Re: Debian Install DVD .jigdos out of date?

2007-12-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:01:30PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hi Can anyone comment on whether the .jigdo files currently published on cdimage.debian.org and its mirrors for the DVD images of the i386 STABLE distribution are out of date? I

Broken links under /dev/.udev/db

2007-12-31 Thread Declan Mullen
Hi I am not familiar with /dev/.udev so apologies if this is a dumb questions. Under my /dev/.udev/db directory there are many broken symbolic links, eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> md2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@device-mapper -> mapper/control [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> ram0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> loop0 [EMAIL P

Re: character encoding

2007-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-31 15:08:24 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3) What is the encoding of the file name? Is this a feature of the > > filesystem? > > This is also based on your locale. And this is nasty: This means that if the user changes

Re: [OT] mslinux?

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 22:04, steve wrote: > joseph lockhart wrote: >> i was browsing around and ran into the following >> >> http://www.mslinux.org/ >> > > > a joke that sites been around forever The parts about "Shipping in November 2003" or "They may no

Re: [OT] mslinux?

2007-12-31 Thread steve
joseph lockhart wrote: > i was browsing around and ran into the following > > http://www.mslinux.org/ > a joke that sites been around forever -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] mslinux?

2007-12-31 Thread David
joseph lockhart wrote: i was browsing around and ran into the following http://www.mslinux.org/ kind of disturbing, microsoft doing linux here is a quote "How do I get MS Linux? We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping an

[OT] mslinux?

2007-12-31 Thread joseph lockhart
i was browsing around and ran into the following http://www.mslinux.org/ kind of disturbing, microsoft doing linux here is a quote "How do I get MS Linux? We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:49:25PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Even when Policy is followed, it isn't necessarily that simple. > > For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scri

Re: kernel-source package in Etch?

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi to all Debian users. > > In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: > > # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 > > . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't find > it!

Re: Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:07:51 + (UTC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, all: > > > > On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find > > something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or di

DVD distorted picture

2007-12-31 Thread hce
Hi, I am using mplayer to watch DVD video movies. Some DVD can be displayed on the screen well, but others were displayed in a distorted picture with 3 columns repeated the same contents. Does anyone know what was that problem and how to fix it? I was using following command: mplayer -fs dvd:///

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-31 Thread ZephyrQ
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Dec 29, 2007 8:50 AM, ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With all the news of Netscape 'fading off' into mozilla and its ilk, is does anyone know if Galeon is ever going to be updated? I've tried FireFox/etc. and there are a couple of th

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: > [snip] > >> Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME >> terminal window. > > you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. > (i'm still in t

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:23:52PM -0600, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Is it significant that the old machine was using the basic en_US locale > or that I've been accessing both of them via ssh from a workstation with > its locale set to C? I'd guess that the locale of

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:34:55PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit libs. > My whole system is running as 32-bit. Note that this has nothing to do with 64-bit libraries. The "64" in gzopen64 me

Re: Weird gnome mount problem

2007-12-31 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > > >Any theories, suggestions, tips, thoughts, or anything else that might > >be useful? > > Maybe another usb port while in gnome, if your card reader is an > external usb device. Yeah, I'd thought of this, but I hadn't trie

Terminal issues in fresh install

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
Greetings, all! I've just moved over from an ancient self-hosted Debian box onto some more modern hardware and things are going mostly smoothly, but I'm having some issues with mutt's thread indicators (extended-ASCII arrows) displaying improperly. I've double-checked that I've got all locale set

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Re: kernel-source package in Etch?

2007-12-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 22:14 Mon 31 Dec , Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi to all Debian users. > > In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: > > # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 > > . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't find > it! I tried with ..

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 18:34:55 -0500, charlie derr wrote: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ldconfig -pNX | grep 'libz\.so' > libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 > libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 > libz.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libz.so > li

Re: run-parts not running cron.daily?

2007-12-31 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > It turns out that this is caused by moving a shell script (with a .sh > extension) into the run-parts directory. Run-parts won't run filenames > with dots in them. If this is documented clearly anywhere, I couldn't > find it, bu

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread Angus Auld
--- David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > joseph lockhart wrote: > > ok, here is my system info, basically the hardinfo > > report generated by Hardinfo for my primary > partition, > > if i switch over to my etch install i will post > the > > same for it if necessary > > > > Computer > > >

Re: run-parts not running cron.daily?

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:58:28AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > It turns out that this is caused by moving a shell script (with a .sh > extension) into the run-parts directory. Run-parts won't run filenames > with dots in them. If this is documented clearly anywhere, I couldn't > find it, but rem

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:02:01PM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > You may want to check if anything else has been placed in > /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib, and what the timestamps are (run > "ls -l /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib"), as any other files in there >

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:59:16PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: >> It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7fb7000)

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/bin/gconftool-2 | grep libz libz.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7be) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/v

Re: character encoding

2007-12-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question > mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand > what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of fundamentals. > > 1

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 16:31:37 -0500, charlie derr wrote: > Thanks much for the help. >> >> gzopen64 should be defined in /usr/lib/libz.so.1; something is wrong >> with this on your system. Post the output of the following commands: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ dpkg -l zlib1g [...

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-31 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: We must be careful not to offend. Companies now spend untold time and money searching through languages of all sorts to be sure that a new product or merged company name is not offensive. If even one person^Wattorney finds it offensive^Wlucrati

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread dave N
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Douglas A. Tutty" Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM > - Original Message - From: "Rick Dooling" Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:05 PM > Hello all, >

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:13:31 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are > > under usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme no

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread David
joseph lockhart wrote: ok, here is my system info, basically the hardinfo report generated by Hardinfo for my primary partition, if i switch over to my etch install i will post the same for it if necessary Computer Summary --- -Computer- Processor : Intel(R) Celeron

Re: Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:07:51 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, all: > > On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find > something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did > 'locate' get, uh, relocated or something? > > Patrick You need to update

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Charlie, In this kind of situation, I would "# apt-get --purge remove" the problematic package(s), then "# apt-get update" and try again. as Daniel and Florian have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, my problem is with libxml2 being completely borken at the moment (I think) and aptitude

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:27:30 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing ... > > Thanks, T

Re: how do i debug X?

2007-12-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 31, 2007 9:55 AM, cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to monitor the current state/focus of the mouse - how would I do > this? > I'm trying to narrow down my intermittent USB mouse (and occasionally > USB keyboard) problems -- see thread started 18 Dec. Thanks, Michael X.org has a doc on

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 31, 2007 12:02 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:31:45PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > > to work (so far windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few other > > AFAIK, wine won't work with anything later than Windows Media Player 6.4 > because

character encoding

2007-12-31 Thread ChadDavis
When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question mark in the place of a non-supported character. In trying to understand what is happening, I find that I don't understand a couple of fundamentals. 1) what is the default encoding of my debian system? 2) It seems that a

kernel-source package in Etch?

2007-12-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to all Debian users. In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't find it! I tried with ...2.6, ...2.6.18,... but none was the right one. Thanks for any

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Thanks much for the help. gzopen64 should be defined in /usr/lib/libz.so.1; something is wrong with this on your system. Post the output of the following commands: dpkg -l zlib1g ldd /usr/bin/gconftool-2 | grep libz ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 | grep libz nm -D /usr/lib/libz.so.1 | grep gzopen

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Dec 31 12:19 -0600]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/31/07 12:06, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > >> As far as I'm concerned, 'Netscape' is a good name. I always wondered > >> h

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:48 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > Thanks, but this seems to need some unsupported codecs or something? I needed to do this the other way, avi to 3gp, and had to download the latest ffmpeg from subversion as the debian-multimedia repository didn't have 3gp compiled in. I used

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: Errors were encountered while processing: The interesting thing is

Re: cpufreq

2007-12-31 Thread strawks
Hi, On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:10 -0300, gusti wrote: > but I still can't use 'cpufreq-info', see below: > cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006 > Report errors and bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please. > analyzing CPU 0: > no or unknown cpufreq drive

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:31:45PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > to work (so far windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few other AFAIK, wine won't work with anything later than Windows Media Player 6.4 because of MS DRM and OS bundling. As long as files aren't actually DRMed, you can use

Re: Samsung ML-2010 Printer Not Recognized as connected to system

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 18:49:21 -0500, Eric Brooks wrote: > Prior to upgrading my version of Debian on this laptop the Samsung > ML-2010 printer was working fine. After the upgrade the printer is no > longer recognized as connected to the system by lsusb, though it is seen > my usbview. In any cas

Re: run-parts not running cron.daily?

2007-12-31 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
It turns out that this is caused by moving a shell script (with a .sh extension) into the run-parts directory. Run-parts won't run filenames with dots in them. If this is documented clearly anywhere, I couldn't find it, but removing the filename extensions fixed the problem. -- "Oh, look: rocks!"

cpufreq

2007-12-31 Thread gusti
Hello I tried to active the cpufreq tools, but I did not success, :-(. I already write in the file '/etc/modules' the cpufreq modules, there are: cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_stats freq_table after

Re: temperature problems

2007-12-31 Thread gusti
Thanks for your answer, but seems like the problem have not relation with frequency throttling. I say that because in my system I have not control to change these kind of things. I want to say that all the frequencies still all the time the same. More over I tried to active the control of the cp

Re: bash scripts and files

2007-12-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-12-31, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, probably the previous chapter ("she-bang") was of more use > but a useful ref. However, I'm still trying to understand why it's > not usual to have a she-bang for the .bash_profile and .bashrc files. > That documentation reads as i

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:04:53 -0800, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:58:01 -0500 From: Paul Cartwright > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I downloaded powertop using svn. All that does is put the new source > in a folder right where you are. That does me n

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:13:31 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are > under usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme nor > reason. Then, everything is gzipped, should the user extract these to > their home folder or is there

Re: Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread Lesley Binks
On 31/12/2007, pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lesley Binks pisze: > > Hi > > > > I have etch installed, regularly updated and running the KDE desktop > > environment. > > > > Using either Konqueror or Iceweasel, I find that Xorg goes into > > overdrive when I access > > this page: http://www

Unidentified subject!

2007-12-31 Thread joseph lockhart
>> just wondering if anyone else has trouble using >wine? > >Not most of the time, and the rest of the time, not >if I read and >follow the instructions. > >> everytime that i install it, i cannot get the >program >> that i would like to use with it to work (so far >> windows media player 9, realpl

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2007-12-31 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:03:21 +0100 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rico Secada: > > > > Does anyone know if there is a tool to convert 3gp format to avi? > > Canonical answer: ffmpeg. Or mencoder, but I prefer ffmpeg because its > command line interface is easier. > > Try 'ffmpeg -i

Re: Debian Install DVD .jigdos out of date?

2007-12-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:01:30PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone comment on whether the .jigdo files currently published on > cdimage.debian.org and its mirrors for the DVD images of the i386 STABLE > distribution are out of date? I tried to use them yesterday to make an > image

Re: [Wildly OT] Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-31 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: It's a Very Big Universe, and I'm not hubristic (is that a word?) enough to make such a claim. For the Jesus-followers out there, he put it this way for the know-it-alls, which agrees with Ron's take on matters: /"If you were blind," Jesus told them, "you wouldn't have sin.

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 11:28, ZephyrQ wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Dec 29, 2007 8:50 AM, ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> With all the news of Netscape 'fading off' into mozilla and its ilk, is >>> does anyone know if Galeon is ever going to be updat

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:00:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/31/07 11:42, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I don't know any reason that mixing apt-get and aptitude should cause > > problems, particularly this pr

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread joseph lockhart
ok, here is my system info, basically the hardinfo report generated by Hardinfo for my primary partition, if i switch over to my etch install i will post the same for it if necessary Computer Summary --- -Computer- Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Memory

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 12:06, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: >> As far as I'm concerned, 'Netscape' is a good name. I always wondered >> how names like 'Seamonkey', 'Iceape' or 'Firefox' could ever make their >> way

[Wildly OT] Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/30/07 22:45, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/30/07 21:04, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Dec 30, 2007 7:11 AM, default <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:02:34 -0800, Angus Auld wrote:

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 9:31 PM, joseph lockhart > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just wondering if anyone else has trouble using > wine? > > everytime that i install it, i cannot get the > program > > that i would like to use with it to work (so far > > win

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:40:25AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: [...] > Maybe the problem is not with the hardware itself, but with some > firmware issue, as indicated by dmesg (firmware request failed). > > I'm attaching the dmesg output, the lspci -v output, the alsaconf output... > > Did som

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-31 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: As far as I'm concerned, 'Netscape' is a good name. I always wondered how names like 'Seamonkey', 'Iceape' or 'Firefox' could ever make their way into a serious, corporate environment. Silly names seem to be all the rage with start-ups the

how do i debug X?

2007-12-31 Thread cs
I wish to monitor the current state/focus of the mouse - how would I do this? I'm trying to narrow down my intermittent USB mouse (and occasionally USB keyboard) problems -- see thread started 18 Dec. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 11:42, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mi

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-31 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > There are modems that also do the pppoe part. This is true. Those ones also usually also handle NAT and DHCP. They are often "plug and play" with any operating system (except for entering the username and password the ISP gave you via the Web server in the modem). The "driver" A

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 09:15, charlie derr wrote: > http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie > > > It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the > list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still possibly >

Re: Re-Export NFS mounted directory?

2007-12-31 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Is there any way to re-export an nfs mounted directory? No. At least, not with the kernel NFS server. The userspace NFS server can re-export, but I haven't tested it other than noticing that mounts work. This is almost certainly unsup

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-31 Thread joseph lockhart
--- David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > joseph lockhart wrote: > > just wondering if anyone else has trouble using > wine? > > everytime that i install it, i cannot get the > program > > that i would like to use with it to work (so far > > windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few > other >

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >>> The following packages will be upgraded: >>> gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info >>> 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded. >>> Need

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ... > Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA > Start IM through /farhome/hendrik/.xinput.d/en_CA linked to > /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_toolbar. > fa

Re: bash scripts and files

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 05:07, michael wrote: > > On 30 Dec 2007, at 18:11, Gerard Robin wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:17:43PM +, michael wrote: >>> From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: debian user >>> Subject: bash scripts and files >>> >>> F

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Douglas A. Tutty" Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM > > >The docs are always under /usr/share/doc/[package name] > >apropos > >which > >locate > >find > > > As a n00b to Debian (though I've used several distributions

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: > > Errors were encountered while processing: The interesting thing is why these packages

Re: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity

2007-12-31 Thread michael
On 18 Dec 2007, at 23:57, Adam Porter wrote: What video driver? Does it happen with KDE? Does it happen with different Linux distros? Does it happen if you boot a live CD of Ubuntu or...? Does logging out and back in (without rebooting) fix it? t happens frequently but not immediatel

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:01:34PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Don Harwood writes: > > at&t sells the modem to you. when i was talking to them they said there > > was a driver disk that i needed to load > > You don't need any "drivers" on Linux and you almost certainly don't need > any on Windows

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-31 Thread ZephyrQ
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 8:50 AM, ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With all the news of Netscape 'fading off' into mozilla and its ilk, is does anyone know if Galeon is ever going to be updated? I've tried FireFox/etc. and there are a couple of things I've not be able to reproduce

Re: Inconsistent screen resolutions depending on how X was started

2007-12-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:42:23AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 23:33:42 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:36:22PM +0100, Dan H wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > having managed to start X from the console (see other thread), I noticed > > > differ

Re: Using rsync to download photos from camera

2007-12-31 Thread Wayne Topa
T o n g([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I've been using rsync for many years to synchronize between local > directories or remote PCs. I've also successfully used rsync to synchronize > photos from my Pentax Optio camera to PC, so that only the newly shot photos > are copie

Using rsync to download photos from camera

2007-12-31 Thread T o n g
Hi, I've been using rsync for many years to synchronize between local directories or remote PCs. I've also successfully used rsync to synchronize photos from my Pentax Optio camera to PC, so that only the newly shot photos are copied. However, I found the very same approach doesn't work for the

Re: Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-31 14:42:56 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > So you can use either locate, mlocate, slocate ... but you need to > install them as a separate package. Unfortunately dlocate doesn't work with slocate and needs locate, which conflicts with the current version of slocate (bug 451792). M

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are under > usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme nor reason. Then, everything > is > gzipped, should the user extract these to their home folder or is ther

gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still possibly catch something I haven't) my working assumption at this point is that last night either manua

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2007-12-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:58:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The kernel I used is 2.6.18-5-486 I tried again with a more recent kernel. uname tells me 2.6.22-3-k7 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 09:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 GNU Linux Same results. This time, though I noticed that on the first failed login attempt

Re: Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread pietia
Lesley Binks pisze: Hi I have etch installed, regularly updated and running the KDE desktop environment. Using either Konqueror or Iceweasel, I find that Xorg goes into overdrive when I access this page: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/login - reporting 92% usage on an Athlon XP 3200. Closing

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:31:47 -0800, Towncat wrote: [...] > OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it, > something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde > applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts. > > The output is like this (for xsane, he

Fw: Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Raquel
Please respond to the list and not to me. -- Raquel Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:58:01 -0500 From: Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: debian how-to On Mon December 31 2007, Raquel wrote: > locate - list files in databases that m

Re: Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Lesley Binks wrote: Hi I have etch installed, regularly updated and running the KDE desktop environment. Using either Konqueror or Iceweasel, I find that Xorg goes into overdrive when I access this page: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/login - reporting 92% usage on an At

Re: Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lesley Binks wrote: Hi I have etch installed, regularly updated and running the KDE desktop environment. Using either Konqueror or Iceweasel, I find that Xorg goes into overdrive when I access this page: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/login - reporting 92% usage on an Athlon XP 3200. Closing

Re: Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi, On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:27:13AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find > something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did > 'locate' get, uh, relocated or something? >From NEWS.Debian.gz of findutils: ---8><

Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did 'locate' get, uh, relocated or something? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread drn_temp2
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:08:13PM +0900, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > >>I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more >>interested in a

Debian Install DVD .jigdos out of date?

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Can anyone comment on whether the .jigdo files currently published on cdimage.debian.org and its mirrors for the DVD images of the i386 STABLE distribution are out of date? I tried to use them yesterday to make an image of the first DVD (using http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/jig

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:13:54AM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: > 2007/12/30, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I think you need to know a lot more about how the packaging system > > works to be comfortable running a hybrid. > > I think you don't know a person I don't talk so^^ This d

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 20:29:09 -0500, charlie derr wrote: > charlie derr wrote: [...] >> delete:~# dpkg -l libxml2 gconf2 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' >> ii gconf2 2.20.1-2 >> ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-3 [...] >> delete:~# /usr/bin/python -V >> Python 2.4.4 That looks OK to me; I have the

Re: Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:18:07 + "Lesley Binks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Lesley, > this page: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/login - reporting 92% usage on > an Athlon XP 3200. > I'm wondering (a) if anyone else can repeat this and (b) why it's > happening at all. Yes, it happens here, too

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:08:13PM +0900, David wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > >>I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > >>interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > >>d

Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread Lesley Binks
Hi I have etch installed, regularly updated and running the KDE desktop environment. Using either Konqueror or Iceweasel, I find that Xorg goes into overdrive when I access this page: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/login - reporting 92% usage on an Athlon XP 3200. Closing the tab on that page immedi

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