Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Greg Madden
from floppies, it seems cd's are like floppies now. One dvd might contain enough for a complete graphical system, have not looked at the dvd's. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD

2012-08-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links

Re: UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)

2012-08-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 10 August 2012 1:17:16 am Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has

Re: Calligra

2012-08-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 16 August 2012 9:10:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 16 aug 12, 03:05:44, Weaver wrote: I'd be very interested in an objective comparison with Libre Office and Abiword/Gnumeric. [snip comparison of LO with AW/GN] I meant those two with Calligra ;) Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 10:21:50 am Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 is not showing 64 bit for guest and guest x86_64 OS installer displays CPU mismatch error. My CPU is a E5200 which does not have VT support. Virtualbox page says On 64-bit hosts (which

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 23 August 2012 1:41:37 pm Nelson Green wrote: Nelson, Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site? Shane I sure

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 09 September 2012 6:47:32 am Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 5:36:35 am Lisi wrote: Hi, all! I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the site, the

Re: Help identifying an old wireless card

2012-05-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 25 May 2012 7:34:07 am Brian wrote: On Fri 25 May 2012 at 10:46:29 -0400, Michael Mehrazar wrote: Andrei, Thank you. It's attached. Still no wireless card in there. 'lsusb' if it is a USB device. If the a card is broken somehow, , ls* won't show the device, modules will not

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 01 June 2012 8:23:42 am Lisi wrote: I get the following* if I type about:plugins into my Konqueror location bar. I want to get rid of Shockwqave Flash 7, but I simply cannot find a file/folder/application libklashpart.so anywhere, so cannot delete it. Has anyone any ideas?

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 01 June 2012 11:17:49 am Lisi wrote: Looks like multiple install/removes? of flash. The 'update-lternatives' program may be confused. You can see what it thinks is going on with 'update-alternatives --get-selections'. Junior:/home/lisi# touch get-selections.txt

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 21 June 2012 12:07:44 pm Csanyi Pal wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:22:27 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system. You mean a mix of both? What must I do to keep the system in it's relative usable state

Re: Flashplayer on Squeeze (sorry. :-()

2012-11-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 03 November 2012 12:47:53 you wrote: If there were a plugins directory, where would it be? I need to put libflashplayer.so in it, and it currently doesn't exist. Obviously I can create it, but I need to know where to put it. Iceweasel 10.0.10, LXDE and Squeeze. Thanks, Lisi

Re: SD card formatting problem

2012-11-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote: I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df command shows the card has 32GB. I

Re: java plugin

2012-11-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 20 November 2012 16:32:35 you wrote: I thought I read or heard on a podcast (TechSNAP???) that Firefox (and by implicit extension Iceweasel) was blacklisting sun-java due to Oracle's epic fail with security. Can anyone confirm? Using Iceweasel 10.0.10, from mozilla.debian.net in

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote: When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've used http://manpages.debian.net . It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally. Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the web? [I use

Re: how to install touchegg in debian ?

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 January 2013 1:31:00 am you wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:09:59 +0200 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 22 ian 13, 11:37:01, J B wrote: Hello, Is there any lucky debian user having touchegg installed ? I have tried to install the ubuntu .deb but

Re: LibreOffice complete removal.

2013-01-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 29 January 2013 10:56:17 pm you wrote: On 30 January 2013 07:38, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good time of the day, Sharon. You wrote: Yesterday I removed the meta-package of LibreOffice, and then installed the source package of LibreOffice 3.6.5.2. I now find

Re: Firefox Iceweasel

2013-01-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 30 January 2013 5:58:43 pm you wrote: How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy? ~Akhilan You can use both, they share the same directory in your home directory. No problems here with that. Firefox is a .tar.gz file so you have lots of options in

Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

2013-01-31 Thread Greg Madden
SAMSUNG' CONFIG_HID_SAMSUNG=m CONFIG_SAMSUNG_LAPTOP=m -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- 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

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 06 November 2011 1:42:23 am Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Sonntag, 6. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón: On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:14:46 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: is there a difference between flashplugin-nonfree and mozilla-flashplugin? I only know about the former. Where have

Re: Openoffice.org - has it been replaced by LibreOffice?

2011-11-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 8:37:52 am Sian Mountbatten wrote: I should like to try OpenOffice.org, but its packages all say they have been repackaged as LibreOffice. So what has happened to OpenOffice.org? Who has decided that we've all got to use LibreOffice? My understanding today:

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. I don't like any of it. What I

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 09 December 2011 12:29:17 Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. Thank you. HP ships laptops with Freedos, or enterprise Suse

debmirror starts works stops on error

2011-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror my mirror script as a cron job for at least two previous releases. This has stopped working with my upgrade to Squeeze. I have enclosed the part of the output cron sends to me. Not sure if relevant but the dl stops, on a daily

Solved: Re: debmirror starts works stops on error

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Madden
To be accurate, I haven't figured out specifically the issue. I switched from method: ftp to http in debmirror. Possibilities are firewall, ftp configuration. On Tuesday 23 August 2011 03:27:42 pm Greg Madden wrote: I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror my mirror

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 02 September 2011 05:50:05 am yudi v wrote: Hi, I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods *First method * this taken from irc dpkg bot aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` nvidia-kernel-dkms mkdir

Re: which gnome version in sid?

2011-09-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 10 September 2011 11:13:12 am Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:05 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca don't get along.

Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 06:00:53 pm RiverWind wrote: Hey There, Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or something else of

Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 07:03:54 pm Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2011/9/15 Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net It is in non-free. aptitude install unrar That said, a default install of Squeeze only has 'main' in the sources.list. You have to add 'non-free', and 'contrib' if you want

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Lisi wrote: Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges? And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 11:52:21 am Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote: Hi! I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I ran aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. I then ran locate to find any

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
of all but your home entries. Run 'updatedb' before locate :-) -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Recommendation for National Public Radio player

2011-10-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 26 October 2011 13:47:33 Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry to ask the question in such an off the wall manner. Recommendation for National Public Radio player But in briefly googling for this topic I started to see that not all players can get all streams. I wanted to make sure

OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 12 March 2012 11:30:19 am Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one to use. What are the significant differences that you have

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 15 March 2012 7:26:53 pm Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed. snip With this policy change by the Debian people, to exclude firmware, so as to make

Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

2012-03-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! My system, debian wheezy amd-64, refuses to recognize my password. I am sure I am typing it correctly. I was able to , at login time, where grub pauses to ask which kernel tyo uise, to choose the maintenance

Re: Installing Debian as VirtualBox guest - which videodriver to install?

2012-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 25 March 2012 12:34:15 pm Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just installed on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid host on VirtualBox the Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid as guset using the

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 14 April 2012 12:20:18 pm Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:03 -0430, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote: What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support (bigmem kernel option)? The first? If we take we time-machine and according to the snapshot

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 09 June 2011 09:42:25 pm Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Cheers Mark /etc/inittab on Squeeze. # Runlevel

Re: Lenovo T410 modem difficulties

2011-06-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 23 June 2011 02:20:11 pm Doug wrote: I thougth softmodems were really bad but Conexant chipset based ones at least provide two sets of drivers... are you saying nooone work? I don't normally use a modem, but I do have a laptop--a Dell Inspiron--and I wonder what command

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

2011-06-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 25 June 2011 09:52:08 pm lee wrote: The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

2011-06-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it, the accepted way to set this

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

2011-06-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in the US and everything else uses US-Letter

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 12:07:56 pm Tech Geek wrote: There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when it does. Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect the correct driver automagically...:) You can still use an 'xorg.conf' file. You can

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 07:17:29 am Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. Every so often when I connect

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 24 July 2011 03:51:37 pm Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an impossible dream. My fstab

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / Chromium and Firefox. Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and Firefox 5 isn't available either. I'd like to manage either / both

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 06:15:16 pm Bob Proulx wrote: Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated. I like running Stable machines. But web browsers need to keep current. It would be great if they were in squeeze-updates, aka the old volatile. So

Re: Poppler error: floating point exception (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:50:09 am Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: I am getting a floating point exception error message from Evince when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 05:42:28 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: OK, Here is what I did here: The google search suggestion was to do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf What is peculiar

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 10:57:35 am Sthu Deus wrote: No. There is backports for squeeze too - to mix up not w/ the backborts of now stable branch. Are there any packages uploaded to it yet ? -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian Squeeze Installation

2011-01-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 22 January 2011 08:10:16 pm godo wrote: On 01/23/2011 05:56 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop environment. However, it boots in line mode. How can I check if desktop, in fact was installed? how to enable it? what

Re: approx for new netinst installation

2011-01-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 01:38:17 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote: I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use approx in order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new netinst installation. It's

Re: [squeeze] Open with... gone from Ark?

2011-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 29 January 2011 02:48:18 am S D wrote: snip Very disappointing. Can anyone tell how long Lenny will be supported once Squeeze is released? I think it is one year. A longer term solution would be to use Trinity-KDE,continuing KDE3 development, v3.5.12 right now.

Re: approx for new netinst installation

2011-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 29 January 2011 02:07:59 pm Russell L. Harris wrote: * Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net [110126 03:45]: On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote: I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use approx in order to minimize download time

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:13:33 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling about

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 07 February 2011 04:44:54 am Michael Fothergill wrote: I think with the next upgrade I am about to do I will back up the work files run this script, install a new a kernel and play around with some of the other instructions and then finally do the aptitude dist-upgrade and see how

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org writes: Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's what we ship)? Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to open docx-files without any

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 11:50:23 am Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:32 +, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote: LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with some

Re: Installing Java jdk - do I need to purge Java gcj first?

2011-02-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 09:29:17 pm Lisi wrote: The release notes for LibreOffice recommend Java jdk instead of Java gcj. I have Java gcj installed. Can I just aptitude install jdk? Or must/should I aptitude purge Java gcj first, and then aptitude install jdk? Thanks, Lisi Not

Re: UUID help for ignoramous?

2011-02-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 11 February 2011 03:41:39 am Charlie wrote: I have an i386 machine that has been running lenny. Something went wrong during a recent upgrade, and the machine now does not boot, except in single-user mode. I think I need to update the device names, but do not know what is

Re: Help configuring grub-pc

2011-02-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 14 February 2011 09:06:51 am Erin Brinkley wrote: Ok, I lied! As part of the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, I guess there's a whole new grub boot process! It tells you that when your system settles down, you should run upgrade-from-grub-legacy ... ok, I just did that now and I am

Re: Help configuring grub-pc

2011-02-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 14 February 2011 09:49:29 am Erin Brinkley wrote: snip I installed over the net with apt! So basically I have no install media. Should I be making some kind of emergency disk before trying this?? Not sure what you mean by 'no install media' AFAIK, you have to have one of the

Re: How do I downgrade my gdm ?

2011-02-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 14 February 2011 06:11:54 pm Hoang Le wrote: Because I like the old flat style, not this Mac-like login screen :) Don't know what your references mean, or what Debian release you are using. If it is a gdm3/squeeze issue you can use gdm, both are available. -- Peace, Greg -- To

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We

Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote: Come with a few things installed. I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on Belkin routers. Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in the current atmosphere of

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: Why would one chose one over the other? OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:26:37 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: Why would one chose one over the other? OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. Well, yeah

Re: System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Greg Madden
this to work Lou Losee You may need the USb 2.0 module. I used modconf to look at all the USB stuff, USB 2 module= ehci-hcd. This may be in addition to the usb-uhci module, there are 3 or 4 USB modules that get loaded. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 ( 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Madden
to many backport/sources. You could just run unstable and get (almost) everything from one source, fewer potential conflicts and O.org 1.1 is in unstable. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: preloading modules, sarge netinst cd

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Madden
the netinstall cd and the boot kernel didn't have my nic card module either but there is a new kernel on this cd that you can install that has a full compliment of modules. Maybe this fits your issue. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
as the replacement for xlib6g. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lzrjk7rtxKWZzGsRAlpRAJ9gJZRDubL9swhPYEP4cIA6tiiZBACgtQ/U h/ZFGewgbhPcdjNYeEz/gCQ= =nOJB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
dosemu. Do you know where it's possible to get WP5.1 or WP6.0 disks, except on Ebay? If anyone would know this site would, if it is still active. http://www.wpuniverse.com/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
to OO.org if and when they add WP inport/export. It would be good to get one more person to rally OO.org for this. -Kev http://freshmeat.net/projects/libwpd/?topic_id=857%2C70%2C131 - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Madden
of the kernel and (2.4.22 is at least in theory stable). thoughts? i really would rather downgrade my gcc than my kernel. snip I use the 2.4.22 on my laptop for the acpi support, compiled with the woody gcc. the ide-scsi works fine also, the laptop burner works fine. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU

Re: Which kernel-image for Dual-XEON?

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Madden
-grown, for this machine.] Cheers, WB I don't know, but I am curious as to what 'proc/cpuinfo' shows as to the number of processors. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
to set the dma. What kernel options do i need to have set in order to allow dma=1? Thanks. Benedict Use this command to see what kernel options there are and what is selected in your kernel config file located in /boot. 'cat /boot/config-kerel version |grep DMA' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU

Re: Straight to SID...

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
, you could install a new kernel early on in the install process. This may be the speedup you are looking for. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
, a default on any non-scsi system, and you have all the drives on an IDE controller covered. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oCv8k7rtxKWZzGsRApxrAJ9Ugm+0XNKqJQsGRDw4IlBhss+vRwCaAvyD Q6tSd4xHJ22I8yhFFn2Hny0= =ebDS -END PGP

Re: Debian on Compaq Evo N800w

2003-10-30 Thread Greg Madden
. For a newer version of XFree or other packages that aren't in Woody you need to use 'unofficial backports' of which there are quite a few sites to choose from. http://www.apt-get.org/ has lists of these sites. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Madden
case it looks like you need the tape cdrom modules installed. Your kernel must have the aicxxx module compiled into the kernel. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/op2+k7rtxKWZzGsRAhIsAJ0WX14F4eOTzpov4Qq1ELb2pCvSUwCcDHWS

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Madden
. Shouldn't there be an enormous about of material to upgrade? Haines You need a source for Debian Security.Woody only gets updated through the security site. i.e. deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Miguel de Icaza on Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
to. The difficulty must be something other that ever changing libraries or whatever. He could have just complained about older versions of software. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qWZUk7rtxKWZzGsRAnT4AJ9jxa1y0KOSqFUI6nhVI7f+62Z

Re: Linux Standard Base

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
:) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfAOk7rtxKWZzGsRAh+9AKCpxRJfGk4JbZ6pPeq6k9oOIXufHQCfVJYY cEUilZA+cDGeJFbWMk/MgVk= =maJ0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada

2003-11-06 Thread Greg Madden
the one you like you can edit lilo and put it in 'vga=xxx' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfTpk7rtxKWZzGsRAuMhAJ9wSL04KsU4JydKpPyhtCqrPhcv9QCfQJQ9 wZHfBH38pcZ7Y8zx5nluClI= =pmGT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-01-21 Thread Greg Madden
the packages before starting the configuration phase. You can stop start the dl process, even the install process whenever you like. There are ways to restart or fix just about any situation. You might try netselect-apt to create a sources.list of a faster mirror. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU

Re: pppoe

2004-01-27 Thread Greg Madden
. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFwsLk7rtxKWZzGsRAmEnAKDWgNFFL7wgGKoTC9vbkfrz3yXWqQCgzJLw grnQGhiZZAD90zA1GfVj9fs= =1ehA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: jigdo question

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
to be more helpful, except the .iso.temp file can still be used by the program s don't delete them. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGWk4k7rtxKWZzGsRAgyVAJ94zabWUI8oAL4jWue7e5VMxo0DRwCggU2D 6Yu/caT9V5wiTHhMnAn4RBI= =c/TF -END

Re: G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
it is much faster than the UlraSparc Thanks, Angel You might want to check to see if/how well Debian PPC suports the G5, or the Sparc. I think there are Debian lists/archives for both arch's. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux

Re: How to see if SMP is working

2004-02-06 Thread Greg Madden
to force things just my two cents (I'm using a AMD Athlon MP box and I did never have any problems to bring both processors to live) Marcel The 'Intel Multirocessor Spec' (MPS 1.4) is set in the bios. I do think it should be set to '1.4'. You can google MPS 1.4. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
for that. but i want video playback, also, a nice resolution wouldn't be that bad. any suggestions? I have never bought anything here but this is a great card, esp if you use two monitors. http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?refer=pricegrabber.comid=883 - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP

Re: pcnet32 driver for vmware

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Madden
during the install. Woody works just fine in Vmware. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKoyqk7rtxKWZzGsRArfiAJ9Gyp/WsxLsGZD2Y4ElsYCvkMYYOQCg1+RD gvk5eW3tXuAGonrITQmeG/A= =+rAH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: sarge installer: unsure what images needed

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Madden
installer using CDROMs as the source? Thanks! Alexis Huxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instead of the netinstall cd use the regular cd, esp if you want to do a cd install. The new installer works fine for cd/dvd installs. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Multihead

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Madden
with xinerama? Sincerely, Jan. I would check the Matrox site. They used to support multiple monitors with their card selection. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALe8ok7rtxKWZzGsRAh3MAJ4pNJyufAhYwKp+51OcGejv0hvo0wCdG5j3

Re: kernel upgrade and LVM

2004-02-15 Thread Greg Madden
. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAMBoTk7rtxKWZzGsRAkcPAJ0TFhO5mMZ4T1YNoJ/pv4aAe+D8WQCg074N Z8FZGldiVL/4JYH8xw9ZKgU= =WyMe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Greg Madden
a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAMSVUk7rtxKWZzGsRAkp7AKCHfdzGlP3LHlNjatgKELnbARzV+ACgpOrM ADRLW6JDrZUHGKSRtzRrs0o= =1urS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

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