Re: yo, where's .Xresources

2001-02-20 Thread T. Tilton
command as root if you can. That way it will not be denied entry into some directories. Also, if you are not already aware of it there is good information at this location on getting a wheel mouse to work under X. http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ Regards, T. Tilton

Re: module problem

2001-02-20 Thread T. Tilton
-a after installing the modules do it as root. The modules under Debian are in /lib/modules/kernel version #/catagory i.e. network modules on kernel version 2.2.18 would be at; /lib/modules/2.2.18/net T. Tilton

Re: Sawmill v.30 .. where?

2001-11-16 Thread Frank T.
On Fri, November 16, 2001 at 17:07:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use a Sawmill scheme I downloaded, but I don't have the right version of Sawmill. Does anyone know where I can get version 0.30? Take a look at http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Frank T

Re: Installing Debian

2001-11-16 Thread Frank T.
. Have a look. Regards, Frank T. -- There are no threads in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. -- unknown source

Re: Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-13 Thread T. Tilton
remember the full name) and the whole install process started and completed in under five minutes. It all worked fine after that. I suggest that, since this is a beta release, the license states what it does because it is exactly that...beta software. I hope this helps. T. Tilton sheine wrote

installation problem

2002-03-29 Thread Jerry T
When I try to install Debian 2.2 r5, the installation process cannot detect my nvidia video card. Eventually the installation process hangs up while trying to find the video driver. Should I try to install Debian to run in 'text only' mode and then try to load the nvidia driver? Is there an

where are the woody iso files?

2002-03-29 Thread Jerry T
Still trying to figure out the Debian mirror sites. Where are the woody CD iso files? _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Fwd: Re: where are the woody iso files?

2002-03-30 Thread Jerry T
] To: Jerry T [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: where are the woody iso files? Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:50:08 -0800 On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:10:55AM +, Jerry T wrote: Still trying to figure out the Debian mirror sites. Where are the woody CD iso files? If you

Vlans Implementation .... bad: scheduling while atomi c! ?¿?

2005-08-02 Thread T Leconte
I configured vlans on my switch (working) and i need to configure my dhcp3 to assign the corresponding addreses.The thing is, when i connect the dhcp's patch cord to the tagged port on my switch.. the server is gone.. it gives me this msg:"bad: scheduling while atomic![c028bb74]

Weird Internet routing / mtu setting / browser / packet fragmentation problem

2008-07-23 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone here know how I can diagnose exactly where / why the following problem occurs...? I've got a typical adsl setup (in the UK) with my internal (192.168.0.*) network behind a nat router. Everything works perfectly (!) except for 1 problem, which is: If I try to view

Re: Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

2008-07-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Dennis Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have lenny running very good except for one big hangup. I can't get the wireless card to work. It shows in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller. Disclaimer: I don't own and have never owned one of these cards... I

Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone have any suggestions for a command-line-interface (CLI) calculator that can work out the difference between 2 (gregorian) dates (i.e. that is calendar aware). My favourite cli calculator (bc) doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the gregorian calendar. Just to make it clear,

Re: How to connect Nokia 6310i to Dell Vostro 1700 with Bluetooth?

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to connect my Nokia 6310i to my Dell Vostro 1700 with Bluetooth on Debian Lenny amd-64 2.6.26-1 . I have read http://users.tkk.fi/u/kehannin/bluetooth/bluetooth.html and

Re: debian is amazing

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/6 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guess what? Debian's got it! Amazing! Hear, hear. All worthwhile free software is packaged for Debian. And when it isn't, you should package it yourself for the rest

Re: OT: scanner

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jose Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm about to buy a scanner, which will be used to scan A4 text documents scattered with the occasional picture here and there. I plan to convert them afterwards to either pdf or djvu (haven't decided yet) with good

Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Scott Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out what the characters are on the screen. Does anyone have suggestions on how troubleshoot

Re: Turning off touchpad scroll

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid. Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptics Touchpad Driver

Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?

2009-06-14 Thread j t
Good morning all. I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters by holding down shift and ctrl and then tapping out the hex code for the character that I wanted, and then releasing shift and ctrl. For example, pressing and holding ctrl and shift and then tapping 20AC

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On what system did you see it work - and in what application(s)¹…? Good question. I couldn't answer it immediately, so I've just installed etch on a spare machine, and gnome-terminal does the trick. Here's screencast of

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, j tmark...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's time for me to have a chat with the gnome-terminal people... From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2009-June/msg00037.html I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spacebar.

Squeeze, X11, HAL: are they works together?

2009-07-26 Thread Vitaliy T
be something wrong with packages (install, remove)? -- With Best Regards, Vitaliy T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread j t
Hi, I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which (according to lshw) contains a Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator (pci id 1013:6003). /proc/asound/cards shows no soundcards, and I assume this is because there is no snd-cs46xx.ko module

Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-10 Thread j t
Hi all. I've just installed a fresh Lenny on my Thinkpad T60. In addition to the base install, I've installed the xorg package and the gnome-core package, so I don't have gdm (I just login and run startx). When I've finished using X, I logout by clicking on System (on the Gnome Menu Bar) and

Re: Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-11 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, however, I run startx, wait a few seconds (without starting anything else) and then try to logout by clicking on System, then Log Out username, the system will hang about 50% of the time. Does anyone have any idea

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

2008-06-13 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently switched from IceWm to Gnome by installing gnome-core. But I notice the shutdown and logout icons available from the taskbar don't work. I have to logout with ctrl-alt-backspace, and then shutdowm or reboot

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Robert Jerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time adjustment keeps going up and up but the clock is never reset, it just continues to fall further behind. Anyone know how to fix this? I realize that it's not exactly an answer to your question, but after days of

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, there is no pre-computed md5 checksum provided with the download (http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcd). Am I missing something? Yes. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: md5sum -b /dev/scd0 The output should match the md5sum of the ISO image. Not _strictly_ true (due to blank/null padding which is sometimes added to the end of iso disk images, and issues with the infamous read-ahead bug in

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the replies by Mike Bird to my questions in the thread in the debian-user list with subject ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something? for ways to get the original ntp package from

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that. With pleasure (I remember all too well the pain of banging my head against a wall, trying to understand optical disk burning/verification under linux). I've also found a much simpler method for checking that

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Robert Jerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome, just got it. It installed easily, default configuration used, and it seems to work fine. Log messages like Jun 27 08:32:06 riemann ntpd[17589]: time reset +161.150330 s Jun 27 08:36:53 riemann ntpd[17589]:

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding all this extra equipment is going to cost you *much* more than buying a Linksys WRT56GL and reflashing it with the Tomato or DD-WRT firmware. OK, I've just spent 10 minutes searching for Linksys WRT56GL (a pair of

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard of this. I was kind of hoping to do all this with Debian, but it sounds like the WRT54GL is a better bet, but only if it can actually firewall the wired subnet from the wireless subnet. A little bit of

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Ezra Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much respect for you cats. Keep up the great work. And another huge thank you from me too. I've no idea what I'd do without my fave distro. Jaime :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-30 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:41:58PM +0100, j t wrote: Having said that, I run openwrt on a couple of asus routers: one wl-hdd and one asus wl-500g and they have the same issue with regards there has been some changes

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:03 AM, thveillon.debian Looks like Netgear is about to bring us a nice toy : The high-performance WGR614L, which is Works with Windows Vista Sorry to rain on the parade, but (to echo some comments on slashdot), no pre-N, gigabit ethernet or usb ports? 4MB flash and

Re: Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's buttons) but i dont see any BIOS settings about this. I don't know whether it'll help, but with my T60 I've also found that shutting off the

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to track the IP

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:48:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you using to capture video? Disclaimer: I know nothing about Pinnacle video cards (I have an Adaptec avc2010 pci card which works perfectly under linux). Surely if

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM, zhaohscas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, soon after a boot: $ dmesg | less My guess: Intel chipset limitation? (know to affect certain 915nn and 945nn chipsets) See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us (and yes, I already know that you're not using an MS

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me any option to feed the pci=nomsi parameter (or any other similar parameters); I've been unable to find a way to force

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM, j t [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me any option to feed the pci=nomsi parameter (or any other

Re: Lenny

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Daniel Ngu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I read that Lenny will be released sometime in September this year. I've been using Etch and am contemplating on moving to Lenny now instead. How's usable is Lenny at the moment, in particular the Beta2 version or should

Re: Why do you add spaces to your url links?

2008-07-10 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please post back the actual url, without space of course. WTF? Seconded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread j t
Hi all, Does anyone know of a tool which will analyse a block of data and find structure / repeating patterns in it, and then somehow show that structure to the user? As an example, pretend I give it the following paragraph of text (but I don't tell it that the following paragraph contains a

Re: Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're on the right track here, at least for getting as far as detecting maximal-length identical strings. As I recall, Huffman encoding should be what you're looking for. Another place to look would be search indexing

Re: Anything better than gopchop...

2008-07-13 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 14:51:32 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... for snipping sections of video from an mpeg2 file? gopchop seems to be dead upstream, and I can't find any way to pause, move forward/backwards

Out of room on /usr partition

2004-11-07 Thread Ian T.
Hi there. I have run out of room on my /usr/bin partition (95%). I have a couple of hard drives in that box but Debian resides on a 10 gig scsi. The box is an old PII with 256 RAM. I have room elsewhere but searching didn't turn up any recipes for linking or otherwise telling the system to

Install from file?

2004-06-18 Thread Brenden T.
Hi all, I just installed a new Debian (Woody) system, and there are issues. For some reason, no name resovler (DNS) was installed. This not only makes the system pretty much unusable, it also makes it pretty hard to use apt-get (can't resolve the name mirrors.kernel.org, for example). So I

Install from file?

2004-06-18 Thread Brenden T.
Hi all, I just installed a new Debian (Woody) system, and there are issues. For some reason, no name resovler (DNS) was installed. This not only makes the system pretty much unusable, it also makes it pretty hard to use apt-get (can't resolve the name mirrors.kernel.org, for example). So I

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console. Look in the

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-22 Thread Brenden T.
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: | Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. | | My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the | two comment lines warning me not to change things manually) | everytime I

basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Huy T.
Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for expediting a newer user to getting up and setup running this system effectively?

update-rc.d

2004-02-25 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, what's the equivalence of chkconfig --list in debian using update-rc.d ? i have difficulties in listing what services are on on init level 3 for example. thank you. -- Best regards, Tjhan Albert The future belongs to those who believes in the beauty of their

2.6.3 and lsmod

2004-02-26 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, i've just installed kernel 2.6.3. on my pc router. and it's successfull. everything was fine until i run lsmod and i found this error: shaper:~# lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted lsmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented what's

SSHD

2004-03-02 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, i'm having 'strange' problem with my sshd. i'm running woody. and here is info about my sshd. virgo:~# dpkg -l | grep -i ssh ii ssh3.4p1-1.woody. Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) my sshd can accept from anymachine but my machine. i can ssh my debian

Beagle.H and Clamav

2004-03-03 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, I'm using qmail-scanner + clamav and have the latest signature of clamav and clamav can't get Beagle.H virus. wondering if the signature has not been updated yet. do you experience similar thing? thanx for any info. -- Best regards, Tjhan Albert The

strange problem

2004-03-04 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, i got a debian machine (let's it's D) it's running on 2.4.24 SMP. and a my own machine which is Windows XP (let's name it X) and a redhat machine (the name is R) using default kernel. ok the problem is, from my X machine, i can ping both machine D and R. and

/usr/bin/mail help

2004-03-09 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, i'd like to change default mta which /usr/bin/mail use from exim to qmail / sendmail (from qmail package). is there any guidance how i can do this ? i've man mail but it didn't guide me. i dunno if i've missed something here. thank you. -- Best regards, Tjhan

Re: /usr/bin/mail help - SOLVED

2004-03-11 Thread T. Albert
Hello s., Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 12:13:43 AM, you wrote: sk Incoming from T. Albert: i'd like to change default mta which /usr/bin/mail use from exim to qmail / sendmail (from qmail package). is there any guidance how i sk When I went from postfix to exim, the former

How and where lspci utility gathers information about hardware components?

2013-10-27 Thread Martin T
Hi, lspci utility shows information regarding devices on various buses like PCI or PCI Express. For example on IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop: T42 ~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP

Remove file resulting from ls|tail -1

2013-07-19 Thread OECT T
Hola: I need to delete the file resulting from: ls | tail -1 I've tried some commands resulting from Google searches without success. OS is Debian squeeze 6.0.7 I'll appreciate any hints Regards Oscar Corte

RE: Remove file resulting from ls|tail -1 (SOLVED)

2013-07-19 Thread OECT T
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:15:35 +0200 From: debian_1...@chubig.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Remove file resulting from ls|tail -1 Dear Oscar, what a surprising name… Thanks OECT T wrote: I need to delete the file resulting from: ls | tail -1 In Bash

How to understand which access control mechanism is in use for X server?

2014-01-07 Thread Martin T
Hi, there are multiple access control mechanisms for X server like access based on host(xhost) or access based on cookie(xauth). Are both usually enabled at the same time? If yes, then which one is checked first? Are both active? I mean for example once I enable host with xhost, then do I need to

questions regarding file-system(ext3 or ext4) optimization for sortware-RAID array

2014-03-05 Thread Martin T
Hi, I created a RAID1 array of two physical HDD's with chunk size of 64KiB under Debian wheezy. As a next step, I would like to create a file-system(ext3 or ext4) to this RAID1 array using mke2fs utility. Questions: 1) Should I use physical HDD sector size(512B in case of my HDD's) or file

domain-name option during the installation of Debian

2014-03-07 Thread Martin T
Hi, during the installation of Debian, one is asked for domain name. Only place where it seems to be used is for completing the FQDN's: root@localhost:~# find / \( \( -path /proc -o -path /sys \) -a -prune \) -o \( -type f -a -exec grep -iH lab.net {} \; \) /var/log/installer/status:Maintainer:

Re: domain-name option during the installation of Debian

2014-03-07 Thread Martin T
for completing the domain names. regards, Martin On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/03/14 12:40, Martin T wrote: Hi, during the installation of Debian, one is asked for domain name. If it's not set automatically (by arping?) Only

Login dialog screcen is cicled after USB faiil

2014-03-26 Thread OECT T
Hi all: I’m a proud and happy user of the amazing Debian 7.4.0 (Wheezy) OS Today I used an USB memory to transfer a couple if files and decided to use the eject icon at the bottom right of the main screen after copying files and my system got complete frozen. Nothing could make it respond, not

minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-10 Thread Martin T
Hi, I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first step, I need to install xserver. I would like to install minimal components needed for running the xserver. What are the exact components(binaries,

free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-10 Thread Martin T
Hi, DebianInstaller shows FREE SPACE before the first partition and after the last partition if GPT scheme is used: http://i.imgur.com/qjNrdAx.jpg While there is nothing wrong with that as there is indeed some free space before the first partition and after the last

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
Thank you for replies! As I understand, xserver-xorg will install /usr/bin/X binary, which is a X Window Server itself and xinit installs the /usr/bin/xinit utility which starts the X Window Server and window manager(dwm in my case) as a X Windows Server client. As I have Intel 945GM video card, I

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
? regards, Martin On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Am I correct that boot loaders use their code on this area after the primary GPT and before the first partition? No. Bootloaders store their code in a special

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
1.3MiB of free space- I guess it's because you aligned your partitions on 8 sector boundaries and there was no need to leave free space for alignment? regards, Martin On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: I see. Thanks

Wrong sizes for single disk in different usb enclosures.

2014-05-15 Thread Jaime T
Hi. I'm trying out my 1TB Toshiba MQ01ABD100 SATA hard disk in three different sata-usb enclosures. I'm testing the size of the drive by viewing both /sys/block/sdb/size and by using hdparm -I, and I see different figures for the size. Here are the results: 1st enclosure (USB ID 14cd:6116):

Does anyone have mimic-tools1.0.1.deb package?

2014-07-28 Thread Martin T
Hi, aMSN(free open source MSN Messenger clone) allowed one to store web-cam sessions, but saved those into cam files. There is an utility called mimic2rgb which allows one to convert those cam files into RGB video stream. At some point, there even were some Debian packages

Re: Does anyone have mimic-tools1.0.1.deb package?

2014-07-28 Thread Martin T
Hi, thank you for the reply, but looks the mimic-tools1.0.1.deb installation package has never been in official Debian repositories. regards, Martin On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 28 iul 14, 11:49:44, Martin T wrote: Hi, aMSN(free

atftpd listens on wrong UDP port

2014-07-31 Thread Martin T
Hi, When I start an atftpd daemon with /usr/sbin/atftpd --port 69 --bind-address 10.10.10.2 --daemon /srv/tftp/ command, the TFTP server listens on ephimeral port(58418 in this example) instead of port 69: # atftpd --version atftp-0.7 (server) # /usr/sbin/atftpd --port 69 --bind-address

How to install init scripts manually?

2014-08-04 Thread Martin T
Hi, I played around with a LSB init script under Squeeze(init is from sysvinit package version 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1) for learning purposes. My script is following: # cat /etc/init.d/test-script #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: test # Required-Start:$all # Required-Stop:

NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-04 Thread Martin T
Hi, I made a very simple bash script which loads the iptables configuration from /etc/firewall.conf and /etc/firewall6.conf files: # cat /etc/init.d/firewall #!/bin/bash iptables-restore /etc/firewall.conf ip6tables-restore /etc/firewall6.conf # Script is stored in /etc/init.d/ directory,

Re: How to install init scripts manually?

2014-08-04 Thread Martin T
06:30 AM, Martin T wrote: Hi, I played around with a LSB init script under Squeeze(init is from sysvinit package version 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1) for learning purposes. My script is following: # cat /etc/init.d/test-script #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: test # Required

New Install Problem

2014-08-08 Thread Tom T
I am on windows at the moment however, after installing Ubuntu 14.04 the screen locks up after several operations and on different sites. The only way I can resolve is to use the Alt + Prt Scr Sysrq while typing REISUB. Thanks. Regards

Re: How to install init scripts manually?

2014-08-08 Thread Martin T
On 8/4/14, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 04/08/14 11:04 AM, Martin T wrote: On 8/4/14, Gary Dalegaryd...@torfree.net wrote: On 04/08/14 06:30 AM, Martin T wrote: Hi, I played around with a LSB init script under Squeeze(init is from sysvinit package version 2.88dsf-13.1

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-08 Thread Martin T
script(/etc/init.d/nfs-common start) took few minutes to start even if the OS is running. regards, Martin On 8/4/14, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: I made a very simple bash script which loads the iptables configuration

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-09 Thread Martin T
? Martin On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: I moved the script from /etc/init.d to /etc/network directory and changed the shebang line from /bin/bash to /bin/sh. /bin/sh on my system points to /bin

Software compatibility between different architectures?

2014-08-09 Thread Martin T
Hi, how compatible are drivers on ports for different CPU architectures, e.g. I have a USB HSDPA modem which works great on Wheezy port for x86 architecture, but can I expect it to work on Wheezy port for ARM? Can one expect the same options(modprobe parameters) for drivers on all platforms? What

understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-09 Thread Martin T
Hi, according to wiki, Debian is supported on little-endian ARM architecture. However, then wiki lists some sub-architectures which are supported. For example iop32x, ixp4xx, kirkwood and orion5x. Does this mean that Debian ARM port works on fairly limited number of sub-architectures? For example

Re: Software compatibility between different architectures?

2014-08-10 Thread Martin T
how compatible are drivers on ports for different CPU architectures, e.g. I have a USB HSDPA modem which works great on Wheezy port for x86 architecture, but can I expect it to work on Wheezy port for ARM? If your ARM platform's USB driver works, then yes, you can expect the exact same

Re: understanding Debian support on ARM architecture

2014-08-10 Thread Martin T
: Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:40:05 +0300 Martin T m4rtn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, according to wiki, Debian is supported on little-endian ARM architecture. However, then wiki lists some sub-architectures which are supported. For example iop32x, ixp4xx, kirkwood and orion5x. Does this mean

Re: How well-maintained are NEWS and changelog files in deb packages?

2015-02-16 Thread Martin T
Don, thanks for explaining this! Martin On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Martin T wrote: apt-listchanges uses NEWS and changelog files in Debian packages. Are NEWS and changelog files always or at list usually updated, i.e

How well-maintained are NEWS and changelog files in deb packages?

2015-02-13 Thread Martin T
Hi, apt-listchanges uses NEWS and changelog files in Debian packages. Are NEWS and changelog files always or at list usually updated, i.e. is it safe to trust those? thanks, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

qemu with KVM support compared to professional virtualization products from VMware or Oracle

2015-03-27 Thread Martin T
Hi, I need to virtualize few dozen virtual-machines for production environment under Debian host-machine. I like the KISS principle provided by qemu with KVM support where each utility has its own specific purpose. For example I set up the virtual switch with ip/brctl utility or use single qemu

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 04:12 PM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: Not the case. Even in rescue mode I needed to supply the root login. I could use init=/bin/sh but I couln't find anything in the logs in /var/log, so I'm guessing systemd and journalctl keeps the journal in some other place (probably some binary

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick

Re: Ian, this tutorial’s for you

2015-08-20 Thread Tiffany T
like this anymore, simply reply (politely, please!) and let me know. On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:05 pm, Tiffany T wrote: Hi Ian,   Just checking in to make sure you received my first email. Let me know when you have a moment - I'd really appreciate it!   Best, Tiffany Tiffany | tiff

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu,

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