New video card-what to do ?

2007-03-04 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list My system is debian testing (etch) AMD64x2 I have bought a new video card Nvidia 6200 TC 64 bit 256MB DDR2, which should be better than my ATI Radeon X700se, according to several forums, for 3D composite rendering. Now after what I've read about this, on this list, it should be

GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I get this error when trying to do the daily update. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :-/ -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at

GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I get this error when trying to do the daily update. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :-/ -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at

Re: Repository

2007-02-26 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Baz wrote: Hello. I need help getting into my source.list to delete some lines. How do I change the permissions? I've tried Synaptic, but the lines I need to delete aren't there. Sebastian Open a terminal and type this: nano /etc/apt/sources.list Press enter. Now you can edit it :-)

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Niels Rasmussen
John - wrote: On (24 and 25/02/07) mainly the same four or five folks wrote: Quite a lot of off-topic opinionated political nonsense. Look, guys -- you know who you are -- I (and others, most likely) don't mind OT topics from time to time, and I/we can pretty easily delete without

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Ron Johnson wrote: IRC? Thanks, I'm out of here, bye! -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Something is terrible wrong with my internet connection, help needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi all Today when I want to enter www I couldn't get online. I'm running debian testing (etch) and it have worked without any complaints at all ever since I installed it in november last year. My stationary PC is connected with a D-link router DI-524 via cable. My wifes laptop (winXP) is

Re: Something is terrible wrong with my internet connection, help needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi florian I have ./usr/share/apps/zeroconf but that is a filecatalog with 8 files ending with ._tcp How should I purge it ? 2007/2/22, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 20:43:13 +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: Hi all Today when I want to enter www I couldn't get

Re: Something is terrible wrong with my internet connection, help needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Niels Rasmussen
What does the avahi-daemon do ? And what is the proper way to remove it ? /Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Something is terrible wrong with my internet connection, help needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Niels Rasmussen
2007/2/22, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think this is related to 'avahi-daemon'. If you do dpkg -l|grep avahi and it shows this package, remove it and then restart your system. I've checked avahi with synaptic and it says that there is a conflict with mdnsresponder ?? Is this the problem

Re: Something is terrible wrong with my internet connection, help needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Niels Rasmussen
2007/2/22, Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:43:13PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: My stationary PC is connected with a D-link router DI-524 via cable. You might try rebooting your router, and then rebooting your PC. Sometimes the DHCP servers on these SOHO routers

Re: Something is terrible wrong with my internet connection, help needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:43:13PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: My stationary PC is connected with a D-link router DI-524 via cable. You might try rebooting your router, and then rebooting your PC. Sometimes the DHCP servers on these SOHO routers get borked, and I've

Re: Saving threads (was Re: help with debian)

2007-02-19 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/18/07 22:46, Kent West wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: It would have been better to quote a few lines, but the thread is still fresh. It's not like he posted to an age-old thread, where context is really important. Not meaning to take sides, but I myself don't keep

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-15 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: I've got iceweasel installed and the installed files list shows a directory called 'plugins', located here: /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins This is where I'd look to put the Flash files, if I wanted them to be globally active (for all possible users

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Just get the tarball directly from Adobe. You can find it here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlashpromoid=BIOW The installation instructions are on this link but I just manually stick the two files in ~/.mozilla/plugins. The

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Joe Hart wrote: Talk about smart software. Thanks for the tip. OHOOO :-) Yes this one is awesome !! And it works perfectly here! And if someone is looking for the url, it's right here ;-): http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/114-thunderbird-+-reply-to-list-...-here-it-comes.html --

Re: Local webserver for testing, needed

2007-02-11 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Fabian (Lists) wrote: Niels Rasmussen wrote: SL Lists wrote: I used Apachefriends' XAMPP on both Windows and Linux. Have a look at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html Hi again, I have two problems right now: 1. in my terminal this comes up repeatedly: libgcc_s.so.1 must

Local webserver for testing, needed

2007-02-10 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list In Windows there is a utility called WAMP, which stands for: Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP It was quite nice to use for testing PHP-apps locally before uploading to my domain. I dont want to install a fullblown webserver just to check if my pages looks all right, before

Re: Local webserver for testing, needed

2007-02-10 Thread Niels Rasmussen
swm wrote: On Debian Etch you would need to install apache2, php5, mysql-client, and mysql-server, and possibly others that you find helpful. In fact, if you are not using MySQL then save yourself some work and don't install it. -Steve Well thanks for all the hints, but someone have

From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I'm running Debian testing (etch) on a AMD64x2 box. I've tried to get used to the K Desktop Environment but didn't succeeded :-) Now I have switched back to Gnome again. I don't know if this is the proper way to do it, but since I couldn't find a way to switch from kdm to gdm I

From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I'm running Debian testing (etch) on a AMD64x2 box. I've tried to get used to the K Desktop Environment but didn't succeeded :-) Now I have switched back to Gnome again. I don't know if this is the proper way to do it, but since I couldn't find a way to switch from kdm to gdm I

Re: From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:58:29 +0100 Niels Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now when I'm happily back in Gnome I checked Desktop Administration Services Here I can see kdm is running in the background (I cant turn it off, the servicemanager dies

Unknown message when starting Icedove

2007-02-05 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list, I'm running debian testing etch. I have this line in my.xsession-errors: DOUBLE-CLICK: 400 -- -1 THRESHOLD: 8 -- -1 Warning: unrecognized command line flag -P It appears everytime I start Icedove. What does this mean ?? -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at

changing domain name

2007-01-03 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I'm running testing for amd64. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname -a debian debian debian.opasia.dk I would like to change this to: debian.nirvana How can I do this with a simple command, so this would reflect the whole system ? When installing testing I was connected via a wlan router

GTK error ?

2006-12-29 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I am running Etch on this box and everything runs perfectly, but when I look in my ~/.xsession-errors file, I have a lot of lines looking like this: (sylpheed-claws-gtk2:3825): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed What is causing this? I dont

Scanner error

2006-12-29 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list My scanner is a HP Scanjet 3400C. I am not able to connect it via the Xsane interface. When I have accepted the terms of use, a window pops up with this message (translated from danish): Could not open unit 'niash:libusb:001:009': Unit occupied. Could someone please explain to me how

Is it possible to tweak the bootscreen ?

2006-12-25 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I 'm running on a amd-64-Etch install with a 19 LCD-1280x1024: I've found these two bootscreens from LinuxQuestions.org: This one is a typical debian bootscreen, an what mine looks like: http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/nl/images/20.02_boot.jpg and this one is from the gentoo distro:

Fwd: X aborting

2006-12-20 Thread Niels Rasmussen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Niels Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20/12/2006 11.24 Subject: Re: X aborting To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, should have mentioned it. I've installed Etch and xorg seems to be the new standard X in Etch. It's odd though, I have thought a user

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-20 Thread Niels Rasmussen
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:53:35 + Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niels Rasmussen wrote: [...] What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite rusty over the years :-) [...] Look

ETCH Installation succes :-) WAS: New Debian User

2006-12-20 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Well didn't know what happened :-) Guess the RAMS didn't emptying itself at first, but today when I want to solve to X aborting thing, the Gnome suddenly appear on the screen :-D Oh boy !! This is what have wanted for so long ! Debian on my own box !!! The installation was a breeze,

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-19 Thread Niels Rasmussen
]: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:54:09PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: Andrew Sackville-West skrev: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some commands I can use to get all the info I need to install Etch

X aborting

2006-12-19 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi all As John C suggested the radeon trick worked :-) Now I can use X as root, but not as user ! I get this error: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Thanks for reply. I'm not sure I want to repartitioning my other harddrive because I have 60 GB of music and fotos on it, so only one of them should have Debian on it. I presume it's possible to mount the media harddrive and catch my stuff from there ? My router has a fine internal firewall so

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Etch, certainly. However, be prepared for Etch to be obsolete well before the next Debian release. You will most likely want to change your pointers to either testing or unstable, but don't do that until you are comfortable with Debian and the apt way of package management as a user. I've been

Re: http://cdimage.debian.org/

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
It's same thing here ! Just waiting for the site to come up, so I can install Etch :-) /niller 2006/12/16, Hans du Plooy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is http://cdimage.debian.org/ down? I'm getting time-outs all day. Tried from my UK server too - same result. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Andrew Sackville-West skrev: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some commands I can use to get all the info I need to install Etch ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save

New Debian user

2006-12-15 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi all I am new to this list, works as Architectural engineer in Copenhagen DenmarK. I have used several Linux distro's previously back in 1999, among them was: Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse. But due to my work (AutoCad) I had to install Windows (sadly enough !) Now I've been fooling around with