Re: undesirable dependencies on x11

2007-04-11 Thread Bob
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:02 +0800, Bob wrote: 8< snip why do libx11-6: and x11-common in come with php5-gd & imagemagick It comes down to the fact that imagemagick is built with support for the X picture formats for flexibility. This requires the some X libs. Not the WHO

Wireless Network & Password?

2007-04-11 Thread Jiri Svoboda
Hi all ;) is there a possibility to use a password with iwconfig on wireless connection? I need! to use code / password to connect. / Jiri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:29:51AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > I'm a happy Debian user and will not move to RH. But. As I wrote in > my question, I'm _forced_ to use RHEL4 at my job. > > Since more debianites will have been in this situation, I think it's > not inappropriate to ask on t

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] >>> if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running >>> Lenny >>> (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it

Re: undesirable dependencies on x11

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:02 +0800, Bob wrote: > I use Gallery2 and although I install that by hand I use apt to install > all it's prerequisites, in sarge I'd run (removing the -s when I'm happy) > apt-get install -s -V apache php4 mysql-server-4.1 netpbm ffmpeg dcraw > jhead zip unzip php4-mysql

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 07:14 +0100, andy wrote: > So, for the benefit of this newbie: > > If I change my sources list to reflect "testing" rather than "etch", > will my system just automagically continue to upgrade itself? Yes. Just fine. There will be heartache from time to time, but it is *TESTI

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread andy
Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Joe Hart writes:

undesirable dependencies on x11

2007-04-11 Thread Bob
I use Gallery2 and although I install that by hand I use apt to install all it's prerequisites, in sarge I'd run (removing the -s when I'm happy) apt-get install -s -V apache php4 mysql-server-4.1 netpbm ffmpeg dcraw jhead zip unzip php4-mysql php4-gd imagemagick and I'm updating that command fo

Re: funny wireless internet with a *non* wireless modem

2007-04-11 Thread steef
Matthew K Poer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: hi folks, i have a fast broadband connection, my provider is at home dot nl. the connection worked like a charm till about two weeks ago, when the mailserver slowed down significantly, but the browser kept wor

udev trouble

2007-04-11 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now, following the release notes and letting it replace devfs with udev. All worked fine. The fifth machine was a mess. It's got two PATA drives, on the first PATA channel on a motherboard wit

Re: Aptitude Advanced Searching

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > I've been reading the documentation on Aptitude available in > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README, trying to figure out how to search based > on multiple terms but I just can't get it quite right. > > As a test I've been trying to searc

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:07:39PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Joe Hart writes: > >

Aptitude Advanced Searching

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been reading the documentation on Aptitude available in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README, trying to figure out how to search based on multiple terms but I just can't get it quite right. As a test I've been trying to search for a non-official packag

debian Xen and installing guest

2007-04-11 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one has tried to install a RHEL5 guest in a debian xen setup. I have installed deb 4 (amd64) and tried pulling out the xen kernel and the installer initrd, but I get a error 22 message. I have installed a deb i386 guest on the box which is working fine Thanks Alex si

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:07 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, Jo

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Joe Hart writes: > > > > if you're running Etc

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-11 Thread s. keeling
Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Chris Lale wrote: > > David E. Fox wrote: > > > >> [...] > >> Normally, one should just reply-to list, and it's considered bad form > >> to mail the poster directly, unless asked to do so. > >> > > > > In Thunderbird (Icedove), either > > > > click on "Repl

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Joe Hart writes: > > > if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny > > > (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet) >

Re: [debian-user] The List Standard

2007-04-11 Thread s. keeling
Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [much generally good info snipped] > > that virtually everybody who posts to the list is also subscribed to the > list, so that you don't normally need to cc. them. Not true. Anyone or anything can post to the list. Agreed that additional Cc:'s (un

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe Hart writes: > > if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny > > (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet) > > Lenny (Testing) is co

Re: Netgear WPN311 Wireless G problems

2007-04-11 Thread Grok Mogger
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 19:41:22 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [ short summary: The card is recognized as ath0 with wireless extensions, but it does not associate with any access point, lists "Signal level: 0/94". This is on Ubuntu Edgy. ] [...]

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:03:31PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > > > I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by > > working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4

sarge -> etch: usbnet

2007-04-11 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi! Here another problem I had (still have :-() moving to etch. I have a zaurus which under sarge I could connect to using usbnet and hotplug. But now this doesn't work anymore. In /etc/network/interfaces I have: allow-hotplug usb0 mapping hotplug script grep map usb0 iface u

solved?: grub ide=nodma not working with CF card - boot delay

2007-04-11 Thread geoff
I think I solved the ide=nodma not being recognized problem by compiling and installing a custom kernel. I turned [b]off[/b] the option [b]CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO[/b] in the .config file. This option is set to "Y" in the standard Debian 4.0 kernel. From 'menuconfig' help for this option:

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-11 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:45:13PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, I would prefer if [OT] messages would be kept [OOTL] > > > (out of this list) > > > > I said this once before and got shot

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:05:47PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > I am sure that he really meant the other way, "a RHEL User's > introduction to Debian (and its far superior tools and ways)" > > I hope. I really hope. But since he is is using RH, I am afraid not. > > In any case, RPM dependency

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > Hi All, > > > I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by > working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 > and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for > a

Re: ipw3945 Etch amd64

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Panen
On 4/11/07, Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:45:23 +0200 "Mark Panen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I download ipw3945 and the kernel module for it. > > I "modprobe ipw3945" and lsmod shows it's there. > > But "/etc/init.d/ipw3945d start > * Not starting ip

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/11/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: > On 4/10/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: >> >> > In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to >> > Etch, I wanted to review the informat

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 12-apr-2007, at 1:05, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on

Re: Problem downloading Debian DVDs...

2007-04-11 Thread Redefined Horizons
Joey and Douglas, Thank you for your assistanve. I am already using an older version of Etch. I thought since Debian had made Etch the official "stable" release of Debian that I would now upgrade to the "testing" release. The computer I want to install Debian on does not have an internet connect

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 01:29 +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > On 12-apr-2007, at 1:05, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > >>> > >>> I've got a great opportunity to promote ope

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 12-apr-2007, at 1:05, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to us

Re: sarge -> etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:01:53AM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi, > > doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I > so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to > aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed: > So my question:

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:06:54 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, and swfdec0.4 in all it's YouTubey glory is in unstable now. > > Thanks! 'aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree' and one more non-free > piece is gone. > > Regards, >

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > > > I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by > > working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 > > and need to get

Re: OT: Thanks to the developers

2007-04-11 Thread Firebeam
charles norwood wrote: I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a complex process manageable by normal users. AOL. I did the task on Tuesday, on a (pseudo)machine I use at work. No problem at a

sarge -> etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed: Before the upgrade I did still with sarge sources an "aptitude dist-upgrade" - with the resul

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by > working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 > and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for > a Debian user'

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:04:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > This is just amazing! Works awesome! I wish I had known about it earlier. I > think it definitely deserver one of those Debian package-of-the-day > entries Not the same, but: http://www.debian-administration.o

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:39:28PM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > QUESTIONS: > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? Look in /proc/sys/kernel ... there are several shared memory parameters there. [Not sure about the rest] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: funny wireless internet with a *non* wireless modem

2007-04-11 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: > hi folks, > > i have a fast broadband connection, my provider is at home dot nl. > > the connection worked like a charm till about two weeks ago, when the > mailserver slowed down significantly, but the browser kept working as > fast a

a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi All, I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4, but only found intro's in the oth

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:25:09PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: > On 4/10/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: > > > >> In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to > >> Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sar

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:24 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two machines. > > machine_local > machine_remote > > machine_local is under my control (say my personal desktop). I have root > access to it (say root_local) and can pretty much do whatever I want on it. > It curre

Re: booting into fresh etch installation

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 21:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Sven Arvidsson on 11/04/07 20:51, wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:37 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > >> hda: lost interrupt > >> hda: lost interrupt > >> hda: lost interrupt > >> > >> At least the error message was easy enough to remember! > >>

Re: Problem downloading Debian DVDs...

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:47:51AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I see that Debian has a new release out, and I was going to try to > download the DVDs for the testing version. I tried to download the > .iso images from this page: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-d

Re: Adding module to apache

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, ss11223 wrote: I am using apache2 in etch. As far as I can tell debian does not incude mod_logio in the distribution. I want to us this to monitor the actual line traffic from my server. (after dynamic compression) How would I add this module to my server? On my apache2

Re: OT: Thanks to the developers

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the > past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch! > Debian's policy has never been to be the sexiest distribution around, > and while media etc. like to hype

funny wireless internet with a *non* wireless modem

2007-04-11 Thread steef
hi folks, i have a fast broadband connection, my provider is at home dot nl. the connection worked like a charm till about two weeks ago, when the mailserver slowed down significantly, but the browser kept working as fast as ever. my provider could not tell me the cause of all this so i deci

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:28:41 -0500 "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Manon, > on my very old Amiga, but logical and easy to remember. Thank you so Ah, Amiga. Excellent machine. I wish I had the space to get mine put and running again. -- Regards _ / ) "The

Re: booting into fresh etch installation

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Sven Arvidsson on 11/04/07 21:22, wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 21:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: How do I check SMART data? In fact, what is SMART data? SMART gathers data, trying to predict disk failures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring%2C_Analysis%2C_and_Reporting_Technology You

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Hardy
andy on 11/04/07 20:45, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: andy on 11/04/07 20:12, wrote: John Hasler wrote: If I wanted to remain current (w/out being bleeding-edge ala Sid), would I now be adjusting my apt-sources-list to look for "testing" rather than "etch" as they do now? How risky is this on a

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:45 +0100, andy wrote: > Adam, your response was quite provocative! > > While I am fascinated by computers and have enjoyed my forays into > programming and networking I cannot claim to be anything more than a > user who would prefer a trouble-free computing experience, b

Adding module to apache

2007-04-11 Thread ss11223
I am using apache2 in etch. As far as I can tell debian does not incude mod_logio in the distribution. I want to us this to monitor the actual line traffic from my server. (after dynamic compression) How would I add this module to my server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread steef
Manon Metten wrote: On 4/11/07, *Florian Kulzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 13:16:57 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh wrote: > > > > On 11 Apr 2007, steefvanduin AT zonnet DOT nl wrote: > > > >

Re: Just installed lenny/sid ... wanted etch

2007-04-11 Thread Dusty Wilson
If you're stuck with only that CD and can't burn another (I was in this position a couple days ago), you can still use the Testing NetInst CD to install Etch. Just before you are about to choose the packages to install (before you've opened the menu item in the installer to start that (if you alr

Re: debian vps hosting recommendation

2007-04-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/04/07 16:18), Mark Hansen wrote: > Can anybody recommend a good, inexpensive, VPS hosting provider? > Checkout http://www.bluelinux.co.uk Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Raju. > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 11.04.2007 21:24: >> Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account >> (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those >> files onto machine_local as if they were local files? > > Of course

Re: Nvidia-OpenGl "Library not found" problem, but not as root...

2007-04-11 Thread Raphael
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:47:56PM +, Ed G wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:01:46 +0200, Raphael wrote: > > > Hi Users > > > > as a normal user, I can't start googleearth (all version, incl. the > > newest). but, if I make: xhost +; then start googleearth as root, it > > work correct. > > Is

Re: Problem downloading Debian DVDs...

2007-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Redefined Horizons wrote: > I see that Debian has a new release out, and I was going to try to > download the DVDs for the testing version. You do realize that the DVDs for testing are not the same as those for the new release, right? In fact they haven't been built since well *before* the release

Re: booting into fresh etch installation

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 21:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > How do I check SMART data? In fact, what is SMART data? SMART gathers data, trying to predict disk failures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring%2C_Analysis%2C_and_Reporting_Technology You should be able to use smartmontools to insp

debian vps hosting recommendation

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Hansen
Can anybody recommend a good, inexpensive, VPS hosting provider? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: booting into fresh etch installation

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Sven Arvidsson on 11/04/07 20:51, wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:37 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt At least the error message was easy enough to remember! I just ran netinst with the latest stable iso and all went well. Then while booting

Re: booting into fresh etch installation

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:37 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > hda: lost interrupt > hda: lost interrupt > hda: lost interrupt > > At least the error message was easy enough to remember! > > I just ran netinst with the latest stable iso and all went well. Then while > booting, I get this steady stream o

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread andy
Adam Hardy wrote: andy on 11/04/07 20:12, wrote: John Hasler wrote: Joe Hart writes: if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet) Lenny (Testing) is complete. It just happens to be nearly id

booting into fresh etch installation

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Hardy
hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt At least the error message was easy enough to remember! I just ran netinst with the latest stable iso and all went well. Then while booting, I get this steady stream of error msgs. I'm using a Asus laptop motherboard with 2 Fujitsu M

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Raju. Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 11.04.2007 21:24: > Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account > (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those > files onto machine_local as if they were local files? Of course. Search for sshfs; it works just per

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Hardy
andy on 11/04/07 20:12, wrote: John Hasler wrote: Joe Hart writes: if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet) Lenny (Testing) is complete. It just happens to be nearly identical to Etch at

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/11/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 13:16:57 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh wrote: > > > > On 11 Apr 2007, steefvanduin AT zonnet DOT nl wrote: > > > > >> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel > > >> t

Re: Netgear WPN311 Wireless G problems

2007-04-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 19:41:22 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [ short summary: The card is recognized as ath0 with wireless extensions, but it does not associate with any access point, lists "Signal level: 0/94". This is on Ubuntu Edgy. ] [...] > When I try to scan, I

using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Let's say I have two machines. machine_local machine_remote machine_local is under my control (say my personal desktop). I have root access to it (say root_local) and can pretty much do whatever I want on it. It currently runs Debian. Let's say the user name on machine_local is user_local. machi

Re: Just installed lenny/sid ... wanted etch

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Curt Howland on 11/04/07 18:01, wrote: Mr. Hardy, that's a wonderful story. Yes, sometimes people forget to update the "automatic" pages, since "daily build" means exactly that. It's not the Stable release, because the stable release doesn't have daily builds. It's _stable_. I'm very glad to

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-11 Thread andy
John Hasler wrote: Joe Hart writes: if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet) Lenny (Testing) is complete. It just happens to be nearly identical to Etch at the moment. Thanks steef, Jo

Etch, unexplained reboots?

2007-04-11 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
We're examining this, but a system at work has for the last two nights rebooted unexpectedly. The logs show: Apr 10 04:15:59 dhserver shutdown[4111]: shutting down for system reboot Apr 11 02:10:33 dhserver shutdown[6717]: shutting down for system reboot The system had been tracking Etch prior to

Re: ipw3945 Etch amd64

2007-04-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:45:23 +0200 "Mark Panen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I download ipw3945 and the kernel module for it. > > I "modprobe ipw3945" and lsmod shows it's there. > > But "/etc/init.d/ipw3945d start > * Not starting ipw3945 regulatory daemon, driver not loaded." > > How

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Thilo Six
Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 11.04.2007 19:49: > Thilo Six wrote: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html > > From there, I get: > < the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live > < 2007 to unstable. > > Does

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 13:16:57 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh wrote: > > > > On 11 Apr 2007, steefvanduin AT zonnet DOT nl wrote: > > > > >> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel > > >> to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this? > > >

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: On 4/10/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: > In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to > Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I > downloaded a huge info

Re: preferred mail setup to let users decide on using spamassassin or not

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:35:57AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hello, > > Following a thread here about fetchmail/getmail, is started playing > with getmail. > > My current setup is as follows: fetchmail gets the mail for multiple > users and delivers to exim4. Exim then passes the message

Re: Audio

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:31:47AM -0400, Lennart Andersen wrote: > Hi All, > > I need sme help with a sound issue, I have upgraded to and AMD2 chip and MB, > the audi device is made by nvidia > - > > lnux:~# lspci | grep -i audio > 00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP

Re: OT: Thanks to the developers

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > charles norwood wrote: > >I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All > >went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a > >complex process manageable by normal users. > > Me

Re: sed command spanning multiple lines

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:22:16PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Is it possible to spread a sed command over multiple lines, to improve > readability (for the sake of future maintenance)? If so, what > character is used to break the line and what are the rules? > > For example, I would like t

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/10/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: > In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to > Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I > downloaded a huge info file (kernel-doc-2.6.8) successfully. It >

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/11/07, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:50 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > I've tried various settings, but with no result. > Although Dutch is my native language, I like US English to stay the > default language on my system. > I prefer eg. US 'Cancel' over N

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-11 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel >> to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this? You can do that with a 'Compose' key. Here [1] is a guide for GNOME/GTK+. Y

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070411 12:42]: > I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to > TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I have been using teTeX under Etch to generate a variety of complicated documents, together with h

Re: Bread

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:24 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > Except for what they sell. Aldi, like most other international companies > > caters their business to the location. You can find thing like > > Bitterkoeken in the ALDI here, but I bet they don't have them there. > > The

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 19:49 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Thilo Six wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html > > From there, I get: > < the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live > < 2007 to unstable. > >

Looking for a collection of icons

2007-04-11 Thread Dusty Wilson
Does anyone know if there is some magical Debian package out there that has a good selection of icons? There are quite a few programs I use that don't come with their own icon and it'd be great if there was a good source of icons to use for these programs on my desktop, menubars, menus, drawers,

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thilo Six wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html From there, I get: < the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live < 2007 to unstable. Doesn't concern etch. Having both available on etch, when should *I* upgrade?

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/11/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when is the best time to m

Re: sed command spanning multiple lines

2007-04-11 Thread Cédric Lucantis
> > sed -e 's/\.//g' > -e 's/\,//g' > -e 's/\\//g' "$1" ... but also note that this can be done with a single command (escaping is useless here) : 's/[,/.]//g' -- Cédric Lucantis

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Thilo Six
Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 11.04.2007 19:37: > I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to > TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a > happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when > is the best ti

teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when is the best time to migrate: now, later or should I wait for an automatic upgra

Re: sed command spanning multiple lines

2007-04-11 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le mercredi 11 avril 2007 19:22, Russell L. Harris a écrit : > Is it possible to spread a sed command over multiple lines, to improve > readability (for the sake of future maintenance)? If so, what > character is used to break the line and what are the rules? > > For example, I would like to re-wr

Re: sed command spanning multiple lines

2007-04-11 Thread Björn Keil
Russell L. Harris schrieb: > Is it possible to spread a sed command over multiple lines, to improve > readability (for the sake of future maintenance)? If so, what > character is used to break the line and what are the rules? > > For example, I would like to re-write the command: > > sed -e 's/\./

Re: Creating debian package with ar

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:22:36PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello there, > > Where is this cached .deb file that is being used when I call: > > $ dpkg -i svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb > > thanks, > -- > Mathieu When you use apt-get or similar

sed command spanning multiple lines

2007-04-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
Is it possible to spread a sed command over multiple lines, to improve readability (for the sake of future maintenance)? If so, what character is used to break the line and what are the rules? For example, I would like to re-write the command: sed -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/\,//g' -e 's/\\//g' "$1" | so

Re: IBM x346

2007-04-11 Thread »Steven Ringwald«
Ercan Gunes wrote: Hii all ; I had a new ibm x346 intel xeon and I want to install debian on ibm server. But there is a problem with scsi raid . I created raid 1 from scsi bios. And I start to install new installation. when I came to creating disk , the raid 1 didn’t seem to raid. The

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