ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 230
Rafael
rafaelbarreto at bellsouth.net
Mon May 19 00:57:43 UTC 2008
Thank you, Steve Reily, I will try virtualbox...!
Rafael.
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 01:27 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
> Send ubuntu-users mailing list submissions to
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> ubuntu-users-owner at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-users digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: from fedora to ubuntu (Nat Gross)
> 2. Re: FS error / please assist (SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux)
> 3. Re: Gmail pop (James Gray)
> 4. Re: Dual Head doesn't work (James Gray)
> 5. Re: Why so big? (Karl Larsen)
> 6. Re: FS error / please assist (Mike Bird)
> 7. Unable to send/receive e-mail between my e-mail server
> Postfix/Dovecot and a client. (Cassius V. de Magalhaes)
> 8. Virtual machine (Rafael Barreto)
> 9. Re: Virtual machine (steve)
> 10. Re: [OT] Mono politics [was: Re: Compile Mono] (Steve Lamb)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 18:51:25 -0400
> From: "Nat Gross" <nat101l at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: from fedora to ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID:
> <cf66298c0805181551m14009d52o1c918aa011f36a60 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:51 PM, "Terrell Prud? Jr."
> <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nat Gross wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > And I never have found a use for yum on Ubuntu :-)
> >
> >
> > What about multimedia, mp3's and wmv. Works out of the box?
> > Also, the apt repos. Is there one huge repos that has all the stuff,
> > or do I need the various repos like livna, freshrpm's, and worry about
> > the conflicts?
> >
> >
> > Yeah - you can say goodbye to the conflicts. Most of the codecs are
> > in the Multiverse repo if they're not installed already.
> >
> >
> > A couple things I found helpful during migration:
> >
> > sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d /usr/sbin/service (or just remember
> > "invoke-rc.d" - but I can't :)
> >
> > sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf (there seems to be no chkconfig)
> > sudo sysv-rc-conf (to turn on/off services)
> >
> >
> > Thank you all.
> > Hope to give it a spin on Sunday.
> >
> >
> >
> > Handling MP3's is easy; Ubuntu will ask you if you want to install the
> > codecs. Because of legal systems that allow software patents (like the
> > USA), a warning will come up saying, "This may or not be legal depending on
> > what country you're in."
> >
> > Better to download (or rip) OGG's whenever possible, though. :-)
> >
> > WMV's, on the other hand, might take a bit more work, but not too much
> > more. A buddy just recently ran into this with Hardy. He tried downloading
> > what looked to both of us like MPlayer's codec package. However, things
> > didn't work out for him, for some reason. I told him, just download the
> > codecs from www.mplayerhq.hu, and he did, and boom, things worked
> > perfectly. The codecs need to go into /usr/lib/codecs, IIRC. I do know
> > that when you compile MPlayer yourself (that's what I usually do), the
> > codecs need to go into /usr/local/lib/codecs.
> >
> Thanks for the info. When and if I get 4.08 running I need to come
> back to this post.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 07:17:41 +0800
> From: SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net>
> Subject: Re: FS error / please assist
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1211152661.6082.24.camel at WS222>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 11:53 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > (User expected /dev/sda to have partitions but user has none.)
> >
> > If the data is valuable to you then I would recommend taking
> > your drive to a good local linux guru to see if the partitions
> > can be recovered.
> >
> > --Mike Bird
>
>
> Hi Mike
> Thanks for your appreciated concerns, feedback and help !
> I would love to get assistance from a local linux guru. ;-)
>
> By nature, here is deep province near the jungle borders and by IT it's
> almost fully M$ W...doof only dominated: Believe more than 99.9% but
> properly licensed !? ;-|
>
> My Linux gurus are you folks !!! ;-D
>
> Current condition:
> With S.G.D (Super Grub Disk) I got my 2 OS'es working again. ;-))
>
> Will stop any further experiments till I have all my important data
> saved !!! ;-)
>
> Unfortunately as Linux greenhorn / newbie I am not experienced how to
> get this done best, easiest, fast and safest. ;-|
>
> Wlll try to Backup / CP to am external USB HDD drive and hope for not
> forgetting or loosing any important data, especially from Thunderbird.
>
> Any helpful hints and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 08:53:01 +1000
> From: James Gray <james at gray.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Gmail pop
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <4830B34D.9030405 at gray.net.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Carl Spitzer wrote:
> > Strange problem no access to pop3 Gmail in 7.04 from Evolution.
> > Pop3 does work in another distro along with all other pop accounts,
> > hotpop, lavabit, myrealbox, keepandbeararms, bluebottle and the ISP.
> >
> > It works at home in SuSE but not the library in Feisty.
> >
> > What is different with Gmail ?
>
> Maybe your library is blocking access to TCP/110 (POP3)? What happens
> if you type "telnet <ip-for-gmail-pop> 110" (without the "")? If it
> times out or you get a connection refused, your library doesn't want you
> accessing it. If you get a welcome banner, you're connected and there
> is a configuration problem in Evolution.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 08:49:36 +1000
> From: James Gray <james at gray.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Dual Head doesn't work
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <4830B280.9000200 at gray.net.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> drew einhorn wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of ATI cards. Here's the output from lspci:
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW
> > [Radeon 7500]
> > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
> > 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
> > 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
> > (Secondary) (rev 01)
>
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "0 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon
> > 7500]"
> > Monitor "ULTRASCAN1600HS"
> > DefaultDepth 24
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen1"
> > Device "1 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
> > Monitor "ULTRASCANP99"
> > Defaultdepth 24
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 24
> > Modes "1400x1050"
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
>
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > It almost works. Both Desktops come up.
> > Except the pixels at right and left edges of the desktop are are all
> > squised together
> > into a bright lines. Everything to the left of "ations" in the
> > "Applications" pulldown
> > is missing on the left and everything to the right of May in the Date.
>
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > (==) ServerLayout "DualHead"
> > (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
> > (**) | |-->Monitor "ULTRASCAN1600HS"
> > (**) | |-->Device "0 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]"
> > (**) |-->Screen "Screen1" (1)
> > (**) | |-->Monitor "ULTRASCANP99"
> > (**) | |-->Device "1 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
> > (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
> > (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse"
>
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
>
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > (--) RADEON(1): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5960)
>
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > (WW) RADEON(0): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
> > disable montype: 1
> -->8-- SNIPPED -->8--
>
> > (WW) RADEON(1): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
> > disable montype: 1
>
> By the look of this, you've specified modes in the screen sections
> (above) but there is no matching ModeLine. So the X server is doing its
> best to give you the resolution you asked for but the monitor timing is
> all off which is giving you the display aberrations.
>
> Simple solution:
> 1. Google "X modeline calculator" (there are tons!)
> 2. Feed in the monitor scan ranges etc as required.
> 3. Cut-and-paste the generated modeline into the appropriate "Screen"
> section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 4. Restart X.
>
> Hope that helps :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:48:01 -0600
> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> Subject: Re: Why so big?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <4830C031.1010209 at zianet.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Mike Bird wrote:
> > On Sun May 18 2008 15:18:11 Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >> Mike Bird wrote:
> >> Mike your not thinking right. /boot is a DIRECTORY off of /. When I
> >> tried to umount it did the expected:
> >>
> >> karl at karl-desktop:/$ sudo umount /boot
> >> [sudo] password for karl:
> >> umount: /boot: not mounted
> >> karl at karl-desktop:/$ sudo umount boot
> >> umount: boot: not mounted
> >> karl at karl-desktop:/$
> >>
> >> It is not smart enough to say it's a directory but that is the
> >> problem. So I think your search for 4 Gb of free space is just not going
> >> to work.
> >>
> >
> > Karl,
> >
> > I did not suggest that you use the procedure on your /boot. I suggested
> > that you use the procedure "for each of your mounts that is (a) a real
> > file system and (b) not the root file system." I illustrated with
> > my /boot, which is a mount point on most of my systems.
> >
> > You have a rather unusual selection of mount points. I suggest you try
> > /f7home first, then /home, then /var/lock, then /var/run. They are
> > listed roughly in increasing likelihood that you'll need to take action
> > such as shutting down your desktop or rebooting in recovery mode.
> >
> > --Mike Bird
> >
> >
> Well it was impossible to do anything with the computer running so I
> dropped out and got the CD working. There I found a thing I called
> /home/oldkarl and it was large so I deleted it. All else looked fine and
> just did a df and it is good now. Here it is:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8 9187068 2894196 5826188 34% /
>
>
> So my partition is too big now :-)
>
> Karl
>
>
> --
>
> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> Linux User
> #450462 http://counter.li.org.
> PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:52:20 -0700
> From: Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net>
> Subject: Re: FS error / please assist
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <200805181652.20492.mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Sun May 18 2008 16:17:41 SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> > Any helpful hints and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Make backups. More than one. I use three for everything
> important.
>
> Test backups. In the old days of tape drives roughly
> 50% of backups were unusable. These days things are
> better but still not 100%.
>
> Keep backups in different buildings, or at minimum on
> different devices.
>
> --Mike Bird
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:56:38 -0300
> From: "Cassius V. de Magalhaes" <cviniciusm at uol.com.br>
> Subject: Unable to send/receive e-mail between my e-mail server
> Postfix/Dovecot and a client.
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4830C236.6080305 at uol.com.br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hello,
>
> I was able to install and configure an e-mail server using Postfix and
> Dovecot (SMTP, POP3 and IMAP) but it works only locally on the machine
> where it was installed. I'm unable to send/receive messages between the
> server and a client (on another machine).
>
> My references are:
> 1) The Book of Postfix, ISBN 1-59327-001-1, edit. No Starch Press;
> 2) Postfix: The Definitive Guide, ISBN 0-596-00212-2, edit. O'Reilly;
> 3) Ubuntu Server Guide, URL:
> http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/postfix.html ;
> 4) Howto: ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix 2.3,
> URL: http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/
>
> The e-mail server and the client are running on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS
> and Ubuntu Desktop 8.04, respectively.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
>
> TIA,
> Cassius.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:01:22 -0400
> From: "Rafael Barreto" <rafaelbarreto at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Virtual machine
> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <6472C54557F440E98A17EFE02CAD2378 at delltower>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi, can anybody explain how I can install the virtual machine in Ubuntu? I can't find it anywhere...
> Thanks
> Rafael.
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20080518/04c2c723/attachment-0001.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:07:40 -0400
> From: steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: Virtual machine
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <4830C4CC.2070800 at roadrunner.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Rafael Barreto wrote:
> | Hi, can anybody explain how I can install the virtual machine in Ubuntu?
> | I can't find it anywhere...
> | Thanks
> | Rafael.
> |
>
> ~ sudo apt-get install virtualbox
>
> is this what your looking for?
>
>
>
>
> - --
> Steve Reilly
>
> http://reillyblog.com
>
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFIMMTM1L48K811Km0RAgUKAJ97LipZHq5236L8KMivyMwlJN/UnwCg2Gcq
> 1z9a/nEE/GibaxVKPr/tINg=
> =Zps7
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:26:31 -0700
> From: Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org>
> Subject: Re: [OT] Mono politics [was: Re: Compile Mono]
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <4830C937.6020709 at dmiyu.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Terrell Prud? Jr. wrote:
> > You're free to forego your freedom if you want.
>
> Forgo what freedom? See, people like you seem to forget that freedom
> means being able to something which seems contrary to one's interests. The
> full statement is freedom of choice. It isn't the outcome that matters, it is
> the choice. Having only "positive" outcomes as prescribed by others is no
> /choice/ and thus no freedom.
>
> --
> Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?
> PGP Key: 1FC01004 | And dream I do...
> -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: signature.asc
> Type: application/pgp-signature
> Size: 252 bytes
> Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
> Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20080518/3b685e3e/attachment.pgp
>
> ------------------------------
>
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list