Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello, in deed the documentation is very clear concerning the command line options. What I was not able to figure out is what aptitude performs in gui mode when I hit U to schedule all upgradeable packages for an upgrade. I guess upgrade (which is equivalent to safe-upgrade) is used. Does s.o.

Re: youtube

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Mader
The repos you are using are listed in the file /etp/apt/sources.list You can edit this files with your favorite text editor. In the file you find entries like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free As you can see I am using unstable (sid) not testing. Also there

Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I want to by a MacBook which ist powered by an Inter Core2Duo (T7400). I was not able to figure out which debian port is the right. Is ist IA64 (the Intel 64-bit port) or amd64. Can you please help me out? Thank you in advance. W. Mader -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Thanks for this REALLY fast replies! You have helped me a lot! Am Dienstag 06 November 2007 08:26:16 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: Hello list, I want to by a MacBook which ist powered by an Inter Core2Duo (T7400). I was not able to figure out which debian port is the right. Is ist IA64 (the Intel

Re: keyboad leds not responding, kernel 2.6.22-2

2007-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Mader
I think also that it is a problem of xorg. My Keyboard leds are working at tty1 but in X. An other problem (perhaps relatet) is that I only can use an american keyboard layout. No idea why. Wolfgang Am Freitag 26 Oktober 2007 20:04:20 schrieb Daniel van Eeden: All, It could be an issue with

Re: keyboad leds not responding, kernel 2.6.22-2

2007-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Mader
). No idea why. Cherrs, Wolfgang Am Samstag 27 Oktober 2007 15:15:01 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: I think also that it is a problem of xorg. My Keyboard leds are working at tty1 but in X. An other problem (perhaps relatet) is that I only can use an american keyboard layout. No idea why. Wolfgang Am

Re: keyboad leds not responding, kernel 2.6.22-2

2007-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Am Samstag 27 Oktober 2007 18:36:18 schrieb Jonas Meurer: On 27/10/2007 Wolfgang Mader wrote: I think also that it is a problem of xorg. My Keyboard leds are working at tty1 not but under X. An other problem (perhaps relatet) is that I only can use an american keyboard layout (under X

keyboad leds not responding, kernel 2.6.22-2

2007-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, my keyboard leds does not respond any more. The NumLock led ist always on the the other two are always off. I am running kernel 2.6.22-2. The system is NOT looked up. Everything else runns nicely Any hints? Thank you. W. Mader signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: aptitude initialising package status takes _really_ long

2007-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 01:14:25 schrieb BARBIER Jean-Matthieu: Le Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:11:23 Wolfgang Mader, vous avez écrit : Good to know not to be alone... :) Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 18:47:00 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: Hello

aptitude initialising package status takes _really_ long

2007-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, at the start of aptitude and after every action you have took, aptitude has to initialise its package status. This is the same step as loading cache. Yesterday I have updated aptitude to . Since then this step takes _really_ long. Lets say 40s. I am on sid. There is no output it

Re: aptitude initialising package status takes _really_ long

2007-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Good to know not to be alone... :) Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 18:47:00 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: Hello list, at the start of aptitude and after every action you have took, aptitude has to initialise its package status. This is the same step

package for kbib

2007-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, is there somewhere a package of kbib for amd64/sid? Thank you. W. Mader pgpFQzfBYInIW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cpu overheating

2007-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Mader
In my BIOS the option is called Q-Fancontrol. Am Mittwoch 04 April 2007 21:04 schrieb Andrew Sharp: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:39:25PM +0300, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: Hello, When i do a cold start, the cpu fan barely spins. The result is that in a few minutes the cpu overheats and

suspend to disk

2007-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, since there are several methods to suspend a linuxbox to disk, I wondered if there is a prefered one, e.g. for debian systems? Thank you in advance. W. Mader pgpNIBJKdlXYT.pgp Description: PGP signature

slow package update

2007-02-20 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I am using the kernel from the debian repository (sid). On kernel.org, the latest stable kernel is 2.6.20.1, but I am only able to download 2.6.18-4 from the repo. Is this because everyone is working on etch? I do not want to complain, I only want to know what is going on! Thank

Re: KernelOops

2007-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Not enough power can cause all sorts of problems. If you think your powersupply is underspecced for your hardware it is worth upgrading it. I would be surprised if anything 400W is causing problems though (unless they only happen when using the graphics card intensively). If I remeber right,

Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?

2007-02-07 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hi, I just have installed the package linux-image-2.6-amd64 This package depends on the latest binary image for Linux kernel This packages just installes an new image, if one is availabel. You have to uninstall the old one by hand. Cheers Am Mittwoch 07 Februar 2007 20:14 schrieb Hans-J.

Re: KernelOops

2007-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Mader
I found out, that on heavy system load, my power supply only delivers +11,4V. This seemes to be the lower limit to the specs. Could this course the problems descripet below? -/var/log/messages--- Nov 5 21:27:17 FUCKUP kernel: Process Xorg

KernelOops

2007-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I have found these messages in /var/log/messages. I am using the nvidia driver for my GForce6600-GT card. Can someone please explain to me what is going on on my system? Thank you -- W. Mader -/var/log/messages--- Nov 5 21:27:17

strange X behaviour

2007-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, since some time I experience problems with my X. I am using X Window System Version 7.1.1 and I have tree monitors set up. Two of them are connected to an nvidia-gforce-6600 based card (nvidia-drivers) and the third one is connected to an old pci grafic-card (s3virge, s3virge

Re: flash...

2006-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Mader
I think you talking about gnash. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ pgpbzQZeSye4n.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get update yields unfamiliar error {Scanned}

2006-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Since the debian packages are signed for not forcing you to install packages from which you do not know, that any bad guy provided them, you need the public key from the person which habe signed them. Otherwise you are not able to check if the signature is valid. So you have to find the public

rret or rred

2006-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, since this is silly question I only want a short answer. Today I noticed a process using top with the name rred or rret owned by root. It eats up 70% of my cpu. Now he is gone. I can not find him neither with top nor with the systemguard from kde. What is this for an strange

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-19 Thread Wolfgang Mader
My german is not that good, but I think that, for googleearth, the installer is looking for xserver or something similar, and it does not fing it because you are running ./googleearthbin from root. Try it as a normal user, should work Thierry I tried as user and as root with exported

two questions about packages

2006-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, since a real long time, two months or so, aptitude always wants to upgrade the package libselinux from version 1.30-1 to version 1.30-1 This is not bad, I think but anoying. Has someone an idea. And another package is a bit strange. The new googleearth-package package. I installed

ConsistencyCheckException: Unable to find any vocabulary data

2006-07-15 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I found this in my syslog. Has anyone seen this? Google didn't come up with something usefull (at least for me). Jul 16 00:00:33 FUCKUP apt-index-watcher[3894]: ConsistencyCheckException: Unable to find any vocabulary data Jul 16 00:00:39 FUCKUP apt-index-watcher[3923]:

Logitech MX1000 Laser

2006-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, sorry for bringing up this topic once again. Yesterday I did a system update. After this X does not come up anymore because it was not able to find its corepointer. I do not know why, everything seemes correct to me. By searching the net I found a description on how to set up this

Re: sun-java5-plugin on amd64

2006-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Am Dienstag 23 Mai 2006 14:28 schrieb Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh): Le 23.05.2006 06:28:08, Hans a écrit : Am Montag, 22. Mai 2006 18:39 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: Does this work for you? If I add this line to source.list and update I get: Can not access list /var/lib/apt/lists/geole

Re: sun-java5-plugin on amd64

2006-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Does this work for you? If I add this line to source.list and update I get: Can not access list /var/lib/apt/lists/geole...-amd64_Packages If I look under /var/lib/apt/lists there is a list for geole, but only with i386 entries? Any hint? Cheers W. Mader Am Montag 22 Mai 2006 06:35 schrieb

Help... messed around with insserv

2006-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello, do you know the programm insserv. It should add startup links for a program to the different runlevels. The system on which it is use should be lsb compabile. I thought that debian is not lsb compatible, but because the programm was available via apt, I used it (OK it is my own fault,

Re: slow browsing with konqueror

2006-03-26 Thread Wolfgang Mader
On Thursday 23 March 2006 19:45, Wolfgang Mader wrote: Hello list, I experience very slow browsing with konqueror. It takes a big amount of time for konqueror to connect to the other side. Very often it tells me that is waiting for reply. With other Browers, e.g. internetexplorer on another

Re: usb2 from debian distribution kernel

2006-01-03 Thread Wolfgang Mader
On Monday 02 January 2006 23:58, Wolfgang Mader wrote: Hello list, I have installed the debian distribution kernel (2.6.14-2) and I have attached an usb2 harddisk to an usb2 port on my linuxbox (sounds good till here). Now I want to know how to check if my computer uses usb2. The problem

usb2 from debian distribution kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I have installed the debian distribution kernel (2.6.14-2) and I have attached an usb2 harddisk to an usb2 port on my linuxbox (sounds good till here). Now I want to know how to check if my computer uses usb2. The problem is that there is a really bad transmisson rate to the harddisk

How to set up midi support on a Asus 8N-SLI board

2005-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I want to set up midi support for my soundcard (Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)). This is on an Asus A8N-SLI board. Somehow all the information is a bit confusing to me. Do I need an soundserver like jack or is it possible by

Problems with mp3 decoding

2005-07-12 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, Since a few days I am not able to play mp3s on my maching. I am running sid. The problem is I do not really know what I have done. There was a problem with k3b which is not able to burn cds for me (v 0.12.1). Because k3b got upgraded I used the k3b-setup to adjust permissions for the

kickers crashs on logout

2005-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, sometime kicker crashs when I log out from kde (version 3.4.1). I think I found out that it only happend if I have amarok playing something at the time of logging out. Can someone please confirm this so that I can send a bugreport. And another question. Is there that less

koffice 1.4

2005-06-16 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, has anyone seen a repo which holds koffice 1.4 (especially krita) for amd64/sid. Thank you - W. Mader -- --ein neger mit gazelle zagt im regen nie-- pgp5qev4hODYM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Asus A8N-SLI wrong voltage values from sensors

2005-05-28 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I own an A8N-SLI board. If I check its status with sensors I get the following: it8712-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +1.54 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) VCore 2: +0.00 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.61 V) ALARM +3.3V: +6.62 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.46 V)

Re: nvidia driver failed to install

2005-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Have you installed nvidia-glx On Friday 06 May 2005 13:27, Harald Dunkel wrote: Alexander Fieroch wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: I have tried the debian nvidia-packages before, but the installation failed. Now it's the same again. The module compiles (module-assistant), but xfree

Re: Prob with nvidia and X11 on pure64bit

2005-05-04 Thread Wolfgang Mader
What is the better simpler way, as I am about to install (or attempt to) nvidia on my desktop amd64? If I am right you want to set up your nvidia grafic card with nvidia drivers. Under debian you only need to do the following: install nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx

Re: apt wants to remove bash

2005-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Mader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 April 2005 06:23, Bob Proulx wrote: apt-get install base-files=3.1.2 Thank you for this good explanation of things going on. I was away for a while and not aware of this situation. All is quite nice now. -BEGIN PGP

gnupg2 for debian amd64

2005-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Mader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, does anyone know where to get packages for gnupg2 for debian/sid amd64? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLc8Xi9QYB3W16SMRAgDEAJ0bsxmhy8QkhrEmBxgwUEbj6+l+wwCdFDPq J1wGXgNaiNCyh147eI4uz38= =RN9m

Re: nVidia GeForce 6600 GT PCI Express - working?

2005-03-07 Thread Wolfgang Mader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 March 2005 21:49, Alois Zoitl wrote: I have the such a card running I had some problems in the beginning and patched the x-server packages. look in the archive of the mailing list regarding this problem. (main proble: no or crapy