Re: Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Cormier
On January 31, 2008 03:54:43 am Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:36 + Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Alan, I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held I've found

Re: unable to start xcdroast as root

2007-11-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On November 15, 2007 06:01:33 pm Robert Van Horn wrote: Hi, From the root console: # /usr/bin/xcdroast The reply: (xcdroast:18770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: If I start from a user console I get the window that says you must first start as root to set up. If I set the suid

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-23 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 23, 2007 09:34:52 am pgega wrote: On Oct 22, 10:00 pm, Pasi Oja-Nisula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:29:37AM -, pgega wrote: Pasi: what was the RAM seend by BIOS , when I use 4 GiB ,bios sees only 3052 GiB (But the MSI board can hadle up to 8 GiB)

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-23 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 23, 2007 05:32:55 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/23/07 14:16, Stephen Cormier wrote: [snip] You are going to have to accept that you are never going to get all 4gb running a 32bit install due to the limitations of using 32bit where things At the pid level, or at the OS level? I

Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 27, 2007 07:38:24 am Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:20 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens attached? I always used nvidia video card (with vga+dvi) or even 4 screens if that's at all possible.

Re: Working with Kworldclock

2007-08-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 15, 2007 06:35:15 pm Bob McGowan wrote: You must tell the Linux system, during installation, which way you went, so it knows how to use the BIOS date.   You can probably change this selection, but I'm not aware of how. The Etch installer no longer asks or at least did not on the

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 9, 2007 05:39:28 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine...

Re: Kernel Header Information

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 28, 2007 06:39:06 pm Nirmal Govindaraju wrote: Hi, I am a new Linux user and I have the Debian distribution (2.6.18-4-686) installed via the internet using a few floppy disks to perform the initial boot up. I am now trying to install a VPN client on my computer and during the

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 25, 2007 05:50:24 am Hal Vaughan wrote: I have an NVidia GEforce 6800 with two monitors attached. One is a widescreen, hooked up with a DVI cable, at 1680x1050, and the other is hooked up with a VGA cable and set at 1280x1024. They are working, but there are two issues I'd like to

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-20 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 20, 2007 08:56:01 pm Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raquel wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:53:17 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I am trying to setup a dual screen from a laptop

Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny

2007-06-17 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:40, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I'd commented out the options DPMS line in my xorg.conf, so that the monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins

Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny

2007-06-17 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 17, 2007 09:11:27 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Monday 18 June 2007 00:34, Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I'd commented out the options DPMS line in my xorg.conf, so

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 15, 2007 03:34:07 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 19:50, Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 9, 2007 12:47:46 am H.S. wrote: Hello, This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files automatically with a file pattern? This

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 12, 2007 07:27:05 am Raffaele Morelli wrote: That is not what he is saying you get for your example. Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 Debian

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-11 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 11, 2007 12:54:30 pm Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:11 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi you all I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny. Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or removal, menu.lst grows bigger.

Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 1, 2007 06:37:57 am Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Stephen Cormier wrote: Ok this looks like my driver for the jmicron controller I have for my SATA hard drive and the IDE burner it controls having changed its behavior then. But your problem is as I mentioned already then with the SATA

Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 26, 2007 04:00:36 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Stephen Cormier wrote: On April 25, 2007 04:48:17 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig However, the new kernel

Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 25, 2007 04:48:17 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic when trying to mount the root

Re: Default soundcard with alsa

2007-04-24 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 24, 2007 07:21:01 am Atis wrote: Hi, I have two soundcards, but after each reboot the built-in gets default, so after every reboot i have to run alsaconf, and select correct soundcard. How i can have my second card to be primary after every reboot? I suspect alsaconf doesn't write

Re: custom kernel on etch?

2007-04-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 22, 2007 09:59:39 am BartlebyScrivener wrote: but at the very least since no one has mentioned it yet install the linux-image-2.6-k7 to get a Debian kernel for your machine that supports the processor better than a 486 generic image. I'll start googling, but if you have a link

Re: custom kernel on etch?

2007-04-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 21, 2007 04:10:05 pm BartlebyScrivener wrote: Hello, I have been using Debian Etch since December. Solid, as advertised. I'm looking for a link that would discuss the repercussions and benefits of a custom kernel. For instance, does a custom kernel mean that you lose all of the

Re: lm-sensors k8temp kernel module for Etch

2007-04-04 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 4, 2007 10:39:31 am Siju George wrote: Hi, While Installing lm-sensors package on my Etch using 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux kernel. I got the following message == To make the

Re: Cannot retrieve bug reports; Severe problem!

2007-03-24 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 24, 2007 11:19:32 pm Michael Pobega wrote: I'm having trouble with apt tonight, and it's really getting in my way! Whenever I try to install anything, apt always pauses on retrieving bug reports: 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded. Need to get

Re: NVIDIA i2c adapter?

2007-03-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 22, 2007 07:11:54 am David Baron wrote: Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C

Re: NVIDIA i2c adapter?

2007-03-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 22, 2007 12:22:42 pm Joe Hart wrote: Stephen Cormier wrote: On March 22, 2007 07:11:54 am David Baron wrote: Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify

Re: Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 13, 2007 11:04:44 pm Nick Boyce wrote: Do I *really* need to add such a large keyring to my own keyring, just to verify the dang GPG signature on a CD image ? Have you tried/heard of the --keyring option when using gpg? That way you only need to specify the file containing the key not

Re: Looking for DVD Writer that Debian 3.1 supports

2007-03-06 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 6, 2007 01:43:35 pm Michael Kerwin wrote: I am trying to load Debian 3.1 on a Pentium Duo Core Desktop using an internal DVD Writer on a 750GB Parallel IDE drive. Debian loads the netintal 3.1r5 netinstall cd but after asking the the keyboard and stuff tries to mount the cd to load

Re: editing avi files

2007-02-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On February 18, 2007 02:05:49 pm pol wrote: How to edit video files (especially avi files) to select a short piece from the whole? thanks -- Pol Try installing the avidemux package it is fairly easy to use, you need a line like the one below changing the sid in the line to the release of

Re: program to build .debs from compiled source code?

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen Cormier
On February 11, 2007 09:09:13 pm Bruno Buys wrote: I'm looking for checkinstall (was using it under sarge) at etch for amd64, but it seems to be absent. Which program can I use to build debs from compiled programs? According to apt-cache it is only in unstable here on my mixed

Re: Avidemux and monitor energy saver

2007-01-31 Thread Stephen Cormier
On January 31, 2007 04:27:22 pm Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Hi, After one avidemux session (Debian Sid), the screen saver and monitor energy saving features doesn't works. I can block the session (KDE) and the screensaver appears, but monitor never goes to power save mode. Someone knows ho

Re: apt-listbugs behavior (was libpangocairo and gimp...)

2007-01-24 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:46, tom arnall wrote: how do i 'hold' the packages. i can't find anything on this in either the apt-get doc' or on the web. echo package_name hold | dpkg --set-selections Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc

Re: apt-listbugs behavior (was libpangocairo and gimp...)

2007-01-24 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:30, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:36, Stephen Cormier wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:46, tom arnall wrote: how do i 'hold' the packages. i can't find anything on this in either the apt-get doc' or on the web. echo

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, and found there is a file

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, and found there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. What is that? Can I delete it? That tells me you should not

Re: homepage in konqueror

2006-11-30 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 01 December 2006 01:24, Mark Grieveson wrote: Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead of this irritating Konqueror: Conquer your desktop! page that keeps popping up? I changed the homepage setting, but when I start it, I still get the irritating,

Re: strange email link

2006-11-14 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:14, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am trying to contact county officials in Lewis and Clark County MT, USA. They have a page: http://www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/index.php?id=30 But the email links don't work. They expand to such:

Re: How install debian if my machine has SATA?

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:05, Gabo wrote: Hello listers i have a machine with SATA hard drive but i can´t install debian because de debian cd installer don`t detect the SATA. What version i can install? I have a intel pentium d processor Board intel D945GNT SATA hard drive Note: i

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:02, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * word-processor [ Kwrite, Kword ] Do you mean Kate when you mention Kwrite? I searched Debian and couldn't find Kwrite. Apparently I do it seems that Kate provides the /usr

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:21, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * file manager [ Konqueror, command line ] Many entries mentioned Bash as file manager, and please tell if Bash is the shell you are using so that I could put it here instead

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 26 October 2006 15:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to

Re: xmms + CD

2006-10-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:56, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have 2 soundcards. I can set the xmms preferences to either one + can play mp3 files through either. But playing a CD with xmms always comes out through card0. Why? I can use cdcd also: it also always puts out sound

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Yura wrote: Thank you. I'll try to set it up.If you have some good tutorial, etc. please send. I'm afraid I don't. Though, the documentation is fine. Regards,

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:00, Colin wrote: Stephen Cormier wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: Make sure that you have these set they work for me. #UPSTYPE apcsmart #DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 UPSTYPE usb DEVICE /dev/usb/hid/hiddev[0-9] You don't have to specify

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:32, michael wrote: hello, Have some new hardware, Intel DQ965GF motherboard Core 2 duo E6600 IDE Cdrom I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what the installer won't detect my cdrom. Perhaps there's one out there I haven't found yet? I've

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:37, Bruno Buys wrote: Anybody having problems with gnupg and apt-get saying 'no pubkey found...'? This is an etch install, apt-get complains not founding key even after I do a vmtesting:/home/bruno# gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv 4F368D5D gpg:

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:37, Bruno Buys wrote: 1F41B907 Actually you need the debian-keyring package installed then gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --export --armour 1F41B907 | apt-key add - To get Marillat's key into the secure apt keyring. Stephen -- GPG

Re: ktorrent

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:10, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: where ktorrent save the tmp file . i downloaded 1 CD of 5 CD set of a torrent. where this cd is sotred ?? If you did not change the default then the file would be in one of the ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor* directories that

Re: added RAM, RAM not recognized by debian

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 28 September 2006 12:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 17:54:03 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Your kernel probably is not configured to recognize more than 1GB. - -- (Somewhat on topic anyway) - I've just ordered an upgrade for my box

Re: ALSA configuration strangeness, no card0 but card1 present?

2006-09-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get Debian configured on my laptop, and I'm unable to get sound properly configured. I've read all of the ALSA troubleshooting guides, and they say, in short, that if you don't have a 0 card listed in

Re: activate dhcp at boot time

2006-09-19 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:53, Robert Epprecht wrote: The machine in question was configured *not* to do dhcp at boot time. (root has to do 'pump' each time users want to connect to the internet.) Now I want to change this. What's the Debian way to activate automatic connection to the

Re: alsa troubles

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:05, Albert Dengg wrote: Hi on one of my machines i have some troubles with alsa. the system has 2 soundcard, one onboard via card (which is disabled in the bios but for some reason shows up in lspci nevertheless), and a creative sb live 1024 running with

Re: Dual CPU query

2006-09-05 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 00:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading the e-mail regarding issues upgrading cpu, I decided to check my Dual CPU server to see what /proc/cpuinfo said. This is what is says: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-04 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 04 September 2006 03:27, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:36, Stephen Cormier wrote: Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others have told where to get it use glxgears -printfps without the quotes. If you feel like being verbose

Re: install kernel from testing on sarge

2006-09-04 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 01:50, Vladi Lemurov wrote: Hi there! I use debian sarge and would like to install the latest kernel from testing (I need it to set dvb interfaces down without getting the server hung), but keep all other packets from stable distribution, so I could update

Re: bttv tuner card and tuner problems

2006-09-03 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:48, glenn mehesy wrote: I have now been working on this for quite some time and cannot figure this out. I am trying to get my leadtek tuner with a bttv chip working. It is an NTSC tuner but debian etch insists on setting the tuner to type 5 which is a PAL type.

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 03 September 2006 11:55, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find glxgears. where is glxgears now ? Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since

Re: X -configure failed

2006-08-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 18 August 2006 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: When I did X -configure as root the X command appeared to terminate normally but still left me with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. wc just returns 0's on that file when asked about it. So what package am I maybe missing that would allow

Re: apt-get source question

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote: I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an answer to this problem. I want to get a source package from the testing release, not from stable, so I did this: apt-get -t testing source packagename It does not seem to

Re: Installation problems

2006-07-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 27 July 2006 01:00, Rob Hurle wrote: Hi Stephen, Thanks for your wonderful suggestion: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote: On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote: Dear All, I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an Intel

Re: location of header file after install gsl

2006-07-20 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 20 July 2006 22:20, Fred J. wrote: gsl_math.h apt-file search gsl_math.h libgsl0-dev: usr/include/gsl/gsl_math.h So installing the above package would probably help. Setphen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpdpIJGw9G2B.pgp Description:

Re: Installation problems

2006-07-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote: Dear All, I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb of memory. It has two SATA disc drives. Unfortunately, none of the peripherals is recognised - not the

Re: Package question

2006-07-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 09 July 2006 12:55, Aurélien Morelle wrote: Hi, I've done apt-file update and then apt-file search msgfmt returns nothing. It makes me think it comes not from a package... strange. Works here running a mixed testing/unstable AMD64 system. $ apt-file search msgfmt gettext:

Re: sound and tv card

2006-07-07 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 07 July 2006 11:30, Felipe Leon wrote: I could not find possibilities to connect the tv card to the sb live with an audio cable or smthing like that. any ideas on this? Are you sure about that even my old cheap Zoltrix had a line out that you connected to the line in on the sound

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 26 June 2006 20:38, Martin Paraskevov wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? - martin $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.6.44.2 Candidate: 0.6.44.2 Version table: *** 0.6.44.2 0

Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin

2006-06-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 22 June 2006 06:47, Geoff Reidy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Nvidia GX 5200 (128MB RAM) xorg 7.0.22 nvidia binary driver 1.0-8762 linux-source-2.6.16 (home-rolled kernel) As the subject mentions, I get good speed in Planet Penguin, and also in Google Earth, and

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 06:11, CRASSlogic wrote: Greets all. I recently installed Debian on my PowerMac G4. Having used OS X for a long time, i've acquired a perfectly organized library of full CD's, no drm, in the aac format. I've recently learned about how aac and mp3 are proprietary

Re: how to get libX*.la ?

2006-06-19 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:45, LeVA wrote: Hi! I'm trying to compile a software which needs a lot of libX*.la files. Which package(s) contains these files? (I thought the -dev packages does) $ dpkg -l [...] libxcursor-dev libxcursor1 [...] xlibs-dev xlibs-static-dev [...] Install

Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

2006-06-12 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 12 June 2006 04:32, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi  Kent, I'd love to see your x info and conf files. I tried a few times but got only 1 card to work and the other did nothing. TIA! Kev When I was running AGP PCI cards for the dual head I had to have the BIOS set to boot off the PCI card

Re: Building rawimage fails

2006-06-07 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 08 June 2006 00:55, Bruno Buys wrote: I'm trying to build rawimage, a kfile plugin for raw image formats (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30971). The problem is, I'm failing with the same error of this guy: *** Warning: Linking the shared library kfile_rawimage.la

Re: non-free nvidia driver on etch?

2006-05-30 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 13:12, Jonathan Pearce wrote: I am running etch. I installed the legacy nvidia driver to work around a bug with the 8178 release. I am ready to move back to the current version, but I can't sort out the situation with the etch the nvidia drivers. Some googling turns

Re: How to test a hard drive

2006-05-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 27 May 2006 19:36, thierry wrote: Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is still a problem in disregarding it right away Thank you for help. Thierry Go To the manufacturer's

Re: repetitive apt-get upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 26 May 2006 08:21, Daniel D Jones wrote: What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's listed again. Is this

Re: How do I use the linux-headers with the linux-source?

2006-05-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:59, Marco wrote: #locate autoconf.h /usr/include/asm-i486/autoconf.h /usr/include/asm-x86_64/autoconf.h /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h Any idea? Have you configured/compiled the source tree yet? $ locate autoconf.h /usr/include/asm-i386/autoconf.h

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 15 May 2006 13:26, Dov Oxenberg wrote: Would some PLEASE clue me in on what the secret key is to enable the desired selection? Try pressing the spacebar when the selection is highlighted. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, Debian users. I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be: everything appears very big. Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? And a way to make it be what it should? When I run

Re: gpg error when using hkp

2006-04-23 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 23 April 2006 21:37, Paul Johnson wrote: $ gpg --search-keys [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: searching for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from hkp server pgp.mit.edu gpgkeys: HTTP search error 7: couldn't connect: eof gpg: key [EMAIL PROTECTED] not found on keyserver gpg: keyserver internal error gpg:

Re: C/C++ toolchain

2006-04-23 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Monday 24 April 2006 00:51, IraqiGeek wrote: Hi all, Is there a simple way to install a C/C++ toolchain into debian (sarge) without having to select each package manually under aptitude (nor installing everything under the devel category)? I have installed GCC, G++, glibc, make,

Re: Xorg problems when trying to play videos onto a TV with an nvidia card

2006-04-13 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:31, Thomas McLean wrote: Section Module     Load    GLcore     Load    bitmap     Load    dbe     Load    ddc     Load    dri     Load    extmod     Load    freetype     Load    glx     Load    int10     Load    record     Load    speedo    

Re: not able to install kio-locate

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:18, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I downloaded kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb from http://arminstraub.de/browse.php?page=programs_kiolocatelang=en . But I am unable to install it on Debian Sid running kde 3.5.2. The exact errors are $sudo dpkg -i

Re: packages.debian.org status update?

2006-02-04 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 03 February 2006 03:58, Scott wrote: [If there is a better forum for these questions, please advise and I'll redirect. Thank you] Is there any more current information than what can be found here?: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00035.html That report is

SOLVED - Abit AV8, Alsa and 5.1 Surround Sound

2006-02-02 Thread Stephen Cormier
Well did not ask a question but figured I would share my solution to my problem of getting the surround sound working on my Abit AV8 motherboard. The actual problem was no sound coming from the rear speakers when they were hooked up according to the colour coding of the wires. The solution use

Re: odd apt error

2006-01-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:12, Preston Boyington wrote: Would someone mind helping me with this? I was doing an update/upgrade and it keeps dying with this error message: Unpacking libiec61883-0 (from .../libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Re: odd apt error

2006-01-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:52, Stephen Cormier wrote: That would be dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc

Re: Building deb package frome installed files

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:05, Виталий Ищенко wrote: I have installed package i.e. apt-get install openoffice.org-core -t unstable then i've deleted file openoffice.org-core_2.0.1-1_i386.deb And now i want to build back this package with files, which have been installed with apt-get

Re: apt-get error

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:38, Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: Hi, I'm getting following errors after apt-get upgrade.I'm using Sarge 3.1 and tried to upgrade after adding testing unstable repositories to my source.lst file.All packages were successfully downloaded.

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

2005-12-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:39, Dom wrote: I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386). I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under

Re: dev address of serial ata

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The disk I ordered turned out to be SATA. I thought I ordered ATA. I was wrong. If the master in IDE0 is /dev/hda and the master in IDE1 is /dev/hdc, the master in SATA1 is /dev/hde? Thanks! H Mine shows up as /dev/sda

Re: gcc internal error

2005-12-10 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:40, Marty Landman wrote: UNCLELEO:~# memtest86 bash: memtest86: command not found UNCLELEO:~# find / -name memtest86 UNCLELEO:~# Did above as root. Or could this indicate a hosed install? You download from the web and burn the memtest86 iso image to CD then

Re: Xine Skips Horribly

2005-11-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On November 27, 2005 03:03 pm, Jacob Jennings wrote: How does one go about verifying that DMA is enabled on their harddrive? HappyTux:/home/stephen# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on)

Re: List files of installed package (apt?)

2005-11-24 Thread Stephen Cormier
On November 24, 2005 11:01 am, Lupu wrote: Hi, Is there a way I can list all files of an installed package in Debian - something similar to rpm -ql [package name] in Red Hat. Mike Since others have mentioned dpkg -L if you ever need to do the same for a package that is not installed then

Re: Alsa card activation order

2005-11-20 Thread Stephen Cormier
On November 20, 2005 04:54 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote: I can think of two ways to fix the problem. But I want to know the Debian Way(tm). My problem is simple. I have two sound cards in my computer. But I want my onboard sound to be the first sound card recognized by Alsa in both its

Re: Alsa card activation order

2005-11-20 Thread Stephen Cormier
On November 20, 2005 11:02 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote: 2005/11/21, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On November 20, 2005 04:54 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote: I can think of two ways to fix the problem. But I want to know the Debian Way(tm). My problem is simple. I have two sound

Re: Can't get grip to normalize before encoding.

2005-10-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 29, 2005 01:01 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Where do you get normalize-mp3? It is part of the normalize-audio package. $ apt-file search normalize-mp3 normalize-audio: usr/bin/normalize-mp3 normalize-audio: usr/share/man/man1/normalize-mp3.1.gz Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU

Re: Everything SSH related is dead

2005-10-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 18, 2005 10:15 am, Graham Smith wrote: Hi, Having a touch of trouble with SSH. Anything that goes near SSH fails horribly with a segfault. For instance running SSH at a command prompt gives: Oct 18 14:13:06 localhost kernel: ssh[6763]: segfault at 00014a00432c rip

Re: ip address

2005-10-13 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 14, 2005 02:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use this. # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 # Iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static      address 192.168.0.110      netmask 255.255.255.0      gateway

Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?

2005-10-07 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 7, 2005 07:44 pm, Bruno Buys wrote: One vendor told me there's a way to enable some double channel configuration, if you have two mem modules, that goes way faster. I didn't find it on my BIOS. Is there such a thing, and how do I enable it? I have the same motherboard as you and

Re: root cannot su to normal user now

2005-09-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On September 29, 2005 09:49 pm, Wang Xu wrote: Hi All, I have 2 linux computer, one is running testing, and the other is running unstable. Now the sid one cannot use `su' to change from root to any user, including itself. cannot su - xx cannot su xx cannot su xx -c 'command' but the

Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?

2005-08-30 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 30, 2005 10:06 am, Robert Cates wrote: Hi, I would like to install and use Debian 3.1 AMD64, but I can't seem to find an iso to download. Can somebody please tell me where I can get the install iso files? Or is it the same as the ia64? Thanks, Robert I got mine from the links

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