Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thank you very much for your reply! Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the kernel that e.g. suse has included in its kernel but debian can't include. For

Re: iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In a7e963770904241138me7b1fdai3a3f68dd56c76...@mail.gmail.com, Erik Xavior wrote: what's the biggest point to not set the noexec on /home? Users don't have anywhere to put scripts or custom binaries. You may also get random breakage due to programs using small, temporary scripts without the

Re: iceweasel firegpg noexec

2009-04-24 Thread Erik Xavior
thanks for the correction :) ok, then... problem solved :D what's the biggest point to not set the noexec on /home? Users don't have anywhere to put scripts or custom binaries. You may also get random breakage due to programs using small, temporary scripts without the user's knowledge. As a

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/4/24 Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com: I guess that is my problem (what are the usual suspects)? Me neither, i was just shooting blanks :) You say you installed the system (repeatedly), so i assume you got as far as Let's reboot into your new system. I never had a system failing at that

hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid. I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no answers. FWIW the monitor is a Dell 770 Horizontal scan range : 30 - 70 kHz (automatic) Vertical scan range : 50 - 160 Hz

Re: locale message error

2009-04-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear debianners, I just installed lenny in my girlfriend laptop. We live in Brazil, and initially I chooses pt-br as the default language of the system. After this, I've changed my mind, and moved to the en_US.UTF-8 locales. But now, each time the desktop is

Drupal6 on Lenny:Access Denied error

2009-04-24 Thread John W Foster
I got drupal installed and it seems to be working though the installation took a lot of effort to get it working since there are not any debian instructions that tell you exactly what to do. Now the issue is that having set up the admin user and being able to log in as that user, I can NOT get to

virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I've installed virtualbox from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a usb camera at the moment). It appears under devices-usb devices-camera 0100 but it is grayed out and I can't mark it. I tried adding write

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:36, Paul Scott pasl...@ultrasw.com wrote: Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid.  I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no answers. FWIW the monitor is a Dell 770 Horizontal

why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. Is there any advantage compared with software raid? Thanks,

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Scott
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:36, Paul Scott pasl...@ultrasw.com wrote: Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid. I have spent lots of time Googling, etc. with no answers. FWIW the monitor is a

RE: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Don Raikes
Hi Nuno, I followed the instructions from this page: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps searching for something to load. I am

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:27:32PM EDT, Carl Johnson wrote: H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com writes: Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: I thought I asked you a question. There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. I wonder why they include such fake raid controllers on motherboard. It is cheap to do, but makes the

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. It allows lesser operating systems to boot from software RAID-1 (and I think

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 16:06, Paul Scott pasl...@ultrasw.com wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:36, Paul Scott pasl...@ultrasw.com wrote: Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Running Debian sid.  I have

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I haven't had that problem before, i can't really help (plus it's a friday night and most of the list answers from their work places i guess). The only drive that failed on me just became completely unusable, period. It would make a snaping sound repeatedly (like releasing something that was

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Robert Menes viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little memory refresher with. I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on bootup. I know there was a way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 04. 2009 17:53:08 je Klistvud napisal(a): Dear Debianites, is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily disable passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids? Editing /etc/pam.d/

Re: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Raikes wrote: Hi Nuno, I followed the instructions from this page: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html rebooted without the livecd, and nothing. I put my hand on the top of the system, and it feels like the hard drive keeps searching for

Gnome Users/Groups utility not working

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Hi, list! Anyone else noticed this: on a fresh Lenny install, when you start the GUI utility for setting users and groups (System/Administration/Users and Groups), it pops up a message about it being incompatible with your current system. Then it goes on offering you a list of available system

Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-24 Thread Depo Catcher
I'm trying to install on a Core2Duo with this: debian-501-amd64-netinst The two disk drives are SATA Seagate 500 Gigs and Sata Intel SSD 32 Gigs. I boot off CD and install over network which works fine. It asks if I want to install Grub and saves it's safe since it's the only OS. I say yes

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian.

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-24 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:12PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian. I wonder why they include

Fw: Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-24 Thread Jozsef

how to open kdevelop project?

2009-04-24 Thread 明覺
I downloaded a kdevelop project, it has k3dsurf.kdevelop, k3dsurf.pro, etc files, I guess kdevelop should be able to open this project, but unforturnitely kdevelop only simply opens the specifed file, not the whole project, how could i make kdevelop to open the whole project? thanks -- My

Re: Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-24 Thread David Bernier
Depo Catcher wrote: I'm trying to install on a Core2Duo with this: debian-501-amd64-netinst The two disk drives are SATA Seagate 500 Gigs and Sata Intel SSD 32 Gigs. I boot off CD and install over network which works fine. It asks if I want to install Grub and saves it's safe since it's the

Filtering spam with spamasssasin on kmail

2009-04-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Article on http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Mail#Using_Spamassassin_with_a_Mail_Readeris not specific on kmail. At least can anyone give some pointers or point me to related article. TIA -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

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