Re: [OT] HTML5 (was: Playing Videos)

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:01:11 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 02:17 PM 6/10/2012, Camaleón wrote: With a MS video container file (.avi)? Use a different one and your life will be -by far- better. (...) Dear Teacher - Problem Solved. Converted the files to mp4. :-[ Thank to the gods

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 14:42:24, john gennard wrote: root@debian:/# dmesg | grep -i '\(firmware\|radeon\|kms\)' [5.415560] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [5.415665] radeon :01:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 [5.415669] radeon :01:00.0: setting latency

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #1263

2012-06-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 10.06.2012 18:20, David Baron wrote: On Sunday 10 June 2012 17:56:58 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: However, if you have any lingering scripts without any LSB headers, you'll need to fix them up or remove them to allow dynamic boot ordering to be enabled. This is

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Joe Giglio, You are a jacka$$ to send me personal email @earthlink.net in reply to my post on the Debian mailing list. Lose my eddress. Really. Don't email me again. Unrequested email is spam. I have not only /not/ requested to receive any

Re: Squeeze and bitmapped fonts - solved

2012-06-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
Yes, that solved it (I was missing the font cache part). Thank you very much, Joao On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:37:59 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: (...) FATAL ERROR from X-windows: XFT available, but not working with PCF bitmap

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. Will you please help. My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 In that directory I have a file b.mp4.

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:15:06 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 In that directory I have a file b.mp4. This file also is in /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 If I access b.mp4 in /var/www/Webpages2, [src=b.mp4] the file is found. It is not found

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. Will you please help. My working

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 iun 12, 14:42:24, john gennard wrote: root@debian:/# dmesg | grep -i '\(firmware\|radeon\|kms\)' [5.415560] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [5.415665] radeon :01:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 [

Firewire IEEE 1394 cameras and Coriander.

2012-06-11 Thread peasthope
Does anyone use a firewire camera? Does anyone use Coriander? The Coriander manual has no mention of JuJu or udev and I wonder which of the instructions apply to my Debian Squeeze system. peter@joule:/dev$ uname -rv 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat May 5 01:33:08 UTC 2012

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:36:38 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: (...) I wonder if the *Dingbats is the real problem here. If you had access to the original document you can ensure the symbols that display

webcam unusable after hibernate-ram

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Seyfert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd love to file a bugreport for the following problem, yet I have no idea for which package: After a normal boot I can use my webcam in skype/cheese/ ... if I then hibernate-ram and wake up the system again the webcam is not found anymore by

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Seyfert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:36:38 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: (...) Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem:

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boomhend...@topoi.pooq.com: I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses the the space on the root partition, which has more than room

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. When I add this chunk of text into my ~/.fonts.conf file, the PDF is

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 17:05 +0100, john gennard wrote: On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hmm, I would have expected at least a mention of loading the firmware. Could you please upload your dmesg to paste.debian.net? Not sure what you want me to do, I'm attaching 'dmesg'

configuring interface configuring MTA time out

2012-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Hi! I'm running fully up-to-date Debian testing system (AMD64) with Xfce and Wicd on a system that I take from network to network during the day. I use a fixed IP address at some locations and DHCP assignment at others. Until the recent update (a couple of weeks ago) of netscript which removed

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Jerome Flesch
2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon. roman...@meta.ua: On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boomhend...@topoi.pooq.com: I need more space for /tmp.  I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses the the space on

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. When I add this chunk of text into my ~/.fonts.conf file, the PDF is rendered

Garbled X-Forwarding Over SSH

2012-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Hi! This is an old issue I have been seeing for years. I thought I'd ask about it, since I've finally got off my duff and asked another question a few minutes ago. In Debian testing with Xfce I notice that using $ ssh -XC u...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will result in the first graphical application I

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 12:00 PM 6/11/2012, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths.

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:57:32 +, Camaleón wrote: It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: when it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is named as SymbolMT... Mmm... As I have described I have no problem seeing the pdf as its maker

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 11.06.2012 21:54, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon.roman...@meta.ua: On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boomhend...@topoi.pooq.com: I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 18:41:35 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Cybe R. Wizard Congratulations, you have found our friend joe1assistly whom is spamming many users on this list by replying to random emails and suggesting to top-post and having

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Marcin Sławiński
Always two minutes with fsck check take it a few seconds longer. I can send logs but which one can be helpful? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command line oriented install. I've some un-baked [i.e. not even half

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/12 03:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command line oriented

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 15:58:11, Gary Dale wrote: If you want a lean install, just install the basic system. Don't choose any of the bits that give extra services or even a desktop. Not even 'Standard', it will pull in a mail server (among other things). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic

Re: Firewire IEEE 1394 cameras and Coriander.

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:40:00 -0700, peasthope wrote: Does anyone use a firewire camera? Does anyone use Coriander? The Coriander manual has no mention of JuJu or udev and I wonder which of the instructions apply to my Debian Squeeze system. (...) We already discused this time ago (yup, I

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-11 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:51:50 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 18:41:35 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Cybe R. Wizard Congratulations, you have found our friend joe1assistly whom is spamming many users on

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Err yup, looks like Marty Feldman, although now deceased, could make a comeback otherwise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPAVm8Gl6M Hilarious. Marty's wall eyes are such an

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However, I think that happenstance

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: I would suggest uncommenting the wheezy bits, commenting out the squeeze buts (perhaps adding contrib and non-free at your option) and running another apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and seeing what it wants to do. It's likely to want to

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:14:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:57:32 +, Camaleón wrote: It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: when it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is named as SymbolMT... Mmm... As I have described

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Gary Dale wrote: On 11/06/12 03:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:38:08 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ In addition to a detailed list of the packages that contains, what more do you expect? :-) What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/12 05:05 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Gary Dale wrote: On 11/06/12 03:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very

unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, I just joined the list last evening. I have a very unusual install issue with debian, frankly wish there was someone local to Toronto to help, but perhaps I can get enough wisdom here to solve the problem. I will be as detailed as I can, feel free to ask though if you need to know

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 18:11 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: [snip] Here is the situation. I have a complete set of squeeze images in DVD, I do mean complete. I have no network connection in the computer I am installing debian on, so wish to install all of these images, so as not to need to

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Nulandorn
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 11:40 +, Camaleón wrote: The thing is that as you are using stable, the only updates you receive are coming from the security repo and this usually does not make any changes in the packages that can lead to your problem. Test with a new user to check if the screen

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 20:59:23 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:14:09 +0100, Brian wrote: As I have described I have no problem seeing the pdf as its maker intended. Neither I have it in wheezy but in lenny the two sample PDF files render with the wrong character. In both

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/12 06:11 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi all, I just joined the list last evening. I have a very unusual install issue with debian, frankly wish there was someone local to Toronto to help, but perhaps I can get enough wisdom here to solve the problem. I will be as detailed as I can, feel

Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I have deleted the body of your question and restated your subject line. Do you require a Debian install procedure compatible with text to speech? OR Do you require a Debian install procedure compatible with large print? For either case, do you have high speed internet access? -- To

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which is why I wanted it. second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself, no means as my main computer only has dialup. Agreed, had I not

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-11 Thread Greg Donoghue
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:35:08AM +0100, keith wrote: There certainly was a program to do it via the framebuffer, I think it was called 'geecko' or 'geko', or something, but I can't seem to find any reference to it now, sorry. Is this the package you're thinking of? Package: qingy Version:

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Karen :) if possible sent to the list only, don't CC instead and please switch from top to bottom post. On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 20:24 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which is why I wanted it. Do you want a special speech

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which is why I wanted it. second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself, no

Re: Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
none of the above. I require the steps to switch install sources. i will post what I was told would work if that might help. If I were going to require anything it would be a human grounded in debian to come to my house, lol. I have no high speed, as I just stated in a different post. On

Re: unique install question? [Clarify your needs]

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: For either case, do you have high speed internet access? The OP doesn't have any Internet access for the computer where Debian should be installed. - Ralf PS: Thread was and is unique install question? ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Nulandorn
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 10:01 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 11:40 +, Camaleón wrote: The thing is that as you are using stable, the only updates you receive are coming from the security repo and this usually does not make any changes in the packages that can lead to

the information I got, was unique install question? [Clarify your needs]

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
As I offered, here is a quotation from the Debian accessibility wiki. I might have cut it down a bit more, but you will see the information relating to how to start with wheezy and shift to squeeze. for the record, I ended up installing hardware speech, the field for software speech can be

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Reconsider that changing the subject in a way, we would do it for private mails, isn't helpful on a mailing list, since the context gets lost, because not everybody does follow the whole thread. I guess you'll get more response within the day, if you avoid subjects such as the information I got,

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all. While squeeze has updates, they are generally few and far between. This is the intent of the

Re: Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Go Linux
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: From: Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net Subject: Re: Clarify your needs To: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 7:59 PM none of the above. I require the

Re: Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
This is why changing the subject line serves to confuse as someone else noted. You are not seeing the entire thread where I point out that I cannot boot from DVD with this machine...which is part of why I got the testing image of wheezy. Kare On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Go Linux wrote: --- On Mon,

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
I agree on changing the subject line, especially since Richard also removed the on point question. As for avoiding the post containing the information I got regarding changing the boot priorities and installing squeeze instead of wheezy from the debian accessibility wiki, I hope no one avoids

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:33:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:11 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Following with your allegory -and as I already explained- I'll be glad in cooking but the resulting meal can be just inedible as I lack for the proper recipes... Recipes can

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