Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Hex Star
hmm...well, there have been mentions of some supposedly existent mods on this list...but haven't seen any mods do much with any of the OT threads on this list...who knows, maybe some mods have just gone along with the OT threads instead of trying to stop 'em..nothing like a little variety afterall

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
On 12/04/06, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???No, there isn't. If you'd like, you could volunteer.Ofcourse,thatcouldhavebeenNO,THEREISN'T.IFYOU'DLIKE,YOUCOULDVOLUNTEER. But, since I'm not one to flamify, I won't do that.Cheers. On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:12

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... No wonder your empire fell apart. That is very rude to say on a public

Re: gnome: switch workspaces via command line?

2006-04-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:33 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Me, I'll stick with the keyboard shortcuts. But a shortcut cannot be built into a shell script or C program. Ok, I'll bite: why do you want to script the ability to switch workspaces? I

Re: etch - error upgrading xlibmesa-gl_6.9.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb

2006-04-12 Thread heba
2006/4/11, Mirto Silvio Busico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I've tried an apt-get dist-upgrade on an etch installation; but I received an error o the xlibmesa-gl_6.9.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb package Here is the error message:

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what therest of the world thinks of English measure.A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not 1000, dammit!Really?Thereisametricbyte-system?I'veneverheardofsuchathing. I even live in Canada and use the metric

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
my card has 'B4' on the back. rest inline. thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware revision of your particular card. For your card there appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... No wonder your

Re: oracle non-free

2006-04-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Eugen Paiuc: I'm useing debian from last 5 years , and I like to know if installing new non-free oracle.deb is a security risk for my systems. As fas as I can tell (only from following the usual IT news sites), Oracle doesn't exactly belong to the overly security conscious corporations. They

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:39 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:48, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:12 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:42 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:53, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Kent West wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? It's kind of like putting a flag in a new land, to

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Doofus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***Is it because you're trying to get a rise (a yank phrase if ever there was one) out of the list community? This seems more likely with such a boring, no-personal-effort-on-your-part question.*** Just a bored teen looking for some fun once and a while...and

Re: Telling aptitude dist-upgrade it can add but not remove packages?

2006-04-12 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-04-11, Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Funk wrote: Is there any set of command-line options that will let me `aptitude dist-upgrade` so that it will add any packages necessary to upgrade existing packages, but not remove any currently installed packages? You could run

network connection

2006-04-12 Thread anonym ano
Hello list, I've just installed the Debian ech AMD 64 Version on a computer, which should be a server in the near future. These are my first serious steps with Linux, I have never set up such a system before, just worked with a postgresql database and setting up some cronjobs. So, I know

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Doofus
tom arnall wrote: IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST??? On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:12 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as

Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to /bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X would no longer start. I

Screen resolution problem / unstable

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Sheldon
Hi All, I am new to Debian (previously SuSE and Fedora user :()and have set Debian up on my AMD-64 - 1Gb ram - N-Vidia video card - and HP 1024*768 res LCD display. Where my screen resolution has always been stable under SuSE or Fedora, it doesnt appear to be with Debian. I set the system up with

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
what is a 'top-poster'? On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45 am, Doofus wrote: tom arnall wrote: IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST??? On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:12 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word

Re: ssh/xterm/bash weirdness ... seeking for explanation

2006-04-12 Thread Stefan Bellon
Stefan Bellon wrote: [resizing trouble] I'm somewhat puzzled what setting may cause this difference in behaviour. Can anybody shed light on this, please? TIA! Ok, I have debugged it a little bit further. When I strace the forked sshd I notice that the ioctl(..., TIOCSWINSZ, ...) is correctly

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
i did some more research and it turns out that the midwifi driver will work with the D-link G650-B4. but when i tried compiling the driver (module?) i got the same error messages which i got trying to compile the host ap driver. Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for

Re: network connection

2006-04-12 Thread Kim Christensen
On 4/11/06, anonym ano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I've just installed the Debian ech AMD 64 Version on a computer, which should be a server in the near future. These are my first serious steps with Linux, I have never set up such a system before, just worked with a postgresql

Re: What are the best aptitude dist-upgrade options to use with Debian Sid

2006-04-12 Thread Alex
On 4/12/06, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:42:10AM +0200, Alex wrote: I was doing a aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade and got this:snip aptitude printout Exim4 and mutt have never been broken before and I've got the latest gnulibtls12 installed but

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't switch spellings mid-text. [ plus 22 messages from other people ] Boy, am I glad I

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-12 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Pascal Hakim wrote: Making people subscribe is a barrier to entry, and we want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute. [...] That makes sense to me. I think that some people are confused about the difference between spam sent to their inboxes and spam sent the list. Some

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to /bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X

Re: network connection

2006-04-12 Thread George Borisov
anonym ano wrote: If so, what do I have to do to be able to connect via putty and to be able to download some files with apt-get? To connect over SSH (using Putty) you will need to run: apt-get install openssh-server Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc

how to convert /etc/mailcap to home directory

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Walter
Hi all, after installing mplayer web radio link's were starting gmplayer and not xmms, with the result that I wasn't able to hear sound. I have uncommented the following lines out of the /etc/mailcap file see attached. What should I do to have a .mailcap file in my /home directory ? There is

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... No wonder your empire fell apart. Hi Ron Johnson That is very rude to say on

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread John Hasler
raju writes: India uses colour (follows British way when it comes to spelling). Population of India is around 1,000,000,000. But we have the Romans on our side. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Kent West
Doofus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***Is it because you're trying to get a rise (a yank phrase if ever there was one) out of the list community? This seems more likely with such a boring, no-personal-effort-on-your-part question.*** Just a bored teen looking for some fun once and a

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Kent West
tom arnall wrote: what is a 'top-poster'? It's a person who sends a reply to email by putting their response at the top of the material to which they're responding. Some broken email clients, notably Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, encourage this bad behaviour (notice the us) by

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: behaviour (notice the us) D'oh! Was supposed to be notice the 'u'. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 08:18, Kent West wrote: Doofus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***Is it because you're trying to get a rise (a yank phrase if ever there was one) out of the list community? This seems more likely with such a boring, no-personal-effort-on-your-part question.***

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 07:37, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right*

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:19 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: convert ? The PDF is one big image file, and is fuzzy. the aim is to convert TO PDF, right ? Jerome Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi all. I need to convert many type of files (.gif, .jpeg, html pages...) in

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Wackojacko
No hard feelings Sanchez. Buy yourself a football (a round one!), and get out into the fresh air. A round football?!! Well colo*u*r me surpri*z*ed. Soccer man, soccer. No definitely football. Why call a sport where the object of the game is to pick the ball up in your hands, run with it

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

2006-04-12 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 wouldn't just running alsamixer and setting the desired levels solve this problem? I tried exactly this in the past. Still didn't keep my settings. Although I noticed that the Gnome volume control accurately reflected the changes I made

.cdr (Corel Draw) in Linux

2006-04-12 Thread Merlin, the Mage
Hi Everyone, I need some enlightment (and the wm is not enougth). I have some .cdr files (from corel draw), that I need to open in Linux. I don't have Corel Draw, so export it using Corel to something else is not an option. So, my question is, how can I convert this

Applications do not get a menu item in my Gnome menu???

2006-04-12 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Every so now and then I install an GUI application that does not show up in any menu I can click on. This time it is doxywizard from the package doxygen-gui 1.4.6-2. The package has installed an /usr/share/menu/doxygen-gui file and I thought that that was the file that would make the program

(Gecko:2434): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not initialize inotify

2006-04-12 Thread Nicle Yang
dear all, These days, I updated the libgnomevfs2 to 2.14.0-2 in sid. After this, When I browser the website with firefox(Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4), the firefox will crash continually. Here is error msg:*** (Gecko:2434):

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Manaen Schlabach
It didn't start that way didn't American football grow out of Rugby? Sorry couldn't resist we seem to be traveling way OTBelieve it or not some Americans actually *are* fans of the single most popular sport in the world. Debian and Soccer there's a winning combo when will the Debian team

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-12 Thread Mirco Piccin
} Jerome wrote:}}the aim is to convert TO PDF, right ?Of Course!

Re: .cdr (Corel Draw) in Linux

2006-04-12 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/4/12, Merlin, the Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Everyone, I need some enlightment (and the wm is not enougth). I have some .cdr files (from corel draw), that I need to open in Linux. I don't have Corel Draw, so export it using Corel to something else is not an option.

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to /bin/true. No idea why

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:09 +0100, Matt Johnson wrote: --- Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] See now, I *am* British and I did raise a wry smile. Actually, in truth, I chortled heavily. I thought the fall of the Empire

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:49 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: No hard feelings Sanchez. Buy yourself a football (a round one!), and get out into the fresh air. A round football?!! Well colo*u*r me surpri*z*ed. Soccer man, soccer. No definitely football. Why call a sport where the object

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Wackojacko
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:49 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: No hard feelings Sanchez. Buy yourself a football (a round one!), and get out into the fresh air. A round football?!! Well colo*u*r me surpri*z*ed. Soccer man, soccer. No definitely football. Why call a sport where

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:36 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi ! Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:19 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: convert ? The PDF is one big image file, and is fuzzy. the aim is to convert TO PDF, right ? But a huge, fuzzy PDF? --

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-12 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Mirco Piccin wrote: } Jerome wrote: }}the aim is to convert TO PDF, right ? Of Course! That has gotta be the most unusual quoting style I've ever seen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

packages not supporting resume

2006-04-12 Thread S. M. Ibrahim
At the time of using apt-get dist-upgrade (sarge to sid), one time it's tried to download gcompris-data that's around 48MB , after completing of 20% i have to restart my pc. After starting again this dist-upgrade, its started from the begining of gcompris-data . I also got the same thing today

Re: Applications do not get a menu item in my Gnome menu???

2006-04-12 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Every so now and then I install an GUI application that does not show up in any menu I can click on. This time it is doxywizard from the package doxygen-gui 1.4.6-2. The package has installed an /usr/share/menu/doxygen-gui file and I thought that that was the file

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 06:06, Manaen Schlabach wrote: Believe it or not some Americans actually *are* fans of the single most popular sport in the world. Yup, all three of Fox Sports viewers, even! -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:37, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: While we're on the subject of unusual spelling variants, can someone explain why, in American English, moron is spelt bush ;) See also electorial college and the fallacy of democracy in America -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message appeared saying that

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, David R. Litwin wrote: To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the rest of the world thinks of English measure. A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not 1000, dammit! Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never heard of such a

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:18, tom arnall wrote: what is a 'top-poster'? http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting You are top posting. Please don't do that, it's disruptive to the flow of conversation, your new text should come *after* the text you're responding to, with the text of what you're

Zero-content responses to ignored threads

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 02:19, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't switch

Re: zope3 dependency problem

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:02:05AM +0200, Piotr Chamera wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I am beginner user of etch (testing) distribution. Installation of zope3 package causes installation of python2.4 and python2.3. Can I rid off python2.3 somehow? I don't need it. Dependencies are as

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:42:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:53, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Kent West wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? It's kind of like putting a flag in a new

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-12 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:55 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Casey T. Deccio wrote: What happens when you run: exim4 -bt root /home/hugoTue Apr 11-10:51:14HDC3# exim4 -bt root R: smarthost for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] router = smarthost, transport = remote_smtp_smarthost

Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to get whiteglass running. But still no

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Casey T. Deccio wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to 'real-your username here' It isn't. I want to use mail to send email and

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Friedman
On Wed April 12 2006 10:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them

Solution Posted: How to make bootable GRUB CD ( IDE CDRW drive) for Debian 3.1 with 2.4 kernel

2006-04-12 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Solution Posted: How to make bootable GRUB CD ( IDE CDRW drive) for Debian 3.1 with 2.4 kernel Here is the solution, that worked for me to make bootable GRUB CD for Debian 3.1 server with 2.4 kernel having IDE CD-RW ( Dell PowerEdge 2800 3.6 MHZ). This is useful for booting up your

Re: Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Nick Lidakis wrote: After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to get whiteglass

New X upgrade in unstable makes fonts too big

2006-04-12 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon64 chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. My monitor is 1024x768. It is 328mm by 246mm (17 in). Today (April 11 2006) X was upgraded in unstable. Now all my fonts are much bigger. Some of the lines returned by xdpinfo are: version number:11.0 X.Org version:

Re: Gnome sound system

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Grieveson
Surachai Locharoen schrieb: I use gnome debian version 2.12. When I enable sound in gnome control panel (enable sound for user action such button click or system alert), The music player program seem to be unable to play sound. It show error message that the sound device is busy How could

su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Chris
Hello, Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: sudo kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal? Thanks, Chris athlon:/home/stoffel# kwrite /etc/fstab

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Apr 12 07:30 -0500]: tom arnall wrote: what is a 'top-poster'? It's a person who sends a reply to email by putting their response at the top of the material to which they're responding. Some broken email clients, notably Microsoft Outlook and

Re: Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-12 Thread Bruno
Bruno wrote: Hello to All, still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your installation' when calling startx. Are there any interesting messages in ~/.xsession-errors after such a failed start? I tried : apt-get remove kde* apt-install kdebase but unfortunately

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:49 +0200, Chris wrote: Hello, Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: sudo kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal?

syslog

2006-04-12 Thread Adam Hardy
I have way too much logging coming from hddtemp, which outputs a couple of lines every 5 seconds into /var/log/syslog. I tried to find a config file to control this but found nothing in /etc/default/hddtemp, or any reference from man hddtemp. I tried excluding it via /etc/syslog,conf, but I

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Zen Garden
I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the X server.Here the sollution:user$ xhost + (press enter)And then:user$ su (without the -) (press enter)password: (type your root password) root#Now you can launch windows from shell as root.Ciao!Matías.-On 4/12/06, Chris

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH under Linux

2006-04-12 Thread T
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:17:44 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: We used the environment var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to give preference/order of the libraries that we use. Does this still applied to Linux? I tried to do it under Linux but didn't success. Here is what I tried: [...] It should

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:18, tom arnall wrote: what is a 'top-poster'? Question 5 Avoid top posting and delete unnecessary stuff in the previous email in http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html answers your question. raju --

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/12/06, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a problem that will get worse before it gets better as many folks using a corporate solution have been trained that top posting is proper. Expect bug reports to flow in the future against broken clients like Mutt... Since

Re: Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Bruno wrote: Bruno wrote: Hello to All, still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your installation' when calling startx. Hi All, I have indeed the following error in .xsession-errors file: ... kdeinit: symbol

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Pascal Hakim wrote: Making people subscribe is a barrier to entry, and we want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute. [...] That makes sense to me. I think that some people are confused about the difference between spam sent to

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware revision of your particular card. For your card there appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this link to help you figure out

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware revision of your particular card. For your card there appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this link to help you figure out

load order of network interfaces

2006-04-12 Thread Ivan Longhi
hello, I have 2 alpha machines identical. they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). The strange thing is that on a machine eth0 is on tulip0, eth1 is on tulip1 and

[OT] Unusual quoting styles (was Re: Everything 2 PDF)

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:57:09PM +1000, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: That has gotta be the most unusual quoting style I've ever seen. You must not read the Ubuntu lists. :-) For example: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-March/069690.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: load order of network interfaces

2006-04-12 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:14, Ivan Longhi wrote: hello, I have 2 alpha machines identical. they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). The strange thing is

Re: Screen resolution problem / unstable

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:56:26AM +0100, Steve Sheldon wrote: Where my screen resolution has always been stable under SuSE or Fedora, it doesnt appear to be with Debian. Do you recall if you also used the nv driver on SuSE/Fedora, or did you use nvidia or something else? Also, it would

HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi, I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. (Its only a home server and more of a project/experiment so not that important) But when it came back up and tried to boot into the kernel I got these errors:

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Luis Finotti
Zen Garden wrote: I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the X server. Here the sollution: user$ xhost + (press enter) [snip] This seems to be a security risk... sux seems to be a better idea... (Or so I heard.) :-) HTH, Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Zero-content responses to ignored threads

2006-04-12 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Why do people do this? If they're so upset about topic drift or thread length, why do they insist on making it longer by being a loudmouth baby about it? Seems counterproductive... It is basic psychology, and if you look at it from the point of view of one person, you will see. Every person

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread theo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hodgins Family wrote: The short answer is that the French made us do it! Sorry for that. (I also plead guilty for centre/center, theatre/theater, catalogue/catalog and utilise/utilize). cheers, theo. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Hey, theo! On Wed, 2006-12-04 at 06:49 +0200, theo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hodgins Family wrote: The short answer is that the French made us do it! Sorry for that. (I also plead guilty for centre/center, theatre/theater, catalogue/catalog and

Re: HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:49:42 +0100 Toby Satchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. (Its only a home server and more of a

webdav problem in nautilus

2006-04-12 Thread H.S.
Hello, In my university, we have access to course materials and related stuff over WebCT. WebCT is (IIRC) software that runs on a WebDAV server. I am able to access the folder and files via Konqueror by replacing the http in the WebDAV folder address with webdav. However, all my attempts to

Re: gnome - window manager

2006-04-12 Thread debianista . deb
yes metacity is installed and is in the good place this is really weird when I run gnome I haven't return of env | grep SESSION ;(thanksdebianista.deb

xorg 7.0 in unstable for amd64 architecture has unmet dependencies

2006-04-12 Thread David Broome
Package: xorg Version: 7:1:0:10 Hello. I don't see this reported and just wanted to make sure since I have never file a bug report before. When upgrade to xorg 1:7.0 in unstable, it has unmet dependencies. Here is the output: The following packages have unmet dependencies. xorg: Depends:

Re: xorg 7.0 in unstable for amd64 architecture has unmet dependencies

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:26 -0500, David Broome wrote: Package: xorg Version: 7:1:0:10 Hello. I don't see this reported and just wanted to make sure since I have never file a bug report before. When upgrade to xorg 1:7.0 in unstable, it has unmet dependencies. Here is the output:

Alsamixer: no master volume

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Hello, The master volume control doesn't appears in alsamixer. I only see - Headphones - PCM - Capture - Input So - Mux I can ear sound. In kmixer I can modify the volume with the heaphones slicer, but in programs such as XMMS your volume control doesn't works. Kradio doesn't works (log

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Chris
Thanks, I'll look into sux On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:14, Casey T. Deccio wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:49 +0200, Chris wrote: Hello, Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so

two promise controllers

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Ewanchuk
I'm trying to add a promise fasttrak 66 to my existing system. it also has an onboard promise controller.Without the ft66, the 4 drives on the onboard promise work fine and are hde-hdh. When I put the ft66 in, the drives get seen during boot as hdi-hdm; however they are not accessible in any way.

DHCP not working

2006-04-12 Thread Strake
Hi all,I recently installed a new motherboard (an MSI K8N Diamond Plus) in my PC, and now DHCP fails to autoconfigure the network during installation of Debian 3.1. This is weird, because not only has Debian 3.1 successfully used DHCP to configure the network on previous occasions (with everything

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