Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-16 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Is amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run driver the same with the non free debianised fglrx driver ? amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run uses fglrx version 8.961 lspci result under amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run driver: Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VG

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread lina
>> >> I was kind of thinking the same thing...rm to umount a remote dir? >> But, shouldn't it be >> fusermount -u >> ?? >> This is what I use if mounting remote dirs with sshfs, anyway. >> >> Tony > > Excellent point, if he was using sshfs. I found it hard to figure out > exactly what he was doing.

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-16 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
On 05/16/2012 01:23 AM, Indulekha wrote: Maybe something (like /etc/inittab) got edited, and tty7 was repurposed for a getty? It's important to leave tty7 alone or X won't run. Also if inittab did get edited, could be you're calling a getty that isn't installed... I checked and noticed the

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-16 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Hi, ..this isn't a kernel panic? What happens _immediately_before_ your blinking dash? Kernel is able to boot up. ..this is relevant only if it was written between your boot and your blinking dash. Yes it is so. ..your Xorg log is "gnome 3 under fallback mode"? Yes ..first

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/05/12 08:50 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:48:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Today I made some mistake, I mount the remote server my home directory into local laptop. when I tried to umount it, I justed type the rm -r remote_mount

Re: 6.0.5 ia64 network card question

2012-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2012 6:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/16/2012 4:03 PM, Bill Mclain wrote: > >> Can anyone assist me with getting drivers and installing a Dynex DX-PCIGB >> network card? I also have a USB Netgear Wireless n300 adapter as an >> alternative but I cannot get it to install either. Thanks

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:48:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Today I made some mistake, > > > >I mount the remote server my home directory into local laptop. > > > >when I tried to umount it, I justed type the rm -r remote_mount_dir > > > >after I rea

Re: Datapacker

2012-05-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/05/2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:33:42AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we >> correspond re my usage of it? > > I haven't used it, but I think it was I who originally recommended it, > so I'll try best to answe

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 16 May 2012 17:16:21 +0100, Anthony wrote in message <20120516161621.ga4...@acampbell.org.uk>: > On 16 May 2012, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, > > > either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) > > > > ..how? Ssh too free

Re: 6.0.5 ia64 network card question

2012-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2012 4:03 PM, Bill Mclain wrote: > Can anyone assist me with getting drivers and installing a Dynex DX-PCIGB > network card? I also have a USB Netgear Wireless n300 adapter as an > alternative but I cannot get it to install either. Thanks and any info I did > not provide just let me kno

Re: /var/swap set to 2048MBytes as configured (SOLVED)

2012-05-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 16 May 2012 22:40:02 +0200 rjc wrote: > Let me guess, you have 8GB of RAM? > > The limit you are talking about is hard-coded into /sbin/dphys-swapfile. > In order to change it you need to create your own config. > > man 8 dphys-swapfile > > /var/swap IS the swap file, not a config one

Re: something about the dnet-common

2012-05-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 20:35:23 +0800 > lina wrote: > > > My curiosity is that why during the full-upgrade, it's installed the > > dnet-common. Is it something important? > > I too was wondering about that just now, when a DECNet conf

Multimedia keys give double presses on HP ProBook laptop

2012-05-16 Thread Adrian Fita
Hi. Using: Debian Wheezy with latest updates, hardware platform: HP ProBook 4515s. I apreciate any sugestion you might give me. I noticed that in my window manager, Openbox, the XF86AudioRaiseVolume, XF86AudioLowerVolume keys generate two calls to the script that I configured. So I started to in

Re: [OT] strangeness with dhcp relay server

2012-05-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 16/05/2012 11:33 πμ, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 15 mai 12, 16:51:02, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> I had some insight from the Cisco support forums. Apparently DHCP Relays >> are meant to forward requests *outside* the LAN, and should not be used >> when server and relay are in the same LA

RE: 6.0.5 ia64 network card question

2012-05-16 Thread Bill Mclain
All, Can anyone assist me with getting drivers and installing a Dynex DX-PCIGB network card? I also have a USB Netgear Wireless n300 adapter as an alternative but I cannot get it to install either. Thanks and any info I did not provide just let me know and I will get it to you. Bill

Is unlimited redeal no longer possible in Aisleriot's Klondike game?

2012-05-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
It used to be one could edit klondike.scm, set redeal to -1, and so have infinite redeals. But klondike.scm no longer exists after a recent upgrade. Is there another way to get infinite redeals? Thanks Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: /var/swap set to 2048MBytes as configured

2012-05-16 Thread rjc
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:25:24PM BST, Charles Kroeger wrote: > on looking into dphys-swapfile I see what it wants to create is a > swap=16010MByte however when 'checking existing' keeps the configured 2048MB > instead and so does basically nothing. > > How or where does one change this configure

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread rjc
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:48:56PM BST, Gary Dale wrote: > What the F! are you doing using rm -r to umount it with rm -r? > > The correct sequence of actions if you want to mount point to be > deleted after you're done with it is: > > umount ~/ > rmdir > > NEVER use rm -r unless you are sure yo

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Today I made some mistake, I mount the remote server my home directory into local laptop. when I tried to umount it, I justed type the rm -r remote_mount_dir after I realize it, seems some directoy under ~/home has removed, one is .ssh, obviously. other

/var/swap set to 2048MBytes as configured

2012-05-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
on looking into dphys-swapfile I see what it wants to create is a swap=16010MByte however when 'checking existing' keeps the configured 2048MB instead and so does basically nothing. How or where does one change this configured amount or remove it so dphys-swapfile can create its file. If I remove

Re: something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread elbbit
On 16/05/12 17:49, lina wrote: > Today I made some mistake, > I mount the remote server my home directory into local laptop. > when I tried to umount it, I justed type the rm -r remote_mount_dir > after I realize it, seems some directoy under ~/home has removed, Whoops... > one is .ssh, obviously.

Re: SOLIDWORKS

2012-05-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> IIRC, solidworks performance relies heavily on hardware accelerated >> graphics. I'd be surprised to see wine handle this smoothly. > > I've heard rumors of games running better under Wine than pure Windows. > That is not rumor, I understa

something about rm

2012-05-16 Thread lina
Hi, Today I made some mistake, I mount the remote server my home directory into local laptop. when I tried to umount it, I justed type the rm -r remote_mount_dir after I realize it, seems some directoy under ~/home has removed, one is .ssh, obviously. others I couldn't tell, like: -bash-3.2$

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 May 2012, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, > > either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) > > ..how? Ssh too freezes? It no longer responds even to ping etc? Yes, no response to ping. > ..are these 2 boxes on wicd etc style n

Re: iceaweasel experimental is not true firefox in my hands

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:55:32PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > The message below was intended to > > pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org list > > google mail complains that such address does not exist I'm afraid google mail is wrong. Did you get a bounce? Here's an archive of ot

iceaweasel experimental is not true firefox in my hands

2012-05-16 Thread Francesco Pietra
The message below was intended to pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org list google mail complains that such address does not exist Hi I have followed all your instructions in upgrading iceaweasel to iceweasel beta on i386 wheezy. All went on as described at "http://mozilla.debian.net

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Odair Augusto Trujillo Orozco
2012/5/16 Jordan Metzmeier : > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jordan Metzmeier > wrote: >>> The slow problem occurs with more than one tab, but disabling >>> flashplayer-nonfree >>> everything is ok, chrome and graphics effects back to normal speed. >>> It seems like a libcairo issue, I will t

Re: wheezy Audio Works for Root, Dies for User and it's not Perms.

2012-05-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: >        After purging and restoring pulseaudio and all the > applications that needed it, I started looking at .pulse in my > home directory as I didn't put it there to begin with. I > expected to find it empty and there was the cause of

Re: something about the dnet-common

2012-05-16 Thread lina
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 20:35:23 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> My curiosity is that why during the full-upgrade, it's installed the >> dnet-common. Is it something important? > > I too was wondering about that just now, when a DECNet configuration >

Re: something about the dnet-common

2012-05-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 16 May 2012 20:35:23 +0800 lina wrote: > My curiosity is that why during the full-upgrade, it's installed the > dnet-common. Is it something important? I too was wondering about that just now, when a DECNet configuration dialog popped out on my screen, during an aptitude upgrade. AFAIK,

Re: something about the dnet-common

2012-05-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
lina wrote: >Hi, > >When I issued the aptitude full-upgade, > >As you can see, the dnet-common was installed. >=== >[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] dnet-common:amd64 >[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libdnet:amd64 >[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] l

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> The slow problem occurs with more than one tab, but disabling >> flashplayer-nonfree >> everything is ok, chrome and graphics effects back to normal speed. >> It seems like a libcairo issue, I will try downgrading libcairo and upgrading

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread hvw59601
Odair Augusto Trujillo Orozco wrote: Hi, After an update at 20-05-2012, my system is slow down specialy when I switch tabs on Google Chrome, even Chromium, the graphics efects also get down speed specialy kde-window-back effect. I'm using Debian Wheezy i386, with Nvidia GeForce 6200 and the lat

info bug Debian Test

2012-05-16 Thread sgabinato
Salve, il problema e`: kernel: Linux obelix 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:48:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux problema: modprobe lirc_atiusb FATAL: Module lirc_atiusb not found. Verso quale pacchetto devo aprire il bug? personalmente lo avrei aperto sul pacchetto "lirc-module-source" ma non

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Odair Augusto Trujillo Orozco
2012/5/16 Sven Joachim : > On 2012-05-16 14:14 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:09:57 -0500, Odair wrote in message >> : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> After an update at 20-05-2012, my system is slow down specialy >>> when I switch tabs >> >> ..how _many_ tabs? ;o) ?What happens when you

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> > The 295.40 driver suffers from performance regressions on GeForce > 6xxx/7xxx, see #668854?. ?Upgrading to 295.49 in unstable should help. This doesn't fix the bug that causes the slow tab switching in Chrome. The following fixes it for me: nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=0 This n

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-16 14:50 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:35 +0530, aditya wrote in message > : > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia >> GeForce GT520M*? > > ..is this the card that was considered mid-level in 2006, or th

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-16 14:14 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:09:57 -0500, Odair wrote in message > : > >> Hi, >> >> After an update at 20-05-2012, my system is slow down specialy >> when I switch tabs > > ..how _many_ tabs? ;o) What happens when you kill flash? > (Killing flash can

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:35 +0530, aditya wrote in message : > Hello everyone, > > Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia > GeForce GT520M*? ..is this the card that was considered mid-level in 2006, or the 48 core card that was released as entry level in 2010? I

Re: (Debian 2.6.32-45) problems using ipv6/ip6tables #2

2012-05-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:54:42PM +0200, gus...@spllg.de wrote: i'm new to ipv6, just trying to go the first steps and got trapped. Yes, so it seems. IPv6 doesn’t have ARP anymore, it uses ICMPv6 to discover ARP addresses and neighbours with the help of multicast IPv6 addresses. So your conf

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 16 May 2012 08:46:38 +0100, Anthony wrote in message <20120516074638.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk>: > I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with > Radeon. > > In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, > either the machine freezes completely (R

something about the dnet-common

2012-05-16 Thread lina
Hi, When I issued the aptitude full-upgade, As you can see, the dnet-common was installed. === [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] dnet-common:amd64 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libdnet:amd64 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libportaudio2:amd64 [

Re: need help on using ffmpeg for audio grab

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 16 May 2012 01:22:24 -0400, Long wrote in message : > Another application shows: ..it wouldn't by any chance be Microsoft Media Player? > Device 00: Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 4 /dev/dsp > Port 00: vol > Port 01: line > Port 02: mic > Port 03: cd > Port 04: line1 >

(Debian 2.6.32-45) problems using ipv6/ip6tables #2

2012-05-16 Thread gus...@spllg.de
hi, i'm new to ipv6, just trying to go the first steps and got trapped. my configuration: testmachine with 2 network interfaces (eth0 local, eth1 connected to our internet router) Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-45) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun M

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:09:57 -0500, Odair wrote in message : > Hi, > > After an update at 20-05-2012, my system is slow down specialy > when I switch tabs ..how _many_ tabs? ;o) What happens when you kill flash? (Killing flash can be done both with chromium's own "task manager" or with htop,

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linu

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 15 May 2012 21:03:12 +0800, Hor wrote in message <4fb25410.5050...@gmail.com>: > Hi All, > > Would be grateful if anyone could provide feedback on the below, > thanks. > > After installing proprietary driver > amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run on Sid amd64, both console > and X

Re: pam_mount configuration for users home directories from server to client

2012-05-16 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:30:19PM +0200, zingalo wrote: > Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686) > > * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ > > The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; > the exact distribution terms for each program are described in

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Tom
Hey, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? Everything I do results in X failing to start. Is your laptop by any chance crippled with Optimus weirdness? I'd never heard of it until recently, when I bumped into the exact same problem (sadly on the

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 May 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Anthony Campbell: > > I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with > > Radeon. > > > > In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, > > either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely > > (

Re: pam_mount configuration for users home directories from server to client

2012-05-16 Thread zingalo
hi, i commented the luserconf line. it wasn't necessary. please take a look of the new output. it seems it creates a local home dir but the final message is No directory, logging in with HOME=/. login: zingalo Password: pam_mount(pam_mount.c:364): pam_mount 2.10: entering auth stage Last login:

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 05/15/2012 06:24 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:19:23AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > >> Like you, I'm figuring this out, and so my understanding could be wrong >> or suboptimal. I tried to avoid the sys/proc/dev sharing, but found I >> needed to do them to make things wor

How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread aditya menon
Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx from an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do res

(Debian 2.6.32-45) problems using ipv6/ip6tables

2012-05-16 Thread g.spellauge
hi, i'm new to ipv6, just trying to go the first steps and got trapped. my configuration: testmachine with 2 network interfaces (eth0 local, eth1 connected to our internet router) Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-45) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun M

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Jochen Spieker
Anthony Campbell: > I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with > Radeon. > > In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, > either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely > (Nouveau), If I kill it from a tty terminal there is

Re: Datapacker

2012-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 16 mai 12, 04:33:42, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we > correspond re my usage of it? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.d

Re: data recovery tools for debian (command line)

2012-05-16 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks mate, so kind of you, thats going to be very helpful. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:01 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 May 2012 10:49:28 +0500 > >> Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> >

Re: Datapacker

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:33:42AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we > correspond re my usage of it? I haven't used it, but I think it was I who originally recommended it, so I'll try best to answer your questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: How to upgrade selective packages ?

2012-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 mai 12, 17:11:44, Camaleón wrote: > > You can also use Synaptic to cherry-pick the packages to upgrade, ...or aptitude. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc

Re: [OT] strangeness with dhcp relay server

2012-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 mai 12, 16:51:02, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I had some insight from the Cisco support forums. Apparently DHCP Relays > are meant to forward requests *outside* the LAN, and should not be used > when server and relay are in the same LAN. So I am guessing the behavior > is not defined,

Re: update-alternatives

2012-05-16 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 05/16/2012 09:28 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Even though technically correct, it did not help me on the first (and second read) to understand it correctly although I am an experienced Debian user and was system administrator for 10 years. patch for the man page? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with Radeon. In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely (Nouveau), If I kill it from a tty terminal there is no problem. Is this somethi

Re: update-alternatives

2012-05-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:44:28PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: > > And what's what you want to get exactly? > > > So what does the --auto option do otherwise than showing me what I have > > already seen in the --config screen? > > It does exactly what the man page says :-) > > --auto link > Switch