wLAN interface recognised, wicd won't co-operate (plz CC!)

2012-04-18 Thread Jason Filippou
Please keep in mind that there is no issue about hardware malfunctions or the network being unavailable, because my Windows partition logs into the network without any problems. Kindly CC me as I'm not subscribed on the list, Jason -- Jason Filippou Research Associate NCSR Demokritos http

[SOLVED]: Re: wLAN interface recognised, wicd won't co-operate (plz CC!)

2012-04-18 Thread Jason Filippou
And done. Marking this solved. Thanks a million Brian. Jason On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Wed 18 Apr 2012 at 12:40:42 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: [Tale about a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG snipped.] I have included wlan0 under wicd

Re: Frequent weezy freezes on amd64 architecture (possibly KDE-related)?

2011-06-25 Thread Jason Filippou
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Marc Ronell mron...@verizon.net wrote: Jason == Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com writes:    Jason Hello all, I have just completed a fresh installation of    Jason debian wheezy, architecture amd64, with KDE included and    Jason I've been

Frequent weezy freezes on amd64 architecture (possibly KDE-related)?

2011-06-23 Thread Jason Filippou
GNOME installation unfeasible, so I'm looking towards a solution that would keep KDE on my system. Any further information required of me will be happily provided. Please CC me as I am on a list subscriber. Thanks a million, Jason -- Jason Filippou http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06142

SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Filippou http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06142 -- 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/AANLkTik-ucu=VZ_J1v4o3=n-ee3dcftvhfidwndzh

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after recent updates, logging

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net  wrote: On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Filippou
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 04:28 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net  wrote: On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron

X gone

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Filippou
error: no screens found. . . . xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Thanks for any help, as I'm not sure what to do here. Please do CC me as I am not on the list. -- Jason Filippou http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06142

[SOLVED] Re: X gone

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Filippou
for that kernerl installed) that I had and everything runs smootlhy now. Really sorry once again, Jason On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I was having some trouble running openGL in my Debian testing, 2.6.32-5-686 kernel version system. I

Remove a printer device URI

2010-10-15 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I run Debian Squeeze and recently bought a new HP Deskjet printer. It has installed just fine through hplip and the test page looks good. I was just wondering whether it could be possible for me to get rid of the URI instance of my previous Business Inkjet 1000 printer. If I run hp-check

Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko' in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel

2010-07-18 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I just installed the new 2.6.32-5-686 kernel and I've been having trouble installing the NVIDIA linux display driver. Usually this process required of me only to download the linux-headers for the relevant kernel release and then running the shell script provided by NVIDIA on their

[SOLVED] Re: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko' in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel

2010-07-18 Thread Jason Filippou
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com wrote: ... Which steps should I follow to compile the NVIDIA driver into the new kernel? Are you using squeeze ? If so I would

Re: περιττά πακέτα

2010-06-23 Thread Jason Filippou
2010/6/23 d.a.glynos gly...@storm.cs.unipi.gr: Καλημέρα σε όλους,  warning   Το παρόν email περιέχει κυρίως γκρίνια.   You have been warned..  /warning Με ποιο σκεπτικό το apt εγκαθιστά *by default* τα recommended dependencies ενός πακέτου; Για πόσο καιρό ακόμη θα πρέπει να κάνουμε

Re: περιττά πακέτα

2010-06-23 Thread Jason Filippou
2010/6/23 d.a.glynos gly...@storm.cs.unipi.gr: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Jason Filippou wrote: Γεια χαρά, Χωρίς να είμαι σίγουρος ότι απαντάω την ερώτηση, το aptitude (και όχι το apt αυτό καθ' εαυτώ)  δεν εγκαθιστά από μόνα του recommended packages που βασίζονται σε αυτά που εγκαθιστάς. Και

Re: Simple dual boot - grun issue

2010-06-22 Thread Jason Filippou
I did install os-prober as directed and reran update-grub, and I'd like to note the following output when I ran os-prober itself: ja...@debian:~$ sudo os-prober [sudo] password for root: ls: cannot access /media/win: Input/output error ls: cannot access /media/win: Input/output error ls: cannot

Simple dual boot - grub issue

2010-06-21 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I have had a laptop wearing Linux solely over the last few years and today I decided I'd install a Windows partition on it, with aim to dual boot. After preparing an NTFS partition by using the gparted live CD, I installed Windows 7 on the newly created partition. Thus, so far I have

Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Filippou
Hi, I've been trying to set my PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables so that they point to my JDK's bin and some Java source files respectively and this is what I've written in my .profile file: # PATH should also include the latest jdk bin directory

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #835

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Filippou
You did log out and log back in, right? Your .profile is only read on=20 login. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze

2010-05-01 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did was follow the instructions outlined here: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz And

Re: glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze

2010-05-01 Thread Jason Filippou
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Andrea Neroni hellnote01-deb...@yahoo.itwrote: Hello, I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did

Re: [Fwd: Re: Conversion of Greek to UTF-8?]

2010-04-13 Thread Jason Filippou
Hai guise whats goin on in this thread On 4/13/10, Thanos Kyritsis dj...@linux.gr wrote: On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Eleni-Maria Stea wrote: Τώρα εσείς οι super-προγραμματισταράδες μας που ακούσατε ανοιχτός κώδικας και νομίζατε ότι σημαίνει ανοιχτός κώδικας προγραμματισμού να μάθετε

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-23 Thread Jason Filippou
Hi, As requested, here's the output pf lspci -nn | grep -i ether: 03:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8167] (rev 10) The output of lspci -n is: 00:00.0 0600: 8086:29a0 (rev 02) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:29a1 (rev 02) 00:1a.0

Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Filippou
Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility is concerned. Are there ethernet adapters out there that have incompatibility problems with Debian or Linux in general? I know that

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Filippou
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Aioanei Rares debian.dev.l...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #504

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Filippou
Has this card worked for you with Linux in the past?  Or is this a fresh install? It's been working for me well for both Windows and Linux for a certain amount of months. Over the last few weeks I've been having trouble connecting to my router and have been seeing abnormal behavior from the

Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-05 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website (195.36.08, URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_195.36.08.html), which I understand covers many more GPUs than my GT220 causes X to

KDE session dead

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, After updating my debian squeeze box yesterday I'm having trouble logging into my KDE session. More specifically, after I choose KDE from the available sessions from kdm, the kde splash screen begins loading but then I get a white screen followed by a completely black screen, with

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #364

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Filippou
I have no idea on how kdeglobals is recreated, but the culprit may in whatever recreates it. That' s why, in my case moving away both .kde and .kde4 did work. Now, maybe moving only one of the 2 should have be sufficient, but I did not want to spend to much time on it. Thierry Apparently the

Cmake error: Could NOT find KdepimLibs (missing: KdepimLibs_CONFIG)

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I've been following the steps outlined here http://kopete.kde.org/svnaccess.php To gain SVN access to kopete and I'm copying and pasting the commands in the first box. I'm having trouble getting past the cmake ../kdenetwork command, though. This is the error I'm getting:

Re: Cmake error: Could NOT find KdepimLibs (missing: KdepimLibs_CONFIG)

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Filippou
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, simozack simoz...@yahoo.it wrote: 2010/2/1 Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com: I've installed kdepimlibs-dbg and this can be viewed here: Maybe you need the development libraries (kdepimlibs-dev) not the debug version... HTH, Simone Hello Simone

Re: Cmake error: Could NOT find KdepimLibs (missing: KdepimLibs_CONFIG)

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I've been following the steps outlined here http://kopete.kde.org/svnaccess.php To gain SVN access to kopete and I'm copying and pasting the commands in the first box. I'm having trouble getting past the cmake ../kdenetwork command, though. This is the error I'm getting:

Nvidia GT220 inquiry

2010-01-29 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I haven't upgraded my Testing partition in at least two weeks, in order to avoid any problems with the new linux kernel in a period of time that I needed a well-functioning computer for my exams. Right now I'm a bit more relaxed as far as my schedule goes so I was thinking of upgrading to

Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

2009-12-19 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody (including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue mode was installing

AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze

2009-12-13 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, Having added debian -multimedia to my /etc/apt/sources.list I experimented to see whether I had native support for most audio codecs and encoders. Running the popular audio format conversion program 'soundconverter' I realized I wasn't able to encode into AAC format, even though I had

Flash/AVI/Skype sound issue in Squeeze

2009-11-18 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I'm having trouble with my sound in a rather fresh Testing box on KDE. Before I lay down the situation, let me clarify that I have googled, rather extensively, in pursuit of a solution to my problem, yet I have not found a solution that solves my problem. So, instead of turning my

Re: Flash/AVI/Skype sound issue in Squeeze

2009-11-18 Thread Jason Filippou
Hi, I got a similar problem having a web cam with integrated microphone. Restarting the computer with the web cam unplugged would bring back the sound in iceweasel. Blacklisting snd_usb_audio in alsa-base-blacklist.conf did solve the problem, in a not too nice way, but it did what I wanted.

Πρόβλημα με ελληνικά fonts στο Testing

2009-11-16 Thread Jason Filippou
Καλημέρα, Αντιμετωπίζω ένα πρόβλημα με τα ελληνικά fonts στο debian. Συγκεκριμένα, ενώ αυτή τη στιγμή που γράφω το παρόν μήνυμα όλα φαίνονται μια χαρά και θα φαίνονται ακόμα και αν σώσω το draft, σε πολλές περιπτώσεις, όπως αυτή που φαίνεται στο παρακάτω screenshot:

Re: Πρόβλημα με ελληνικά fonts σ το Testing

2009-11-16 Thread Jason Filippou
2009/11/17 Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com: Καλημέρα, Αντιμετωπίζω ένα πρόβλημα με τα ελληνικά fonts στο debian. Συγκεκριμένα, ενώ αυτή τη στιγμή που γράφω το παρόν μήνυμα όλα φαίνονται μια χαρά και θα φαίνονται ακόμα και αν σώσω το draft, σε πολλές περιπτώσεις, όπως αυτή που

HP Business Inkjet 100 installation on Squeeze

2009-11-16 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, Would anyone happen to know of a way to install said printer on Testing? I have installed the hplip, hpijs and printconf packages and I get the following when running printconf ja...@debian:~$ sudo printconf Configuring HP Business Inkjet 1000 on usb:/dev/usb/lp0 with hpijs driver as

Re: Ctrl Alt F11 gives me trouble

2009-11-14 Thread Jason Filippou
Never having fully understood what the trouble was, I achieved to solve the grief produced by playing with the kde fonts through system settings and, of course, uninstalling pulseaudio, which I had thought to have been already uninstalled. Thank you all for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Ctrl Alt F11 gives me trouble

2009-11-13 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a prompt I couldn't propery interact with, and then I hit cltr alt delete to restart my system. When I logged into my Debian partition, I realized that the

Flash player gives me no audio

2009-11-08 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I have a fresh Squeeze installation on my main desktop and it was all running smooth, except for the fact that flash player wouldn't play any sounds for me through both Konqueror and Iceweasel. I'm using KDE. All other sounds were operating correctly, which means that I could hear

Re: Απώλεια ήχου από web browsers στ ο squeeze

2009-11-06 Thread Jason Filippou
2009/11/7 Gregory Potamianos gregpu...@gmail.com: 2009/11/7 Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com: [...] Στόχος: Να αποκτήσω ήχο στις flash εφαρμογές του web. Δες αν ο χρήστης σου είναι στο group audio. Αν όχι πρόσθεσέ τον, ξανακάνε login στον wm σου και δοκίμασε. ja...@debian:~$ sudo

Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I was executing aptitude update and noticed the followin output after a sequence of 'hit's, 'ign's and 'get's: Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-02-1520.49.pdiff [18.3kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Jason Filippou
When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so they feel like a big shot; when most of the answers have

MySQL client in Squeeze

2009-10-07 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, The following is aptitude output when I try to resolve the dependencies associated with mysql-client5.1: Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y The following NEW packages will be installed: mysql-client mysql-client-5.1{a} mysql-server-5.1{a} The following packages will be REMOVED:

Grub: error 15

2009-09-26 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I assume this has probably been mentioned before, with all the grub legacy discussion going on, but here's my situation anyways: I have Debian Testing installed on my hp paviliion dv6000 notebook and executed the command upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After that, when I rebooted my system, I

Re: Debian καi mono

2009-08-01 Thread Jason Filippou
Καλησπέρα, Με συγχωρείτε για την απουσία μου από τη στιγμή που έγραψα στο thread αλλά ήμουν στην επαρχία και αδυνατούσα να ακολουθήσω τη λίστα από το κινητό, ήταν πολύ challenging ακόμα και για μένα. Θα ήθελα να ξεκαθαρίσω ότι καθαρά και μόνο από προδιάθεση ούτε εγώ θα ήθελα το συγκεκριμένο

Re: Εγχειρίδιο για debian sys-admins?

2009-07-23 Thread Jason Filippou
/egxeiridia-gia-debian Και μια αναζήτηση στο google έχει άπειρους οδηγούς για κάθε εργασία με Debian Στις 23 Ιούλιος 2009 2:40 μμ, ο χρήστης Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com έγραψε: Καλησπέρα, Πρόσφατα είχα μια επικοινωνία με έναν εργοδότη σχετικά με μια δουλειά που έχει να κάνει με network

Re: Μετάβαση από Ubuntu σε Debian

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Filippou
Καλησπέρα, Η άποψή μου δεν είναι ιδιαίτερα βαρύνουσας σημασίας γιατί η επαφή μου με το Linux δεν είναι στα επίπεδα άλλων μελών της λίστας (απλό home use για coding και studying για το πανεπιστήμιο, καμία επαφή με server set-up and maintenance). Παρ' όλ' αυτά, έχοντας ξεκινήσει από openSUSΕ και

Re: Μετάβαση από Ubuntu σε Debian

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Filippou
) corf...@elementality.org: Jason Filippou wrote: Καλησπέρα, Η άποψή μου δεν είναι ιδιαίτερα βαρύνουσας σημασίας γιατί η επαφή μου με το Linux δεν είναι στα επίπεδα άλλων μελών της λίστας (απλό home use για coding και studying για το πανεπιστήμιο, καμία επαφή με server set-up and maintenance

Kopete won't render BBCode

2009-06-18 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I'm running KDE version 4.2.4 and Kopete version 0.70.4. It seems that the app is unable to render any kind of BBCode. All the b, i c etc tags are in place. I used to solve the same problem in emesene via installation of a windows live - like plugin (probably non-free, I believe), yet

'mktemp' testing package dependency

2009-06-16 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, Over the last few days aptitude in my testing system detects an unsolved package dependency, concerning the package 'mktemp'. Here's the output of full-upgrade: ja...@debian:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

Correct sudoers file configuration

2009-05-26 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, When I first installed squeeze on my system, and being oblivious as to the presence of any sudoers file in general, I asked a friend to help me with the setting up of the sudoers file. I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that the configuration applied might be flawed, since whenever I'm

Meaning of score when looking for package solutions

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, Being new to Debian and running Squeeze I'm curious as to what the Score is x line's supposed to mean when examining solutions to solve package dependences through aptitude. I noticed that the value of x may differ greatly from one solution to another. I appreciate any input, Jason

Re: Meaning of score when looking for package solutions

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Filippou
Daniel Burrows the maintainer of aptitude is a member of this list. Perhaps he might find some time to respond. I did look into the same question a while back. I believe what it comes down to is the lower the score of the solution the better. Although I could be wrong about that. I took

Proper ncurses package

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Filippou
Greetings, To spice up a uni assignment I have the option to use the ncurses library. However, I'm not at all sure that anything related to it is installed in my Squeeze system, since the command 'man ncurses' brings up nothing (or, to be more precise, an error message). When I connect to my

Re: Βασικό setup γραφικών σε Squeeze ;

2009-05-19 Thread Jason Filippou
2009/5/19 Jason Filippou jason.filip...@gmail.com 2009/5/19 Apollon Oikonomopoulos apol...@noc.grnet.gr Ιάσων Φιλίππου wrote: είναι η Intel Mobile 945. Μήπως πρέπει να κάνω κάποια ρύθμιση σχετική με 3D Acceleration; Κάποιο πακέτο σχετικό με openGL; Στο ubuntu που έτρεχα μέχρι πρόσφατα το