Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:06:28AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > I'm happy with my i5 ThinkPad T410 with Intel HD Graphics. > > I have problems with the Realtek 8191SE wireless network > device. The Realtek driver built but didn't appear to > support scanning for wirele

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Joel Roth
to get ndiswrapper working.) To get better video performance, I ended up compiling Intel's Xorg video driver (xf86-video-intel). Shrinking the Windows 7 partition was awkward, although it looks like Partition Wizard (based on Linux =) will handle this task easily. Cheers, -- Joel Rot

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:11:49AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: > > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look > > to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? > > Something seems broken. Probably broken rather than blocking. >

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:06:41PM +, Camale??n wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:37 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look to you like > > my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? > > (...) > > To discar

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:26:37AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi all, > > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look > to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? At any rate, I can easily work around the issue by adding the entries I need to /etc/hosts. -

nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-30 Thread Joel Roth
I_19:e6:be (f0:de:f1:19:e6:be) Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1), Dst: 192.168.0.105 (192.168.0.105) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: domain (53), Dst Port: 59945 (59945) Domain Name System (response) Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-22 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:25:37AM +, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 18 January 2011 01:50:31 Joel Roth wrote: > > Depending on your needs, and if the GUI waveform display isn't so important > > you may like to experiment with Nama. (Nama does have a simple > > Tk UI

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-17 Thread Joel Roth
haves reasonably well. You can also easily update to the latest/greatest version from github. http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html Cheers, Joel (Nama author) -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

imapget: an IMAP mail download and filter script

2010-12-31 Thread Joel Roth
er Trash folder - logging What it doesn't do out of the box: - spam filtering - POP3 Other considerations: - no config files - all configuration is by editing the source code Acknowledgment: based on the popget script by Simon Cozens Cheers (and wishing you a Happy New Year) -- Joel Roth

Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-13 Thread Joel Roth
47 HPFS/NTFS > -- > Stan > > > -- > 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/4d06aefa.6070...@hardwarefreak.com > -- Joel Roth -- 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/20101214040331.gb7...@sprite

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:17:42PM -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 12/13/2010 01:12 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > >Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root > >permissions? > > > >I see there is an 'lp' group and user. > > Within the narrow context

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Joel Roth
the first thing that I tried. but I got a 404 forbidden. Tried > > twice then gave up. > > You should investigate that point further, it is important to have a > working CUPS web interface as most of the common task rely on it. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > >

Re: Compiling ndiswrapper module (Realtek rtl8192se wireless) (Solved!)

2010-12-11 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 09:18:24AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > However, "iwconfig wlan1 scan" succeeds! :-p Sorry that should be: iwlist wlan1 scan Also, wpa_supplicant does not appear to work for this driver. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Compiling ndiswrapper module (Realtek rtl8192se wireless) (Solved!)

2010-12-11 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:04:10PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:26:12AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a new Thinkpad T410 i5. > > > > The T410 come with a Realtek rtl8192se mini PCI express > > wirele

Re: User stylesheets with mozilla browsers

2010-12-11 Thread Joel Roth
cript program in a bookmark that you click on to reformat a site. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ -- Joel Roth -- 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/2010123535.ga6...@sprite

Re: Compiling ndiswrapper module (Realtek rtl8192se wireless)

2010-12-11 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:26:12AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a new Thinkpad T410 i5 to replace my Toshiba L305D > series with Turion x64. (The latter was promising, but > tended to overheat, even when I fixed the CPU speed at > 1GHz.) > >

Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

2010-12-09 Thread Joel Roth
ll. I've always thought it good etiquette to ask on the list *before* filing a bug report. > J. > -- > I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised > landscapes. > [Agree] [Disagree] > <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/da

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:50:52AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:24:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > A month ago, I disabled N

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Joel Roth
ser-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tyiom5j0@turtle.gmx.de > -- Joel Roth -- 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/20101209075653.ga10...@sprite

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Joel Roth
No one else has mentioned it: chmod a-x /etc/init.d/script-name Works for me :-) Cheers -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Automount without desktop

2010-12-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:30:53AM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 06. 12. 2010 00:32:03 je Joel Roth napisal(a): > >Hi all, > > > >I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations > >I do to be somewhat tedious. > > > >Can I get some reasonable a

Automount without desktop

2010-12-05 Thread Joel Roth
ut it seems impossible that someone else could not have done it before. As I write, I'm thinking of something simpleminded, like creating UUID fstab entries for each device, and having a cron job 'mount -a' everyone every 10 second or so. Let me know! Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth

Re: Exim 4 appends CR to subject line

2010-12-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:46:08PM +, Camale??n wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:09:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > The subject line says it all. > > > > I think having ^M show up in my mutt display looks dorky, and would like > > to configure my way out of t

Exim 4 appends CR to subject line

2010-12-05 Thread Joel Roth
Hi all, The subject line says it all. I think having ^M show up in my mutt display looks dorky, and would like to configure my way out of this, if possible. Any ideas where to poke around? Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Compiling ndiswrapper module (Realtek rtl8192se wireless)

2010-11-30 Thread Joel Roth
to be able to use the xorg driver for the Intel HD Graphics chip. Also, does anyone know why ndiswrapper is not in the mainline kernel? Thanks! Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-27 Thread Joel Roth
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528365 This solution is: apt-get install vlc-plugin-sdl vlc -V sdl somefile.avi If this works, you can set the driver in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc: # Video output module (string) vout=sdl Let me know if it helps. Ch

Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

2010-11-26 Thread Joel Roth
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sid: 'git command' works but not 'git-command'

2010-10-29 Thread Joel Roth
Is there any configuration option for this, or do I need to create a bunch of aliases? Thanks. I wonder who decided to make this change. Is it a Debian or a git decision? Or perhaps a bug? 'man git-merge' is present, but not executable 'git-merge'. Thanks. -- Joel Roth

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-07 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:54:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:06:28 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > > > I'm not using it! The above linux-image package invokes it. > > > > I never asked for it. If I remove yaird, the linux-image packa

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:35:05AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-05 09:06 +0200, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:51:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > >> The yaird package appears to be unmaintained and broken. Why are you > >

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:51:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-05 08:11 +0200, Joel Roth wrote: > > > This problem has been dogging me for months. > > I have a different, working kernel, but each apt-get install > > is delayed as apt-get tries to configure >

sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-04 Thread Joel Roth
cript. Can someone help me hack it to throw away the 't' option. According to man update-initramfs, -t is not that important to me: -t Allows to take over an custom initramfs with a newer one. Thanks! -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:55:22AM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > FWIW, another way to adjust brightness is by using a > > shell script or alias. This command cuts brightness to 25%. > > > > ---cut--- > > >

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Joel Roth
FWIW, another way to adjust brightness is by using a shell script or alias. This command cuts brightness to 25%. ---cut--- sudo sh -c "echo 25 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness" ---cut--- There are only certain fixed steps that are allowable. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Mini system...What image to use?

2010-09-18 Thread Joel Roth
kernel, you can choose a more specific processor option: CONFIG_MVIAC7 -- Joel Roth -- 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/20100918201825.ga20...@sprite

Debian on Dell Inspiron 15 or 15R laptops?

2010-09-12 Thread Joel Roth
ibook nor toshiba drivers have helped with this. I'm aware Dell offers Ubuntu on one flavor of Inspiron 15, however the processor is T6600 instead of the newer, more efficient and powerful i5 series. Regards, -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

dhclient.conf: prepend domain-name-servers doesn't influence resolv.conf

2010-09-07 Thread Joel Roth
the 'domain' and 'search' fields affect my system's behavior. Can anyone comment on why dhclient.conf doesn't influence the resolv.conf after a networking restart? Kind regards, Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:14:56AM +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:58:21 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > [...] > What video card/driver are you using? > -- > Rares Aioanei The card is: lspci | grep -i radeon 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Tec

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: > Hey, > > On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:20:51 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > Thanks for checking this out! > > > > Console *does* VT switching correctly under a stock 2.6.31-1-amd64 > > kernel. (But

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
e FTF. -j > Regards, > Andrei -- Joel Roth -- 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/20100904190356.gb5...@sprite

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:35:28PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: > > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > > drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > >

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:35:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should > >&g

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > > > FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). > > I wonder about the 'loading firmware

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:22:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Here's what happening. > > > > After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) > > >

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hello all, > > Here's what happening. > > After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) > > After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) > > A little later: no display in con

sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
based boot process using insserv. I've been using a self-compiled amd64 kernel with 32-bit userland. No such problems before insserv. Thanks for any possible leads. I have no idea where to even start. thanks, Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: sid: Packages held back during upgrade

2010-08-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > >I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages > >were held back. [snip] > apt-get dist-upgrade Thanks missed that. As usual, RTFM (man apt-get). Funny tha

sid: Packages held back during upgrade

2010-08-29 Thread Joel Roth
stscript-x gimp gimp-data git git-core gitk gnome-keyring .. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 355 not upgraded. ------ -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: cron: different job different mail

2010-08-25 Thread Joel Roth
gt; http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ > > > -- > 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/i5

thttpd CGI pattern specified in thttpd.conf fails to match

2010-06-24 Thread Joel Roth
ot;It works!" Unless someone can point out something obvious I'm missing, I'll file this as a bug report. Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth -- 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/20100624104334.ga5...@sprite

Re: how execute command on every mail received

2010-06-17 Thread Joel Roth
er. > > please advice. > > Thanks > Joel Roth wrote: > I use a rudimentary perl script based on Net::POP3 and Email::Filter > to download and sort my messages from a POP3 mailbox. > > Similar code could also be placed in a forward file, i.e. launched > the same was a

Re: how execute command on every mail received

2010-06-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:33:47PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if there is a simple SMTP deamon. > This deamon will execute a specific command on every email received. > > I have a PHP program that will parse the email and > send SMS to specific mobile phone number thereafter.

Re: How to move Git commit to some branch?

2010-06-11 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:01:51PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 11/06/2010 10:16, Joel Roth wrote: > > After spending a couple years with git, I'm having to learn > > svn to maintain Debian packages. I find git to be much more > > powerful and flexible. I'm biased

Re: How to move Git commit to some branch?

2010-06-11 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:57:09AM +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:21:50PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:25:07AM +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I did a commit lately but figured

Re: How to move Git commit to some branch?

2010-06-10 Thread Joel Roth
h and I want to move it so it would > be 'son' of last commit in the master branch. Which command should I use? git-checkout master git-cherry-pick HTH Joel > > -- > Regards, > Alexander Batischev > > 1024D/69093C81 > F870 A381 B5F5 D2A1 1B35 4D63 A1A7 1C7

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-03 Thread Joel Roth
ere to twiddle. There are reports that the omnibook module will correctly handle Insyde H2O BIOS'ed notebook. Have yet to test here. Good luck, Joel > Thanks in advance, > -PT -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Toshiba Satellite Pro L305 Series overheating solved

2010-04-09 Thread Joel Roth
etting power-related parameters. Fan controls and other functions are reportedly available via the omnibook module. I have yet to test this, and no immediate need, having dealt with the biggest thorn. Regards, -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Iceweasel annoyance

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Roth
l+O > > hotkey), press "/", as if starting to enter an absoulte pathname. A > > Location textbox will appear, where you can middle-button-paste and > > tab-complete. > > Hey cool, I was not aware of this. Yes, I never noticed. I wonder if that is something n

Re: Iceweasel annoyance

2009-11-22 Thread Joel Roth
letion) any day! > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Scrunched display in VLC

2009-11-21 Thread Joel Roth
#x27;t help. My error message is: swScaler: Palette is not supported as output pixel format [0507] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler and/or allocate memory I just checked on the forum: closed, due to high traffic associated with 1.0.0 release. Please post if

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-11-12 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Brian C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: > > > Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs > > &

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-31 Thread Joel Roth
pacers so that vents underside can get more airflow. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Cannot load module toshiba_acpi.ko

2009-10-09 Thread Joel Roth
that I will have to study my hardware in detail to override the default DSDT. Beyond my initiative at present, however I did find a website that describes some of the intricacies. http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php Hope that helps. Joel > -- > Chris. > > >

Re: VLC sid upgrade loses color, has wrong aspect ratio (Solved!)

2009-08-25 Thread Joel Roth
Easy solution... Delete the .vlc directory in your home directory. VLC now keeps its config information in $HOME/.config/vlc/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=855394 -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure -- Solved!

2009-08-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:53:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-09 02:41, Joel Roth wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: >>>> I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my >>>> brother.

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

2009-08-09 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 12:06:31PM -0400, Jeff Soules wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my > >> brother. > >>

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

2009-08-09 Thread Joel Roth
Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:47:18 +0000 Joel Roth shared > this with us all: > >I have problems with basic configuration: > > > >Computer ---> Router ---> DSL modem > > I don't know anything about this kind of thing but will have a

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

2009-08-09 Thread Joel Roth
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: > > I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my > > brother. > > > > First of all, I get usual internet services without the > > router: > > > > Computer ---> DSL mo

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

2009-08-09 Thread Joel Roth
DHCP for the computer to get an IP address. When connected as follows: Computer --- DSL modem -- Internet the computer gets its other network settings via DHCP (whether Debian, XP or Mac OSX -- I tried all three!) I don't see why I would need any different settings. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSU

WRT54G WAN access failure

2009-08-07 Thread Joel Roth
router gets a pingable WAN address from the DSL modem. However ping google.com returns 'unknown host' ping 74.125.45.100 (google.com) returns 'destination unreachable' Resetting the router to factory defaults doesn't help. Any ideas for what to try? Thanks. Joel -- J

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-12 Thread Joel Roth
nice -20 command 2. Don't run other CPU-intensive processes -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-07-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:23:37PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 30. 06. 2009 09:26:39 je Joel Roth napisal(a): > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:08:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:39 +0000 > > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > > >

Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-06-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:42:13PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a Toshiba Satellite L305 series laptop running sid >> with a recent, stock kernel: Linux version 2.6.26-1-686 >> (Debian 2.6.26-10). >> >> I am

Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-06-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:08:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:39 + > Joel Roth wrote: > > ... > > > My wireless network interface is present: > > > > $ iwconfig wlan0 > > > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:""

Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-06-29 Thread Joel Roth
d a server. Am I missing something? What could I try next? I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problem using alsa and ladspa

2009-06-09 Thread Joel Roth
. AR242x > > 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > > > > [parant...@labda: ~]$ cat ~/.asoundrc > > pcm.azalia_hw { > >        type hw > >        card 0 > >        device 0 > > } > > > > pcm.azalia_dmix { > >        type dm

Re: gspca driver on debian sid (amd64)

2009-06-02 Thread Joel Roth
tooltip called tip - acap off ** Message: SET PIC ** Message: SET PIC update_tooltip called tip - acap off Unable to capture image (VIDIOCSYNC) Any suggestions on troubleshooting/testing? Thanks, Joel > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian |

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-31 Thread Joel Roth
minate the Xorg server. When > this option is enabled, that key sequence has no special meaning > and is passed to clients. Default: off. Yes, 'man xorg.conf' or 'man xorg' would have found it for me. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,29.May.09, 08:26:53, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for > > me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. >

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Roth
ch of window managers. Thanks. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:28:42PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi debmasters, > > I thought I'd give the Webkit based Midori browser > a try, and ran into a dependency problem. > > I've got libwebkit. > > ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.1.7-1

Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-26 Thread Joel Roth
help here. Any other suggestions? Thanks -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Joel Roth
pt, ogg2mp3. I haven't compared other methods. This does get the tags. It depends on a couple of utilities. Looks like you will still need to write a script to recurse through all your music directories. HTH -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: SPAMMED

2009-05-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:09:56PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > Why are we getting spammed from this debian.asconix.com?? What? do you mean the StumpWM? I'm interested to know about it. cheers, -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-18 Thread Joel Roth
> NIC, Printer, etc) are all working well. > > What should I post to help pinpoint the audio and video issues? > (I'm used to setting up servers vs. desktops and have only had issues > like this when sata was not quite segregated from ide on some > motherboards...) > TIA,

Re: No console from X

2009-05-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:01:44PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 14:15:52 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:45:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:26:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > On S

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:45:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:26:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > On S

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pretty much the same symptoms. > &g

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pretty much the same symptoms. > I'll be grateful for any eyeballs/suggestions. I'm running a recent Toshiba laptop. The black screen chvt 1 problem hits when I use an external m

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Joel Roth
ble CRTC memreq 1 success Enable CRTC 1 success Unblank CRTC 1 success (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded > > ls /dev/fb* Nothing $ grep -E 'VESA|NVIDIA|RADEON' /boot/config-$(uname -r) CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_FB_UVESA=m CONFIG_FB_VESA=y

Re: VLC sid upgrade loses color, has wrong aspect ratio

2009-05-12 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:58:23PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:12 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > I'm using the VLC packages for sid/i386 from debian-multimedia.org. > > Are you sure? AFAIK, debian-multimedia doesn't contain vlc any more. > Wha

VLC sid upgrade loses color, has wrong aspect ratio

2009-04-18 Thread Joel Roth
er sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 [swscaler @ 0x8a887e0]using unscaled yuv420

Re: From x86 to x86-64

2009-02-15 Thread Joel Roth
it linux image, change my sources.list file to amd64 > and do > a dist-upgrade? If at all possible, I'd recommend your installing 64-bit debian in a separate partition. That way, you can go back to your operational 32-bit system if need be, and have a way to troubleshoot 32/64 bit issue

Re: locale broken

2009-02-14 Thread Joel Roth
LANG in /etc/environment along these lines: > > LANG="en.US.UTF-8" > > No. Use "dpkg-reconfigure locales" instead. Would you care to explain your rationale for this? Is it merely the debian way, or are there other ramifications? > -- > Chris. -- Joel Roth

Re: converting ms word files

2009-02-11 Thread Joel Roth
.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ICH10 (Intel 82801)

2009-02-08 Thread Joel Roth
can tell you how to easily map the lsmod listing to the actual configuration in the kernel source .config file. HTH Joel > regards, > > William > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: device UUID versus /dev

2009-02-08 Thread Joel Roth
subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 24 bit usb sound on lenny

2009-02-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:55:36PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Joel! > > Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:54:41PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Hallo all! > >> > >> On switching my usb sound c

Re: 24 bit usb sound on lenny

2009-02-07 Thread Joel Roth
e 26 usb sound card. It features a switch to > change it's audio quality settings for 16 bit/48 kHz, 24/48, 24/96. > > My modprobe settings to load it as card 0: > > $ more /etc/modprobe.d/sound > alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio > options snd-usb-audio index=0 >

Re: hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only.

2009-02-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:41:02PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21:36PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Goal: Trying to use rythmbox with my "Apple" iPod (hfsplus) > > > > I am reading this: > > http://blog.raamdev.com/2008/11

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