[Solved]Re: problem updating python2.5

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye wrote: On a routine update on my Debian Squeeze system I get the following: [quote] running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5... file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/wxGlade

problem updating python2.5

2009-09-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
On a routine update on my Debian Squeeze system I get the following: [quote] running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5... file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/wxGlade pycentral: pycentral

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-12 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Paul Gallaway wrote: snip To summarize you would first create a mount point and then do the mount manually. From there you can edit the real fstab and do some other things using chroot etc. I did this recently on an install to complete a grub install that was failing by invoking aptitude and

2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm runny Debian Testing (Squeeze) and have been for years. Since linux- image-2.6.30-686 has now trickled down to Squeeze, I thought it was time to upgrade from 2.6.26. I installed linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 (keeping my old kernel of course ) and rebooted. The new kernel will not boot and

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Paul Gallaway wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Kaye jdkay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm runny Debian Testing (Squeeze) and have been for years. Since linux- image-2.6.30-686 has now trickled down to Squeeze, I thought it was time to upgrade from 2.6.26. I installed linux

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Paul Gallaway wrote: I need just a bit of reassurance because I really don't want to paint myself into a corner. If I start playing around with fstab won't that jeopardise my ability to boot into the 2.6.26 kernel? If it doesn't effect 2.6.26 then I don't understand how editing fstab would

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-09-11 09:00, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, I'm runny Debian Testing (Squeeze) and have been for years. Since linux- image-2.6.30-686 has now trickled down to Squeeze, I thought it was time to upgrade from 2.6.26. I installed linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 (keeping my old

Re: Failure of X in squeeze.

2009-08-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Peter Crawford wrote: _ Send and receive email from all of your webmail accounts. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671356 Is this some sort of spam? I don't see a question anywhere. Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at

Re: how to increase sound volume of a mp3 file

2009-07-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Long Wind wrote: I have a mp3 file When I play it, the sound volume is too low even if I set highest volume in sound mixer Is there any utility that change mp3 file? I use sarge and etch Thanks! Just be sure you're raising the correct control on your mixer. It's happened to me that it

test message please ignore

2009-06-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
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Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Adeodato Simó wrote: Hello, For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable.) A note for compiz users: unfortunately it

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Adeodato Simó wrote: Hello, For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable

Re: Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

2009-05-15 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Charlie Dorff wrote: Hi, I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks. Charlie It's not specific to Debian but it's a great intro to linux and if you get through it you're read for the more advanced

Re: voip that works on linux and windows

2009-04-27 Thread Jonathan Kaye
MList wrote: Is there some program that can run on both linux and windows that provide voip (and perhaps video) other than Skype? I do not want to use Skype because of some bad comment that I read about it. Martin Have a look at this link and you'll get loads. I limited this to sip clients

Re: fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

2009-02-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
H.S. wrote: Sam Leon wrote: H.S. wrote: Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
tyler wrote: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com writes: Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with the popup blocker turned off. No messages or anything. It shows the URL when I

[Solved] X11 keyboard behaving strangely since update

2009-02-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Marc Talder wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Stefan Bellon sbel...@sbellon.de wrote: Hi all, I'm happily running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 (and on all my other machines as well). Yesterday I did an update with the notebook in question (the last update

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Javier wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? For me it does not sefault. Lenny amd64.

Re: Software for creating web page

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Kelly Clowers wrote: snip http://www.bluegriffon.org will be the real successor Nvu . But no linux binaries yet :-( Cheers, jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html I click on Agree and Download, script enabled, and nothing recognizable happens. Anybody had more luck? Hugo Yes, it downloaded from the above link with no problem. Did you notice this? Thank you for

Re: Old fglrx not at snapshot.debian.org?

2009-01-29 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Davide Mancusi wrote: I need to downgrade my fglrx driver to version 8-7-3 but I can't find the package at snapshot.debian.org nor at packages.debian.org. Could anyone please give me a clue? Cheers, Davide Hi Davide, You can find older versions of fglrx

Re: Messed up window after gparted

2009-01-29 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Frank McCormick wrote: snip OK. Nobody has any ideas. Well...is there an aptitude command that will reinstall a program ALONG WITH all its dependencies ?? Cheers Have you tried aptitude reinstall package name? I can't swear to it but I would guess it would fix or at least mention any

Re: Old fglrx not at snapshot.debian.org?

2009-01-28 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Davide Mancusi wrote: I need to downgrade my fglrx driver to version 8-7-3 but I can't find the package at snapshot.debian.org nor at packages.debian.org. Could anyone please give me a clue? Cheers, Davide Hi Davide, You can find older versions of fglrx (proprietary) drivers on the ATI

Re: video MOV

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Antonio Macchi wrote: Hi my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't read properly. I have upload a very little example (1.3MB): www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV can someone tell me if can view this video? thanks Hi Antonio, I viewed it with the

Re: hwtools... where?

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Antonio Macchi wrote: I'm searching for hwtools... but I can't find it... why? Hi Antonio, It appears to be discontinued. That's why. I copied this from the debian website: hwtools This package is neither part of unstable nor experimental. This probably means that the package has been

Re: post doesn't show up

2008-12-24 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. But the post does not show up. What's up? Hugo Hi Hugo, This message showed up. Did you send this last one from the same account as the others?

Re: No 3D acceleration for Radeon X1250 (RS690)?

2008-11-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Slim Joe wrote: I'm using the onboard graphics of my Asus M2A-VM motherboard, which is identified as a Radeon X1200 (RS690). XVideo works with the default open-source drivers, although there's noticeable tearing in the video. However, I cannot get hardware 3D acceleration to work. I get

Re: No 3D acceleration for Radeon X1250 (RS690)?

2008-11-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 00:11, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I assume you mean a Mobility Radeon X1200 card. You can go to the ATI site here: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html and get the most recent driver that supports your card (8.10 does

Re: No 3D acceleration for Radeon X1250 (RS690)?

2008-11-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 07:53, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 00:11, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I assume you mean a Mobility Radeon X1200 card. You can go to the ATI site here: http://ati.amd.com

Re: cant install kpackage manager in lenny

2008-11-29 Thread Jonathan Kaye
raman narasimhan wrote: i'd upgraded my etch system to lenny. and when i tried opening Kpackage, a message telling me to install SMART package manager was shown, when i tried to install it got the following error. what do i do?? debian:~# apt-get install smartpm Reading package lists...

Re: Cannot play MMS video streams

2008-11-29 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Tomas Kral wrote: Dear Lists, Can anyone play MMS video streams off the web? I cannot so far. I am on Etch, having installed gstreamer0.10-*, possibly all plugins incl. gstreamer0.10-pitfdll plus w32codecs incl. gstreamer0.8-mms totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla evolution

Re: Sound But No Sound

2008-11-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Thomas H. George wrote: Sound: alsaplayer plays cd's totem plays videos. alsamixer adjusts volume. No Sound: Audacity has no input control - input options are determined by the sound card so presumably Audacity doesn't see the sound card. Neither does alsactl. alsactl names returns

Re: KDE Kicker autohide stopped working

2008-11-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, I'm running Debian Lenny (2.6.26-1) with a KDE desktop using Kicker 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5. After a recent upgrade (AFAIK not directly related to KDE) my favourite KDE feature, the Kicker autohide) suddenly stopped working. I have

KDE Kicker autohide stopped working

2008-11-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm running Debian Lenny (2.6.26-1) with a KDE desktop using Kicker 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5. After a recent upgrade (AFAIK not directly related to KDE) my favourite KDE feature, the Kicker autohide) suddenly stopped working. I have repeatedly used the Config Panel applet to set Hide automatically

Re: setting a static ip on a dhcp account

2008-10-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,05.Oct.08, 06:30:14, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Yes I've already noticed exactly what you describe in the web interface and I am familiar with a MAC address. I'm just wondering if I should leave things as they are or configure the modem as discussed. That's for you

Re: setting a static ip on a dhcp account

2008-10-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Andrei Popescu wrote: Your initial question was about port forwarding as well. The lower part of your screenshot is just for that (other consumer routers call it virtual server as well): Nome: choose some name for your port forwarding Indirizzio MAC: the MAC address where the redirect

Re: House wireless/wired router: choices? Plus wireless neophyte questions.

2008-10-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
snip Ron Johnson wrote: Yes. My router gets a routable external IP address from the ISP, but I had to *also* give it an internal, non-routable IP address (which I chose to be 192.168.1.251). snip Hi Ron, I have a question on this very topic. I'll start a new thread to ask it. My setup

setting a static ip on a dhcp account

2008-10-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all (especially Ron Johnson), On another thread Ron said, Yes.  My router gets a routable external IP address from the ISP, but I had to also give it an internal, non-routable IP address (which I chose to be 192.168.1.251). My question is: can you explain the steps needed to do this?

Re: setting a static ip on a dhcp account

2008-10-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,04.Oct.08, 08:40:49, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all (especially Ron Johnson), On another thread Ron said, Yes.  My router gets a routable external IP address from the ISP, but I had to also give it an internal, non-routable IP address (which I chose

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The

Re: setting a static ip on a dhcp account

2008-10-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,04.Oct.08, 18:38:42, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Thanks for the answer. Yes, this modem has an internal address of 192.168.1.1 I also notice that I seem to always get the ip 192.168.1.70 which doesn't seem to change. My partner, connected to the same modem always gets

Re: acer driver

2008-08-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that card? Does it have any software for that card installed? Did the card work in WindBloz? If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it working using

Re: acer driver

2008-08-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: You are nearly there now. I would suggest you read (print) all of the UserDocs from the madwifi site. I bound my copies and used them quite a bit when I get started. Get your /etc/network/interfaces setup using those docs and refer, if needed, to the debian-reference

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV

Re: Ambit?

2008-08-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV

Re: acer driver

2008-08-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that card? Does it have any software for that card installed? Did the card work in WindBloz? If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it working using the ndiswrapper package. Hi again Wayne, On

Re: acer driver

2008-08-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that card? Does it have any software for that card installed? Did the card work in WindBloz? If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it working using

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: 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

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: --SNIP-- Hi Wayne, So the mystery continues. The chipset (according to lspci) is AR2413 which according to Madwifi compatibility = AR5005G. The driver must

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: 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 wifi

where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
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 the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that

2.6.24 deprecated?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm running Debian Lenny with a 2.6.24-1-686 kernel. I notice that there are now no lenny packages for the corresponding linux-headers. Is this Debian's gentle way of suggesting that it's time to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.25-2? TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
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 wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without

Re: 2.6.24 deprecated?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
, 2008 at 03:53, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm running Debian Lenny with a 2.6.24-1-686 kernel. I notice that there are now no lenny packages for the corresponding linux-headers. Is this Debian's gentle way of suggesting that it's time to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.25-2

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
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 or ifconfig. David Thanks for that David. I

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Goodenough wrote: snip Does this look like it's happy with the driver? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Its a good start. Now you need to try connecting to the great outside. David OK, thanks David. We'll look for an AP and give it a

Re: how to try OOo's 3.0 beta deb on Debian?

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan Kaye
H.S. wrote: I am tempted to try the OOo 3.0 beta deb available here: http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ However, I want to keep it separate from the Debian's OOo installation that I have so that I may purge the beta installation cleanly. I am not very familiar with the internal

Re: Mplayer plugin

2008-08-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems Firefox uses the mplayer plugin for many if not most of the movies and feeds on many sites. But in my system is doesn't work most of the time. The mplayer window comes up (full screen once in a while), I

Re: Installing Deluge

2008-08-03 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Rodriguez wrote: Hello Debian Team - I'm trying to install Deluge on my Ubuntu 8.04, i86. I don't understand how to add Deluge to my sources.list. I was hoping you can send me instructions on how to. Thanks. From, David Hi David, Go here: http://deluge-torrent.org/downloads.php

Re: How do I update kernel in Debian 4

2008-07-27 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Bret Busby wrote: Hello. We have Debian 4.0 running on one of our computers; a server of sorts. Accessing that computer, for system updates, etc, is done through telnet. Running uname -a, which I understand returns the kernel version, returns 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST

Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian

2008-07-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Shachar Or wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:12, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Yes, Shachar. I was running Etch on this motherboard when Etch was testing. Since I'm tracking testing and not Etch, my testing automatically became Lenny. But Etch did run with no problems then so I don't see why

Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Shachar Or wrote: On Monday 21 July 2008 11:58, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi Sachar, I am very happy with Asus motherboards. I am currently running an Asus K8V SE Deluxe. I've had it for several years and it works perfectly with Debian (now Lenny) and has been trouble free. Does anyone know

Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Shachar Or wrote: Good morning! I will be working with computer shops to sell desktops with Debian preinstalled. I am interested to know, if anyone has this kind of experience, about which motherboards are excellent for this purpose and excellent in general. I am looking for AM2

Re: P2P clients for debian etch

2008-07-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
joseph lockhart wrote: just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings in the base debian repository so I figure that I am missing a repository or will have to go the long way to find a good client (however, I do not want to have to find and install a lot of dependencies

Re: answer button in Skype client

2008-07-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, In Skype 2.0.0.68 in Xfce4 in Lenny with kernel 2.6.24-1-686 a click on the answer button fails to open an incoming call. This happens on an IBM NetVista 6578-RAU and not on another generic machine. Usually I am able to call back but the problem certainly

Re: Firefox 3?

2008-07-03 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Is there a version of Firefox 3--or, i guess, Iceweasel 3--in package form yet, or is it still in some kind of testing form where you have to compile it yourself? FF3 on my Windows machine is shockingly much faster, so id like to move over to it on my Lenny

Re: Cannot build deb package from ati instaler (was Re: New version of fglrx broke my system)

2008-06-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El sáb, 21-06-2008 a las 11:18 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do this; starting and stopping the the Xserver

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

2008-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do this; starting and stopping the the Xserver doesn't get the new driver working correctly) About this, have you ever tried this?: 1

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: I've been googling for hours trying to figure out how to solve this problem that arised from the last upgrade: I use lenny and the fglrx driver. With the last upgrade all fglrx packages were upgraded from version 8.4.1 to 8.5.1. As with every fglrx upgrade, I used

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
H.S. wrote: Hello, Yesterday I made the jump and put in unstable sources in sources.list in on testing machine solely to get nvidia working again in Testing (what is wrong with testing regarding nvidia anyway?). I have this for my policy: $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

Re: Debian with Vista

2008-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John P Loes, MD wrote: I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter? Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I install gdbm?

2008-05-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John Salmon wrote: snip Many thanks for your response. As it turns out, the package was already installed. I was looking in the wrong place. I'm glad to be of help. Could you please tell me how you knew what to look for? I find the brief descriptions in Aptitude somewhat cryptic. Is there

Re: How do I install gdbm?

2008-05-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John Salmon wrote: Which Debian Etch package do I use to install gdbm? Specifically, gdbm- 1.8.3. The package is called libgdbm3 and Etch has version 1.8.3-3. So just install it the normal way (aptitude/wajig/apt-get...) Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at

Re: Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?

2008-05-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. My latest cartridge just needs to be replaced again. I am tired of

Googleearth 4.3(beta) on Lenny?

2008-05-02 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi, Has anyone succeeded in getting the latest version of Googleearth 4.3(beta) to run on Lenny? Version 4.2 runs with no problems but 4.3 gives me unreadable fonts and won't log into the server. Are there extra installation steps that must be taken besides running the .bin file? Thanks, Jonathan

Re: Googleearth 4.3(beta) on Lenny?

2008-05-02 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Fox wrote: I never liked the fonts in 4.2 - they are too small, and 4.3 isn't an improvement there. I ran the update inside google earth and it crashed. Then I was presented with a new iceweasel page pointing to the updata and I downloaded and ran the bin file. Starting the app from the

Re: openoffice (is it broken?)

2008-05-01 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Daniel Dalton wrote: Does anyone know if OO is broken in debian lenny? On my testing box, I installed or upgraded something that broke pidgin and firefox and it looks to be openoffice. Can a debian lenny user please run: apt-get update apt-get upgrade (as root) and report back to me if: -

[Solved!]Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: sudo update-initramfs -u I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools (I build my initrd, when it is needed, with yaird to avoid like a plague putting udev in the initrd

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe the syntax is correct; you might also want to try other options such as hdb=none (if needed) Thanks NN. Sadly, I tried both

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot up routine

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: snip I hope that in the process you really learned something useful, since from a pratical point of view simply disconnecting the ide cable from hdb (when the pc is off) would have been the same as hdb=none, only much faster ... You are quite right. Physical

Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, Hopefully an easy question. I have a dodgy 2nd hard disk which I can't remove for the moment. On bootup I get a million error messages like this: device hdb1, logical block 1 hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ron Johnson wrote: snip In /etc/fstab, try adding noauto to /dev/hdbX's field #4. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Thanks for the suggestion, Ron but /dev/hdbX (where X is any number or nothing) is not in my fstab; only /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 (and the cdrom drives) Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: * From: Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anything in the startup routine that I can alter so that the system ignores /dev/hdb? Linkname: The Linux BootPrompt-HowTo: Hard Disks URL: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-7.html I tried

Re: [OT] Petition for Open Parliament

2008-03-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Andrei Popescu wrote: Hello everybody and especially fellow Europeans, If you are interested in open standards and interoperability please join. http://openparliament.eu/ Regards, Andrei Me too. Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?

2008-01-15 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for the video chat.) snip Hi Jen, Just a small note. You don't need Skype for video chats. AMSN, Ekiga, Kopete among others work fine on Lenny and don't leave you open to the risk of vendor lock-in.

Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Jonathan Kaye
I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? ;-) Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Has anyone managed to install pdftk in Lenny? Trying to install it, aptitude says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pdftk: Depends: libgcj7-0 (= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... Unable to resolve

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John Salmon wrote: I keep seeing Aptitude Reference Manual mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? Or else you can find it here if you prefer a web interface. http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ Cheers, Jonathan --

Re: amarok hangs

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Chris wrote: Thanks! Yea, I have it running on another system and it seems to be stable there. The system on which amarok hangs seems to be otherwise stable: go figure. Chris Yeah, tell me about it. But life is more interesting this way. ;-) and Amarok does rock. Cheers, Jonathan --

Re: amarok hangs

2007-12-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Christof Hurschler wrote: snip I'm running 1.4.7.-1.b1. Then I'm not the only one that is suffering. I've seldom been so amazed by a program, and also frustrated. I started with the etch version (of both amarok and my system), had to move up to lenny, to among other things get my wlan

Re: Streaming video

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Keith Bates wrote: For some reason I have problems downloading video clips from most mainstream news providers. For example on the front page of www.smh.com.au there is a picture at the moment of a mouse fearlessly staring down a cat. This picture links to a Windows Media clip. When i

Re: Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Fabio wrote: Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is possible to increase the power of boinc? there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? thanks Fabio Hi Fabio, I assume you want to compile a 64 bit version. I found this on the Boinc website:

Re: debian dvd setup question

2007-12-12 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jude DaShiell wrote: I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's directory structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on ubuntu machine all file structure seems present and correct.

Re: Debian on PCs

2007-12-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John Talbut wrote: Does anyone know if there is a web site with a repository of users' experiences of running Debian or GNU/Linux on PCs, similar to the www.linux-laptop.net site? It would certainly have helped me to install Debian on some PCs if I could have had a sight of .config,

Re: Math Programme.

2007-12-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:38:54PM +0900, David wrote: Hello, Something of interest to those of a mathematical bent:- http://www.sagemath.org/ Regards, I read about this on /. today; Does anyone have any clue if there will be some sort of a Debian package for it

Re: wajig apt-get

2007-12-02 Thread Jonathan Kaye
steef wrote: hi folks, somebody on this list mentioned wajig. my question: what program is more useful for a user: wajig or (what i have been using for years) apt-get reg., steef Hi Steef, I prefer wajig to other package tools because: 1. It has a cli. 2. You can enter a

Re: videos de tv3

2007-11-27 Thread Jonathan Kaye
xab ara ele wrote: hola, fa un temps algú anunciava en aquesta llista que tv3 estava experimentant amb difondre els seus continguts amb .ogg ara intento veure'n un parell, i des de la màquina de 64 que no té plug de flash no puc fer ni cerques amb una debian de 32 tampoc, perquè

ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATEST driver? TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux

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