This morning I skimmed through
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#ss2.3 . Section 2.3
describes index mode and pager mode. In index mode, typing a message
number opens the message in the pager. That's the switch from index to
pager. How is a switch from pager to index invoked? Ie.,
Two systems here with current Squeeze. One is a Compaq Armada E500; the
other a generic desktop machine with a Foxconn board. Try this in each.
In iceweasel, google site:skype.com create account and attempt to
open the account creation page. The URI is too long to mention.
In the Foxconn
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:19:38 +1000
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote,
I can't duplicate your problem... why don't you bypass the monkey and
go to:-
https://login.skype.com/account/signup-form
no ffflash required there
no long URL either.
That works; but other
On 25/05/12 09:49 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Running testing is not a guaratee for having the latest versions of the
programs, you have to check by your own, for instance, Wheezy has
Icewasel 10.0 while Firefox is now 12 (so you can still test with Firefox
12 -download and run- and see what happens)
Folk,
A printer is connected to a Squeeze system here with a parallel cable.
CUPS is installed and there is no problem printing directly from the
host.
I'm interested to have this printer work for other machines on the LAN.
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/network.html
I don't see any way to give Icedove the References and In-reply-to
fields for the
header but they are here.
Bcc: pe...@easthope.ca
References: jifusr$288$4...@dough.gmane.org
171057435.35607.27295@cantor.invalid jigd87$288$1...@dough.gmane.org
In-reply-to: jigd87$288$1...@dough.gmane.org
*
According to http://www.youtube.com/html5 this Iceweasel in current
Squeeze lacks h.264 and WebM capabilities. Can this be rectified by
user action? Thanks, ... Peter E.
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On 13/03/12 10:42 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
However, WebM support is in as of FF/IW 4. Most YouTube content is
available as WebM now, certainly more than is h.264. You could get the
current version (10) from Mozilla, or you could get Iceweasel backports:
http://mozilla.debian.net/
The
On 15/03/12 07:43 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Icedove will use the default sending format setting
defined for your account, which by default is html.
Where can the default be changed to text?
You need to
manually toggle text format at message composing when you want to get
text based e-mails
I've
On 15/03/12 08:52 AM, Camaleón wrote:
This is done from menu Edit → Account Settings → [you account] →
Composition and Addressing and unckecking [ ] Compose messages in HTML
format. This will default the postings for that account to text based
format.
Thanks. I should have reviewed
Two elementary questions about Icedove usage. Answers are not obvious
in Account Settings or in Preferences or with Google.
Can the length at which a line is wrapped automatically be adjusted?
I'm inclined to set the auto-wrap length to infinity. Auto-wrapping is
particularly troublesome
On 22/03/12 03:08 PM, Joey L wrote:
I have disabled the gd3 from loading on boot up and now i can not get
the black login screen on the server console.
I have installed the firmware-linux-nonfree debian package.
Running Debian squeeze.
...
anyone has any ideas ?
Reminiscent of my difficulty
On 22/03/12 06:33 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 23/03/12 04:57, Peter Easthope wrote:
NOTE: Icedove and Thunderbird are not identical, you don't say which
version you have installed,
A photo here.
http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/AboutIcedove.jpg
peter@dalton:~$ dpkg -l icedove | grep ice
ii
Referring to my http://142.103.107.138/NetworkExtant.jpg diagram, mutt
and exim4 running on Dalton can send a message, through port 465 with
TLS, to *.webwelcome.com and then to a destination.
Next I want to have Cantor send a message through exim4 on Dalton. The
connection from Cantor to
Joe,
On 05/04/12 12:39 AM, Joe wrote:
... should contain network specifications separated by colons and
enclosed in single quotes. My guess for a first try is:
dc_relay_nets='172.24.1.0/24'
on the basis you're using a /24 netmask there.
This configuration had been created with
On 05/04/12 04:33 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 06/04/12 04:27, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
snipped
Hello. Are you from the past?
Not sure we are on the same wavelength here but the first copy of the
message didn't appear in the archive for so long that I assumed
a configuration error remained.
On 06/04/12 02:12 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
... what I am
looking for is a hardware reader that is designed to respect my
freedoms. Preferably one that runs a GNU/Linux system, and which I am
allowed to tinker with. It does not have to work out of the box, and I
am prepared to invest time
Any tips about Flashbench? Googling site:debian.org flashbench
suggests it finds little interest in the Debian community.
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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You assume debian-user subscribers know what Flashbench is (you could
have included a link) :)
From Camaleon.
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/flashbench.git;a=summary
In what way would you want the Debian community to be interested of
On 12/04/12 07:28 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Tool for benchmarking and classifying flash memory drives
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/flashbench.git;a=summary
Yes.
I even was unaware of its existence.
So what is your favorite software to find the erase block size of a
flash storage
On Sat, April 14, 2012 11:38 pm, Bob wrote:
...
# to help you spot where you are in the output 134217728 = 128MB
524288 = 512k; so as the difference halves from ~100µs or more to 55µs
at 4194304 = 4MB if I'm reading the README correctly this would imply
that the erase block size on this
On Wed, April 18, 2012 10:35 am, Dom wrote:
These little machines take about 30W max, are only used for an average
of an hour a day. As for running costs? Peanuts. Heat output? Barely
noticable.
My main laptop is slightly newer and about 10x the power. I have other
systems, but nothing
Folk,
For several years OpenVPN has provided a reliable tunnel
between two machines, Dalton and Joule. Ref.
http://142.103.107.138:80/NetworksPage.html
Dalton has a static address. Joule has a dynamic address,
usually available by reference to joule.yi.org. This
depended upon a DDNS server
Folk,
A friend has data on a diskette written in MacOS around 1995.
According to this page hfs and hfs+ are supported.
http://wiki.debian.org/FileSystem
How reliable is this capability?
Should I try to identify the filesystem as hfs vs. hfs+ before
trying to mount it?
Will mount -t hfs
Bob,
!!WARNING WARNING!! I made a mistake in the above. That should have
been:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k
Right oh. I probably won't have the diskettes until next
week and will mount -o ro and will be careful about if and of.
[And if the OpenVPN tunnel is working will be
From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.co.
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:55:10 -0700
They don't reach the external interface? That is an excellent clue.
But I think it might be a problem trying to have traceroute do it.
... try netcat instead.
At work now and this happens on Dalton. 142.103.107.138
From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:55:10 -0700
x: echo foo | nc -u y 1149
You should see that show up in your tcpdump traces.
You've tried this on your system? Or least can detect the datagram
leaving the orginating system?
From: Mike Bird
Mike,
From: Mike Bird mgb-deb...@yosemite.net
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:53:13 -0800
What happens on /etc/init.d/openvpn start?
r...@dalton:~# /etc/init.d/openvpn start
Starting virtual private network daemon: myvpn failed!
Same result with both dev tun and dev tun0 in
From: PETER EASTHOPE peasth...@shaw.ca
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:23:50 -0800
Incidentally, telnet and daytime haven't worked in dalton since last Spring.
Thanks to a comment discovered via current emails from Simon McVittie
about bug reports, I replaced inetutils-inetd and inetutils
From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.co.
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:13:10 -0700
Yes. I can see the udp packets both leaving one and arriving at the
other using tcpdump on the interfaces. I tried it on two of my
systems before sending that message.
Good! Thanks! Now I'm convinced that it should
Roland others
Roland wrote,
r in the following I assume that Icedove is Thunderbird ...
Icedove is the newer name. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel
and specifically the Debian paragraph
near the end of the article.
r no, default order of fields seams to be:
* first name,last
Doug others,
Doug Tutty wrote,
I would suggest doing all that from the command line with X not running
to remove one huge variable. Find a .wav file and play it with aplay to
verify that it works. A command-line CD player is also helpful; I use
cdplay.
I moved the speaker jack from the
Steve others,
Steve Reilly wrote,
try installing vlc, which will provide libdvdcss to decrypt the dvds.
Yes, I removed xine, installed vlc and tried a dvd.
It worked immediately and vlc appears to have less
graphical ornamentation.
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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wrote,
It looks like you are using different mail clients and they are
configured differently.
OK, yes, access from work is via the Web.
pe Is this being fixed?
I guess this can only be fixed by yourself.
OK, when I can use the same
Both of my problems originated from cp -ring
most of the filesystem from a working system to the
new system created with cdebootstrap. Bad idea!
At Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:38:14 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote
McG I can't help with the eth* question ;(
A configuration cache file had been copied from the
Hello Debian users,
Skype 1.3.0.53 works well under Etch and kernel
2.6.16 here. Mostly I prefer to use the system
via VNC from another machine but Skype refuses
to start for the VNC client. (The cable of the
headset reaches easily.)
Is this a restriction coded in Skype? Does
anyone know
skype from the VNC client here after all.
A message returns as skype starts.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ skype
[1] 4446
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Xlib: extension XInputExtension missing on display
:1.0.
What does the complaint about XInputExtension mean?
Thanks, ... Peter Easthope
Folk,
I want to execute this command when the
system starts.
openvpn --remote 137.?.?.? --dev tun1 \
--ifconfig 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.5 --verb 5 --secret /root/key
Is there a better place for it than /etc/inittab?
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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Karl others,
At Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:08:22 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote,
... why not use the debian/openvpn way of doing things?
Only because the openvpn man page has no
mention of it. Some man pages have a FILES
section.
Create a file ...
Thanks. Will try it, ... Peter E.
Folk,
I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some
configurations including Example 2 from the man page.
Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm).
Nevertheless, http, ssh, ftp and a few other protocols
work.
Is there any chance of using one of the open ports for
the tunnel
David, Alex, Karl others,
At Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:50:37 +0100 Karl wrote,
kj I presume that you do not have control over the firewall?
Correct.
The socket concept is sound. Yet where administrators
insist on closing ports etc. indiscriminately, the
concept is defeated. I'm afraid that
Folk,
I can use a little help to understand the following output
from nmap.
As far as I can discern, IOD = Initial Object Descriptor
and EID = Endpoint Identifier. So does this show that
the UDP packet is getting past IOD #1? What about
IOD #2?
What are EID 8, EID 18 etc.?
Thanks,
Folk,
Can anyone recommend a package or application for
efficient viewing of photos in xfce? I installed showfoto
in one system; it invokes many dependencies.
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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Debian users,
Is there an entry for sources.list to allow apt to get a package
from an older or newer distribution when it is absent from the
distribution installed.
Specifically, I have Lenny on a machine and find that vlc is
not available. Would be convenient for apt to automatically
Folk,
This mor
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Folk,
Sorry for the preceding defective message.
This weekend I installed Lenny and X on a machine
where Etch has worked for months. The mouse is
a Logitech Model:M-S48 with a Compaq label.
I expected the configuration for X to be the same as
in Etch, yet the mouse is dead. mdetect output is
Thanks Krzysztof and Andrei,
I've changed both parameters; the mouse configuration
is now the same as in Etch where it works.
Section InputDevice
Identifier Configured Mouse
Driver mouse
Option CorePointer
Option Device
Andrei, Florian,
Thanks for the assistance.
I installed Lenny beginning with debootstrap.
Then copied some configurations from Etch.
Then used dselect.
Andrei What xorg packages do you have installed? (dpkg -l xorg*)
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Andrei,
ap Did you ever restart this machine? I mean after
installing with debootstrap. If yes then try a 'dpkg-reconfigure
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686' and then reboot
(BTW you should upgrade to 2.6.18-5-686).
Thanks. A look in deselect elaborated the problem
immediately: no kernel package. I
Thanks for all the comments and recommendations concerning photo
viewers. I installed gqview on a machine used by my mother. feh
would be baffling in this case. I can try some of the other choices later.
Thanks, ... Peter
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Folk,
Lenny works fairly well here with several useful
applications. This problem is reminiscent of another
a few months back. This time there is more to it than
an entry in /etc/group.
alsaconf has no trouble configuring both the USB audio
and the Ensoniq. In any application using sound,
Hello Karl others,
At Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:50:37 +0100 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote,
If you run openvpn in tcp mode, then you can use a
proxy server at the receiving end. ... allows the same
port to be used for two different protocols:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssh-ssl-proxy/;
I installed
Folk,
Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended
to operate on a specific machine. bootps and finger are likely
examples.
In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out
unused services?
Other services, such as telnet, are needed in my LAN but
should
Folk,
Seems that the default configuration for USB storage in
this system is rwx for root and r__ for users. Can a trivial
setting in /etc/udev/udev.conf or elsewhere give users rwx?
Numerous earlier messages discuss this problem but refer
to earlier releases and kernels.
This default state
Andrei, Mumia others,
At Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:57:52 -0500 Mumia Paduille wrote,
I'm assuming you're subscribed, ...
Not subscribed. The volume is overwhelming.
I read the Web based archive.
At Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:40:14 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote,
P.S. Could you please not start a new thread
Folk,
I've solved some local problems and am trying to
duplicate Example 2: A tunnel with static-key
security in man openvpn.
Machines joule and newton here correspond to may
and june in the example.
nmap now reports the path to be open|filtered in
both directions. And the syslog
Debian users,
Can anyone tell me which packages to install to have
an snmp based network-management system? I have xfce.
A GUI interface would be nice.
The objective is to set the duplexity of ports on an
AT-3612TR hub.
Thanks,... Peter E.
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The kphone package does not include a man page;
at least man kphone does not reveal one.
Can anyone tell me where documentation can be
found? Specifically, I want to prevent the
automatic attempt at registration---which never
works.
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:48:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
You can setup mutt on machine M and have it just pull messages directly
from machine P via POP.
Two factors against that.
- P belongs to an ISP which refuses POP access from
a machine not on his WAN.
- M is inside a
Andrew, Ron, Tzafrir and others,
Thanks for the clarifications.
At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:58 -0800
as-w ... fetchmail being killed in a nasty way ...
We're still not exactly certain how the stale lock
comes to exist but ...
At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:11:39 +
tc fetchmail is a daemon, ...
tc
Andrew,
At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:23:37 -0800
as-w ... taskbars available with a menu on them ...
Right oh. I'd overlooked that.
as-w ... taskbars, you can right click ...
I'd never used Add new item.
This should let me restore the desktop. Will
try this weekend.
as-w ... do you have both
Folk,
Since a recent update of a Lenny system here,
the text on the icons in Xfce4 appears to be
about 4 point. Barely legible with effort.
The setting in the User interface panel is
12 point and the desktop menu appears to be
consistent. The labels on the icons are
miniaturized when X
Folk,
To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees
in Gimp, I followed these steps.
* Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered.
* Rotate 90 degrees.
* Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image.
If I just rotate without changing the canvas, the
image is cropped.
Does
Ken, Artur, Kumar, Dusan, Jeff, Mihira, Crank,
... you're using layer rotate. use normal rotate ...
And I selected the image first in at least one attempt.
... Image - transform - rotate ...
That's better. Thanks, ... Peter E.
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Folk,
If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a
Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter,
an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub,
communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. The
light on the Belkin adapter is green.
If the AT hub is removed and the Belkin adapter is
Douglas, Brian and anyone else interested,
dt Can other boxes/NICs get 100 Mb/s across the AT hub? Perhaps the AT hub
is only 10 Mb/s.
The AT-3612TR is one of earliest 12 port
hubs on the market. It is 10base-T, half
duplex; 100 Mb/s across it is out of the
question.
Clarification
The
Folk,
At startup of Lenny this message appears.
resume: libcrypt version: 1.2.3
resume: Could not stat the resume device file.
Would seem logical that in absence of a resume
device file, startup would simply continue.
Nevertheless, it waits for Enter or the name
of a file.
Is there a
Folk,
I have these 5 bytes of machine code to
disassemble.
b8 12 00 cd 10
I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they
need a complete object file. Someone please
give a clue.
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Folk,
Once or twice the list server has connected
the thread after I've copied the subject line
verbatim. Usually the thread gets broken and
complaints follow. Does anyone see why this
happens? ... With the server, not the humans.
Is there a way to ensure that the thread is maintained,
Folk,
resume: still eludes.
My package listing is now visible.
http://carnot.yi.org/PackageList
By diffing this against their list, can anyone and spot something
which might hint at the origin of this resume problem?
Thanks,... Peter E.
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Andrew others,
asw Im betting its uswsusp that is the culprit.
Correct! Removed uswsusp with dselect and the
resume: ... complaint disappeared. The extant
initrd seems to work.
The message would be more helpful if it mentioned
uswsusp. I suppose this can be a bug report.
Probably I
Folk,
flashplugin-nonfree, libflash-swfplayer, libflash0c2 and libflash-mozplugin
are all installed. You-tube movies are work. Yet if this page is opened
there is a notice suggesting that an additional plugin is needed.
http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/
What additional plugin does iceweasel
Folk,
I have a copy of ProDOS-System.zip which unzips
to Apple II System Disk 3.2.dc.
Can a Debian make a ProDOS boot diskette?
Should dd work?
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Hello Jonathan,
jk I have skype, gizmo and sjphone all installed on a debian etch
2.6.18 and they all work fine.
Thanks. I installed kphone and it appears OK.
Everyone I might call has a dynamic IP address.
How can I call such a location without first
obtaining the current dynamic address.
Andrei, Kevin,
ap Do you need to build it from source? Because the debian
package in etch is already built with TLS support and in
sarge there is a postfix-tls package. Don't know about woody
though.
Thanks. The old Sparc 2 still has Woody.
High time that I find a spare SCSI drive and
install
Kevin,
kr On my system:
/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.ko
Thanks. I'll install the 2.6.18 kernel and check
for ide-floppy.ko.
... Peter
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Jhair Tocancipa Triana said,
Xfce Menu-Settings-Settings Manager-Panel
then add a new panel with the + button at the left and then add the
old items (Task List, System Tray) to the newly created panel, no?
Jhair, adding the panel was easy but I failed to
see how to replace the Task List in the
At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:38 -050, Roberto Sanchez said,
Setup mutt on the machine and ssh in when
you are travelling.
Good idea!
The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine
which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Is
there a way to use the MAC address rather than the IP
I am interested to read the source for the Pegasus
USB-Ethernet driver.
Should I find the files in a Debian site, or in
a Linux kernel site or in a device driver site.
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Hello Greg,
gf You are confusing rdate and ntp.
I understand that they are distinct programs.
gf rdate (traditionally) does not even speak the protocol of ntp.
I am trying to follow the instructions in 16.4.1 here.
(Join the following two lines.)
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/
Tyler others,
tmd install a dynamic IP updater (like ez-ipupdate), and register
for a dynamic DNS account somewhere (shameless plug: www.yi.org).
Thanks.
I created an account in yi.org and installed
ez-ipupdate on my debian system here. These
lines in the syslog appear OK.
Jan 29 11:51:37
Debian users,
I aim to use gnudip _via_ ez-ipupdate. Tyler
MacDonald instructed '... create an A RR record ...'
and I have no idea what it is.
The sourceforge page for ez-ipupdate says that
bind is needed. Conversely, the Debian Network
Administrator's Manual remarks If you are setting
up a
Debian Users,
The package description for ohphone mentions that
it supports X. Yet when started in xfce4 in etch
with ohphone -nl , no graphics appear . How
is the graphical interface invoked?
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The package description for ohphone mentions that
it supports X. Yet when started in xfce4 in etch
with ohphone -nl , no graphics appear. How is
the graphical interface invoked?
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Ron Johnson said,
rj Presumably you ran man ohphone, and did not glean any pertinent
information?
Correct.
There are several video options beginning with
--videodevice, which appear to pertain to
configuration for video calls.
With xfce4 running, starting ohphone should
automatically
Debian users,
Can anyone tell me which packages to install to have
an snmp based network-management system? I have xfce.
A GUI interface would be nice.
The objective is to set the duplexity of ports on an
AT-3612TR hub.
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Folk,
A system, connected to the 'net by a telephone modem,
is configured to be a router providing a network connection
to one Windows system and also to be a workstation.
Which is the lesser of evils: running a dns for one client
or forwarding name requests over the slow connection?
Thanks,
Mumia others,
At 2007-09-12 11:57:52 -0500 Mumia W. Paduille wrote,
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 12.140.16.4 --sport 22 -j REDIRECT
--to-port 4122
etc.
Right oh; thanks. I have the general picture. Seems
that what I aim for might be an instance of port forwarding.
In Lenny,
Folk,
At Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:21:13 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote,
Maybe dnsmasq is what you need.
Thanks. dnsmasq can provide dns, dhcp and possibly
even ip masquerading. I installed dnsmasq and removed
dhcp3-server and ipmasq.
Now I find that /etc/resolv.conf is not updated when ppp
connects.
Folk,
I have a pair of IBM NetVistas, Types 6578-RAU and RBU.
Debian Woody installed on S/N 78-T1XMN and ran
for about a year with no difficulty. Then it started to
reboot spontaneously. The operational intervals
became shorter until it was unusable. When it is
fired up now, the display
Folk,
At Sun, 8 Oct 2006 15:11:51 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote,
For a system-wide solution you want XDMCP.
Thanks Roberto. I've read xdm.man and get the idea
at an abstract level; but xdm is elaborate and some
advice about configuration will help. I'll try to start
with the reasonable
Folk,
which login tell me immediately that the familiar command line
authentication is done by /bin/login.
xdm.man refers to The xlogin widget, which xdm presents
Good, but what program is it exactly? There is no name on the GUI.
And where is this widget invoked?
Thanks for any ideas,
Chris Henry others,
At Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:22:10 +0800 Chris wrote,
xlogin should be the program ...
Thanks. I should have realized that; but the reference to
xlogin widget sounds generic. It is just another
program; the manual could drop the widget.
... will be automatically invoked from
Chris Henry and others,
At Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:22:10 +0800 Chris wrote,
xlogin should be the program ...
which xlogin reports nothing.
While the X login display is visible,
dalton:~# ps aux | grep login
root 3020 0.0 0.2 3068 704 pts/0R+ 09:03 0:00 grep login
and
Flash movies worked properly in Etch but my Lenny
system refuses to play them. If a youtube movie is
opened this message appears.
Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an
old version of Adobe's Flash Player.
java-common and various libraries are installed.
Java and Javascript are
Doug,
dmt try flash-plugin non-free.
Thanks for the tip.
Googling site:packages.debian.org flash finds
that flashplugin-nonfree is available for sarge,
etch, sid and experimental but not for lenny!
dmt ... non-free repository in your sources.list.
Only 5 servers in North America have it.
Barry,
At Feb 5, 2008, at 2:26 AM you wrote,
... buying a case until I know that the whole setup works.
So many computers are discarded these days; few
people really need to buy a computer let alone
a case. If friends haven't offered you several,
there should be a steady supply on various
Nuno,
nm Try the rest of the world, ...
oregonstate.edu is the closest server which
has the files. Going to another server will
only increase the cost of communication.
Regards, ... Peter E.
http://carnot.yi.org/
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Etch is running here with kernel 2.6.16.
Xfce is working; the desktop contains only
the icons for Skype and for the terminal viewer.
A small viewer on the desktop showing the
date time would be helpful. Is that possible?
Please hint at what should be installed and
configured.
Thanks,
to configure Firefox so
that Tunderbird starts a new message. How?
Thanks,Peter Easthope
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