Re: Regading an installation experiment

2015-06-14 Thread Kevin Ross
On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot properly. I have a copy of DVD 1 of Jessie

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-29 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/3/2015 3:32 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Does anyone out there have a recommendation for an HBA (preferably non-RAID) that is stable, supports drives larger than 2T, is either supported directly in the Jessie Kernel or has open source drivers, and either has management utilities that either

Re: the continuing disappointment of Debian 7

2013-06-29 Thread Kevin Ross
On 06/29/2013 03:07 PM, Jeff Shearer wrote: Iceweasel crashes all the time and cannot play flash What Flash player are you using? If you're using the default Gnash, which is an open source version made by people reverse engineering Adobe's Flash, then that might be the problem. Gnash

Re: Changing GTK+ theme

2012-07-27 Thread Kevin Ross
On 07/27/2012 07:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:58:49 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: I just updated my Wheezy laptop, and now all of the widgets are the ugly, square blocky ones, as well as the toolbars in various programs. When I change the GTK+ theme in gnome-tweak-tool, nothing

Changing GTK+ theme

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Ross
I just updated my Wheezy laptop, and now all of the widgets are the ugly, square blocky ones, as well as the toolbars in various programs. When I change the GTK+ theme in gnome-tweak-tool, nothing happens. I've seen this happen before if gnome-settings-daemon wasn't running, but it is

Re: Mainboard for Debian stable

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Ross
On 12/29/2011 08:11 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, I am selling Debian pre-installed desktops, but I cannot get the mainboards I've used anymore. Can somebody advice me a mainboard what works fine with Debian stable? A backported kernel or CSS firmware is not a big problem, but I don't

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin Ross
On 01/05/2012 04:30 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin Ross
be able to figure out what's wrong. -- Kevin On 06/01/12 00:59, Kevin Ross wrote: I also have an Intel 945GM graphics chip in my laptop. Works fine for me on Wheezy. Sounds like you're running the VESA (generic) graphics driver instead of the Intel one. Do you have xserver-xorg-video-intel

Re: [OT] help with m-audio usb Fast Track pro on debian

2012-01-03 Thread Kevin Ross
On 01/02/2012 07:12 AM, Rob Owens wrote: aplay -d hw:1,0 some.wav (for card #1, device #0 -- adjust as necessary). That should be an uppercase -D (lowercase -d is for setting a delay). Glad you got it working anyway, though! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: samsung galaxy tab

2012-01-03 Thread Kevin Ross
On 01/03/2012 12:48 PM, Thibaut wrote: hi, when i plug my galaxy tab nothing happens but my system sees it (it's not a galaxy s2 though) : titi@debian:~$ lsusb ... Bus 002 Device 017: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II] how can I mount it so i can put

Re: need git suggestion

2011-12-27 Thread Kevin Ross
On 12/27/2011 09:37 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, we are working in svn environment. We like to upgrade our-self to git technology. We have both Linux/windows environment but max. is Linux. Could any one suggest a good online guide as well as GUI clients for quick starting the git ? Thanks

Why can't why have both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3?

2011-11-15 Thread Kevin Ross
Why weren't the new gnome packages named with a 3 in their name, to allow both gnome 2 and gnome 3 to exist in the repositories, and allow the user to choose which one they want? After all, we had apache and apache2, php4 and php5, mysql4 and mysql5, etc, etc. I'm not saying they should be

Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Kevin Ross
On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: HI, I'm a little in double because my postfix server is used to send an huge amount of spam, generating huge logs like that : postfix/error[2120]: 993AE145D: to=xbee...@yahoo.com.tw, relay=none, delay=101, delays=100/0.07/0/0.31, dsn=4.7.0,

Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Kevin Ross
On 11/15/2011 01:20 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: HI, I'm a little in double because my postfix server is used to send an huge amount of spam, generating huge logs like that : postfix/error[2120]: 993AE145D: to=xbee...@yahoo.com.tw, relay=none, delay=101

Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?

2011-11-14 Thread Kevin Ross
On 11/14/2011 08:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:38, Kevin Rosske...@familyross.net wrote: If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of the same application, you have to hit the

Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?

2011-11-14 Thread Kevin Ross
On 11/14/2011 08:33 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:38:03 -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of the same application, you have to hit the down arrow while

GNOME 3 extensions that mimic GNOME 2

2011-11-13 Thread Kevin Ross
I just found some extensions that give your desktop a GNOME 2 look and feel. I guess it's kinda like fallback mode, but fallback mode is supposedly only temporary. All you need to do is extract the .tgz file into your home folder, log out and log back in. Easy peasy. It's a collection of 6

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-13 Thread Kevin Ross
On 11/12/2011 09:04 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have run update-flashplugin-nonfree --install and it downloads the latest plugin at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz after uncompromising it I get 1. libflashplayer.so 2. usr folder I have copied

GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?

2011-11-13 Thread Kevin Ross
If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of the same application, you have to hit the down arrow while the popup is up. So you have to hit Alt-Tab, and while holding down the Alt key, hit the down

Re: DKMS and linux-image-3.0.0

2011-08-16 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/16/2011 12:05 PM, Erwan David wrote: DO someone know what happened to dkms in 3.0 ? It does not work anymore (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637281 for the bug report) This breaks virtualbox or other packages... Hmm, works for me on Wheezy. $ dpkg -l virtualbox\*

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/09/2011 09:43 AM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Hi list, Is there a way to boost the system sound volume? Playing DVDs in VLC with the alsa, pulseaudio, and vlc volumes all maxed out is still about 30-40% of max volume in 'doze. I don't like pulseaudio, but for some reason skype doesn't

Re: cups on wheezy problem

2011-08-06 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/06/2011 01:05 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: Have been without a working cups for some time now so upgrades to the unstable version 1.4.8-2. Still not working because of this error udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3/3-1 3

Re: Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread Kevin Ross
On 3/21/2011 4:41 PM, freeman wrote: Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? Running squeeze/mixed; started 100% uptodate; installed some upgrades; most of these upgradeables showed up within

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

2010-11-12 Thread Kevin Ross
On 11/12/2010 11:26 AM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: below ... On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:49, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:14, Florian Kulzer debian-li...@florian-kulzer.eu wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil

Re: Blu-ray status in Linux

2010-09-18 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/18/2010 7:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:29:49 +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:12:47 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: (...) I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we would eventually be able to play Blu-Ray on Debian machines. Do you

Re: SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-09 Thread Kevin Ross
On 09/09/2010 03:01 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can rsync to the other machine. Using rsync localfile tnet-web::threshNet-Public works fine and the file is transferred. BUT when I try to use rsync over ssh, it will NOT work. According to the man page, your first example should automatically

Re: SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-09 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/9/2010 5:56 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 09/09/2010 03:01 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can rsync to the other machine. Using rsync localfile tnet-web::threshNet-Public works fine and the file is transferred. BUT when I try to use rsync over ssh

Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-08 Thread Kevin Ross
On 09/08/2010 02:02 PM, Tech Geek wrote: Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on x86 machine. I need to make the following command permanent upon every boot: xset s off -dpms I am booting into GNOME with GDM. I have tried adding this to my /home/user/.xinitrc file: #!/bin/bash xset s off -dpms and

Re: [OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/7/2010 5:20 PM, Celejar wrote: For the last several days, I've been experiencing strange lock-ups and crashes, which I suspect may be due to hardware failure, although I'm not sure how to diagnose this further. I don't think that it's an OS issue, since the problem sometimes occurs at

Re: Maildrop problem

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/7/2010 4:34 PM, Johannes Bunte wrote: Hey guys, I'm quite desperate getting maildrop to work. I use postfix and courier with a mysql backend (virtual mailboxes). maildrop connects to authlib and gets the proper information, but only as root, it delivers it to the right mailbox. When i

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin Ross
On 09/01/2010 02:43 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Aaron Toponce: I was in the same situation as you not a month or two ago. I spend days online looking for a good NAS, and really couldn't find anything that impressed me. I ended up going with 4-1 TB 3.5 drives, and putting them in a Linux software

Re: network wl card is not dtected as it, is it a bios problem?

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/27/2010 04:00 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I added to my machine PC P4, running debian and others, ubuntu, pc wireless card :, the same card I used it on other machine, it ran nice. On my machine, the lspci gives : 03:02.0 Class : RaLink rt2561/rt61 802.11g pci (rev

Re: network wl card is not dtected as it, is it a bios problem?

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/27/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 08/27/2010 04:00 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I added to my machine PC P4, running debian and others, ubuntu, pc wireless card :, the same card I used it on other machine, it ran nice. On my machine, the lspci gives : 03:02.0 Class

Re: Hauppauge WinTV Card

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/26/2010 09:02 AM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there exists drivers for using these WinTV cards from Hauppauge? I found an old one and I'd like to use it on squeeze. On the top it says: PAL - B/G - I 44354 Rev A242 I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and modprobe dvb-bt8xx. Then when I try to confirm it

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/26/2010 03:52 PM, James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net mailto:ke...@familyross.net wrote: On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 8/26/2010 5:08 PM, T o n g wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:03:55 +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote: (which lsb_release /dev/null `which lsb_release` --id)|awk '{print $3}' ... does not work on older systems which don't have lsb_release, though. Is lsb_release mandatory? I'm using latest

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. Joel Spolsky does. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/25/2010 04:47 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: Is something on the lines of: cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep '^deb '|grep 'http://security\.'|head -n 1|grep -o 'debian|ubuntu' a safe idea or does it already make too many assumptions? Otherwise, what methods do you use to tell them apart

Re: cron: different job different mail

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/25/2010 12:12 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I know I can set MAIL in cron jobs so as to define where the cron execution log will send to. but, I'm wondering if it is possible to set different email destinations for different cron jobs. Thanks You could put a different file for each email

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/25/2010 05:03 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: Hi again, Can you look in /etc/issue (or maybe /etc/debian_version)? As a matter of fact that was my first naive method. It does work for Debian (unless changed by someone), but on Ubuntu this always contains the same string as far as I saw

Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100 - halt system on Squeeze

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin Ross
On 08/23/2010 11:54 AM, Felipe Ignacio Valverde Campos wrote: Hi, i have a Dell Studio 1555 Laptop using Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64). I installed last week a clean installation, except the wireless driver (Wifi Link 5100), so i installed the firmware-iwlwifi. Are you using the iwlwifi

Re: Resmartctl test error

2010-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
=yes I will look into the links provided by you. thanks Camaleón for the links and reminding me to start smart daemon. Kevin Ross wrote: A reallocated event count of 132 doesn't look good. This is showing a sector that it couldn't correct the errors on, and would have been reported back

Re: smartctl test error

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Ross
On 8/17/2010 10:26 PM, vishnuvardhan wrote: *I have run the following command and it is showing the following error for all the disks [ hda, hda1, hda2, hda5 ]* : # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num

Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/7/2010 11:10 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: node? Before? I'd really need to look at the script you are using, the one produced by the autoexpect session, but you could try either sending an extra `exit' string or sending a control-C (send \003) Take a look here¹ for more

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/6/2010 12:05 AM, Alex Samad wrote: well think about it, if we are talking about network 192.168.11.0/24 (for my example I will use 24 instead of 27) the server would have an address 192.168.11.55/24 (for example) and the router would have 192.168.11.1/24 if I change the netmask of the

Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/4/2010 10:01 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: telnet, as in the original responses. Google gives several example scripts With many thanks for your reply, I found very simple expect telnet examples (like the case that I am dealing with) so I wrote for the same but it doesn't work my case. Do you

RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
Please find below my simple expect telnet script : /usr/bin/expect set name 172.16.17.160 spawn telnet $name set cmd1 command1 set cmd2 logout send $cmd1 send $cmd2 exit When I try for this procedure , I just see loging in and loging out from the telnet session . Actually , I need to have the

RE: [OT] spam-tagging

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Nuno Magalhães [mailto:nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:52 PM Hi, An idea that just came to me... With all the (small amounts of, granted,) spam that has been coming through the list, would there be a feasible way for uses to reply to spam-messages to the

RE: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
So, is there anyone with an idea on how improve memory efficiency here? I used to use spamassassin, but now I outsource my spam and virus filtering. Services like mailfoundry and postini do excellent work, they spend all their waking hours trying to improve spam filtering accuracy. I personally

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Not sure if this is the right list, sort of a general linux networking question (pointers to a more appropriate list welcomed) Setup: - I have two servers in a datacenter, currently used for different things - I have one gigE cable coming in

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/5/2010 9:11 PM, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I use one for each box I'm not a networking expert

RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-04 Thread Kevin Ross
From: hadi motamedi [mailto:motamed...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:26 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to schedule for a repeated task? password.  Then just execute ssh usern...@remote.server somecommand and it will run somecommand and the output will be sent back

RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Ross
From: d.sastre.med...@gmail.com [mailto:d.sastre.med...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:47 AM On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:11:43AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to schedule for a repeated task on my Debian server, as the followings: -) Telnet to a remote node -)

RE: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:20 AM Both XFS and Ext3/4 recover through journal replay, and it is usually enough. Rarely, a manual filesystem check will be required, and xfs_check is usually much faster than fsck.ext3 or even

RE: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:49 PM On 04/24/2010 05:31 PM, B. Alexander wrote: Define hates sudden power outages...Is it recoverable? They got pretty corrupted. Maybe it's been robustified in the intervening years. Apparently,

RE: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Ross
What the heck happened this afternoon?? I don't know, but I'd start by making sure your interface names and IP addresses haven't changed for some reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RE: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of nv ...)

2010-04-26 Thread Kevin Ross
From: clivemcbar...@web.de [mailto:clivemcbar...@web.de] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:14 PM Kevin Ross wrote: Reply to List button (which I know was available as an add-on before) You remember what the add-on is called? Searching for reply to list in add-ons didn't give me anything

RE: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of nv ...)

2010-04-26 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:31 PM From: clivemcbar...@web.de [mailto:clivemcbar...@web.de] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:14 PM Kevin Ross wrote: Reply to List button (which I know was available as an add-on before) You

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of nv ...)

2010-04-24 Thread Kevin Ross
On 4/24/2010 4:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think I've hated a program more than I hate Tbird

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread Kevin Ross
On 4/24/2010 10:53 AM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi, I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any filesystem I have encountered,

RE: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Sthu Deus [mailto:sthu.d...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:31 AM Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: I run Sid. Aha! - I run testing OO - even not whole my system. Note also that OOo depends on Gtk, which might need also to be loaded by KDE, but not by GNOME

RE: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-22 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:dotanco...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:42 AM Here is the device: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9641/seriall.jpg It is a real serial device, no USB. I don't know a lot about smart cards, but as far as I know, you need software to communicate

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Kevin Ross
Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? I can crypt my partition/hdd's that contains the data. Ok. But: then my operating system will not be encrypted. Not Ok. If I crypt my operating system too, then when a

RE: multiple applications segfault with error 6

2010-01-04 Thread Kevin Ross
Two things immediately come to mind. Bad memory, or a corrupt library file. Run memtest86 to check the memory. Run debsums -c to check for corrupt files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Ethernet Wifi Weirdness

2009-12-31 Thread Kevin Ross
Mark wrote: I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac Win user). I'm having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with WPA personal and mac address filtering (and I didn't know to plan

Re: DVB-T TV card for Lenny.

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Ross
Robert David wrote: Hi, I'm planing to upgrade my home server with TV card an use it with mythtv as multimedia center. I was searching for some good DVB-T card in local stores that has support in Lenny but didn't find any reasonable piece (I do not want kernel from backports or compile

Re: Iceweasel repeatedly hangs for 5 seconds

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Ross
Jack Dodds wrote: If anyone can identify this problem, or offer suggestions about how to further narrow it down, I would appreciate it. Jack Dodd How much memory is Iceweasel using when it starts acting up? Firefox on my Windows machine does the same, when I have about 20 tabs open and

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin Ross
stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: Just to update this old thread a bit: actually this didn't work perfectly, it only worked when I started up Linux when the PC was already switched on beforehand. When switching the PC on from cold and booting into Linux, it did not work, I think because it was

RE: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Ross
-Original Message- From: lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:23 AM Apparently, mplayer is supposed to be able to use vdpau, and 'mplayer -vo help' lists it. But when telling it to use it, CPU load during playback isn't lower than with kaffeine: I

RE: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:s...@hardwarefreak.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:38 AM Your scenario is bogus, because all semi-modern PCs have wired ethernet. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! Well, my laptop has a broken Ethernet port. I could go and spend money on a USB Ethernet device, but

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Ross
Osamu Aoki wrote: Etch is obsoleted distribution. Unless you have specific reason, please use current release: lenny. http://www.debian.org/distrib/ I have no idea what is hapening on your system. Are you connected to network and tried to download packages? URL for archive has changed so

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Ross
Kevin Ross wrote: Only Woody and older are on there. And Sarge. Forgot about Sarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Inquiry: How would you prepare an image list

2009-12-19 Thread Kevin Ross
T o n g wrote: Hi, This is a situation that I feel hard to find a good solution -- We've taken hundreds of digital pictures. Now it is time for some big batch printings, each batch contains about a hundred pictures. Previously, when selecting pictures in a small scale (30~40), I use pfm to

RE: Problem in Debian 5 Installation

2009-12-10 Thread Kevin Ross
I use UNetbootin, which copies the Debian installer to a USB flash drive, and makes it bootable. Then you just boot from the USB flash drive, do normal Debian setup, and it downloads everything it needs to do a full install over the internet. There are versions of UNetbootin that run on Windows

RE: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-10 Thread Kevin Ross
-Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:04 PM [snip] Any suggestions as to how I can delete this file? Thanks! You didn't mention this, but have you tried wildcards? Such as: $ rm Tentative*.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date

2009-12-09 Thread Kevin Ross
-Original Message- From: Camaleón Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:04 AM It's not outdated. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.69-9/changelog -- Andreas Metzler ametz...@debian.org Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:12:27 +0200 Is this outdated?

Re: Upgrade php4 Sarege

2009-11-22 Thread Kevin Ross
i wrote: Hello debian-user, I`d like to upgrade php4 to php5 in my Debian Sarge, but I have problem with source deb pages, because Sarge has no official support php5. I`v find this sources, but it`s not function present time;o( deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src

RE: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malate...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:07 PM On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit tteb...@gmail.com wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Here is part of dmesg: [   32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting

RE: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Kevin Ross
However, I cannot locate the HD, and suspect that it is under a thin aluminium frame which will involve dismantling the entire casing. Under the key pad I can see the IDE ribbon and connector so can locate the HD - I just don't see a viable way of accessing it. The laptop is a

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-10-31 Thread Kevin Ross
From: stephen...@yahoo.com [mailto:stephen...@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:16 AM My current ISP uses DHCP - does that change anything you've written? Are you absolutely sure of that? ISP's mainly use two different methods of assigning IP addresses to their customers.

RE: Changing from ADSL Modem to Router (repost)

2009-10-31 Thread Kevin Ross
From: David Baron [mailto:d_ba...@012.net.il] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:36 AM I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and a cron job attempts to keep the connection. Various files in /etc/ppp/peers have login info and some options. How do I change to a

RE: Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-10-31 Thread Kevin Ross
From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or something with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;) (it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexplorer on

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin Ross
From: stephen...@yahoo.com [mailto:stephen...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:50 AM At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' before I can use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or even ping. My question is, is there any way I can get iceweasel

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin Ross
If you want to have your connection be established on bootup, the Debian way is to add your PPP connection to your /etc/network/interfaces file, like: auto ppp0 iface ppp0 inet ppp provider dsl-provider Then, in your ppp options, add the persist option, which will cause your connection to

RE: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:nlida...@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:42 PM The Alix 3d2 board is available for about $100 USD. Cool, thanks for the heads up! I think the 2d2 would be a better choice for the OP, since it includes 2 LAN ports instead of one. Couple it with

RE: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?

2009-10-25 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:nlida...@verizon.net] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:21 PM Forgive me if this too off topic for this list. I haven't had a chance to see what's going on at debian-off-topic much less join. Are there quality text mailing lists for non-computer related

RE: Merge Extra free space into current linux partition

2009-10-22 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Kushal Koolwal [mailto:kushalkool...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:32 PM I am using Debian Lenny on x86 computer installed on my SATA hard drive - /dev/sda5. # cfdisk /dev/sda ** *  

RE: pv

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Tilo Schwarz [mailto:t...@tilo-schwarz.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:33 AM alle konstanten Felddeklarationen gegen die aktuell angegebenen Parameter prüfen und ggf. meckern. -- Viele Grüße, Tilo This is the English language list. The German list is

RE: Installing XBMC on testing

2009-10-20 Thread Kevin Ross
From: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:11 AM Frank McCormick wrote: Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on Debian testing. Apparently at least 2 of the libraries needed are not available for Debian.

RE: Installing XBMC on testing

2009-10-20 Thread Kevin Ross
From: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:10 PM It is indeed compiled with vdpau support, if you have adequate hardware you can go to settings videos player and choose VDPAU as render method. Tom Sorry for the misinformation. I

RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Ross
It could be that the driver you are using doesn't report those statistics. It's also possible you haven't had any errors in that time. In my statistics below, the send/receive byte counts have overflowed the 32-bit limit many times, so don't believe them. I probably download 2-10 gigabytes

RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:14 PM It could be that the driver you are using doesn't report those statistics. It's also possible you haven't had any errors in that time. I just checked on another computer, which uses the forcedeth driver

RE: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Ross
From: AG [mailto:computing.acco...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:18 PM Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account for her and transfer existing files over (excluding

RE: Xorg ABI version

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Ilia Lilov [mailto:lilo...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:20 AM I have to use proprietary video driver for SIS graphic adapter. SIS provides only one binary version of driver, which must use with certain version of Xorg. Xorg.log says this: (EE) module ABI major

RE: Autoremove appears to want to remove most of Gnome

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin Ross
From: AG [mailto:computing.acco...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:14 PM Hi Recently when installing a new package I noticed that apt-get seems to want to remove most (all?) of my Gnome-related applications, suggesting that I run autoremove to do so. This is the

RE: Create local mirror from ISOs

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Ross
From: ketea...@gmail.com [mailto:ketea...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ken Teague Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:11 PM Is there a way to create a local Debian mirror from ISO images (such as the DVD images from i386 and amd64)? I haven't tried this myself, but you could just mount the ISO

RE: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a

RE: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:57 PM Greetings; I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or DVDs. Any suggestions for a decent capture card? I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on Deb or XP, but

RE: copying over all of /etc/ssl to new system?

2009-09-23 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:35 AM trying to close off a few more issues related to my lenny migration, and here's what's probably a trivial question -- since i'm re-installing some features bit by bit, am i safe to simply use

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