Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #773

2012-05-07 Thread David Baron
On Monday 07 May 2012 20:27:15 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: When replying to any of these unknown subject message, please type in a real subject, i.e. Re: what the message is about. And guess what, it did not work! Though I have seen it work sometimes. This digest is on

Re: Unidentified subject!

2012-05-06 Thread David Baron
Note that this posting has a normal subject, i.e. Re: Unidentified subject! If it does not appear thus, then the problem is somewhere in lists.debian.org. Almost all, but not all, messages recently have subject like Unidentified subject! [ ] in the topics list and Unidentified subect! ()

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #758 (Unidentified subject!s)

2012-05-06 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 06 May 2012 20:30:27 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Note that this posting has a normal subject, i.e. Re: Unidentified subject! If it does not appear thus, then the problem is somewhere in lists.debian.org. Almost all, but not all, messages recently

Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

2012-05-05 Thread David Baron
These are really getting annoying. Is this a problem with the list server or what?

Nouveau!

2012-04-30 Thread David Baron
This has the gallium hardware acceleration code now and this is fantastic.My usual tests (using 3.1 kernel version): Chromium-BSU space invadors runs flawlessly Peguin racer would seem to run fine but has large artifacts, at least on my PCI express card which will run off latest and greatest

Re: nepomuk, tracker - why such CPU and memory hungry beasts are installed automatically?

2012-04-10 Thread David Baron
It is time that KDE (and Gnome) background services ran nicely niced out of the way but this is still, after all this time, not the case. I have long disabled Nepomuk and use Recoll instead. Indexing daemon (option) runs niced and one does not know it is running. It simply works. I have a

Re: Graphical app on startup

2012-04-05 Thread David Baron
I would like to get that a graphical application developed in Java runs on startup of a Debian machine, if is possible without menu, without login panel and without system messages. Obviously without update messages. Depends. Java+GUI programs are usually designed to operate with

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread David Baron
Those Realtek/intel on-board soundards have a problem with 3.2 kernels. Some things work, some things do not. Two new controls were added: speaker and headphone (so I was informed in a similar thread a few weeks ago when the problem surfaced on my machine). The speaker control does not show up

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems (SOLVED, sort of)

2012-03-01 Thread David Baron
I got rid of it! Here is what I did: 1. Removed the symlinks in /etc/rc#.d 2. Placed strategic exit 0 in update-rc.d and invoke=rc.d scripts 3. Created fake /var/run/postgresql/8.1-main.pid and /usr/share/postgresql/8.1/tsearch_data files since it returned errors about them missing. 4. Finally

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

2012-02-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 21:03:15 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Package apparently obselete, dependencies no longer installable. However, I cannot remove it. How did you remove it? apt-get, aptitude, dpkg, synaptic... apt-get / dpkg -r/ dpkg -P I do not use

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

2012-02-29 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 14:01:03 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: It is still there. Manually stopping the daemon does not produce any error or output and the removal error remains. Maybe 'deborphan' could help; no harm in trying. apt and deborphan are

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

2012-02-29 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 16:50:26 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Package apparently obselete, dependencies no longer installable. However, I cannot remove it. How did you remove it? apt-get, aptitude, dpkg, synaptic... apt-get / dpkg -r/ dpkg -P I do

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

2012-02-29 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 20:02:01 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: How did you remove it? apt-get, aptitude, dpkg, synaptic... apt-get / dpkg -r/ dpkg -P I do not use aptitude And what's the full output for that commands? ~$ sudo dpkg -P

Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

2012-02-28 Thread David Baron
Package apparently obselete, dependencies no longer installable. However, I cannot remove it. Get error: update-rc.d: warning: postgresql-8.1 stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (S 0 1 6) How do I get rid of it. (It no longer runs, dovecot returns an error but

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

2012-02-28 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 19:36:17 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Package apparently obselete, dependencies no longer installable. However, I cannot remove it. Get error: update-rc.d: warning: postgresql-8.1 stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop

Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread David Baron
Get, very early on bootup so do not have them available later in dmesg or logs, warnings about discontinued rules syntax. This concerns ATTR and SYSF There are a number of rules files containing this ~$ fgrep -ril attr /etc/udev/* /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak

Re: Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 16:00:46 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote: fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/* /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules.dpkg-old

Re: Sound Problems

2012-02-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 14 February 2012 21:17:49 David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2012 20:39:04 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Hi Emil, try this: The new kernel module added two new regulators speakers and headphones, and they are both set to 0 by default

Re:Sound Problems

2012-02-14 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 14 February 2012 20:39:04 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Hi Emil, try this: The new kernel module added two new regulators speakers and headphones, and they are both set to 0 by default! Additionally kmix and some other GUI might not show them as well as

Re: Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-02-09 Thread David Baron
On Monday 30 January 2012 12:19:06 David Baron wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 11:50:45 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: * David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il schrieb: Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow and grow quickly filling the /var

Re:Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-01-30 Thread David Baron
On Monday 30 January 2012 11:50:45 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: * David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il schrieb: Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow and grow quickly filling the /var filesystem's partition. I mean 10's of gigabytes. The system

Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-01-29 Thread David Baron
This occurs randomly for no seeming reason for USB mice. It will definitely occur if the rodent gets unplugged or at random communications difficulties on wireless mice. It can be caused by other USB devices connected or operating: Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow

3.2 Kernel Image Problems

2012-01-21 Thread David Baron
Neither the 686 nor the amd64 flavors install correctly. They fail to create the initrd. I can use upgrade-initramfs -c and then apt-get -f install will finish the process. (I have not tried booting these yet.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Python, gobject, glade problems (Solved)

2012-01-01 Thread David Baron
On Friday 04 Tevet 5772 10:39:21 David Baron wrote: Get segfaults and errors running apt-listchanges and rkhunter. Synaptic also aborts due to something here. Running Sid. How to fix? Guess what? Nothing to do with glade, gobject, python, etc. Recent thread on sudo? Make those changes, get

Re: ip-tables resource temporarily unavailable

2011-12-31 Thread David Baron
On Friday 04 Tevet 5772 17:28:15 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Get a slew of these immediately at bootup. Afterwards, it works fine. What may be causing this? Why didn't you ask Google before asking here? It's not really fair to ask others to do your

ip-tables resource temporarily unavailable

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Get a slew of these immediately at bootup. Afterwards, it works fine. What may be causing this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Python, gobject, glade problems

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Get segfaults and errors running apt-listchanges and rkhunter. Synaptic also aborts due to something here. Running Sid. How to fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Visoneer Scanners

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Anyone succesfully used VIsoneer USB scanners, i.e. 9250? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112301134.41968.d_ba...@012.net.il

Rkhunter warning

2011-12-27 Thread David Baron
Got: Warning: Network TCP port 13000 is being used by /sbin/rpc.statd. Possible rootkit: Possible Universal Rootkit (URK) SSH server Use the 'lsof -i' or 'netstat -an' command to check this. rpc.statd is started by nfs-common. False alarm? Bug? Serous trouble? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Getting runparts if-up.d, etc to execute

2011-12-26 Thread David Baron
On Monday 30 Kislev 5772 04:18:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Re: Getting runparts if-up.d, etc to execute From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun 25 Dec 2011 at 21:58:18 +0200, David Baron wrote: Somehow, the scripts

Re: Getting runparts if-up.d, etc to execute

2011-12-26 Thread David Baron
On Monday 30 Kislev 5772 04:18:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Somehow, the scripts in the if-up.d, if-down.d directories are net being executed. Very unexpected. I have a farely standard interfaces for a router. What am I missing? #

Getting These Again

2011-12-25 Thread David Baron
[ 3527.898202] CPU1: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 25957) [ 3527.898226] CPU0: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 25959) [ 3527.899235] CPU1: Core temperature/speed normal [ 3527.899243] CPU0: Core temperature/speed

Getting runparts if-up.d, etc to execute

2011-12-25 Thread David Baron
Somehow, the scripts in the if-up.d, if-down.d directories are net being executed. I have a farely standard interfaces for a router. What am I missing? # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading iface lo

Re: Getting runparts if-up.d, etc to execute

2011-12-25 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 29 Kislev 5772 21:58:18 David Baron wrote: Somehow, the scripts in the if-up.d, if-down.d directories are net being executed. I have a farely standard interfaces for a router. What am I missing? # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8

Re: Going to 64bit (more)

2011-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 Kislev 5772 10:44:14 David Baron wrote: On Monday 23 Kislev 5772 18:13:35 David Baron wrote: Using instructions on http://www.v13.gr/blog/?p=11, I have available a debootstraped amd64 squeeze ... ** . Actually, much better to do all this from the rescue-CD and avoid

Re: Going to 64bit

2011-12-21 Thread David Baron
On Monday 23 Kislev 5772 18:13:35 David Baron wrote: Using instructions on http://www.v13.gr/blog/?p=11, I have available a debootstraped amd64 squeeze using a dselect-upgrade based on my existing installation (which is Sid). Since his instructions are older than multiarch and based on lenny

Re: Going to 64bit

2011-12-19 Thread David Baron
Using instructions on http://www.v13.gr/blog/?p=11, I have available a debootstraped amd64 squeeze using a dselect-upgrade based on my existing installation (which is Sid). Since his instructions are older than multiarch and based on lenny, I would like to know how to proceed. The gyst is: 1.

Re: Going to 64bit

2011-12-17 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 21 Kislev 5772 17:45:49 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: On Wednesday 18 Kislev 5772 16:04:23 David Baron wrote: I have a 64-bit Intel CPU but have been gleefully running my 32-bit Sid on it. Can one install the 64-bit kernel and upgrade other

Re: Going to 64bit

2011-12-16 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 18 Kislev 5772 16:04:23 David Baron wrote: I have a 64-bit Intel CPU but have been gleefully running my 32-bit Sid on it. Can one install the 64-bit kernel and upgrade other packages piecemeal or must one do it all in one go? In other words: Will all/most/some/none 32-bit

Going to 64bit

2011-12-14 Thread David Baron
I have a 64-bit Intel CPU but have been gleefully running my 32-bit Sid on it. Can one install the 64-bit kernel and upgrade other packages piecemeal or must one do it all in one go? In other words: Will all/most/some/none 32-bit programs work with it? (Has the new multiarch organization made

Spamd memory hawg

2011-12-02 Thread David Baron
I have two spamd (owner nobody) running, likely called by procmail for spam detection (obviously). They are eating upwards of a half gig of memory. This seems quite excessive. Is there a way to limit them? BTW, they have no pid, can't kill them. Might be a memory leak. Running Sid. -- To

Loads of Held Packages on Sid

2011-11-16 Thread David Baron
1. Perl. Installing this one replaces most everything using perl. Is this OK, safe? 2. libksmoke stuff. Removes a bunch of .cil modules which would be relevant only to mono. Safe (probably if not using kde mono bindings anywhere)? 3. Korundum, kde ruby stuff. Safe (probably if not using ruby

Recent Sid Upgrade--Unbootable System

2011-10-23 Thread David Baron
Recent Sid upgrade rendered the system unbootable. Probably lvm packages. I get put into an initramfs shell. I rebooted to the previous kernel which had its initramfs apparently untouched. Anyone else had this? No error was cited against lvm2. How do I fix this? Wait for next upgrade and hope

Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread David Baron
This is a repeat posting. I get zillions of these running any apt/dpkg: dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 117808 package 'user-de': missing architecture dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 119794 package

Libsmokek.... held packages in Sid

2011-10-16 Thread David Baron
There are a lot of these and have been for a long time. Any attempt to install will remove a lot of kde packages (why they are held back). This has been a while. What is the status? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 18 Tishrey 5772 19:32:50 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: What is the output of the command grep 'Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -v installed A bunch of lines: Status: deinstall ok config-files ? You could try to remove the annoying entries, e.g., with

Control Display Driver on Bootup

2011-09-17 Thread David Baron
Is there a way, using a bootup command or option, i.e. setting some env, that can control whether I use nouveau or nvidia drivers. Some startup script would need to 1. Copy or remove nouveau blacklist on /etc/modprob.d 2. Copy appropriate xorg.conf version to xorg.conf Would be even better if

Held Packages on Sid

2011-09-12 Thread David Baron
There seem to be more and more of them. What's the score? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109121607.31543.d_ba...@012.net.il

Configuring Proftp with Gadmin

2011-08-24 Thread David Baron
I am trying to get my ftp server to work through a NAT router. I am using gadmin as a convenient tool. I forward port 21 and the PASV port range. I set up cert keys and copied them to the Android from which I would access the ftp. Logging on from there yields and error that it cannot set the

Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread David Baron
This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these two files and reboot. The bootup check will remove an inode or so

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread David Baron
On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these two files

First Try of Kernel 3 -- ipchains

2011-07-28 Thread David Baron
Everything boots up fine, works fine, except get a load of ipchains: protocal not available. Now, I was not aware I even used this, the /etc/default/ipchains says no. Is it now absent in the kernel, deprecated so get rid of the init.d script? Iptables is being used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Nvidia-glx is back

2011-07-27 Thread David Baron
However, all of these packages are still held back. Apparently, these newer versions needed from the 3.0 kernels. Why still held back? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Using USB Printer on Router USB

2011-07-25 Thread David Baron
How do I set up a USB printer plugged into a wireless router's USB so it can be used through the router? Instructions through CUPs so not show me the way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Using USB Printer on Router USB

2011-07-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 23 Tamuz 5771 13:34:34 Stanisław Findeisen wrote: On 2011-07-25 12:06, David Baron wrote: How do I set up a USB printer plugged into a wireless router's USB so it can be used through the router? Instructions through CUPs so not show me the way. What OS do you have in your

Libgcrypt

2011-07-24 Thread David Baron
I am running Sid. This lib is problematic. On bootup, I get an error starting dirmanager (not really needed) stating that libgcrypt is too old, need 1.2.3, have 1.4.0. The installed version seems up to date and to meet this criteria. I cannot run recent virtualbox. Get this: ~$ virtualbox

Getting Rid of Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-07-18 Thread David Baron
Get load of these on any dpkg/apt operation: dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 39750 package 'libmal0': missing architecture dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 40988 package 'hwdata-knoppix': missing architecture Not all of

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

2011-07-10 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 08 Tamuz 5771 13:30:07 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: `apt-get install chromium` will mark it as manually installed. On squeeze: chromium - transitional dummy package for chromium-bsu On wheezy onwards, I take it, chromium points to the browser chromium-bsu

Rather frightenng dmesg errors

2011-07-10 Thread David Baron
I have been getting a log of these. Depends on ambient and CPU load, i.e. killing boinc number-crunchers reduces the occurance, but it happens also when the ambient is not as high as it is now. I am running the most recent 2.6.39- PAE 32-bit kernel from Sid on a P4 that looks like two cores

Re: Snd-hda-intel Problems

2011-07-09 Thread David Baron
On Vi, 08 iul 11, 11:47:16, David Baron wrote: Running latest 2.6.39 32-bit kernel from Sid, the on-board sound only plays in mono. Moving the balance control on xmms can only get sound to one side and has a wierd effect on the pcm level control. Is that really xmms

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1312

2011-07-09 Thread David Baron
On Friday 06 Tamuz 5771 14:15:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Running latest 2.6.39 32-bit kernel from Sid, the on-board sound only plays in mono. Are you using the kernel's ALSA or are there ALSA packages installed? I believe I am using the kernel's modules. I

Snd-hda-intel Problems

2011-07-08 Thread David Baron
Running latest 2.6.39 32-bit kernel from Sid, the on-board sound only plays in mono. Moving the balance control on xmms can only get sound to one side and has a wierd effect on the pcm level control. Most of the chipset's features are disabled (but I only want plain vanilla stereo sound

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-03 Thread David Baron
I know this is playing with fire but I did this: sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 This points the multiarch version to where the /usr/lib version points. Save the original symlink to libGL.so.1.2 to be safe but easy enough to restore is need be. You

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 30 Sivan 5771 21:00:28 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: That's not the problem at my end. I had nvidia-kernel-dkms installed, which automatically takes care of that. I haven't had to recompile the driver on a kernel upgrade for months. I think the problem

Recent OpenGL Problems

2011-06-30 Thread David Baron
Apps that worked perfectly last week no longer work at all: Flightgear and Ysflight. Flightgear complains about not be able to produce image and segfaults out. Ysflight complains about double buffering. I am using Debian's NVidia driver (270) from Sid so the native glx's are diverted and

Regenerating /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-06-16 Thread David Baron
This file is full of cruft, stuff left over years ago starting with knoppix-3. Recent dpkg produce a lot of parse-errors from the file, though they do not effect anything. Is it possible to regenerate this file without all the cruft?

Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!, more

2011-06-16 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 13 Sivan 5771 17:55:56 you wrote: Since this is now a mixed-up system (until Sid's maintainers get stuff together, completely, responsibly (posting defective /lib upgrades is inexcusable because of the mess made for us Debian Sid users!), there may still be problems, i.e. another

WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-15 Thread David Baron
After being assured by a maintainer that the problems in upgrading were fixed in -7, I upgraded, without a hitch ... except now everything segfaults, even after reboot. I had also upgraded x-windows stuff dependent on that which made things even worse. Actually, the reboot proceeds perfectly.

After the Libc6 Fiasco

2011-06-12 Thread David Baron
Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the testing packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working again. OK: 1. Unstable can sometimes get broken. I accept that. 2. However, libc6 stuff is so critical that any upgrade posted must be installable and

Re: After the Libc6 Fiasco

2011-06-12 Thread David Baron
David Baron: Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the testing packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working again. What problem are you referring to? The breakage from the missing symlinks on amd64? That issue has been fixed some weeks

Configuring WIFI

2011-05-31 Thread David Baron
My android can use WIFI. Works fine with who knows whose WIFI it happens to find and connect-to. The one on my wireless router, however, connects but cannot access and web pages or other data through it. Is there something I need to enable in a firewall? Or in other options/conf files

Temperature Fun and Games

2011-05-31 Thread David Baron
Been getting these more than sporadically: [56765.480042] CPU1: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 426314) [56765.480069] CPU0: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 426314) [56765.481106] CPU1: Core temperature/speed normal

nvidia-glx-alternatives

2011-05-30 Thread David Baron
From Sid, version 270., is always coming up unconfigured. Otherwise, the Sid nvidia driver installation (using dkms) works 100% Alternatives are set up for the libGl.so.1 but NOT for libglx.so (referring to /usr/share/doc/libgl1-nvidia-glx/README.alternatives). I manually set that up,

Console Messed Up for Nvidia Drivers

2011-05-20 Thread David Baron
This is a very long-standing problem for both the proprietary and Debian Nvidia drivers, legacy and current: When switching out of X (i.e. control/alt/F1), the console font is quite large and the lower half of each line appears doubled under the line. (In contrast, Nouveau gives a small screen

libglx-nvidial-alternatives

2011-05-19 Thread David Baron
I installed the Debian nvidia dkms packages. Very nicely done, offered to an uninstalled nvidia's proprietary install and with the magic of dkms, voile. The thing works 100% !! But I get the following error: dpkg: error processing libglx-nvidia-alternatives (--configure): subprocess installed

Re: Crippled Xorg

2011-05-18 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 13 Iyar 5771 23:15:12 David Baron wrote: Latest of Sid comes up with keyboard and mouse disabled. In other words, no logons either! Unplugging and replugging the USB mouse reactivated the mouse. So I borrowed a USB keyboard from a friend and plugged that in and I am in an using

Crippled Xorg

2011-05-17 Thread David Baron
Latest of Sid comes up with keyboard and mouse disabled. In other words, no logons either! Unplugging and replugging the USB mouse reactivated the mouse. So I borrowed a USB keyboard from a friend and plugged that in and I am in an using it right now. Xorg log has strange new message to the

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread David Baron
I had this happen with recent xorg update from Sid. Log said that (proprietary) Nvidia driver was no longer compatable with the new Xorg version. So I ran its installer (version 260) with update which downloaded and installed version 270 (but did not keep that installer!) and this works fine.

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-05-14 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 10 Iyar 5771 15:26:42 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to edit them into the conf file. Commented out, got listening errors

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread David Baron
Knoppix can be installed to a hard drive, but that is not recommended, and I can confirm it is unmaintainable. You throw it away and install the next version. Some people claim this is also necessary with Ubuntu. I started with Knoppix, liked it, did the HD install. Was just fine. Until I

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid (SOLVED)

2011-05-02 Thread David Baron
Problems were caused by combination of old conf file and the new conf.d files which were not removed on downgrade. I re-upgraded to the Sid packages, taking the new maintainer's conf files when asked. Then had to configure from scratch. Finally have it working. 1. New and old config files

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-04-30 Thread David Baron
On Friday 25 Nisan 5771 16:39:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to edit them into the conf file. Commented out, got listening errors

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-04-30 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 26 Nisan 5771 22:59:04 David Baron wrote: On Friday 25 Nisan 5771 16:39:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to edit

Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-04-29 Thread David Baron
Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to edit them into the conf file. Commented out, got listening errors for various 9## ports. So I downgraded to the testing version and used a backed up conf

Re: Anyone using recoll in wheezy or sid?

2011-04-23 Thread David Baron
I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the results. (...) Not using recoll here, but there are some bugs for it:

Isapnp.conf

2011-04-21 Thread David Baron
Isapnp startup script no longer works. The READPORT fails to read the isapnp port number due to resource conflict. (READPORT 0x0213) Only a limited range can be entered here and the one I placed was shown on the /proc/ioports file. There are two, the one labeled as write is outside the

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-04-15 Thread David Baron
On Friday 15 April 2011 09:41:19 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version: 190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31). Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. Any

Newfangled Dialtone Problems

2011-04-13 Thread David Baron
Finally got my modem (an old analog ISA modem--no PCI modem seems to work at all) going again by disabling both on-board serial ports. So I am back to where I was ... no dial tone. The phone line is VOIP through an ADSL modem -- Audiocodes media server box. The Audiocodes gives an ethernet to

Re: 2.6.38 kernel offered this morning, but not this afternoon?

2011-04-12 Thread David Baron
I have noticed that while sources and common of 2.6.38 up to -3 are upgraded normally in apt, the linux-image is not. The -2 and -3 packages are there but the linux-image is not upgraded. I would have to manually install -3 and optionally remove -1 (if it be safe to do so). -- To

pnpdump, isapnp, and isapnp.conf

2011-03-27 Thread David Baron
With new MB, I can no longer access my older, analog phone line modem. The isapnp startup had an older isapnp.conf file. I assume one uses pnpdump to make a new one with the correct ISAPNP port. I found an address 0213 in the /proc/ioports and I seem to get a sensible conf file using this.

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-03-13 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 27 February 2011 21:58:47 David Baron wrote: On Sunday 20 February 2011 21:42:29 David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-27 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 February 2011 21:42:29 David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: For several days

To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-23 Thread David Baron
I am currently running Sid, 32-bit with recent i686 32 bit kernels. Here is my cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):2 Thread(s) per core:2 Core(s) per socket:1 CPU socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-20 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the following

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-16 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the following error and can no longer run anything in apt, update

Apt Crippled

2011-02-12 Thread David Baron
For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the following error and can no longer run anything in apt, update or upgrading: Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-12 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the following error and can no longer run anything in apt, update or upgrading: Reading package lists... Error! E:

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-12 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the following error and can no longer run anything in apt, update

Problem Accessing Phone Modem

2011-01-27 Thread David Baron
On a Sid system after upgrading to a newer MB, neither minicom nor my speakerphone plasma applet can access my modem (older analog Rockwell chip), tried both my old ISA and a newer PCI card, same result. I am letting BIOS setup use the default or normal options for the serial ports. There are

Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
I get: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA disk on my system. This is dual core (P4 by hyperthreading?) intel cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):

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