Massive memory leak with Gnome2 transparent panels is Sid

2003-01-20 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings, Has anyone noticed a serious memory leak that occurs when using a few transparent panels with running applets in Gnome2? In my case, gnome-panel consumed over 70 megabytes in just one hour! Killing it didn't help much, the mem usage was slowly increasing again and the only solution was

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
John Griffiths wrote: > At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > >But that driver does not support highly accelerated display > >nor framebuffer. > > ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer > for anything in particular? Games like tuxracer use the framebuffer,

Error updating unstable non-free Packages

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Wood
Don't know if it's just me but I'm getting an error trying to update. I get the same on: ftp.wa.au.debian.org ftp.au.debian.org ftp.uk.debian.org I get a parsing error in unstable non-free Packages, which results in "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error. This occurs parsing package graphviz (New

Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:44:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >no but why not upgrade to X 4.2 in testing :) ... > Yeah, I'm uprading the entire system, but it's over dial-up, so it's > gonna take a day and a half, and I only have a couple of hours left > before I have to leave

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:31 am, Kent West wrote: > John & Peg Pickard wrote: > > As I didn't have time to keep playing with LINUX, I gave up. > > Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a > geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast > improv

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time nate wrote @ Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:33:22 -0800 (PST) > John & Peg Pickard said: > > > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a >

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread nate
John & Peg Pickard said: > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the desktop. Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more

pumping puzzle

2003-01-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
I have a desktop machine running woody, with kernel 2.4.20-ac2. The desktop is connected to a Netgear switch, which is in turn connected to a wireless access point. In addition, there are several laptops in the house which connect to the Netgear switch. I use a very simple iptables script to tur

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Jack
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:22:20AM -0500, R. Sinclair wrote: > When I got to VA, I set up the box and X wouldn't start at ALL. I hashed thru > a few websites to research the problem but still couldn't get it started > until one website mentioned checking the kernel to make sure "HID" was > enab

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >But that driver does not support highly accelerated display >nor framebuffer. ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer for anything in particular? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Jack
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: > -- > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
John Griffiths wrote: > if needs must I will, but i though X 4.2.1 supported geforce2? The XFree86 server supports GeForce chips using the free software 'nv' driver. But that driver does not support highly accelerated display nor framebuffer. For that you need the closed source proprietary nVidi

Re: copying disks with dd and cat

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Geoff Crompton wrote: > > I've just been copying a floppy disk onto my hard drive to back it up. > I initially used > % dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk_image Seems reasonable. > However it barfed with an IO error, and dmesg shows: > [...] > So then for some reason I tried cating the file: > % cat

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread Kent West
John & Peg Pickard wrote: In early '99 . . . So problem #1 was LINUX wasn't smart enough to find a sound card if it wasn't on interrupt 5 (unless the user was smart enough to edit and recompile the sound module). Problem #2 was stair stepping when I printed. After some e-mail correspond

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread R. Sinclair
> I found this in the log (first X start without USB mouse plugged in) > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice" > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" > (II) XINPUT: Adding extende

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
if needs must I will, but i though X 4.2.1 supported geforce2? (4.2.1 comes in knoppix) At 09:04 PM 1/20/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya john > >you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com > >works good other than that bending over backwards > >c ya >alvin > >On Tue, 21 Jan 2

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove > > This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a > security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for > xdm, conclude that the package was nev

SOLVED - Re: why does X keep throwing messages on console?

2003-01-20 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:13:44AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > hello all > > > > when i run X from a console using a simple startx command, off and on, > > i keep getting a line that says > > > > 'getmodeline etc etc' on the console from w

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com works good other than that bending over backwards c ya alvin On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote: > g'day all, > > I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D > DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo

Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-20 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own? The Via C3 series, of whic

ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
g'day all, I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new

Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-20 Thread Kent West
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: -- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option

Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-20 Thread Kent West
Bob Proulx wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button

Re: ALSA (and kernel?) problem

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't used alsa in a while but when I did, I used these scripts (RedHat) > to compile/install. > > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-INSTALL.sh > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh > http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-lib-0.5.10b.sh > http://gal

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello John, Although Debian is my favorite distribution for several years, and although for me installation of debian is only a snap (me only), I would still recommend going with another distribution to start with. here is my recommendations: 1. have at least one day or one weekend devoted to i

Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Jack
Hi, My USB mouse only works after I restart X. After X is restarted, it works just fine, even when X is restarted without it plugged in. The touch-pad always works. I found this in the log (first X start without USB mouse plugged in) (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No

Re: Trying to setup X

2003-01-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
On Monday 20 January 2003 09:06 pm, CM Miller wrote: > Having a challenge trying to set up X under Debian > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated > Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator > +3D (rev 31) > at the xfree86.org web site it seems that your card is supported, accelaration

Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread John & Peg Pickard
  In early '99 I tried Slackware Linux. After a lot of reading and research tofind out the specs for the computer's hardware, the install went well exceptfor two things.     When I got my 8 bit ISA modem I needed an interrupt less than 8. I had plansfor both serial ports so I set the modem's

copying disks with dd and cat

2003-01-20 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi all. I've just been copying a floppy disk onto my hard drive to back it up. I initially used % dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk_image However it barfed with an IO error, and dmesg shows: % dmesg VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) floppy0: CRC error: track 53, head 0, sector 16, size

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Try adding: 192.168.0.x www.yourdomain.com to /etc/hosts Sometimes these routers aren't able to give the correct IP when it comes to accessing stuff behind the NAT. Thanks again, Matthew! That works fine for now, since my laptop is the only LAN client & I rarely

Re: Thnaks to the developers (sylpheed-claws & aspell)

2003-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh the irony that I send a message to a public list thanking people for a > spell checker with a spelling error in the first word in the subject line. > *sigh* Heh heh. Most developers don't follow debian-user too closely, so if you want reach more d

Packages to install for WLL

2003-01-20 Thread Shyam R
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Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya matthew On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ... > > How can I determine the drive's partition scheme? > > Thanks to everyone who responded to this -- I was able to see the > partitioning using fdisk. > > Only proble

Re: X problems, likely vertical refresh

2003-01-20 Thread Egor Tur
Hi Matthew. I have ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP card and I use driver from GATOS for XFree86 version 4.1.x. This driver works fine for me (XVideo, TV tuner ...) <>

Trying to setup X

2003-01-20 Thread CM Miller
Having a challenge trying to set up X under Debian phoenix:/proc# uname -a Linux phoenix 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown I have a K7SEM motherboard with builtin videocard. Runing lspci | grep vga | more 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems

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Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that > the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left > of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button > (the X in the

Re: DSL and Sound Configuration

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Kris K wrote: > > I'm having problems configuring my ADSL connection w/Debian. I have a > Lynksys BEFW11S4 V.2 Etherfast Router that connects to the internet via my > Efficient Network's 5360 Speedstream Modem. I use a Lynksys 10/100 > Etherfast Card. Here's the rundown. Okay, stop right th

Xcdroast, cdrecord and SafeDisk Copy protection

2003-01-20 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'm having trouble making backups of games I think are protected with Safedisk. The reason I backup these games (Battelfiled 1942 and Rogued Spear) is that I have to have the CD in the drive in order to host a game. After time the discs can get scratched to the point of not being recognized. Wh

Re: Install all packages

2003-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:15:47PM -0500, alex wrote: > >You can't. Too many packages conflict with one other to start with. > >Only pick out what you want to try out, it'll be easier to maintain. > > > Now you tell us beginners No wonder I had so much > trouble The trouble wasn't a hi

Re: ALSA (and kernel?) problem

2003-01-20 Thread George Georgalis
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:11:44AM +0100, Alex wrote: >I'm running kernel 2.4.20 and have recently got a abit kd7 with >an onboard audio chipset. > >The chipset on the motherboard is via vt8235. > >I just downloaded the latest alsa ( 0.9.0rc6 developer) version of alsa as i >couldn't see the kerne

Re: diald and error exit status 127(fixed)

2003-01-20 Thread Debian User
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/diald.postinst: line 43: /etc/diald/cvtaddrs: No such ^->removed this file here and reran now it works. dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit statu

Re: DSL and Sound Configuration

2003-01-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 20 January 2003 02:26 pm, Kris K wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm having problems configuring my ADSL connection w/Debian. I have a > Lynksys BEFW11S4 V.2 Etherfast Router that connects to the internet via > my Efficient Network's 5360 Speedstream Modem. I use a Lynksys 10/100 > Etherfast Card.

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > > > XF86Config-4 a

Re: Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:20:52AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > > just change it too > > vga=791 > > for each option you want too; no append statement is needed. > That did it. Somehow I missed that :-( Removed the append statement and it is working f

Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that > the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left > of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button > (the X in the

Re: Question on Winbind

2003-01-20 Thread Debian User
Mark Roach wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 20:35, Debian User wrote: Hi, I have been pulling out hair on this one. I am trying to get a debian box to share files to an NT 4 network. I installed Samba, works great. I also installed Winbind and that also works, but I have a problem when try

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:32:30PM +, Tim wrote: > Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR > Where root(hd0,0) defines the partition that the grub files can be found on

Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]

2003-01-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > not avoiding woodyr1 but i dont have fast connection [56k dialup] so i > want to aptiutude to install what i select and its dependencies [nothing > else- bit like apt-get install -which is what i end up using!] but as > ive fiddled about with it, aptitud

RE: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem

2003-01-20 Thread Jon
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 3:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem > > > This one time, at band camp, Aryan Ameri said: > > On Monday 20 January 2003 18:41, Jon

Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]

2003-01-20 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:20:25PM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > - Forwarded message from Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 + > From: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i > X-Spa

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Tim
Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR This worked for me once before...hope it helps you! Tim will trillich wrote: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" af

DSL and Sound Configuration

2003-01-20 Thread Kris K
Hi all: I'm having problems configuring my ADSL connection w/Debian. I have a Lynksys BEFW11S4 V.2 Etherfast Router that connects to the internet via my Efficient Network's 5360 Speedstream Modem. I use a Lynksys 10/100 Etherfast Card. Here's the rundown. On a previous install of Debian, I

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Craig Jackson wrote: > # chmod +s /sbin/shutdown > > This is not something I would do though. Why don't you do this when you > want to shut down: I recommend against doing that chmod on shutdown. It has not been inspected for security holes and that might open big ones. If you really want any u

(forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]

2003-01-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
- Forwarded message from Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 + From: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SpamProbe: Subject: Re: Quick aptitude question... X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be

Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: > Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I > want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I > need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own? The Via C3 series, of which the Ezra is part of,

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:07:31PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >> "imperative" and "procedural" are the same thing, and C is a prime > >> example. It is such because the structure

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
David Z Maze wrote: > Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > > kdm? > >

Re: init scripts management

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Francois Chenais wrote: > > Is there any "standard method" under debian to add/remove > shell @ boot/shutdown time in /etc/rc.* directories ? > > Like chk-config under R.H. in fact. As another poster mentioned update-rc.d is related to this. But I have to ask, what package do you wa

Re: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-20 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:06:35AM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: > I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145) > They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no > ethernet ports. is it that they really dont have any ethernet or that they have thicknet rather th

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread kenneth dombrowski
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > >>Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on >> >>I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, >>but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with >>the same

Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-20 Thread Kent West
Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own? Thanks! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

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Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-20 Thread Kent West
Just installed Woody. imps2 mouse on /dev/psaux works fine, except that the "sweet spot" where the click takes place is off-centered to the left of where the actual click is made by about the width of a close button (the X in the upper right hand corner of a window) in icewm. This happens both

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much > > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refr

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:33:37PM -0800, Jay wrote: > As far as I know, you can just do a ctrl-alt-delete at the login prompt, and > it will shutdown, no need to be root. > > May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The > Prophecy. > > Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings

RE: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-20 Thread dbalder
>I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145) >They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no >ethernet ports. If those powerbooks have SCSI ports, then you might be able to connect a SCSI cdrom drive or alternatively another powerbook with cdrom drive using

Re: X problems, likely vertical refresh

2003-01-20 Thread Erinn
> Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" > Load"bitmap" > Load"dbe" > Load"ddc" > Load"dri" > Load"extmod" > Load"freetype" > Load"glx" > Load"speedo" > Load"type1" > Load"vbe" Load

Last partition blocks can't be accessed after partition is mounted

2003-01-20 Thread Javier Miqueleiz
Hello everybody. I installed Debian 3.0 r0 on my Dell 4100 machine. Everything is OK, but I noticed the following (little) problem. The last blocks (1, 2 or3) of some partitions can't be accessed (using badblocks in read mode or dd). The stange things are: 1: It only happens with some partitions

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-20T21:05:36Z, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the current (default) settings restarting & shutting down is only > allowed for the root user; How can I change that so normal users can shut > down (restart) ? The safest answer is to install sudo, and give the ability to ex

Re: Kernel fallback

2003-01-20 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:53:55PM +, Paul W wrote: > Hello all, > I've been trying (and still am) to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with alsa modules > to enable my soundcard, as per the good advice given me earlier. So far I've > tried the Debian way and the old fashioned way and I'm nearly

RE: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Jay
As far as I know, you can just do a ctrl-alt-delete at the login prompt, and it will shutdown, no need to be root. May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay "CoolDragon" Arias-Chavez )

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > > just do: > > > > startx

Re: ls color's messed up

2003-01-20 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:42:36PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for > executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, > but > Files with 700 privileges are still gray. When I just use 'ls --color' > do

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Craig Jackson
# chmod +s /sbin/shutdown This is not something I would do though. Why don't you do this when you want to shut down: # su -c "shutdown -h now" On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:05, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello, > > In the current (default) settings restarting & > shutting down is only allowed for the roo

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: | any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after | the bios stuff, and then... nothing. I bet you don't have the MBR configured correctly. Here is a scenario which will show what you're seeing : 1) load grub on a f

Re: setup ofr the printer

2003-01-20 Thread Craig Jackson
You may want to install mpage and will need samba if it is a windows-shared printer. ncpfs I believe is for netware-shared printers. That first lp printer is a dummy entry and can be safely deleted. Use printtool to autodetect your printer. On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:14, Joris Huizer wrote: > >

Re: Quick aptitude question...

2003-01-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
* ZephyrQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up > aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while > back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued > actions and/or reset aptitude? > when

X problems, likely vertical refresh

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I just installed an ATI All-in-Wonder PCI VGA card in my machine, and I'm having a few problems with X. I'm using a Slimline flat-panel LCD monitor, and I have a chart showing Horizontal frequency and Vertical refresh rates. I've specified the appropriate ranges in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. I

Re: ls color's messed up

2003-01-20 Thread Alan Shutko
"Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for > executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=175135 -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a va

Re: setup ofr the printer

2003-01-20 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install printtool OK I've done that. When I run printtool, I get warnings: - Samba not installed - ncpfs not installed And then in the main window of printtool the text: "lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry type unrecognized" I think that

restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, In the current (default) settings restarting & shutting down is only allowed for the root user; How can I change that so normal users can shut down (restart) ? Thanks. Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on > > I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, > but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with > the same apache configuration and the

Webmin CD Burn

2003-01-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I've been trying to use the Webmin CD Burner app (cdrecord) with little success. Perhaps the problem is the fact that I am using an iso-scsi device, which is picked up by CD Burner. That's fine. I want to burn files. So, when I do a test burn, here is my output: *Testing burn with command cdr

ls color's messed up

2003-01-20 Thread Curtis Spencer
This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, but Files with 700 privileges are still gray. When I just use 'ls --color' do I not get any green. However, when I use ls --color -l it works fine. St

Quick aptitude question...

2003-01-20 Thread ZephyrQ
I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued actions and/or reset aptitude? Yes, I've RTFM, but haven't gotten anywhere

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Rainer Koenig
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. Can you type at this point? Maybe what you are seeing is the GRUB shell prompt. Try things like "help" to get a help. > a friend suggested trying win

Re: themes for vt

2003-01-20 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:14:00PM +0100, Niels Felsted Thorsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) writes: > > > Hi! > > I'm trying to track down a package that I had installed back when I > > was running Potato. AFAICT, the package is not in Woody (for whatever > > reason). I can't remem

Compaq with NC7781 NIC

2003-01-20 Thread Daniel Fabian
Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a compaq server with an nc7781 nic-card. The driver for linux can be downloaded from http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/networking/nics/Compaq_NC7781_Gigabi t_Ethernet_NICs.html, but unfortunatly this is only a srpm for suse and redhat. I downloaded the pr

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me > > Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard

Re: vim and basic .bashrc questions

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:22:35AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Seneca ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:37:13PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > > > Also, I have been able to set .bashrc preferences as > > > root, like "rm = rm -i". This works for root, but not > > > for my

Debian V3 R1 install, not

2003-01-20 Thread Tcat Houser
I am fighing an Adaptac SCSI controller with the Debian CD. I have tried the no_reset, no_probe and it is no luck. I guess I am wondering how (or if a boot floppy set would work) because I have exactly one choice on this IBM 325. The Adaptac controller for hard drives and CD. I did an archive sea

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
try man pidof :) On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Jor-el wrote: > >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > >>>Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > just do: > > startx -- :1 -screen but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor c

GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after the bios stuff, and then... nothing. a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, hang on bo

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Kenneth Dombrowski said: I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working now from without the LAN D

Re: Install all packages

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:04:57PM +0700, Hansel Yapadi wrote: > How to install all packages in the cds during installation? because I > wanna try those software This is what you want to do if you have a lot of tome and harddisk :) (You can not put all of them blindly. Enven if you can, how

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into > my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as

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