Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:38:54AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Using n-key keyboard types is lazy, why not have a database of keyboard > model numbers to choose from. I think that there are way too many different keyboards out there for that to work. Frank > Matt > > > > Children's Canc

HELP

2003-03-25 Thread Ricardo
Hi. > My name's Ricardo and i've recently installed Debian 3.0r1 on my machine > and i'm having a problem. i've installed xfree86 but i can't launch the > xserver. I don't understand the error on the screen since i'm a newbie > with Linux but i think it has something to do with the VGA and the > Mo

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Roberto Sanchez on Tuesday, 2003-03-25 at 18:45:52 -0500: > It didn't work out. I offered some other ideas (as suggested here on the > list), and got a "we'll think about it." Today when I went into the > lounge, I saw the shiny new ~$1500 Dell. They also won't let me have the > old mac

RE: checking mount success/fail

2003-03-25 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Bob, THANK YOU! I'm rather angry I didn't think of mount as I've just read the man today :-( df looks interesting, I'll read that man, mounts is a file i presume so I'll have to google that for info. Thx again, Lindsay btw, it's there :-) | There are a number of ways. Using 'mount' with no

Re: syncing m130 with debian and possible gtk problems

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Erinn said: > When I try to sync using Evolution it gives me an error saying: > > Unknown pilot - no pilots match ID 27707 > Use gnomecc to set pilot's ID not sure if it's the same, but I use jpilot/pilot-xfer, and when I do a sync on a fresh Palm PDA(I use visors), I have to use the

syncing m130 with debian and possible gtk problems

2003-03-25 Thread Erinn
Hi everyone, I know this has been covered ad nauseum here and other place as I've been googling for months trying to fix it myself. However, now that debian-pilot is defunct and debian-handheld appears to be for the development of Debian on handhelds, I figure this is the only place to ask. Now fo

Re: checking mount success/fail

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Lindsay Yardley wrote: > to move my /home to my new raid1 md0 I just "mount -t ext3 md0 /home" then > added it to fstab, got no unusual messages at boot but how do i check that > /home is indeed mounted on md0? There are a number of ways. Using 'mount' with no options will dump the mount table.

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
> > You should probably disable IDE DMA (see hdparm) immediately. If > kernel IDE problems are your problem, that should prevent > additional corruption. > also start using smartsuite utilities. they are a part of woody atleast. Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta ---

Re: remount md0 after disc failure

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Lindsay Yardley wrote: > I have or will have in a few minutes (I hope): > hda1: /boot > hda2: / > hda3: swap > md0: /home > > My question is: If hda fails and I replace it, reinstall debian then umount > /home from / then mount /home on md0 the system will be restored and I'll > have access to my

held back packages

2003-03-25 Thread Phil Reardon
Hello: After a dist-upgrade from Woody to Sid, I find subsequent upgrades are leaving behind lots of packages, abot 350 in fact. Have I done anything wrong or are so may packages being held back for everyone these days. And if so, why? Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

checking mount success/fail

2003-03-25 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day All, to move my /home to my new raid1 md0 I just "mount -t ext3 md0 /home" then added it to fstab, got no unusual messages at boot but how do i check that /home is indeed mounted on md0? tia Lindsay --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisof

Re: New "Creating Custom Kernels" newbiedoc

2003-03-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:38:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A new version of "Creating Custom Kernels With Debian's Kernel-Package System" > is available at: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > I'm interested in feedback, especially about mistak

Re: IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
David Roundy wrote: > > Hello everyone. I've been getting the following error message (repeatedly, > but with different sectors): > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2620329, sector=2620256 > end_request: I/

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Geordie Birch
said Roberto Sanchez (on 2003-03-25), > It didn't work out. I offered some other ideas (as suggested here on the > list), and got a "we'll think about it." Today when I went into the lounge, > I saw the shiny new ~$1500 Dell. They also won't let me have the old > machines, since they could only

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:58:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not > being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it > will do no good to make Debian less easy because he was annoying. I have no interes

Re: FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
> > I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based > access"? > not any AFAIK. All web mail clients might handle and do handle the client side differently even though they might be using the same IMAP or POP protocols on the server. If it's yahoo or hotmail u migth find somethin

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
> Did not upgrade from 2.2. Removed 2.2 before. On a clean install > of Woody did not install 2.2 but later installed KDE3.1 using > the using the http link from kde.org > //download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian stable main > Had no problems with that. how did u do that ? AFAIK there is no kde meta

Re: Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:39, Mr. Baldwin wrote: > Hi, > I joined this list last fall (from a different address) when I was > trying to install Woody on an experimental box in the house. I failed > to get it running after nearly an entire weekend (network issues, I > think), gave up and installed R

Re: "Upgrading" to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
> Alex Malinovich said: > > drive. What I'm interested in, however, is if there is any way to "insert" > > a drive with pre-existing data into an array. That is, attach my current > > drive and one new drive to the board, and have the striping done > > automatically with current data as part of a

Re: Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread mrmoo1231
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:01:55 -0500 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16 kernel for the Official >> Deb (I got the source pkg. from the Libranet CD's), and carefully >> modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst on Libranet, I got a kernel pa

Re: Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:01:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > request_module[ide-disk]: Root fs not mounted > hdb: driver not present > VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb3" or 03:43 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 (is this...

Re: ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 10:34 PM +0100): > newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in woody: > > how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my cdroms and zip i.e. > > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Ve

Re: Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0500, Mr. Baldwin wrote: [snippedsomethingblockythatwasimpossibletoreadwithouteyestrain] Please, wrap at 72 chars. The use of paragraphs won't hurt too. Cheers, Nick -- x--x |

Re: ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Christof" == Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christof> newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in Christof> woody: how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my Christof> cdroms and zip i.e. Many answers are possible. One way is to ensure that ide-cd is

Re: Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:01:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16 kernel for the Official > Deb (I got the source pkg. from the Libranet CD's), and carefully > modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst on Libranet, I got a kernel panic on > the subsequent boot. >

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:25:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. > > I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client; I've done this before on this > machine (different system) and on other machines. > > Today I get "Permission

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:40:00 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other thing that might cause this is if setiathome is a script of > some sort, and the thing the script points to isn't executable: That's a good point, thanks. As it turns out, in fstab I had specified "exec", but

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On 25 Mar 2003 17:58:24 -0800 Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome > > bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied > > Is the partition containing your home directory mounted "noexec", > perhaps? Turned out it was. Thanks

autofs permissions

2003-03-25 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wondering how I can control the permissions of a directory created dynamicall using autofs. I have autofs4 enabled (sarge). I have a map for the /mount directory (called /etc/auto.mount), which has an entry for my floppy drive (/dev/fd0). The problem is that ordinary (non root) users cannot

remount md0 after disc failure

2003-03-25 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day all, I have or will have in a few minutes (I hope): hda1: /boot hda2: / hda3: swap md0:/home My question is: If hda fails and I replace it, reinstall debian then umount /home from / then mount /home on md0 the system will be restored and I'll have access to my old /home directory,

Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:06:28PM +0100, Robert Bj?rn wrote: > My Debian installation still seems to be working, despite that apt-get took a > lot of stuff from unstable. I hope my good luck continues. > > The reason that I took KDE from unstable was because I thought it was the way > I was sup

Re: X

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:39:44PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:46:54PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > A policy of "Sensible by default" (which I believe debian employs) > > pretty much means you've got to install xdm when you install X. > > What's wrong with something al

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:02:06 -0800 "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I look at the bottom of this message at the directory entry for setiathome, I count three little x's already. Will one more make it work? Kevin > chmod +x setiathome > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: PHP4 conflicts with libc6

2003-03-25 Thread jennyw
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:04:26AM +0100, Ren? Seindal wrote: > I have put libc6 on hold. The rest of the update will work and php4 > will not be removed. Is this what most people are doing? Since I saw the announcement, I've just been not upgrading my testing install. I figured there would be

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Today I get "Permission denied" to execute a file I own, in a directory > I own and have write and execute permissions. > > What's up with that? > > bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ls -al > -r-xr-xr-x1 roninusers 134072 Dec 12 2000 setiathome > > bash:/home/r

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lukas" == Lukas Latz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lukas> Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log Lukas> in with X as root, which I found especially useful in the Lukas> beginning when I was setting up lots of stuff. GDM will let you log in as root. Edit /etc/gdm

Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread mrmoo1231
I have two Linuxes on my system -- one per hard disk. I run Libranet 2.0 from /dev/hda3, Tater Deb on hdb3 (I was curious about "pure" version), and, ahem, Winblows on hda1. I use Grub to manage the booting (came w/Libranet). Here's the rub-- one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16 ker

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome > bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied Is the partition containing your home directory mounted "noexec", perhaps? -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

pppd problem

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Mather
I had a similar problem to that archived at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg00256.html but with an extra twist. I was trying to use pon and poff to access my ISP by dial-up modem. This was on Debian 3.0r1, newly installed on a PC, and using pppconfig to set u

unsubscribe adstro@stny.rr.com

2003-03-25 Thread Adam Stroud
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Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied what are the options for the partition that it is on[in fstab]? Does it have 'noexec' set? Remember that 'user' implies noexec. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Martin Kacerovsky wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:06:59PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: [..] apt-get install smbfs He posted error output of 'smbmount' command, which is part of smbfs package along with 'smbumount' ... So I guess he has 'smbfs' package installed :) Bye. Yeah, mabye bu

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Kris
chmod +x setiathome - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: Permission denied -- Say what? Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED

threading broken mailing list and mutt

2003-03-25 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm subscribed to a mailing list that seems to break just about every rule of heard people fight bitterly over on this list :) The main thing I would like it to do is to thread properly, but The in-reply the headers are stuffed: ie: original message: Message-Id: The reply message then ha

Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Mr. Baldwin
Hi, I joined this list last fall (from a different address) when I was trying to install Woody on an experimental box in the house. I failed to get it running after nearly an entire weekend (network issues, I think), gave up and installed Redhat on that box. I am running Redhat on two boxes in

Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

2003-03-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:54:52AM +, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > >re-encoding may not work for the same reasons "copying" with mencoder > >didnt. Plus the reason I want to do it is to prevent reencoding, I mean > >I could reencode with mencode as well to a smaller screen or lower > >resolution an

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:16:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030325 13:59 PST]: | > Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got | > a new question based on the adjacency of partitions. [...] | Well, actually, LVM will

Re: emacs and error message

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:49 +0100, > Stefano Calza wrote: > > > > When I start emacs on "testing" I get this message: > > > > No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default > > > > It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove > > it.

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:16:28 - "Andrew Pritchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar

Re: Did the exim upgrade break my outgoing email?

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan Malmberg
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:38:32PM -0500, stan wrote: > I saw a exim upgrade come by in the last couple of days on my testing > machine, and now my outgoing email is broken. > > I run a "internal DNS domain for my home network, and my mail is getting > rejected by my upstream realy, because it

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:28:15AM -0800, nate wrote: > Nathan E Norman said: > > > Sorry for yelling, but this whole "debian is hard to install" thing drives > > me crazy. Call me an elite bastard, but I still feel if debian is too > > hard to install, you shouldn't be installing it. Mandrake e

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-03-25 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
sorry to resurrect a 6 week old thread, I was just cleaning out d-u and came across this: On 03-02-10 16:35 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > "IMAP" vs "IMAP +" folders is done very well: select-entry ( by > default) will traverse into an "IMAP +" folder whereas view-file > ( by default) will open an

Re: Mozilla Calendar servers

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030325 15:50 PST]: > Anyone know of free/opensource software that will function as a server > for the Mozilla calendar? apache + libapache-mod-dav good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality,

Re: Installer - Was: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:51:18AM +, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > Does anybody if the installer that is used for the 'testing netinstall' > images is a sign of things to come.If so I would like to know where I > can go and whine about it. I'm not sure about how the testing netinstall relates t

Re: smartsuite obsolete?

2003-03-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:02:38PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I searched the last quarter for the user and main developer list and > didn't see any note about this: > > smartsuite has gone missing from all but woody. Is there a reason? Looks like it was renamed to "smartmontools". -- Jamin

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Newbee-ish X and root question > > > Two things. Environment variables, to be precise. The two > in question > are DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY.

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I seem to have a small problem that maybe someone on the list can help with. I belong to a small organization on campus. We currently have some very old (circa 1995-1996) PCs running Win95. These machines have Pentium 150-166 CPUs and 32 MB RAM. They are in need of re

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 19.44 schrieb Hall Stevenson: > > > Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > > Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? :-) man procmailrc *SCNR* -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated I

RE: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 14:37, Juan dominguez wrote: > I physically add another NIC, but when I try modconf it doesn't show > the module of the NIC becouse it was compiled as a part of the kernel > so i can't load this module but the other NIC is working (both NIC's > are the same model ) > > than

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-25 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 20.17 schrieb Mark L. Kahnt: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:57, Michael Bona wrote: > > Hi, > > > > does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org > > does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new > > functionality. > > > > Thank

Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client; I've done this before on this machine (different system) and on other machines. Today I get "Permission denied" to execute a file I own, in a directory I own and have write and execut

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:06:59PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > [..] > > apt-get install smbfs > He posted error output of 'smbmount' command, which is part of smbfs package along with 'smbumount' ... So I guess he has 'smbfs' package installed :) Bye. -- +--

Threading broken mailing list and mutt

2003-03-25 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm subscribed to a mailing list that seems to break just about every rule of heard people fight bitterly over on this list :) The main thing I would like it to do is to thread properly, but The in-reply the headers are stuffed: ie: original message: Message-Id: The reply message then h

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Lukas Latz said: > Oops, sorry for that, I never knew.. > The DISPLAY env seems to have some hidden aspects that I'll have to read > up on. When I do su (without -m) and then set DISPLAY=0:0 by hand, it > doesn't cut it. > Thanks, thats because the X server requires authentication to connect to i

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Brian wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do "uname -a". My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: "ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt f

Re: "Upgrading" to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Alex Malinovich said: > drive. What I'm interested in, however, is if there is any way to "insert" > a drive with pre-existing data into an array. That is, attach my current > drive and one new drive to the board, and have the striping done > automatically with current data as part of a startup rou

Re: "Upgrading" to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yu're barking up the same tree i did a couple weeks ago if you're using the 3-ware 7500-x series.. - connect the drives - run their silly utility to make the raid device ( or play with it as a jbod first: sda ... sdh ) ( and its software rai

Re: opera browser

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:30AM -0700, Blake Covarrubias wrote: > Well, it works. :) Doesn't segfault on startup like the first preview > release did. :) For various definitions of "works", yeah. :) For instance, the quicksearch bar is dead, and the 'g search terms' in the url bar trick d

RE: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: smbmount > > -- > So, my little one-eyed one, on > what POOR, PITIFUL, DEFENSELESS > planet has my .. MONSTROSITY .. > been UNLEASH

Re: emacs and error message

2003-03-25 Thread csj
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:49 +0100, Stefano Calza wrote: > > When I start emacs on "testing" I get this message: > > No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default > > It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove > it. How can I configure emacs not to ask for that file? Why not just creat

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Basically, if someone doesn't know how many keys ones keyboard has, > > _and_ he doesn't know how to count them, then I doubt he should be > > using a computer at all. > > Devil's advocate: > > A new user may not know whether to count every single key. > For example, shift doesn't do a

PCMCIA package stops working w/new kernel

2003-03-25 Thread Brian
Hi, I just finished compiling a new kernel. I was using a 2.2.20 kernel and now I'm using the 2.4.20 kernel. Unfortunately, my PC Card doesn't work with this new kernel. If you have any ideas why the PC Card would stop functioning after creating and using a new kernel please let me know. Th

Re: Kernel Recompile Issue

2003-03-25 Thread Mauricio Coloma
has to entry in modconfig and edit modprobe with values io=0x340 and irq=14 excuse my English - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Recompile Issue > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:58:42 -0600 > "Irish, Jo

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-25T20:18:48Z, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed. Whenever a program tells me to 'press any key', I always first try > shift, control and alt. Usually, the message is clearly wrong Have you found any "correct" programs other than, say, xev? :) > Good question. My gue

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Lukas Latz said... > Barry, > > su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that > makes the difference? The difference is $HOME. If you use just 'su', your user environment is inherited by the root shell, except for some variables that get replaced by su. O

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030325 13:59 PST]: > Hello, > > Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got > a new question based on the adjacency of partitions. > > This is the partition table as it is: > > hda: hda1 > hdb: hdb1 hdb

Re: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:58, Juan dominguez wrote: > Hello everybody > > I have installed debian 3.0 in my PC. After that I > recompiled the kernel (version 2.4.4). The network > interface module is part of the kernel. I have a > network interface working successfull, but I want to > install ano

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:52:18 +0100 Martin Kacerovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for hints about compiling a new kernel see Linux Kernel HOWTO > ( packages usually needed : gcc binutils make libncurses5-dev ) For better hints check out the kernel compiling newbiedoc: http://newbiedoc.sourcefor

New "Creating Custom Kernels" newbiedoc

2003-03-25 Thread kjmck
A new version of "Creating Custom Kernels With Debian's Kernel-Package System" is available at: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html I'm interested in feedback, especially about mistakes or useability issues. Thank you, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since this post, I contacted my ISP and they say they can see my REQUEST, > and hey! Yes, there goes the ACK! Another REQUEST, another ACK! But > somehow, I don't receive them. I use tcpdump | dhcpdump and that > works perfectly, I can see all DHCP op

Mozilla Calendar servers

2003-03-25 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Anyone know of free/opensource software that will function as a server for the Mozilla calendar? Just found the client tool in the nightly build -svg- build. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lukas Latz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030325 13:21 PST]: > Barry, > > su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that > makes the difference? Two things. Environment variables, to be precise. The two in question are DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY. The forme

Re: Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman details at: http://www.fsf.org/doc/book13.html maybe not gentle but certainly effective. stan wrote: | I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was | abou

Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

2003-03-25 Thread csj
At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:54:52 +, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > re-encoding may not work for the same reasons "copying" with > > mencoder didnt. Plus the reason I want to do it is to > > prevent reencoding, I mean I could reencode with mencode as > > well to a smaller screen or lower resolution an

Re: KDE not working in sid

2003-03-25 Thread florin gheorghiu
For better visualization of the installed or not installed pkgs try synaptin(apt-get install synaptic). Then you can try kdebase 3.1 kdebin 3.1 and so on always with 3.1. For starting, the started script is in /etc/kde3/debian/startkde.. Bonne chance ! From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Christof Hurschler
newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in woody: how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my cdroms and zip i.e. Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 14.A Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revis

Re: output of a2ps

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:51:50 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sometimes, a2ps will output to stdout, other times it will send the > output directly to the default printer (even without -d). how can > i control this. i'd like to make a2ps send to stdout at all times, > unless, of

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 March 2003 09:16 am, Brian wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least > that's what's returned when I do "uname -a". > > My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: > "ERROR: s

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread David Fokkema
> David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I don't know what's going on since the syslog shows that after > > each DHCPREQUEST there is a DHCPOFFER from the correct server. > > That's broken server behaviour. The server is supposed to respond > with either a DHCPACK or a DHCPNAK

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Lukas Latz
--- "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM > > To: deFreese, Barry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Newbee-ish X and root question > > > > > > Barry, > > > > su -m s

Stuck with vesa framebuffer not working

2003-03-25 Thread Frédéric Dumont
I have a Compaq Presario 2520. When I try to load the vesafb module, I always get an error: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/vesafb.o: init_module: No such device or address Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. Yo

Re: Woody and 2.4 kernel

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On 22 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0700 Blake Covarrubias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, Linux Junior has a good PET on compiling a kernel from source on > Debian. > http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/pet.cgi?SUBMIT=Display&id=12 > From my experiences it also works on Woody and Sid. Good luck. There

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM > To: deFreese, Barry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Newbee-ish X and root question > > > Barry, > > su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that > makes

emacs and error message

2003-03-25 Thread Stefano Calza
Hi. When I start emacs on "testing" I get this message: No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove it. How can I configure emacs not to ask for that file? TIA, Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

RE: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Juan dominguez
I physically add another NIC, but when I try  modconf it doesn't show the module of the NIC becouse it was compiled as a part of the kernel so i can't load this module but the other NIC is working (both NIC's are the same model ) thanks for yopur cooperation!  "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new functionality. These are the entries from my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Lukas Latz
Barry, su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that makes the difference? Thanks! Lukas --- "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:31 AM > > To: [EMAI

smartsuite obsolete?

2003-03-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
I searched the last quarter for the user and main developer list and didn't see any note about this: smartsuite has gone missing from all but woody. Is there a reason? For those who don't know it, smartsuite looks at drives' SMART diagnostics and warns if a drive is ready to fail. The combination

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