Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, After reading the browser straw poll, I was influenced to try some of the plug-ins listed. I installed: Adblock Plus 1.2.1, FlagFox 4.0.8, Flashblock 1.5.13, FlashGot 1.2, Leo Search 1.0.0, NoScript 1.9.8.69, and Readability 1.1. Some of these I installed with aptitude and the ones that

Creating DVD and CDs

2010-09-12 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, After finally figuring out how to back up my e-mail files I now need to go about putting them onto a CD. What I have here is just a folder with files inside of it. I have some notes that I took at some point in front of me about making a CD and DVD and before I use them I'd like to ask

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-09 Thread James Stuckey
I want to say that there's scripts that do stuff like this, but unfortunately I don't know exactly how to do this. Hopefully someone who does will speak up. I would like to know more about these scripts and what all they can do. ciao James S. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Atu

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread James Stuckey
, then it is easy. Use the mail folders present in the client machine which will contain all the mails. On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked about

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread James Stuckey
...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/9/6 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br: On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: The only access I have to this email account as of now is via http://webmail.dreamhost.com/src/login.php or at least that's what dreamhost tech-support told me. I have

Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-04 Thread James Stuckey
Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked about backing it up to an IMAP server. Does anyone know how to back it up to a CD?

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-04 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.comwrote: On Sat September 4 2010, James Stuckey wrote: Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked about backing it up

Re: How to format usb stick ?

2010-09-03 Thread James Stuckey
First format the disk: fdisk /dev/* d n p 1 w Then, mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/*1 (replace * with the device label which you can find from dmesg) ciao James On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Joao Ferreira gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:16 +0200, Axel Freyn

Re: Upgrade to latest Inkscape

2010-08-31 Thread James Stuckey
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:13, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with an unstable system. What? Why would it be unstable? Upgrade

Re: Backing up email

2010-08-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 29 August 2010 17:38:03 James Stuckey wrote: I'm not subscribed to this list. Please reply directly to me. Read the archives? Temporarily subscribe? You have asked several questions recently, and you

Re: How do I go from Lenny to unstable?

2010-08-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.comwrote: The subject tells it all. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upgrade to latest Inkscape

2010-08-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two

Re: Upgrade to latest Inkscape

2010-08-30 Thread James Stuckey
Assume that this particular partition exists only to run inkscape 0.48. Does this change your advice? -- No. I might do a apt-get install -t experimental inkscape if the solution it recommended was sane. Though, the backport shouldn't take much more than ten minutes and it's the better

Re: Stable, light-weighted, lighting-fast and actively-developed WM

2010-08-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.comwrote: On 8/30/10, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: ... The reason being, on my laptop, the - Fn-F4 key suspend - lid close doesn't work under fluxbox but gnome, and I don't have the time and energy

Backing up email

2010-08-29 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, I have several email accounts that I'd like to back up. I access them through imap or webmail. I thought I could just copy over a directory on my box through scp but it turns out that the webmail is hosted on another box that I can't ssh into. How can I backup the email? Thanks, James

Backing up email

2010-08-29 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, I have several email accounts that I'd like to back up. I access them through imap or webmail. I thought I could just copy over a directory on my box through scp but it turns out that the webmail is hosted on another box that I can't ssh into. How can I backup the email? I'm not

Re: Backing up email

2010-08-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/8/29 James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com: Hi all, I have several email accounts that I'd like to back up. I access them through imap or webmail. I thought I could just copy over a directory on my box

Hauppauge WinTV Card

2010-08-26 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, Does anyone know if there exists drivers for using these WinTV cards from Hauppauge? I found an old one and I'd like to use it on squeeze. On the top it says: PAL - B/G - I 44354 Rev A242 I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please reply to me directly. ciao, James

Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

2010-08-26 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and modprobe dvb-bt8xx. Then when I try to confirm it with lsmod | grep dvb-bt8xx nothing shows up. Can

Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

2010-08-26 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all the way to the end, and modprobe dvb-bt8xx. Then when I try to confirm it with lsmod | grep dvb-bt8xx nothing shows up. Can

Re: Using Hauppauge WinTV device (need dvb-bt8xx)

2010-08-26 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net wrote: On 08/26/2010 02:10 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Hi all, I've installed this card and identified it as this device: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bt878 When I go through the process of loading the modules I get all

Installing from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread James Stuckey
Could someone please provide me with directions for installing Debian from a usb stick?

Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread James Stuckey
Could someone please provide me with directions for installing Debian from a usb stick? Please reply to my address as I'm not subscribed to the debian-user list.

Creating a bootable USB key

2010-08-13 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I'm trying to use a usb key as installation media. I followed the instructions given here earlier but Unetbootin but did not produce a bootable stick. When trying to boot with that stick I get an error that says *No* DEFAULT or *UI configuration* directive found. I tried running it again

Why do i get this when trying to list files on usbkey?

2010-08-13 Thread James Stuckey
stuc...@debian:/mnt/usb$ ls ls: cannot access σ┼G╖╓┴½.cα▄: Input/output error ls: cannot access £ñ└╠üî└t.Θö£: Input/output error ls: cannot access çlmφnxo.3S░: Input/output error ls: cannot access iε('▓3.αg8: Input/output error ls: cannot access ▄n█iìg^µ.⌐¥: Input/output error ls: cannot access

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-03 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But wich one

Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread James Stuckey
Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze?

Re: Still can't read DVDs/CDs

2010-05-17 Thread James Stuckey
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: *What I'm doing to mount the media: * r...@debian:/home/stuckey# mount /dev/sr0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,

Still can't read DVDs/CDs

2010-05-16 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I'm now using Linux debian 2.6.32-3-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 18:07:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux but I'm still not able to read DVDs or CDs. The media and the hardware that I'm using *works* without problem in windows and mac osx. Besides upgrading my kernel, I also changed some things in

Slowing down the mouse speed

2010-05-16 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, How do I control how fast my mouse moves/accelerates? I'd like to have to move it more than a half inch before it has crossed the entire width of my screen. I've used xset m 0 0 but it still moves very fast.

Re: Still can't read DVDs/CDs

2010-05-16 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun,16.May.10, 15:13:28, James Stuckey wrote: *What I'm doing to mount the media: * r...@debian:/home/stuckey# mount /dev/sr0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-05-15 Thread James Stuckey
I'm also experiencing this issue with data-DVDs now. Dmesg: [11643.787758] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 [11643.787834] attempt to access beyond end of device [11643.787835] sr0: rw=0, want=2052, limit=4 [11643.788596] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE

NVIDIA drivers for cards that aren't supported in stable [was: Aptitude Error]

2010-05-12 Thread James Stuckey
This command seemed to work the best. The others just generated a list of what seemed like all packages installed. stuc...@debian:~$ apt-show-versions | grep sid flightgear/sid uptodate 1.9.1-1.1 libnfsidmap2/squeeze uptodate 0.23-2 libresid-builder-dev/squeeze uptodate 2.1.1-8

Re: Different ways of creating a USB-install stick

2010-05-12 Thread James Stuckey
2010/5/12 James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com 2010/4/26 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm curious as to the different ways one can create a USB install stick, for the purpose of installing Debian. It is possible to do it by a) acquiring (where

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-02 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca

Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid argument With mplayer I see: MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 15:43, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid argument With mplayer I see: MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
* Native capability of sound card can be found from cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params * Decoding is done by the player itself, most probably the decoder output format in your case would be 96khz, 24 bit little endian. If the native rate of your card is only 44100Hz/48000Hz, it can

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
All of these searches return nothing: stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ apt-show-versions | grep unstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable~i stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)' I know something must

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: Did you mean to drop debian-user

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you?

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:05:42 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you? Mmmm, yes, nothing strange

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you? Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit

Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information... Done Initializing package states... Done

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
Have you tried apt-get update or aptitude update before trying to install these packages? Yes, I did aptitude safe-upgrade after aptitude update and then aptitude full-upgrade. I selected n and it prompted me to downgrade the packages to testing. This means that the versions it had were

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kousik Maiti kousiks...@gmail.com wrote: Try apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list I selected n and it prompted me to downgrade the packages to testing. This means that the versions it

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly

New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I just changed monitors and the new one has a different resolution. How do I configure my system to account for the change?

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that question. It depends on a lot of things. Please provide the following information: (1) The make and model of your computer (2) The make and model of your video card (3) The make and

Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that question. It depends

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:27:59 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: (...) I don't recall how the config file was made. The resolution I want is 1920x1080. Restarting X gave me this resolution. Now my fonts on screen (like

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:46 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: That is probably due to a low DPI value. You can change it to whatever value you feel more

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:46:31 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: I don't use gnome or KDE. And what DE (if any) are you using? :-) I'm using wmii Uh... and how does one change DPI settings in that :-)? You could try

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:06:08 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: You could try running: xrandr --dpi 96 Or if you have installed nvidia control panel application, IIRC

DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I posted a few days ago about not being able to read a CD/DVD. I'm still having the same issues. I assumed that I could do: stuc...@debian:~$ mount /dev/scd0 but doing so gives me: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread James Stuckey
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: Please reply to the list instead of reply to any person. I am not sure why this is happening. But I have noticed that all cdroms are not equal. Some disks give out read error on some drives, where as they work on other

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-04-27 Thread James Stuckey
Okay so I need to upgrade my kernel?

Resources for learning Linux

2010-04-26 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the things that might be

RE: Can't read DVD

2010-04-25 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:11:57PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique

Different ways of creating a USB-install stick

2010-04-25 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I'm curious as to the different ways one can create a USB install stick, for the purpose of installing Debian. It is possible to do it by a) acquiring (where?) a boot.img.gz file, and then doing zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sdc. Then load a netboot iso to the disc. b) making a FAT/FAT32

Re: Can't read DVD

2010-04-23 Thread James Stuckey
That worked, thanks! If one has to do this every time, why is it that these options aren't listed in /etc/fstab? On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:27 AM, 刘宇辉 lyh19901...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 April 2010 13:54, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not able to read DVDs in squeeze. I

Can't read DVD

2010-04-22 Thread James Stuckey
I'm not able to read DVDs in squeeze. I burned this disc on the same drive in squeeze. Thereafter it worked fine until a week or so ago (the disc is less than a month old). I tested the disc last week on a windoze and mac osx and it worked without a problem. When I try to mount the cd/dvd rom