Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:10:11AM +, John Summerfield wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > >>Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable > >>>di

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:07, John Summerfield wrote: > Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > >sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro > >and keep getting depmod errors. > > > >I've tri

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the picture? Well, just to be pedantic, you wouldn't find pine anywhere in debian because

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the picture? Well, just to be pedantic, you wouldn't find pine anywhere in debian because of its

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: Hi, Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro and keep getting depmod errors. I've tried using a number of different configs as a starting point (including the knoppi

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Aaron Robertson-Hodder
I used: make-kpkg --revision=786:MyKernel2.4.20 kernel_image Which I got from a guide on the web. So, let me get this straight. I download and un-tar the source, then do the following steps: make xconfig - and select the things I want make-kpkg clean make-kpkg kernel_image install the kerne

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: > > I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from > there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the > picture? Well, just to be pedantic, you wouldn't find pine anywhere in debian because of its licensing terms.

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:14 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > sid? sid. > I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro > and keep getting depmod errors. How are you building the kernel? I use

Re: Linux & Viruses (was: Unidentified subject!)

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Aube
audie macapal wrote: > It is true that Devian/Linux OS and softwares cannot > be infected by computer virus? No, this is not true. In theory a Linux system can become infected by a computer virus. However, the following must be considered: 1) If a Linux system did become infected by a virus, t

Gnome fonts and themes

2004-06-22 Thread Lee Hanxue
I am using Debian testing/unstable, and running Gnome 2.6 I use Windowmaker as my window manager. The problem is whenever I start a gnome app, such as gnome-terminal or galeon, the font will appear awfully small. The fonts will become okay when I start gnome-font-properties. I did not even chan

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Aaron Robertson-Hodder
Hi, Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro and keep getting depmod errors. I've tried using a number of different configs as a starting point (including the knoppix one) and still can't seem t

Re: ls120 Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive. > > When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for > > master and slave. This is a Gateway 500 run

Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Aube
Christian Schnobrich wrote: > I'm running sarge. After my last upgrade, Openoffice stopped printing. > I'm not able to properly track the problem down (more on that below), > all I really know boils down to "it used to work and now it doesn't". > To manage my printer's capabilities (like paper tr

Re: Problem with CVS and group ownership.

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 15:21, Vincent Hallberg wrote: > The default umask on a fresh Debian install is: > UMASK 022 > > I've been thinking of adding users to the system this way to solve the > problem: > adduser -no-create-home --ingroup src | username > > I am running the pserver which starts u

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-22 Thread Brenden T.
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: | Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. | | My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the | two comment lines warning me not to change things manually) | everytime I

Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel Miller
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Daniel L. Miller said... I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not finding a package. Is there one? How are you looking? apt-cache search firebird This returns a number of matches. Yes - but none of those are Perl

Upgraded to exim 4 and now I'm getting knoppix messages (not a knoppix user though!)

2004-06-22 Thread Jerome Werner
I upgraded to exim 4 in unstable and now I'm getting error messages in my user inbox: /begin message/ >From Mailer-Daemon X-Failed Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender [...] A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of

Re: 11g PCI Wireless recommendations

2004-06-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > >i'm using the Netgear WG311 w/ madwifi drivers > >and the Linksys WMP54g ( buffalo airstation ) w/ ndiswrapper > > > >and am currently trying to get madwifi to support wpa instead of wep > > > >other wifi drivers > > Linux-Wireless.o

Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-22 Thread S.D.A.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:49:53PM -0700 or thereabouts, dodol garut wrote: > i'm a bit lazy to dig through the manual or > documentation lately ;-) > 1. it would be very nice to have my webmail account > i've been using for joining several milist, to be > retrive with my thunderbi

RE: X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc.

2004-06-22 Thread Allen Williams
Dodol: Thanks for the help. My kernel is 2.6, the "sarge" distribution, so looks like I have to go to the nvidia website. The command you referenced- I didn't quite understand it. Was it: apt-get nvidia-kernel-'uname -r', nvidia-kernel-common, nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-glx all on one line

Re: Problem with CVS and group ownership.

2004-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 12:53, Vincent Hallberg wrote: > Package: cvs > > Version: 1:1.12.9-1 > > > > In order to share files between normal users on CVS I’ve added them to > the ‘src’ group using ‘gpasswd –a someuser src’. Next I’m using > Tortoisecvs to login as someuser and upload to the rep

Re: Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-22 Thread Don Jackson (AE5K)
Kent and others, Problem Solved! It took two things to manually change in the XF86Config-4 file... (1) BusID "PCI:0:8:0" was added right after driver "s3" in "Device" section referring to the video card. This was an absolute MUST in my system. (2) Changed the default depth from 24 to 8.

Re: 11g PCI Wireless recommendations

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, John Summerfield wrote: I'm seeking recommendations for currently-available 802.11g-compliant Wireless PCI cards for Linux. Please post replies to the list so others can critique them and benefit from them. I wish native drivers, not Windows wrapped in s

Problem with CVS and group ownership.

2004-06-22 Thread Vincent Hallberg
Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.9-1   In order to share files between normal users on CVS I’ve added them to the ‘src’ group using ‘gpasswd –a someuser src’.  Next I’m using Tortoisecvs to login as someuser and upload to the repository I’ve created.  It all goes up ok and this has been work

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread John Summerfield
David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. Still, no one benefits from having blinders over thei

Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Hi all! I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not finding a package. Is there one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc.

2004-06-22 Thread dodol garut
--- Allen Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't get X to work. Using a Micro-Star video card > built on the nVidia > GeForce FX chipset with an Optiquest Q110 monitor. > The specs on the monitor > are: Fh=30-97 khz, Fv=50-160 hz, with resolutions up > to 1600x1200. Couldn't > find a specif

redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-22 Thread dodol garut
i'm a bit lazy to dig through the manual or documentation lately ;-) 1. it would be very nice to have my webmail account i've been using for joining several milist, to be retrive with my thunderbird. fetchyahoo may be the solution but how can i make it retrive to a local

Re: 3 gigs enough?

2004-06-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > I bought a nice little laptop off ebay... Its got a 3 gig hd. All I want > to do is have developement packages on, X windows, probably run > Eclipse(where do i get that from anyway??? ), surf web, get email, > listen to winamp radio and wr

X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc.

2004-06-22 Thread Allen Williams
Can't get X to work. Using a Micro-Star video card built on the nVidia GeForce FX chipset with an Optiquest Q110 monitor. The specs on the monitor are: Fh=30-97 khz, Fv=50-160 hz, with resolutions up to 1600x1200. Couldn't find a specific nVidia GeForce FX driver, so am using the "nv" generic nV

problems setting up hp color laserjet 4500N

2004-06-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I am having trouble setting up HP color laserjet 4500N from a debian unstable. The problem is that the page to be printed is shrinked to 1/4 of the letter-sized paper. Something like | i | | | m | | | a | | | g | | | e | | |-

ls120 Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive. > When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for > master and slave. This is a Gateway 500 running a Pentium III at 500 MHZ. > The other drives a

Weird error compiling a perl module

2004-06-22 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
I'm getting a weird error using perl 5.6.1 from stable trying to compile a perl module. I've searched google & the lists but can't find anything. Unfortunately, the way that the module is written cannot be changed, because it's not my code -- I'm just doing the admin stuff. Anyway, here's the err

adding a parallel zip drive

2004-06-22 Thread Tom Allison
I have a working installation of sarge with v2.6 kernel. Considering the changes that took place on the EIDE and SCSI interfaces with respect to CD-RW's and that parallel zip drives also were SCSI emulated. How do I configure a zip disk under 2.6 today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

console sound editor- spec. ogg

2004-06-22 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know if there are any console sound editors? Specifically, I need one that will edit Vorbis Ogg files. Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:37:14 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:01, Jules Dubois wrote: >> >> I installed kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7. I get lots of error during boot; >> they go by quickly, I don't seem to be able to stop them, and they're >> not recorded in any log file. If I

Re: connecting-problems with 3Com509-EtherlinkIII-card

2004-06-22 Thread jakob bratkovic
Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:20 am, Palfalvi Richard wrote: I think I could be something with the so called IRQs and something about Hex-Adresses (like 0x300) but I am not an expert upon this topic. I remember that during another install, debian asked me to put in such an adress f

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Mark, The problem is that "iwconfig wlan0 essid any" doesn't do anything for me. In fact "iwconfig "iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever" doesn't do anything either. The essid still shows a null value and access point still shows ff:ff:ff... This is driving me nuts. I've been trying to configure it for

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread MB
Marvin, I think that I missed the begining of this thread, but if you know that name ( essid ) of the network you want to connect to, then it is just: iwconfig wlan0 essid Network_Name If you want to try and connect to the strongest signal, then: iwconfig wlan0 essid any After connecting to th

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Marco Paganini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you just want to download/upload pictures, I'd recommend a > standalone card reader for your specific card type. This is good advice. I was recently given a Sony digicam (DSC-P100) as a gift and Linux doesn't recognize it either. So, I got a Sandi

Re: sources.list and local dir question

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Frank A. Uepping wrote: > Hello, > I have added a local directory to sources.list: > echo "deb file:/usr/local/software/debian stable non-free" >> > /etc/apt/sources.list > Further I have created a directory tree: > mkdir -p /usr/local/software/debian/stable/non-free > and put my .d

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Re: Jabberd on Woody

2004-06-22 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:16:42 -0500 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:52:40 -0600 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > > > > Is the Woody Jabber server recent enough, or are there some > >

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread Norman Walsh
/ "Felix C. Stegerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: [...] | It might be of interest which version of Debian you and I are using, | and what kernel. My set-up: | Linux 2.6.7-mm1 (built from kernel.org) | Debian testing/unstable (APT prefers unstable) Linux 2.4.26 running unstable. | I

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 17:00, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > Unstable: "parts are frequently broken but quickly fixed" > > Testing: "parts are broken less often, but when they are, it can take > months to fix them" > > Stable: "nothing is broken, but you won't be able to play with the > latest gizm

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 07:09, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hello, > > I am using plan woody 3.0r2 with the default 2.2 > kernel. I wanted to attach my Sony DSC P72 digital > camera to the usb port. Hardware is old IBM > 300GL(Pentium MMX/166, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2xUSB ports > etc). I tried gphoto but it

Re: connecting-problems with 3Com509-EtherlinkIII-card

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:20 am, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > > I think I could be something with the so called IRQs and something > about Hex-Adresses (like 0x300) but I am not an expert upon this > topic. I remember that during another install, debian asked me to put > in such an adress for the IS

Re: connecting-problems with 3Com509-EtherlinkIII-card

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:20 am, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to install SARGE with the Sarge-netinstall-disc on a very > old machine (Pent.166MHZ, 4.3GB-Disc, 96MB RAM). > In this machine I put an ISA-3Com509-EtherlinkIII-networkcard and > want to connect it via my LAN-Serv

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
David, I've been trying all the different possibilities I can think of. No change. :-( iwlist wlan0 scan still shows "No scan results". I am sad about it. I am running out of ideas. :-( I have read the howtos 100 times, have done thousands of tests to no avail. :-( I guess it is time for me

Re: No fonts/text in GTK2 apps

2004-06-22 Thread MrVanes
My problems are solved. Sorry to have bothered the community with my ramblings, it was all a library mess. For some reason I had freetype/fontconfig libs in /usr/local/lib that were outdated, but still linked to? With a little creative deleting/moving/recompiling/headbanging/cursing I managed to ge

Re: sound problem: "init_module: No such device"

2004-06-22 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:44:12PM -0400, Chris Metzler insinuated: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:56:46 -0400 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hey all, > > > > after a reboot, my sound has disappeared. music123 tells me > > > > Error: Cannot open device oss. > > > > so i look to see

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Marco Paganini
Hi, On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:09:59AM -0700, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hello, > > I am using plan woody 3.0r2 with the default 2.2 > kernel. I wanted to attach my Sony DSC P72 digital > camera to the usb port. Hardware is old IBM > 300GL(Pentium MMX/166, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2xUSB ports > etc). I tr

sources.list and local dir question

2004-06-22 Thread Frank A. Uepping
Hello, I have added a local directory to sources.list: echo "deb file:/usr/local/software/debian stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list Further I have created a directory tree: mkdir -p /usr/local/software/debian/stable/non-free and put my .deb files in there. Then I did apt-ge

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:04, Thomas Adam wrote: > Those files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on > each rotation. If the file gets bigger than 1gb during the day, will it still rotate it out of existence or does logrotate just run daily? Also, I am not that keen on dele

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:09, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a > > problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up > > with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all ma

remove

2004-06-22 Thread jcgoody
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Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] I found the clock was fast (though not as fast as that) with kernel 2.6.6. It also was very difficult to regulate with

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:42:09AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Guys, first of all, let me clarify a couple of things. I hail from the > Windows world where you just plug the card, install the drivers and > voila, you're all set. I am just trying to learn about access points and >

Re: sound problem: "init_module: No such device"

2004-06-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:56:46 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey all, > > after a reboot, my sound has disappeared. music123 tells me > > Error: Cannot open device oss. > > so i look to see if I've got the apporpriate modules in my kernel > (which I should have; this never

MAC address not shown?

2004-06-22 Thread David Piniella
My sarge machine has a weird problem: it's set to DHCP and the DHCP server has the machine's MAC address bound to a particular 10.x.x.x IP; lately another computer has been getting IP conflicts with the same IP, even though it has a different MAC address. Doing an nbtstat -a on the Debian sarge

Re: querying install times on packages

2004-06-22 Thread Nicolas
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 13:44, Rob Benton wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > >>Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had > >>made an update of several packages and something went wrong. > >>What I need is a way to query all instal

sound problem: "init_module: No such device"

2004-06-22 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, after a reboot, my sound has disappeared. music123 tells me Error: Cannot open device oss. so i look to see if I've got the apporpriate modules in my kernel (which I should have; this never _used_to be a problem!), and, as far as I can tell, I don't. I only have: Module

Re: querying install times on packages

2004-06-22 Thread Rob Benton
Will Trillich wrote: On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had made an update of several packages and something went wrong. What I need is a way to query all installed packages by their install date. I couldn't find any existi

Re: How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

2004-06-22 Thread Frederik Dannemare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > >>I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate > >> it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.). > >> > >>What would be the easist way to acc

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Stefano Rivoir wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's be

connecting-problems with 3Com509-EtherlinkIII-card

2004-06-22 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Hi folks, I am trying to install SARGE with the Sarge-netinstall-disc on a very old machine (Pent.166MHZ, 4.3GB-Disc, 96MB RAM). In this machine I put an ISA-3Com509-EtherlinkIII-networkcard and want to connect it via my LAN-Server to the internet to get all the necessary packages. Connection f

Re: startled by what SCREEN can do [was Re: 3 gigs enough?]

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:24:24AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > screen is truly magic. wonder why i never tried it before? > > start with > > $ screen > > see the license, start hammering away at whatever you hammer > away at. create, edit, delete, munge, craft, invent, devise... > get in

Re: KSVG -- How do I use it?

2004-06-22 Thread LeVA
2004. június 22. 17:58, Matias Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I have a current version of ksvg konqueror and run Debian unstable. Any > > helpers in the audience? > > And where can I get that ksvg ? :)) I've compiled kde 3.2.3 from sources, and I've installed all packages,

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.22.1529 +0200]: > Don't blame the new 2.6.x kernel for that! I'm experiencing the > same drawback using kernel 2.4.25. In a nutshell, with debian > testing & a logitech optical mouse in my portable PC on > a docking-station I have to go to a consol

Re: /.journal, /root-n

2004-06-22 Thread Sudarshana Koushik
Now that you mention it, I too checked and there are two files in / -rw---1 root root 33554432 May 12 15:19 .journal -rw---1 root root 1274 May 29 08:45 .viminfo .journal just as you said, and file called .viminfo. I have no idea where it came from as i have nev

Re: Intel NIC

2004-06-22 Thread disciple
Thanks Jan..., but I'm running 2.2.20 and my NIC is working fine now. I made the edits using vi to the interfaces file so that it would auto load. Before I did that, I added it to the list by using modconf. When I did lsmod the driver did not show. After I followed the advice given by Greg and

bootcd questions ...

2004-06-22 Thread zorgh
Hi Sorry for my bad english (frenchy guy)! I somehow made my own bootcd from Debian. System: CPU Athlon XP 1 Ghz, RAM 1024Mb, Debian (sid), kernel 2.6.5, bootcd 2.41 Creating a bootcd, I get these warnings : --- Testing CD-Image --- --- Blanking DVD --- * DVD±RW format utility by <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-22, Adam Funk penned: > On Monday 21 June 2004 22:00, Chris Metcalf wrote: > >> If I remember correctly, "unstable" is called "unstable" because the >> packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually >> have to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in sync. >

X fonts size

2004-06-22 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all Is there any debian tool to configure the font size of X applications? I can't configure X resolution more than 800x600 and I would like to decrease the application fonts size (ie mozilla menu fonts) because they are very big. I'm using fvwm as window manager. any help would be appreciate

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most | experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than the | testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / observation Unst

no deliver from Subsystem

2004-06-22 Thread Frank Kaldewey
Hallo, I install postfix on linux-debian. I receive and send mails from everyuser on system without error. Now I have to deliver mails via webserver(apache) in php On other system with sendmail it is no problem to deliver mails. I add php.ini sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/postfix phpmailscript delive

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jun 2004, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, > but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. > > I upgraded to kernel 2.6.7-mm1 today. > (source from kernel.org, built with make-kpkg) > > Now, my system clock is running too fast: about

Re: Apache and CGI

2004-06-22 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 08:19, Greg Sidelinger wrote: > Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi > scripts work with apache2 and unstable. I did just the default > install of apache2 and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got > for output was the script itself. I

Re: strange colors

2004-06-22 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 06:06, frank coldewe wrote: > Hi, > > since i have installed woody and kde i have problems with the colors on > the screen. > In some applycations like freeamp, gimp and sane ... the colors are not > right. grey is green or blue ans so go on... any idea ?? > > greetings fran

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 06:09 am, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hello, > > I am using plan woody 3.0r2 with the default 2.2 > kernel. I wanted to attach my Sony DSC P72 digital > camera to the usb port. Hardware is old IBM > 300GL(Pentium MMX/166, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2xUSB ports > etc). I tried gphoto but

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Guys, first of all, let me clarify a couple of things. I hail from the Windows world where you just plug the card, install the drivers and voila, you're all set. I am just trying to learn about access points and all that. Secondly, one my co-workers is right next to me and he is working just fine

Re: printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread Tadek
It worked beautifully. Thank you so much. Tad welly hartanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > the easy way to solve your problem is by using an > account (username adn password applied) on those > windblows box that have printing previllegenot > anonymous one

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Stefano Rivoir wrote: Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's been around in the lkml (an a

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:13, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > Norman Walsh wrote: > > >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. > > > > > >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 > > >/dev/hda2 / ext2

Re: Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Bruno de Paula
Please, install package usbutils and after that run lsusb with your camera connected to the usb interface and also turned on. lsusb should be able to list your camera and then you can mount the memory card with something like this: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera_mount_point The device is not alw

Re: printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:47:34PM -0700, Tadek wrote: [...] | Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED The windows server is telling your client that you are not authorized to do what you tried to do. | Could anybody offer me a hint what needs to be done to get rid of | access deni

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Kai Weber
* Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I upgraded to kernel 2.6.7-mm1 today. > (source from kernel.org, built with make-kpkg) > > Now, my system clock is running too fast: about 3-4x normal speed. > This is obviously not very convenient. Strange, my clock problems passed away with kernel 2.

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004-06-22 Thread LeVA
2004. június 22. 13:03, Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, all of the gtk-1 > > apps turned to very ugly (their fonts). Ie.: xmm

Re: startled by what SCREEN can do [was Re: 3 gigs enough?]

2004-06-22 Thread Ernie McCracken
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:24:24 -0500, Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oh MY GGODD! > > screen is truly magic. wonder why i never tried it before? Yeah, screen is great. I always put this in all my .screenrc files: hardstatus alwayslastline "%{mk}%H %{gk}%c %{yk}%M%d %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{

Re: need simple imap server to serve up some maildirs

2004-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jun 22 at 12:26AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21 at 03:31PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: > > I have found courier-imap to be easy to set up and use. I > > am using squirrelmail as an imap client, with imapproxy > > added into the mix to speed up things. > > any chance you have

Re: System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Stefano Rivoir
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. [...] It's a known problem, both in early -bk and in -mm1. Either wait for -mm2 or look for the right fix, it's been around in the lkml (an abs macro that failed o

Sony DSC P72 Digital Camera on USB port

2004-06-22 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
Hello, I am using plan woody 3.0r2 with the default 2.2 kernel. I wanted to attach my Sony DSC P72 digital camera to the usb port. Hardware is old IBM 300GL(Pentium MMX/166, 64MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 2xUSB ports etc). I tried gphoto but it did not have my camera listed in the camera list under Configure

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:35:09AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > How hard will it be to switch or upgrade to sarge from woody when sarge > becomes stable? I'm hoping that CUPS and other stuff in sarge will let me > use my parallel port HP 697C printer and my HP psc1210 > printer/scanner/co

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > > >Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable > > >distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. > > > > > >Still,

System clock too fast after kernel upgrade

2004-06-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
I realise this is probably not Debian-specific, but I'm hoping someone on this list can help me out anyway. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.7-mm1 today. (source from kernel.org, built with make-kpkg) Now, my system clock is running too fast: about 3-4x normal speed. This is obviously not very convenient.

Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > a. Drive is master, no slave > > that requires a jumper change on the disk -- or -- > the disk is on the master connector of the ide cable > > "cable select" might be an issue as you noted > > >

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Gayle Lee Fairless (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is > > an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody > > 2.4.18 on the WD drive. > > And th

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Craig, Am 2004-06-22 16:13:18, schrieb Craig Sanders: >yeah, good decision. blocking mail from dynamic/dialup IP addresses is the >right thing to do, but it's much better to be an informed, intelligent and >suave admin who does that than an ignorant, asinine one (but that's true of >every

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: > >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. > > > >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 > >/dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > >1 > >$ mount | grep h

Re: how do I remove "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0"

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Bingjun Ye wrote: > Hi, > I just reformated my harddisk, and found there is a compressed ramdrive > D:\. I cannot remove D:\ using command rd d:\, and cannot setup > Windows XP with the CD. How do I remove this compressed ramdrive in the > DOS mode? W

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