xorg.conf, it is working correctly, but where
> are the specification and properties of my X ? somewhere probably ?

X is now much, much better at figuring out mouse, and GFX requirements,
so uses a stripped down .conf file now.

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Re: A viable mutt

[Johann Spies]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:55:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

> Of course it is, the fact that mutt is using the network to
> download-then-upload the messages is the entire problem!  Which is
> going to be
> faster:
> 
> A: Downloading 2000 messages totaling 10Mb over a 300kps connection
> then upload them to the Trash folder on a 35kps upload.
> 
> B: Tell the server, "copy these 2000 messages to the Trash folder
> using the local system BUS oh, and mark them as deleted, thanks."

Well, I have got about 17000 messages on my server and mutt works very
fast downloading nothing of them.

I use this in my .muttrc to achieve that:

set spoolfile=imaps://192.168.0.1/INBOX
set folder=imaps://192.168.0.1
set imap_user=js
set imap_login=js
set imap_pass=


I am not sure whether the imap_user and imap_login both have to be
there.

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Re: interface for tar

[Glennie Vignarajah]

Le Thursday 21 August 2008 vers 03:58, Mag Gam("Mag Gam" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) a écrit:


Hello,

> I am very interested in the fuse AND the fs image solution. Is it
> possible to integrate that into auto mounter or autofs type
> solution?
Afuse seems do this sort things. Have a look at 
http://afuse.sourceforge.net
Moreover, there is a debian package.
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Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

[Felipe Gallois]

you should try loading the synaptics driver

install it first

i don't remember exactly the steps, but it is something like that!
it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in laptops
anymore

cheers!

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:27, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Hi. Up to date Sid.
>
> Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
>Driver  "synaptics"
>Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
>Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
>Option  "Protocol"  "auto-dev"
>Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false"
>Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"   "false"
> EndSection
>
> and the very annoying "scroll" areas were gloriously gone.
>
> But now, after the change in X where most of the specific
> configuration options are autodetected, I'm back to having "scroll"
> areas.
>
> So I put the following into the only place available in the new
> xorg.conf
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
>Driver  "mouse"
>Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false"
>Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"   "false"
> EndSection
>
> but the annoying "scroll" remains.
>
> Suggestions?
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where are properties of X ?

[abdelkader belahcene]

Hi,
Here is the content of xorg.conf, it is working correctly, but where are the
specification and properties of my X ? somewhere probably ? ( using lenny
distro) .
thanks


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier"Generic Keyboard"
Driver"kbd"
Option"XkbRules""xorg"
Option"XkbModel""pc105"
Option"XkbLayout""fr"
Option"XkbVariant""latin9"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier"Configured Mouse"
Driver"mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier"Default Screen"
Monitor"Configured Monitor"
EndSection


best regards

Re: Very slow install

[Jayakrishnan M]

Hi,

I am not sure what the issue might be (hard to guess with no much info
on your setup).
Just noting down something that came to my mind: I had seen one person
facing similar issue (on an AMD64 machine). He had to disable USB
devices in BIOS to get his installation working. Wierd, but that is
what happened. This could be a BIOS bug.

Jayakrishnan

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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
> I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
> s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
> partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?
>
> I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Nishita
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Re: Very slow install

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
> I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
> s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
> partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?
>
> I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.

Did you select the encrypted setup?

What is displayed on the screen?

Press + to see the installer log and tell us what's written there.
>
> Thanks,
> Nishita
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Re: The minimum running X

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 13:28, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to install just a minimum on my machine ( small Disk < 512M ), but
> running X, for example JVM or fluxbox.
> When I tried apt-install xserver-xorg,  it install extra packages I am sure
> don't need and took big space.
>
> I want the minimum and required package, can I have a list please ?

Look at the xorg package's dependencies and it's dependencies' dependencies 
and select whatever you think you need from there.
>
> I've done it with DSL and Puppy, It is fine, But I want pure debian distro
>
> thanks a lot
> bela

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Re: Migrate: Windows AD --> Linux

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 13:08, janskey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need advice on how I can migrate my AD to linux? I've seen some article
> using samba and openldap. Any advice?

My advice would depend on your level of skill with a shell, Linux networking 
and Debian. While Debian makes it and most everything exceptionally easy, one 
does need to know his way around the system a little.

Samba has good documentation.
>
> Currently we're using Windows 2003 evaluation and its going to expire.
>
> Thanks!
>  cheers,
>
> janskey

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Re: Errors DirMngr

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:21, Zaki Akhmad wrote:
> Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D
> No more dirmngr errors

No. Expect more bugs from unstable.
>
> -za,

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Re: interface for tar

[Shachar Or]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Owen Townend wrote:
> fuse allows users with filesystem access to an image to mount it
> within one of their own directories.
> There are fuse drivers for iso (fuseiso), ext (fuseext2), tar
> (archivemount, avfs), tar, gzip, bzip2, rar (avfs), network (fusesmb).
> e.g. iso
>   mount:
> $ fuseiso /path/to/image.iso ~/mnt
>   unmount:
> $ fusermount -u ~/mnt
>
> or with avfs, there's an example of using it here:
> http://linuxwindows.org/2008/05/how-to-use-avfs.html
>
> >From the article:
>
> "
> After installation of AVFS,establish the folder .avfs in the home
> directory. Then run mountavfs,which does not require root privileges.
>Open .avfs folder, you will see a mirror structure of the root
> directory,which the cabinet can be open as the folder,but not directly
> access to them, need with the #, such as
>/home/yourname/garro.rar
>
>   should be visited as follows:
>
>   cd /home/yourname/.avfs/home/yourname/garro.rar#/
> "
>
> This works for tar, gzip, rar, bzip2 and others.

This sounds good.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.

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Re: interface for tar

[Owen Townend]

2008/8/21 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sharchar:
>
> Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called
> /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for
> /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images?
> Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos
>
> ANy thoughts about this?
>
> Either way, thanks for all of your help guys!
>
> TIA
>

This is one of the major motivating factors for creating fuse.
Why take the hard road here?

fuse allows users with filesystem access to an image to mount it
within one of their own directories.
There are fuse drivers for iso (fuseiso), ext (fuseext2), tar
(archivemount, avfs), tar, gzip, bzip2, rar (avfs), network (fusesmb).
e.g. iso
  mount:
$ fuseiso /path/to/image.iso ~/mnt
  unmount:
$ fusermount -u ~/mnt

or with avfs, there's an example of using it here:
http://linuxwindows.org/2008/05/how-to-use-avfs.html

>From the article:
"
After installation of AVFS,establish the folder .avfs in the home directory.
Then run mountavfs,which does not require root privileges.
   Open .avfs folder, you will see a mirror structure of the root
directory,which the cabinet can be open as the folder,but not directly
access to them, need with the #, such as
   /home/yourname/garro.rar

  should be visited as follows:

  cd /home/yourname/.avfs/home/yourname/garro.rar#/
"

This works for tar, gzip, rar, bzip2 and others.

cheers,
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Turning off touchpad "scroll"

[Curt Howland]

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Hash: SHA1

Hi. Up to date Sid.

Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver  "synaptics"
Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
Option  "Device""/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "auto-dev"
Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false"
Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"   "false"
EndSection

and the very annoying "scroll" areas were gloriously gone.

But now, after the change in X where most of the specific 
configuration options are autodetected, I'm back to having "scroll" 
areas.

So I put the following into the only place available in the new 
xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false"
Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"   "false"
EndSection

but the annoying "scroll" remains.

Suggestions?

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Very slow install

[Nishita Desai]

Hello,

I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine.
I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y
s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the
partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter?

I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine.

Thanks,
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