Re: xemacs flickers

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Peter Robinson wrote, on 2009-02-20 08:47: Hi all, I have xemacs21 installed on a the following system (PC) deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http:/

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-03-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
lt, even to the point of allowing a just-plugged in usb sound device (which may even be a web-cam's microphone) to become the default device while it's plugged in, and reverting to an on-board sound card when disconnected (if that's what the user wants). Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
r me. I still get a kde prompt asking me what to do about the drive (caused by pmount?) but I always click on cancel anyway. Regards, Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
k=000,shortname=win950 2 "shortname=win95" was needed to enable me to create a dvd directory tree on the second drive - the joys of case-sensitive versus case insensitive systems. The "defaults" word is only needed if there are no other entries in that field of /

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
replacing it with a surgical install via dpkg from the Debian main site. We'll see Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: device UUID versus /dev

2009-02-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frederik Kriewitz wrote, on 2009-02-09 07:49: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM, ghe wrote: I'm hoping this is all in a huge state of flux, and that somebody smarter than I am will figure out a simple and reliable solution to it all. Have a look at /dev/disk/by-* Bug#514209: Acknowledgement

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Magnus Therning wrote, on 2009-02-06 21:57: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in lots of package names. (I

aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
tart of line or end of line of the package name, or alternatively, search by description? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ext4 as default FS ?

2009-01-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
properly identify and read ext4 file systems. Also, as one who has found out the hard way how to use ext3grep to recover files, I would not want to use a new file system unless it had tools to recover deleted but not overwritten files. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
ttp://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature to find what chip-sets and features are supported. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 2009-01-21 11:36: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: Actually it would connect at 31200 bps, so 3.12 kbps. Am I missing something, or are you off by a decimal point? Arthur. Celejar You are correct, I should have written 31.2 kbps. Arthur. -- To

Re: ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ron Johnson wrote, on 20/01/09 06:08: On 01/19/2009 01:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 2009 January 19 13:15:28 Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. The SCSI disk gets fsck'

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 20/01/09 12:45: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:07:03 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: ... Arthur (finding 6876 kbps downstream of ADSL considerably faster than the 3 kbps downstream of a V.34 modem). Your dialup modem only got 3 kbps downstream? Actually it would connect at 31200 bps

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
on to this sort of problem, look at trickle (apt-cache show trickle). Trickle can work, but I've had it cause aptitude to fail to download some packages unless I hit q and gg again. I like Florian's suggestion for /etc/apt/apt.conf: Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7"; Arthur (f

ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
t want to build the SCSI driver into the kernel). Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
2.MOV: Apple QuickTime movie (unoptimized) I viewed it alright with mplayer (saw panning across the inside of a window with curtains and venetian blinds). What player were you trying to use to view it? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: gtkam not recognizing camera any more

2009-01-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
/etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules with the correct vendor and product info, that I need to do to get gtkam to recognize my camera? You might need to follow the instructions at: file:///usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/README.Debian Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: serial port program

2009-01-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
characters and hex data. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, J.H.Kim > > You may wish to look at ckermit in non-free or grab the latest source from ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/x.tar.gz Information on C-Kermit is available at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit Arthur.

Re: Character mode for telnet

2009-01-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
ce is ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar/x.tar.gz, compiles with make kermit, options available for openssl, zlib, pam). Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
l, gnu-fdisk, gthumb) because the fixes haven't entered unstable yet. 2 of the 3 patches are for bugs reported before the Lenny freeze. The third is for a bug that affected all 2.6.23-2.6.27 kernels using the eata SCSI driver for DPT controllers. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Family Tree Program

2009-01-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Александр Владимирович Екимов wrote, on 05/01/09 21:14: On Monday 05 January 2009 13:38:56 Zaki Akhmad wrote: Dear all, I am looking for family tree program. Anybody can give me suggestion? -- Zaki Akhmad www.gramps-project.org gramps is in Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
for the device, and google for it 2) if you don't mind looking at a high volume message area, subscribe to gmane.comp.video.video4linux at gmane.org (mailing-list to newsgroup gateway) and post a query there. 3) There are also the sites http://moinejf.free.fr/ and http://hansdegoede.

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
necting to ftp.au.debian.org (150.203.164.37)] Hanging here. Problem still remains. B.R. Stephen L I can't recommend ftp.au.debian.org - the site is overloaded too often. There is my isp's mirror: ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/debian/ otherwise I have used ftp.at.debian.org (yes, Austria

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update?

2009-01-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
port the bug to the maintainer. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: monitoring HP NetRaid-1si hardware raid card

2009-01-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Douglas A. Tutty wrote, on 2009-01-02 15:21: I have four HP NetServer LPr PII/450 servers. Two of them have HP NetRaid 1si hardware raid cards (the others have NetRaid-1 cards). Have you posted this query to the HP business support forums? Registration is required but fairly painless: http

Re: How often do the repositories get updated?

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
installed by running dpkg -i .deb Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Debian social contract - who reports bugs upstream?

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
e the reporting of bugs upstream without over-burdening either the Debian package maintainers or the Debian end users? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: manual of C library

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
J.H.Kim wrote, on 2009-01-01 13:20: > Hi, everyone > > I installed manpages-dev.deb to see manual page for C libray. > But when I do "man open", the "openvt" of Linux User Manual showed up. > How can the man page of C libary show up first? man 2 open if you have manpages-dev installed. -- To

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Amit Uttamchandani wrote, on 25/12/08 17:55: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:03:15 -0600 "Jordi Guti__rrez Hermoso" wrote: 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni : 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit? The JRE includes a virtual machine for running Java programs, the JDK is stuf

SOLVED Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-12-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-12-09 00:53: lee wrote, on 2008-11-29 04:07: Hm, I've always been using the kernels from kernel.org without problems. How do you make .deb's of kernel.org kernels under Debian (kernel-package, checkinstall, ???) Arthur. To make the DPT SCSI ca

Re: Lenny/Violatile is Stable?

2008-12-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
t; you will find a link to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages which may be able to help you. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-12-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-12-08 19:58: I'm still trying to get to the source of the bug that prevents me from using a DPT2044W SCSI card that uses the eata module, and have narrowed down the working and non-working Debian kernel images to between linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 version 2.6

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-12-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
lee wrote, on 2008-11-29 04:07: Hm, I've always been using the kernels from kernel.org without problems. How do you make .deb's of kernel.org kernels under Debian (kernel-package, checkinstall, ???) Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-12-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
nabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk When loading eata in a later kernel I get some of the same messages followed by a kernel stack trace and later lock-up. Any help on narrowing down the problem appreciated.

Re: obtaining linux-source or linux-image for 686 versions 2.6.19 - 2.6.23

2008-11-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
package is source package name as debian/pool directories (in my case linux-2.6). Interesting to see that more than 4 Terabytes of packages are online at snapshot.debian.net. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

obtaining linux-source or linux-image for 686 versions 2.6.19 - 2.6.23

2008-11-29 Thread Arthur Marsh
um-II (-686 or -486) of Linux kernel versions between 2.6.18.4 and 2.6.24 to find out where the change occurred that caused the failure of the eata module to work successfully? The eata module's source code did *not* change at all between kernel 2.6.18.4 and kernel 2.6.24. Arthur. -- To U

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 28/11/08 20:33: The 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 kernel allowed me to modprobe eata and I received similar messages to those quoted above. The next newest kernel I can download is 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686. kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 had problems after modprobe eata Is

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 28/11/08 17:02: You could try older kernels. Yes, I'll try 2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 is the earliest Debian 2.6 kernel I can get hold of from my current archives) http://grox.net/doc/linux/howto-OLD-VERSIONS/Module-HOWTO-html/Module-HOWTO-6.html

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
anged significantly since the working eata code built-in to the sysrescuecd kernel. I'll download the 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 kernel and try it. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-11-25 17:22: lee wrote, on 25/11/08 01:24: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:29:52PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I have a DPT2044W SCSI adaptor identified with lspci -vv as: which has an IBM SCSI disk attached, which contains MS-Windows95 OSR2. If I set the BIOS to

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
lee wrote, on 25/11/08 01:24: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:29:52PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I have a DPT2044W SCSI adaptor identified with lspci -vv as: which has an IBM SCSI disk attached, which contains MS-Windows95 OSR2. If I set the BIOS to boot SCSI first, the disk is recognised and

DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
ike? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem installing Iceweasel

2008-10-27 Thread Arthur Barlow
I've been trying to install Iceweasel with Aptitude, but the same thing happens each time. Even if I purge all the Iceweasel files and directories, and then do a reinstall the result is that there is a soft link in "/usr/bin/iceweasel" that points to "/lib/iceweasel/ iceweasel." But, when

Re: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:23 AM, debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 28, 2008 12:28:43 AM PDT To: Debian User List Subject: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I have used

Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-27 Thread Arthur Barlow
I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel- package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Reiserfs 3.6 on it. After I do the "make-kpkg --revision= ## kernel-image" and then use "dpkg -i" to install the

Re: Re: Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

2008-08-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700 Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN.

Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

2008-08-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know if there is an open source driver for this chip? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Changes to mailing list subcsription

2008-08-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
I signed up for some lists because I was having some problems, which are now resolved. I'd like to switch my subscription to a digest format. I was wondering what kind of email to send to the list-server to do this for the mailling lists I've subscribed to. Many thanks, A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

problem when install lenny

2008-08-08 Thread arTHUr Ting
Hi, guys, My notebook is Lenovo X61 and I' installing lenny by using the network-install kernel. now the problem is that the installer can find any hard drives on my box. i tried ftp.us.debian.org and ftp.tw.us.debian.organd ftp.jp.debian.org and many other sources, but all doesn't work. But last w

Re: --

2008-08-01 Thread Arthur A
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Frank, what an insight! Hugo I actually found it a bit pedantic at times. Arthur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for assistance with a bug

2008-08-01 Thread Arthur A
myblog1980 wrote: Apologies for this long message in advance :) Accepted. Thanks in advance for any assistance or advice! Advice Use less history, and use more details. In your first paragraph you wrote that you can't seem to get any dev's interested in your issue. I would leave that o

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread Arthur A
I give up. Oh to hell with Debian. > N. Problem solved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AC Power on HP NC6000 becomes Noisy

2008-07-22 Thread Arthur A
cruz wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian 4.0 on my HP NC6000 laptop. Everything works except noisy when the AC power is on. Even when the system is on idle mode. What can I do about this? Thanks, cruz PS Please include my email as well if you reply because I have not subscribed to this user lis

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-20 Thread Arthur A
Brian Marshall wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:55:13 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, let me know when Debian finally gets MB 4/5 to work out of the box as forward/back. Only been a decade since those became standard on most consumer grade mice. :P I recently did a lenny

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-20 Thread Arthur A
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:52 +0300 Arthur A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error in the xorg.log about rng expe

Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Even after reading: http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=538448 and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168 I still cannot get passed the network configuration. I cou

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gather the info myself. That's... well, that's the Windows Way. No, that would be rebooting the com

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 07:57, Arthur A wrote: [snip] Why can't you use reportbug? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -BEGI

Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Specifically, I'm wondering if I'm filing it against the correct package and what priority I ought to assign it. Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error in the xorg.log about rng

Re: Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!!

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
> Was that a deliberate joke? I didn't comment on anything. Scrolling through the archives online what appears to have happened is that Damon wrote something, then the OP replied and replaced and long paragraph with BLAH BLAH BLAH. Since the OP was rude to almost everyone who replied I think

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Arthur A
Mark Neidorff wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 10:20 pm, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat reader performs a lot faster. Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise? (sorry for not answering your actual

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 02:11:38 pm Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: What you are proposing is that packages move from Unstable, to a Testing alpha package, then to Testing which would be the basis of the RC's, and then onward to Stable. To be blunt... -Fail- That is not .

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 17:28:38 +0100, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] Please respond back to the debian-user list. You have a reply-to set you realise so replies go to yourself and not the list. You are confusing reply-to with mail

Re: Applying correct hdparm values after resuming from suspend

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:56:35 +0300, Arthur A wrote: Hi list, I'm using Debian Lenny with Laptop-mode tools that I've configured to manage my laptop's hd, which is controlled by firmware that gives insane load cycle values. Thus, I've enabled lapt

Re: Flash in Etch?

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Jeff Soules wrote: Hi all, Open to any advice. My ultimate goal is to get a fully functional Flash player in a browser in my Debian Etch installation (amd64 base). I use Gnome and don't care much for KDE & Konqueror. Here's what I've tried so far: *Iceweasel + swfdec -- without success. I'm

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,13.Jul.08, 18:29:25, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Should we assume alsa doesn't work on your machine? I may b

Re: Applying correct hdparm values after resuming from suspend

2008-07-13 Thread Arthur A
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:56:35 +0300, Arthur A wrote: Hi list, I'm using Debian Lenny with Laptop-mode tools that I've configured to manage my laptop's hd, which is controlled by firmware that gives insane load cycle values. Thus, I've enabled lapt

Re: ntfs-3g mounting from the dekstop in lenny

2008-07-12 Thread Arthur A
Shachar Or wrote: snip> This has nothing to do with /etc/fstab becuase i'm talking about removable devices. Talking about being able to purchase a USB MSC HDD and plugging it in. -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc Correct. The answer is yes it's possible. Have a look at hal and fdi policy. A

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-12 Thread Arthur A
Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 22:53:45 -0400, Nick Lidakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Hummn.Tried both sites and they work well on my machine - the shame site does tend to drive up the cpu needle. Would you (or anyone else, especially if you're using and Inte

Applying correct hdparm values after resuming from suspend

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Hi list, I'm using Debian Lenny with Laptop-mode tools that I've configured to manage my laptop's hd, which is controlled by firmware that gives insane load cycle values. Thus, I've enabled laptop-mode-tools and it currently applies a setting of 254 (disabled) when running on AC and 128 (enabl

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Ron Johnson escreveu: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension v0.3.0 definitely crashes with courier-imap, but v0.2.1 seems to work. (The last version I had was v0.2.0.) Here v.0.2.1 does not crash, but I do not get a "Reply to list" butto

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/08 10:23, Arthur A wrote: [snip] Indeed. I found the extension and it's perfect. Debian was nice enough to patch icedove as opposed to making us wait until version 3. Thanks for the tip. Where did you find it?

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Arthur A wrote: Hi, I want to use icedove v.2...14, to subscribe to and reply to this mailing list and others. But at the moment if I just hit reply it goes to the person who is listed as "from", not the "sender". There is another button that s

Re: P2P clients for debian etch

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Jonathan Kaye wrote: joseph lockhart wrote: just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings in the base debian repository so I figure that I am missing a repository or will have to go the long way to find a good client (however, I do not want to have to find and install a l

How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Hi, I want to use icedove v.2...14, to subscribe to and reply to this mailing list and others. But at the moment if I just hit reply it goes to the person who is listed as "from", not the "sender". There is another button that says "reply to sender and all", but nothing about just "reply to se

Re: problems compiling recent kernels from kernel-archive.buildserver.net

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-05-10 10:39: Hi I recently reported bug #480436 against kernel-package as I've had trouble compiling recent kernels (2.6.25-2) from kernel-archive.buildserver.net on Debian unstable on a Pentium II. The last successful build I had was on 5 May from source 2.6

problems compiling recent kernels from kernel-archive.buildserver.net

2008-05-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi I recently reported bug #480436 against kernel-package as I've had trouble compiling recent kernels (2.6.25-2) from kernel-archive.buildserver.net on Debian unstable on a Pentium II. The last successful build I had was on 5 May from source 2.6.25-2~snapshot.11251. I tried downgrading perl

Re: SOLVED Re: dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-04-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Florian Kulzer wrote, on 02/04/08 03:42: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:59:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/08 04:11, Arthur Marsh wrote: [snip] If one shouldn't need to restart debian for the purging of hal-device-manager to take effect, should I have run /etc/init.d/hal restart ?

SOLVED Re: dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-04-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Florian Kulzer wrote, on 2008-04-01 04:39: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 23:08:32 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: I plugged in a USB mass storage device into my pc running Debian Unstable and unlike several months ago, did not get a notification from KDE that the device had been discovered. Did you

dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-03-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
I plugged in a USB mass storage device into my pc running Debian Unstable and unlike several months ago, did not get a notification from KDE that the device had been discovered. dmesg reported: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen f

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hugh Lawson wrote, on 31/03/08 00:06: Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The smbfs package, which depends on samba-common includes the mount.cifs binary: [ snip ] The format of the /etc/fstab entry changed, requiring the IP address of the remote system rather than just the N

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Amit Uttamchandani wrote, on 30/03/08 07:40: As smbfs is no longer maintained, what is the proper way to mount samba shares in linux? Most of the user guides out there rely on 'mount -t smbfs ' to mount windows shares. I heard there is a mount -t cifs? But that doesn't seem to work in etc

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-04 Thread Arthur Barlow
oxy wrote: Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask. Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system (

Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Barlow
Jimmy Wu wrote: I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run nvidia-settings -l

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-10 Thread Arthur Furlan
unctions/my.html -- Atenciosamente, Arthur Furlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: font size changes

2008-01-04 Thread Arthur Barlow
Rick Pasotto wrote: I pretty much keep current with 'testing' but seldom reboot. Today I rebooted and system fonts are noticeably smaller than before the reboot. My Seamonkey window now shows two more lines of text because the menubar text is smaller. Why would the display size of the fonts chan

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Arthur Barlow
John Salmon wrote: I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? Install aptitude-doc-en. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

[Fwd: Re: apt-file]

2007-12-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
Resending due to errors: Original Message Subject: Re: apt-file Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:44:33 +1030 From: Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wu-Kung Sun wrote, on 200

Re: apt-file

2007-12-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
t-file download the Contents.gz files for those, and use packages.debian.org to search for files in standard Debian packages (main/contrib/non-free). Filed as bug #456894. Arthur. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to isolate kernel panic problem

2007-09-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
nd numlock flashing" type of kernel panic - i.e. nothing on the machine is responsive. I've gone back to 2.6.23-rc4 for now, but wonder if there is a good guide for narrowing down the cause of the problem or even a more specific mailing list for debugging kernel panics. Arthur. -- T

Aptitude slow package initialization

2007-07-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
I'm running unstable on a x86 machine. About a month ago Aptitude recommended uninstalling itself, which I overrode for awhile then one day decided to let it do it, thinking I could reinstall it. Well, I was wrong. There was a dependency problem for awhile and it's only been recently tha

Re: reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, on 2007-06-25 14:54: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:51:38PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996. on June 21... Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I received my cc: email

reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
can find on bugs.debian.org is #430392: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430392 Is anyone else having troubles with the Debian Bug Tracking System? Regards, Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icedove

2007-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
to the /etc/icedove/pref/ directory and insert: pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","x-www-browser"); pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","x-www-browser"); ... or whatever browser you want. (or fix the x-www-browser alternative to point to your prefe

Re: [Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]

2007-04-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:23 -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: I thought I'd try this list as well. email message attachment (Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick.eml) The fact you are running 2.6.17 tells me you are behind on kernel versions or running Ubuntu

[Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]

2007-04-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
I thought I'd try this list as well. --- Begin Message --- I'm using an older Dell Latitude which has always worked great with Debian. I'm currently using the "lenny" or testing version. I'm trying to set up a Linksys wireless card or stick. When I boot the computer the BIOS sees the stick

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
ible as I would like (being able to specify date and time separately in one's own format of choice in a completely arbitrary quote string would be better), but it does give the original message date and time in an ISO standard format that is unambiguous. Regards, Arthur. -- To UNS

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

2007-01-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Lale wrote, On 20/12/06 21:27: Felipe Sateler wrote: [...] The main problem seems to be lack of documentation. There are docs floating around, but they only cover the basic aspects, and only on the simplest of configurations. I have put some of the suggestions from this thread on t

Re: tool to resize partitions on cylinder boundaries?

2006-12-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote, On 12/12/06 20:01: On 12.12.06 18:03, Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a couple of 40 GB drives in a machine whose BIOS only supports hard disk drives up to 32 GiB. The motherboard (BIOStar M6TLC) manufacturer has confirmed that it is not possible to work around this

Re: tool to resize partitions on cylinder boundaries?

2006-12-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Olive wrote, On 12/12/06 19:09: Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a couple of 40 GB drives in a machine whose BIOS only supports hard disk drives up to 32 GiB. The motherboard (BIOStar M6TLC) manufacturer has confirmed that it is not possible to work around this limitation via a BIOS upgrade. Since

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