Re: Characters too small in tty

2012-07-26 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-26, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. `dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' seems to have fixed the problem with tty*. But in the terminal emulator within xfce characters are still very small. What package should I `dpkg-reconfigure' in order to fix that? For

screensaver and power management preferences

2012-07-29 Thread Curt
Running Gnome in Squeeze. From the very beginning of the life of this machine (born December, 2011), in Screensaver preferences, I've checked 'Activate screensaver when computer is idle' and placed the slider 'Regard the computer as idle after' at 10 minutes. In Power managment preferences, I

Re: ot: file sharing other than yousendit, or sendspace?

2012-08-12 Thread Curt
On 2012-08-12, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: Hi all, I am sort of in a hurry, need to send two small files. While the y might normally go via email, google will not let them through because they are program files. Upload the files to google docs (drive), which will accept

Re: Testing ALSA and writing an appropriate .asoundrc

2012-08-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-08-13, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: I know that you can select the default sound output using a ~/.asoundrc file, and I already tried, but I can't get it properly working. Another way is to force one card to a lower index than the other. See=20

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-09-20, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hanlon's razor applies here as well. Huh? I wish Gillette's razor could be applied to some of these threads. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: To summarize: I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository on 8 physically discrete DVDs. I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get. For reasons I'll not

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-11 Thread Curt
On 2012-10-10, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. How about user home directory and other user file permissions (which shouldn't belong to root)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-12 Thread Curt
On 2012-10-11, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. How about user

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-30, Han Soo Chang hansoo7...@gmail.com wrote: Cannot write to `fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc' (Permission denied). This would mean you do not have the permission to write to the directory into which you are downloading the file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-25, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but

Re: cpu frequency management opteron lost?

2012-05-02 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-01, Joost Kraaijeveld j.kraaijev...@askesis.nl wrote: Running /etc/init.d/cpufreqd start just reports: panoramix:/home/jkr# /etc/init.d/cpufreqd start Starting CPU Frequency daemon: cpufreqd failed! On my machine the powernow-k8 module was not getting loaded automatically for some

Re: [OT] Mails coming from joe1assis...@gmail.com

2012-05-02 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-02, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha I like your signature, hearts and eighth notes, if music be the food of love, play on... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-03, Han Soo Chang hansoo7...@gmail.com wrote: So, I wonder whether this is because (1) I mishandled my set up of sudo The experts would need, I should think, to see your sudoers file to confirm the least fanciful of your hypotheses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Okay what's next? How can I provide more information / enable debugging for this module? Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert matthias.guent...@gmail.com wrote: Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource drivers) to nvidia? I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia driver (bilingual redundancy, anyone?), but I think it needs work. Are

Re: insmod: error inserting /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.ko : -1 File exists

2012-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-03, Joey L mjh2...@gmail.com wrote: insmod: error inserting /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.ko : -1 File exists Does it (is it already loaded)? lsmod | grep aacraid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-05-10 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-06, Sébastien Kalt sk...@throka.org wrote: Thank you for your answer, but I still think physical hard drive space is not the problem. How about inodes? df -i -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: aptitude changelog gives You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

2012-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-20, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: This thread is about aptitude and and two bugs that it seems to have when using ...changelog..., not about apt-get. Do you suggest that someone use vi when they have a problem with emacs? Or GNOME and KDE? I would suggest using a rolled-up

Re: Broken cups.

2012-05-26 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-25, Ed Siefker ebs15...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to print on my HP 1300n. I have cups installed, along with hpijs and hplip. There's lots of troubleshooting techniques here, if I'm understanding your problem correctly: http://hplipopensource.com/node/332 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [SOLVED... sort of] Wheezy printing problem: 2 identical (?) machines and 1 does not print PDFs

2012-05-27 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-27, Joost Kraaijeveld j.kraaijev...@askesis.nl wrote: OPTION VALUE=drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-laserjet_2200_series-hpijs.ppd HP LaserJet 2200 Series hpijs, 3.12.2 (en) OPTION VALUE=drv:///hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_2200_series.ppd HP LaserJet 2200 Series, hpcups 3.12.2 (en) I do not know the

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-02, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: locate libklashpart.so konqueror-plugin-gnash (brings that in)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2012 16:01:12 Curt wrote: On 2012-06-02, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: locate libklashpart.so konqueror-plugin-gnash (brings that in)? Thanks for the reply. Konqueror claims that it is Shockwave Flash 7.0. I thought

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the question was what deb package brings in the file 'libklashpart.so' so that you could get rid of it, as per your original article. I'm afraid that you have lost me. I am trying to get rid of it, as you say, (I have already

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I already have. I have removed - purged - all the packages to do with Gnash or Falshplayer 7 that were ever installed. Nothing is installed. But there are some residual files. Removing them is something I can try. What else can I do?

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

2012-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-04, Dan B. d...@kempt.net wrote: Just to doubly confirm things, I just purged hwinfo and purged the two prerequisite packages that aptitude installed, and tried rebooting. GRUB is still slow. Just googling around I've found people with the grub fd0 error complaining about there

Re: epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

2012-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I have a epson C20SX parallel printer. I have bought a parallel to usb cable so that I can use it with my laptop. After connecting the cable I have seen the new H/W has been detected. This page says the printer is supported

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine? - SOLVED

2012-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-05, Dan B. d...@kempt.net wrote: What the heck did hwinfo do to my machine? Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic floppy access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a big letdown) ... a loose floppy cable. So you're saying when you

Re: error mosssages referring to alsa.

2012-06-07 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-06, pe...@easthope.ca pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Vendor: pci 0x1013 Cirrus Logic Device: pci 0x6003 CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerat Have you consulted this page? http://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

security update glibc message

2012-06-08 Thread Curt
31 updates today for me, running squeeze, the following message in my xterm at installation end: unopkg done. *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/../ure-link/bin/uno.bin: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x7fdf68000fb0 *** === Backtrace:

Re: security update glibc message

2012-06-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-08, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: unopkg done. *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/../ure-link/bin/uno.bin: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x7fdf68000fb0 *** (...) Don't know what it all means, but a brief google seems to

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-08, Paul Nulandorn paul.nuland...@optusnet.com.au wrote: What about turn off screen after... minutes etc. ? OK to be precise: Put display to sleep when inactive for: is set to never. and 'xset -q' says what (just out of curiosity)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-10 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-10, Paul Nulandorn paul.nuland...@optusnet.com.au wrote: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600Suspend: 600Off: 600 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On This means the monitor will go into blank/suspend/powersaving/off mode every 600 seconds, which is ten minutes according to my

Re: Network Security Services Update question

2012-06-10 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-10, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: ric@ricmbp:~$ dpkg -l | grep libnss ii libnss3 2:3.13.4-3~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries ii libnss3-1d 2:3.13.4-3~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries - transitional package These packages do not come from the

Re: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400100 action 0x6 frozen

2012-06-10 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-09, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: I have a new machine with debian-6.0.5-amd64 and: Intel i7-2600S processor Intel DQ67SW motherboard Intel 520 Series 60 GB SSD I noticed error messages similar to the following example on the console:

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-10, Marcin Sławiński mslawinski1...@o2.pl wrote: I got CPU 2.66Ghz (32 bit, one core, 64bit compatyble) and 752MB RAM (DDR333, single channel). System boots up in two minutes. Even I don't what I should services down to speed up. Even on duo2core with 4GB of memory is not working

Re: webcam unusable after hibernate-ram

2012-06-12 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-11, Paul Seyfert pseyf...@mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: After a normal boot I can use my webcam in skype/cheese/ ... if I then hibernate-ram and wake up the system again the webcam is not found anymore by either of these. Since it affects several programs it's probably not

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-12, Paul Nulandorn paul.nuland...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Each time I boot into my old user the output of xset -q reverts to : DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600Suspend: 600Off: 600 Well if it isn't a system-wide setting, have you looked in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I don't see what you do. Is this a bug in my installer? He said prior to partitioning so I assume once you get into the partitioning dialogue, the installer gives you the opportunity to choose an expert install, and once an expert you may choose

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: IIRC it was Scott? who does exactly mentioned this in his kindly style :D. Options could have sub-options. - Ralf Yes, I was replying to Brian's inquiry concerning Scott's claim that one can install Squeeze using the Wheezy

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I may be assuming wrong, but that's how I understood what he said (in his rather curmudgeonly style). You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. You've neglected correcting the rectal-cranial inversion from which you so cruelly suffer.

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: You've omitted the prefix 'mis' in this sentence. You've neglected correcting the rectal-cranial inversion from which you so cruelly suffer. Actually I've now reread Scott's article and I agree that I did in fact misunderstand what he was on about

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: The one and only way to counter what I have been saying is to present some technical evidence rather than deal in non-sequiturs. I may also have misunderstood your post prior to this one, in which case you may point out my mistake. Technical

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I'm confused and to lazy to re-read and re-translate all mails again :p. So I did misunderstood it? :D We might have in a trivial way. The question is whether it's possible to install squeeze from a wheezy netinstall.iso, or

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: Claim? Well, there's that other guy trying desperately to find technical evidence against your empircal data, so I employed a word I hoped would demonstrate my scientific objectivity in the matter. curmudgeonly - says

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Technical evidence that inside the Wheezy installer, in expert mode, prior to partitioning, but after choosing a mirror of the Debian archive, the installer asks which release you wish to install, at which point you may choose Squeeze? I

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: I may be assuming wrong, No. But don't let that stop you from being snide. I'm snide and curmudgeonly. It could be worse. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: I feel something weird, since yesterday when I opened www.google.com it showed me Bahasa Malaysia, but I have never used the www.google.com.my. Strange huh? I don't know how to fix it, I can compare with other sites to understand the

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-11, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am a bit confused. Today during upgrade, it showed me Not starting slurm-llnl slurm.conf was not found in /etc/slurm-llnl Please follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/slurm-llnl/README.Debian.gz Shall I configure the slurm on

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any of the use cases for

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any of the use cases for this software. Correct. Nevertheless, I wanted to shake a bit the cluster idea of your post. You shook it. That's why I said thank you (for the shake). -- To

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr opened still the Malaysia language. Did you say what browser you're using? Do you have the same problem with all browsers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-06-15, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr opened still the Malaysia language. Did you say what browser you're using? Do you have the same problem with all browsers

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, rjc r...@linuxstuff.pl wrote: No worries. As suspected - coockies or config is at fault :^) I asked if she had cookies enabled but I neglected to ask whether she had tried getting rid of them (in the privacy settings) and starting with a clean slate cookie-wise, but I guess

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to be the case, you shouldn't be running it. I wonder why it's installed on your machine in the first place.

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, John W. Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built in' in Chromium as it

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Mmm... default Exim4 configuration should not require for you tweak nothing in order to send local messages so I would start from here and once this works as expected you can start the next step but if local mails do not work the rest will

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to be the case, you

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-16 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-16, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: I have purged the slurm based on the suggestions and my failure attempt to configure it. Thanks for all and have a nice weekend, Sorry about that. I didn't realize you were clustered because as I mentioned those other threads where you

Re: not autocompleting

2012-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-16, mk bane michael.k.b...@googlemail.com wrote: A while ago I upgraded to Squeeze. I've noticed filename completion does not appear to work for some commands, such as oocalc. Anybody point me the direction of a solution? Thanks, Seems as though there's an old bug report

Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-24, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Dselect reported me that my /var has saturated. Indeed, 100%. My question is that how to set to let me know earlier when the var reached 98%. Kinda of dangerous huh? My question would be why is /var being saturated in the first place.

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-27, francis picabia fpica...@gmail.com wrote: I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved passwords and the last used password in a plain text file. There's an interesting (well, for arbitrary definitions of the word interesting) discussion of the problem here:

Re: Warning/error messages

2012-07-01 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-01, brian br...@meadows.pair.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas, please? The byte string looks a bit specific to try plugging it into Google, which is my usual approach for error messages that I don't understand. :) I stuck the string into google anyway (in quotes code: ...)

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-01 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-01, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh, the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal. I once had problem similar to this

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-07-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-02, istimsak abdulbasir saqman2...@gmail.com wrote: I have never encountered this problem before. All updates I did to squeeze never bothered my keyboard. Then again I am using a usb-keyboard. Not PS/2 connection type. I've noticed in the past using PS/2 keyboard they did not

Re: not autocompleting

2012-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-04, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, you mean for hidden directories. For those I neither get the autocomplete when using OOo applications (oowriter, oocalc...), though it works with the usual bash built-in tools (e.g., cat .th[tab] → it does autocomplete). Not sure if

Language chooser in gdm3 not showing new locale

2012-07-05 Thread Curt
I installed a new locale today because I want to post to a French newsgroup that does not accept articles in utf8, my default character set (god knows why). curty@einstein:~$ locale -a C en_US.utf8 fr_FR@euro fr_FR.iso885915@euro POSIX So when I log back in to gnome (I even rebooted like a loser

Re: Google Chrome is installed but won't run

2012-07-07 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-07, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I have just installed Google Chrome on a vanilla almost default Squeeze/LXDE installation. It is there, but won't run. I have tried: You could try this: google-chrome --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash Couldn't hurt. If that works, you might want

Re: gmame

2012-07-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-07-08, Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: For posterity's sake its gmane-linux-debian-user For my dotty, non-hyphenated posterity it would be : gmane.linux.debian.user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Pidgin makes noise

2013-01-21 Thread Curt
On 2013-01-21, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: This is enabled by the Linux kernel module pcspkr. You can unload the module from the running kernel with: # modprobe -r pcspkr To prevent the kernel module pcspkr from ever being loaded you can blacklist it by creating a file with

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2013-02-28, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: So - where now? Install everything in the list that is not a dev file and is not installed? I have acroread working in Squeeze and opened the online document with the application on my machine. I have only the following ia32-libs

Re: Flash and Firefox on Squeeze

2013-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2013-02-27, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system. /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/. in /etc/alternatives I have the soft link flash-mozilla.so pointing to: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so It was all done automagically when i

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-15, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com wrote: Hello! I am having trouble with a microphone plugged into my soundcard. According to Kmix, the Playback Devices are set to about 55%, the Capture Devices are set to 100% and both playback and capture are shown as not muted. I have

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com wrote: alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and still the mic does not work. Well, if you don't see any input sources to select, then you're cooked, because you must Capture something or other. How would it

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com wrote: At the bottom of the frame are `L' on the left-hand side and `R' on the right-hand side. Underneath those letters are firstly the word CAPTURE and underneath that the characters `100100'. Finally, on the bottom line are the

Re: Hi, how to change the LC_CTYPE?

2011-11-18 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-18, Marlon Nunes mcnu...@gmail.com wrote: do a: dpkg-reconfigure locales choose your default locale and that's it. reboot. Why reboot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GUI for mic testing ?

2011-11-18 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-16, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, Any small GUI tool for mic testing ? Mine is Icewm with alsamixer gtk. But can't check the mic; no visual. Test it for what? Get a gmail account, log in, go to chat settings, and there's a meter. Especially good if you're tight

Re: [OT] NPR not working

2011-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-17, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: However since yesterday (16 Nov. 2011) it no longer works. The buffering green popup stays on but the sound never shows up. Their Media Player hangs at buffering. Am I the only one to see this? Suggestions? I guess not. Suggestion,

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-17, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Install epdfview. I have just tried it: it appears that it can not open attachments. Mail attachments? What happens? What are you trying to do, and with what (other) program? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] NPR not working

2011-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-19, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Alternate formats: Windows Media Player | MP3 (WinAmp, iTunes, etc.) I clicked on mp3 in chrome, it downloaded the pls file, and now I'm listening to Regis Philbin (ain't he dead yet?) with mplayer. Here's the contents of that pls file

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-19 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-17, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: As I can not does that from evince itself, I did it from the File Manager: so far it works. Is there a way to set it system wise rather than per user ? What I found after googling for five seconds: You can create

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: And localized search will of course work. I use de_DE and searching for sperren (German for lock) does turn up the correct results. It returns nothing in Spanish when you type lock and hit enter. Go figure. I think lock isn't Spanish.

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: It returns nothing in Spanish when you type lock and hit enter. Go figure. I think lock isn't Spanish. (...) I think you didn't get it. I thought you didn't. It's lock (the English term) what returns zero results inside a Spanish

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:26:01 +, Curt wrote: Sigh. That's what I'm saying, that using the English term won't work in some cases. But what I'm saying is that you are saying nothing we don't already know. When the man said search for lock

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Curt, please, go trolling somewhere else. I already have you in my radar and already know that you always tend to overreact when replying to my postings. Re-sigh. Out of arguments, huh? Gotcha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant for trolling. Grow up. The truth is someone came up with a suggestion superior to your own, and because of your outsized vanity you couldn't handle it and had to invent this idiocy about locales that isn't fooling

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Ad hominem argument. Please. The argument is and was that the locales idiocy is and was just that, an idiocy, so there is no ad hominem. She has no counter-argument. The rest is arm-chair psychology, I'll admit, but my _argument_ does

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Ad hominem argument. Please. And by the way, where were you when she called me a troll, as her _only_ argument? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: Forget to take your meds today, Curt? I admire the originality with which you formulate your savage put-downs, Go. Your intellectual honesty is on a par with your collaborator, Hugo W.(?), who confuses an insight with an argument

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: The argument is and was that the locales idiocy is and was just that, an idiocy, so there is no ad hominem. Take this juvenile bickering off-list please. Go jump in a big lake, sonny-boy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-20, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: Start gnome-control-center, type lock, hit enter, et voila. That won't work in a localized GNOME ;-) In Spanish the term is bloquear so searching for lock returns no results. I suppose in a localized GNOME System

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-21 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-21, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: But seriously, Debian is configured as a quite secure system at any time unless you make stupid configuration yourself. So it is quite safe. Would you be so kind as to explain to me what ports/services are open and listening on a default

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-22, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: My opinion is this: to disable any queries to Your host by iptables and/or xinit from outside world and then purge the packages You do not need. This is a stand alone machine that's not supposed to be offering any services whatsoever to the

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-23, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: You don't want to run a firewall because it will be of no benefit to you. The CUPS daemon will only accept print jobs from the machine the printer is connected to. dhclient is what its name says - a client. It Thank you. Is that the default

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-22, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Anyway, read good source. http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.en.html Thank you for the links. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-23, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: I trust the server, I guess; it's my ISP, so I really have to trust them way above and beyond whatever dhclient can or cannot do.  I could set up a static address for the interface (if I knew how--I do have a static address).  Where

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-26 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-26, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have been using full-disk encryption on my laptop for several years over several laptops. My current one is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a 2.66GHz Core2Duo P9600 with 4GB of RAM, and the lag from encryption is not noticeable.

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-26, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: That is the reason I encrypt the entire banana rather than trying to encrypt the peel. Makes sense to me (I guess). I don't need to encrypt anything but my home directory (certain folders). I think I could do all I need to do with

Re: why does mplayer sound bad and flashplugin-nonfree sound good?

2011-11-27 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-26, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 26 Nov 2011 at 18:51:20 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: For http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyovCNUDvpUlist=PLDE211ADDDB800FD2 why when I download it with clive -f best then listen via mplayer, I hear crackles like my headphones can't

Re: why does mplayer sound bad and flashplugin-nonfree sound good?

2011-11-29 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-28, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: In my mplayer installation that file sounds ok, so maybe related to sound card issue ? What file? The one he downloaded (with the -f best argument, whatever that is or becomes)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: why does mplayer sound bad and flashplugin-nonfree sound good?

2011-11-29 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-29, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2011-11-28, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: In my mplayer installation that file sounds ok, so maybe related to sound card issue ? What file? The one he

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