Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote: > So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 > processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, > opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a > crawl and

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 4/4/2010 11:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: You can try adding swap but I doubt it will help much as the disk is so old and slow. Adding another 128MB or 256MB of memory would probably help the most with that system, but given that it has a sub 200MHz 486 class processor, you really need a more m

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:00:01 -0500 francis southern shared this with us all: >You could also try Tiny Core Linux. http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ >I haven't used it much myself, but I've heard it described as "the >next Damn Small Linux". I use lenny with fluxbox on a Toshiba 32MB RAM 10 GB hard dr

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread francis southern
You could also try Tiny Core Linux. http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ I haven't used it much myself, but I've heard it described as "the next Damn Small Linux". On 5 April 2010 00:20, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2010 08:28:53 pm Tech Geek wrote: >> >You can try adding swap but I doubt it

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 04 April 2010 08:28:53 pm Tech Geek wrote: > >You can try adding swap but I doubt it will help much as the disk is so > > old > > and slow > The hard drive is quite recent and supports up to UDMA2 speeds although I > too think that adding swap space won't make a difference. > > >Adding an

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Joachim wrote: > You are shooting the messenger. lshw is a userspace program, not a > device driver. If running it locks up your system, this is almost > surely a bug in the kernel. Userspace programs run as root, such as lshw, have access to the entire machine memory, registers, and data b

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-05 00:19 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing > /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no > remaining hidden damage on my server. The lesson from this problem is that it is a bad idea to put /var on e

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Tech Geek
>You can try adding swap but I doubt it will help much as the disk is so old and slow The hard drive is quite recent and supports up to UDMA2 speeds although I too think that adding swap space won't make a difference. >Adding another 128MB or 256MB of memory would probably help the most with that

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Tech Geek put forth on 4/4/2010 10:33 PM: > So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 > processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, > opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a > crawl and becomes slow and

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: > Your analogy, regardless of how cute, sarcastic, and applicable you believe > it to be doesn't fit.  If I run lshw, it will lock the system every time, > not only after adding salt to the machine for

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:33, Tech Geek wrote: > Is there some kind of min. system requirements for running GNOME? Are there > any tricks to make the system more responsive? Would adding swap help? Right > now my system does not have any swap partition. There usually are minimum system requireme

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: > On 2010-04-04 17:19, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing >> /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully >> there's no >> remaining hidden damage on my server. I don't think I'll ever be

Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Tech Geek
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a crawl and becomes slow and sluggish. The system load increase up tp 5, the C

Re: Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-04-04 Thread Joey Morris
Pall Gone wrote on Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:38:14AM +0100: > Hi Joey > > I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. > > > Now here is where it gets strange. Testing a workaround... > Ha, pressing a key and it works. Funny... > I've tried to delay it before, but in the background, where this doesn

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 17:19, Stan Hoeppner wrote: With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no remaining hidden damage on my server. I don't think I'll ever be messing with lshw again. It could be that it expects

Problems since upgrading to Squeeze

2010-04-04 Thread ja123 huang
Since my first upgrade to Squeeze, I have encountered three major issues. 1. There is no KDE option in the kdm session menu. The default is gnome. 2. Intermittently, the system failed to boot, resulting in a blank screen and disabled keyboard and mouse. Logs show DRM error. 3. My RT2500 pci card h

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread ja123 huang
The problem is intermittent. How often have you been booting up your system since you 'fixed' the problem?

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> I have been seeing problem with X not starting properly without using> startx. you may want to give that a try.> also you may want to check the /var/log directory for Xorg.log and> gdm.log (?).Running `sudo startx` appears to have the same effect as when `gdm` is starting;  I see a black scre

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-04 17:03:30, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:57:09 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: > > > $ apt-cache show lshw > > > > ... > > > > Description: information about hardware configuration > > A small tool to provide detailed information on the h

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > They give you a short DHCP lease and no renewals. DHCP lease time > varies from ISP to ISP. Generally, the less you pay per month, the > shorter the DHCP lease time. They force *you* to hang up on *them*. Dial on demand makes this fairly easy to deal with. -- John Hasl

Re: How to read log files

2010-04-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I just came across a page that might help you with the subject. > > > > I was looking for something else and stumbled across this. > Thanks, Wayne! That page has already been read and bookmarked long ago! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-

Re: How to read log files

2010-04-04 Thread Wayne
Dotan Cohen wrote: Mar 28 09:14:19 sfd kernel: [ Â Â 0.00] Linux version 2.6.31-20-generic (bui...@palmer) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic) Doesn't look like Debian to me... Ubuntu is a Debian derivativ

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: > > thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a > specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. > For someone like me this name does not say much. Is there a way to > find which module be

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:12:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > It still happens with static nameservers of Google and OpenDNS. > It's the ISP This is sounding more and more like an expired DHCP lease. You really need to investigate this, as I suggested earlier. ISPs really don't want dial-u

interfaces - proper configuration

2010-04-04 Thread Axton
I am trying to set up the /etc/network/interfaces script properly so that all interfaces are started/stopped properly by /etc/init.d/networking. I have this set up correctly, mostly, I think, but there is a flurry of warning messages on start of the /etc/init.d/networking. First, some background

Re: lots of unneeded filesystem modules?

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:13:22 -0400 (EDT), Eric Cooper wrote: > > I've noticed that after booting, my kernel has loaded almost every > possible filesystem module (minix, qnx4, hfsplus, ...), even though I > don't need anything but ext3 to boot. Right now I'm going to > blacklist all the others, but

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Apr 04 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:19:08 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 04 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >>> >>> for the longest time I have downloaded the kernel tarball and built >>> outside of debian. however I'd like to use the debian nvi

NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no remaining hidden damage on my server. I don't think I'll ever be messing with lshw again. It could be that it expects something my old server doesn't have, and lo

Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:20:34 -0400, Frank H. Baker wrote: > My setup is much like yours, though I have two nVidia 8400GS boards, > running the console off one and the other two monitors off the other, a > VGA driving one monitor and a DVI the other, and I installed the nVidia > driver. Though I h

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:19:08 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >> >> for the longest time I have downloaded the kernel tarball and built >> outside of debian. however I'd like to use the debian nvidia packages, >> so I'm trying to build the kernel

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 4:03 PM: > Not a clue - I've just been in the habit of using lshw (although I > don't use it all that often). I'll have to look into dmidecode. I thought I'd give lshw a try. Based on my brief experience, I'd recommend others not do so. This is interesting, and re

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. For someone like me this name does not say much. Is there a way to find which module belongs to which piece of hardware? >> Other than html or xml output, wha

Re: Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-04 Thread Frank H. Baker
My setup is much like yours, though I have two nVidia 8400GS boards, running the console off one and the other two monitors off the other, a VGA driving one monitor and a DVI the other, and I installed the nVidia driver. Though I have been aware of TwinView, the "twin" made me think it was adapted

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:04:34 -0400 (EDT), Brian D. wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> I welcome all comments. Am I full of excrement? Is there something >>> missing? What can be improved? I am especially interested in >>> hearing f

Re: lots of unneeded filesystem modules?

2010-04-04 Thread Wayne
Eric Cooper wrote: I've noticed that after booting, my kernel has loaded almost every possible filesystem module (minix, qnx4, hfsplus, ...), even though I don't need anything but ext3 to boot. Right now I'm going to blacklist all the others, but it would be nice to know why it's happening. I d

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:06:51 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. Is there any chance you could setup pppconfig to use "static nameservers"? If yes, choose that and set th

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:57:09 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: > > > $ apt-cache show lshw > > > > ... > > > > Description: information about hardware configuration > > A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware > > configuration of the ma

lots of unneeded filesystem modules?

2010-04-04 Thread Eric Cooper
I've noticed that after booting, my kernel has loaded almost every possible filesystem module (minix, qnx4, hfsplus, ...), even though I don't need anything but ext3 to boot. Right now I'm going to blacklist all the others, but it would be nice to know why it's happening. I do have a USB-attached

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: > $ apt-cache show lshw > > ... > > Description: information about hardware configuration > A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware > configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory > configuration, firmware version, mainbo

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > But if the ISP hung up on me I would get a 'debian pppd[1192]: Hangup > (SIGHUP)' and I don't get that. > > If my IP expired I would not be able to ping it, but I can. I just can't > dig anything. A better test would be whethe

Re (2): skype alternative

2010-04-04 Thread peasthope
* From: Jozsi Vadkan * Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:08:46 +0200 > What could be the best skype alternative, Twinkle works in Lenny and in Squeeze. fsf.org advocates Ekiga. Ekiga 2 worked for me a few years back but Ekiga 3 has never worked on any of my Lenny or Squeeze systems. > ..

Re: virtualbox error log

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:21:32 +, Neo Anderson wrote: > Previously I successfully installed and launched virtualbox-ose. > However, after installing a guest GNU/ Linux and building a customized > kernel (2.6.33.2). The virtualbox box crashed and no longer able to be > executed successfully. The

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:34:13 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > One of the reasons for boot > problems in general is the lack of stablity in the names assigned > by the kernel to SCSI devices. Lilo seems to require that you know > at lilo-update time what the kernel will think the name of a > devi

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> What version of gdm is this?2.20.10-1

virtualbox error log

2010-04-04 Thread Neo Anderson
Previously I successfully installed and launched virtualbox-ose. However, after installing a guest GNU/ Linux and building a customized kernel (2.6.33.2). The virtualbox box crashed and no longer able to be executed successfully. The log shows 03:56:22.716 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOI

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Apr 04 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > for the longest time I have downloaded the kernel tarball and built > outside of debian. however I'd like to use the debian nvidia packages, > so I'm trying to build the kernel in th

Re: skype alternative

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:08:46 +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > What could be the best skype alternative, that uses some kind of > encryption? > > I just want to "lighten" my phone bill..:\ > > Any good/bad experience regarding this? :\ In Debian wiki there are some: http://wiki.debian.org/skype Fo

Re (2): changing an application in iceweasel

2010-04-04 Thread peasthope
CamaleA3n, From: Camaleon Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:33:57 + (UTC) > does "man 7 mozplugger" help? It's a start. Appears that it needs an entry for swf. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop". In ETHNO click here -> Desktops.OpenDoc "http://carnot.yi.org";. --

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mihira Fernando wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:00:52 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I can now host 8.8.8.8 and get google-public-dns-a.google.com I can dig google-public-dns-a.google.com and get google-public-dns-a.google.com. 86283 IN A 8.8.8.8 But when I ping 8.8.8.8 I get no response e

RE: ALSA problem?

2010-04-04 Thread Oscar Corte
> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 19:06:35 -0400 > From: zlinux...@wowway.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: ALSA problem? > > On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:00:11 -0400 (EDT), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: > >> That can't be right. What's the output of amixer? > > > > Th

Re: changing an application in iceweasel

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:09:38 -0700, peasthope wrote: > Iceweasel is running under LXDE in Lenny here. > > How can an application in > Iceweasel>Edit>Preferences>Applications be changed? For example how can > the entry > SWF file Use ShockwaveFlash (In Icewe ... > be changed to > SWF file U

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:06:51 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. Is there any chance you could setup pppconfig to use "static nameservers"? If yes, choose that and set the nameservers you want

changing an application in iceweasel

2010-04-04 Thread peasthope
Iceweasel is running under LXDE in Lenny here. How can an application in Iceweasel>Edit>Preferences>Applications be changed? For example how can the entry SWF file Use ShockwaveFlash (In Icewe ... be changed to SWF file Use MozPlugger 1.10.2. handle ... ? The motivation for this is to

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread briand
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:47:57 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Daniel Trebbien wrote: > > I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian > > testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the > > computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. > > Thi

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:00:52 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I can now host 8.8.8.8 and get google-public-dns-a.google.com > I can dig google-public-dns-a.google.com and get > google-public-dns-a.google.com. 86283 IN A 8.8.8.8 > > But when I ping 8.8.8.8 I get no response even though I can

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. O <--- SNIP ---> They work now because I can 'dig www.google.com' and get 216.239.32.10 and then 'host 216.239.32.10' and get Name: ns1.google.com Address: 216.239.32.10 How did you get

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread briand
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > > I welcome all comments. Am I full of excrement? Is there something > > missing? What can be improved? I am especially interested in > > hearing from lilo users. lilo user here. works great. The _only_ go

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mihira Fernando wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:42:49 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But if it dropped me I would see a SIGHUP in syslog and I don't. I can still ping the IP that was assigned to me. Hugo You can always ping the IP assigned to you from your OWN PC. At the times you cannot resolv

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:37:34 +1000 Lubos Rendek wrote: > HI guys, > > Suppose that I have a some laptop in my hands and I would like to find > out what hardware this laptop has and what is supported by Debian out > of the box by which modules. Is there any tool which will be able to > retrieve a

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:06:51 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I have a dialup modem. > > Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. Is there any chance you could setup pppconfig to use "static nameservers"? If yes, choose that and set the nameservers you want (openDNS or Go

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: I have seen a number of help requests on this list recently that indicate that there are a number of people who initially installed grub, had problems, and reverted to lilo. Then they experience subsequent problems when a kernel is updated, a new kernel is installed, or som

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Wayne
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. O <--- SNIP ---> They work now because I can 'dig www.google.com' and get 216.239.32.10 and then 'host 216.239.32.10' and get Name: ns1.google.com Address: 216.239.32.10 How did you get Montevideo UY

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Run Pppconfig and enable either "Persist" or "Demand". But then it would dial again after SIGHUP and I know that works. I am trying to find out why I cannot dig anything anymore but still ping my own IP. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: ftp.master

2010-04-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:08:48 + (UTC) Harishankar wrote: Hello Harishankar, > This is good news. A week without updates has seemed a long time > indeed. It does, yes. Today, there were only 66 files updated here. A bit of a relief, really. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindi

Re: ftp.master

2010-04-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 02:10:06 -0700 Freeman wrote: Hello Freeman, > an increased flow should be expected for a while as updates that were > held back in the interim get uploaded. There was something like 10Gig of files to check. I'd rather things took their time, TBH. :-) -- Regards _

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Trebbien wrote: I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went "black" a s

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:42:49 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But if it dropped me I would see a SIGHUP in syslog and I don't. I > can still ping the IP that was assigned to me. > > Hugo You can always ping the IP assigned to you from your OWN PC. At the times you cannot resolve any domains, can

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 10:26, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] But we run Linux. The ISP will say it's my problem for running Linux. Fib. (I'd write "lie", but there are too many ESLs on the list who might think it means "lay down"...) -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Freeman wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:06:51PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 although the timestamp on the

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:06:51 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 although the timestamp on th

Re: [solved] CPU beep does not go away on removing pcspkr

2010-04-04 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Problem solved by muting "PC Beep" in alsamixer. On 4 April 2010 20:29, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > Hi all, > > Got this problem on a fresh squeeze install. > > I have rmmod'ed pcspkr and snd_pcsp. I have also put these in > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. GDM beeps on boot, also I have > beeps fr

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a dialup modem. Pppconfig configured the connection with 'nameservers dynamic'. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf always contains: nameserver 148.240.118.40 nameserver 189.209.208.181 Don't know. Have you contacted your ISP to see of they are correct? DNS

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Freeman wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:09:11PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... Dodgy copper between me and the ISP? In Mexico? You mean dangling copper? Like that thing hanging down from the pole in front of the house and that banged-up box on the corner that everybody puts their left-ov

CPU beep does not go away on removing pcspkr

2010-04-04 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Hi all, Got this problem on a fresh squeeze install. I have rmmod'ed pcspkr and snd_pcsp. I have also put these in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. GDM beeps on boot, also I have beeps from the terminal and in password prompts. Putting the above modules in the blacklist had always worked before t

Re: how to set default gpg keyring?

2010-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:26:33PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > how can I set my gpg key as the default? "man gpg" doesn't helps this What are you using gpg from? If not directly, then you also need to look for mutt and devscripts (debuild) which keep their default key in their config. Osamu -

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:52:50AM -0700, Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote: > > Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg, > > syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do > > with loading seque

Re: ALSA problem?

2010-04-04 Thread Seb
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 02:19AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Are there webcams with an intergrated microphne flying around? This > woulb be useful for ekiga (skype), isn't it? There are some alright. My girlfriend's using one for skype all the time. Don't know which model it is and there'

Re: cups lpr just a cut-down lp?

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 06:31, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:13:20 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-04 05:57, Camaleón wrote: (...) we can use whichever best suits our needs. Right. But, absent old or cross-platform scripts which need to run on both Linux and BSD, what *benefit* does

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote: > Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg, > syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do > with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been > fixed

Re: how to set default gpg keyring?

2010-04-04 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:26:33PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > how can I set my gpg key as the default? "man gpg" doesn't helps this > time :\ Jello, Try setting it inside .gnupg/gpg.conf, default-key parameter. Regards. -- Huella de clave = 943C D77F 0CB0 02FE 166E E06F D13A A2E1 98A5 C953

Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread ja123 huang
Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg, syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been fixed in 2.6.31. I would like to know the solution to this. huangja123

Re: cups lpr just a cut-down lp?

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:13:20 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-04 05:57, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> we can use whichever best suits our needs. > > Right. > > But, absent old or cross-platform scripts which need to run on both > Linux and BSD, what *benefit* does lpr have over lp? In today

how to set default gpg keyring?

2010-04-04 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
how can I set my gpg key as the default? "man gpg" doesn't helps this time :\ $ gpg --list-keys /home/somebody/.gnupg/pubring.gpg - pub 1024D/ 2008-02-27 [expired: 2010-02-27] uid Some Body $ gpg --default-key gpg: Go ahead and

Re: cups lpr just a cut-down lp?

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 05:57, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:37:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I know that lpr is BSD and lp is SYSV, so lpr is needed for compatibility, but when comparing the man pages, lpr seems to only be a "half-the-features" lp. It seems to have less options, yes. But both

Re: cups lpr just a cut-down lp?

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:37:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I know that lpr is BSD and lp is SYSV, so lpr is needed for > compatibility, but when comparing the man pages, lpr seems to only be a > "half-the-features" lp. It seems to have less options, yes. But both ("lp" and "lpr") are included in C

Re: [SOLVED] Re: CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 04:02, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:15:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-03 18:50, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] (...) Order allow,deny Allow @LOCAL So... did you finally try -reverse order- and it worked? Good to know :-) I *did*, but there were other

Re: CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 02:27, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-04-03, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Does "listen", in this case, also mean "listen for *requests* from clients?" Yes, it specifies the interface(s) the daemon will bind to in order to receive requests from clients. Should have realized tha

Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:10:40 -0400, Frank H. Baker wrote: > Camaleón: > > Many thanks for responding to my query. Let me try to clear up the > ambiguities you raise by expanding the explanation of my problem. (...) > However, when > I use, for instance, the Gnome desktop for my console on a th

Re: ftp.master

2010-04-04 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:08:48PM +, Harishankar wrote: > On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:08:00 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > For those that haven't seen the announcement(1) ftp.master is back up > > and running. > > > > Obviously, it's going to take time before packages start e

Re: [SOLVED] Re: CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:15:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-03 18:50, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] (...) > >Order allow,deny >Allow @LOCAL > So... did you finally try -reverse order- and it worked? Good to know :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

2010-04-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-04-03, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-03 15:12, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2010-04-03, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2010-04-03 14:31, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-04-03, Ron Johnson wrote: ---SNIP--- > r...@diningroom:~# lpstat -v -h haggis > lpstat: Connection refused