Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:51, mustard lee wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [snip] One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark' packages that I have accidently marked when uses the

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade wants to install 695 new packages

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 21:27, John O'Hagan wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:59, rs wrote: [...] In other words, upgrade will hold back any package whose new version has new dependencies or requires the removal of any package. Dist-upgrade will install any new dependencies and remove any

Re: Script to delete duplicate files

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:40, Curtis Vaughan wrote: When moving numerous messages from one IMAP folder to another it turns out that I now have multiple copies of many messages in my folder (that I moved everything too). Going to the server, I can see that there are are in fact multiple

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Justin Guerin
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chroot problem with grub

2006-04-13 Thread Justin Guerin
Hi, I've had to move my install to a new physical disk. I made an image of my two partitions (/boot and /), and they restored properly. Now, I only need to run grub-install to install the boot loader. When I boot from Knoppix, I can mount the / to /mnt/target, then mount /boot to

Re: chroot problem with grub

2006-04-13 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 13 April 2006 13:21, Philippe De Ryck wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:13 -0600, Justin Guerin wrote: Hi, [snip problem] Justin, I don't think it is necessary to chroot at all. The knoppix disk has grub on board, so you can use that command. The command also has a command

Re: filename prefixes while transfering images from memory cards

2006-04-05 Thread Justin Guerin
H.S. wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [snip] I am already quite familiar with this method. However, if I have large number of images in my memory card, it is much more convenient to see the images in a browser, select the ones belong to a specific group, and copy them over to the

Re: various parts of gnome up the creek

2006-04-05 Thread Justin Guerin
Adam Hardy wrote: hi fellow debian users I throw myself at your feet and grovel for help with the whole tedious mish-mash that has arisen while trying to set up libusb to run the hotsynch with my handheld. This is what went wrong: (1) suddenly the gnome window manager, menu and

Re: kernel upgrading problem

2006-04-01 Thread Justin Guerin
Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:22:54PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 06:42, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: [..] Btw, after dooing some hashal i installed the kernel 2.6.15-1-686 still cann't upgrade to 2.6.16-1-686 What is hashal? I've never

Re: Firefox always prints landscape

2006-03-31 Thread Justin Guerin
in just the one (remote, networked) HP LJ 4200 printer with which I'm concerned. All the settings that I can find indicate it should be printing portrait, on Letter paper. A test print from the cups web interface prints properly. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Justin Guerin

Re: SATA disk smart or not?

2006-03-31 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 31 March 2006 10:00, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I get contradictory messages about smart enabled for my SATA WD800JD-60LUA0. Running Sarge BTW. When I do hdparm -I /dev/sda, I get: = ATA device, with non-removable media Model

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-30 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 30 March 2006 08:01, Wulfy wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: Wulfy wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: [snip] mount: /dev/card_sm1 is not a valid block device when I try to mount it. Any ideas where I've gone wrong? If you need any more info, just ask. What does an ls -l /dev

Re: kernel upgrading problem

2006-03-29 Thread Justin Guerin
06:42, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: On 3/29/06, Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: After making dist upgrade from sarge to sid, when i tried to upgrade kernel 2.6.8-1-686 to 2.6.16-1-686 it's failed. Here is the output of apt tanha:/home/tania

Re: help needed to setup logrotate

2006-03-29 Thread Justin Guerin
Hello Peter, Peter Colton wrote: hello all, I would be gratefull for some help in how do I manage the log out put of a demon that I am running. The demon in question is Bttrack T-0.3.13 (BitTornado), running on a sarge install at home on a adsl line. The out put logs are

Re: apt-get install: x11-common vs xfree86-common: trying to overwrite /etc/X11/Xsession

2006-03-29 Thread Justin Guerin
it yourself. Aptitude won't let you proceed with conflicts, and it will suggest resolutions, so it should work. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel upgrading problem

2006-03-28 Thread Justin Guerin
S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: After making dist upgrade from sarge to sid, when i tried to upgrade kernel 2.6.8-1-686 to 2.6.16-1-686 it's failed. Here is the output of apt tanha:/home/tania# apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0

Re: Why does dpkg think my pentium computer is an AMD?

2006-03-27 Thread Justin Guerin
Peter Stoddard wrote: Thanks for the suggestions to my post: [snip] Here are some of the replies I received and additional questions I have: [snip] amd64 just means it's a 64 bit x86 architecture, since AMD beat Intel to the punch.  So, for example, a Pentium 4 with EM64T would

Re: Fujitsu N3410 Hd won't mount

2006-03-25 Thread Justin Guerin
Damon Randel wrote: Fujitsu N3410 Hd won't boot linux. I think that linux is seeing my ultra ata 100 as a scsi or sata device and can't use it. what kind of drivers or modules do i need to make this work (gory details below) . I've installed a couple of different distros on desktops and

Re: what kernel modules am I really using?

2006-03-25 Thread Justin Guerin
Javier Bernal wrote: Hello list, I want to know which of the modules that 'lsmod' shows I am currently using. lsmod shows 42 modules. Are all of them being used? Can I see which device is using which module? Thanks Your best bet here is to install the kernel documentation package.

Re: Etch and kvpnc

2006-03-25 Thread Justin Guerin
Grant Thomas wrote: I have need of connecting to a Cisco VPN server. On windows I can use the cisco VPN utility just fine; so it is not a connectivity issue. I have installed kvpnc and vpnc, so I should have all the packages I need. Also, I have transferred my *.pcf file from my windows

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-19 Thread Justin Guerin
Wulfy wrote: Thanks to all who answered. Much appreciated! Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: [snip] Progress! well, some. I did mkdir /media/card so that there'd be a directory there to attach to. I tried each of the possibilities: mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a-d] /media/card Mount

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Wulfy wrote: My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. I plugged it into one of my USB ports and it's recognised: Relevant bit

Re: uninstall desktop environment

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Jude DaShiell wrote: is there a quick way to clear the whole desktop environment from a debian system? The upgrade from stable to testing got several broken dependencies and apt-get -f install is unable to cope anymore. A broken pipe happened when xfree86-common tried to install and

Re: ndiswrapper for the best distro?

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Doofus wrote: I intended to give this a try to see if I can get a Netgear WG511v2 wireless LAN PC Card working. After downloading the small tar ball (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper) I noticed a top level debian directory. Highly promising you might think, but unless I'm

Re: Selective remote mail deletion

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
B.Hoffmann wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:52 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Depending on how comfortable you are with the command line, you could run this program: $ python popdel.py your.ISP's.pop your_username It asks you for a password, then displays From, Subj Date and asks you if

Re: Problem with 'esd' and changing users while using Gnome

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Dave Witbrodt wrote: Tonight I logged out from one user account and logged into another. When Gnome came up, there was no sound. I checked the volume, read some documentation, and eventually checked ~/.xsession-errors. I discovered that I was getting errors with the 'esd' sound daemon.

Re: Strange top output

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Simon wrote: Hi There, We are seeing a large spike in load average on our web server (from 0.xx to 10-15.xx) but there does not seem to be anything hogging the CPUs or anything... Am i missing something here? What can i do to check other issues. Thanks Simon [snip top output]

Re: getting ppp working

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Guerin
you used pppconfig? It should be apt-get installable. If that doesn't give you enough information / understanding, the linux documentation project has a HOWTO[0] that may prove insightful. Justin Guerin [0]: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/PPP-HOWTO/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: iptables wrong version?

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Guerin
Philip Mak wrote: I am trying to ban an IP address from my server (*.*.*.* is a real IP): [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ipchains -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP ipchains: Protocol not available [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP iptables

Re: Sarge nits: console resized, kernel vga parameter over-ridden, and dead keys.

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Guerin
s. keeling wrote: Hi. I have three niggling little problems I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm running stock Sarge on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with xserver-xfree86 (ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)), stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686. - At boot, my console window is resized down to a

Re: Sarge nits: console resized, kernel vga parameter over-ridden, and dead keys.

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Guerin
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Justin Guerin: s. keeling wrote: [snip] I believe this is due to your vga=x parameter. More on that below. - Part way through the boot sequence, something in /etc/init.d/console.sh (I assume) overrides my kernel command line parameter vga=2

Re: GXine crashes in fullscreen mode

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Guerin
posted mailed Aravind. R wrote: Hello I am using Gxine version 0.5.4 It crashes when I try to view in fullscreen mode. This is the message I get as soon as I open gxine: lirc: lirc_init failed. Make sure that you have lircd running lirc: and that you have the permissions to connect

Re: Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Guerin
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-03-11, 04:47:40 (-0800) skrifaði belahcene abdelkader: [snip] I dont know when the change from .o to .ko was made, maby that is confusing your dpkg -S search. .o was used in 2.4.x kernels, and .ko in 2.6.x. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, etc. don't work - relocation error.

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Guerin
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: I cannot use dpkg, wajig, apt-get--I always get a message: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol__libc_stack_end, version GLIB_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so2 with link time reference. I run Linux

Re: ls -l gives ?--------- and root has no permission

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Guerin
hanasaki wrote: Below is the output from root doing an ls -l of a specific file and of the directory... Anyone ever seen this before? a rebuild tree from a booted knoppix disk fixed things for awhile and now this is showing up again. thanks uname = 2.6.15.4 partition is reiser3.6

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Guerin
a couple of C++ ABI transitions, but I'm not currently aware of any more that are pending, so that's good. I'm sure others can fill in a lot more blanks than me. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mkinitrd problems

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Guerin
/mkinitrd. If you compiled sg, mtpspi and sd_mod into your kernel, then the modules can't be found. So remove the reference from the mkinitrd spec, and the image should build just fine. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: KDevelop crashing

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Guerin
David Bruce wrote: Over the last few days, KDevelop has started crashing a few seconds after I try to open it. I have been using it for months to work on tuxmath. I am running Sid with everything apt-get dist-upgraded to current versions. KDevelop is at version 4:3.3.0-2. Until today, I

Re: How to unregister gxine to play Real files in RealPlayer

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Guerin
B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi everybody, I've Googled for this but came up with nothing helpful - sorry if it's been answered before! Problem: I have until recently played real media files with gxine, which by the way did not play files embedded in the web page but always started an external

Re: Problem with pc, kernel oops, applications crashed

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Guerin
Michael Ott wrote: Hello! I have great problems with my box. Every ten minutes crashed an application and sometimes the hole box. It is an athlon 2200 Using stable with 2.6.8 and 2.4.27. Memtest run the hole night and show no error. Here snippet of lspci: :00:00.0 Host bridge:

Re: dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, etc. don't work - relocation error.

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Guerin
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: I cannot use dpkg, wajig, apt-get--I always get a message: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol__libc_stack_end, version GLIB_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so2 with link time reference. I run Linux version 2.4.27-2-586tsc (Debian

Re: apt pinning options?

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Guerin
Scott wrote: I've decided I'd like to try pinning. I read through apt_preferences(5) and the howtos on the web and I've still got a question. In the following example. I got Unofficial Multimedia Packages from the release file (http://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/sid/Release).

Re: Installing packages from source

2006-03-02 Thread Justin Guerin
of libgnomeprint-2.2 I've found is 2.12 and trying to install as a debian package would upgrade a lot of other libraries. I would like to upgrade to 2.10 only but have not found any debian package of that version. Have you looked on snapshot.debian.net? They should have older package versions. Justin

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: aptitude update aptitude upgrade on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable to

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 February 2006 11:51, Chris Lale wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] A couple of thoughts come to mind. I don't kow if they will help you. 1. Use aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade instead of aptitude update aptitude upgrade. This will deal intelligently with

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 February 2006 12:07, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] You aren't given a choice of keeping your old grub config file, because without an update, you can't boot the new

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 20 February 2006 03:10, Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? Thanks, Adam I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:55, Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/ gives you

Re: Pictures, music = video

2006-02-10 Thread Justin Guerin
against kipi-plugins, where the mpeg movie creation doesn't work with mjpegtools-1:1.8.0-0.1 from ftp.nerim.net. There is a patch available, though. Justin Guerin

Re: k3b is not able to detect dvd+rw-tools package

2006-02-01 Thread Justin Guerin
in the setup page, and make sure the paths include /usr/bin/. If all else fails, I'd suggest re-installing both packages. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sd_mod....please...

2006-02-01 Thread Justin Guerin
give more specific help. Justin Guerin

Re: sareg 2.6 doesn't recognize the CD!!??

2006-02-01 Thread Justin Guerin
cases, bug in kernel ??? thanks for help Since kernel 2.6, I've needed the module ide_cd to access my CD-ROM drives. Is that module loaded? If that doesn't fix the problem, post the relevant output of dmesg, and we'll see what we can do. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: k3b is not able to detect dvd+rw-tools package

2006-02-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:13, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: On Tuesday 31 January 2006 21:23, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [snip] Have you tried it as a non-root user? Forgot to mention this. k3b works fine for ordinary users. Only when I use it through sudo, it gives

Re: Not automounting a USB Cardreader??

2006-01-31 Thread Justin Guerin
... not really a relief though... /M Check your version of udev. Bug 350490 [0] states that version .083 isn't working, while .082 is. That mirrors my own experience. When I downgraded from 0.083 to 0.082, I got my icon back on my KDE 3.5.0 desktop. Justin Guerin [0]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Justin Guerin
/manuals/debootstrap.html Alternately, you can replace the install kernel of the debian-installer. There are instructions on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerModify Good luck, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: strange outbound connection

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Guerin
of those will point you in the right direction. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg eats my CPU

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Guerin
, and thus I didn't re-nice them. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xscreensaver + kde

2006-01-05 Thread Justin Guerin
. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Querying packages about installed files

2005-12-08 Thread Justin Guerin
the installed files Are there any similar equivalents with aptitude? Regards Jim Holland System Administrator MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service dpkg -L pkgname will also list all files installed by that package. debsums, as Andrei mentioned, will verify the installed files. Justin

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Justin Guerin
forwarding will not affect the other windows machines inside the network, but will prevent your laptop from viewing the shares on whatever network it's on until the forwarding is ended. Any help greatly appreciated, Stefan Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: all my email vanished -- again

2005-12-02 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 02 December 2005 07:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: Yes, last night all the massages I had left in /var/mail/hendrik vanished *again*.  Just like the night before.  Of course, by the time I got to look at my mail, a few new ones had arrived. I'm starting to think it's not just a fluke.

Re: very weird firefox behaviour

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 01 December 2005 14:27, Renee Klawitter wrote: Hi! I recently installed the firefox 1.5, (1.4.99+1.5 to be perfectly accurate). Now, when I try to start firefox via the applications menu or via console, logged in as a normal user, it won't start and gives me this nice little

Re: PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 01 December 2005 13:29, Martin Fluch wrote: Hi! From my search sofar the result doesn't look promissing. But is there any PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which works under Linux. My IBM T30 has only an USB 1.1 port and it would be nice to a USB 2.0 adapter to transfer faster data between my

Re: kmail questions

2005-11-22 Thread Justin Guerin
, but it's better than nothing. I hope that someone can point me in the right direction, I really need to just settle on a single mail client and would hate to have to switch again. Joe Sorry for the bad news. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: kernel upgrade, no console

2005-11-14 Thread Justin Guerin
me where to look in my .config? thanks, matt What's the status of CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE? If it's a module, what happens when you load the fbcon module? Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian sid and udev problem.

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Guerin
that error. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: corrupted sources.list (file below)

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Guerin
source function to work deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Compiled 2.6.14, seeing strange things...

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Guerin
the 2.6.14 Debian package, and your resulting initrd will support the frame buffer console. If that's what you want to do. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub?

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Guerin
, and is it properly she-bang'ed? Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with debian kernel source 2.6.12-10 on HT cpu (SMP/SMT)

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Guerin
the packages linux-image-2.6.12-1-686-smp and linux-image-2.6.14-1-686-smp? Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-31 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 28 October 2005 17:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: However if I do the following then the keyboard shortcuts are not working. On the machine running nxclient, Go to the command line prompt open an X server by doing   X :1 Now start nxclient in this   DISPLAY=:1 nxclient It

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

2005-10-31 Thread Justin Guerin
of people have been having that problem[0]. If you want to see what's going on, you'll need to edit the yaird config file to include the fbcon module, then rebuild your image. The easiest way to rebuild the image is to reinstall the package. Justin Guerin [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-28 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 27 October 2005 19:59, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:08, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [snip] If you click in the upper right hand corner of your screen, the NX session will minimize. In fullscreen mode even I click in the upper

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-28 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 28 October 2005 16:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [snip] I can't either, until I click in the upper right hand pixel. That makes the fullscreen minimize to a taskbar entry. I am having hard luck finding the 'magic pixel'. No luck with Alt-F2 or Ctrl-Alt-M either. The thing is

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

2005-10-27 Thread Justin Guerin
. The NX session will restore itself, and ask you if you want to suspend, terminate or cancel. Pretty intuitive, huh? ;-) Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-25 Thread Justin Guerin
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:08, J Merritt wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 17:19, J Merritt wrote: [snip] --- Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should check out the fuser command. The -m switch may help. Once you figure out which process is accessing the mounted disk, you

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting and umount -l

2005-10-25 Thread Justin Guerin
unmount (I assume it's called lazy for a reason)? It's not the preferred solution, no. It's called lazy because you don't have to work to find out which process is hanging on to the mount and stop it. ;-) Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Add which package to get mplayer to play an ogg stream?

2005-10-21 Thread Justin Guerin
understand better than Swedish. ;-) Good luck, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to be told imm. when dma is turned off?

2005-10-19 Thread Justin Guerin
the executable PATH returns, so if your executable hangs, then smartd will also hang. The smartmontools package comes with some example scripts. Justin Guerin

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Guerin
info, let me know. thank you for help. Nope, you have given all the information necessary to diagnose your problem. You've asked a great question! regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let us know if adding more memory fixes your problem. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Guerin
the umount man page for a complete description. As others have said, you'll have to install the autofs package to get automounting, or use one of the other suggested solutions. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:10, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi! [snip] ... (II) I810(0): 6392 kBytes additional video memory is required to enable tiling mode for DRI. (II) I810(0): 4344 kBytes additional video memory is required to enable DRI. (II) I810(0): Disabling DRI. OK, here's

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-17 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 17 October 2005 08:45, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i decided to move my notebook from windows to linux. so far everything works fine (i haven't tried suspend and similar things yet). i was just wondering whether it's possible to get direct rendering on the integrated graphics card

Re: network diagnostics

2005-09-08 Thread Justin Guerin
where the connection attempts die. Use the specific port number that matches the service you're trying to connect to. If that doesn't help, post some relevant output diagnostics, such as ifconfig from your Linux box and ipconfig from your Windows box, traceroute results from both, etc. Justin

Re: Can't get Intel 82915G on-board graphics controller to deactivate the monitor.

2005-07-29 Thread Justin Guerin
the relevant portions of your log file, and we'll see if we can't figure out what's wrong. Best of luck, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lost /dev/modem Symlink After Purging Udev And Reinstalling

2005-05-01 Thread Justin Guerin
posted mailed Leonard Chatagnier wrote: This request for help is being reposted as no one offered any help. Please, would someone respond with some help, even if its just a link offering a solution that a relative newbie can implement. After Purging udev including rming the entire

Re: Custom Kernel 2.4.18 = No Loadable Modules?

2005-05-01 Thread Justin Guerin
Tony Vandiver wrote: Hi All, I started with a Debian Woody Distribution 3.0r5 where the kernel version is 2.2.20. I couldn't compile the Omnivision ov59x driver for a webcam and so based on the FAQ for the driver, I decided to upgrade to kernel 2.4. I found some

Re: Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

2004-12-14 Thread Justin Guerin
message installing kernel] Just a quick thing to check, does the partition where your kernel and image reside have sufficient free space. I had problems before with a kernel package not building the initial ram disk image OK, and it turned out my /boot partition was full. Justin Guerin

Re: testing apt-get not upgrading

2004-12-03 Thread Justin Guerin
the same (or very similar) things change names, and you'll have to remove the old named one to install the new one. That's what dist-upgrade was designed to solve for you. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread Justin Guerin
after the install, it didn't complain, did it? Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound driver

2004-11-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Saturday 20 November 2004 09:38, Jason Rennie wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:41:26PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: [snip] So, I've been succesful in getting the sound driver (vi82cxxx_audio) to not load upon boot. However, it now looks like the problem is deeper than just passing

Re: initrd kernel image, dual boot with NTLDR

2004-11-23 Thread Justin Guerin
let LILO manage your booting, and still boot windows. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 19 November 2004 16:08, Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and IRQ channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot? You may have to tell the sound

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 19 November 2004 16:41, Justin Guerin wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 16:08, Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and IRQ channels are assigned during Knoppix boot

Re: sound driver

2004-11-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:59, Jason Rennie wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:25:51PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: The size discrepency is most likely due to differing kernel versions. What kernel are you using in Sarge? How about in Knoppix? Both are 2.4.27 Hmm, the above output

Re: sound driver

2004-11-17 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 15:48, Jason Rennie wrote: In short: I can't play ogg files on my Debian Sarge (2.4.27) machine, but I can if I boot off a Knoppix live CD (v3.6, kernel 2.4.27). i.e. the drivers I have installed on my Debian Sarge machine aren't working. I'd like to set things up

Re: konqueror and supported protocols

2004-11-16 Thread Justin Guerin
the KDE versions didn't change. On the other hand, I get an illegal instruction error when I launch aptitude (in graphical mode, i.e. with no arguments). Otherwise, it works in command line mode. I'm completely up to date, so I don't know what's wrong there. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin

Re: advice on updating kernel image

2004-11-16 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 15 November 2004 15:20, Randall Smith wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:20, Randall Smith wrote: [snip] Just make sure those modules are placed in the initial ram disk, and everything will be fine. That's what I'm uncertain about how to do. Do I have

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Justin Guerin
to time (though not that often). They usually get fixed quickly, though occasionally they have lasted a while. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 08:37, Brian Pack wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:06 -0500, Colin wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:33, Alan Chandler wrote: I had the same problem using 2.6.6 and a USB DVD writer burning CDs with K3B as the frontend

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