Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides

how to examine the network issue

2012-01-22 Thread lina
Hi, I found I can ssh to server, but could not open some webpage. but can open google on and off. is it weird? The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/22/2012 9:09 PM, T o n g wrote: > Thanks again for everyone's follow up. Interesting discussion. > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:09:13 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> 9.9MB/s (megabyte/sec.) is roughly 80mb/s (megabit/sec) - fairly >> reasonable for a 100baseT network card > > Oh, now I recal

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/01/12 23:51, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: > > >> What is the output from:- >> grub> lsmod > > More than fits on the screen, is there something particular I should look > for? Sorry, I overlooked that:- grub>

Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and > less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the > various screen parts. > > The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users > and t

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jan 22, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Brian wrote: > d-i detects both network connections. Firmware is required for one of > them (WiFi) and it tells you so. You answer 'no' when asked to load it > and go on to configure eth0 instead. Many thanks, Brian. I'll try it again tomorrow. -- Glenn English

gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a pictu

Re: dxsamples contains no samples

2012-01-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 16:17:06 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > I am trying to use Opendx in squeeze. For some reason "aptitude install > dxsamples" only loads the following in the /usr/share/doc/dxsamples > directory: > > changelog.Debian.gz > changelog.gz > copyright > > No

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 16:56:14 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > And the squeeze installer said I didn't have the pieces I needed -- it > said something about my needing b43/ucode5.fw things. Maybe that's why > they didn't work? > > Oh! There it is. A BCM4311 is a WiFi card! I wonder why the Debian >

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/01/12 23:51, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: > > (...) >> >> Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from >> the CF card. >> Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) the

dxsamples contains no samples

2012-01-22 Thread Gary Roach
I am trying to use Opendx in squeeze. For some reason "aptitude install dxsamples" only loads the following in the /usr/share/doc/dxsamples directory: changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright No sample programs are included. Anyone know whats wrong. There should be a

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Brian wrote: > Are you sure the ethernet card is a Broadcom 4311? Pretty sure. I haven't taken it apart to look at the chip, but ... No, I'm not. lspci says it is a "Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752". I don't know where I got the idea it was a 4311, but I swear that's

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 12:29:48 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > The squeeze netinstall doesn't have the driver software for this > laptop's Broadcom 4311 Ethernet card. And it can't find the WiFi card. > So I'm trying to install a netinstall with no net. Are you sure the ethernet card is a Broadcom

Re: Install Nvidia Video Card (Nvidia Geforce GT 520)

2012-01-22 Thread richard
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:05:11 +0100 Arno - wrote: > Dear Sire, miss, > > I wish to install Debian 6.0.3. (64 bit) on my PC. I have a Nvidia Geforce > GT 520, which is not on the Debian Hardware compatibility list. I read on a > forum that after installing the Nividia drive > (Nvidia-linux-x86_64-

Re: how to mount a Video DVD when it is on hard drive. ? (treat directory as an iso)

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/01/12 01:38, shirish शिरीष wrote: > at bottom :- > > 2012/1/22 Scott Ferguson : > > > > What I have is that I have downloaded dvd video files and I > want to use that as a virtual drive I'm not understanding why => VLC => "Open Directory..." is not doing that for you already. If you'v

Re(4): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-22 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:31:35 + (UTC) > So finally, what are you going to do or what are now your plans regarding > your original issue? :-? It was fixed last Thursday, January 19 shortly after Aoki rminded me to check with telnet. Documented in the second paragraph h

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 13:51:11 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: > > (...) > > > > Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from > > the CF card. > > Having had the time to do a little Googling (about

Re: how to mount a Video DVD when it is on hard drive. ?

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Proulx
shirish शिरीष wrote: > Please CC me if replying to this query. > I know how to mount data DVD's in Debian but I don't know how to > mount Media DVD's so they look like a DVD drive and can be played. > ... > Looking forward for answers and tips. Along with the other answers posted you can use mpla

Install Nvidia Video Card (Nvidia Geforce GT 520)

2012-01-22 Thread Arno -
Dear Sire, miss, I wish to install Debian 6.0.3. (64 bit) on my PC. I have a Nvidia Geforce GT 520, which is not on the Debian Hardware compatibility list. I read on a forum that after installing the Nividia drive (Nvidia-linux-x86_64-209.10.run) the Nvidia Geforce GT 520 would work really well. I

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Dom
On 22/01/12 12:51, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: (...) Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from the CF card. Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are three possible

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/22/2012 11:45 AM, hvw59601 wrote: > So I check NewEgg: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122392 > 10Gb/s: > > Check that price! $279.99 Holy Cow! And that's the cheapest one! You're either a moron or a troll. Which is it? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How-to blacklist a package during Debian preseed ?

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Any ideas how-to blacklist a package during Debian preseed ? I think the best way is simply to avoid installing it. What are you setting for tasksel/first? Probably "standard" or "Graphical desktop environment" or one of the other choices. Instead I do not install anyth

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jan 22, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:29:48PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: >> Can anyone tell me how to get this box going? (WiFi doesn't work either, but >> I'm not worrying about this right now.) > > Install lenny and do a dist-upgrade? Duh. Good idea,

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing

2012-01-22 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/22/2012 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:24:17 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I have not been able to use cups on any of my Debian boxes since upgrading to MB's without parallel port connectors for over a year, until now. I was finally able to use my USB-> parallel adapter to

How-to blacklist a package during Debian preseed ?

2012-01-22 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Hi, I have learned a trick to blacklist a package: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1 problem: It doesn't work during d-i "preseed/early_command" stage. (due to lack of apt) Any ideas how-to blacklist a package during Debian preseed ? -- -Alexey Eromenko "Techn

Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:29:48PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > The squeeze netinstall doesn't have the driver software for this laptop's > Broadcom 4311 Ethernet card. And it can't find the WiFi card. So I'm trying > to install a netinstall with no net. > > I'm installing from a USB stick. I c

Re: no audio in hp dm1 3080la laptop

2012-01-22 Thread Fernando Gadea
Hi Cleopatra, and thank you for your answer. I partially solved the problem, but did not post that I did because I still have some weird behaviour. The solution to my wifi problem I told Ralf apparently solved something in my audio devices too, as if I open video or audio files from vlc the sound c

Re: How to pass variable to wget ?

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Bakshi wrote: > I have a script which submits a form with wget --post-data Not trying to drive you off but since you are having a lot of questions specific to wget that aren't system specific you might try conversing with users on the wget mailing list instead. It is a friendly bunch and you w

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Proulx
hvw59601 wrote: > Very interesting. So I measured... 11MB/s. Ethtool says card > (onboard) can do 100Mb/s. So quite good. > > I think: get a faster card and put that in... :-) > > So I check NewEgg: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122392 > 10Gb/s: > > Check that pri

Re: server crashes on debian.

2012-01-22 Thread frank
Hi Joey, On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 14:43 -0500, Joey L wrote: > I am experience intermitten server crashes and driving me nuts! > Is there a way to tell what in fact is causing the crash? > A log perhaps or a snapshot of running processes or memory issues ? > thanks How does the crash looks like? Is

server crashes on debian.

2012-01-22 Thread Joey L
I am experience intermitten server crashes and driving me nuts! Is there a way to tell what in fact is causing the crash? A log perhaps or a snapshot of running processes or memory issues ? thanks mjh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620

2012-01-22 Thread Glenn English
The squeeze netinstall doesn't have the driver software for this laptop's Broadcom 4311 Ethernet card. And it can't find the WiFi card. So I'm trying to install a netinstall with no net. I'm installing from a USB stick. I can't download a DVD install because the USB stick I have is only 2GB. (T

Re: Thunderbird/icedove behaviour on message delete

2012-01-22 Thread godo
Thats the way I would normally do it, and the way I do it on Claws mail which I use. BUT when setting up the mail filters I stumbled across a menu that allowed either delete or hide as the options with age. The problem is I can't find it to alter the age at which to hide again. Maybe a hidden fu

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-22 Thread hvw59601
T o n g wrote: Hi, I just tested my network speed. It is only 10MB. But I think it can do better. So, - How can tell if my network cards can do better than 10MB? - What's the most probable reason for the slow network speed? I.e., which is a good order that I check for the problem? Very

Re: no audio in hp dm1 3080la laptop

2012-01-22 Thread Ralf Madorf
Hi Fernando :) http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user . Hth, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1327252413.7752.2.camel@localhost

Re: no audio in hp dm1 3080la laptop

2012-01-22 Thread Fernando Gadea
Thank you Ralf, I will sign in that list too. By the way, I solved in this very moment my wifi problem with this link (just in case there is another hp dm1 debian user here): http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/12431283/Driver-Ralink-RT5390-en-ubuntu-11_04.html Cheers, Fernando 2012/1/22, Ralf Ma

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing

2012-01-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:24:17 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > I have not been able to use cups on any of my Debian boxes since > upgrading to MB's without parallel port connectors for over a year, > until now. I was finally able to use my USB-> parallel adapter to > connect to the HP Printer. > > I ca

no audio in hp dm1 3080la laptop

2012-01-22 Thread Fernando Gadea
Hi list, I am a new Debian user. I installed squeezy three days ago, having several hardware problems, one of which was wifi, and folks from the laptop debian list helped me still with no solution, one of the facts related was migrating to backports kernel. Sound hasn't worked since the first Debia

Re: how to mount a Video DVD when it is on hard drive. ?

2012-01-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:02:56 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Please CC me if replying to this query. Sorry, I can't :-( > I know how to mount data DVD's in Debian but I don't know how to mount > Media DVD's so they look like a DVD drive and can be played . (...) So what you need is to rip/tra

Re: OT: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:23:20 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 21:15 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> >> And my guess is that it will be removed as soon as gnome-shell can >> >> be run with software acceleration which, BTW, is now possible. >> >> >> >> >> > [spinymouse@archlinux

Re: [SOLVED] no compiz after libgtk2.0-0 upgrade

2012-01-22 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:15:20 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Running Sid. Upgrade to libgtk2.0-0 disabled Compiz. Was upgrade from 2.24.8-2 to 2.24.8-3. Perhaps this will straighten itself out. What's the error you're getting? The changelog of the package: *** gtk+2.

Re: OT: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

2012-01-22 Thread lina
On 22 Jan, 2012, at 20:03, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 12:56 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 11:11 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> One >>> Real >>> A__ >>> Called >>> Larry >>> Ellison >> >> http://www.kongtechnology.com/2007/07/03/weird-origins-of-some-famou

Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver

2012-01-22 Thread M Stefan
On 01/22/2012 01:25 PM, M Stefan wrote: Hello, I have been struggling with my overheating laptop issue for a while, and I can't seem to fix it on Debian. My laptop does not overheat on Windows, so this is not a hardware issue. After checking my driver support on http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.

How to avoid hangups when using zram ?

2012-01-22 Thread Boris shtrasman
Hi , I took zram for a try on a 1gb laptop running kde 4.7 (debian sid), I used a clean debian kernel. The problem is sometimes my systems is hanged up for a while (15 mins nothing except magic sysrq works). this happens with FF and gimp (memory issues). so I actually get worse useability then wi

Re: OT: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

2012-01-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 13:56, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 11:11 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> One >> Real >> A__ >> Called >> Larry >> Ellison > > http://www.kongtechnology.com/2007/07/03/weird-origins-of-some-famous-tech-names/ > Might the acronym be deliberate and intended by

Re: how to mount a Video DVD when it is on hard drive. ?

2012-01-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- 2012/1/22 Scott Ferguson : > # <= means run as root (use sudo if that's how you've configured your > system) > $ <= means run as a user > > test iso > $ file SomeDVD.iso > UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) 'DVDVIDEO > > > 1. Work out where your DVD player is > > # cat /etc/fstab |

Re: how to mount a Video DVD when it is on hard drive. ?

2012-01-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 13:02:56 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: [Snip] > Of course I needed to create some mount point at /mnt/ (as in > /mnt/dvd) or wherever I want to mount. With data CD/DVD it is easier > because its just the .iso filename which needs to be given as source > and the mount point as

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: (...) > > Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from > the CF card. > Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are > three possible routes (maybe more). > 1. Boot

OT: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

2012-01-22 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 11:11 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > One > Real > A__ > Called > Larry > Ellison http://www.kongtechnology.com/2007/07/03/weird-origins-of-some-famous-tech-names/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: OT: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

2012-01-22 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 12:56 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 11:11 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > One > > Real > > A__ > > Called > > Larry > > Ellison > > http://www.kongtechnology.com/2007/07/03/weird-origins-of-some-famous-tech-names/ PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_90

Re: How to pass variable to wget ?

2012-01-22 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:43:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-01-22 12:27 +0100, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > I have a script which submits a form with wget --post-data > > > > [] > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > Uname=xyz > > Pword=1234 > > > > wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data \ > >

Re: How to pass variable to wget ?

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/01/12 22:27, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > > I have a script which submits a form with wget --post-data > > [] > > #!/bin/bash > > Uname=xyz > Pword=1234 > > wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data \ > 'username=$Uname&password=$Pword' --keep-session-cookies $URL/$AUTH

Re: How to pass variable to wget ?

2012-01-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-22 12:27 +0100, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have a script which submits a form with wget --post-data > > [] > > #!/bin/bash > > Uname=xyz > Pword=1234 > > wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data \ > 'username=$Uname&password=$Pword' --keep-session-cookies $URL/$AUTHURL 1&>2 > >

Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver

2012-01-22 Thread M Stefan
Hello, I have been struggling with my overheating laptop issue for a while, and I can't seem to fix it on Debian. My laptop does not overheat on Windows, so this is not a hardware issue. After checking my driver support on http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.rhtml, I have noticed that my then-versio

How to pass variable to wget ?

2012-01-22 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have a script which submits a form with wget --post-data [] #!/bin/bash Uname=xyz Pword=1234 wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data \ 'username=$Uname&password=$Pword' --keep-session-cookies $URL/$AUTHURL 1&>2 [] During the test with "bash -x" I see the var

Re: how to kill 120 jobs at once.

2012-01-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 06:06, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> how to kill 120 jobs at once. >>> >> >> Sell the company to Oracle. You do know what Oracle is an acronym for, no? > > I don't know. just checked, > > ORACLE  Oak Ridge Automatic Computer Logical

Re: Thunderbird/icedove behaviour on message delete

2012-01-22 Thread richard
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:48:09 +0100 godo wrote: > On 01/21/2012 04:19 PM, richard wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've searched through the menus and asked on the Tbird forum, no luck :) > > on one off the menus there is the option to either hide or strike though > > a message when deleted, and also t

Re: how to mount a Video DVD when it is on hard drive. ?

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/01/12 18:32, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, Please CC me if replying to this query. I know how to mount > data DVD's in Debian but I don't know how to mount Media DVD's so > they look like a DVD drive and can be played . WARNING: these instructions will only work on Authentic Debian (Linux/