Re: Move mouse with keypad (Was: Tab in Java)

2008-05-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 23/05/08 16:18, wrote: Dotan Cohen on 23/05/08 09:53, wrote: 2008/5/23 Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to fake a mouse-click? Key 5 Right-click? Sorry, it sounds a bit lame but a 15 min search for the documentation produced nothing but blog entries and email

Debian Testing and Qosmio G45-AV680. Problems.

2008-05-23 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hi everyone, I installed Testing a couple of weeks ago. Everything went smoothly, except for a couple of things. My function keys to adjust the screen's brightness worked great, but when I installed the nvidia drivers they went dead. What's worse, if I start X, I cannot shut it down or go to

Re: Debian Testing and Qosmio G45-AV680. Problems.

2008-05-23 Thread Wm. Josiah Erikson
Is your SD reader built-in or a USB device? Did it used to work? What's the output of lspci that pertains to it? Usually these things are SCSI emulated. Which modules did you try to insert to make it work? -Josiah Alejandro Salas wrote: Hi everyone, I installed Testing a couple of weeks

Re: bind9 crashing constantly in etch with no log output

2008-05-23 Thread Wm. Josiah Erikson
Also, when I build the package manually with apt-get source -b bind9, the resulting package has the same behavior. -Josiah Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote: Soon after I updated the recent SSL packages, I've had serious problems with bind9. All of my packages are up to date. I'm running etch on

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, May 23, 2008 4:19 am, Dotan Cohen wrote: That, or the marketing department of your hard drive manufacturer confuses binary and base-10 exponential expressions. They don't. HDs always use base-10, not binary. They know it makes the drives look bigger. -- Steve Lamb -- To

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-23 Thread Kent West
Adam Hardy wrote: Kent West on 23/05/08 13:38, wrote: From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part2/section-19.html: o) The keypad arrow keys move the pointer o) The keypad '5' key behaves like the 'default' pointer button o) The keypad '0' key locks the default pointer button (for easy

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/23 Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, May 23, 2008 4:19 am, Dotan Cohen wrote: That, or the marketing department of your hard drive manufacturer confuses binary and base-10 exponential expressions. They don't. HDs always use base-10, not binary. They know it makes the drives

gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have gnupg 1.4.9 installed and kmail 1.9.9 on KDE 3.5.9 when I try to go to SETTINGS-Configure kmail-Security the GpgME section is greyed out. When I hit rescan it tells me: While scanning for OpenPGP support backend GpgME: Engine /usr/bin/pgp is not installed properly While scanning for

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 23 2008 07:19:10 Ron Johnson wrote: Lastly, remember that df sees blocks, but du sees *files*. So, where du sees 3 files that are each 1KiB, fir a total of 3KiB, df sees them as each using 1 4KiB block, for a total of 12KiB. I'm pretty sure that du figures out the number of blocks

Laptop external display not showing mouse pointer

2008-05-23 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid (not that I think that matters) I'm having a serious problem trying to use an external monitor on my laptop. Sony Vaio GRT170, with an Nvidia Ge5600 card. The external video worked in console mode from the start. I discovered the

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 09:10 -0700, Steve Lamb escribió: On Fri, May 23, 2008 4:19 am, Dotan Cohen wrote: That, or the marketing department of your hard drive manufacturer confuses binary and base-10 exponential expressions. They don't. HDs always use base-10, not binary. They know

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Anuradha Weeraman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What should I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed safely?

SSH Keys and Debian

2008-05-23 Thread Ed Curtis
I have two deb machines I ssh to constantly on our lan. I had previously set up ssh-keys on these machines to rsync files to one machine. This morning I ran the ssh update the system update wanted me to run and can't ssh to this machine without using a password. I've rerun the keygen on the

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:32:14 -0400, Paul Cartwright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have gnupg 1.4.9 installed and kmail 1.9.9 on KDE 3.5.9 when I try to go to SETTINGS-Configure kmail-Security the GpgME section is greyed out. When I hit rescan it tells me: While scanning for OpenPGP

Re: SSH Keys and Debian

2008-05-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-23 19:34, Ed Curtis wrote: I have two deb machines I ssh to constantly on our lan. I had previously set up ssh-keys on these machines to rsync files to one machine. This morning I ran the ssh update the system update wanted me to run and

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri May 23 2008, Bob Cox wrote: While scanning for SMIME support backend GpgME: Engine /usr/bin/pgpsm is not installed properly locate pgp shows /usr/local/bin what am I doing wrong? What does 'which gpg' show? I think you should be seeing /usr/bin/gpg  (gpg, not pgp). # which

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/08 13:49, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 23 2008, Bob Cox wrote: While scanning for SMIME support backend GpgME: Engine /usr/bin/pgpsm is not installed properly locate pgp shows /usr/local/bin what am I doing wrong? What does

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-23 Thread Manu Hack
Sorry guys, haven't been able to use that box until now. On 5/16/08, Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri May 16 2008 18:05:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Manu Hack wrote: is so weird that even sudo rm /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo said I don't have the

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote: That's not quite true. Attributes such as immutable are sometimes set by malware or disk errors. OP please show us the output of the following two commands: file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 05:56:23PM +0100, andy wrote: My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What should I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed safely? The du utility, as

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri May 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Why have you installed the non-Debian gpg? I'm not sure, maybe apt-get couldn't find it? # apt-get install gpg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package gpg -- Paul Cartwright

Re: after hibernation loose sound

2008-05-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:19:35PM +0200, Kum Gabor wrote: On Etch, after suspending to RAM (s2ram) on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3405 sometimes not works sound. Where should I search? How to start? Which logs? It happens 1/10 times. You might need to load/unload your sound drivers at

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 23 May 2008 03:17:42 pm Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Why have you installed the non-Debian gpg? I'm not sure, maybe apt-get couldn't find it? # apt-get install gpg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

gdm does not start

2008-05-23 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! I have set up debian sid to use gdm for graphical login. But: gdm just does not start if called from startup scripts. There is no problem if gdm ist started by root. Just /etc/init.d/gdm start does not work inany way. Any hint welcome! -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

adjust brightness/contrast via /sys

2008-05-23 Thread jidanni
I want to do $ echo what_please? /sys?/where? or /proc/acpi/where? to adjust brightness and/or contrast, for the Linux console and/or in X windows. My monitor is Sampo Tech Rad-5Q. I use the latest Debian sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri May 23 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm not sure, maybe apt-get couldn't find it? # apt-get install gpg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package gpg It's gnupg, not gpg. wow, I tried the ap-get purge of

install newest linux-doc-2.6* automatically

2008-05-23 Thread jidanni
I am trying very hard to have the latest version of linux-doc-2.6* always installed. # apt-get install linux-doc-2.6 Package linux-doc-2.6 is a virtual package provided by: linux-doc-2.6.24 2.6.24-5 linux-doc-2.6.25 2.6.25-3 You should explicitly select one to install. # apt-show-versions

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/08 18:22, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 23 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm not sure, maybe apt-get couldn't find it? # apt-get install gpg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E:

Re: Compilation on Big Endian platforms

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:15:51PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: I was wondering what would be the easiest way to try my code on a big endian machine. I thought of buying a cheap G4 mac mini on ebay, install linux and then compile my project. But those machine are still a bit expensive for

Re: Compilation on Big Endian platforms

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:15:51PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I was wondering what would be the easiest way to try my code on a big endian machine. I thought of buying a cheap G4 mac mini on ebay, install linux and then compile my project. But those machine are still a bit

Re: Laptop external display not showing mouse pointer

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:45:13PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is this some kind of feature for not cluttering an overhead projector with a mouse cursor when doing presentations? Package: unclutter Description: hides the cursor in X after a period of

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri May 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Why in $DEITY's name are you purging gnupg??? I was told to try to purge the packages, and if that didn't work to reinstall them... -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/08 20:59, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Why in $DEITY's name are you purging gnupg??? I was told to try to purge the packages, and if that didn't work to reinstall them... You need to get rid of

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 23 May 2008 06:59:50 pm Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Why in $DEITY's name are you purging gnupg??? I was told to try to purge the packages, and if that didn't work to reinstall them... I'd remove the local installation of gpg before trying

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:58:36AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: Thanks to all replies... I got the cloning working. The recipe that finally worked was pretty similar to the dd provided but with some differences, because I couldn't get the MBR correctly working with other recipes, :(

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri May 23 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: I'd remove the local installation of gpg before trying to dike out the Debian one.  Or use the reinstall option instead of trying to purge and install again. I recompiled using ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin now it works. the INSTALL file in gnupg says

utilizing bluez-firmware without hotplug in Etch

2008-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
I have an Anycom USB-250 bluetooth adapter that has a Broadcomm chipset (I think). Evidently, I need bluez-firmware get get the adapter to work properly, and I've installed the package, but there are no instructions on how to use data files in the package. This is under Debian Etch / i386

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote: That's not quite true. Attributes such as immutable are sometimes set by malware or disk errors. OP please show us the output of the following two commands: file

Re: utilizing bluez-firmware without hotplug in Etch

2008-05-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-05-24 06:47 +0200, Mumia W.. wrote: I have an Anycom USB-250 bluetooth adapter that has a Broadcomm chipset (I think). Evidently, I need bluez-firmware get get the adapter to work properly, and I've installed the package, but there are no instructions on how to use data files in the

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