Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 1:50:52 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:39 am, David Kirchner wrote: > > On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > > > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The [...] > > I think that's a good point. This list is not a good place for a newbie. I have to say that I am not entirely in agreement with that. On the whole, this is a very supportive environment, and an excellent learning place. Lifelong revolutionary that I am, I vote for the status quo! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unsubscribe
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Re: Recommendation for newsreader
On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 10:06:20 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: [...] > > >> Try search the Debian archive on Nabble: > >> http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html > > > > That is a good resource. Pity it's not subthreaded, so to speak. But > > very useful anyway. > > > > Richard, > > Do you mean a threaded view of the messages? The messages in Nabble archive > defaults to a dump view, but there is a "View Threaded" link under each post, > click that you will see the threaded view. Oops, so there is. more haste less speed. Yes, nabble is cool. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:39 am, David Kirchner wrote: > On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > > final corrected version will be uploaded to > > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html . I am posting > > the initial version for your kind consideration. > > > > Thanks in advance > > raju > > I think there should also be something addressing the underlying > problem(s). It seems to me that the main reason people want a > debian-newcomers list is because they don't want to see so many newbie > questions come along on this list. The actual problem is that the > system is not quite newbie-proof. I think that's a good point. This list is not a good place for a newbie. While there are a lot of helpful people here, there are some intolerant or overly literally minded people who feel everyone should think like they do and can be quite abrupt and even nasty to people that ask questions they, as a Debian admin with years of experience, consider dumb. I see this as just a symptom of the larger problem you see everywhere in the world: intolerance of those who think differently, may have different skill sets, or may need different (or more) help than others do. But the idea of a newbie-proof system reveals a nasty prejudice against those wanting to get involved and to learn, but don't have the skills yet. Maybe the solution would be not to create a debian-newbie list, but to create a debian-advanced-user list, so those that are going to be judgemental or ugly to newbies can stay on that list. Just the name would be enough to discourage most newbies from trying that list, whether the focus was on only really advanced topics or not. My personal belief is that it is important for any group to welcome newcomers and willingly help them get used to the groups ways and styles, otherwise the group won't grow, but will shrink through attrition. > We, the experienced, ought to try and improve the processes and the > documentation, which would lead to less newbie frustration. +1. No. +10. > There's certainly a limit to how much you can document and hand-hold a > user, but we're not even close to that point yet. That is true -- and telling people to RTFM when they are likely not sure what manual to read, or where it is, or even how to understand a manual written by programmers for programmers and administrators is not an easy way to get rid of the problem, but a way to either push people away or to ensure the problem continues. (A good answer will at least help some people when they search or Google for it.) Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > final corrected version will be uploaded to > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html . I am posting > the initial version for your kind consideration. > Cool, great work. A few thoughts: Q2. I think that google should be the first place to search and the first question to answer. I think that the second question should be a link to ESR http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html This would permit new users learn how to ask questions with better chance to get answers. Q3. It would be better to specify distributions by name (sarge, etch, sid) in order to better archive the post. You can search later for the problem and have a clue of what distribution they apply to. Q4. I think that you should remark the removing of parts irrelevant to the answer in order to remain to the point in the replys to the post. Overall, this is a very good start. PD. What is needed in order to add a link to this faq in the automated mail sent during list subscription. It is possible? There is some place in the policy of the list or in debian's that says that it is impossible? > Thanks in advance > raju Regards, Miguel Cobá -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list
On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > final corrected version will be uploaded to > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html . I am posting > the initial version for your kind consideration. > > Thanks in advance > raju I think there should also be something addressing the underlying problem(s). It seems to me that the main reason people want a debian-newcomers list is because they don't want to see so many newbie questions come along on this list. The actual problem is that the system is not quite newbie-proof. We, the experienced, ought to try and improve the processes and the documentation, which would lead to less newbie frustration. There's certainly a limit to how much you can document and hand-hold a user, but we're not even close to that point yet.
Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. Looks very good. 5. As questions tend to be referred to debian-user and due to the dilemma of "appropriate mailing list to post", people tend to ask the same question on multiple mailing lists. ... This sentence is a bit obtuse and needs to be rewritten in my estimation. Perhaps something like: */As questions tend to be referred to debian-user, and due to the dilemma of not knowing to which list one should post, people tend to ask the same question on multiple mailing lists./* This will defeat the whole purpose of creating a separate list for newcomers and increases the net traffic many times. Moreover all the replies might not be CCed to all the mailing lists. As a result, people experiencing the same problem at a later time and reading the archives will have to go through similar looking posts on different mailing lists to find the correct answer. or: */Since people may not know which list would be appropriate for their issue, they wind up cross-posting to both lists. Also, since some issues may be referred from one list to the other, this also causes cross-posting of the issue. /*This will defeat the whole purpose of creating a separate list for newcomers and increases the net traffic many times. Moreover all the replies might not be CCed to all the mailing lists. As a result, people experiencing the same problem at a later time and reading the archives will have to go through similar looking posts on different mailing lists to find the correct answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:49:02 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. First of all, if there is a newcomer list, think about who its > subscribers will be. It will most probably be newcomers who are > having some problems and need advice/suggestions/pointers > etc., . But the people hanging in those lists are as ignorant as > others. Most of the replies will be "I too have the same problem. But > I do not know how to solve it." or something similar to that extent. Perhaps the term, "ignorant," is too full of bad connotations. Maybe you could use, "inexperienced," instead. Cybe R. Wizard -- No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Lord Tennyson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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modelines in new Xorg: (Was Re: DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000)
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:28 -0800: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:49:18 +1100 (EST) > Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > G'day all, > > > > I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV > > under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: > > > > snipping some of this - as I have etch running xorg 6.8 on a Matrox > Millenium AGP - yet I have some of the same problems as you :(. > > > Now, after "upgrading", glxinfo and glxgears segfault: > > glxgears doesn't segfault, but some other gl using progs (example > stellarium) do - because of some glx visuals coming back "not > supported" and/or "slow" in glxinfo. OK, so I changed two things. I modprobed agpgart and then r128 manually, instead of relying on them being in that order in /etc/modules.conf. The second thing I did, was to `aptitude install xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-glu xlibmesa3 xlibmesa-dev libglide3` since they got uninstalled somewhere along the line in an upgrade. Dunno why. But that now works -- dunno which of the two things I did above was the one responsible for fixing the breakage. Now the problem is that X seems to ignore my modelines I need for my 1280x1024 fixed frequency monitor (the IBM_mode_1, 2, and 3 lines that appear in the xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log files attached). Anyone know why this would be? Could it be something to do with the LCD display, despite me having told X to use the CRT (which is dutifully does, just getting the wrong modelines)? It worked in the last version of X, so I don't know what has changed... xorg.conf: # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section "Files" # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "60" Option "StandbyTime" "60" Option "SuspendTime" "60" Option "OffTime" "90" Option "Accel" "true" Option "AGPMode2x" Option "AGPMode" "2" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "IBM" VendorName "IBM 19inch+Sun 19inch" ModelName "6091/19" HorizSync 50-120 #Heck; too many valid modes. Lets just enable them all and be wery wery careful VertRefresh 50-160 DisplaySize 406 304 #Option "NoDPMS" Modeline "IBM_mode_1" 89.20 1024 1045 1205 1408 1024 1027 1030 1056 -hsync -vsync Modeline "IBM_mode_2" 111.50 1280 1298 1498 1756 1024 1024 1035 1040 -hsync -vsync # old sun monitor: Modeline "IBM_mode_3" 120.00 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1027 1030 1052 -hsync -vsync # new sun monitor: # From bohr: # Modeline "IBM_mode_3" 120.00 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1027 1030 1060 -hsync -vsync # To scuzzie: Modeline "IBM_mode_3"120.00 1280 1308 1468 1696 1024 1027 1030 1060 -hsync -vsync Modeline "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 120.00 1280 1300 1460 1696 1024 1027 1030 1052 -hsync -vsync #Modeline "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 120.00 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1027 1030 1052 -hsync -vsync ModeLine "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 83.87 1024 1052 1348 1396768 769 776 808 ModeLine "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 80.79904 924 1212 1256675 676 683 717 ModeLine "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 72.56768 792 1048 1088576 577 585 621 ModeLine "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 71.86720 748 1004 1048576 577 585 621 Modeline "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 70.24640 652 900 936512 513 521 560 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load
FAQ on debian newcomer list
I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The final corrected version will be uploaded to http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html . I am posting the initial version for your kind consideration. Thanks in advance raju beginning of the FAQ-- Why is there no separate list for Newbies? Can you create one? Should I create one? There are many reasons why a newbie list has not been setup. Though the idea sounds good, it is not considered very useful (read below). There are many reasons why this is so. I will try to explain a few. 1. First of all, if there is a newcomer list, think about who its subscribers will be. It will most probably be newcomers who are having some problems and need advice/suggestions/pointers etc., . But the people hanging in those lists are as ignorant as others. Most of the replies will be "I too have the same problem. But I do not know how to solve it." or something similar to that extent. 2. Because of the lack of expertise on the newcomer list, most questions will eventually be referred to debian-user. This will only lead to frustration as the newcomers find their questions unanswered or answered at a very slow pace or referred to somewhere else. 3. Imagine another scenario. A question really belongs to the newbie list but was asked on the debian-user. Someone or the other will post a nasty reply to this "to go seek help from the newbie list". This will also eventually lead to the frustration of the newcomer. 4. Most importantly, a newbie might not know whether his question is complicated enough to post in the debian-user or is trivial enough to post in the newbie list. If he knows how tough the problem at hand is then most likely he would have solved it by himself rather than seeking the help of others. 5. As questions tend to be referred to debian-user and due to the dilemma of "appropriate mailing list to post", people tend to ask the same question on multiple mailing lists. This will defeat the whole purpose of creating a separate list for newcomers and increases the net traffic many times. Moreover all the replies might not be CCed to all the mailing lists. As a result, people experiencing the same problem at a later time and reading the archives will have to go through similar looking posts on different mailing lists to find the correct answer. 6. Having multiple lists for the same purpose only leads to fragmentation of the user base and the expertise. I might have missed a few, but you get the general idea. end of the FAQ-- -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:23:51AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > J.Moore wrote: > > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. > You need a 2.2 kernel, not a distribution with that version number. Either > find a 2.2 kernel package in RedHat/Fedora, or download and build one from > www.kernel.org > I have in my library a set of install CDs for Debian 2.2 r5 "Potato". They contain kernel-image-2.0.38 and kernel-image-2.2.19 . Someone with a longer memory than mine might remember which was the default install kernel. I suspect 2.0.38 was default. So what does OP really need? Probably, as he says: he needs Debian 2.2 and he needs to check with his software supplier about which kernel version 2.0.38 or 2.2.19 he should install to run his tests. If all else fails, I can (snail) mail the CDs from Colorado, USA. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:49:18 +1100 (EST) Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day all, > > I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV > under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: > snipping some of this - as I have etch running xorg 6.8 on a Matrox Millenium AGP - yet I have some of the same problems as you :(. > Now, after "upgrading", glxinfo and glxgears segfault: glxgears doesn't segfault, but some other gl using progs (example stellarium) do - because of some glx visuals coming back "not supported" and/or "slow" in glxinfo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxinfo -b libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x24 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x28 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2c libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30 I haven't really tried drirc or trying to configure dri on this system, and really don't understand how. Another reference system (booting knoppix and/or mepis) runs stellarium fine - with dri enabled just fine. But they use Xfree and not Xorg. (mplayer output snipped) > X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Now that I'm running etch, I'm noticing this more and more often - almost every instance of mplayer(1) needs -vo x11 to work properly. Prior to this, I was able to sometimes use -vo xv, or -vo sdl (little faster) but never -vo mga, which is what I'd prefer to do. Also, without using an alias, some programs such as kmplayer which depend on mplayer will silently fail because mplayer(1) fails, because -vo x11 is not attached. (mplayer here was compiled from source --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer -v MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx > (II) Loading extension XVideo > ... grepping Xorg.log shows that XVideo gets loaded fine, but mga_hal module does not load. Dunno if that is important. Unfortunately, I don't know DRI well enough to figure this out. I suspect problems WRT some modules in Xorg - at one time (rev 7 I think) it stopped working -- waiting for it to get fixed :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)
If I'm not mistaken, Debian 3.0 (Woody) used 2.2.20 (according to http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian). I located a list of mirrors at: http://iso.linuxquestions.org/version.php?version=14 Also, some of the CD vendors listed at http://www.us.debian.org/CD/vendors/ allow you to request specific versions. Good luck -Steve On Tuesday 10 January 2006 06:42 pm, J.Moore wrote: > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. > > I finally located the 2.2 distro on archives.debian.org, but have not > been able to find the installation cd iso's. The documentation I found > for installing 2.2 says they exist, but they don't seem to be anywhere > in the archive. > > I've never run or installed Debian before (Red Hat & Fedora user for > several years), so perhaps I've overlooked something obvious. Please > excuse my ignorance, but I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a > clue. > > Thanks, > Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)
J.Moore wrote: > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. You need a 2.2 kernel, not a distribution with that version number. Either find a 2.2 kernel package in RedHat/Fedora, or download and build one from www.kernel.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:13:03 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root. > > > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > > > then select dialog. > > > If only it were that simplex! > > I changed the dialogue to KDE which means it needs X which I un-installed. > It won't let me reconfigure any thing. > > Does that make sense? It's not obvious what the problem is, I know. Bear > with me. okay okay I get it. you can't reconfigure debconf because reconfigure wants to use KDE... well per man debconf, there is more info in debconf(7) part of debconf-doc. apt-get install debconf-doc; man 7 debconf; found this: passing --frontend= to dpkg-reconfigure will specify the frontend to use. so try the options are dialog, readline, etc etc. sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf --frontend=dialog should do the trick. I gotta say that's a really interesting pickle you got into there, but I'm ecstatic that debian thought of a way out of it... A > > Thanks. > > -- > —A watched bread-crumb never boils. > —My hover-craft is full of eels. > —[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aspell error in sarge
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:09:42 -0500 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both gaim and sylpheed-claws have been rebuilt with security updates. > Do the pre-security-updated-versions work? > > Also, what architecture are you using? i386, aka x86? Now that we're through the holidays. Any further ideas? I would like to get gaim & sylpheed-claws running on my laptop, and 2 other computers running stable? Still not working as of today -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf
ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root.dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog.If only it were that simplex!I changed the dialogue to KDE which means it needs X which I un-installed. It won't let me reconfigure any thing.Does that make sense? It's not obvious what the problem is, I know. Bear with me. Thanks.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:59:57 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it > didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, > no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X > (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to reinstall > it. It needs debconf and friends. Well, I had set dpkg-reconfigure debconf > to use KDE-style dialogues. That's very nice, but now I need to use it with > out X so that I can get X. > > So, the question is: How do I reconfigure debconf to use dialogue (or which > ever the option it is not to use KDE or Gnome style dialogues)? > > Thanks kindly in advance. > > (And yes, I know removing X wasn't so smart. I admitt, I gaffed a bit. > Please don't boil me in a cauldron ;) ) ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root. dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog. A > > -- > —A watched bread-crumb never boils. > —My hover-craft is full of eels. > —[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)
I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. I finally located the 2.2 distro on archives.debian.org, but have not been able to find the installation cd iso's. The documentation I found for installing 2.2 says they exist, but they don't seem to be anywhere in the archive. I've never run or installed Debian before (Red Hat & Fedora user for several years), so perhaps I've overlooked something obvious. Please excuse my ignorance, but I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a clue. Thanks, Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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dpkg-reconfigure debconf
During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to reinstall it. It needs debconf and friends. Well, I had set dpkg-reconfigure debconf to use KDE-style dialogues. That's very nice, but now I need to use it with out X so that I can get X. So, the question is: How do I reconfigure debconf to use dialogue (or which ever the option it is not to use KDE or Gnome style dialogues)?Thanks kindly in advance.(And yes, I know removing X wasn't so smart. I admitt, I gaffed a bit. Please don't boil me in a cauldron ;) ) -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
yaird problem with kernel-image-2.6-686-smp
When I try to install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp, the package fails to set up. I get the following errors: Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (2.6.15-1) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: '/dev/hda1' not found (/etc/fstab:5) (fatal) Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Line 5 of /etc/fstab is: /dev/hda1 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 How can this be fixed? Josh
Re: Local --> apt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:26:27PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Is there any way to moving a /usr/local installation into apt, meeting > dependencies, etc. Most information is in the configure program with the > application being compiled. Look at checkinstall. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:33:19AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote on Jan, 9: > > > With KDE, when I edited a mail in mutt, a new buffer was created in > > > gvim, its window was raised and got focus. With xfwm4, the window is > > > raised but doesn't gain focus. I tried it with fluxbox, and it behaves > > > like KDE: the gvim window is raised and gets focus. > > What version of xfwm4? > ii xfwm4 4.2.3.2-2 window manager of the Xfce project Okie. > > What do you have in the settings of the window manager under the focus > > tab? > > > > > FocusRaise raises a window that got focus. The problem I observed is exactly > the opposite: to give focus to a window that got raised. FocusNewWindow > doesn't apply because a new window is not being created in this scenario. Oh right, sorry. I've misunderstood then. I thought you were talking about a new window. What do you mean instead? Simon. -- [ "Emergency! Emergency! There's an emergency going on!" - Holly ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade
Greg Norris wrote:>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:> >>>I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages>>involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts >>different. There is also the following error message:>> This could be caused by an incompatible extension. Try launching >firefox from an xterm, with the "-safemode" >-safe-mode> parameter... is the problem >still present?>>> >-- Cheers--Gabriel ParrondoLinux User #404138"In theory there's no difference between the theory and the practice. In the practice There is."
Problem mounting 2GB SD card in USB card reader
Hi, I'm running Debian 3.1 and have been using a couple of 512MB SD cards in my USB card reader without any problems. I'm running the standard 2.4 kernel and have the following in /etc/fstab: /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 When I do: mount /media/mmc the SD card mounts fine, and dmesg shows: SCSI device sdc: 1002496 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun2: p1 I've recently bought a 2GB SD card, which seems to work fine (at least as far as my Treo 600 is concerned). However, when I put it in the card reader and try to mount it, the process hangs (the system is fine, it's just that process which seems unkillable - I'm writing this with the system in this state) and dmesg shows: SCSI device sdc: 2031616 1024-byte hdwr sectors (2080 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun2:<6>usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.2-2address 2 hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 3 I've tried running: mkdosfs /dev/sdc1 which works fine with a 512MB card but produces a similar process hang with the 2GB card. I tried using the 2.6.8 kernel but when I installed it and rebooted, my system seemed to encounter a kernel panic - I have to admit I haven't investigated this in any great detail. I don't have any other operating systems installed so I can't tell if my card reader is somehow incompatible with 2GB cards, but I tried booting off an old version of Knoppix (3.6 2004-08-16) which I had lying around. Under that I can't seem to manage to mount even my 512MB card, so that wasn't much help. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, and apologies if I somehow managed to miss any advice on this when I searched the debian-user archives. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
David,Am I mistaken or did I see a recent post from you about some sortof flakiness in your wireless internet connection? Could a lost connection be causing firefox to reload the page?You know, I never considered that. I some how don't think that is it, but it is an interesting theory. The reason I don't think that that is the cause is two-fold. One, I'm connected when it happens (I can recall going about my business) and two, Firefox does not seem to be reloading; only refreshing (the difference being the former takes information from the web-site, the latter, well, doesn't.) Still, when next it happens, I will pay special attention to my connection status.Thanks for the lead.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Logrotate don't route
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Marco wrote:
> David Jardine ha scritto:
> >On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I have make in /etc/logrotate.d a new file (as name backup) for rotate
> >>my backup's log.
> >>This is the text in my file:
> >>/var/log/backup {
> >> rotate 4
> >> monthly
> >> compress
> >> delaycompress
> >> missingok
> >> notifempty
> >> create 640 root adm
> >>}
> >>I have also restart my system, but my log don't route.
> >>
> >
> >Have you tried it with the -f option, i.e,
> >
> >logrotate -f /var/log/backup
> >
> >from the command line? If that works, it may be that your computer
> >was simply not switched on at the time logrotate should have been
> >doing its job.
> >
> >
> I David
> I have try with "logrotate -f /var/log/backup I have these errors:
>
> error: razor-agent.log:1 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
> error: razor-agent.log:1 unexpected text
> error: razor-agent.log:2 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
> error: razor-agent.log:2 unexpected text
> error: razor-agent.log:3 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
> error: razor-agent.log:3 unexpected text
> error: razor-agent.log:4 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
> error: razor-agent.log:4 unexpected text
> error: razor-agent.log:5 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
> error: razor-agent.log:5 unexpected text
> ...
> error: razor-agent.log:174 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
> error: razor-agent.log:174 unexpected text
>
> This is the extract of my backup.log
>
> ott 15 17:17:30 [Beta Backup System] Starting backup ...
> ott 15 17:17:30 [Beta Backup System] logfile
> /var/backups/2005.10.15-17.17-beta-backup.log created
> ott 15 17:17:38 [Beta Backup System] Backup finished.
>
> Help :-(
Sorry, Marco, I wasn't thinking too clearly when I replied.
The filename at the end of the command line must be the name of
the configuration file.
The filename at the top of the configuration file must be the
name of the file to be rotated.
Is your logfile named - exactly - "/var/log/backup"? If so,
logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/backup
should work.
In fact, it's more usual, I think, to put details in the
/etc/logrotate.conf file, leaving the logrotate.d directory for
packages to put their configurations in, but I can't see what
difference it would make.
What seems to have happened is that logrotate looked for the
configuration in your logfile and couldn't to anything with it.
But I don't know what that "razor-agent" is all about. Perhaps
you do...
I hope that works now.
Cheers,
David
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Re: display popup message on X with crontab
on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? > > There is xmessage, but from crontab? Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately. DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My message" ... should work, if not in your crontab entry itself then in a script called by same. ":0.0" should work for most circumstances. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Remember that the objective of any Microsoft product upgrade is to stimulate sales. - Robert X. Cringely signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: tar: --delete macht tar-Archiv korrupt
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:51:59PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Mache ich was falsch? Ja: du solltest mal nach die deutsche debian-user-german@lists.debian.org Liste mailen. :) Siehe: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ Die Liste wohin du jetzt gesendet hast, ist eine englische Liste. [For clarity in English: please use the German list. Or rephrase your question in English of course.] -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "All the darkness that we choose, lay it down, it can't be used. Burn it in the fire." --- Neal Morse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
display popup message on X with crontab
Hi, How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? There is xmessage, but from crontab? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: an advice about security.
On 2006-01-10 1257, Mauro Sanna wrote: > Hello. > My users connect via a samba server to their home directories and to a > develop directory that is /home/develop. > Then they copy all the data from /home/develop to /var/www/final. > Now they want to connect directly to /var/www/final to avoid the copy. > Can I share /var/www/final with samba or it can be a security problem? Well. It could be a security ``risk'', in the sense that it would be possible for your developers to put up files, that trigger an exploit of your httpd (and the parsers it may feature), and thereby gain control of your system. However, that would be directly malicious from your users, and you'd be having a lot of other concerns if you were to counter such hostility. If I understand you correctly, you migrate from having your users commit into their homedirs and then commiting that into the final-dir, to having them commit directly into the final-dir. That might be dangerous, as your developers may more easily override already-correct files. As I see it, you could go ahead with your plan as is, bearing in mind that it is sub-optimal. You could attempt a remedy on your current scheme, and have a cronjob copy the data of /home/develop to /var/www/final every night or the like. If you go with this approach, you really shold keep a backup of the final-dir, at least a week back. But, as another poster pointed out, your developers would be better off learning to use CVS, or rather, subversion. Those are fully-fledged systems for collaborating on source code and the likes. Regards, Anders Breindahl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:07:10PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. > > This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine > if I start it with startx. > > BUT kdm will not start, and in the file /var/log/kdm.log there is an > error saying the on the X command, the -br option is not recognised. > > I have tried purging kdm and reinstalling to see if any of its config files > needed updating, but that that did not cure the problem. > > The only "odd" thing about this machine is that it has a very old S3 > graphics chip, which is not supported by x.org. So I use the old S3 > XFree86 xserver. > > I have so far been unable to find where X is being invoked with the > -br option, any pointers would be gratefully accepted. I think it's configured in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc - something like ServerArgs or ServerCmd. That's from memory, though (not running kdm/KDE here). In case that should be wrong, try "grep -r -e -br /etc/kde3" to locate other likely candidates... Cheers, Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")
On 1/10/06, Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > um... n/m I had a different error, I meant to reply to an > older > post by someone else who had the same error... > Sorry for the mixup and getting your hopes up Still, who knows, maybe > it'll > work ;) No biggie; A for effort! I think my question now is, as reflected in the new and improved subject header, where is the postrotate script referenced by the error message? What is this thing? -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut?
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:37:27AM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > > > > Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? > > > > > > > > > As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use > > GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top > > of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark them > > down when next it happens and let you know. > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_otherleaders.htmland > another yester-eve when I was signing up for a new account. It was an > https, so now we know that this refresh is a Firefox-in-general problem and > not a Firefox-by-the-page problem. David, Am I mistaken or did I see a recent post from you about some sort of flakiness in your wireless internet connection? Could a lost connection be causing firefox to reload the page? > > -- > ???A watched bread-crumb never boils. > ???My hover-craft is full of eels. > ???[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
i know thats not possible with my JVC which has USB .. you should be able to do it with the firewire port just fine though. also Jay he's using an smp kernel because its a hyper-threaded cpu. AFAIK at some point there wont even be a separate smp compile it'll just assume smp and not use it if its not there. On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:28 -0500, Jay Zach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David R. Litwin wrote: > > I should like to be able to see the live video from my Sony DCR-TRV33 > > Camcorder on my Sid 2.6.14-686-smp KDE Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Toshiba > > laptop machine (I hope that tells you what I'm running) using USB > > Off-Topic, but why would you be running an smp kernel on a laptop? > > > - -- > - > > > My uncle Murray conquered Egypt in 53 B.C. And I can prove it too!! > > Tuesday Jan 10, 2006 > > - > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQEVAwUBQ8QK0a3rZxntQpytAQJGJAf9GVOMpN44hdyaPXgC8ss+9M+HKREduddS > xWBSE6dtMznH/RDW00IOYZ8RIvozd4fyiqgkGvOvMcKVz6A7gJsvqIfomrlkAfZ5 > ZYOCp27V2TyUr4NH4RGjIigfa3r4MLzfmId2MMiQK1SEyOB2qGGlolrAYC6EvfhP > JTbgIWboeckeJnfyXTKPvFlup4DprJSU3t6s6fWl9q1VAt043L5GzNDB6IcnNLvw > BDIoC+B8YKkiJY2BEhtvyuWrNwSstujItYLlfNwOq2iM/QfZyMguwGa8mbLj+VN4 > tlBt0XYCDHpuagc9RctItNQqy0+2C254qDCvt1Q05x0lrl2bakYazQ== > =AndK > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logrotate don't route
David Jardine ha scritto:
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote:
Hi all,
I have make in /etc/logrotate.d a new file (as name backup) for rotate
my backup's log.
This is the text in my file:
/var/log/backup {
rotate 4
monthly
compress
delaycompress
missingok
notifempty
create 640 root adm
}
I have also restart my system, but my log don't route.
Have you tried it with the -f option, i.e,
logrotate -f /var/log/backup
from the command line? If that works, it may be that your computer
was simply not switched on at the time logrotate should have been
doing its job.
I David
I have try with "logrotate -f /var/log/backup I have these errors:
error: razor-agent.log:1 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
error: razor-agent.log:1 unexpected text
error: razor-agent.log:2 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
error: razor-agent.log:2 unexpected text
error: razor-agent.log:3 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
error: razor-agent.log:3 unexpected text
error: razor-agent.log:4 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
error: razor-agent.log:4 unexpected text
error: razor-agent.log:5 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
error: razor-agent.log:5 unexpected text
...
error: razor-agent.log:174 unknown option 'ott' -- ignoring line
error: razor-agent.log:174 unexpected text
This is the extract of my backup.log
ott 15 17:17:30 [Beta Backup System] Starting backup ...
ott 15 17:17:30 [Beta Backup System] logfile
/var/backups/2005.10.15-17.17-beta-backup.log created
ott 15 17:17:38 [Beta Backup System] Backup finished.
Help :-(
Thanks
Marco
Could you help me???
Thanks
Marco
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Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome
Brian Clark wrote: Yes, although it will work, surely that isn't the best solution. It is a common thing to do, but... Unless I've done something else wrong, I'm starting to think it's a bug. ...I have just read the documentation and tested this method. It does indeed not work. I seems that "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin" does not even try to read either "/etc/openoffice/openoffice.org", or "/etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf", so no wonder it does not work. It is possible that I overlooked something while debugging OpenOffice, but I am pretty sure this _is_ a bug. Feel free to report it, otherwise I will do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Litwin wrote: > I should like to be able to see the live video from my Sony DCR-TRV33 > Camcorder on my Sid 2.6.14-686-smp KDE Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Toshiba > laptop machine (I hope that tells you what I'm running) using USB Off-Topic, but why would you be running an smp kernel on a laptop? - -- - My uncle Murray conquered Egypt in 53 B.C. And I can prove it too!! Tuesday Jan 10, 2006 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQ8QK0a3rZxntQpytAQJGJAf9GVOMpN44hdyaPXgC8ss+9M+HKREduddS xWBSE6dtMznH/RDW00IOYZ8RIvozd4fyiqgkGvOvMcKVz6A7gJsvqIfomrlkAfZ5 ZYOCp27V2TyUr4NH4RGjIigfa3r4MLzfmId2MMiQK1SEyOB2qGGlolrAYC6EvfhP JTbgIWboeckeJnfyXTKPvFlup4DprJSU3t6s6fWl9q1VAt043L5GzNDB6IcnNLvw BDIoC+B8YKkiJY2BEhtvyuWrNwSstujItYLlfNwOq2iM/QfZyMguwGa8mbLj+VN4 tlBt0XYCDHpuagc9RctItNQqy0+2C254qDCvt1Q05x0lrl2bakYazQ== =AndK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Local --> apt
Is there any way to moving a /usr/local installation into apt, meeting dependencies, etc. Most information is in the configure program with the application being compiled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 and temperature monitoring
Le Mardi 10 Janvier 2006 11:04, Andras Lorincz a écrit : > Hi, > > I have an Asus A7N8X-XE mobo. Things work well: networking, audio, IDE > drivers are working with 2.6.14.4 kernel, the only thing is that I > cannot monitor the CPU and case temperature; is there some module that > I didn't compile, if yes then which is that? yes there are... you'll first need to install lm-sensors package In the configuration in the kernel, you'll need Device Drivers / I2C support / I2C device interface Device Drivers / I2C support / I2C Hardware Bus support / nforce2 Device Drivers / Hardware Monitoring support / Hardware Monitoring support Device Drivers / Hardware Monitoring support / Asus ASB100 Bach Device Drivers / Hardware Monitoring support / Winbond W83L785TS-S (in fact, that's what I need with A7N8X-Deluxe) you should enable maybe some other modules, but then run "sensors-detect" to see which one.
Re: Continuing problem with updates
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg00291.html . On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:21:50AM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > For the past few days I keep getting a "public key" warning when I try > to update packages from two different mirrors. The warning says > "NO_PUBLIC 010908312D230C5F" It seems as if the packages are missing a > checksum key or some other problem. Could you please check thanks. > -- > Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]
On Tue, January 10, 2006 11:08 am, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 14:43:18 +0100, David Jardine wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: >> > the "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to >> > stop) so what can we do? >> > >> >> Installing Linux on ones computer requires a conscious decision; >> choosing Debian as the distribution to install must presuppose some >> awareness of the issues involved. So how did these people come to >> be installing Debian in the first place without knowing what to >> expect? > > When I first installed RedHat 4.1 on my 486 box, I had no idea what I > was getting myself into. But I'm glad I did it anyway. > > -- > richard > > I second that. I first installed Mandrake in 97 on an IBM Thinkpad. I had no idea what I was doing either. I had read about how Linux was a great alternative to windows. Other than that I really had no real *nix experience. It would be great, especially as Debian modernizes, if it would more seemlessly install the basic workstation - kind of like Red Hat does these days without having to enter video and monitor specifics that the casual home user or even some admins do not know. That would at least get the user into a familiar environment quickly. They could then learn from there. That would lower some barriers and hopefully reduce the "I have a black screen with a cursor, now what do I do?" type of questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups - samba - frustration! - LIKE SOLVED
Angela Gavazzi wrote: Hi Clive, the last 2 hours I set up a new (about the 10th) pure! sarge (doing all testing in vmware), installed all the necessary stuff, joined to domain, installed a printer test under cups and tested it. then I went on a w2k client, connect to the printers share, uploaded the windows driver to the samba machine. (This was not possible with an xp-pro client, don't know why) tThen from another machine I could connect to the printer and print. so I think I will have to use this way instead of cupsaddsmb, which is a great tool and very confortable! I used it the last 2 years on my old samba: you don't need to install every printer locally on windows before and need only! a ppd, from linuxprinting or from vendor. As we will use pykota for accounting, because I cannot way longer for a running version of the cups driver, I don't need the cupsdriver for accounting anymore, also if it has the advantage that the users can define billing per print job. Well I'm glad you got it working; I knew there must be a much cleverer way of setting up multiple clients but never had the time or real necessity to try. It would make good material for a HOWTO :) Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:56:12AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:18:21AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > > > >>Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >>>On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:24:24PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > >>> > >>> > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:18:35PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > > > > > > > >>Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research. > >> > >>I am currently doing the Google shuffle and am posting this to try to > >>make sure I don't miss something important. > >> > >> > >... > > I did have a question for you Paul. Do you find you need Howl > (mdnsresponder/mdnsd) installed to make sure your Netatalk server is > discovered/recoginized by your Mac(s)? > > Thanks, > Lee C I've never heard of Howl. If its on any of my computers I be quite surprised. I think that netatalk implements protocols that are Apple specific and have nothing to do with DNS. Netatalk fools the Macs into believing that they are talking Apple language to another Apple product. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
change from ide to scsi drive keep system
I've seen asked before and googling does not help. Here's how I just switched over a server from ide to a compag dl380 with smart array 3200 scsi card. Install base system on target machine. Install webmin On running server, install webmin. go to system/file-system backup make a backup to the local machine in /backup include these directorys /etc /var /usr /root /home /sbin In "Backup to file or tape device" I put /backup/backup In "extra command line perimeters" I put --exclude=/etc/fstab --exclude=/etc/network When done, fish or scp the file to the target machine to a directory called /backup example scp line scp (source) destination scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\backup\backup /backup/ Now on the target machine open webmin go to system/filesystem backup - choose restore In "file or tape device" put /backup/backup restore file permissions = yes Then restore and reboot the machine... ** Now then, folks may tell you, you don't need things like sbin or maybe /var/spool. Courier imap complained about sbin and postfix complained about spool.. There has to be better ways of doing this, but this is what FINALLY worked for me. Suggestions are welcome! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups - samba - frustration! - LIKE SOLVED
Hi Clive, the last 2 hours I set up a new (about the 10th) pure! sarge (doing all testing in vmware), installed all the necessary stuff, joined to domain, installed a printer test under cups and tested it. then I went on a w2k client, connect to the printers share, uploaded the windows driver to the samba machine. (This was not possible with an xp-pro client, don't know why) tThen from another machine I could connect to the printer and print. so I think I will have to use this way instead of cupsaddsmb, which is a great tool and very confortable! I used it the last 2 years on my old samba: you don't need to install every printer locally on windows before and need only! a ppd, from linuxprinting or from vendor. As we will use pykota for accounting, because I cannot way longer for a running version of the cups driver, I don't need the cupsdriver for accounting anymore, also if it has the advantage that the users can define billing per print job. thank you very! much for your effort and help!!! angela Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 18.23 schrieb Clive Menzies: > Angela Gavazzi wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 12.10 schrieb Clive Menzies: > >>http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.ht > >>ml > > > > I will have a look at it. > > > >>>When I try to prepare the printerdrivers for the windows clients with > >>>cupsaddsmb "nothing" happens: no error message, "Printer added > >>>successfully" but not drivers copied to print$ share, no updates from > >>>ntprinters.tdb, nothing. > >> > >>At the risk of asking a dumb question, have you set up the windows > >>driver sharing within smb.conf? > > > > sure [print$] [printers] and necessary permissions. On the post from 2 1. > > 06 16.17 I attached all the configs if you like to see them > > I haven't got a copy of your original post but there is printer share > section and an additional share for the drivers. I don't use the > downloadable drivers and have this commented out: > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > browseable = yes > printable = yes > public = yes > create mode = 0700 > guest ok = yes > guest only = yes > use client driver = yes > path = /tmp > > > # Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable > # printer drivers > # [print$] > # comment = Printer Drivers > # path = /var/lib/samba/printers > # browseable = yes > # read only = yes > # guest ok = no > > >>Also can you print from windows printer setting it up with a driver > >>sourced from somewhere other than the server? > > > > do you meen from windows client to the printer connected to cups with a > > locally installed driver? Or do you meen if I loaded the windows driver > > to the server via windows printer wizard? > > I just reread what I wrote and it doesn't make much sense to me either > > :) What I meant to say was: > > Also can you print from a windows 'PC' setting it up with a driver > sourced from somewhere other than the server? > > What I do is install cups on the server with the requisite driver for > the printer using the cups web interface (using lynx, I don't have a gui > installed). Test it will print a test page from the web interface. > > Set to use the client (in your case windows) driver within the smb.conf > (see above). > > Then set up each individual printer from windows and make sure it will > print via the server. Typically, I source an appropriate driver for the > operating system and particular printer. On Windows it's a little > confusing because you have to select local rather than network printer > and then configure a new port for the windows/samba share. > Alternatively, if you explore and then right click on the printer you > can install from there. > > Apologies, if this is 'teaching your grandmother to suck eggs' > > I was asking whether you've tried this before attempting to automate any > driver installation. > > Regards > > Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for newsreader
Richard Lyons wrote: > > Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > > ... > > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer the > > archive of gmane.org, > > ... > > Try search the Debian archive on Nabble: http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html That is a good resource. Pity it's not subthreaded, so to speak. But very useful anyway. Richard, Do you mean a threaded view of the messages? The messages in Nabble archive defaults to a dump view, but there is a "View Threaded" link under each post, click that you will see the threaded view. Will L Nabble.com View this message in context: Re: Recommendation for newsreader Sent from the Debian User forum at Nabble.com.
Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:35:22 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Rewriting the welcome message coupled with some scripts to quickly install > a GUI (for the ones who missed the option) or get rid of the newbie welcome > 3. Have the 'Desktop' task selected by default (and maybe add some warnings > to unselecting it). A reboot or "start gdm" (at least as a default option > which can be changed) at that point might also be a good idea as base-config > exits to a shell. THe initial startup of a gui, regardless of how its gotten too, should in my opinion bail back to command line and some kind of configuration helper if there is not a user-response within the gui within a pre-set amount of time. This way if the user or installer mis-configures X, they can regain control of the machine and try again. My reasoning is that if we make it easier to get that gui boot first time (as the above items strive to do), then there are more likely going to be problems with that gui boot. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Continuing problem with updates
For the past few days I keep getting a "public key" warning when I try to update packages from two different mirrors. The warning says "NO_PUBLIC 010908312D230C5F" It seems as if the packages are missing a checksum key or some other problem. Could you please check thanks. -- Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.deb with ATI X700
Hi all, After updating the packages and upgrading my system, xserver-xorg upgraded to version 6.9. After that I couldn't start X anymore. I know that downgrading to xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb solves the problem, but since packages.debian is down for a few days, I can't get the xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb package to have X working again. So, I have two questions: 1) Is there another way to get the package/solve the problem using the ATI driver? 2) What can I do to prevent similar problems in the future (breaking the normal system behaviour after upgrades)? Thanks in advance, Halestino
Re: cups - samba - frustration!
Angela Gavazzi wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 12.10 schrieb Clive Menzies: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html I will have a look at it. When I try to prepare the printerdrivers for the windows clients with cupsaddsmb "nothing" happens: no error message, "Printer added successfully" but not drivers copied to print$ share, no updates from ntprinters.tdb, nothing. At the risk of asking a dumb question, have you set up the windows driver sharing within smb.conf? sure [print$] [printers] and necessary permissions. On the post from 2 1. 06 16.17 I attached all the configs if you like to see them I haven't got a copy of your original post but there is printer share section and an additional share for the drivers. I don't use the downloadable drivers and have this commented out: [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes public = yes create mode = 0700 guest ok = yes guest only = yes use client driver = yes path = /tmp # Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable # printer drivers # [print$] # comment = Printer Drivers # path = /var/lib/samba/printers # browseable = yes # read only = yes # guest ok = no Also can you print from windows printer setting it up with a driver sourced from somewhere other than the server? do you meen from windows client to the printer connected to cups with a locally installed driver? Or do you meen if I loaded the windows driver to the server via windows printer wizard? I just reread what I wrote and it doesn't make much sense to me either :) What I meant to say was: Also can you print from a windows 'PC' setting it up with a driver sourced from somewhere other than the server? What I do is install cups on the server with the requisite driver for the printer using the cups web interface (using lynx, I don't have a gui installed). Test it will print a test page from the web interface. Set to use the client (in your case windows) driver within the smb.conf (see above). Then set up each individual printer from windows and make sure it will print via the server. Typically, I source an appropriate driver for the operating system and particular printer. On Windows it's a little confusing because you have to select local rather than network printer and then configure a new port for the windows/samba share. Alternatively, if you explore and then right click on the printer you can install from there. Apologies, if this is 'teaching your grandmother to suck eggs' I was asking whether you've tried this before attempting to automate any driver installation. Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]
On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 14:43:18 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: > > the "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to > > stop) so what can we do? > > > > Installing Linux on ones computer requires a conscious decision; > choosing Debian as the distribution to install must presuppose some > awareness of the issues involved. So how did these people come to > be installing Debian in the first place without knowing what to > expect? When I first installed RedHat 4.1 on my 486 box, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I'm glad I did it anyway. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with the latest ffmpeg from nerim.net
Hi, Christian:
I've been using the nerim.net repository ever since I started to use
Debian long time ago, and had never had any problem before.
I was happy to find out that the transcode and ffmpeg all updated to the
latest version recently, however, I found that the latest ffmpeg package
is unusable -- it causes problem in many aspects.
The ffmpeg that I'm talking about is:
ffmpeg version CVS, build 3277056, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=${prefix}/lib --enable-shared
--enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-faad --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
--enable-vorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-faac --enable-xvid --enable-dts
--enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pp --enable-shared-pp --enable-libogg
--enable-a52 --enable-a52bin --enable-x264 --enable-theora
built on Dec 30 2005 15:07:33, gcc: 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
First of all, the -target dvd can't be used any more. I have to specify
-target pal-dvd or -target ntsc-dvd explicitly. Yeah this is not a big
deal, but IIRC, it worked before.
Secondly, -target xxx-dvd can't produced the correct DVD format any
more. This is the biggest problem of all:
$ ffmpeg -i "test-src.avi" -y -target pal-dvd -r 25.000 "test-src.mpg"
$ tcprobe -i test-src.mpg
[tcprobe] MPEG program stream (PS)
[tcprobe] summary for test-src.mpg, (*) = not default, 0 = not detected
import frame size: -g 720x576 [720x576]
aspect ratio: 2.21:1 (*)
frame rate: -f 25.000 [25.000] frc=3
PTS=0.5000, frame_time=40 ms, bitrate=9000 kbps
audio track: -a 0 [0] -e 48000,16,2 [48000,16,2] -n 0x2000 [0x2000]
PTS=0.5000, bitrate=448 kbps
-D 0 --av_fine_ms 0 (frames & ms) [0] [0]
The result, although sized at 720x576, is even wider than my 1024 screen
when played on my PC, with no top/bottom black bars. The generated mpeg file
cause problem with dvdauthor:
$ dvdauthor -o dvdauth -t test-src.mpg
WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 4
[...]
WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 4
The dvdauthor result has distorted aspect.
Thirdly, it does not work with transcode properly. The following is the
correspondents between Erik Slagter and me:
,-
| > >> [transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 23.976,1 [transcode] V: encoding
| > >> fps,frc | 23.976,1 [mpeg2video @ 0xb5d2c110]removing common factors
| > >> from framerate [mpeg2video @ 0xb5d2c110]MPEG1/2 does not support
| > >> 2997/125 fps [export_ffmpeg.so] could not open FFMPEG codec
| > >
| > >> what's wrong?
| > >
| > > Looks like a bug in transcode. [...]
| > >
| > > What happens if you specify import and/or export frame rates
| > > explicitly on the command line?
| >
| > hmm, I don't know how to do it correctly. I've tried all the following,
| > all of them yield the same error:
| >
| > transcode -i test-src.avi -f 1 -y ffmpeg,ffmpeg --export_prof dvd -o
| > test-out-ffmpeg transcode -i test-src.avi -f 23.976,1 -y ffmpeg,ffmpeg
| > --export_prof dvd -o test-out-ffmpeg transcode -i test-src.avi -f
| > 24000/1001.0,1 -y ffmpeg,ffmpeg --export_prof dvd -o test-out-ffmpeg
| > transcode -i test-src.avi -f 24000/1001,1 -y ffmpeg,ffmpeg --export_prof
| > dvd -o test-out-ffmpeg transcode -i test-src.avi -f 24000/1001,1 -y
| > ffmpeg,ffmpeg --export_prof dvd --export_fps 24000/1001,1 -o
| > test-out-ffmpeg
|
| In that case I am afraid someone will have to dig into the
| transcode/ffmpeg source code.
`-
Forth, the ffplay can't work with .vob files, it used to work before:
$ ffplay VTS_01_1.VOB
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
Lastly, I also get "Segmentation Fault" when I try to get clip images from
mpeg file:
$ ffmpeg -ss 0:0:23 -t 1 -i test-out.mpg out.png
ffmpeg version CVS, build 3277056, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=${prefix}/lib --enable-shared
--enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-faad --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
--enable-vorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-faac --enable-xvid --enable-dts
--enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pp --enable-shared-pp --enable-libogg
--enable-a52 --enable-a52bin --enable-x264 --enable-theora
built on Dec 30 2005 15:07:33, gcc: 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
Segmentation fault
Could you use a newer one, or the cvs20050918-5 one that is current in
testing/unstable?
thanks a lot
tong
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lm-sensors
Just upgraded an old P3 machine to a new Athlon 3500 on an Asus motherboard (sarge). sensors-detect advised to install the modules i2c-isa it87 Now - sensors gives the following (as does sensord): it87-isa-0d00 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +1.44 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) ALARM VCore 2: +4.08 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.61 V) ALARM +3.3V: +6.59 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.46 V) ALARM +5V: +5.13 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) +12V: +11.90 V (min = +11.39 V, max = +12.61 V) -12V: +3.93 V (min = -12.63 V, max = -11.41 V) ALARM -5V: +4.03 V (min = -5.26 V, max = -4.77 V) ALARM Stdby: +6.85 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) ALARM VBat: +3.20 V fan1:0 RPM (min =0 RPM, div = 2) fan2:0 RPM (min = 41 RPM, div = 128) fan3:0 RPM (min = 664 RPM, div = 8) M/B Temp:+38 C (low = +15 C, high = +40 C) sensor = thermistor CPU Temp:+44 C (low = +15 C, high = +45 C) sensor = thermistor Temp3: +128 C (low = +15 C, high = +45 C) sensor = disabled Now - everything is running correctly - so I've got a feeling that there isn't +4v on the -12v , +4v on the -5v etc. I followed a web howto on how to set it up - but I could really do with some help debugging/finding out what's going on here. Any hints/RTFM pointers on how to sort this out? -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
On 1/10/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_otherleaders.html > and another yester-eve when I was signing up for a new account. It was an > https, so now we know that this refresh is a Firefox-in-general problem and > not a Firefox-by-the-page problem. I'm running 1.5 in sid (2.4.27, xorg, and fvwm) and I've never seen this problem. Have you tried browsing in safe mode? My suspicion would be that it's All-In-One Gestures and either a glitchy or over-eager pointing device. You could try disabling just that one extension to see if it makes a difference. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Re: Openoffice 2.0 user interface font
MrVanes wrote: > Hi, > > Today I found OpenOffice 2.0 trickled down into testing, yay! > > The first annoyance however smacked me in the face when I saw the default > userinterface font. I allready found out how to change this using font > replacement for 'Andale Sans UI', but I don't understand the following > things: > > 1. What does the 'use system font for user interface' setting refer to? > 2. Where is this defined without the above checked? Esp: size! > 3. To what is the scaling factor mentioned in the View dialog relative? I > want an interface font that is smaller than what I get when I scale down > to the minimum of 80%. Besides that I would feel more comfortable leaving > this 100% and changing the responsible system setting. > > X has a dpi of 100 (xdpyinfo). > > > Regards, > Martin > > Update... After browsing (ploughing) through the sourcecode to find a place where the font size was set I noticed OO2 kde integration. Googling revealed kde.openoffice.org. So I decided to install openoffice KDE integration. Problem is I run self compiled QT/KDE and openoffice.org-kde depends on debian's qt and kde libraries, something I don't want my system contaminated with of course. So I searched for the literal package responsible for openoffice kde intergration which (at this moment) is openoffice.org-kde_2.0.0-5_i386.deb and copied the files (/usr/lib/openoffice/program/* and /usr/share/lintian/*) in their respective places and whoops... KDE integration and small UI font was a fact! :) Hope this helps everybody looking for this solution a bit further. Grtz. Martin! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark them down when next it happens and let you know. http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_otherleaders.html and another yester-eve when I was signing up for a new account. It was an https, so now we know that this refresh is a Firefox-in-general problem and not a Firefox-by-the-page problem. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
nvidia drivers
This is bug #346246: ... > beside the error message beeing *crystal* clear, we don't support > closed source binary drivers > > closing > I know it's crystal, it's all about compiling for rivafb support! And don't tell me that i can make my custom kernel! This rivafb support on Debian kernel start on 2.6.14 and still exist on 2.6.15. For my servers boxes it's great, but for my desktop boxes no. Is there a way that server boxes and game boxes are both happy!? Many thanks. ... The bug is closed! There's nothing to do! I don't think so. Is Debian only for servers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups - samba - frustration!
Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 12.10 schrieb Clive Menzies: > On (10/01/06 08:53), Angela Gavazzi wrote: > > I think I'm doing some idiot error, but I can't find it - or it's a > > library problem or something else. > > Not sure this will be much help but here goes ... > > > I have a sarge system, samba 3.0.20 from testing (also tried samba > > version from sarge) and tried cups in all versions: 1.0.23.10/12/15 > > (sarge,testing,unstable). > > Samba is member server in an NT4 domain (need to move the printserver to > > migrate the domain), authentication through winbind, all works on samba. > > Can make shares, put data into it, robocopy data from windows to it with > > the correct acls. > > I can install printers in cups, can print from Linux, all is ok. > > Samba 3.0.14a-3 and Cupsys 1.1.23-10 work fine on our sarge servers > serving Windows (XP, 2000 and 98), Mac and Linux clients. I don't > believe you will gain much from using the etch versions unless there is > specific functionality you're after that isn't available in sarge. Sure but it's not better with the sarge version, I had this at first and tried the other later, as I couldn't get it running. > > I haven't yet cracked centralised authentication and so the setups we > have are simpler in many respects. Nonetheless it is worth referring to > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html I will have a look at it. > > if you haven't already. > > > When I try to prepare the printerdrivers for the windows clients with > > cupsaddsmb "nothing" happens: no error message, "Printer added > > successfully" but not drivers copied to print$ share, no updates from > > ntprinters.tdb, nothing. > > > > I just put a post here about 10 days ago, but nobody ansered, the same on > > samba and cups list. > > At the risk of asking a dumb question, have you set up the windows > driver sharing within smb.conf? sure [print$] [printers] and necessary permissions. On the post from 2 1. 06 16.17 I attached all the configs if you like to see them > > Also can you print from windows printer setting it up with a driver > sourced from somewhere other than the server? do you meen from windows client to the printer connected to cups with a locally installed driver? Or do you meen if I loaded the windows driver to the server via windows printer wizard? > > Regards > > Clive thanks! angela > > -- > www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... > ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:14:12PM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Brian Clark wrote: > >After upgrading to OpenOffice.org 2.0 in testing, it doesn't seem to > >pick up and use GTK widgets, themes, et cetera, unless I run it from a > >shell (see below). > >I have this: > >~$ cat /etc/openoffice/openoffice.org > >export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome > >(I've also tried `export OO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome' in that file) > >When I issue export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome in a shell, then launch > >oowriter &, it picks up the GTK look correctly. > >And I'm using Openbox as my window manager. In OO.org 1.1 it worked as > >expected. > Just put "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" in ".xsession" in your home > directory and restart X. Hi there, Linas. Yes, although it will work, surely that isn't the best solution. Unless I've done something else wrong, I'm starting to think it's a bug. -- Brian Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .ape files
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:29:19AM +0200, Meni Shapiro wrote: > What player plays .ape files? > Which pkg should i install? It's a lossless codec called Monkey's Audio. There is no official package in Debian that plays it as far as I know. You can find Debian packages that handle it at http://www.rarewares.org/. I would recommend decoding them and re-encoding them in something that is free. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-Postfix signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: window manager.
... > Ok. > But...why using hurd with mach kernel instead of linux? > It's for your trial ok, but supposing hurd became stable, why use it > instead of linux? ... That's for anyone to find out: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd At the end everything comes to a personal choice and taste. I didn't want to answer because I could start a discussion I don't want to keep. There's people around who are better acknowledged about kernels stuff than I am, and who could give you better pros and cons about hurd and the academic war between monolithic kernels and uKernels, but at the end I just wanted to point out a few things I like as user (notice that the hurd is a unix like system anyways, so from a user perspective there shouldn't be much difference any ways): 1.- It's based on uKernel, not monolitic kernel such as linux or ms-win: "The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features..." 2.- User space: "It is possible to develop and test new Hurd kernel components without rebooting the machine (not even accidentally). Running your own kernel components doesn't interfere with other users, and so no special system privileges are required. The mechanism for kernel extensions is secure by design: it is impossible to impose your changes upon other users unless they authorize them or you are the system administrator" 3.- It sounds to me that although might not perform faster than monolithic kernel, it is lighter in the sense that only the required servers are up at a time: "The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features" 4.- The new uKernels hurd guys are thinking about are designed from strong security basis (coyotos and secure L4), so although not everything is perfect having something with design considerations for security is attractive. 5.- I like GNU standards and compromise with GPL: "Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)" Again, I won't discuss about these few things or others that can be discussed, I just pointed them out due to your question. At the end I have to recognize I'm a GNU and GPL compliant software fan, so that's probably the main reason I would try and support (as an user since my knowledge is pretty little) GNU software and specially hurd, :) You can do a little research, and you can come to the conclusion you don't need it. Linux provides drivers and stuff that the hard doesn't at this moment, and you for sure will fill more comfortable with linux since it's probably the unix system we're used to. That's OK and that's reality, I'm just stubborn, :) If you're interested on trying, the main debian web page includes a port link, and there you can find another one for non linux ports, there you would find how to install debian-hurd and how to start trying. There are discussions lists also, so anything else should be discussed in those lists I believe instead of this one, to avoid anyone complaining about a hurd discussion on a debian-user list, :) Have fun, -- Javier --
Re: mysql & logrotate not behaving post Etch dist-upgrade
s. keeling wrote: > I received this this morning: > >From: Anacron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on infidel >Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:37:47 -0600 >X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.00, version=0.96.2 > >/etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: >ERROR at line 1: Target log not found in binlog index >run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server exited with return code 1 > > /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: > ERROR at line 1: Target log not found in binlog index > > Hope this still helps since, it's been awhile since you posted ;) I've had this same error over the last few days. I believe that there are binary transaction logs in the /var/log/mysql directory not recognized by mysql. Here's how I've fixed it (I'm not SQL guru either, so this probably isn't "by the book"): 1) I backed up my databases 2) I made a directory called /var/log/mysql/logbackup 3) I stopped mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql stop) 4) I moved all binary logs to the logbackup directory HOSTNAME:/var/log/mysql# mv *bin* logbackup/ 5) I restarted mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql start) 6) I manually ran the cron job to make sure it did not error This seems to have done it. After a day or two, when I'm sure, I'll delete the logbackup dir I made Good Luck :) -- Don't everyone thank me at once! -- Han Solo Tuesday Jan 10, 2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with snapshot.debian.net
Hi all, I need to retrieve an older version of a package from unstable, which is not in sarge (plib1.8.4-dev_1.8.4-1_i386.deb). I tried to get it from snapshot.debian.net, but while it says packages since 2005/03/13 are available, I couldn't access packages earlier than 2005/11/01, and couldn't grab versions earlier than 1.8.4-2 (current is 1.8.4-3). I tried the following methods: - use the search form. Only source packages seem to be available by this method, but what's worse, if I try and follow the link to version 1.8.4-1, I get a "403 Forbidden" error. - insert "deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive//MM/DD/debian unstable main contrib non-free" in my sources list, as suggested. I've tried several values for "/MM/DD", but with any one earlier than "2005/11/01", I get a "403 Forbidden" error on "apt-get update". - access http://snapshot.debian.net/archive//MM/DD/debian directly with the browser. The 2005 directory contains 10, 11 and 12, but while 11 and 12 seem ok, trying to access 10/01 to 10/26 results in a "404 Not Found" error, while 10/27 to 10/31 results in "403 Forbidden". In fact, the latter two also yield different results from each other, and I don't know why: - while the browser gets "404 Not Found" for 10/01 to 10/26 and "403 Forbidden" for 10/27 to 10/31, "apt-get update" always says "403 Forbidden". - while the 11/01 to 11/08 directories contain version 1.8.4-2 and later ones contain version 1.8.4-3, "apt-cache search" always says 1.8.4-3. Am I doing anything wrong? Is snapshot.debian.net not working correctly (will it be repaired)? Is there any other place where I could retrieve the package? Anybody has it on his/her system and can send it to me? For those who want to know, here's why I need that specific version: I've tried to upgrade from torcs 1.2.3 (that I hand-installed some time ago, as there's no version in sarge) to 1.2.4, unfortunately the C++ migration happened in between, so the new version depends on plib1.8.4c2 instead of plib1.8.4 (which I downloaded with torcs), and installing that package would bring a lot of unstable packages with it, that I don't want. Thus I'm trying to rebuild the source package against sarge, which I want to do anyway since I'd like to do some hacking on it. Unfortunately that requires plib1.8.4-dev, which I did *not* download, and versions from 1.8.4-2 on depend on plib1.8.4c2 as well, so I'm stuck. Thanks everybody Gerardo P.S. please Cc: me as I'm not subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"
Jay Zach wrote: > Eric d'Alibut wrote: > >>I have a Debian stable install that runs smoothly; uptime is seventy >>three days. Just lately I am getting these system emails: >> >>/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: >>error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log >>/var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql.err /var/log/mysql/mysql.err >>/var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log >>run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 >> >>I am clueless as to how to debug this error. I am, in fact, a mysql >>moron. Any input would be appreciated! >> >> >>-- >>No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am >>not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely >>because I have a pet halibut? >> >> > > > > Eric, > > I've had this same error over the last few days. I believe that there are > binary transaction logs in the /var/log/mysql directory not recognized by > mysql. > Here's how I've fixed it (I'm not SQL guru either, so this probably isn't "by > the book"): > 1) I backed up my databases > 2) I made a directory called /var/log/mysql/logbackup > 3) I stopped mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql stop) > 4) I moved all binary logs to the logbackup directory > HOSTNAME:/var/log/mysql# mv *bin* logbackup/ > 5) I restarted mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql start) > 6) I manually ran the cron job to make sure it did not error > > This seems to have done it. After a day or two, when I'm sure, I'll delete > the > logbackup dir I made > > Good Luck :) > um... n/m I had a different error, I meant to reply to an older post by someone else who had the same error... Sorry for the mixup and getting your hopes up Still, who knows, maybe it'll work ;) Here is the error I was receiving: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: ERROR at line 1: Target log not found in binlog index run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server exited with return code 1 -- Don't everyone thank me at once! -- Han Solo Tuesday Jan 10, 2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I have a Debian stable install that runs smoothly; uptime is seventy > three days. Just lately I am getting these system emails: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log > /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql.err /var/log/mysql/mysql.err > /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 > > I am clueless as to how to debug this error. I am, in fact, a mysql > moron. Any input would be appreciated! > > > -- > No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am > not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely > because I have a pet halibut? > > Eric, I've had this same error over the last few days. I believe that there are binary transaction logs in the /var/log/mysql directory not recognized by mysql. Here's how I've fixed it (I'm not SQL guru either, so this probably isn't "by the book"): 1) I backed up my databases 2) I made a directory called /var/log/mysql/logbackup 3) I stopped mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql stop) 4) I moved all binary logs to the logbackup directory HOSTNAME:/var/log/mysql# mv *bin* logbackup/ 5) I restarted mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql start) 6) I manually ran the cron job to make sure it did not error This seems to have done it. After a day or two, when I'm sure, I'll delete the logbackup dir I made Good Luck :) -- Don't everyone thank me at once! -- Han Solo Tuesday Jan 10, 2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:42:36AM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > > Didn't one come with the camcorder? > > Sony, willingly give up the chance to sell some thing to some one and make a > pretty buck? I'm surprised that they supplied a USB wire. > Quite true from what I've seen, but their stuff seems to work. We have a TRV-something-or-another which plays well with Kino. Not much help here, I guess, but again--at least you have a chance with the "right stuff"... > > But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim. > > Good luck. Tell us if you get it working... > > I'll need some good skill and a bit of luck. But, I'll see what I can do Ciao, Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't detect CD-ROM in IBM T43
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote: > I still keep having similar problem even with the latest debian installer > (kernel 2.6.12). Having SATA disk and IDE CDROM I am unable to install > Debian. Installer reports that CDROM was not found. I am able to make it > installed using the trick with manual loading the ide-generic ... But > after reboot the system is not able to mount the CDROM anymore. I highly suggest you browse http://thinkwiki.org and join the thinkpad mailing lists, you will be able to make a _lot_ more of your T43 with the ammount of knowledge on these resources. Installing Debian Sarge in a T43: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Debian/Sarge_on_a_ThinkPad_T43p -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please don't laugh...
Graham Smith wrote: > > Ok, you can maybe have a bit of a chuckle. I won't laugh at your expense. But I will suggest that in the future, you might want to be more courteous to the people from whom you're asking for help by using an informative subject line for your message. This mailing list gets hundreds of posts a day. Probably no one reads all of them -- it'd take too much of the day -- so folks read some and skip others, typically filtering on the subject line. Without an informative subject line, other users have to open and start to read your message before they can even find out whether they know anything about the subject and thus would be able to help. That's annoying when one has come home for the day and there's 250 list emails to go through. In fact, because of this, plenty of gurus who might have helped you will simply skip your message -- so it's also in *your* interest to use an informative subject line, as well. Using an informative subject line makes archives of the mailing list more useful as well. Months from now, when someone's looking at thread titles in the archive, how can they know whether "Please don't laugh..." is going to contain information useful to them? When you get the time, take a look at this document about asking technical questions in mailing lists/web fora/etc., which people have been recommending here for years: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html It has some good tips, including about subject lines. You may not choose to follow the recommended format in detail; but comments about what you're trying to accomplish with your subject line are spot on. Cheers, -c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Can't detect CD-ROM in IBM T43
I still keep having similar problem even with the latest debian installer (kernel 2.6.12). Having SATA disk and IDE CDROM I am unable to install Debian. Installer reports that CDROM was not found. I am able to make it installed using the trick with manual loading the ide-generic ... But after reboot the system is not able to mount the CDROM anymore. If I play with initrd using yaird (should rather be named weird :-), then I end up with unbootable system. This happens when installing with kernel 2.6. With kernel 2.4 (install 2.4) everything works fine. Shame on Debian installer (or 2.6 kernel ?)! -Original Message- From: Victor Munoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:32 AM To: debian-user Subject: Can't detect CD-ROM in IBM T43 Hello. I've seen this question posted in many forums, but every idea I've tried after reading the solutions simply doesn't work for me. I'm running Sid in an IBM T43, but cdrom is not detected at all. According to http://kerneltrap.org/node/3971, a possible solution is to make a new initrd image, where ide modules are loaded before the ata_piix module. That didn't work for me. I tried exactly what the posting said: Added ide-generic ata_piix sd_mod to /etc/mkinitrd/modules, then mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img.2.6.15-1.686, then reboot. Nothing new. Not really knowing what to do, I tried other combinations: 1) ide-generic cdrom ata_piix sd_mod 2) ide_generic ata_piix sd_mod 3) ide-generic ide-cd ata_piix 4) ide-generic ide-core ide-cd ata_piix Anyway, in the last attempt I removed all modules in these files, made a new initrd image... and the system would not boot! The only solution was to uninstall/reinstall image 2.6.15-1 I have also tried modifying /etc/modules, inserting ata_piix after the ide modules already there: ide-cd ide-disk ide-generic ata_piix psmouse sd_mod Didn't work. It seems as if /etc/modules is completely ignored. Knoppix 4.0.2, for instance, does recognize the CD, and the ide modules are loaded before ata_piix, but I haven't found out how to force that in my case. Any help? Thanks, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem making kernel - infinite loop
Hi all, I have problems making a 2.6.15 kernel on a debian unstable machine, more precisely Linux seneca 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux The problem is that after saying make, everything that happens is: seneca:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15# make CHK include/linux/version.h Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 Linux_2.6.12-1-686 ... and so on, infinitely. Searching the web and the archives did not provide anything useful, probably due to my inability of finding unique keywords to describe the problem. Has anybody seen something like this before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help, Eckhart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > [...] > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: > the "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to > stop) so what can we do? > Installing Linux on ones computer requires a conscious decision; choosing Debian as the distribution to install must presuppose some awareness of the issues involved. So how did these people come to be installing Debian in the first place without knowing what to expect? Sorry, that doesn't get us anywhere nearer to a solution, does it? Cheers, David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a netboot server
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris >> machines, >> it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. >> I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot >> CD image to boot x86 and Sparc workstations before installation over the >> network. >> >> Solaris netboot/installation works fine - now, I want to expand this to >> serve Debian installation images too - I can sort the tftp side of >> things >> (/etc/ethers /etc/hosts and the /tftpboot links) but am curious as to >> what >> extra software I need to install on the Solaris machine. >> >> Has anyone had any experience in this? I don't want to have to setup a >> further tftp server specifically for the Debian installation if I can >> possibly avoid it! >> Basically I want to bypass the netboot CD image and get each new client >> to >> setup purely via the network. >> the mirror is currently on a different machine to the tftp server. > > I would advice you to take a look at > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ . > It might be just what you want, just for debian. > Thats for the link - although I am not bothered by having to actually install the OS - I just need some pointers as to what I need to include on the tftp server to allow workstations to do a network boot for installation. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting
I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine if I start it with startx. BUT kdm will not start, and in the file /var/log/kdm.log there is an error saying the on the X command, the -br option is not recognised. I have tried purging kdm and reinstalling to see if any of its config files needed updating, but that that did not cure the problem. The only "odd" thing about this machine is that it has a very old S3 graphics chip, which is not supported by x.org. So I use the old S3 XFree86 xserver. I have so far been unable to find where X is being invoked with the -br option, any pointers would be gratefully accepted. Thanks David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:18:21AM -0500, Chinook wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:24:24PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:18:35PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research. I am currently doing the Google shuffle and am posting this to try to make sure I don't miss something important. ... You could very well be correct that Appletalk only does print sharing, but netatalk does both print and file sharing. Mac clients can write files on the Linux hard disk that can be read by any other Mac on the LAN and by a user sitting at the Linux computer. A user sitting at the Linux box can write files into the directories that are shared with the Macs and those files are visible to the Mac users. This is enough bi-directionality for my needs, but maybe not enough for your needs. I just don't know about writing data onto the Mac hard disk from a program running on the Linux box. I've never tried it. Hi Paul (and thanks for hanging in there despite an old man's stubbornness) In support of what you are saying (and after 4 hours googling) I found this: http://viebrock.ca/article/22/file-sharing-from-linux-to-os-x-a-quick-guide Like you, I'm unsure about how (specifically) g4l might be able to "upload" to my Mac. I'll keep digging and get back to this. I think you will find that it is OK, when it comes time to upload to the Mac, instead to walk over to tha Mac and download from the Linux box. That's what I do. To understand how to sit at the Linux box and send stuff over to the Mac would involve gaining a far better understanding of the Mac OS X than I think if deserves. IMHO OS X is an obfuscation layer on top of a very reasonable POSIX compliant Unix. Over time it will thrash about as developers attempt to satisfy marketing department's need for 'innovation'. If you tie your work to it, you will find your work is in need of revision from time to time just to keep it current with the current eye-candy fad. I just turned 73 in December. I, also, am stubborn. Well basically I could implement VPN, NFS or Netatalk (aka AppleTalk/AppleShare), and as I mentioned before I'm not considering SMB. Obviously VPN for a local hardwired network borders on the ridiculous as I have no need for private remote access and even NFS is overkill for my needs. So I'm pretty much left with Netatalk on the Linux box for file and Mac printer sharing, which (on the surface) seems simple enough. For the ftp part of my backup strategy though, I believe my Mac will need to be the ftp server and I'll use vsftp on the Linux box. If anyone is interested, I'll document the setup steps for the Linux+Mac (no doze) network (sans mistakes) and either post them here or put them up on my dotMac. There is very little out there for SOHO no-doze mixed networking. Speaking of backup, it's a good thing I have at least one avenue in place. I already screwed up my Linux connection with my DHCP router and had to restore some files to get my Gnome desktop fully up. The host name assigned to my Linux box wasn't showing up in the router configuration and I made things worse - doesn't bode well for this little project :-))) I did have a question for you Paul. Do you find you need Howl (mdnsresponder/mdnsd) installed to make sure your Netatalk server is discovered/recoginized by your Mac(s)? Thanks, Lee C "The one important thing I've learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous." —Margaret Fontey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000
G'day all,
I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV
under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128:
> lspci -vvv
...
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00b0
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
SERR-
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
...
Note the "unknown device". I don't recall having seen that before, when
things were working.
> lsmod
...
intel_agp 23996 1
r128 48512 1
drm67540 2 r128
agpgart35464 2 intel_agp,drm
...
Now, after "upgrading", glxinfo and glxgears segfault:
> strace glxgears
...
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
brk(0x8093000) = 0x8093000
open("/etc/drirc", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/home/tconnors/.drirc", O_RDONLY) = 6
read(6, "\n mplayer foo.avi
...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 640x360 => 640x360 Planar YV12
Unicode charmap not available for this font. Very bad!?% ??,?% 0 0
subtitle font: prepare_charset failed.
Unicode charmap not available for this font. Very bad!?% ??,?% 0 0
subtitle font: prepare_charset failed.
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events
...
Now, Most things appear to load in the Xorg.0.log file, with one
major exception:
...
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x rev 2, Mem @
0xf800/26, 0xfdffc000/14, I/O @ 0xec00/8
...
(WW) Ignoring request to load module GLcore
...
(II) Loading extension XVideo
...
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No
symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No
symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No
symbols found
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a
(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
...
(II) LoadModule: "r128"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
(II) Module r128: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 4.0.1
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 6.5.6
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
...
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.5.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP),
...
(--) Chipset ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP) found
(II) Loading sub module "r128"
(II) LoadModule: "r128"
(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
...
(II) R128(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(**) R128(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(II) R128(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps)
(==) R128(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) R128(0): Option "Display" "CRT"
...
(II) R128(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x
(==) R128(0): RGB weight 565
(II) R128(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) R128(0): initializing int10
(II) R128(0):
Re: ultra320 controller suggestions
On 1/9/06, Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to get some suggestions for some ultra320 controllers that are > very debian friendly for purchase from ebay. LSI Logic SCSI controllers are quite good. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a netboot server
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris machines, > it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. > I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot > CD image to boot x86 and Sparc workstations before installation over the > network. > > Solaris netboot/installation works fine - now, I want to expand this to > serve Debian installation images too - I can sort the tftp side of things > (/etc/ethers /etc/hosts and the /tftpboot links) but am curious as to what > extra software I need to install on the Solaris machine. > > Has anyone had any experience in this? I don't want to have to setup a > further tftp server specifically for the Debian installation if I can > possibly avoid it! > Basically I want to bypass the netboot CD image and get each new client to > setup purely via the network. > the mirror is currently on a different machine to the tftp server. I would advice you to take a look at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ . It might be just what you want, just for debian. -- TC, ,Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up a netboot server
Hi all, I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris machines, it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot CD image to boot x86 and Sparc workstations before installation over the network. Solaris netboot/installation works fine - now, I want to expand this to serve Debian installation images too - I can sort the tftp side of things (/etc/ethers /etc/hosts and the /tftpboot links) but am curious as to what extra software I need to install on the Solaris machine. Has anyone had any experience in this? I don't want to have to setup a further tftp server specifically for the Debian installation if I can possibly avoid it! Basically I want to bypass the netboot CD image and get each new client to setup purely via the network. the mirror is currently on a different machine to the tftp server. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
version of libglib2.0-0 too high
Hi, I have a package problem i cannot solve : In order to build a gtkmm GUI project, I must install the package "libgtkmm-2.4-dev", but there are dependencies that i cannot satisfy. when i run "apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-dev", i find that : libgtkmm-2.4-dev depends libgtk2.0-dev, which depends libglib2.0-dev But libglib2.0-dev depends libglib2.0-0 version 2.6.4-1, and i have version 2.8.4-2 on my system. I tried to downgrade libglib2.0-0 to version 2.6.4-1, but many others packages need the 2.8.4-2 version... Do you know a solution ? I use debian sarge with kernel 2.6.8-2, on a Fujitsu-Siemens "amilo A" laptop thanks, gabriel
Re: an advice about security.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:57:22PM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > Hello. > My users connect via a samba server to their home directories and to a > develop directory that is /home/develop. > Then they copy all the data from /home/develop to /var/www/final. > Now they want to connect directly to /var/www/final to avoid the copy. > Can I share /var/www/final with samba or it can be a security problem? If the learning curve isn't to steep for your developers, it would be a wise move to take a look at a Subversion/CVS, in that case they could stick to their devloping area, but make changes and make sure that they don't overwrite others changes by mistake. A security risk.. I wouldn't call it as such, but a small mistake is made realy quickly. -- TC, ,Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
an advice about security.
Hello. My users connect via a samba server to their home directories and to a develop directory that is /home/develop. Then they copy all the data from /home/develop to /var/www/final. Now they want to connect directly to /var/www/final to avoid the copy. Can I share /var/www/final with samba or it can be a security problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cups & Samba with Print problem
On (09/01/06 21:33), Don wrote: > I am a newbie at Linux and got CUPs running with Samba to print to my > Windows printer over my home network. This was running well for several > weeks and then nothing. Following a power outage > my printing from the Linux box simply quit. I did several things and > finally ended up restarting both CUPS and Samba and got one page printed > out and then it stopped again. This time research lead me to lpstat -t to > get a print of the CUPS server status. Here is what that shows: > I had a similar problem back last November - check the archives for : Bug#339015: samba: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to print via cups It was different insofar as the problem was printing to a samba rather than windows printer. However, check the thread - it may be something to do with a corrupted .tdb file. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups - samba - frustration!
On (10/01/06 08:53), Angela Gavazzi wrote: > I think I'm doing some idiot error, but I can't find it - or it's a library > problem or something else. > Not sure this will be much help but here goes ... > I have a sarge system, samba 3.0.20 from testing (also tried samba version > from sarge) and tried cups in all versions: 1.0.23.10/12/15 > (sarge,testing,unstable). > Samba is member server in an NT4 domain (need to move the printserver to > migrate the domain), authentication through winbind, all works on samba. Can > make shares, put data into it, robocopy data from windows to it with the > correct acls. > I can install printers in cups, can print from Linux, all is ok. Samba 3.0.14a-3 and Cupsys 1.1.23-10 work fine on our sarge servers serving Windows (XP, 2000 and 98), Mac and Linux clients. I don't believe you will gain much from using the etch versions unless there is specific functionality you're after that isn't available in sarge. I haven't yet cracked centralised authentication and so the setups we have are simpler in many respects. Nonetheless it is worth referring to http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html if you haven't already. > > When I try to prepare the printerdrivers for the windows clients with > cupsaddsmb "nothing" happens: no error message, "Printer added successfully" > but not drivers copied to print$ share, no updates from ntprinters.tdb, > nothing. > > I just put a post here about 10 days ago, but nobody ansered, the same on > samba and cups list. At the risk of asking a dumb question, have you set up the windows driver sharing within smb.conf? Also can you print from windows printer setting it up with a driver sourced from somewhere other than the server? Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]
On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 4:35:22 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > > It seems pretty clear that subscribers of this list don't > want/need/... a debian-newcomer list. > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: the > "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to stop) so > what can we do? I'll try to summarize the suggestions we have already: > > 1. Rewriting the welcome message coupled with some scripts to quickly >install a GUI (for the ones who missed the option) or get rid of the >newbie welcome and/or, as I suggested on the near-parallel thread "Linux Distribution Chooser", another little tweak: 1b. Altering tasksel section of installer to split the tasks into two pages, one for desktop and one for everything else, each preceded by a page of explanation (to make it more difficult for a neophyte to slip up). > 2. Officially label Debian "For advanced users only" (maybe also point >at alternatives?) > 3. Have the 'Desktop' task selected by default (and >maybe add some warnings to unselecting it). A reboot or "start gdm" >(at least as a default option which can be changed) at that point >might also be a good idea as base-config exits to a shell. > 4. incorporate the hardware detection of derivative distros (like >Knoppix). This would probably be possible only for the i386 branch >(maybe also ia64/amd64?), but this branch is also the one that will >receive the most newbies. > I hope i didn't miss something Thanks for the summary, Andrei. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kapcsolatfelvétel
Tisztelt Hölgyem, Uram!! Engedje meg, hogy bemutatkozzam, Vadas Csaba vagyoka Dreamworld Entertainment Kft.munkatársa. Hozzájárulását szeretném kérni, hogy egy bemutatkozó e-mail-t küldjek a cégüknek, melyben röviden bemutatom tevékenységi köreinket.Kérem írja meg a munkatársuk nevét akinek a levelet címezhetem. További szép napot kívánok! Üdvözlettel, Vadas CsabaDreamworld Entertainment Kft.1032 Budapest, Zápor u. 53.Tel/Fax: 240-4654 A tájékoztatáshoz - a vonatkozó törvények értelmében - a hozzájárulását kell kérjem. E-mail címe nyilvános internetes oldalakról került hozzánk. Ez a levél nem spam, hanem a 2001. évi CVIII. törvény 14. § (1) pontjában eloírt hozzájárulás-kéro levél. Ha levelünkkel esetleg zavartuk, elnézést kérünk.
Re: Recommendation for newsreader
On Monday, 9 January 2006 at 16:27:23 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > > Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > > > > ... > > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer the > > archive of gmane.org, which as of now contains more than 200.000 posts. > > With numbers like this, to search for a keyword in the subject or an > > author's name, it can take literally minutes to sort through the posts in > > order to come up with the result. > > ... > > > > Try search the Debian archive on Nabble: > http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html That is a good resource. Pity it's not subthreaded, so to speak. But very useful anyway. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nforce2 and temperature monitoring
Hi, I have an Asus A7N8X-XE mobo. Things work well: networking, audio, IDE drivers are working with 2.6.14.4 kernel, the only thing is that I cannot monitor the CPU and case temperature; is there some module that I didn't compile, if yes then which is that?
Re: logwatch and imap
Joe Mc Cool wrote:
>Please,
>
>logwatch is reporting:
>
>
>
>> - IMAP Begin
>>
>>
>>[IMAPd] Connections:
>>=
>> Host | Connections |SSL | Total
>>-- | --- | | -
>>62.194.153.108 | 1 |0 | 1
>> 69.43.178.11 | 1 |0 | 1
>>---
>> 2 |0 | 2
>>
>>
>>
>>**Unmatched Entries**
>> Command stream end of file, while reading line user=???
>> host=[69.43.178.11]: 1 Time(s)
>> Null command before authentication host=h153108.upc-h.chello.nl
>> [62.194.153.108]: 2 Time(s)
>>
>> -- IMAP End -
>>
>>
>
>But, AFAIK, I am not using imap. Certainly ps -ef | grep imap
>displays nothing. The reported ip addresses mean nothing to me.
>
>Is my system being exploited in some way ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Joe
>
>
>
>
Joe
ps -ef only show part of the services, others are using via inetd or xinetd.
Please check your /etc/inetd.conf our /etc/xinetd.conf and remove:
...
service imaps
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/imapd
}
service pop-3
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
server_args = -f /etc/qpopper.conf
}
...
bye
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Where to alter vertical padding in menu bars?
After an apt-get upgrade for unstable today, the vertical padding in all menu bars in gtk/gnome related applications seems to have increased. That is, the menu bars, menu lists and item lists have increased in size vertically, but the size of the font within them hasn't changed. Frankly, I find it quite ugly, and it wastes space. Does anyone know where to alter this? I'm assuming it's gconf2 related, since that was one of the packages that was upgraded, and it seems to be the source of all my look and feel problems... Note that I'm not entirely using gnome - I use fvwm as my window manager, plus a couple of gnome-based applications, such as galeon and liferea... Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logwatch and imap
Please, logwatch is reporting: > - IMAP Begin > > > [IMAPd] Connections: > = > Host | Connections |SSL | Total > -- | --- | | - > 62.194.153.108 | 1 |0 | 1 > 69.43.178.11 | 1 |0 | 1 > --- >2 |0 | 2 > > > > **Unmatched Entries** >Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? > host=[69.43.178.11]: 1 Time(s) >Null command before authentication host=h153108.upc-h.chello.nl > [62.194.153.108]: 2 Time(s) > > -- IMAP End - But, AFAIK, I am not using imap. Certainly ps -ef | grep imap displays nothing. The reported ip addresses mean nothing to me. Is my system being exploited in some way ? Thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade
On 09 Jan 2006, Greg Norris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages > > involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts > > different. There is also the following error message: > > This could be caused by an incompatible extension. Try launching > firefox from an xterm, with the "-safemode" parameter... is the problem > still present? > > Yes I thought of that and removed the extensions (forgot about safemode!). Didn't help, however. I made a new config file and will now try reinstalling the extensions to see what happened. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
See January 2006 Linux Journal for quite an interesting article about this sort of thing. Where can I find this?Ta.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Fwd: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
Didn't one come with the camcorder? Sony, willingly give up the chance to sell some thing to some one and make a pretty buck? I'm surprised that they supplied a USB wire. > But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim.Good luck. Tell us if you get it working...I'll need some good skill and a bit of luck. But, I'll see what I can do Cheers. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:52:10AM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: > > From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:35 PM > > <...> > > > 4. incorporate the hardware detection of derivative distros > > (like Knoppix). This would probably be possible only for the > > i386 branch (maybe also ia64/amd64?), but this branch is also > > the one that will receive the most newbies. > > I would put a +1 on this, as it would help everyone, not just noobs. > There is no reason for any distro to _not_ do the best job of hardware > detection possible. > Knoppix _was_ using a port of Red Hat Anaconda. I'm not sure what is used now. The Etch installer is significantly better than the Sarge installer - I used a daily build from http://cdimage.debian.org the other day to rebuild a machine and was pleasantly surprised. Do bear in mind, though, that Debian needs to support more architectures than anyone else. Consistency across the installer for e.g. Sparc and Alpha has made my installs on those architectures so much more straightforward. It's also necessary to support hardware which has no mouse or graphics card, for example, and to support serial console: > -- > Seth Goodman > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.ape files
Hi guys,What player plays .ape files?Which pkg should i install?i'm running debian 3.1 with gnome 2.xi've tried xmms,totem,vlc all failed.10x for the help-- --Meni Szapiro
Re: window manager.
> Hurd is not a kernel, mach is the uKernel over which hurd runs, and > debian is in top of hurd, :). I have it for trial. Console is OK, > but with X I experienced file system corruption. In general it's OK, > but I wouldn't trust it reliably. That's just my opinion though. > Remember the whole hurd is under unstable, and what's not under > unstable is under experimental. So for sure for reliable server it's > NOT good enough. Besides mach is pretty picky about hardware > compatibility, :( But it works, and it's what matters to me (I just > want to be ready for the time hurd gets into a more reliable state, > and it gets more packages in, besides more drivers since most are > missing). Maybe more usage from others could help get it more > stable, > > :). Hurd guys are to change the uKernel from mach to L4, and now > : they > > are thinking about coyotos and another new version of L4 uKernels. > So all this makes hurd a bit far from what I'd like it to be, but > again, it's usable, specially if you want a trial system plus if you > want to contribute a bit as well, :) Ok. But...why using hurd with mach kernel instead of linux? It's for your trial ok, but supposing hurd became stable, why use it instead of linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
