Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 16:38 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Debian provides stable installers with newer kernels at: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ That's great ! Is this officially part of debian ? I

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
not sure if it works with vfat though :-\ good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
://snapshot.debian.org to recover an older stock kernel package, such as linux-image-2.6.32-3-686. ... or just disable KMS (and yes it sounds like a KMS issue). You can find details on [1]. Good luck Wolodja [1] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting#Disabling -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: Missing key issue

2010-07-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 Easy: Just install the debian-multimedia-keyring package as explained on [1] and [2]. have fun Wolodja [1] http://debian-multimedia.org/ [2] http://debian-multimedia.org/faq.php#q1 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
in great detail. In particular the sections Autostart SCIM and Helper packages are relevant. Good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc

aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
dependency resolution, ... greetings Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
server nearby and was unable to find such an option (which, admittedly, might be due to an incomplete search). kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 09:52 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on is. (Or how could the paper

Re: Debian unstable Bug - after dist-upgrade (CUPS removed my Canon Printer drivers)

2010-07-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to install the virtual packages (i.e. cupsys/gs-esp) that should not be needed anymore because they are provided by cups and ghostscript-x respectively. [1] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: Debian unstable Bug - after dist-upgrade (CUPS removed my Canon Printer drivers)

2010-07-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
by ghostscript-x ... So just make sure that you have those packages installed ... [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/cupsys -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
are trying to achieve. Have fun Wolodja [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en [2] http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/ [3] http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
whatever you like I guess that the second option is the best ... good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. would downloading and installing daily netinst cd of squeeze work OK ? The easiest way to deal with this is to install the package in question manually with dpkg -i, reboot and continue the upgrade. good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 20:41 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de writes: There are a variety of ways to *switch* keymaps within X and most desktop environments provide their own tools to do so. (gnome-keyboard-properties for example), but you can always

Re: Is volatile repo bad for secure stable version of Debian?

2010-06-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
a nice day Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
provide any output generated by these programs? Have you read the wiki page I linked? Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Dear Peter, On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:56 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: [... offline bpo kernel install instructions ...] On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 21:45 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: Wolodja -- thanks, that worked!  My NIC now works

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
-- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
, but that should not be necessary given that you have already installed Debian. Have a nice day Wolodja [1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ [2] I assume that you have configured pinning as detailed on the backports.org website. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
://tinyurl.com/32tnklm -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to install 2.6.32 in the previous mail. Have a nice day Wolodja [1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.rhtmlx?check=1lspci=8086:10f0 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: To find out the installed packages repo section.

2010-05-31 Thread Wolodja Wentland
-docs-core: 1:1.5-1 http://ftp.de.debian.orgsqueeze/main [...] Have fun :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ./configure options used for binary packges

2010-05-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of Debian packaging maybe :-p Take a look at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ if you want to know more. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of a deb file. Can you help me to get this steps? Take a look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01325.html and in particular the Stable + backports + simple sid backports section. good luck Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: X freezes with 2.6.32-5; okay with 2.6.26-2

2010-05-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to make sure that you have the firmware package(s) installed. Good luck Wolodja [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581216 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2

Re: Quick Java Question

2010-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
and not installing it from the repositories? The package you are looking for is sun-java6-jre and there is also a sun-java6-plugin which are both available from the non-free component. Kind regards Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R

Re: debian installer ISO: customizing with new packages

2010-05-18 Thread Wolodja Wentland
the necessary steps to create a new debian installer ISO including new packages? I guess you could use simple-cdd for that: http://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD/Howto -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04

Re: Launch some command and leave the console, the command still being executed

2010-05-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. (This is also the case with `gedit ', which is not astonishing.) I would suggest using screen [1] for that, but that might be overkill and you are just looking for nohup. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to break your system. It might happen, but DDs strive for providing high quality packages and these rolling releases can therefore be regarded as being stable in the sense you used above. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
is Binary and Octal and ends with Security Auditing. 3. Newbiedoc http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian_newbie_help_documentation Once you are familiar with Linux and Debian upgrade to testing and enjoy the pleasures of a rolling release. Have fun Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: just fetch .debs without installing

2010-05-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
and the latter contains a couple of other tools you might find useful. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian lenny support time

2010-04-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 15:38 +0200, Israel Garcia wrote: Do you know the support time for debian lenny? Security support for stable releases is typically terminated one year after the next stable release has been made. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 00:29 -0500, francis southern wrote: On 14 April 2010 17:09, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up my udev rules file

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

2010-04-26 Thread Wolodja Wentland
install squeeze directly. Good luck! [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

2010-04-26 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:03 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Are you using the squeeze installer? If so, I would try the stable installer for the installation. Is there a special reason why you

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
for testing a development branch of Debian :) Wolodja -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Which kernel for ThinkPad 760XD ?

2010-04-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
, or did you simply put this over there because you have some sense of humor and you like to make your (somewhat old) config appear less depressing to the others' eyes? A very unique and inventive hostname - if that is the output of 'uname -a' -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
stopped working? Did I miss any change to xorg behaviour? I'm using the latest xorg and kdm/kde on testing. I heard that it's back to xorg.conf again :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568160 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 19:17 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:16 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: You can list the currently installed kernels with aptitude search ~i~n^linux-image and I would suggest to install the linux-image-2.6-amd64 metapackage, which

Re: Going wireless

2010-04-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 15:02 +, T o n g wrote: 1st of all, thanks everyone that responded. On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:16:57 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Check http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse I am particularly fond of wpa_supplicant in roaming mode [1] but you might want

Re: Going wireless

2010-04-09 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. wicd and network-mangler also have curses interfaces, but it is impossible to use them for advanced setups like RADIUS, ... [1] /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples/wpa-roam.conf -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: A recommendation from a friend

2010-04-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 16:21 +0930, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: Well, I never realised someone could get interested in a Mailing Lists personal data !! ;-) Please do not reply to spam and even if you do *don't* quote it. thank you -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-04-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
/timeline -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 13:05 -0400, S Scharf wrote: Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html and follow-ups on debian-devel. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
will be on your own if you do this. Make sure that you create a backup of the file before you patch it. I still don't quite understand why you insist on keeping the -trunk- package though. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568160 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
instead of safe-upgrade -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reinstalling original package maintainers conf file

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
install packagename aptitude -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confmiss reinstall packagename You *might* have to delete/move sysklogd.conf first. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
whatever actions it takes to upgrade packages to their latest version -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
on hardware compatibility. OP: It would also be great if you could include the output of lspci -nn | grep -i ether -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
are traditionally very well supported and I've seen a couple of Debian installtions on X60 thinkpads without any problem. You might want to check: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X60 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
want to keep it, you would have to configure grub accordingly. Which version of grub to you use? --- snip -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-21 Thread Wolodja Wentland
? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. apt-listbugs list $(aptitude -F%p search '~U') Thanks for the aptitude-fu, but I don't think

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
where I can find the source code for that functionality, i'll try to come up with a patch and file a bug against the applicable package. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
was a particularly bad choice and I'm not sure what is the best way to solve this problem. The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. In the short run, an easy thing to do is remove

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
], but I haven't used that and can't comment on its capabilities. [1] http://svn.noreply.org/svn/weaselutils/trunk/apt-listrepository -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
and the old one (i.e. *-trunk-*) is therefore obsolete. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
output of any command that gives errors. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
about mixing up my replies. I'm new here and have been used to working with lists which mess around with the reply to behavior. You might also want to trim your posts and interleave your answers. Welcome to the list. :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: OSSIM

2010-03-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
already told that a reinstall is most definitely the easiest, fastest and safest procedure. But if you want to try it: http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/debian_arch_up/ details the procedure. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to testing three days ago \o/ This means that i can finally remove the EXA line from my xorg.conf! Forgive me my not completely up-to-date information and good luck. :-) [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
... EndSection --- snip --- YMMV ;-) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Synaptics not working after upgrade

2009-12-18 Thread Wolodja Wentland
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics select bug 525467 and post a reply with your configuration it might be much easier to single out. Does the issue occur intermittedly, or after some reproducible steps? (like suspend, 5 seconds after the X session was started, ...) TIA -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of resolution and brightness. Remember that you can always replace components like the HDD and RAM, but that replacing the display is a bit more work. (still possible). You might also want to get yourself an on-site warranty plan and live happily ever after. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: New to Debian

2009-12-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
at the freenode or oftc network. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mutt help (mailcap)

2009-11-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
you with links, but I am very happy with the following in my mailcap: text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: Which javas? (Was java / iceweasel)

2009-11-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/10/msg00140.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:26 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:00:11 Brian Nelson wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chrisrac...@makeworld.com wrote: web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) am curious: what's wrong with

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: comply with recommendations, you can use the User Agent plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 to have Iceweasel report a different User-Agent string. Which is a solution for some people, but a a lot of users don't

Re: Help, the template debian/rules is too simple

2009-11-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 20:25 +0800, waixy zhou wrote: debian/ directory, then i find the file mdebian/rules is too simple, just 3 lines left after eliminating the comments, as follows: #! /usr/bin/make -f

Re: newer python installation

2009-11-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of #!/usr/bin/python[X.Y] because that would mean that I could use them regardless of the Python version env python resolves to in the currently configured environment. If you feel the same write a mail to the debian-python list and tell them about *your* needs. kind regards Wolodja Wentland

Re: newer python installation

2009-11-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:29 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: I would prefer all programs installed via the package manager to use #!/usr/bin/env python[X.Y] instead of #!/usr/bin/python[X.Y] because that would mean that I could use them regardless of the Python version env python resolves

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-24 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 19:00 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: Since a couple of you are recommending maildir, is there an easy way to transisition from mox format to maildir? For example, my indox file is 1.3 GiB and if I delete a message from more than a few days old it can take several minutes

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 17:00 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:31:40PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: Is that also possible with mutt? Why not instead use procmail to file all debian mail in a debian folder. Here's part of my .procmailrc Exactly! :0: *

Re: can exim reject all mail for one recipient?

2009-09-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:30 -0700, Ric Otte wrote: I am running Lenny with exim4 and one user would like all email to him to be rejected. I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, and wonder if there is an easy way to do this with exim. This user basically wants no mail to be

Re: Installing postgresql on Debian Lenny

2009-09-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of: # aptitude search ~i~n^postgresql I also want to advertise the use of the TAB key, which completes a command or path. To see it in action try: # aptiTAB # /etc/init.d/TABTAB # /etc/init.d/postgrTAB with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

2009-08-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. This is unfortunate because nautilus will not work as g-v-m before if started with --no-default-window or --no-desktop. See [1] for a longer discussion on the subject. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00744.html signature.asc Description: Digital

Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Sync all mounted filesystems + u Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode + b Immediately reboot the system. and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Re: libdvdcss availability?

2009-08-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 13:26 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: On 2009-08-11 12:05 (+0200), Olivier Cailloux wrote: - How can I install libdvdcss on my system? (Preferably through aptitude, although if not possible advices on how to do it differently would be appreciated.) I installed them

Re: Package Version Numbers

2009-08-09 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. This will keep apt* from performing unexpected upgrades whenever testing becomes stable. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 21:18 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it mounted automatically within a few seconds. I expecially like the way a device that has a label given to

Re: Security support for Squeeze delayed

2009-07-20 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 16:11 +0200, Soren Orel wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze Is it still actual? I wondered about that as well and was told on #debian-security (OFTC) yesterday that security support for squeeze is still suspended. I am not sure about the reasons for that though.

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package solved that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* packages that depend on it. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
and had checked where I got 'firmware-linux' from. Thanks for spelling it out explicitly in this thread. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

automount - gnome-volume-manager vs. nautilus

2009-06-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi all, I have been using gnome-volume-manager to automount USB/CD/.. media but that no longer works for me. I am *not* running GNOME, but some GNOME related daemons and it seems like I have been bitten by the solutions for bug #507630 [1] and #507630 [2]. The situation with g-v-m and

Re: automount - gnome-volume-manager vs. nautilus

2009-06-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 17:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Wolodja Wentland wrote: Hi all, I have been using gnome-volume-manager to automount USB/CD/.. media but that no longer works for me. I am *not* running GNOME, but some GNOME related Does anybody have good suggestions

Re: automount - gnome-volume-manager vs. nautilus

2009-06-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
because it would require user interaction. Maybe i find some time to write some rules that solve that issue... until then I am happy with halevt and the occasional crypsetup luksOpen ... :-) Wolodja Wentland -- [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521325 [2] http://www.nongnu.org

Re: Debian installation architecture

2009-04-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 23:19 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: Its late and this may be a silly question but should I use the ia64 architecture release to install onto a PC with an Intel Core2 Q9550 CPU (4x2.83GHz)? You need the amd64 flavour of Debian. Wolodja signature.asc Description:

Re: presentation programs on GNU/Linux

2009-04-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:03 +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hi all, Wondering after a recent seminar about what presentation program people prefer on Linux systems. I am really looking for suggestions to improve my own presentations. I use Beamer, which provides all the typographical

Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution

2009-04-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:30 -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: AFAIK fetchmail defaults to delivering your mail by using a local SMTP. This is a Bad Thing (tm), because it can create a lot of problems, YMMV I don't know getmail, but what I like about fetchmail's delivery through the local SMTP

Re: cant update to kde4.2

2009-02-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:17 -0500, raman narasimhan wrote: [ ... snip ... ] whats wrong?? how can i get kde4.2?? KDE4 is available in Debian *experimental*, which is not enabled in your sources.list. If you want to install KDE4 i suggest you follow the procedure given at:

Re: local copy of wikipedia

2008-02-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
the least disk space? What software I need to install/configure/run to have a local copy with the full search functionality? You will need to install MediaWiki and MySQL. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to uzip rar files?

2008-01-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 13:33 +, Pantor wrote: somebody can give ana advice how to unzip rar files, please? Ark does not work. As others on this list already mentioned you need to install unrar to unpack .rar files. To save you some time in the future i would like to introduce you to a little

Re: df -h listing

2007-10-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
can achieve this by sorting the output produced by df/du like this: df -h|sort -k2 The -k2 tells sort to sort by the second column. If you want it sorted in reverse order add the -r option. Hope that answers your question --- Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description

Mailman problems during upgrade sarge-etch

2007-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi, i am doing an upgrade of one of our servers from sarge to etch. It ran quite smoothly, just mailman gives me a headache. It is the last package which needs to get upgraded and i am stuck with the following error right now: --- snip --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# aptitude dist-upgrade

Re: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend

2007-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:19 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on a ThinkPad T60. Welcome. I am running Debian on a T60 as well and am very pleased with it so far. I guess you know http://thinkwiki.org ? It is a great source for

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