Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:08:13 +0900 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > >> I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > >> interested in a list of common how-tos that most people w

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 30 December 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/30/07 21:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2007 7:11 AM, default <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:02:34 -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > >>> It does seem pretty fast. Personally, I use Opera, and it's been > >>> my browser

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/30/07 21:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Dec 30, 2007 7:11 AM, default <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:02:34 -0800, Angus Auld wrote: >> >>> It does seem pretty fast. Personally, I use Opera, and it's been my >>> browser of choi

Re: wine - resource hog

2007-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Dec 29, 2007 9:31 PM, joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wondering if anyone else has trouble using wine? Not most of the time, and the rest of the time, not if I read and follow the instructions. > everytime that i install it, i cannot get the program > that i would like to use

Please ignore

2007-12-30 Thread Tong Sun
Has any one received the following email sent about 12 hours ago? Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:22:00 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "T o n g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Using rsync to download photos from camera thx

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing flash,

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-30 Thread David
default wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:02:34 -0800, Angus Auld wrote: It does seem pretty fast. Personally, I use Opera, and it's been my browser of choice for many moons. Same here. I've tried quite a few browsers, but none keep up with opera for speed. Shame it's not Open Source, but you can

cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just upgraded my etch to lenny, using aptitude. Several runs of aptitude ofer a few days did it. Now the only package that it can't install is postfix-doc, which I suspect I don't need to worry about. I can log i as root on the alt-F! console just fine. That's when I mount the NFS volume that

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Dec 30, 2007 7:11 AM, default <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:02:34 -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > > > It does seem pretty fast. Personally, I use Opera, and it's been my > > browser of choice for many moons. > > Same here. I've tried quite a few browsers, but none keep up with o

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing > flash, mounting usb drive

Re: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, dhcp3-server and dnsmasq

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:21:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dt> I also have the dnsmasq package ... > > My setup is almost the same. A machine I'll > call Router has dnsmasq. Another machine, > LANite, runs dhcp-client and is connected to > Router by an Ethernet crossover cable. L

Re: OOo window in fluxbox

2007-12-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:18:20 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Whenever I open OpenOffice.org writer in my fluxbox setup, the > > window opens with the OOo bar on the top frame, with the OOo menu > > options (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc), rather than the window > > frame with the minimize

debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Rick Dooling
Hello all, I started out on Debian. Moved to Ubuntu for a few months, and then moved back to Debian a couple of years ago. I still find this Ubuntu How-To by David Martin very helpful, and I'm wondering if there is such an animal for Debian. http://www.funnestra.org/ubuntu/gutsy/ I know about D

Re: Weird gnome mount problem

2007-12-30 Thread Julian De Marchi
Any theories, suggestions, tips, thoughts, or anything else that might be useful? Maybe another usb port while in gnome, if your card reader is an external usb device. -- Cheers, Julian De Marchi -- OpenNIC user - http://www.opennicproject.org/ -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoin

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread charlie derr
charlie derr wrote: The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?) It is better to use "aptitude install -f" if aptitude is your package manager of choice. Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Towncat
On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote: > > As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded > > it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox > > /usr/lib/icewea

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread charlie derr
The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?) It is better to use "aptitude install -f" if aptitude is your package manager of choice. Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-gconf-defaults, which

Re: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, dhcp3-server and dnsmasq

2007-12-30 Thread peasthope
Doug & others, Sure enough, the list manager is maintaining the thread even with my messages sent with the Oberon mailer. Good! dt> The resolvconf package makes it a link. ... see the resolvconf man page. Right oh! Unfortunately too much documentation still refers to the "file /etc/resolv.co

Samsung ML-2010 Printer Not Recognized as connected to system

2007-12-30 Thread Eric Brooks
Prior to upgrading my version of Debian on this laptop the Samsung ML-2010 printer was working fine. After the upgrade the printer is no longer recognized as connected to the system by lsusb, though it is seen my usbview. In any case, the GNOME Add Printer utility doesn't recognize the printer as a

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 17:28:48 -0500, charlie derr wrote: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: > > > Setting up debhelper (5.0.63) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: [...] > So I fiddled a bit without succes

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday December 30 2007 12:57:26 Kelly Clowers wrote: [snip] > > Truly incompatible websites are few and far between. Of the few > "incompatible" websites I encounter, most are just forcing > incompatibility by looking at the user-agent string. There is > an extension called user-agent switcher

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote: > As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded > it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox > /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has > different size

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: (...) > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might > mean you need to manually fix this pa

upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread charlie derr
It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: Setting up debhelper (5.0.63) ... Errors were encountered while processing: libgnomevfs2-extra libgnomevfs2-0 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libgnome2-0 gnome-about libbonobo

Miro freezes when using keyboard

2007-12-30 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'm having a problem running Miro. Any keyboard input while having the app focused just causes the GUI to completely freeze. I have noticed that if I have videos downloading, they will keep up downloading until I explicitly shut Miro down, but the

Re: temperature problems

2007-12-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look at the web site http://www.lesswatts.org/ about saving power on Intel systems with Linux but which is also relevant for non-Intel systems. Look especially for the PowerTOP project. In order to gain maximal power savings you will need a newer kernel if not the newest and, maybe, an up-to

Re: OOo window in fluxbox

2007-12-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Whenever I open OpenOffice.org writer in my fluxbox setup, the > window opens with the OOo bar on the top frame, with the OOo menu > options (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc), rather than the window frame > with the minimize, maximize, and close options in the top right > corn

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Adrian Levi
On 31/12/2007, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: > > On 30/12/2007, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 > >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and

Re: Aptitude's reinstall

2007-12-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:35:40PM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:30:15AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Just to clarify

Re: FasterFox considered harmful

2007-12-30 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Dec 29, 2007 5:03 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FasterFox is considered harmful. It breaks spec and connects to web > servers more than two concurrent times, and prefetches a tad too > aggressively for many webservers to keep up properly. Really? What about the 'courteous' o

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Adrian Levi wrote: On 30/12/2007, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." Wernher von Brau

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 30, 2007 10:19 AM, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:32:05 + (UTC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.5 for Linux has just been released. > > > Works fine, looks good. > > > Get it here: > > > > > > http://browser.netscape.com

OOo window in fluxbox

2007-12-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Whenever I open OpenOffice.org writer in my fluxbox setup, the window opens with the OOo bar on the top frame, with the OOo menu options (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc), rather than the window frame with the minimize, maximize, and close options in the top right corner. To get the view of

Re: Vá: Using wdm how to pass "-- -logverbose 6" to startx?

2007-12-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:19:32AM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:02:46PM +0100, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > 2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > you'll need to just press enter to keep i

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:32:05 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.5 for Linux has just been released. > > Works fine, looks good. > > Get it here: > > > > http://browser.netscape.com/downloads > > > > After unpacking, just run ./navigator inside the folder. > > No

Re: bash scripts and files

2007-12-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:17:43PM +, michael wrote: From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian user Subject: bash scripts and files X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.6 required=4.0 tests=

Re: temperature problems

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:03:29PM -0300, gusti wrote: > I have a laptop toshiba portege R100 with a official kernel image > 2.6.18-5-686 and two questions about temperature of my laptop, :-) > > First, the lm-sensors doesn't work ok, the "sensors-detect" detect some > sensor, they are the lm75,

Re: bash scripts and files

2007-12-30 Thread Iñigo Tejedor Arrondo
2007/12/30, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Folks, can somebody point me to an authorative reference that > explains when one needs to put, eg, > #!/bin/bash > as the first line of a script and whether or not it's required/ > surplus/ignored for bash specific files such as .bashrc > and .bash_prof

bash scripts and files

2007-12-30 Thread michael
Folks, can somebody point me to an authorative reference that explains when one needs to put, eg, #!/bin/bash as the first line of a script and whether or not it's required/ surplus/ignored for bash specific files such as .bashrc and .bash_profile many thanks but couldn't find it quickly u

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Dec 30, 2007 9:49 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:42:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On Saturday December 29 2007 17:53:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >

temperature problems

2007-12-30 Thread gusti
Hello, I have a laptop toshiba portege R100 with a official kernel image 2.6.18-5-686 and two questions about temperature of my laptop, :-) First, the lm-sensors doesn't work ok, the "sensors-detect" detect some sensor, they are the lm75, 80 y 84. But when I call "xsensors" I see all the Te

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Dec 30, 2007 8:24 AM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 16:59:09 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > On 12/29/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > > Happy holidays ! > > > > > > > > I have a toshiba satellite 2800-S202, with a yamaha sound

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:42:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Saturday December 29 2007 17:53:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Roll your own kernel.org kernel. Using your existing .config file, it shouldn't be too hard. As th

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:42:16 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On Saturday December 29 2007 17:53:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Roll your own kernel.org kernel. Using your existing .config file, it shouldn't be too hard. >>> As the matte

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 16:59:09 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 12/29/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > Happy holidays ! > > > > > > I have a toshiba satellite 2800-S202, with a yamaha sound card > > > YMF-754. From the lspci output I see: > > > > > > > > > > > > firmw

mouse foibles

2007-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a sid box with 2 videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice. from gdm.conf: ... [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/X1 :0 -layout X1 -dpi 110 -deferglyphs 16 -isolateDevice \"PCI:0:10:0\" vt7 # Definition of the second X server. [server-2nd] name=2nd server command=/us

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2007-12-30 Thread s. keeling
Micaela Gallerini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > the problem seem to be some package I installed that don't be stable > and so block the entire update. Do you know what that package is? Do you use aptitude? If so, see /var/log/aptitude* > I might add the repository unstable I suppose, right? I

Re: Linux kernel image 2.6.23-1 + sound card yamaha YMF-754

2007-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Saturday December 29 2007 17:53:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Saturday December 29 2007 16:59:09 Javier Vasquez wrote: On 12/29/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Javier Vasquez wrote: Happy holidays ! I have a toshiba satellite 2800-S202,

iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Towncat
As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking (gecko:14849): Pango-WARNING

Re: Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:05:57PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:25:00PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: > > > > the synergy program comes with cad thus an integrated cad/cam system. i > > used autocad 10 but that was years ago. actually the driver for the cnc is > > emc2

Re: Vá : Using wdm how to pass "-- -logverbose 6" to startx?

2007-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:02:46PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > I have not .xinitrc > > less ~/.xsession is: > > #!/bin/bash > > ##[Desktop Entry] > #Encoding=hu_HU > #Name=Window maker > #Comment=This session logs you into Window Maker > #Exec=/usr/bin/wmaker ^ Its commented out! -- Chri

Re: Iceweasel version question

2007-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:42:45PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2007-12-28 18:04 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Lenny seems to be stuck at the older (probably vulnerable) version > > because other release-critical bugs were found in the fixed version(s) > > in Sid. > > Not quite. The reas

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-30 Thread Angus Auld
--- Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-12-29T10:50:18-0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > > Tabs...on the -right- hand side. After using > Galeon for **years**, I > > miss this and the 'tab' plug-in only lets me put > tabs on the > > top/bottom/left. > > Did you try the Tab Control add-on? >

ppdev0: registered pardevice

2007-12-30 Thread Towncat
I am using lenny, and did an upgrade lately. Since that I am getting a message repeatedly both on console and in /var/log/messages: ppdev0: registered pardevice What happened? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Adrian Levi
On 30/12/2007, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and > > the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." > > Wernher von Braun > > Reminds