Re: samba PDC

2003-12-13 Thread Leandra
Ola, meu nome é Cris Sou péssima usuaria, por isso nao estranhem se eu enviei meu comentario para o enderço errado. Eusó queria comentar que o Windows NT é famoso por entrar em conflito com o Samba se nao for ele que estiver como PDC. Entao nao estranhe se for erro de Windows

Sound Blaster Live! e ALSA

2003-12-13 Thread Paulo Henrique
Olá a todos, Gostaria de saber como configurar minha placa de som Sound Blaster Live! Value para reproduzir arquivos midi através do ALSA. Já compilei o driver de acordo com o site http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/debian_alsa.html e instalei os pacotes xmms-midi e timidity, porém os arquivos

Fw: FOCA GNU/LINUX - Atualização da vers ão Iniciante/Intermediário/Avançado

2003-12-13 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Inicio da mensagem encaminhada: Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:48:36 + From: Gleydson Mazioli da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FOCA GNU/LINUX - Atualização da versão Iniciante/Intermediário/Avançado -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Atualização do Guia

Gravador cd LG 52x32x52

2003-12-13 Thread Vsg
Olá Pessoal!!! Sou novato no linux e estou tendo problema para usar meu gravador de cd, é um Lg 52x32x52x sempre sou informado que não tenho um gravador de cd instalado alguém pode me ajudar resolver este problema? para verificar se o gravador está ok fiz uma instalação no Windows e tudo

!!!!!

2003-12-13 Thread Vsg
Não é sempre que encontramos pessoas Gentis, obrigado por sua ignorância, se eu não fosse um novato no Linux não estaria procurando ajuda Venicio

Nova versão dos CDs do Debian-BR dispon íveis!

2003-12-13 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Olá para todos, Tenho o prazer de divulgar o lançamento da segunda versão dos CDs do Debian-BR baseados na Woody (a versão estável atual da Debian). O lançamento oficial foi feito durante a primeira reunião do GUD-ES (grupo de usuários Debian-ES) no dia 06/12/2003, onde cada membro recebeu uma

!!!!!!!

2003-12-13 Thread Vsg
Não é sempre que encontramos pessoas Gentis, obrigado por sua ignorância, se eu não fosse um novato no Linux não estaria procurando ajuda Venicio Em Sáb, 2003-12-13 às 19:30, Fábio Rabelo escreveu: Vsg wrote: Olá Pessoal!!! Sou novato no linux e estou tendo problema para

Re: !!!!!!!

2003-12-13 Thread Gilberto F da Silva
Sao Bernardo do Campo SP Brazilo, stela dato: 2.452.987,472 Loka tempo: 2003-12-13 21:19:38 somera horaro Saluton! Vsg [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema Não é sempre que encontramos pessoas Gentis, obrigado por sua ignorância, se eu não fosse um novato no Linux não estaria

telnet linux

2003-12-13 Thread Eroilton Borges Junior
ola estou com problema no telnet do linux o service e o inetd.conf estão liberados e naum coloquei nada no hosts.allow e deny porem toda vez que executo o telnet ele começa como se fosse abrir a tela de login e retorna o erro "Connection to host lost." tanto local como remoto na

Client Development Specialist for Technology firms

2003-12-13 Thread Scott M. Wiseman
Title: Objective: To: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms IF this resume reaches you in Error. Please forward to your Human Resources Department Resume Scott Wiseman 13428 Maxella Ave Ste 207 Marina Del

Re: Client Development Specialist for Technology firms

2003-12-13 Thread Gilberto F da Silva
To: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms IF this resume reaches you in Error. Please forward to your Human Resources Department Que saco! -- Data estelar: 2.452.987,653 (2003-12-14 01:40:03) Estamos nessa porcaria

Cópiar cds playstation

2003-12-13 Thread Oscar Fonseca Leonel
Olá a todos, gostaria de saber como é possível usar o linux para copiar cds do playstation As cópias serão feitas para meu sobrinho (nos cds originais q não durão 30 dias) []s

Re: Gravador cd LG 52x32x52

2003-12-13 Thread FaRaOhh
Em Sáb, 2003-12-13 às 21:23, Vsg escreveu: Olá Pessoal!!! Sou novato no linux e estou tendo problema para usar meu gravador de cd, é um Lg 52x32x52x sempre sou informado que não tenho um gravador de cd instalado alguém pode me ajudar resolver este problema? para verificar se o gravador

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Stephen, You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There would be a difference between adsl and cable, as well as pppoe and adsl with a fixed address. I'm not an expert, but I just yesterday connect to adsl (using pppoe). If that describes your situation, try running

Re: How do I get sound?

2003-12-13 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? - Please leave this. It is a filter term. ferulebezel What does lspci report about your sound card? Also, it might be good to know what kernel version you have (uname -a). -- Kent --

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown FeatherTail
d q -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
What the? How did that end up getting sent to this group? Anyways, please disregard that message, as It is obviously just a screw up on my part during my attempts to get outbound email working properly. On 12 Dec 2003 at 22:35, Scarletdown FeatherTail wrote: d q -- To

Re: installmanual

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:39:36PM +0100, Joseph MICHEL ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I would like to install debian. But when I read the installation manual http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual, I feel lost because it addresses expert people. Please, is there an

Re: How do I get sound?

2003-12-13 Thread David
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:06:18PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? I've always been a fan of sndconfig - Please leave this. It is a filter term. ferulebezel - Mark

Re: your mail

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:51:44PM -0600, CLARK DAVIDSON ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do you know how I can get a file called apt_0.5.4_i386.deb that is not corrupt? The install CD is corrupt http://packages.debian.org/ You're looking for 'apt'. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:46:11PM +, John Peter wrote: I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and just had to execute their instructions, by the letter and everything runs OK. That is the crap driver I'm talking

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 04:04 GMT, Mark Healey penned: Whenever I open an application it is too big for my desktop (Gnome). There are a couple of problems with this. If I resize it many of the controls are obscured. Then there are the non resizable apps. I think that this has something to

Re: How do I get sound?

2003-12-13 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 06:06, Mark Healey wrote: Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? - Please leave this. It is a filter term. ferulebezel - try apt-get install sndconfig, you will like it, it's redhat

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-12-13 Thread Dan Lawrence
[posted and mailed] On 12 Dec 2003, Raquel Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in linux.debian.user: Oh gosh! Can you sense that I'm more than a bit nervous about getting rid of Sendmail and installing Exim? Is it going to be a giant job? Well, I went for postfix over Exim but it went like

mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory

2003-12-13 Thread Rajkumar S
Hello all I am trying to compile samhain on a woody/testing machine. The machine is a woody machine with testing lines in sources.list. The kernel installed is Linux agni 2.4.18-k6 #1 Sun Apr 14 12:43:22 EST 2002 i586 GNU/Linux dpkg -l | grep kernel ii kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-k7

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-13 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Antonio Rodr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason provided, it seems that some have blocked the ips in my block, or

Re: installmanual

2003-12-13 Thread Rajkumar S
Joseph MICHEL wrote: Please, is there an automated installation program like that of Red Hat ? Please take a look at Knoppix, It has automatic hardware detection, debian based, has latest and greatest applications and you can also install it into hard disk with minimal fuss. I am using it in

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:11:34PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:15:17AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I understand that you're trying to better the list, and I appreciate that, but your

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:00:51AM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri 12 Dec 2003 19:14:25 +(+0200), Anton Zinoviev wrote: computer I use? Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messages

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-13 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Bijan Soleymani schrieb: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:54:56PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: . . . I forgot to erase you. Bijan Did you want to write 'erase you' or was it erase 'you' ? Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-13 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:05, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:46:11PM +, John Peter wrote: I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and just had to execute their instructions, by the letter and

Re: Script for subscribing/unsubscribing Debian-user?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:57:05PM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just wondering - is it possible to write a script for mailing a few initial subscribe or unsubscribe messages for one's favorite lists to the server managing the listmembers or does this process depend

Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-13 Thread Philipp Schulte
Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues, MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ... The users will most likely either use KDE

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-13 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 23:26: On Thursday 11 December 2003 21:10, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Antonio Rodr um 21:32: I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-13 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Do, den 11.12.2003 schrieb Thanasis Kinias um 21:51: AOL was the first that I encountered to do this; over the summer, they started blocking all e-mail originating from Cox IP addresses. Not long thereafter, Cox blocked all outbound SMTP except to their own mailserver, so I had to go

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via apt-get. It's a decent console-

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:04:50PM -0800, Mark Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Whenever I open an application it is too big for my desktop (Gnome). There are a couple of problems with this. If I resize it many of the controls are obscured. Then there are the non resizable apps. I think

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:46:03AM -0600, Kent West wrote: OFF-TOPIC Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I

dosemu: access denied

2003-12-13 Thread Boudewijn
Hi, I installed dosemu 1.0.2.1 into my Sarge system. Commands like dir work, but whenever I need disk access, for example C:\ md myprogs,I get: C:\ md: access denied I retried as root, + I tried commenting out of /etc/dosemu/users all nosuidroot c_all# disallow suid access

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-13 Thread Antonio Rodr)
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:29:05 -0800 Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * TR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 04:02]: Somebody whose attribution has been removed wrote: Well, really you'll just need one such router, with the bad domains listed on that domains = line. Me, I'd use a filename

spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7 I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How do I get sound?

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
Mark Healey wrote: Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? - Something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ apt-get install sndconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sndconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ adduser mark audio mark must log out and log back in for this

Re: Updating sysvinit

2003-12-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 11 Desembre 2003 22:52, en Miquel van Smoorenburg va escriure: Try: dpkg -i sysvinit_2.85-7_i386.deb initscripts_2.85-7_all.deb sysv-rc_2.85-7_all.deb Yes, you need all three packages, and you need to do that in one single dpkg run, or

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:57:37AM -0600, Wayne Sitton wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:46:03AM -0600, Kent West wrote: OFF-TOPIC Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . snip And, I don't have a problem if tigerdirect, or

Re: Mail questions

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:25:42PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 01:11 GMT, Reaz Baksh penned: I now have a few questions: 1) when I issue the fetchmail command as above, is fetchmail passing the mail to exim4 to deliver it to the mail box, or

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Anita Lewis
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:51:04 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: I've been trying to set up POP3 email access (in text mode instead of from the desktop), and am really stumped now. I just did a little experiment and installed fetchmail, then from the command prompt gave the fetchmail command as

Solved: Updating sysvinit

2003-12-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 13 Desembre 2003 12:45, en Joan Tur va escriure: Es Dijous 11 Desembre 2003 22:52, en Miquel van Smoorenburg va escriure: Try: dpkg -i sysvinit_2.85-7_i386.deb initscripts_2.85-7_all.deb sysv-rc_2.85-7_all.deb Yes, you need all

Re:Nagios not quite working

2003-12-13 Thread James Roberts
Hello all: I have set up nagios-text on testing. Currently there are no nagios-plugins available with apt-get due to upstream issues. The maintainer for nagios-plugins told me (thanks!) that netsaint plugins would work. I apt-got them and everything is nearly but not quite working. I've done

Re: Nagios not quite working

2003-12-13 Thread Adam Garside
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:53:54PM +, James Roberts wrote: Hello all: I have set up nagios-text on testing. Currently there are no nagios-plugins available with apt-get due to upstream issues. The maintainer for nagios-plugins told me (thanks!) that netsaint plugins would work. I

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7 I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? I did a little searching for you.

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 03:57 am, Wayne Sitton wrote: I mean holly fril, If Gateway had a sticker that guaranteed that every piece of hardware on a specific Box was Linux compatible, no matter what os was shipped, they'd probably become better than they are currently. But, why do they

Re: Installing Printer - CUPS **SOLVED**

2003-12-13 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Thanks! that was the problem. I hadn't manually configured the pnm2ppa package. I have to say that this is a problem with debian. I had to install a slew of packages to get cups to work, basically by trial and error. Some packages simply work upon installation, some don't (pnm2ppa). There

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:56:54 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 23:40 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: [snip] In the real world: Do the simplest thing that is consistent with the specification. Someone, whose skill level you can't predict, is going to have to maintain it

Re: When will packages.debian.org be available again?

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Brossier
That's something i would like to know too ?! Paul On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Neodym123 wrote: Hi! Does anyone know, when the packages list and search on www.debian.org will be available again? Thanks, U.Lukas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Andy, Thanks for the reply. I'm embarassed that I didn't do a proper job of searching for the answer myself. One possible source of the problem may be that I have a routing conflict between irq 7 and irq 9 caused by my sound card clashing with the sound device built into the motherboard

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Terry writes: Now, if you are just doing this in good faith or making a best effort, you're asking for a lawsuit the first time somebody buys your stuff and can't get the backalley joe Linux distro version 0.0.2 to work with it. Either that, or you're just going to be giving people their

Re: dosemu: access denied

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Boudewijn, It's been awhile since I used dosemu, but as I recall... The C: drive is an image file that you specify, or you could specify a partition. You make this setting in file /etc/dosemu.conf, for example: in file /etc/dosemu.conf: $_hdimage = /dev/hda1 In the above example, I've

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:57:12 -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: nitpick John == John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John #include stdio.h John int main John ( Johnint nNumberofArguments, Your variable names are too long, which decreases readability. Having such a long name does not

only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

2003-12-13 Thread michelle
I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and audio groups can do that. How do I fix this so members of audio can use cd player apps (playing cds from

***MESSAGE***

2003-12-13 Thread olutomso
Dear Friend, I am a project manager with the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WORKS AND HOUSING (FMWH). I obtained your email from the internet, while searching for a reliable person, who could assist us in receiving kick-backs funds from contractors awarded contracts executed under the current budgetary

Re: Script for subscribung/unsubscribing Debian-user?

2003-12-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Fri 12 Dec 2003 23:57:05 +(+0100), Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: Just wondering - is it possible to write a script for mailing a few initial subscribe or unsubscribe messages for one's favorite lists to the server managing the listmembers or does this process depend on the web

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Robert Storey wrote: For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7 I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? regards, Robert If you have an nForce2 mobo, this is actually normal, and harmless.

dial-up timeouts

2003-12-13 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi, I have got a strange behaviour with ppp. When I got connected, all programs using network (kmail,mozilla) suddenly becomes very slow. They hangs for minutes without response. When I shut down pppd, everything becomes normal. I have a suspicion that it wait for some servise that is not

***MESSAGE***

2003-12-13 Thread olutomso
Dear Friend, I am a project manager with the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WORKS AND HOUSING (FMWH). I obtained your email from the internet, while searching for a reliable person, who could assist us in receiving kick-backs funds from contractors awarded contracts executed under the current budgetary

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:50:15 +0800, David Palmer wrote: I have seen what I believe is a need for an additional mailing list, not so much for the benefit of the developers' list, but most definitely for the sake of sanity on debian-user. I have posted to curiosain recognition of their patience

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem. It has no volume control. I agree with your assessment of workbone as a decent console-based cd

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:06:01 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: When I donated this year I tried to make an estimate of how much I might have paid on proprietary software to do what I've been doing with free software over the last few years, and to contribute at least that much. To be honest I

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:58:25 -0700, s. keeling wrote: If you need to understand it to use it, you've got the source. What more could you need? That's not good enough? Don't use it. You think it would be better with good documentation? Great. Go write some. Oh, you want me to write

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-13 Thread Haines Brown
Vineet, Well perhaps some progress, perhaps not. * Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 14:02]: Logged and back in and went to save my test file. The test failed. That is, I'm still being prompted for the coding system, and utf-16-le is offered as the default. =20 The command $

The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Hi all, first post here! I have been using Libranet and love it. However, having first learned GNU/LInux by way of Debian, I will from time to time install a Debian box just to stay rusty. Now I want to install Debian and get all the functionality I have with Libranet. This is an

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:08:45 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:30:35AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 05:01 GMT, Scarletdown penned: That's pretty cool. I also recommend this site as well...

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. The Debian box is connected to broadband via a ADSL modem with dynamic IP. I ran 'pppoeconfig' to setup the connection. Up to this point it seemed without problem, ISP connected and confirmed with 'ifconfig'. But connection to Internet was blocked. I

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Debian User wrote: if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it in assembly native to that processor. you can even write them inline within your C code. asm( mnemonic_instruction operand, operand); Debian User wrote: if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it

Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On my machine: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror /usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror. But: $ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser nothing Why is konqeror my

remote GNOME session over ssh fails

2003-12-13 Thread lloyd
I start a local X session and run a GNOME session on another machine: X xterm -display :0 -e ssh -X -f remotehost gnome-session For awhile this worked - now it's mysteriously not working. I just get the blank X root window, and nothing else happens. However, if I drop the -f parameter for

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:02:16 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Stephen, I told pppoeconf that I didn't want to start the network at boot. To start it anytime: Open an xterm, su to root. Then try this: pon dsl-provider You can use the plog command to see what effect this had, or

minicom vs pon

2003-12-13 Thread csj
I have a serial modem connected via a usb serial converter. I noticed that if I turn the modem off then on, I can no longer connect via pon (ppp) *unless* I reset the modem or serial link by other means, like disconnecting and reconnecting the usb serial converter or invoking /etc/init.d/hotplug

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Geoff Bagley
- Original Message - From: Wayne Sitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:57 AM Subject: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect Only problem was, and have experienced this, Dell would not honor their warranty if it was shipped with

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

2003-12-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello michelle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and audio groups can do that. How do I fix this so members of

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Joey Hess
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? So: where can I find the Installer, or how can I fix this

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Joey Hess wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? # See sources.list(5) for more

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Joey Hess wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found It should not be trying to use non-us. What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? So: where can I find the Installer, or

Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) Abiword depends on libperl5.6 (= 5.6.1-8.3) while you're using version 5.6.1-8.2. After

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: Terry writes: Now, if you are just doing this in good faith or making a best effort, you're asking for a lawsuit the first time somebody buys your stuff and can't get the backalley joe Linux distro version 0.0.2 to work with it. Either that, or you're just going to be

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

2003-12-13 Thread Hubert Chan
michelle == michelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: michelle I have things set up so that members of the audio group can michelle use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only michelle root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk michelle and audio groups can do

Re: dosemu: access denied

2003-12-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:44:04AM +0100, Boudewijn wrote: Hi, I installed dosemu 1.0.2.1 into my Sarge system. Commands like dir work, but whenever I need disk access, for example C:\ md myprogs,I get: C:\ md: access denied I do not understand where the C: drive is

Re: Installing all packages

2003-12-13 Thread Brad Stockdale
Hello all, I am new to the list and new to Debian. I've been using Linux since 1996, and my distribution of choice has always been Red Hat. That is, until Red Hat as a company started persuing goals that I had no desire to be involved with. So, that left me with some choices to make. I

Re: ide DMA on Intel 865PE

2003-12-13 Thread Rune Maagensen
Dobai-Pataky Balint wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:27, Rune Maagensen wrote: using_dma= 0 (off) try hdparm -i device, to see what modes are suported by hdd /dev/hda: Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y2Q5NXLE Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0,

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:31:17PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: The default coding system in emacs is determined by how I've set up locales in debian. I went back to my installation notes, and according to them, I had set the locale to utf-8. I don't know exactly how emacs decides what coding

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing the command apt-get install abiword. The installation fails immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating from Italian into English!) Abiword depends on libperl5.6 (= 5.6.1-8.3) while you're using

Re: Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

2003-12-13 Thread Travis Crump
Nunya wrote: On my machine: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror /usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror. But: $ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser nothing Why is

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:34:30AM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. Can someone tell me where I can find nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 package for installing nvidia-glx? - From building

hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D. Harnois
I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured, and my DHCP server doesn't recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could the problem be? --

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:29:33AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Kindly advise how to fix the problem. Wow! Thank you! That's a good start, thanks for giving lots of detail. What happens if you try pinging 66.218.71.86 (w7.scd.yahoo.com, one of the

Re: Why is konqueror my x-www-browser when it doesn't provide it?

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:27:54PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Nunya wrote: Why is konqeror my x-www-browser when it doesn't Provide it? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg01165.html So it's a bug? I was looking for someone to say no, this is correct

I can't update SPARC unstable

2003-12-13 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
The maddening thing is, the update worked for the Sparc a couple of weeks ago, but hasn't worked at all in the last few days. Meanwhile, the Intel boxes update without any problems. I have not changed my sources.list, which is rather simple: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote: I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you didn't tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file for your home directory and include I have it working

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 2:09, Karsten M. Self wrote: Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. Done. I thought I had done that a while back; then remembered that I had switched my subscription over from my Yahoo account to

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on and set them to about 72 columns and consider http://learn.to/quote/ On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There would be a

<    1   2   3   4   >