Re: System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:50:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:10:06 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Which package should I install to get all these sounds? I see predefined wav files for each system sound type: toggled.wav

Re: System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:11:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Dunno. Try first by keeping libesd0 (do not install libesd-alsa0) and see if it works. I should have mentioned it, but it still does not work

Using an advanced video editor under Debian Lenny

2010-08-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
will be tedious to solve); * openmovieeditor: why not! * Kino: I can't get it to work as I want. Many years ago, under Windows, I was using Sony Vegas, and it looks like Cinelerra is the one which looks the most like Vegas. Any suggestions? All the best, -- Merciadri Luca See http

`Kernel debug information sent ...' but offline!

2010-08-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
if I'm offline (but encountering a bug). This is definitely not normal. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:00:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) (...) The above path... not sure if it's right. Try by manually forcing the full path to java bin: *** ./eclipse -debug -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hanspeter Spalinger wrote: On 08/14/2010 09:01 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have the fs' checking period set to 50 mounts for now some years. The problem is that I always get errors when e2fsck verifies the fs, and always on the same: /dev/sdc5. Well, this is where I have all my docs

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob Proulx wrote: Hanspeter Spalinger wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: problem is that I always get errors when e2fsck verifies the fs, and always on the same: /dev/sdc5. ... but I can't understand why this filesystem is problematic, because I don't use it often, at least these times

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
. But I even ran a longer test months before, and it reported no error. Weird. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: always on the same: /dev/sdc5. Well, this is where I have all my docs, my university stuff, and this is even more annoying. I could do backups, I sure hope you *DID* extensive backups. Often. And stored

Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
, and there should be no problem. But will it be set as /dev/sdc5 automatically? (Sorry for my noobness.) Thanks, -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:55:22 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I would like to replace one of my HDDs by another one (a bigger one). Say that this is /dev/sdc. Then, its structure is defined like this: /dev/sdc1 (extended) /dev/sdc5 (ext3) where /dev/sdc5 is mounted

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:13:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Try by manually forcing the full path to java bin: *** ./eclipse -debug -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java *** Thanks for the trick

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:42:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Say now that I manage to copy my home to the new HDD (in ext3) which will replace the old one. If I physically put a new HDD at the place of the old one, will I encounter issues

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:03:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Me neither... maybe it's just an Eclipse issue. Can you launch any other java application and see if that works? Yes, I can, but the result is negative: no other java

Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
, I'm okay to read more. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:57:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) *** update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java 1 *** Thanks for this. And about java-update

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:45:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) Really nice, but Eclipse seems not to like it that much: == A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:17:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Two ideas on how to by-pass this: 1/ If Eclipse has an option to edit the path to the avilable JRE, just change it from there, or just by manually editing /etc/eclipse

Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
remember their names) which are bundled with Debian, but they don't show any failing thing (they have quite the same score as other hdds in my computer).* *** Thanks. * -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
there. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Android phone is not recognized by Android SDK, despite udev conf

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
then restarted udev, but to no avail: same problems. Any idea? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Android phone is not recognized by Android SDK, despite udev conf

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
I should have also mentioned that == # lsusb | grep High Bus 008 Device 005: ID 0bb4:0c87 High Tech Computer Corp. == which is a direct mapping to my udev's rules file. Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I've got an HTC Desire that I generally connect to this computer, and sharing pictures, videos

Re: Android phone is not recognized by Android SDK, despite udev conf

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Problem solved: restarting udev from CLI was not sufficient. I needed to restart. Merciadri Luca wrote: I should have also mentioned that == # lsusb | grep High Bus 008 Device 005: ID 0bb4:0c87 High Tech Computer Corp. == which is a direct mapping to my udev's rules file. Merciadri Luca

Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-alternatives --config java There are 2 alternatives which provide `java'. SelectionAlternative --- 1/usr/bin/gij-4.3 *+2/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java Why? What can I do to make it recognized? Thanks. -- Merciadri

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:45:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I think because you installed the package from outside Debian repos and so it got not recognized inside the whole package database. *** ls -l /etc/alternatives | grep java-6-sun *** If it's not there, I guess

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
root 47475 2009-08-29 23:03 servertool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47679 2009-08-29 23:03 tnameserv -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189274 2009-08-29 23:03 unpack200 == What do you suggest now? Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:33:56 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: I

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Java has a separate alternatives command. It is update-java-alternatives. # update-java-alternatives -l java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun java-gcj 1042 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj Normal? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:41:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Well, you're right. But I've found == /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin# ls -al total 756 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-08-29 23:03 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-08-29 23

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca wrote: 1) My question was about the difference between == # update-alternatives --config java There are 2 alternatives which provide `java'. Selection Alternative --- 1 /usr/bin/gij-4.3 *+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:26:53 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) By reading this manual: *** http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.en.html (section 11.10) If a package doesn't register itself as a window manager for some reason (file a bug if it's

GNOME screensaver's abnormal behaviour

2010-08-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
of the time, simply moving the mouse gets me out of the screensaver, but, in other cases, moving the mouse gives nothing, and the situation is the one I describe with Esc and right click. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: GNOME screensaver's abnormal behaviour

2010-08-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:48:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have a random GNOME screensaver, a default one, on this computer (debian Lenny w. kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem). It gets `paused' by pressing Esc

Re: GNOME screensaver's abnormal behaviour

2010-08-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:07:12 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: (...) 1/ Review your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~./xsession-errors Done. The former gives mainly SetGrabKeysState - disabled

Re: GNOME screensaver's abnormal behaviour

2010-08-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:10:01 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: (...) Are you using xinerama (nvidia setting for using two displays as just one big desktop) or any other fancy setup

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
. It is certainly not the KDE Save file-box, as that one does have the options sought after by the OP. So yes, it's gnome and the choice by Debian/iceweasel to use the gnome Save file-box Sure, there's no link with Kile! This was only an example. I did not understand Mr. Erwan David's message. -- Merciadri

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2010-07-23 12:11, Merciadri Luca skrev: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:25:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: You can browse the full filesystem (from / to lower paths). I have no problem with that. Yes, but this is really really tedious as compared to an input

`Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
to be opened with `kile', etc.; * not often possible for the user to select a binary which is not in his directories. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:25:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When opening a (downloaded) file, the Debian user is often (if not always) asked if he wants to open it, or to save it. Well, actually, opening it saves it in /tmp/, but that's not a problem. Are you saying

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Merciadri Luca schreef: ... You can browse the full filesystem (from / to lower paths). I have no problem with that. Yes, but this is really really tedious as compared to an input box! True. Yet sending this complaint to this list probably won't solve it. Filing

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Merciadri Luca schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Merciadri Luca schreef: ... You can browse the full filesystem (from / to lower paths). I have no problem with that. Yes, but this is really really tedious as compared to an input box! True. Yet sending

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:28:53 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Merciadri Luca schreef: I could not find where to post it. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi Thanks

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:47:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: You can fill an Enhancement bug. Here is the list of the possible severity fields you can use: *** https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#severity

Re: `Open with ...' - Use command too

2010-07-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Done. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625128 Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:47:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: You can fill an Enhancement bug. Here is the list of the possible severity

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
for this. (Thanks to Mr. Proulx too.) - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Failure is not falling down, you fail when you don't get back up. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sure, but do they accept a CD or a DVD directly into a special tray?! Erwan David wrote: On 03/07/10 22:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on is. (Or how

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Because if I can know it by theory, it avoids me `practice.' :) Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
/dev/ttyUSBx? In any event, I'm pretty sure that the system will assign an available address, generally independent of the port, unless you have a udev rule telling it otherwise. Okay. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:09:48PM CEST, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be said: Sure, but do they accept a CD or a DVD directly into a special tray?! Erwan David wrote: On 03/07/10 22:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, For a printer, why

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Celejar wrote: Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device

Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
a given package, and copy/paste a long list of packages that is needed for building something. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Look on the sunny side

Re: Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: When you don't know that you already have a given package, and that yo= u want to install it, apt-get tells you that you already have it, and se= ts it to `manually installed.' Why does it set it to `manually installed

Re: Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sorry, Enigmail bug. And is there a way to prevent it from behaving like this? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: If you asked for a package to be installed, it is reasonable to assume that you want that package. If it is already installed, then naturally

Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob Proulx wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems could arise. I have the following questions: 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except electric problems)? One possibility is soft memory

CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on is. (Or how could the paper be in the CD or DVD tray?) -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Saving files of one folder in another partition, but without changing the path?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
in /home/merciadriluca/, but this is on another partition (say hda1). How could I manage to save /var/lib/the_concerned_subfolder/* data at /home/merciadriluca/another_folder/ so that the program notices nothing? Symlink? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
You're right. I had taken the (bad) habit to use apt-get on other computers, and, once you have begun using apt-get, it's better not to use aptitude, isn't it? Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: why. I did an `apt-get install gnome

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
I was seeing this in System Administration Printing [my_printer's properties] Printer Options Media Source (using GNOME's GUI to CUPS' web interface). Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 09:52 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
for this. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Act today only, tomorrow is too late. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Saving files of one folder in another partition, but without changing the path?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. That's what I was thinking about. Axel Freyn wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:33:04PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Put simply, I have a program which saves data in a subdirectory of /var/lib/. The problem is double: 1. I can't modify the path where data are saved; 2. I'm

USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device, or is it one in a specific port? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
(Message was apparently not received.) Merciadri Luca wrote: I was seeing this in System Administration Printing [my_printer's properties] Printer Options Media Source (using GNOME's GUI to CUPS' web interface). Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
(Message was apparently not received.) Merciadri Luca wrote: I was seeing this in System Administration Printing [my_printer's properties] Printer Options Media Source (using GNOME's GUI to CUPS' web interface). Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
! Thanks all. Trivial solution to a problematic fact! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Failure is not falling down, you fail when you don't get back up. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta lory.fu...@infinito.it writes: Il 03/07/2010 12:50, Camaleón ha scritto: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Lisi wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010 21:29:36 Merciadri Luca wrote: Ok, ok, calm down :-) A problem of Internet messaging is that, sometimes, messages are totally misinterpreted. Here, I was not angry at all (actually, I'm not often angry). Calm down does not, to me

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: aptitude install sysv-rc-conf. Run this and you can turn off gdm. This way you'll boot to a console even when not using single user mode. For lightweight desktops / window managers, I recommend you try

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:47:04PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010 15:14:03 Merciadri Luca wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:29:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: RAM is okay but CPU is a bit slow, bus limited, non-multithread, single core... But it did it some months ago with the same Debian, but with an older kernel! How could

Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
other programs (i.e. scripts using the Internet, etc.) to use these credentials (in some way)? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. The heart has reasons

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
is okay. That's a little bit like ADSL where you need to type credentials before using the Internet (at the opposite of the cable). :-( Thanks. Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:32:53 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: For some PC at the university, I need Internet access, but this can't

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
But I have credentials! So that might be simple if I get a way to share the credentials with other programs. Michal wrote: On 02/07/2010 10:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:47:17 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Michal wrote: ...so you can only use a browser then? You can't use other applications? This sounds like the sort of system they have a hotels and such like

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be mailto:luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Mark wrote: Yes, but you said this wasn't

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:46:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) The PC then rebooted, and, after the login screen, nothing happens. There's still a background (the default one), but no icon, no menu, no shortcut working. The mouse can be moved, but nothing more. The only

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. Celejar wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:13 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to a webpage which asks you your

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are memory hungry, so couldn't be that your machine is very busy

Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
(which is also one of its definition). Would you consider this as a bug? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
in the installation process/in choices to make for Debian's install. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:26:52 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I've never used AMD-based computers, and I've therefore always chosen i386 as I habitually deal with Intel stuff. The fact is that I've got to install Debian on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. The AMD world

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi, It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS (AMD or Intel). Thanks. If you are using it for personal purpose i386 is preferred. Other wise i recommend i686. Why (briefly)? (Or give me a pointer.) Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See

Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I have an USB key and I would like to know how I could `burn' a .iso image on it. I remember some weird procedure using dd, but I'm not sure, and I can't find the tutorial. Evidently, assuming respective BIOS capability, the USB key should be bootable. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. Alan Chandler wrote: On 01/07/10 16:12, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have an USB key and I would like to know how I could `burn' a .iso image on it. I remember some weird procedure using dd, but I'm not sure, and I can't find the tutorial. Evidently, assuming respective BIOS

Re: Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 17:12 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: It always helps to provide some information about the goal you want to achieve ... If you are trying to install Debian by booting from USB you can find information about that in the install guide. [1

Re: Burning a .iso on an USB key

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
. Try this link: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Only those who keep trying eventually win. signature.asc

Re: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Debian install

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. I'll have a deeper look in this as soon as possible. Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 01 iul 10, 15:06:33, Merciadri Luca wrote: Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi, It's true. There is no difference in the installation process of OS (AMD or Intel). Thanks

After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
the `loading' process (i.e. where you see lot of stuff telling you that kernel `x' is loaded, that package `y' is progressively being loaded, etc.). Any idea? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two partitions, for example. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:20:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: It depends. There are many situations and setups where having a separate disk and/or partition is a very good choice (speed or security/redundancy gains). Sure, but I did

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 30 iun 10, 10:29:20, Merciadri Luca wrote: I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two partitions, for example. For this there would have to be two /var

Re: Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrew Reid wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 17:00:15 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I'm installating Debian Lenny on an old P2 350 Mhz to make a server. The BIOS has been flashed to get the most up-to-date configuration with this really racing beast. This P2 had, before, RH, that I deinstalled

Re: iGoogle loads, becomes scaled at ~150%, and gets finally re-scaled at ~80%: why?

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
. Done. Nothing. :( -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: iGoogle loads, becomes scaled at ~150%, and gets finally re-scaled at ~80%: why?

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 30 iun 10, 11:24:42, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: I would try first the easy path: 1/ Restore zoom level for that page (Ctrl+0) 2/ Remove cookies and cache That does nothing. The first step (pressing Ctrl and O) gives

Re: Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 23:00 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: tried a first Debian install, which stalled at 5%. I then re-tried, and here I am: stuck at 5% for a long time (~3 hours). I did not mess Most likely caused by an out-of-date archive key on your

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alan Chandler wrote: On 30/06/10 09:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two partitions, for example. You are still talking backwards You put the partition (/dev

Re: `W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C'

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 29 iun 10, 12:09:56, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Using apt-get's GUI, I receive There is no apt-get GUI, do you mean aptitude? == `W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified

Re: `W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C'

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:09:56 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Using apt-get's GUI, I receive == `W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C

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