debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2692

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2692

Today's Topics:

  What is a binNMU?                     [ Anthony Campbell  ]
  Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or   [ mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz (Chris ]
  Re: Re: unable to boot                [ mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz (Chris ]
  Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where   [ Davide Mancusi  ]
  Re: multimedia.debian.org question    [ Petteri  ]
  Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with   [ Marcin Owsiany  ]
  Re: mounting usb hard disk            [ Lorenzo Bettini  ]
  problems replacing fam by gamin (was  [ Florian Kulzer 
  Re: Up arrow runs gnome-screenshot e  [ Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debi ]


Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:05:04 +0000


From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: What is a binNMU?
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I like to use wajig as a frontend to apt but it has been removed from
Sid because it depends on python-apt, which is also missing,  apparently
because of a binNMU connected with apt. I have no idea what a binNMU is.
Googling produces a lot of uses of the term but no explanation. I have
used Debian for a number of years but this is the first time I've heard
of it.


There was an upgrade of apt yesterday but this did not solve the
problem. Can someone kindly enlighten me about binNMU or point me to
some documentation about it?


Anthony

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:22:29 -0400
From: Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: What is a binNMU?
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:05:04AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> I like to use wajig as a frontend to apt but it has been removed from
> Sid because it depends on python-apt, which is also missing,  apparently
> because of a binNMU connected with apt. I have no idea what a binNMU is.
> Googling produces a lot of uses of the term but no explanation. I have
> used Debian for a number of years but this is the first time I've heard
> of it.
> 
> There was an upgrade of apt yesterday but this did not solve the
> problem. Can someone kindly enlighten me about binNMU or point me to
> some documentation about it?
> 

Some background:
when a Debian developer (DD) chooses to be the lead maintainer for a package,
he/she makes 'maintainer' uploads of software. These are normal. When
some other DD changes something to his/her package and uploads those
changes, he/she is making a non-maintiner upload (NMU). Now, sometimes
that upload is only the 'binary' package, not a 'source' package. So this
is a binNMU: a binary package upload by a non-lead debian developer. I
hope this is correct and somewhat helpful or if not, some kind person
will correct what I've missed. It is something that is not very common.
and is noted normally by a 'b' in the version numbers.
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:52:39 -0400
From: mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz (Chris Bannister)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:06:43AM -0000, Paul Johnson wrote:

> It might not have duplex printing, but one way around that, which has
> worked for me since high school, is find a printer with no jobs
> waiting, print the cover page and even number pages, flip the stack
> and throw it back in the paper tray and print the odd pages on the
> backs of the evens.  You can do this with pretty much any printer, and


All it needs is one page to jam and you end up with another print job
headache. I remember trying that sort of thing. Usually ended up doing
one sheet at a time ... a right royal pain ... especially on a network
where there are possibly other users submitting print jobs.

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:52:57 -0400
From: mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz (Chris Bannister)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Re: unable to boot
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:29:48PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

> Thanks for reply,
> 
> I have installed many and many debian on different machines ( which have
> Xp, and others Os ), so I am not new to debian. This is the first time I
> meet this problem, with VISTA on Laptop!!!!
> The installation is done normally without any error, I did it twice , at
> reboot grub  tried to start the loader, but It couldn't.


What is the error message?


> I suspect that someting?? is  the mbr,  locks out and prevents the 
> boot.   It is , no doubt  , a malice of Microsoft????


There is an article in Linux Gazette #141, "GRUB, PATA and SATA," 
by Anonymous which may be worth a read.

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:52:59 +0100
From: Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?
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Tyler Smith ha scritto:
[snip]

> However, my University uses WPA, TKIP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAP v2. I was
> advised to try network manager, but I couldn't get either
> network-manager-gnome or kdenetwork-manager to work on my laptop
> running fluxbox. network-manager-gnome reported that network manager
> wasn't running even when it was, and kdenetwork-manager reported that
> it could not find any network devices.

[snip again]

	I'd hate to jump in the cross-fire against NM, but did you add yourself=20
to the "netdev" group? Just my =A4 0.02.

HTH,
Davide

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:05:44 +0200
From: Petteri <petteri@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: multimedia.debian.org question
Message-ID: <20071028100538.GA4224@gmail.com>
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Mirco Piccin kirjoitti la 27. lokakuuta 2007 17:44:04:

> Hi.
> 
> > What can I add to /etc/apt/sources.list to access multimedia.debian.org
> >repository?  This machine runs lenny if that's important.
> 
> I'm running lenny/sid, too.
> I've added :
> 
> ### Marillat Debian Multimedia ###
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main
> 
> to my /etc/apt/source.list
> 
> Hope it helps you and that's what you are looking for!
> Bye!


As it says on the webpage: Please, use first a mirror near you
(http://www.debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php).

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:49:29 +0000
From: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller
Message-ID: <20071028104929.GA12849@beczulka>
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Andraz Sraka wrote:

> instance) for monitoring Dell PERC 5/i RAID controller. I found that
> there are some utilities for RHEL/SuSE enterprise distribution. Has
> anyone managed to see status of controller in Debian? What tools do I
> need to use/install and are any kernel patches required? It would be
> nice to see raid status as also the faulty disks :)


afaapps_2.6-3_i386.deb from http://www.brandl.net/pe2550/ works for me
on the etch kernel. Also, the kernel logs any problems that appear, so
logcheck will do for healh monitoring.


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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:45:44 +0100 (CET)
From: hyjial <hyjial@yahoo.fr>
To: Bogdan Marian <mendingo84@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE : going from etch to unstable (sid)
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Hey !
You can just change all the occurances of the word
"etch" for "sid" in your /etc/apt/sources.list .
Then run "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade".
There must be another - more proper way - to do this
with "apt-get dist-upgrade" but I've never used it.
See man 8 apt-get for details.
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:47:10 +0100
From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>
To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: mounting usb hard disk
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Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

>> Hi
>>
>> I have an external usb hard disk which also contains an ext3 partition 
>> (besides the standard fat one).
>>
>> When I switch it on, kde detects it and offers to open the contents in 
>> a new window (for both partitions); however, while the fat partition 
>> is mounted on a directory (under /media) whose owner is myself, for 
>> the ext3 partition the owner of the directory is always root and I can 
>> write into that partition...
>>
>> I've also tried to insert this line in /etc/fstab
>>
>> /dev/sda2 /media/onetouch2 ext3 
>> user,noatime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,suid 0 0
>>
>> but nothing changes...
>>
>> where am I doing wrong?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>     Lorenzo
>>

> After the ext3 partition is mounted, try changing the ownership of the 
> files and directories to yourself (as root, of course)
> 
> # chown <username> -R /media/onetouch2
> 


yes, that's the solution... I had realized it some time after posting 
the question :-)

it wasn't a problem with mount it was a problem related to the 
permissions in the partition itself.

thanks!
Lorenzo

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Date:  28 Oct 2007 07:32:18 -0400
From: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails
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"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:


> >         *:hartford-hwp.com:<PW>
> > 
> > But can a wildcard replace the name of the server like this?
> 
> Yes.  No matter what host asks exim for auth, it will give this username
> and password.  


Thanks for the explanation. I'll try it.


> > > Is your pop-server username hartford-hwp.com as well?
> > 
> > Pop sercver is pop.hartford-hwp.com; smtp server is smtp.hartford-hwp.com
> 
> They look like server names not user names for a login session.


You are right. I misread your question. UID for both POP and SMTP is:
brownh@hartford-hwp.com. 


> > This may be my problem: I have a hardware firewall. However, if I'm
> > using port 25 for smtp, wouldn't my firewall let it through? Is the
> > fact that it's now SSL require a change in my hardware firewall?
> > 
> 
> YES.  Absolutley.  You've told exim to contact smtp on port 587 but if
> your firewall is blocking connections on port 587 then nothing will get
> through.


I reverted to port 25. In my firewall, I set up a custom service in it
for ssmtp to use port 587. This may solve my problem.


> according to /etc/services that's ssmtp.  But who cares?  You tell the
> firewall what port to open.  Your ISP told you what port to use so you
> tell the firewall and you tell exim.


Tell exim4 the port to use? Where would that be?

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:50:36 +0100
From: Maarten Vink <vink@interstroom.nl>
To: Andraz Sraka <a@aufbix.org>
Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller
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Op 27-okt-2007, om 18:19 heeft Andraz Sraka het volgende geschreven:


> Hello people,

>

> are there any diagnostic/monitoring tools in linux (debian etch for
> instance) for monitoring Dell PERC 5/i RAID controller. I found that
> there are some utilities for RHEL/SuSE enterprise distribution. Has
> anyone managed to see status of controller in Debian? What tools do I
> need to use/install and are any kernel patches required? It would be
> nice to see raid status as also the faulty disks :)

>
>

Add deb ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa dell sara to /etc/apt/ 
sources.list and apt-get install dellomsa. This will get you the Dell  
monitoringtools; the omreport-tool will get you all sorts of info on  
the raidcontroller:

----
/opt/dell/srvadmin/oma/bin/omreport storage -?

omreport         Reports component properties.

The available command(s) are:

Command          Description
adisk            Display array disk(s) properties. DEPRECATED: please  
use pdisk
pdisk            Display physical disk(s) properties.
vdisk            Display virtual disk(s) properties.
controller       Display controller(s) properties.
enclosure        Display enclosure properties.
channel          Display channel properties. DEPRECATED: please use  
connector
battery          Display battery properties.
globalinfo       Display global storage properties.
connector        Display connector properties.
----

Apart from that omreport will also give you information on fan  
speeds, temperature, installed hardware, etc. It also installs an  
SNMP agent that allows you to monitor RAID status, fan speeds,  
temperature, etc via SNMP. The SNMP agent is disabled by default, but  
is easy to setup. We use this both for monitoring and to graph fan  
speeds and temperature with cacit.

For more useful info on using Debian on Dell hardware see http:// 
linux.dell.com/debian_9g.shtml

Regards,

Maarten


Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:54:36 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: problems replacing fam by gamin (was: going from XFCE to Gnome?)
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28 -0700, Michael M. wrote:

[...]


> I found a few problems on my system (Lenny/testing) after I replaced fam
> with gamin:
> 
> 1)  Menus in OO.org took many seconds to open -- at least 15, perhaps
> 20.  This was extremely irritating and made OO.org a pain to use.
> 
> 2)  The GNOME trash applet no longer updated to show when there were
> items in the trash.  I could no longer empty the trash from the panel.
> Not such a big deal, but I typically have most windows on most desktops
> maximized so I don't usually make use of any icons on the desktop.  So I
> found it convenient to empty the trash from the panel.
> 
> 3)  Nautilus was considerably slower to respond to any attempts to open
> a new window.  The problem wasn't as severe as the problem with OO.org


These seem to be pretty serious problems, worthy of being reported as
bugs. I cannot comment any further on these issues since I don't use
Gnome.
 

> Restoring fam and removing gamin put things back to normal.  But the
> reason I installed gamin in the first place is that exaile requires it,
> so in the end I decided to remove a lot of GNOME and am using Openbox
> instead.  OO.org works fine with gamin, as long as you aren't using it
> under GNOME.  If you use it under GNOME, it appears you need fam, or
> will face some major irritation.  I still use the GNOME panel, mainly
> because I love Tomboy and find a few other features of that panel
> appealing, but I no longer use the Trash applet nor the trash bin at
> all.  I'm no longer using Nautilus, though it is still installed.


I think it is unlikely that such obvious problems would go unnoticed by
the (Debian-)Gnome community. Could you be missing some recommended
packages? You could run

aptitude search '!~i(~dgnome|~dgtk|~dopenoffice)~RBrecommends:~i'

and check if anything suspicious turns up, for example something related
to gnome-vfs. (This search command should find all not installed
packages which have "gnome", "gtk" or "openoffice" in their description
and which would satisfy a currently unfulfilled recommendation of some
installed package.)

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:34:39 +0000
From: Martin Waller <martinej.waller@ntlworld.com>
To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com>
Subject: SOLVED: Re: gnome screensavers - can I get more?
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Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:

> Martin Waller wrote:

>

>   

>> aah - I only get this error through a vnc connection (running
>> vnc4server, etch package version 4.1.1+X4.3) - at the actual box it
>> seems to work OK...?
>>     
>

> Then the vnc is running under 16bits depth, that's why ;-).

>
>

>   


Ah yes - that was it.  I installed xscreensaver, which then comes 
available in gnome, and had to change the xvnc startup in inetd.conf to 
use -depth 24 from the default 16 (didn't set the depth previously).

Thanks - I was actually after the 'poltyopes' screensaver I've seen on 
other machines - it was in xscreensaver.

Happy now - thanks for your help

Martin


Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:37:45 +0000
From: Martin Waller <martinej.waller@ntlworld.com>
To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Subject: Re: gnome screensavers - can I get more?
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Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 10/27/07 10:39, Martin Waller wrote:
>   

>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>     
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I don't seem to have a very wide variety of screensavers under gnome (5
>>>> basic ones).
>>>> 1) Are more available?
>>>> 2) From where?
>>>> 3) How do install them?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Before we can answer that, you must tell us how many screen saver
>>> packages do you already have installed.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>> package gnome-screensaver 2.14.3-3 (etch).
>>
>> In gnome, 'desktop | Preferences | screensaver shows screeensavers
>> 'Cosmos', 'Floationg Debian', Floating Feet', Pictures Folder', 'Pop
>> artsquares'.
>>
>> I hope that's sufficient information.
>>     
>

> This will give you (amongst the noise) a list of other screen savers
> to install:

>

> $ apt-cache search screensaver|sort

>

>   

Ok - I actually used '/ screeensaver' in aptitude and installed 
xscreensaver which has the particular one I'm after in.  After some 
tweaks to my Xvnc server sratup as per the other branch of this thread, 
all is sorted.

Thankyou for your valuable input.

Martin


Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:32:02 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Default Gnome2 Font
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 16:29:15 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> >> thanks for the suggest, but output about screen resolution is correct:
> >>
> >> # xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resol'
> >>   dimensions:    1400x1050 pixels (286x214 millimeters)    <- that is my
> >> screen resolution..
> >>   resolution:    124x125 dots per inch
> >>
> >>
> >> For now i modify manually the fonts and fonts size from "Appereance"
> menu,
> >> but is not enought.
> >> I'd like to know which is the "mint" fonts config....
> >
> >Try to set Xft.dpi explicitly to the correct value:
> >
> >echo "Xft.dpi: 124" | xrdb -merge -
> 
> All seem rigth, but i have still the problem.
> I try to boot with a live cd.
> And i discover that i must set another Resolution in the
> System -> Preference ->Appereance -> Fonts -> Details
> 
> Infact if i here define a "Resolution: 96 dots per inch", all fonts
> dimension in right. Ant here's the solution (i think) to this problem.
> If i define instead "Resolution: 124 dots per inch", all fonts dimension
> seem bigger.


What do you mean by "right" font dimensions? If the size of a font is
given in "points" then this is an absolute measure. In computer
typography a point corresponds to 1/72 of an inch (about 0.35 mm) [1].
If you system is set up correctly then a "12pt" font should be displayed
with a size of about 4.2 mm. (As far as I know, this is measured for the
full height, from ascent to descent; see [2] for a drawing.) 

You should get the right font size if all the resolutions are specified
correctly. You might have adapted your font size preferences to an
incorrectly configured system earlier. The only way to know if the sizes
are correct is to put a ruler to the screen and measure (at least
approximately).


> But, i don't understand: if i have a bigger resolution, i should have
> smaller fonts, or not???


If you specify a larger resolution then the typesetting engine will
think that your dots on the screen are smaller than they actually are.
It will therefore use too many of the screen dots to make one "point"
(which should be 1/72 of an inch) and your fonts will become too large.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:42:29 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Up arrow runs gnome-screenshot etch
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 13:32:32 -0400, Jack Dodds wrote:

> I am running etch with gnome on an Intel machine.
> 
> I have two seats set up, using GDM.  The primary seat has a 104 key
> keyboard and is connected via a PS-2 keyboard connector.  The second
> seat has a 104 key keyboard connected via USB.
> 
> On both keyboards, if I hit the UP key in the editing section of the
> keyboard, the program gnome-screenshot runs.  The LEFT, RIGHT, and DOWN
> keys do nothing.  This happens for all users, and both seats.
> 
> This is especially since I am used to using the UP key and often hit it
> multiple times or hold it down, out of habit.  This launches many
> instances of gnome-screenshot, which has on at least one occasions
> actually hung the computer in a state where it kept launching
> gnome-screenshot instances, about one a second, and could not be stopped.
> 
> If I check Desktop-Preferences-Keyboard Shortcuts, there is no mention
> of gnome-screenshot.
> 
> I have also searched all the /etc directories that have anything to do
> with X or Gnome for files containing the string gnome-screenshot and
> have found nothing.
> 
> This behaviour seems to have started when I upgraded sarge to etch.
> 
> Can anybody suggest how I can get back the the key functions that were
> present in Etch - and especially how to move gnome-screenshot to the
> Print key, where it should be!
> 
> I've appended the InputDevice sections from XF86Config-4.


When you upgraded to Etch you made the transition from XFree86 to Xorg.
The relevant configuration file is now /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If you are
still on XFree86 then your upgrade is incomplete.
 

> Jack Dodds
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "First Keyboard"
>     Driver        "keyboard"
>     Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/event0"
> #    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option        "XkbRules"    "xfree86"
>     Option        "XkbModel"    "pc104"
>     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Second Keyboard"
>     Driver        "keyboard"
>         Option          "Protocol" "usbev"
>     Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/event1"
> #    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option        "XkbRules"    "xfree86"
>     Option        "XkbModel"    "pc104"
>     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
> EndSection


AFAIK, it should be

Driver      "kbd"

and

Option      "XkbRules"  "xorg"

now; check your xorg.conf file for this.

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |

End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2692
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Received on Sun Oct 28 10:05:13 2007
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