Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-01 Thread David Goodenough
How is a naive user meant to know whether his hardware required non-free firmware? The only route that seems to be given by this wording is that they install (or try to install) the system using the official image, and then have to work out for themselves what does not work, and from that

Re: two peoples separated by a common language -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 09 August 2015 15:51:10 Richard Owlett wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] Because it's not a tax. In effect, it is an apothecated tax. But we are reluctant to acknowledge that. I did a duckduckgo search for apothecated. I got a bunch of colonial dictionaries. Their

Re: Use Debian as a usb mass storage device

2015-01-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 29 January 2015 17:38:06 Floris wrote: Dear list, I have a Sumsung TV which can record to an usb mass storage device. Is it possible to connect an usb-cable between the TV and the Debian Box, so that the TV can use (a part of) the harddisk as usb device? Thanks, floris

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 01 January 2015 04:50:31 Anil Duggirala wrote: Ive invested quite some time looking for CAD software running natively on linux, there isnt much. There is one 3D CAD software running flawlessly on my Debian machine, its called Varicad. Correct me if Im Of those actually in the debian

Re: New 64-bit install

2014-07-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 03 July 2014 20:32:23 David's IMAP wrote: Due to disk failure, have started with new 64-bit wheeze 7.5 install. Apt/apt-listbugs broken. How to get out of this, i.e. get rid of listbugs meanwhile? I had a problem with apt-listbugs when I installed a fresh Amd64 system on a laptop,

Re: Directly connecting two computers

2014-04-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 26 April 2014 19:36:31 Martin wrote: Hello, I have two computer that I want to connect directly, similarly as I did long time ago with Null-Modem cable ( or LapLink cable). I have obtained a crossover ethernet cable that I plug in network card of each computer. Now the problem

Re: Directly connecting two computers

2014-04-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 27 April 2014 08:41:47 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 04/26/2014 08:56 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 27/04/14 05:36, Martin wrote: Hello, I have two computer that I want to connect directly, similarly as I did long time ago with Null-Modem cable ( or LapLink cable). I have

Re: Directly connecting two computers

2014-04-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 27 April 2014 06:56:47 Richard Hector wrote: On 27/04/14 05:36, Martin wrote: Hello, I have two computer that I want to connect directly, similarly as I did long time ago with Null-Modem cable ( or LapLink cable). I have obtained a crossover ethernet cable that I plug in

apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

2013-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
I have a sacrificial machine that I keep upto date with sid every morning. Yesterday and today I get an error:- Calculating upgrade... Failed The following packages have unmet dependencies: libenchant1c2a : Depends: aspell-en but it is not going to be installed or

Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

2013-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 28 Aug 2013, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: David Goodenough wrote: I have a sacrificial machine that I keep upto date with sid every morning. Yesterday and today I get an error:- Calculating upgrade... Failed The following packages have unmet dependencies: libenchant1c2a

Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

2013-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 28 Aug 2013, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: David Goodenough wrote: I have a sacrificial machine that I keep upto date with sid every morning. Yesterday and today I get an error:- Calculating upgrade... Failed The following

Re: limit traffic based on IPs

2013-08-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 12 Aug 2013, binary dreamer wrote: stuck big time with the syntax of an iptable. i would like to permit the speed of 512/512kbps to ips 192.168.1.2-5 i would like to permit the speed of 1024/1024kbps to ips 192.168.1.6-10 i would like to permit the speed of 2048/2048kbps to ips

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 18 Jun 2013, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on shellworld. Still I am wondering if there is a utility in debian that will convert the ms word .docx file format into anything else? antiword will not do this because

Re: No udev event when i plug an HDMI cable

2013-06-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 04 Jun 2013, Sylvain Archenault wrote: Anybody having the same issue? On 05/18/2013 12:52 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: Hello, When I plugged a HDMI cable in my laptop, the display used to automatically detect my TV and expand to it. It stopped working a few days ago,

Problem with xz on very small system

2013-04-12 Thread David Goodenough
I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. I normally do not need to run anything on this that requires a lot of memory and so I do not have any swap defined. When I try to upgrade traceroute, dmidecode, file and libmagic1 to the current version on sid I get an error

Re: Problem with xz on very small system

2013-04-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 12 Apr 2013, Claudius Hubig wrote: Dear David, David Goodenough wrote: I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. Unpacking replacement traceroute ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory dpkg

Re: release of Wheezy, rise of Jessie?

2013-04-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 Apr 2013, Mark Allums wrote: From: Darac Marjal [mailto:mailingl...@darac.org.uk] On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:49:38AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: A release is imminent, is it not? In the next two-to-three weeks? Imminent? Yes. In the next two-to-three weeks? Maybe.

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 18 Jan 2013, lina wrote: On Friday 18,January,2013 08:26 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb Doug: On 01/18/2013 12:29 AM, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know from where jump out a directory with following info. $ ls -lrt try/ ls: cannot access

Re: alix (pcengines) build up

2012-11-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 28 Nov 2012, binary dreamer wrote: hi. i am looking to build debian for my system ALIX (pcengines) all flavors, especially for the ones without vga. i am looking to create two partitions. the first will have the system and will be read only. writable it has to be only on

Re: Knowledge based solution package?

2012-11-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 13 Nov 2012, Nelson Green wrote: Good morning, Many years ago I worked as a support engineer for a large IT firm. We had a proprietary knowledge based system for maintaining a database of problems and solutions. It was a fairly simple system that allowed one to categorise the

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? It dependsa. The tuner does not need a licence, the premises does. So if there is already a TV there you are fine, but if

Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

2012-02-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Curt Howland wrote: Dear Debianistas, I'm aware of _what_ UDEV is doing, that is, renumbering my ethernet ports to prevent conflicts. Yeah. There's only one, but it's getting renumbered eth3. Trouble is, it wasn't renumbered yesterday. Just today. And a week ago.

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 13 Feb 2012, green wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote at 2012-02-12 17:10 -0600: On Sb, 11 feb 12, 20:09:00, green wrote: - Trim-Slice H (custom kernel) I was almost going to order one of those, but eventually gave up because SATA is implemented with USB to SATA Genesys Logic

Re: problem: initscripts wants to deinstall several packages

2012-01-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 19 Jan 2012, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi list, I am wondering, why the package initscripts wants to delete klogd, logcheck, sysklogd and snort. Of course, it is because of the dependencies. But I wonder, if this is a temporarily problem (because the package is too new) or if

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 13 Jan 2012, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hello Everyone, I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within the OS

Confused about bug 640823

2011-12-30 Thread David Goodenough
In this bug it says:- Found in versions pygobject/2.90.3-1, pygobject/2.90.3-2 Fixed in version 1.30.0-1 This is very confusing. Does this mean that it is already fixed. I think not, and that the problem is that the fixed in version refers to a package other than pyobject, but it does not say

Re: WLAN access point with Alix board from PC Engines

2011-12-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 30 Nov 2011, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I have an AMD Geode Alix board from PC Engines [1] which I'm planning to setup as WLAN access point. The board has two miniPCI slots. So far I've read that I can't just use any WLAN card. It has to be capable of the master mode? Does

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:55:39 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:26:23 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) It basically documents the most common operations done from iw. Yes, I know I can do it manually, I was looking for the same kind

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:34:48 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:23 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:31:17 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:18:20 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) AFAIK, ifupdown is a Debian specific package - kernel devs are hardly responsible for documenting it. Are you sure? :-) I'm

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: On Tue 25 Oct 2011 at 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw

Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-25 Thread David Goodenough
In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw. Is there a package that provides network/interfaces support for iw? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Is there an equivalent of wireless-xxxx using iw rather then iwconfig

2011-10-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:30:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In wireless-tools there is support for embedding wireless-xxx commands which get converted into iwconfig commands. iwconfig is now deprecated for many wireless cards, in favour of iw

how to resize a compact flash image on disk

2011-10-24 Thread David Goodenough
I have a debian(sid) system, and on that is a DD image of a CF card which also holds a debian(sid) disk image. I recently bought some new CF cards, but they are slightly smaller than the ones I built the image for, and so DD complains when I copy the image onto them, and then fsck complains when

Re: how to resize a compact flash image on disk

2011-10-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 24 Oct 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: David Goodenough wrote: Is there a tool which will taks the disk image and adjust it to a smaller size (it is far from full - there is plenty of empty space) before copying it to the CF. You didn't say what filesystem type you are using so

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:11:33 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset to zero for each run. You mean that system always starts

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 28 Sep 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: David Goodenough wrote: I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset to zero for each run. And by reset to zero you mean the date loaded at boot time from

cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-27 Thread David Goodenough
I have some small single board systems on which I run Debian. They have clocks, but they are not battery backed and so reset to zero for each run. I then set the time using NTP once I have a network connection - wireless as it happens and therefore not entirely predictable in how quickly it will

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. I have found several partial answers with Google but nothing conclusive. About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security

Re: Addressing a machine behind the router without port forwarding or DMZ

2011-04-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 03 April 2011, Dotan Cohen wrote: Not a Debian-specific question, but I turn to the best brains that I know. Assuming a LAN with a router and three machines: 10.0.0.1 Router 10.0.0.2 Computer1 10.0.0.3 Computer2 10.0.0.4 Computer3 The router sits on an outside IP address of

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 31 March 2011, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I mean really, why does the system still do stupid sh*t like this. renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 Why oh why ! It was already eth0, what possible reason could it have to go rename it. oh and by the way, just to be maximally

IPV6 CPE setup

2011-03-30 Thread David Goodenough
There is a document describing the requirements for creating a Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) router as a draft RFC. It can be found at:- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-09 Has anyone set up such a system using Debian as a base, and if so is there a HOWTO? David

Re: IPV6 CPE setup

2011-03-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 30 March 2011, John Hasler wrote: David writes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-09 Has anyone set up such a system using Debian as a base... Yes. I'm using it now (with a SixXS tunnel and without DHCPv6), Well in the document DHCP is considered

Re: Re (2): Skype

2011-02-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 23 February 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: deloptes delop...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:06:27 +0100 I've been using this for few years now with skype and no problems cam is philips SPC 1000/1030NC (pc is dell latitude d520) Encouraging. A Microsoft LifeCam

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 07 February 2011, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hi, Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? Hugo It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away

Re: lazarus fpc - absent

2010-10-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 10 October 2010, Johan wrote: Good day, I am new to debian - starting to like it - in place of suse. I do a bit of programming in lazarus fpc. Seem to be absent from the sources. How can I get it please. Thanks Johan If you us:- apt-get source lazarus fpc you will get

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser mdresse...@router.windsormachine.com: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: hda: Host Protected Area detected. ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: 2010/3/5 David Goodenough david.goodeno...@btconnect.com: On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser mdresse...@router.windsormachine.com: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: hda: Host Protected Area detected

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: 2010/3/5 David Goodenough david.goodeno...@btconnect.com: On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: 2010/3/5 David Goodenough david.goodeno...@btconnect.com: On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser mdresse

qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. The really odd

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Goodenough david.goodeno...@btconnect.com wrote: I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is what one

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports that there are only the /dev/hda1

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is what one would expect, but when I boot the disk

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:58:02 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: I found Host Protected Area on Google, and it said I could turn it off using hdparm, but when I try it says:- hdparm -N /dev/hda /dev/hda: The running kernel lacks

2.6.32 kernel needs noapic on Acer Travelmate 430 which earlier kernels did not need

2010-02-27 Thread David Goodenough
I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it now boots. The machine is

Re: migrate to new system disk

2009-12-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago. How do I manually install LILO to

Re: migrate to new system disk

2009-12-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb installer

Re: migrate to new system disk

2009-12-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote: tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition] will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original one

what is the proper grub2 update procedure when changing disks

2009-11-30 Thread David Goodenough
In the old Grub1 days if I had a bootable disk die and I copied its contents across to a new disk and wanted to make it bootable I followed a procedure that ran grub, looked for /boot/grub/stage1, set root to that hd, and then setup that hd, and I was done. But now Grub2 seems to rely on UUIDs

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Urs Hunkeler wrote: Hi, I'm not sure this was a problem with the installer. The installer seemed to have set Grub up for the serial console, albeit with the wrong baud rate. However I did not get Grub 2 to run on the Alix. I even tried to install Grub with some

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Urs Hunkeler wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on an Alix 2d3 board (installing from network using PXE, the installer runs in a serial console). When I select a mirror, the installer tells me that it is going to verify the mirror, and then immediately

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Urs Hunkeler wrote: Hi, Thanks for all the help! In the end I added the domain-name-servers option to the dhcp server configuration, and now it works. For those who misunderstood my mail, tftp and bootp (basically PXE) worked before and the kernel and the

insserv prereqs for network packages

2009-09-01 Thread David Goodenough
I notice that various networking packages (ssh, siproxd for two) do not depend on $network. Should they? I ask because I am getting odd errors when I start the machine, with things not starting properly. I presume that having Require-Start: $network means that the network must have been

problem with util-linux-ng fsck and board with no clock

2009-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
I have an embedded board (a PCEngines Wrap board) which has no persistent clock. With earlier configurations I set the clock with ntpdate once the network was up. But with current sid I have a problem in that fsck in util-linux-ng 2.16 complains that the Superblock last mount time (Sat Jan 1

Re: problem with util-linux-ng fsck and board with no clock

2009-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:57:20PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: I have an embedded board (a PCEngines Wrap board) which has no persistent clock. With earlier configurations I set the clock with ntpdate once the network was up

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 July 2009, Gilles Guiot wrote: frank a écrit : On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:06 +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented with a few on the windows side,

Re: Font (or color) problem on current unstable x86 box

2009-07-21 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, lee wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:04:21PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: X Error: BadName(named color or font does not exist) 15 Perhaps you need to install some package that provides color names. It looks as if a program is trying to use a color name that isn't

Font (or color) problem on current unstable x86 box

2009-07-20 Thread David Goodenough
One of my machine, which I keep reasonably current on unstable, recently started behaving a little oddly. Several programs (the first was the new Eclipse Galileo, then IceWeasel and now a locally compiled version of zenmap v5) have started to come up with an error:- The program 'zenmap' received

Re: Java lib packages

2009-07-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 July 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 4fe4c4f50907021347r2fcba2dcqa1b0ca7e2db79...@mail.gmail.com, ChadDavis wrote: In any case, the lib*-java packages are not specifically for developers. They are shared dependencies of the Java applications that are part of Debian

Re: Lenny hangs on Activating Swap

2009-07-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 July 2009, Mark Marcacci wrote: The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny 5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then tonight from a cold start it hung at Activating Swap. Before this happened, I had connected an NTFS drive (using

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 19 April 2009, M. Henne wrote: Kent West wrote: but I'm glad (?!) to see I'm not the only one. The problem is irritating, ain't it? It is. One of my favourite benefits using linux is to be able to work fast with less mouse usage. Not 'no mouse' but only mouse where it makes

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 19 April 2009, Bob Cox wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 16:59:35 +0100, David Goodenough (david.goodeno...@btconnect.com) wrote: As an aside, my laptop has a dodgy left mouse button on the touchpad. When I am at a desk I plug a mouse in, but when on the road having to cart around

minimal xorg.conf for usb mouse

2009-03-24 Thread David Goodenough
With the sid Xorg code for many systems you now no longer need an xorg.conf, everything self configures. But it would appear that USB mice are not supported in this configuration. Normally I have a synaptic mousepad on my laptop, but sometimes I would rather use a mouse. What do I have to have

openoffice.org changelog

2009-03-20 Thread David Goodenough
I have a sacrificial machine which I update on sid every morning, and so that I know what has changed I have apt-listchanges installed. Recently there have a been a slew of updates to openoffice.org and I notice that normally apt-listchanges only shows new changelog entries, but with

Re: KDE 4

2009-01-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Dean Chester wrote: Hi does any one know where i can install KDE4 from its not in sid and in experimental its missing KDEbase so it can't install. I want to run it to compare it to GNOME as ive have been using gnome since August and cannot get used to it(i

Re: New to Linux

2009-01-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 05 January 2009, Martin, Larry D wrote: I have downloaded the Debian 40r5 for S390 and have it on CD. When I load the CD into the HMC (zSeries z9BC) and try to do the Load from CD/DVD operation I get: An error has occurred while trying to obtain a list of the software that can

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: David Goodenough wrote: snip Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr

Re: JRE which openjdk gcj

2008-07-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 05:26:14 pm Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:59:00PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 02:47:06 pm Andrew

Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0

2008-07-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, I struggled with iceweasel 3.0 from Sid for a week but have now given up. First, printing no longer worked (see earlier posts). I got it to work, sort of, by using inotifywait and printing the mozilla.ps file but it wasn't a good

Re: Debian S390

2008-06-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Beard, Rick wrote: I have installed Debian in a Linux image under z/VM. I only have the basic Linux and was wondering where I can get JAVA for this install? Do you already have a version that I can just download and install? I have a version that is in an RPM

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, al davis wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: I am using *** but those programs are crap and you  can not .  Even my 18 years old MS-DOS software works better. So, my requirements are: 1)  PCB-Layouts up to Extended ATX

Re: ath5k anyone?

2008-06-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 09 June 2008, Jaime Tarrant wrote: * David Goodenough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2008, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Jaime Tarrant wrote: * Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey folks, Has anyone had any luck with the ath5k driver? I've

Re: ath5k anyone?

2008-06-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Jaime Tarrant wrote: * Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey folks, Has anyone had any luck with the ath5k driver? I've installed linux-image-2.6.25-2-686. My /etc/network/interfaces file says: [snip] When I say ifup

Can ssh-vulnkey scan known-hosts

2008-05-15 Thread David Goodenough
Or can known-hosts be reformatted so that it could be? I ask because I connect to lots of systems, and this would be a good way of knowing which I need to address first as vulnerable and there in need of upgrade? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, but it isn't enough. I need more real IDE like functionalities eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection,

Re: Install Debian into Fabiatech embedded system

2008-03-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 13 March 2008, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi all. Does anyone never install Debian into embedded system like this one? http://www.fabiatech.com/fabia/products/index.php?main_sn=3sub_sn=10p_sn= 59title=FB2612 It seems to be standard enought, but any suggests will be appreciated!

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: Hi everyone, I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) that I currently connect to with samba. It is great but I would also like to be able to simply

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: On 12 juin, 12:00, David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: Hi everyone, I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to find the answer on the Net. I have a file server

Best way to find a version in snapshots depending on existing install

2007-05-02 Thread David Goodenough
I have a machine which is running a fairly old version of Debian, onto which I wish to add a new package. I have tried various versions of this package but they all want later versions of things like libc6 than are installed. Upgrading the machine just for this package is not currently an

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:25, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 13 April 2007 17:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:25, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace

Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 19:04, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Can anyone recommend a good WYSIWYG HTML editor? I require very basic HTML stuff like lists, tables, formatting, inserting images etc., no complex CSS capabilities are necessary. I used to use nvu. But looks like it has been

is there an equivalent of FreeBSD memory disks and mdconfig

2006-12-28 Thread David Goodenough
I ask because I have some Compact Flash images which I normally copy onto a CF card by mounting it in a USB CF writer and using dd. I recently bought a batch of CF cards which seem to have decided on a different definition of 128MM (they are about 121MB) and so the image will not copy onto

Re: Setting network cards to full duplex at boot...

2006-12-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 08:52, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Andrei Popescu ha scritto: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:08:57PM +1300, Simon wrote: Hi There, Is there a way to set network cards to full duplex at boot time? Thanks Simon Mine is set that way automatically. It would be

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 03 November 2006 00:14, Andrew Ritchie wrote: I had the need to set FD with mii-tool too. It had to do with the network card and the switch not playing nicely. The permanent fix was put the line eepro100 options=2100 in the /etc/modules file. Depending on your network card and

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 November 2006 10:25, George Borisov wrote: David Goodenough wrote: If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up or up I end up with HD. I think maybe post-up would be more

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 November 2006 11:30, Tyler MacDonald wrote: David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up or up I end up with HD. I think

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