Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/25/2010 11:09 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: Hi there -- I'm getting ready to assemble a computer, and intend to use Debian Linux as the OS. In addition to everything else I want to have a 56k modem for the computer -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, but mainly so that I can

Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/25/2010 11:09 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: Hi there -- I'm getting ready to assemble a computer, and intend to use Debian Linux as the OS. In addition to everything else I want to have a 56k modem for the computer -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, but mainly so that I can

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/25/2010 11:05 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: Mark -- thanks for the warning about the limitations of the built-in video. I do intend to have Windows 7 on this computer as well, inside of a vmware cage. Based on the discussion, I will plan to press ahead with an Intel motherboard and use onboar

Re: Name Resolution Issue from Browser only, on Debian 5.0.4

2010-02-25 Thread Hemanth M. C.
On Wed, February 24, 2010 1:59:48 PM +0530, Camaleón wrote: >On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:58:07 -0800, Hemanth M. C. wrote: > >> On Tue, February 23, 2010 21:30:51 +0530, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >>>Does this help? >>> >>>WGET can’t resolve host >>>http://serverfault.com/questions/76421/wget-cant-resolve

Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi there -- I'm getting ready to assemble a computer, and intend to use Debian Linux as the OS. In addition to everything else I want to have a 56k modem for the computer -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, but mainly so that I can run a fax and answering machine app on the compu

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Mark -- thanks for the warning about the limitations of the built-in video. I do intend to have Windows 7 on this computer as well, inside of a vmware cage. Based on the discussion, I will plan to press ahead with an Intel motherboard and use onboard video as Plan A. If that proves inadequate, I

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-25 Thread Cecil Knutson
Stephen, Aptitude was updated; the alsa-firmware-loaders installed; dpkg reconfigured alsa base and alsa utils; no PCM in alsamixer. I don't remember saying this before, so excuse me if it is being repeated, when I had Ubuntu 9.10 installed, there were two times that the sound worked aft

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:42:31AM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > Some service (software) companies have been telling us 'not to use > ldap for user authentication' instead they recommend us to use > Microsoft Active Directory, this because, they say, LDAP is > problematic, talking about

Re: XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:12:48AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login > to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns > a claim of No Serving Hosts Were Found. > > I know this is wrong, because anot

Re: changing file browser lxde

2010-02-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:24:15AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:26:19AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > lxde from pcmanfm to nautilus? I'm wanting to do this as I'm blind and > > > use orca, and it appears nautilus runs better than pcmanfm with > > > orca. I've tried runni

Re: Crashed dd, kill -9 doesn't even kill it.

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:12:09 -0600 (CST) "Timothy Legg" wrote: > Hello, > > I have got another interesting problem here. I found a way to crash > dd so badly that even kill -9 `pidof dd` won't even phase it. The > only way I have found to kill it effectively is to shut down the > machine. > >

Re: gnome 2.28 freezing

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
On 26 February 2010 00:39, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:02 +1030, Dale wrote: > > Maybe this helps: > > *** > Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T > http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Acer/Aspire_Timeline_4810T > > Not Working > > * When going from battery to AC or AC to battery backli

Re: Crashed dd, kill -9 doesn't even kill it.

2010-02-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Timothy Legg wrote: > Hello, > > I have got another interesting problem here. I found a way to crash dd so > badly that even kill -9 `pidof dd` won't even phase it. The only way I > have found to kill it effectively is to shut down the machine. > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/media/disk-1/GPX.img bs=5

Icewm menu not working properly

2010-02-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have used icewm for a long time and have not had any trouble with the menu. Recently all the entries for browsers have stopped working on my HP laptop (not on my desktop). The entries are of this form: prog Iceweasel - iceweasel prog Iceape - iceape prog Lynx - lynx Nothing happens at all w

Crashed dd, kill -9 doesn't even kill it.

2010-02-25 Thread Timothy Legg
Hello, I have got another interesting problem here. I found a way to crash dd so badly that even kill -9 `pidof dd` won't even phase it. The only way I have found to kill it effectively is to shut down the machine. Scenario: I bought a 2Gb MP3 player (GPX MW249BU). I always made a backup of a

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:54:34 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > > Stephen, > Excuse me, I did not complete the assignment last time, alsa-utils and > cdtool are both installed. They are shown in Synaptic as being installed > and, when I issued the dpkg-query command for them, they were

Re: debconf dialogue buttons garbled

2010-02-25 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:51:27 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-02-25 01:49 +0100, Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:39 -0300 > > Cassiano Leal wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> See that there is garbage after the acual button texts? This happens > >> on all debconf buttons. What could

Re: gnome 2.28 freezing

2010-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:02 +1030, Dale wrote: > I have installed Debian testing on my Acer Aspire 4810T Timeline laptop > and I have a problem were Gnome freezes (stutters) when it goes onto > battery and I have to keep moving the touchpad to keep the desktop > alive. > > I have looked through

[Fwd: Re: apt-get / aptitude differences]

2010-02-25 Thread Mirko Scurk
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo,25.feb.10, 11:53:07, Mirko Scurk wrote: > >> When I run aptitude and without anything else press g, aptitude says is >> going to remove half of my gnome and x-server and is going to install >> lot >> of kde packages (about 160 to remove and 200 to install). > > In apti

Re: apt-get / aptitude differences

2010-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo,25.feb.10, 11:53:07, Mirko Scurk wrote: > When I run aptitude and without anything else press g, aptitude says is > going to remove half of my gnome and x-server and is going to install lot > of kde packages (about 160 to remove and 200 to install). In aptitude try: Actions -> Cancel Pen

Re: Disk performance problem

2010-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Veli Cakmak put forth on 2/25/2010 3:48 AM: > The PC with SATA disk gives below rate (value) 7200 rpm > > 100+0 records in > > 100+0 records out > > 102400 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 5.55338 s, 184 MB/s (this is proxy server > with 100 users)(sw raid1) I dare say 184MB/s write throughp

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-25 Thread godo
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim? Server OS statistics? Statistics for stablene

Re: apt-get / aptitude differences

2010-02-25 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Mirko Scurk [100225 11:53 +0100] > My sources list looks like: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates contrib > non-free main > deb ht

Kernel panic - not syncing and some other strange things

2010-02-25 Thread godo
Hi folks, a few days ago I helped a friend find drivers for XP box (detecting with lspci and connecting on net with Live CD). When I came home and put that USB memory in my up to date Squeeze box I could not delete the directory with the drivers. Even as root. Strangest of all, it was not driv

apt-get / aptitude differences

2010-02-25 Thread Mirko Scurk
My sources list looks like: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates contrib non-free main deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main deb h

Re: Disk performance problem

2010-02-25 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:48:27 +0200 Veli Cakmak wrote: > Dear Friends; > > I have servers which contain SATA disks and SAS disks. I was testing the > speed of writing on these servers and I recognized that SAS 10.000 disks > much more slowly than the SATA 7200. What do you think about this slowne

Disk performance problem

2010-02-25 Thread Veli Cakmak
Dear Friends; I have servers which contain SATA disks and SAS disks. I was testing the speed of writing on these servers and I recognized that SAS 10.000 disks much more slowly than the SATA 7200. What do you think about this slowness? What are the reasons of this slowness? Thank you for your h

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 02. 2010 16:57:26 je chombee napisal(a): it has a static IP so I can ssh to it over the internet. I think network manager (when working correctly) is actually perfect for it, it should keep the connection to my home wireless network alive, but it's also very easy and convenient for oth

Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5

2010-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 2/25/2010 1:23 AM: > On 2/25/2010 12:49 AM, Matthew Moore wrote: >> On Wednesday February 24 2010 11:14:19 pm Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Mark Allums put forth on 2/25/2010 12:04 AM: On 2/23/2010 11:20 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > OK, you've convinced me to go with th

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 22. 02. 2010 12:55:24 je Mirko Parthey napisal(a): The network manager package description says it "is not intended for usage on servers". If you want an interface to be permanently up, without even logging in, you should set it up in /etc/network/interfaces. I'll second that. I have a s