apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: desire:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extr

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/03 20:53), Brian Walker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:10:18 +0800, kmark+debian wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> csj wrote: > >> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > >> > describe below. > >> > > >> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilter

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Walker
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:10:18 +0800, kmark+debian wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> csj wrote: >> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I >> > describe below. >> > >> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" and >> > ALL

Exim4 configuration

2003-11-12 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Hi all! I'm somehow new to Debian and therefor new to exim (I've been using sendmail which was actually configured by yast2). Now I'm trying to set up exim to send my mails directly without using an external SMTP server... I an error message (I've used the internet option in Exim4 configuration ma

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Piers Kittel wrote: Hello Roberto; > nForce2 GART support is in 2.4.22 and newer kernels. The nVidia > drivers have been modified (via a patch) to compile against 2.5.x and > 2.6.x kernels. If you want I can email you the patch, or you can > Goolge for it, or search the threads at nforcershq

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Miguel Alvarez Blanco wrote: > I do not really know if this is a bug or a "feature", so I am not update-rc.d is working as intended. Read its manpage about how you as the local admin should interact with it. In particular, update-rc.d is to be used ONLY by the packaging syst

update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Miguel Alvarez Blanco
Hi, I do not really know if this is a bug or a "feature", so I am not sending it as a bug report. The problem is fairly general, it has happened several times to me, although the last one was because of the ipmasq package. I had the package installed in my system while I was using it to provid

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-12 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:38 -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > I don't know if its possible to modify the ownership of a newly created file. > He who creates, becomes owner. You can use the sgid bit to modify the group > permission to follow that of the parent directory. I thought that is what th

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 & USB 2.0 Question

2003-11-12 Thread Peter Samek
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:12:43AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] > Additional Problems with kernel-2.6.0-test9 > > Although I built the kernel with support for modules and ran > make modules and make modules_install the command lsmod reports > AP_MODULES are not installed.

Re: regarding kernels

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:28:22PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > So, not compiling, is not a security risk ? You should read the changelog to find that out. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:07 Subject: Re: Installing modem. Hoyt Bailey wrote: You say "ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1"; um, yes. They're differen

Re: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Haines Brown wrote: I need to have installed the kernel source in order to compile a driver, but have difficulty finding the source for 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is the answer that the "bf2.4" is just an addition, and that the kernel source for my kernel is actually just 2.4.18? Haines Brown Could it be (

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Nicolas Rueff wrote: Ainsi parla Otto Wyss le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the p

modem trouble : olitech self memory v92 ready serie

2003-11-12 Thread liane
my modem who was working fine have now mysteriously a strange behaviour. To have a connexion i must lauch pon something like 30 times. ;(( i put in my message a copy of the /var/log/syslog file and other useful modem configuration file. If anyone have any clues about what is wrong , it will be welc

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:30 Subject: Re: Installing modem > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I installed minicom from KDE package manager. It is very easy. Issued > > 'minicom -s' and was

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 20:20, Greg Folkert wrote: > Personally I love the stuff Andreas Metzler has done with the config. > Makes it TONS more managable. Might I even suggest that Philip Hazel > (Exim's author) adopt it... or include at least a way to do that. I would agree with that, though

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-11-12 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > Outside of the "crash" screen saver, I have yet to see a BSOD in > Linux. 8:o) Actually I did once, no blue screen of course but I did manage to crash Debian Woody. Fsking around with hdparm at the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:07 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > >>You say "ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1"; um, yes. They're > >>different files. Ma

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:01, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:07:12AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I try and take good notes setting things up, but all I have is > > "doesn't work on secondary head". My memory is that I saw a reason > > why it doesn't work on the seco

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Roberto; > nForce2 GART support is in 2.4.22 and newer kernels. The nVidia > drivers have been modified (via a patch) to compile against 2.5.x and > 2.6.x kernels. If you want I can email you the patch, or you can > Goolge for it, or search the threads at nforcershq.com. Aha. Got a bit co

Re: New user help...

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:49, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: > I feel like RedHat has sold out on me as a paying customer, so I'm > looking at Debian. I've run into a few problems, though... ... > Second, I tried 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-586'. I got the > new kernel installed and running (whic

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-12 Thread Lajos Mester
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 20:40, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/11/03 19:33), Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is > > >> it possible? > > >>

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:44, Erik Steffl wrote: >just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia > drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: > >one monitor: openGL works fullscreen or windowed > >two monitors: openGL works in window, n

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:39, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: --snip-- > As a test, I closed all open apps, turned off apache and mysqld, and > start up a round of Unreal Tournament. The problem continued, with > alternating periods of normal speed and slow speed, with the periods of > normal speed get

Re: proxy configuration

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Haiko Etzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031112 11:12]: > Hello, > my server is behind a proxy-server with authentification. > I installed debian through http, where I inserted the proxy informations. For package installation with apt-get have a look in /etc/apt/apt.conf > But now I need to change

Re: odd df results

2003-11-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:35:53 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:11, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:13:01 -0600, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue,

New user help...

2003-11-12 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
I feel like RedHat has sold out on me as a paying customer, so I'm looking at Debian. I've run into a few problems, though... First, the framebuffer console looks hideous on my laptop. I searched the list archives, but the only solutions I found were using the kernel parameter 'vga=normal' (n

RE: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-12 Thread Iago Sineiro
Thanks. That's work Iago. -Mensaje original- De: Mental Patient [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes, 11 de noviembre de 2003 18:04 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Debian MailList Asunto: Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root Iago Sineiro wrote: > Hi. > > I want to execute s

Re: other users of the medion MD40100?

2003-11-12 Thread Ronald van der Meer
Hi, I bought this laptop too and also submitted a site to www.linux-laptop.net It didn't show up yet either. My site is at home.conceptsfa.nl/~revdmeer/md40100. Suggestions are welcome, especially for internal miniPCI wireless-lan card which I still can't get to work. Ronald. -- To UNSUBSCRI

moddep *** unresolved symbol

2003-11-12 Thread Gianpaolo Serafini
Dear fellows, I'am an happy Debian user for 6 mounts (not a long time really!). In this period I installed several linux-debian systems. I also made the "kernel build" from sources due to specific hardware. I used a lot the package make-kpkg so I was able to compile the kernel on a development mac

Re: kernel 2.4.22 on testing

2003-11-12 Thread Herbert Xu
TK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > network card drivers. I manually tried "insmod via-rhine" but got a > "unsolved symbols" errors. Looking into /boot, the kernel file is You should use modprobe instead of insmod. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{P

Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-11-12 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:08:39 -0500, Paul M Foster a écrit : > mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage -C $NEXTTRACK -M /dev/cdrom /home/paulf/cdrom you should check, though as i remind you cannot have the same dir name at the root of the iso9660 image for multisessions. else the first etry with the nae "/home

Re: Exim4 ACLs (was: Thoughts on exim4-conifg)

2003-11-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:44, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:25:02AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file > > > into parts and when exim4 is (r

Intranet Mails on Linux

2003-11-12 Thread Amruta Jejurikar
hi! I would like to know how to exchange intranet mails. Intranet in this case, includes a Linux Redhat 9 machine, which acts as the server, and the clients are Windows (9x) machines. It would be great if you could give some advice on online tutorials and links, as soon as possible! thanks,   -bars

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:44:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia > drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: The important thing... are you using dual-head, or are you using Xinerama? If you're usin

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