#$@%! flash is messing with the volume

2011-08-10 Thread briand
Hi all, I'm noticing that flash is modifying the sound settings, or maybe it's modifying them and then not setting them back. for example if I use alsamixer to look at the settings and then run vlc and modify the volume the settings don't change. but playing something in flash seems to do all

Re: SWF (Adobe Flash) support

2011-05-19 Thread briand
On Wed, 18 May 2011 07:53:56 -0400 Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net wrote: On my Debian testing systems I'm actually able to play all YouTube content using chromium-browser, the Gnash plug-in, and the IcedTea NPR Web Browser plug-in. I've never installed anything from non-free or

mini pic express WLAN card which support AP mode

2011-05-30 Thread briand
Hi all, Any recommendations for cards that are known to work with the current stable distribution in master mode, i.e. as an access point ? Thank you, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-07 Thread briand
Hi all, x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example, x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 it doesn't seem to work. bug ? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all, x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example,

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:04:22 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all,

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:02 -0700, briand wrote: x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example, x-terminal-emulator

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread briand
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:24:14 +0100 Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:04:02PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 it doesn't seem to work. x-terminal-emulator should implement the 'xterm' command-line arguments. xterm doesn't

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread briand
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:10 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:40:03 -0700, briand wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: if you try, for example, x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-11 Thread briand
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:32:16 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:18:35 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: Of course. gnome-terminal.wrapper is created solely for x-terminal-emulator use by gnome-core/gnome-terminal maintainer Christian Marillat, and it

libavcodec-dev problems

2011-06-19 Thread briand
Hi all, The following packages have unmet dependencies: libavcodec-dev : Depends: libavcodec52 (= 4:0.5.2-99) but 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 is to be installed or libavcodec-extra-52 (= 4:0.5.2-99) but it is not installable E: Broken packages sources.list: deb

Re: libavcodec-dev problems

2011-06-19 Thread briand
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:13:30 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: bri...@aracnet.com writes: Hi all, You might already have some dependency problems since version 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2, which is to be installed, doesn´t seem to exist in neither stable, nor testing. yes - what has

Re: [OT] Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

2011-06-20 Thread briand
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:12:32 -0700 he who hew...@gmail.com wrote: (I don't like gmail.) Try claws mail. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:51:11 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-04 Thread briand
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:08:17 +0200 Nicolas Bercher nberc...@yahoo.fr wrote: On 04/07/2011 15:59, wolf python london wrote: I thought you were a young MAN geek, full of energy and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Actually, I thought the same! It's funny to realize what we're

help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-07 Thread briand
howdy, got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X working. using vesa and something very low resolution right now. I tried googling on that error symbol and literally got nothing back. Here's the lspci entry: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-07 Thread briand
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:42:57 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: First problem I found - still had an nvidia modules installed, and didn't realize it. so I purged nvidia* and rebooted. Have you tried running it without a config file? Why are you running X as root? I was

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread briand
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:04:08 -0400 mark m...@neidorff.com wrote: On Friday 08 July 2011 12:38:23 am bri...@aracnet.com wrote: howdy, got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X working. using vesa and something very low resolution right now. I tried

nouvea bug - how do I figure out if testing has the right patch ?

2011-07-10 Thread briand
Hi, I'm experiencing VT switching flakiness with the debian stable nouveau driver. ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345 The symptom is that trying to switch a VT between x-sessions running on different displays, i.e. :0 (VT-7) and :1 (VT-8) kills

Re: nouvea bug - how do I figure out if testing has the right patch ?

2011-07-10 Thread briand
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:08:36 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-07-10 20:37 +0200, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Without even looking it up, I'm positive it does. The 8378443 in the long Debian package version is the abbreviated SHA1 of the latest upstream commit, and if you

is vlc package on really broken or is it just me

2011-07-11 Thread briand
apt-get install vlc yields the following: The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavcodec52 (= 4:0.6-1~) but 4:0.5.2-6 is to be installed or libavcodec-extra-52 (= 4:0.6-1~) but it

Re: is vlc package on really broken or is it just me

2011-07-11 Thread briand
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:00 +1000 Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/11 11:15, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: apt-get install vlc yields the following: The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be

adding menu entries to lxpanel menu

2011-07-11 Thread briand
I'm assuming that this is done through update-menus ? update-menus seems to be happy with the file I put in /etc/menu However it doesn't show up in the menu. More interestingly there doesn't seem to be a menu-method for lxpanel. does lxpanel use a separate mechanism for menus ? Thanks,

Re: is vlc package on really broken or is it just me

2011-07-12 Thread briand
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:36:10 +0200 Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com wrote: 2011-07-12 05:52, bri...@aracnet.com skrev: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:00 +1000 Scott Fergusonprettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/11 11:15, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: apt-get install vlc

Re: is vlc package on really broken or is it just me

2011-07-12 Thread briand
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:32:19 +1000 Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: I do exactly what you say, generally. I forgot to recomment the stupid line last time I pulled in a multimedia package. Anyway - the problem is a little fiddly by easily fixed. If it was me I'd:-

Re: is vlc package on really broken or is it just me

2011-07-12 Thread briand
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:36:10 +0200 Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com wrote: 2011-07-12 05:52, bri...@aracnet.com skrev: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:00 +1000 Scott Fergusonprettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/11 11:15, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: apt-get install vlc

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread briand
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:13:47 +1000 Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Hi, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Runnung Squeeze here. I have a script which runs nightly, to backup certain directories to a USB disk, which does a fine job, provided the disk is mounted.

Re: adding menu entries to lxpanel menu

2011-07-14 Thread briand
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:35:50 -0700 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm assuming that this is done through update-menus ? update-menus seems to be happy with the file I put in /etc/menu However it doesn't show up in the menu. More interestingly there doesn't seem to be a menu-method for

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-16 Thread briand
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:29:49 -0400 shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, jonnor.com/2010/08/determining-physical-topology-of-hotplugged-usb-devices-with-udev/ Ie, figure out your physical setup and write a script. If programming isn't your thing, you could probably get this done with

Re: rsync backup question

2011-07-21 Thread briand
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:39:33 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem and entered the command rsync -r / /usbmem. The tranfer proceeded with many messages skipping non-regular file 'foo'. Eventually the transfer hung up

SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-25 Thread briand
Hi all, I could actually hear this happening to the hard disk - but thought it was my imagination. Linux windy 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux [1289040.878979] ata2: irq_stat 0x0040, connection status changed [1289040.878982] ata2: SError: { DevExch }

Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-26 Thread briand
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:10:30 +0200 Stanisław Findeisen s...@eisenbits.com wrote: Interesting ! It only did this for about 10 min. and then stopped. This problem has shown up in the kernel before. Not sure how to try and reproduce it. Well, time to reboot with 2.6.39 and see what happens.

Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-26 Thread briand
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:04:55 +0200 Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:31:24 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote in message 20110726073124.7b87d...@windy.deldotd.com: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:10:30 +0200 Stanisław Findeisen s...@eisenbits.com wrote: Interesting ! It

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread briand
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:52:57 -0400 Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:43:06AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be engineers, but to at

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-30 Thread briand
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:23:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:16:12 +0200, Dirk wrote: (...) someone point me to a fucking image for an USB stick before i install windows and throw my shit out of the window... fucking shit... (...) Refrain your

auto module loading with udev ?

2010-12-22 Thread briand
Hi, Palm TX support is busted in that the visor module is never loaded automagically, and it takes more googling than you would think to find out that you need the visor module. so I'd like to set up udev to do the right thing, which I have done for other devices. However I have not had to load

Re: [SOLVED] auto module loading with udev ?

2010-12-23 Thread briand
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:01:07 -0800 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: This will give you the /dev/pilot symlink which is very handy. I already had this, in fact it may eve be in the /lib/udev/rules.d/ SUBSYSTEMS==usb, KERNEL==ttyUSB*, \ ATTRS{product}==Palm Handheld*|Handspring Visor|palmOne

Re: Problems with NVIDIA Driver: Unable to validate any modes

2010-12-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:39:13 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:45:58 -0500 (EST), Felix Natter wrote: = the problem is that although I have a 1280x1024 TFT monitor (plugged in via VGA cable, it doesn't have a DVI port) I only get 640x480

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread briand
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:47:12 -0500 Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote: The order was determined to minimize cross-talk on the adjacent wires. Your best bet is to stay with the standard. So, yes, the order is important. yep, I know from personal experience that 100 won't work if you

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:32:46 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:32:34 -0600 Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com dijo: My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux

matching udev attribute keys

2010-12-26 Thread briand
Hi all, how do I know that SerialNumber is a valid udev key other than the fact that it is listed in dmesg when the device is plugged in. I cannot for the life of me get a udev rule for a device to match on the serial number, even though the number is in the dmesg file. I know that my rule

Re: matching udev attribute keys

2010-12-27 Thread briand
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:17:01 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:58:08 -0800, briand wrote: how do I know that SerialNumber is a valid udev key other than the fact that it is listed in dmesg when the device is plugged in. (...) Available information

Re: matching udev attribute keys

2010-12-27 Thread briand
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:17:01 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:58:08 -0800, briand wrote: how do I know that SerialNumber is a valid udev key other than the fact that it is listed in dmesg when the device is plugged in. (...) Available information

Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware (was: Monitor question)

2010-12-31 Thread briand
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:03:24 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Manufacturers are not doing this because the consumer wants it. They are doing it to cut costs. And they think they can get away with it. And sadly, in most cases, they are right. Most consumers can't even

pci express wireless card doesn't show up in lspci

2010-12-31 Thread briand
Hi all, the card is an Intel 3945ABG. not seeing it in the lspci listing. the PCI express port IS showing up. The card could be bad, but it seems extremely unlikely as it's brand new. MB is an Intel Atom D945GSEJT. I haven't done anything with PCI express card before, just want to make sure

Re: installing X with apt-get

2010-12-31 Thread briand
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:49:40 +0100 Attila Csosz csos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to install a minimal X window system with 'apt-get install', with a simple window manager (for example icewm). How to do that? I tried apt-get install xserver-xorg xbase-clients xinit but still have a

Re: pci express wireless card doesn't show up in lspci

2010-12-31 Thread briand
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:55 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:19:14 -0800, briand wrote: Hi all, the card is an Intel 3945ABG. not seeing it in the lspci listing. (...) Just in case, put the output of lspci -nn | grep -i network

Re: pci express wireless card doesn't show up in lspci

2010-12-31 Thread briand
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:57:13 +0100 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 31. 12. 2010 20:19:14 je bri...@aracnet.com napisal(a): Hi all, the card is an Intel 3945ABG. not seeing it in the lspci listing. the PCI express port IS showing up. The card could be bad, but

Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware

2010-12-31 Thread briand
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:08:27 -0500 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 12/31/2010 12:50 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:03:24 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powellzlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Manufacturers are not doing this because the consumer wants it. They are doing

access point using 3945

2010-12-31 Thread briand
Hello, looks like one good way to go about it is to use hostapd. however there's supposed to be nl80211 driver which I need. I can .h files when I search through debian, but no binary looking thingy, and the hostapd package does not contain it. Can anyone shed some light on this. Looks like

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:04:36 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 31 dec 10, 14:00:04, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hello, looks like one good way to go about it is to use hostapd. however there's supposed to be nl80211 driver which I need. I can .h files when

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:30:52 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, it seems that iwl3945 driver does not allow the card to be set in master mode (AP), as you said: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers That is correct. Additional documentation on this can be found

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:30:52 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, it seems that iwl3945 driver does not allow the card to be set in master mode (AP), as you said: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers Additional documentation on this can be found here:

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:04:37 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 01 ian 11, 08:35:57, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Well you'd be right if I was running stable. I just looked and there is a /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf file in the stable package. Looking at the

Re: build your own ... (primarily Linux/Debian multiboot box)

2011-01-02 Thread briand
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 15:27:12 + Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: ~ this is not a hardware community but you will see why I ask this q here: ~ At sites like these: ~ http://www.tomshardware.com/theme-build-your-own,156.html ~

sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-02 Thread briand
Hi, Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and save the state of the machine to disk or ram. This was simply setting the machine to low power state. I've been going through the list

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-03 Thread briand
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: ... Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. ... acpitool -S = suspend to disk (hibernate) = Puts

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-03 Thread briand
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: ... Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. ... acpitool -S = suspend to disk (hibernate) = Puts

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread briand
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:15:12 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: ... Someone posted (to this list) a

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread briand
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:08:27 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, bri...@aracnet.com

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-06 Thread briand
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:10:03 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: I'll be darned... 'acpitool -s' *works from a VT* (not from X). Except I get this from alsa when KUSC is playing with mplayer: works from X for me. I was *shocked* when I tried it the first time and it

Re: Input gets slow after I opened Iceweasel for a long time

2011-01-08 Thread briand
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:37:40 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 08 ian 11, 13:50:44, Thomas Yao wrote: Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze(amd64) on my PC, using KDE and SCIM input method. The problem I found recently is that after I opened Iceweasel for a long time,

Re: adding an option for nvidia driver

2011-01-08 Thread briand
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:40:52 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: I think the option is spelled NVreg_Mobile, with a capital 'V'. See modinfo nvidia for supported options. Is there a way to list the modules for which info is available ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

changing grub boot order

2011-01-15 Thread briand
as per the wiki I change the default in /etc/default/grub from 0 to 4. I ran update-grub. The same entry boots by default, i.e. it didn't work. Anyone know why ? Brian For reference: Configuring grub v2 The configuration file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but you shouldn't edit it directly. This

Re: changing grub boot order

2011-01-15 Thread briand
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:36:07 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 15 ian 11, 14:55:08, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: as per the wiki I change the default in /etc/default/grub from 0 to 4. I ran update-grub. The same entry boots by default, i.e. it didn't work.

Re: changing grub boot order

2011-01-16 Thread briand
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:56:09 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 15 ian 11, 16:24:17, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: GRUB_DEFAULT=4 set default=4 And you do have 5 entries in grub.cfg? You might want to attach the full grub.cfg, maybe someone can spot why the 'set

open box ignores update windows while resizing check box

2011-01-19 Thread briand
the rc file looks like it has the right thing: resize drawContentsno/drawContents popupShowNonPixel/popupShow !-- 'Always', 'Never', or 'Nonpixel' (xterms and such) -- popupPositionCenter/popupPosition !-- 'Center', 'Top', or 'Fixed' -- popupFixedPosition !-- these

module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

2011-01-30 Thread briand
I get an error message when I run virtual box and the inter-tubes led me to the answer of removing the kvm-intel module. I'm trying to figure out how it got loaded in the first place so I can keep it from being loaded, but I can't seem to track it down. Can some kind soul help me out. Thanks,

Re: module kvm-intel causing virtualbox problems

2011-01-30 Thread briand
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:38:12 -0500 Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote: On Sunday 30 January 2011 18:15:56 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I get an error message when I run virtual box and the inter-tubes led me to the answer of removing the kvm-intel module. I'm trying to figure out how

can't umount automounted drives

2011-02-01 Thread briand
Hello all, I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT, regular users can't umount the mounted device. the strangest thing is that I'm sure I had it working at some point such that regular users COULD umount. The fstab has the user keyword in it. Strangely passing user in the

Re: can't umount automounted drives

2011-02-02 Thread briand
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:45:47 + Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: On 02/02/11 04:28, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hello all, I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT, regular users can't umount the mounted device. the strangest thing is that I'm sure I had it working at some

Re: can't umount automounted drives

2011-02-02 Thread briand
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:45:47 + Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: On 02/02/11 04:28, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hello all, I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT, regular users can't umount the mounted device. the strangest thing is that I'm sure I had it working at some

Re: can't umount automounted drives

2011-02-02 Thread briand
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:20:42 -0700 Dave Thayer debian1103320.dmtha...@recursor.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:28:17PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hello all, I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT, regular users can't umount the mounted device. If you're

Re: Scanner stopped working

2011-02-03 Thread briand
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:55:48 -0800 Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Epson Stylus 7450 All-In-One type printer. The last time that I tried to scan anything, a few months ago, everything worked just fine. I did my scanning from within the GIMP. Yesterday, when I tried to scan

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread briand
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:52:09 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: $ bind '\C-t: xterm^M' .. and press Ctrl-T you start a new xterm - try it. Notes: 1. to enter the ^M in the above bind command, you need to type CTRL-V and then hit the Enter key. You can also use \n Just in

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-15 Thread briand
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed to be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the gnu/bsd and gnu/linux

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-02-15 Thread briand
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:40:53 -0800 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:10:03 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: I'll be darned... 'acpitool -s' *works from a VT* (not from X). Except I get this from alsa when KUSC is playing with mplayer: works from

I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread briand
I've got a voodoo3 using X DRI which _was_ working just fine until I upgraded to testing. Now it's broke. Everything I know to check is OK, but when I do glxinfo, dri is NOT active. ~ $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread briand
Ok - I'll give it a try. Thanks for the info. Incidentally how are the mere mortals supposed to know this ? I spent a lot of time at the dri site and didn't see this mentioned anywhere. Brian Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:32:57PM -0800,

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread briand
name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No *sigh* Linux soggy 2.4.20 #1 Wed Jan 22 20:04:49 PST 2003 i686 unknown Any other ideas ? Brian Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:32:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Colin wrote:

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread briand
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin X 4.2 changed the direct rendering architecture somewhat, and Colin requires an upgrade to kernel 2.4.20. Well I found one minor glitch. The upgrade to testing left xserver-xfree86 at 4.1.0 instead of upgrading it to 4.2.1 although

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread briand
Cameron == Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:45 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * kernel 2.4.19 has got tdfx compiled in This might actually be the problem. Remove the kernel

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread briand
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin Depends how you did the upgrade - did you use 'apt-get Colin upgrade' (which probably won't be suitable), 'apt-get Colin dist-upgrade' (which should work), or something else like Colin dselect or aptitude? Colin All of those should

Re: Mouse Problem

2003-01-23 Thread briand
Alvin == Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alvin hi ya On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/mouse /dev/psaux (used by gpm) and different protocols protocol PS/2 protocol mousesystems protocol IntelliMouse (used with a different mouse than above two)

done jobs remain in queue, blocks new jobs

2003-08-18 Thread briand
/home/briand/mozill 235857 09:45:14 JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port Bug or configuration problem ? Thanks Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread briand
I've got all of the linux drivers installed and everything works fine from the OS point of view (thanks to the joystick package). There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the joystick to work under X. Can anyone point me to some docs on how to do this or share their

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread briand
I actually want to use it as the pointer device, or at least allow it's input as a pointer device - in place of, or (preferably) in addition to the mouse. Getting more than one pointer device to work is not a problem. I just need to get the joystick to be recognized as a pointer device. Brian

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

2003-03-23 Thread briand
Paul == Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:36:42PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul wrote: There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the joystick to work under X. Paul X

Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

2003-03-30 Thread briand
Paul == Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul I don't have a device /dev/dri/card0. Am I supposed to be Paul running devfs? Kernel config shows Paul $ grep DEVFS config-2.4.20-k6 CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y # Paul CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set You need

my boot-video selection is being reset

2003-06-20 Thread briand
I use the boot mode video selection to get a 80x50 mode. It starts out OK, but sometime during the boot process the video mode goes back to 80x25. I'm running testing and this happened after one of my debian upgrades. Anybody know where to start looking ? Thanks Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-12 Thread briand
I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo) which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25. This start happening a while back. Anyone know why this might be happening ? Of course, advice on how to fix it is

mozilla 0.9.6 installer

2001-11-21 Thread briand
I'm running a debian testing system which is up-to-date as of this morning. The mozilla-0.9.6 installer ends in a seg-fault. 0.9.4 works fine. Anyone have a similar experience ? Brian

Re: mozilla 0.9.6 installer

2001-11-21 Thread briand
Sven == Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven I've the complete binary package without an installer. Sven It's running fine and mozilla rocks ;) Sven Try to download this file Sven mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz Sven from the nightly build directory. Unpack it and it should

Re: mozilla 0.9.6 installer

2001-11-21 Thread briand
DvB == DvB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DvB I'm sure the mozilla folks would also appreciate your filing a DvB bug on the crash, if it's really a bug in mozilla... (I haven't DvB downloaded an installer build in about as long as I can DvB remember so I can't help you). Well it's actually

DRM and multiple X sessions ?

2001-12-04 Thread briand
I'm running 2 X sessions, his and hers ;-), and I've noticed that DRM can only be enabled for one of them, the one which was started first. Is this a bug ? Brian

gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-11 Thread briand
Hi, Running testing. I have the following fontpath set-up : Section Files # breaks rxvt gnumeric !? # FontPath unix/:7100 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled #

Re: gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-11 Thread briand
Craig == Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig It's presumably looking for an X font server, which I guess Craig you don't have. If you are running XFree86 4.x, you don't Craig need one unless you plan to have other machines getting fonts Craig from this one. 282 ?S

Re: gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-12 Thread briand
Craig == Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 282 ?S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --port 7100 --daemon --user nobody Does xfstt, see above count ? Craig It ought to. Craig Try this. As root, run netstat -anp --tcp and verify that

proper set-up of xconsole ?

2001-12-12 Thread briand
I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : ~ $ ls -l /dev/xconsole prw-r-1 root adm 0 Dec 11 22:52 /dev/xconsole When I start xconsole in my xsession file it can't access xconsole. What is the proper way to set permissions. Should I make interested

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread briand
dman == dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dman | NO, joy there either. I assume you mean append=video=vesa vga=794, dman | right? dman Yeah. I copy-n-pasted from above, but didn't look closely at that dman part. dman Have you tried a lower resolution? The whole table of mode numbers

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