Re: Twinview put panels on the other screen

2013-09-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2013-09-13, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: What I want is my panels to go on the left screen, not on the right one, because my left screen is bigger and I'm facing it physically. Therefore

Weird error: display and crtc error

2013-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
then reboot, but that does not change anything. Is there a solution to that problem? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Weird error: display and crtc error

2013-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Problem solved. I solved the problem by reinstalling x11-xkb-utils; no harm to remove all the gdm gnome stuff if reinstalled directly! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Education is the best

Twinview put panels on the other screen

2013-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
it physically. Therefore, the right screen should extend my left one, not the opposite. It however looks, as I specified earlier, as if everything was defined correctly (i.e. the main X screen is defined as the left one). Any idea on that? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http

PPS plays slowly

2013-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
can do about it? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux

Re: Keyboard layout forces use of Fn function

2013-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2013-05-12, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Have you tried [CTRL]+[NUMLOCK] to toggle the doohickey? I just tried, and it actually does the same effect as setxkbmap, resulting

Re: Keyboard layout forces use of Fn function

2013-05-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt cu...@free.fr writes: On 2013-05-02, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: However, the problem I encounter is that the keys which can be used for a Fn function (there is a Fn key on the keyboard) are always considered

Re: Keyboard layout forces use of Fn function

2013-05-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
the screensaver locks the computer or until next reboot. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- All things come to those who wait. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http

Keyboard layout forces use of Fn function

2013-05-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
after some random delay. Could someone provide me with a solution to this weird problem? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Failure is not falling down, you fail when you don't get back up. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
not been sitting on the shelf for two years, I used it some days ago and it worked perfectly. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- - From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (Bib. quote, Luke 12:48) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Dead USB drive?

2012-12-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
: [1.956558] USB Mass Storage support registered. == What can I do? Is it dead? Thanks. All the best, - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Fine feathers make fine birds. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:14:38 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: (...) What's happening? The image file should not be corrupted! file fv.ccd What kind of program created

HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
I deduce from this? It looks like /dev/sdc is broken but SMART tells /dev/sda would have more chance being on the verge to broke than /dev/sdc. Note that I tried exchanging SATA cables, to no avail. All the best, - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
that was totally faulty! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If it's too good to be true, then it probably is. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Sun 26 Aug 2012 at 17:53:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I've got a .ccd image that I want to mount, e.g. in /mnt. Associated with the .ccd file, there is a .img too. I tried mounting the .img using various

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:23:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Sun 26 Aug 2012 at 17:53:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I've got a .ccd image that I want to mount, e.g

How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
the best, - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If it's too good to be true, then it probably is. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for your answers. As I'm using an Asus P5K/EPU with quad-core stuff, 64 bits is not supported. I will install a bigmem kernel. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If all else fails, try

Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
recognized in an easy fashion. Is it possible? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- - From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (Bib. quote, Luke 12:48) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed

Recopying /home/myusername and getting it to work by copy and paste

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
consequently, would it work without any issues? When should I change /etc/fstab? Would the path to the `new internal HDD' (the one which was precedently external) be the same as the path to the old one (the one that failed)? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com writes: On 15/08/12 04:08 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The problem is that I'm using kernel 2.6.32-5

Re: Recopying /home/myusername and getting it to work by copy and paste

2012-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com writes: On 15/08/2012 10:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've got a backup of /home on some external HDD. Let us consider that one of my internal

Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!

2012-08-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
(brasero_burn_record brasero-burn.c:2842) == What's the problem? Is it due to the HOME env. var.? Thanks! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Failure is not falling down, you fail when you don't get back up. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU

Re: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!

2012-08-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com writes: --- On Mon, 8/6/12, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: From: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be Subject: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works! To: debian-user

Re: Slowness problem

2012-07-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
that I had with the previous (old, lenny) installation, I still can't explain them (anyway, they are only past). I've however understood why HD videos were read that slowly. Thanks to all! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If all else fails, try

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
then every 10 s!! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- We tend to be perfect. That’s why when we make mistakes we are hard on ourselves. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
are doing with Firefox but using a different browser to compare both results. Yes. However, I think my problem is related to something other than Firefox. What about the System monitor problem that I explained before? Thanks again. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:28:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Top command output would be interesting :-) Tasks: 203 total, 2 running, 201 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
hardly can abandon it, it's a PITA. As I explained earlier, I'm using Flash Player and tested with a brand new Firefox (last version), together with the last Flash Player too (brand new, again). This, to make sure every question has been answered. - -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net writes: Hello Merciadri, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 4053 2002 2050

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
to be slowly recording the video (you can see it freezes regularly), and that kind of behaviour is the one that I encounter frequently, despite giving a smaller `waiting time.' It looks like the Quad-Core is not dealt with at all! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri

Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
applications, but this is mostly the case with youtube.com on Mozilla Firefox 11.0. Thanks for any help. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. (Gracie Allen) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
and surfing on youtube.com. Even with a brand new installation, that is, no .mozilla directory, no add-on, no extension, nothing, the problem already appears. Why? - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- We tend to be perfect. That’s why when we make

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:05:37 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi there... Nice to read you again! :-) I'm using the deprecated Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel on an Asus P5K/EPU motherboard

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
sth. like 5 seconds before displaying graphs. And, during these seconds, everything is frozen: playing music stops, for example, and then continues 5 seconds later (5 seconds later in the sound too). - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If all else fails

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net writes: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently installed

Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
problem on Firefox 10.0. I am running acroread 9.0 but tried with other versions as well. Thanks for any info. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 13:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking

Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
, 2) my default webpage (start page) is still OK. What could explain this problem? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If all else fails, try the obvious. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed

Re: Flash Player 11 under Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you have a solution? - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Remember. If something can go wrong, it will. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
this into order? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- If you fake it, you can't make it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net

Re: Flash Player 11 under Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:04:37 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:37:11 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Do you have a solution? Did you try what I suggested? Have you tried with an updated Firefox

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:46:42 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ok, here are the details. The situation is now clear, but I don't know yet how to solve it. (...) So basically the problem is that the burning

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:40:11PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using Debian Lenny, and have three (physical) CD-DVD readers, from which two

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
logical name: /dev/dvdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 version: 1.04 serial: [Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S 1.04 Dec21,2007 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc == - -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Flash Player 11 under Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com writes: On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:04:37 +, Camaleón wrote:   On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:37:11 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:   Do you have a solution?   Did you try what I suggested? Have you tried

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:58:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: So basically the problem is that the burning application is detecting the optical units wrongly, right? You can

Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
then be thrown. I checked under the BIOS and there is no reason for the second writer not to work. 1) Are there any burning-simulating utilities running under Debian Lenny? 2) How could I solve this problem? Thanks. All the best, - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Flash Player 11 under Debian Lenny

2012-02-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
regularly visiting (like Dailymotion) do not accept playing with a v10 Flash player (`You need to install Flash Player 11 [...].'). Note that I tried putting the .so file under ~/.mozilla/plugins/ but it systematically crashes Iceweasel. Thanks. All the best, - -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
canister could do the trick. Or just simply bend over and try it manually. I'd double check that no one nearby is holding a cellphone camera just before hand though. Ok. Thanks for info. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Remember. If something

Re: Two CD-DVD writers and Debian Lenny

2012-02-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:40:11 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm using Debian Lenny, Long life to Lenny... though its support ends in a few days :-P and have three (physical) CD-DVD readers, from which two

Re: Flash Player 11 under Debian Lenny

2012-02-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:39:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Hey, nice to see you here again :-) :-) I'm still using Debian Lenny, and would like to use Flash Player 11 under my Iceweasel (aka Firefox

Problem with Totem?

2010-10-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Windows Media Player, people can listen to my file without any issues. Any idea? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Problem with Totem?

2010-10-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
, but that's just my guess. Thanks for the info. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problem with Totem?

2010-10-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:18:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) First, identify the file: file mynewsong.wav Then, try with another player that does not use the GNOME's stock GStreamer :-? Greetings, file song.wav song.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE

Re: Problem with Totem?

2010-10-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:11:08 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: First, identify the file: file mynewsong.wav Then, try with another player that does not use the GNOME's stock GStreamer

Re: How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

2010-09-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:34:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like

How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

2010-09-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like to directly use a virtual PDF printer. Are there such possibilities under free conditions? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Printing Long Edge (Standard) with HP DeskJet 990C - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 does not work

2010-09-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:20:39 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Amongst two printers, I've got an Hp Deskjet 990Cxi, and I use `CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2' as a driver for this printer. I would like to print both sides, e.g. using long edge mode (standard). The problem

Re: Printing Long Edge (Standard) with HP DeskJet 990C - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 does not work

2010-09-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
. On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:20:39 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Amongst two printers, I've got an Hp Deskjet 990Cxi, and I use `CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2' as a driver for this printer. I would like to print both sides, e.g. using long edge mode (standard). The problem is that this seems

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
alois.mah...@zxcvb.cz wrote: Dne Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be napsal(a): AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? What about printing both to PostScript and diff-ing

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
T o n g wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? What do you want to compare? Just the content, or format layout, etc included? Just

Printing Long Edge (Standard) with HP DeskJet 990C - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 does not work

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
: == lpr -P Deskjet -o Resolution=300dpi -o PageSize=Letter -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble == where `Deskjet' is the name of the printer for CUPS. Any idea? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your

Re: Why can't ID3 tags be modified in GNOME file's properties?

2010-09-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:50:17 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: For mp3 files, one generally needs to use a tag editor, or an advanced music player to modify ID3 tags. However, ID3 tags can be displayed by GNOME using Properties Audio on the selected file. But they can't

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Creating DVD and CDs

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
be with a particular program. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. (John F. Kennedy

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session? 'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically? Well, I generally kill the iceweasel process to make it believe that it crashed

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon September 13 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session? That's generally what I do, but I find it very stupid. when I have multiple tabs open, and hit the big X to close iceweasel, it askes me if I

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/09/10 18:33, Merciadri Luca wrote: Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session? 'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon September 13 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Simply because it does not ask me anymore if I want to save tabs or not. And that, most of the time, I want to close iceweasel without keeping my current tabs in memory. try in iceweasel: about:config

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 09. 2010 10:33:42 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): You mean, ctrl-q doesn't work? It works! Nice! I did not know that there was this command! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
. Is there a solution? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:21:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, and I

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 11/09/10 19:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I remember that, many years ago, I had an HP utility under Windows which allowed me to do several maintenance tasks on the printer: calibration,, etc. Evidently, this utility is not available under Debian, and I

Re: Calibrating cartridges in CUPS: how?

2010-09-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
is configured through a web browser, just like with home routers and similar appliances). The best approach IMHO. Well, this is what I have for my OfficeJet Pro L7590, but I'm more concerned with the cleaning of my Deskjet 990cxi, which is evidently not an ethernet printer. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, There are sometimes some websites (such as news ones) which make an extensive use of flash stuff. Amongst the animations, flash is sometimes also used for ads, etc., and I don't like

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alberto Luaces wrote: Merciadri Luca writes: I'm running stable http://packages.debian.org/lenny/adblock-plus Thanks. Works like a charm. I was not aware that one was able to install a naviguator's add-on by using aptitude/apt-get ! -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
add-ons: http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com/#[[5%20Must-Have%20Firefox%20Add-ons]] The Ultimate Addon -- Pro Edition sounds quite promising ;P Thanks all. I'll have a thorough look at all your recommendations. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use

How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
these ads? Or is there any related solution? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alexander Batischev wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I've got an USB key whose FS was manually set to NTFS for different reasons. What do you mean by manually set to NTFS? You mean, it has other FS but then you formatted it to NTFS

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alexander Batischev wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:33:02AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: - try to mount it manually in a way like that: # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey Of course, /dev/sda1 should be replaced with real device name, and /mnt/usbkey shoul exist

Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
00 00 00 [ 8987.552802] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 8987.552812] sdb: sdb1 [ 8987.595905] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 8997.719566] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 405 == Thanks for any ideas. -- Merciadri Luca See http

How can I create a FAT32 or NTFS FS

2010-09-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
to create a new partition. But `fat32' and `ntfs' are impossible choices when creating the new FS. (They are deactivated.) Why? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please

Re: How can I create a FAT32 or NTFS FS

2010-09-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 06 sep 10, 09:25:25, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes use gparted to make a filesystem in an easier way than using CLI. The fact is that gparted appears, to me, as a frontend for CLI commands. I want to format an USB key, and change the filesystem

http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/ crashes Iceweasel 3.0.6 (2010072023 Firefox/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3))

2010-09-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Everything is in the title: using Iceweasel 3.0.6, I'm sure to crash it if I go to http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/. What about your versions? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client

Re: http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/ crashes Iceweasel 3.0.6 (2010072023 Firefox/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3))

2010-09-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
: No such file or directory. -- == -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity

Re: http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/ crashes Iceweasel 3.0.6 (2010072023 Firefox/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3))

2010-09-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Well, I just tried without Moonlight. Evidently, no crash, but the website is unuseful without a Silverlight equivalent. Mr. Ferreira, were you using Moonlight when trying the website? I should have mentioned that it had an importance. Merciadri Luca wrote: Here is what the log tells me

Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
(no `mute', etc., and volumes are sufficiently high). Thanks all. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: El Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:01:08 +0200, Merciadri Luca escribió: Some days ago, I figured out (thanks to the ML) how to hear systems' sounds. I had to install esound, and I was using OSS. Now, System Preferences Sounds Sounds tab plays correctly the sounds, but I can't

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
I'm also getting == audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Could not open audio device for playback. Device is being used by another application. == when trying to test sounds. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:07:13 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Sounds preferences are set to Autodetect for events sounds, music and videos and sound conferences. I don't have this choice. Are you on lenny, right? :-? So

Re: Using an advanced video editor under Debian Lenny

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:36:35AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: The problem with Kdenlive is that this is not available under Lenny. =( I have it installed on my Lenny system. It's in the debian-multimedia repository. Did you encounter any compatibility

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:09:03 -0400 (EDT), Merciadri Luca wrote: I just disabled system sounds, re-loginned, and music works. But system sounds won't work. Normal, then. But why should I have to disable ESD? All of this is explained on the web page to which I

Re: Using an advanced video editor under Debian Lenny

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
godo wrote: On 08/27/2010 09:02 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Months ago, I looked for an advanced video editor for Debian. Here is what I found: * PiTiVi: I can't make it work once installed. Many buttons are missing. I can't understand it. Maybe it's too simple for me (I tend

Re: Using an advanced video editor under Debian Lenny

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
/ VirtualBox image. Yes, but performances are going to be extremely bad, aren't they? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. When one door closes, another opens; but we often

System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
., though. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:10:06 -0400 (EDT), Merciadri Luca wrote: Last day, feeling bored, I thought about activating the Debian's Sytem sounds: for logging in, logging out, making a warning message, etc. I found it under System Preferences Sound Sounds tab, I

Re: System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:10:06 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Which package should I install to get all these sounds? I see predefined wav files for each system sound type: toggled.wav, generic.wav, warning.wav, etc., though. esound, gnome-audio and libesd-alsa0 do

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