Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Isn't etc just short for etcetera? So wouldn't etcetera be the proper pronunciation? yes, it is. i'm not a native speaker, but if i recall correctly, they have always taught us to pronouce 'etc' as 'and so on', so we didn't use the original latin words (the same applies to 'e.g.' or 'i.e.').

Re: Get Amilo Pro V3205 to see Intel Pro Wireless 3945abg -- Etch

2007-04-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, wireless on this laptop works fine, see my post on http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ site, or on my website (lubos.vrbka.net/misc_ntb.html) for the relevant config things. I just did that (*) but the system will not load the ipw3945 driver. Is there something I am missing? i think it

Re: ipw3945 Etch amd64

2007-04-11 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Mark Panen wrote: Hi I download ipw3945 and the kernel module for it. I modprobe ipw3945 and lsmod shows it's there. But /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start * Not starting ipw3945 regulatory daemon, driver not loaded. How can i get my wireless to work ? make sure that you have EVERYTHING related ot

Re: ipw3945 Etch amd64

2007-04-11 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:11:39AM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Mark Panen wrote: Hi I download ipw3945 and the kernel module for it. I modprobe ipw3945 and lsmod shows it's there. But /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start

Re: ipw3945 Etch amd64

2007-04-11 Thread Lubos Vrbka
[pobega]$ ls /lib/firmware | grep ipw ipw3945.ucode [pobega]$ apt-cache policy firemware-ipw3945 W: Unable to locate package firemware-ipw3945 I guess this means I installed it from outside of APT? Would it be a smart idea to use APT to install it now, or just leave it as is (In case it ever

texlive, beamer and etch

2007-04-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same time on an etch box? i was doing one fresh etch install today and just installing texlive brought several conflicting packages. unfortunately i couldn't get further info since the machine had to be ready asap -

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

2007-04-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, there was a discussion about it a few days ago on this list. it seems that i missed it and cannot find anything relevant now :( by the way - this is fresh etch install (into chroot). just after installation, i get the following: $ aptitude install texlive Reading package lists... Done

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
yag wrote: You may want to check this. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking interesting page... thanks for the link. i seem to experience the same problem, however, on different disk Vendor: ATA Model: FUJITSU MHV2060B Rev: Type: Direct-Access

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Not to mention that the idea is idiotic - punish everyone because some people steal. Sheesh. i think this is on par with the fact that we have (here in czech republic, i'm not sure about other countries) to pay a fee for every blank cd/dvd, flash disk, printer, etc., because these _could_ be

keeping ooffice in foreground

2007-05-21 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is there any way how to force ooffice, oocalc, oowriter, ... not to go into background? when i issue soffice, it works exactly this way, but i would like to have it (if possible) for oo* as well. why do i need it? i have openoffice installed in chroot (this is amd64 system). oo*

Re: keeping ooffice in foreground

2007-05-21 Thread Lubos Vrbka
AMD64 has had a native OOo2 build for *quite* some time. Why are you still using a chrooted 32-bit build? hmmm, i think i should say *WOW* now... i wasn't aware of the fact that native 64bit ooffice is available. thanks for pointing that out. regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, does anyone know good way how to resize jpg pictures and preserve EXIF at the same time, preferably using graphics/imagemagick? it seems that graphicsmagick removes the EXIF information, but maybe there is some option i missed :( thanks in advance for any hints. regards, -- Lubos

Re: resizing pictures and EXIF

2007-06-14 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, $ convert -resize 800x800 image.jpg small-image.jpg To resize multiple images you can always cook up a script. Other applications which I use for exif manipulations are jhead and exiv2. well, it seems that imagemagick indeed preserves exif information, whereas graphicsmagick doesn't! i

python-scipy weirdness

2006-10-30 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, when trying to install python-scipy and some other things on my up-to-date etch box, i encounter the following: python-scipy-core recommends python-scipy --\ The following actions will resolve this dependency: - Cancel the installation of python-scipy-core - Keep python-scipy at

grace/grace6 installation failed due to missing gconf-schemas

2006-11-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, today i experienced the following problem while trying to install grace/grace6 on an amd64 box: Setting up grace (5.1.20-3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/grace.postinst: line 32: gconf-schemas: command not found dpkg: error processing grace (--configure): subprocess post-installation

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
nvidia-glx is a package, created from the nvidia-graphics-drivers source package. nvidia-graphics-drivers contains the binary .run files from nvidia.com plus some scripting voodoo used in package creation. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/nvidia-graphics-drivers shows the four packages

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, actually, where does /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so come from? (i hope i wrote the path correctly) is it part of the binary files from nvidia.com? 'apt-file search' didn't reveal anything relevant. /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so is indeed part of the nvidia

Re: grace/grace6 installation failed due to missing gconf-schemas

2006-11-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, This may need to be installed, if it is not and it maybe needed to be added as a package dependency. This warrants a bug report. Both grace and grace6 do not mention this. This could be a dependency bug with both of them or with one of its dependencies. well, it seems that at least for

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-09 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Florian Kulzer wrote: Now I am confused: me too... $ apt-file search nvidia_drv nvidia-glx: usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o nvidia-glx: usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o nvidia-glx-legacy: usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o i get empty output from apt-file. Maybe

schroot help needed

2006-11-10 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, could anybody please show me how to setup schroot so, that it automatically bindmounts the /dev, /tmp and /home directories inside the chroot when it is entered? until now i was using permanent bind mount in my fstab. however, having the directories bindmounted only when the chroot

Re: schroot help needed

2006-11-10 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I've only done this setting up a chroot to run 32bit applications on a 64bit system but it should be equally applicable to your situation. this is exactly my situation. so far i was using permanent bindmounts in the /etc/fstab file, as described in the amd64 howto Please note that if

how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-27 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is there any way how to override printer settings from xpp, lpr or another frontend? we are printing through cups server... what i want to accomplish? currently, any settings i make in, e.g., xpp (long/short edge, duplex on/off, number of pages per sheet of paper, ...) are ignored

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Florian Kulzer napsal(a): lpoptions should always work to set options for CUPS printers. You can check with lpoptions -l what is known/available. well, in my experience, this works probably fine for local printer, but not for the printer that is connected to some other machine seving as a cups

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
We use kprinter (kde's printer tool) for printing. It's a one stop solution for all applications that support it, ie. selecting 'print', ctrl-p or whatever will open kprinter's dialog, where one can select the printer from those available via cups, all printer options that are supported by cups

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
we tested this. whatever we choose, printer still prints duplex, long-edge flip. as a default, this is fine, but when you need something special (like short edge, 2 pages per paper), it is not possible. it seems that the settings on the printer/cups server cannot be changed/overriden by

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Why don't you just create multiple printers in CUPs using the same PPD as a starting point? That's what I did. That way your users only have to select the aptly named printer they wish to use in the dialog, without having to know all the intricasies of which side to tumble and things like that.

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I guess it's just a problem of configuration and/or ppd-stuff. it seems so. we installed ppds for HPLJ4100 and HPLJ2300 from linuxprinting.org (standard postscript, no hplip - we had that up till now) and the settings can be changed from individual users, i.e., duplex can be turned off or

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, A bit a shot in the dark, but when I have problems with correct configuration via the web interface, I try to install the printer from the command line like lpadmin -p printer-name -v socket://ipaddress\ -P /atheneraid/tausch/Software/drucker/NRG-DSm415_PXL.ppd replace the last line with

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
there is just one annoying issue - when printing some postscript files on 4100, it's printed reversed - i.e., white text on black rectangles :( it happens only with some of ps's... this happens whatever driver we use (hplip, hpijs) except for the postscript ppd, but then it's not possible to

Re: als root kein KDE-Programm startbar

2007-09-10 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, In einem Terminal in KDE kann ich zwar mit su root werden, aber ich kann keine KDE-Programme starten. Beispiel: PlayMobil:# kwrite Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0 If I understand you correctly, your problem is

font change after kdm/xdm login

2007-11-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i am using enlightenment 0.16 as my window manager. up to now i was using xdm as my login manager. recently, i tried to install and use kdm... then, fonts in several applications (e.g., psi, iceweasel, conky, ...) differ when i log in using xdm (the fonts i am used to - optimized

Re: font change after kdm/xdm login

2007-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, Does it substitute a different font (family) or does it show the same font rendered differently (larger/smaller, blurrier/more ragged, etc.)? i think it's the same font, but after kdm login it's renderend smaller and (subjectively) not so sharp. I would start by comparing the output of

Re: font change after kdm/xdm login

2007-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Theoretically the *correct* dpi setting (whether you like it or not) should be set by the X server if you put your monitor's physical dimensions in xorg.conf right. problem is that this is a notebook (i945gm chipset) and i am attaching an external monitor to it. i haven't been able to figure

nvidia mcp61 network adapter problem

2007-03-13 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, the thing i'm going to talk about is known issue, i'm just wondering how to easily solve it. some nvidia ethernet cards report their mac addresses to the kernel in reversed order (boot rom has them ok) - so you can boot off the network, but don't for example get ip from dhcp

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
jie gong napsal(a): Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, and found there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. What is that? Can I delete it? the file contains errors from your x session. it seems you use some x program that just gone mad and prints a lots of

wireless problems with wpa

2007-01-21 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i have problems with the wireless setup on my debian box. the card is intel pro wireless 3945. i have all necessary packages installed from debian repositories... in some wireless networks it works fine. the card is also fine - i tested it also from windows (it's dualboot machine).

Re: wireless problems with wpa

2007-01-21 Thread Lubos Vrbka
i have problems with the wireless setup on my debian box. the card is intel pro wireless 3945. i have all necessary packages installed from debian repositories... in some wireless networks it works fine. the card is also fine - i tested it also from windows (it's dualboot machine). i want to

Re: wireless problems with wpa

2007-01-21 Thread Lubos Vrbka
i found that it's necessary to use -Dwext switch to get rid of the ioctl message. sorry for the noise. it seems i was a bit too optimistic :( the led on my notebook indicates, that the connection with the AP is established. it remains so for some seconds, but then it starts blinking again (as

ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-07 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, we have a bunch of apc back-ups cs500 ups-es for our desktops. they work fine with the exception of one machine, where we are getting ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 2-1:

Re: ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-07 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Maybe the necessary kernel module hasn't been compiled. kernel module for what? the usb controller? the apc uses hid, that indeed is compiled as a module. moreover, the same kernel and the same ups work on different machine (with different board) - maybe the usb handling on this one particular

Re: ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-07 Thread Lubos Vrbka
ups work on different machine (with different board) - maybe the usb handling on this one particular board is not correct? It's a possibility. would it be possible that low speed devices would be treated incorrectly , whereas high speed devices would be treated ok? that would correspond to the

Re: ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-07 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Hmmm. And you're sure that the software on this machine is *exactly* the same as the working computers? If that is correct, then you've exhausted my expertise... well, they are up-to-date etch machines... actually, the working computers are pure 64bit (amd64) and 32 bit machines, the

Re: ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Here is a possibly relevant article: http://www.mepis.org/node/5860 thanks for a hint, however, this doesn't work as well :( i tried both the solutions mentioned there, but to no avail :( regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lubos.vrbka.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: WEP is possible, WPA not (wpa_supplicant)

2007-02-09 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I have an intel 3945 wireless card, installed wpa_supplicant (via apt-get, debian etch installation). i am using wpa_supplicant on etch with the same card and it works fine on a linksys router. The configuration for WEP works, but for WPA I never get an ip address from the DHCP server.

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I am not sure about wireless driver Intel Pro/3945ABG seems to be supported by driver from http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/, but I am not sure if it is in Debian yet. Otherwise, you can be certainly poorly served by ndiswrapper (with Windows drivers). i can confirm that the ipw3945 driver works

Re: Unattended decompression of multiple .tgz files to a single folder

2006-08-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I have a dvd-data disk. Written at its top level are 300 .tgz archives. Therefore each archive has been firstly tar'd and then gzip'd. Each of the 300 archives contains 2 folders (Objects and Terrain) and each of these 2 folders contain a number of sub-folders. The tgz archives on the disk

Fwd: Re: (no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, anyone know how to grep on a few files and search for ^$. grep '\^\$' filename should work... regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lubos.vrbka.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mc and exit

2006-08-30 Thread Lubos Vrbka
the man page says: Quit (F10, Shift-F10) Terminate the Midnight Commander. Shift-F10 is used when you want to quit and you are using the shell wrapper. Shift-F10 will not take you to the last directory you visited with the Midnight Commander, instead it will stay at the

Re: Opteron or Athlon 64 FX?

2006-09-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, What has your experiences of either/both been? at work we use dual core athlon64 machines for workstations (up to 4 gb of ram). opteron clusters (dual core or dual dual core) are used for scientific calculations - and contain much more memory (last ordered computers should have up to

sata drive or controller failing

2006-09-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, today morning i realized that one of the software raid mirrors on my computer report U_ in /proc/mdstat, i.e. one member of the array failed. indeed, i can see the following in the dmesg output: ata6: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata6: status=0x51 {

aptitude and python SRE module mismatch

2006-09-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, (sorry for cross-posting, however i didn't get any replies on debian-amd64 so i'd like to ask for help experts on debian-users) i am not able to install gucharmap on my amd64/testing machine (fresh install today). it fails with libgnome and related libraries (many of them) i have

[SOLVED] Re: aptitude and python SRE module mismatch

2006-09-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i identified the problem and solved it - i forgot to remove the old values from the PYTHONPATH variable... sorry for the noise, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lubos.vrbka.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

console outputs for root printed also on printer

2006-09-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i realized that from time to time, things that are printed on the screen (for root) are also printed on the printer. i'm not sure whether the printed stuff exactly copies the things on the screen. however, for example i was running aptitude and wanted to install some things related

Re: FATAL: Module ide_cd not found.

2006-09-18 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Fred J. wrote: I just booted with a newly custom compiled/installed 2.6.16 on my debian/testing. the first suspicious lines in my /var/log/boot show towards the end of the quoted section below; Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Cleaning up ifupdown...done. Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Loading modules...

Re: X programs inside chroot

2006-10-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I solved my own problem, Here is the solution: I bind mounted /tmp in the chroot (e.g. mount --bind /tmp /chroots/sarge-ia32/tmp). Why did this solve the problem? * The X server on the host did not have a TCP/IP listener, only a unix * domain listener (e.g. /tmp/.X11-unix) which was not

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console, with both the commands and their output. I use urxvt as my X console, and I run

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Mumia W.. wrote: Hit Control-Shift, and urxvt (rxvt-unicode) goes into Unicode digit acquisition mode. Release Control, and it goes into keycap insertion mode. Jason, perhaps some keys you press in one of those modes cause ^P or something similar to be generated. I use rxvt-xpm nowadays

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Mumia W.. wrote: There is no way to disable the special input modes. That's why Debian provides both rxvt-xpm (rxvt) and urxvt (rxvt-unicode). ok, good to know... maybe i should return back to uxterm :) BTW, I can input accented characters in rxvt using my Multi_key (Compose). I used xmodmap

Re: 'stty sane' in insane

2006-10-12 Thread Lubos Vrbka
$ stty sane $ asdsf^H^H^H I.e., my BS key is producing ^H instead of erasing previous letter afterward. So what should I do? I still like to use 'stty sane' to reset my tty, and I still want my BS key to be configured as ^H, instead of something else. stty erase ^H, perhaps? regards, --

Re: printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread Lubos Vrbka
T What is the best way to print from a chroot? I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. or, you may be able to solve the problem the other way round. - disable host cupsys and start chroot cupsys. print from chroot. this I've proved to be working fine. - use chroot wrapper for host lp/lpr,

Re: dchroot and program parameters

2006-10-14 Thread Lubos Vrbka
how to use dchroot for program with parameters? I never seems to get it working: $ dchroot -d ls --color=auto -lF E: unknown option color I: Run dchroot --help to list usage example and all available options $ dchroot -d ls --color=auto -lF E: unknown option color I: Run dchroot --help

Re: Microphone not working with Intel 82801G / Board D945GTP

2006-10-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I run sid at home and I haven't been able to use the microphone. Alsa mixer only allows me to pick either Mic, Front Mic or Line, but I don't see the volume level of the Mic. Gnome's sound recorder doesn't allow me to select a device to record from. It shows no devices. I've searched the

Re: Not debian specific, but please help me ....

2006-01-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Roberto wrote: Hi all, I can't find how to set a defult and convenient attribute mask when file are created on linux. I need a whole group can write file created by anyone in the group. So I need the g=rw be the default permission at file creation. Actually I get g=r only by default man

Re: sata o ata disk?

2006-01-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I have installed debian stable in a remote system. How can I see the hardware type to compile the correct drivers in the kernel? Example How can I see if I have an ATA or a SATA hard disk? IMHO, (P)ATA harddisks will report themselves as hd* in dmesg. on the other hand, SATA drives are

Re: Debian Sarge AMD64 and SATA

2006-01-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Alessandro Pluchino wrote: Hi all! The last days I just can't get to install Debian Sarge AMD 64. It keeps saying to me :no partitionable media.Meaning it doesn't detect my SATA hard disk drive.. did you try to install using len sorensen's sarge installation iso? it has newer kernel (2.6.12

squirrelmail problems

2006-01-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, after yesterday's upgrade our mailserver running squirrelmail doesn't allow any user to log in. other methods of access work fine (pop, imap, ssh login + mutt). the configtest script reports the following. does anyone know what's going on? thanks for any help. regards, lubos

Re: File system overhead

2006-01-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
If you look at the output of df -h you will see that the size of the partition is 219GB there is only 168MB in this partition yet there is only 208GB left. This is a new server and that partition has only had things added to it, nothing has ever been removed. By my calculations there should be

Re: squirrelmail problems

2006-01-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, It seems to be complaining about your network card. Was the NIC changed during this upgrade? In other words, is the same ethernet card being used? this was just software update. the machine is debian testing, i386. iirc, there is only one ethernet card in it, and the IP remained the

Re: squirrelmail problems

2006-01-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, it seems that the problems were caused by apache (just wondering why, the php should be communicating with the ssl imap directly shouldn't it?) keeping all configs, ... and downgrading the apache did the trick. the workinh version of apache is 2.0.54-5. the version 2.0.55-3 doesn't seem

disabling interactive shell in ssh session

2006-01-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, some time ago i asked how is it possible to allow only rsync (and similar) services in ssh connections. the ultimate answer was rssh. now a related problem... if i want to have ssh login allowed, however user wouldn't get shell prompt, how shall i do it? i.e. ssh machine results

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
that is what i supposed to be... i think the only real cons' of VMware with respect to competitors is... of course the price but that's another matter, you know if you have the virtual machine set up you actually don't need the vmware anymore, vmware player is enough and is for free...

moving to unicode

2006-01-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is there any up-to-date document how to move a debian system to utf8 (both console and X)? i found some info on web, however it seems to be quite old (~4 years)... a pointer to a list of what doesn't work with utf8 would be really nice, too... thank you for your hints. regards, --

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Michelle Konzack napsal(a): Am 2006-01-14 20:55:34, schrieb Serena Cantor: I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! apt-get install netpbm for X in *.bmp ; do bmptopnm $X

USER variable in cron

2006-01-26 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i realized that the $USER variable isn't defined in cron jobs running under my user. however, e.g., $HOME is defined. is there any explanation why $USER isn't defined? in my case the following script added to my crontab #!/bin/sh echo debug echo home ${HOME} echo user ${USER} echo

Re: Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100

2006-01-27 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, Given that your are running XOrg 6.9 from unstable you could try to use EXA and the RenderAcceleration. So set the Section Device to something like this: Section Device Driver radeon Identifier ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP VendorName ATI BoardName ATI

Render acceleration ATI (Was: Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100)

2006-01-27 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Given that your are running XOrg 6.9 from unstable you could try to use EXA and the RenderAcceleration. So set the Section Device to something like this: Section Device Driver radeon Identifier ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon

Render acceleration ATI

2006-01-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i tried to dig more into my problem (non-functional acceleration with xorg 6.9 and EXA render acceleration on ati x600. the card seems to be recognized by the radeon kernel module. drm doesn't recognize it, as it seems, although both radeon and drm modules are loaded. AGP and

different resolution on notebook LCD and VGA

2006-01-31 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, maybe this is nonsense... is it possible to run x windows with different resolution on the notebook LCD and different on the VGA out at the same time? ideally i'd like to have the output 1024x768 on the LCD and 1280x1024 sent to the VGA output (i want to connect it to another LCD

Re: different resolution on notebook LCD and VGA

2006-01-31 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Most newer laptops can do it under windows. Although at almost every talk, someone finds out that accelaration doesn't work on the second display, even when the external display is simply mirroring the LCD. So someone goes to play a movie, and is stunned into silence when they discover that the

smbmount and smbclient from sid fail when connecting to sarge share

2006-02-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi everybody, smbmount and smbclient from sid (both i386 and amd64) seem to fail to connect to our local samba server (running sarge, iirc). smbmount //server/share mnt_point gives me 4748: Connection to server failed SMB connection failed surprisingly the number changes every time this

Re: smbmount and smbclient from sid fail when connecting to sarge share

2006-02-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, smbmount and smbclient from sid (both i386 and amd64) seem to fail to connect to our local samba server (running sarge, iirc). smbmount //server/share mnt_point gives me 4748: Connection to server failed SMB connection failed surprisingly the number changes every time this command is

Re: smbmount and smbclient from sid fail when connecting to sarge share

2006-02-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, smbfs 3.0.21a-4 works fine here (on sid amd64) well, smbfs from sid worked for me correctly when i mount a share running this version of the server. however, when trying to mount a share running sarge, i had no luck. However, I'm using cifs which is the latest implementation

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

2006-02-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I was planing to use rsync with SSH on Windows and the Linux server and schedule the script to copy the files/folders to a Debian based Linux server in the following folder structure: /backup/Monday/server /backup/Monday/ws01 /backup/Monday/ws02 /backup/Monday/ws03 . .

how to change number of saved lines on console

2006-02-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is it possible to change (increase) the number of lines that are saved on console? i would like to be able to scroll through the whole boot process history. right now it allows me to go approximately one and half pages back... thanks, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, Just did an `apt-get upgrade` on my Sid system and since it pulled in a new kernel I rebooted. During booting I was greated with _lots_ of message from udev about not being able to run hotplugd or udevd (I'm fairly sure those were the programs it was complaining about, I didn't find any

Re: how to change number of saved lines on console

2006-02-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, is it possible to change (increase) the number of lines that are saved on console? i would like to be able to scroll through the whole boot process history. right now it allows me to go approximately one and half pages back... bootlogd. turn it on via /etc/default/bootlogd thanks,

Re: downgrading xorg

2006-02-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
So, obviously the source for my version of XOrg (6.9.0) not there. I tried through ATI web page (https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894task=knowledgefolderID=300), but it has only version for X.Org 6.8. So Flavio's installer is downloading .rpm packages preconfigured for

Re: how to change number of saved lines on console

2006-02-08 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 February 2006 13:06, David Kirchner wrote: On 2/6/06, Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, is it possible to change (increase) the number of lines that are saved on console? i would like to be able to scroll through the whole boot process history

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Lubos Vrbka
third! Nice software. gqview is fine... but feh as well... i use both. regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev problem

2006-02-16 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot remember the exact format but it is more or less like this) but

enlightenment 0.16.8 in debian

2006-02-18 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, does anyone know when does enlightenment 0.16.8 make it to debian sid? afaik, the current version (0.16.7) conflicts with 0.17 and it shoud be fixed in 0.16.8... regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Introducing myself and ATI+Toshiba problem

2006-02-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
How can I use the external monitor? (it seems that the standard X configuration is not good). It is only a configuration problem, or there is something to do in order to enable the secondary monitor? does your monitor work when you are outside of X? i had a similar problem before. it was

wireless card

2006-02-22 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i'm planning to buy wifi (b/g) card for my laptop, however i'm not about the support. my colleague has asus with broadcom bcm4306 chipset in his windoze notebook. i tried it, kernel recognized the card, but the i cannot find the respective drivers for linux. according to mr. google

Re: wireless card

2006-02-22 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even have WPA support. If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy

Re: wireless card

2006-02-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via module-assistant. for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i

Re: wireless card

2006-02-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than MS Windows. ok. the card we have here (it's asus wl-100g deluxe) seems to work nice in windoze, but since it has bcm4306... I'm assuming that you're

Re: wireless card

2006-02-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g. For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting for

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Hi all I installed debian etch on a centrino duo laptop with still some open issue: 1. although the i810 driver states that it cover the the video card intel 945GM i'm not able to use the laptop lcd at its maximum resolution 1280x800. Intel site

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
VideoRam16384 to the device section corresponding to the graphics card in your xorg.conf. that did the trick on my laptop. I tryed, but in the Xorg.0.log file the section about video mode reported: maximum space for video modes is 12288 kB. ooops, it seems that i made one big mistake -

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga Continued

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus on etch/xorg7/i386. I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the following output from xidump -l: Configured Mouse

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