Re: web page -> ps problems

2003-12-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:05:46AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > I've had the problem with gv not being able to read Xprint's postscript > output (i.e. when printing to file from mozilla). I've filed a bug against > the gv package, but the maintainer (nor the Xprint author) could not reproduce > th

Versions by Debian release

2003-12-24 Thread Paul M Foster
I had a problem with X that I posted earlier this week to this list. I didn't receive any replies, and I had a feeling that the only answer was going to be upgrading xserver-xfree86 from the version I was running under stable. I did an apt-get update and apt-get --dry-run install xserver-xfree86. F

America's Army - OpenGL Error

2003-12-24 Thread Scarletdown
I just downloaded and installed the Linux version of America's Army. Everything seemed to go fine. However, when I tried to run the game, the splash screen came up and then the program quit with the error: Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error So, what do I need to do t

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-24 Thread David Sanders
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 09:53 pm, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The > kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and > then switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is > the penguin

info grub missing on testing / unstable - FYI

2003-12-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
grub is somewhat particular and in order to use it successfully, you better know about its preferences. All this comes natively in info grub on (m)any distros, here are the core concepts: 1. How to create a grub boot floppy: # cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file > corruption. > > Anyw

booting to serial console

2003-12-24 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and then switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is the penguin image which appears during the boot process. I have looked through boot ma

A special nice game

2003-12-24 Thread msccatus
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Re: Compiling kernel on a different computer

2003-12-24 Thread Lucas Albers
Monique Y. Herman said: > You might also look into distcc, which allows you to run the compile > across multiple computers. > > Oh, wait, just reread - the above won't help with harddrive space =/ > but it's still a really cool tool. > > -- > monique i never could get distcc to work, anyone have a

Re: Reliable replication of installed packages

2003-12-24 Thread Lucas Albers
Evan Simpson said: > I'm trying to come up with a reliable process for "replicating" the set > of installed packages from one Debian installation to another. I have > two use-cases: > > 1. Restoring a system from backup. > 2. Maintaining a secondary server. Just use systemimager for a complete ne

Re: mutt problem

2003-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:36:48PM -0200, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > Hi! > > * s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > I have one little problem with mutt and I can't find the solution. > > > Sometimes mutt just drop( it just cute off and I can't see it) the > > > first line of t

Re: mutt problem

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rafael Alexandre Schmitt: > > * s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > I have one little problem with mutt and I can't find the solution. > > > Sometimes mutt just drop( it just cute off and I can't see it) the > > > first line of the messages I receive. > > > > I've see

Re: [HELP] sarge, 2.6.0 and ALSA won't play

2003-12-24 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Bob Billson wrote: > Now that 2.6.0 is out (woohoo!), I decided to give it a try. I'm having > a problem getting 2.6.0 and ALSA to play literally and figuratively. > I built the kernel from the original tarball. I have ALSA configured > as a module for my sound chip, a SiS SI7018 (Trident). The

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-24 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Using knode, there seems to be a recent change in which all text (body, > headers, dialogs in compose windows, etc.) appears doublespaced. > > There's no outstanding bug for this that I'm aware of, nor is there a > control to set linespacing. > > Anyone else seeing this,

Re: Gnome-Session ? what's needed for Gnome ?

2003-12-24 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Uwe Dippel wrote: > Installed quite a few of the stuff for Gnome; almost everything starting > with gnome ... in apt-cache search. > Still in kdm, it shows Gnome-session instead of Gnome. And when starting > the Gnome-Session, I get the Gnome 2.4 splash-screen with WindowMaker > icons on the deskt

Re: upgrade from Corel Linux

2003-12-24 Thread Robert Storey
Dear David, For all the trouble you'd have to go through to upgrade Corel, I'd just grab a Knoppix CD and install that to the hard drive - it has worked very well for me. This assumes that you want to run Unstable (recommended, unless you're running a mission-critical server). When the boot promp

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: > This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged > volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) > > How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? > Unmount

Re: debian on my athlon?

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:01:20 -0600, Forest Fisher wrote: > I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M processor. It's a > new processor designed specifically to minimize energy use for laptops. I was > hoping to run Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop, but the official website

Re: Howto? ATI Radeon on Sarge - MORE

2003-12-24 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:54:35PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > Hmmm Lots of conflicting answers. From "it cant be done" to "get the > experimental 4.3" to "juse use the driver from ATI that comes in RPM" > The answers don't conflict, they just give alternatives. If you don't want to use the close

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: > This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged > volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) > > How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? > Unmount

Re: mutt problem

2003-12-24 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
Hi! * s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have one little problem with mutt and I can't find the solution. > > Sometimes mutt just drop( it just cute off and I can't see it) the > > first line of the messages I receive. > > I've been using mutt for the last 2 or 3 years , my muttrc i

Howto? ATI Radeon on Sarge - MORE

2003-12-24 Thread hanasaki
Hmmm Lots of conflicting answers. From "it cant be done" to "get the experimental 4.3" to "juse use the driver from ATI that comes in RPM" Below are snips of the emails recieved. Could you folks give me a step by step on how you got it working? I am on a kt600 chipset and kernel 2.4 and 2.6

Re: Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:21:58PM -0600, Forest Fisher wrote: > I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M Processor. I was > hoping to run Debian on my new computer, but the official webpage indicates that the > latest release of Debian is not supported by the Athlon arc

Re: Random crashing - related to tri video card?

2003-12-24 Thread Dave Schick
I am interested in using three monitors.  Since they do not sell any Tri-video cards I was told to use a dual AGP along with a PCI card.  Is this a simple process?  Please write me back if you can.   Dave

apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file corruption. Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing apt

Re: debian on my athlon?

2003-12-24 Thread Raiz_mpx
From: Forest Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Today 13:01:20 >I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M >processor.  It's a new processor designed specifically to minimize >energy use for laptops.  I was hoping to run Debian GNU/Linux on my >laptop, but the official w

Re: ata seek error: should i worry?

2003-12-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Tom Vier wrote: > under heavy writes, i get this: > > hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatu

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Travis Crump
David Baron wrote: The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently d

Re: debian on my athlon?

2003-12-24 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:01:20 -0600 Forest Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M > processor. It's a new processor designed specifically to minimize > energy use for laptops. I was hoping to run Debian GNU/Linux on my > laptop, but t

RE: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread David Baron
The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently did not flush the di

Re: Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:21 am, Forest Fisher wrote: > I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M > Processor. I was hoping to run Debian on my new computer, but the > official webpage indicates that the latest release o

Re: Defining a group of addresses, sending mail to all , mutt

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 at 19:53 GMT, s. keeling penned: > > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > >> > >> (If you're not sure if you want to hide recipients or not, you do. I > >> can almost guarantee that at least one of your recipients will not > >> appreciate havin

Re: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing

2003-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:51:23AM -0800, Ren-Chieh Lien wrote: > I have the same problem when running matlab using images or large number > of data display. Have you found out the solution yet? > I managed to install dri support (its the cvs version for my card) and that solved the problem. It

Re: Defining a group of addresses, sending mail to all , mutt

2003-12-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 at 19:53 GMT, s. keeling penned: > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: >> >> (If you're not sure if you want to hide recipients or not, you do. I >> can almost guarantee that at least one of your recipients will not >> appreciate having their email address spread to other people

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2003-12-24 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:06:25AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm planning to use iptables as it seems it's powerfull and it will let > me choose really what is allowed and what is not (because of p2p stuff > etc. which allways keeps complaining - and out of curiosity) >

Re: file transfer from USB digital camera freezes

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:25, Dan Lenski wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a 2.4.22 kernel and using the usb-storage module to access > my Olympus C740 digital camera. > > I can mount it and view the directories just fine, but when I try to > copy more than ~3 photos from it to the hard drive, it freezes.

file transfer from USB digital camera freezes

2003-12-24 Thread Dan Lenski
Hi, I'm running a 2.4.22 kernel and using the usb-storage module to access my Olympus C740 digital camera. I can mount it and view the directories just fine, but when I try to copy more than ~3 photos from it to the hard drive, it freezes. It does this whether I use cp or nautilus or whatever. I

Re: Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:21, Forest Fisher wrote: > I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M > Processor. I was hoping to run Debian on my new computer, but the > official webpage indicates that the latest release of Debian is not > supported by the Athlon architecture. N

Re: Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-24 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 18:29, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there anywhere to set default fonts in X? Currently I'm using > 1600x1200 but many menus are so small that they can hardly be seen. I > can of course use a lower resolution but is there anywhere where these > things are set globally? I've of

Reliable replication of installed packages

2003-12-24 Thread Evan Simpson
I'm trying to come up with a reliable process for "replicating" the set of installed packages from one Debian installation to another. I have two use-cases: 1. Restoring a system from backup. 2. Maintaining a secondary server. I currently use a combination of "dpkg --get-selections" and "apt-s

Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Forest Fisher
I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M Processor. I was hoping to run Debian on my new computer, but the official webpage indicates that the latest release of Debian is not supported by the Athlon architecture. Nonetheless, other webpages (such as DebianPlanet.org) t

Re: Bootable Debian ISO

2003-12-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:00:21 +, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:17:49 +, > > Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: Compiling kernel on a different computer

2003-12-24 Thread Paul E Condon
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Piers Kittel penned: > > Hello all, > > > > I've got an ancient 486 which needs its kernel recompiled, but it is > > extremely slow, and the hard drive isn't big enough - and I think it's > > possible to recompile the kernel on my main PC and transfer the kerne

Re: Defining a group of addresses, sending mail to all , mutt

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > > (If you're not sure if you want to hide recipients or not, you do. I > can almost guarantee that at least one of your recipients will not > appreciate having their email address spread to other people without This is especially true for all the nitwits relyin

Re: Printing kills me

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David: > Anyone ever have this problem: Yup. Run /etc/init.d/lpr-ppd stop, then clean out the spool directory (/var/spool/...), re-start lpr-ppd, and resubmit your print jobs. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.sp

debian on my athlon?

2003-12-24 Thread Forest Fisher
I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M processor. It's a new processor designed specifically to minimize energy use for laptops. I was hoping to run Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop, but the official website indicates that the latest release is not built for the Athlon

Re: Defining a group of addresses, sending mail to all , mutt

2003-12-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 at 10:40 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned: > > Possibly better: use /etc/aliases. > > Your mutt aliases will expand to all users in the alias. An MTA > alias is treated as a single recipient address, but is delivered to > all recipients. Particularly helpful if you don't want t

Re: Compiling kernel on a different computer

2003-12-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Piers Kittel penned: > Hello all, > > I've got an ancient 486 which needs its kernel recompiled, but it is > extremely slow, and the hard drive isn't big enough - and I think it's > possible to recompile the kernel on my main PC and transfer the kernel > and modul

Re: (no subject)

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:40:58 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: >> >> This is an automated reply from the Debian List Automated Monitor > (DLAM): >> Your monitored IQ is measured to be: >> 0.8 brick >> Not sufficient to post. Sorry. Try taking IQ courses. >> >> I didn't know they installed that AI tool of

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: > This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged > volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) > > How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? > Unmount

Re Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-24 Thread Martin J Hooper
Fixed! What was happening was Linux was thinking that the CRT connector was the Primary 1 whereas Windows doesn't really matter which one it is. I was configuring my 15" monitor with the settings for my 19" monitor! When I configured X to use 640x480 I saw the display pop up on the 15" one no

Re: (no subject)

2003-12-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ken Gilmour wrote: This is an automated reply from the Debian List Automated Monitor (DLAM): Your monitored IQ is measured to be: 0.8 brick Not sufficient to post. Sorry. Try taking IQ courses. I didn't know they installed that AI tool of mine! ;-) Hugo. Shouldn't @aol.com addresses just be ba

Re: Why doesn't pon execute in xterm window

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Schwartz: > s. keeling wrote: > > >Incoming from Paul Schwartz: > > > >>If I execute pon [as root or su] in a console session it works. > >> > >>If I do it in an xterm window [using kde and as su] it comes backwith a > >>new prompt but it doesn't do anything. > >> > >>What am I

Re: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing

2003-12-24 Thread Ren-Chieh Lien
I have the same problem when running matlab using images or large number of data display. Have you found out the solution yet? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt problem

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rafael Alexandre Schmitt: > > I have one little problem with mutt and I can't find the solution. > Sometimes mutt just drop( it just cute off and I can't see it) the > first line of the messages I receive. > I've been using mutt for the last 2 or 3 years , my muttrc is based on > To

Re: Why doesn't pon execute in xterm window

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Schwartz
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Paul Schwartz: If I execute pon [as root or su] in a console session it works. If I do it in an xterm window [using kde and as su] it comes backwith a new prompt but it doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong? Nothing. That's the way it's supposed to

Printing kills me

2003-12-24 Thread David
Anyone ever have this problem: I'll print everynow and then to a network printer which is directly connected to a Windows Laptop and it work with out a problem for number of times. But sometimes, the printjob won't go through.. and the worst part is that my hard drive will get full and I won't b

Re: (no subject)

2003-12-24 Thread Ken Gilmour
> > This is an automated reply from the Debian List Automated Monitor (DLAM): > Your monitored IQ is measured to be: > 0.8 brick > Not sufficient to post. Sorry. Try taking IQ courses. > > I didn't know they installed that AI tool of mine! ;-) > > Hugo. Shouldn't @aol.com addresses just be banned

Re: module-less kernel error messages

2003-12-24 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
sorry, that would be /etc/modules g. On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 06:37:51PM +0100, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > hi > You could check if you have any modules in /etc/modules.conf from last > instalation > g. > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:16:49AM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > > I built a new 2.4.23 kernel usi

Re: module-less kernel error messages

2003-12-24 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
hi You could check if you have any modules in /etc/modules.conf from last instalation g. On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:16:49AM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > I built a new 2.4.23 kernel using kpkg, and not only compiled everything > in, but went so far as to disable module loading. Therefore, I have no

Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there anywhere to set default fonts in X? Currently I'm using 1600x1200 but many menus are so small that they can hardly be seen. I can of course use a lower resolution but is there anywhere where these things are set globally? I've often looked but never found anything. A. -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

ata seek error: should i worry?

2003-12-24 Thread Tom Vier
under heavy writes, i get this: hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveRe

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-24 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
hi you can emerge debootstrap in gentoo ciao On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 11:50:28AM -0500, Ian Brandt wrote: > > Hello and Happy Holidays, > > I'm new to this list and debian in general. I'm hoping to install debian > over gentoo remotely per... > > http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.

Re: [OT] XTree

2003-12-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florentin Ionescu wrote: » In my opinion, this is still the best file handling tool available, » mirrored nowadays by the Midnight Commander ('mc') for Linux (OK, I » still have to compile it myself in order to enable it to recover » deleted ext2 files.) Haw do you compile with undel ? I installed

Configuring External USB drive

2003-12-24 Thread Charles Muller
I've recently installed Woody on my laptop, but have not been able to get recognition of the external USB hard drive. I'm guessing, from what I've found through Googling, that the problem lies either in something called "framebuffering" or a lack of a SiS 7001 USB driver in the Woody kernel. I'm a

debootstrap

2003-12-24 Thread Ian Brandt
Hello and Happy Holidays, I'm new to this list and debian in general. I'm hoping to install debian over gentoo remotely per... http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html The link to debootstrap is broken... http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/debootstrap/ Does anyone know of an

Re: (no subject)

2003-12-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:23:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i got a lexmark 1020 printer and it will not print out on windows xp. Please can you help me. Hi, I'm a Linux user, English speaker, and have an IQ greater tha

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Baron: > > General question: How does one set up a login and logout script -- such as to man bash -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PPPoE server settings

2003-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Evgeny Boksha wrote: > hi2all > Can somebody post working settings for PPPoE server ? > (kernel, pppd, pppoe) > > I have > 2.4.21 kernel > 2.4.2b3 ppp (cvs) > 3.3-1.1 pppoe > > woody 3.0 r1 > These are the options enabled in my kernel: CONFIG_PPP=y CON

mutt problem

2003-12-24 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
Hi, I have one little problem with mutt and I can't find the solution. Sometimes mutt just drop( it just cute off and I can't see it) the first line of the messages I receive. I've been using mutt for the last 2 or 3 years , my muttrc is based on Tom's muttrc (.linuxbrit.co.uk) and i never c

Re: trouble installing kernel image

2003-12-24 Thread Andrés Roldán
If you have installed the latest (1:22.5.8-8) LILO package, you can run /usr/sbin/liloconfig and it will automatically add the images needed including the initrd= tags for each kernel with its initrd.img file. Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having trouble installing a kernel ima

Re: A SOFTWARE

2003-12-24 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-12-23 um 21.09 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I start wondering what those mails are about. Is that just a bored troll or a spammer harvesting reply addresses? -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no UR

Re: Trouble installing on Thinkpad 701C

2003-12-24 Thread Stuart Luppescu
On $BF|(B, 2003-12-21 at 14:08, GCS wrote: (B> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:12:30PM -0600, Stuart Luppescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (BSorry for the late reply. For some reason I'm not getting mail from this (Blist to my main account. (B> > I made the testing boot, floppy and (B> > net_dr

Re: [HELP] sarge, 2.6.0 and ALSA won't play

2003-12-24 Thread Bob Billson
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:49:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez penned: > What is the output of an lsmod after boot? Hi Roberto ... Thanks for answering. #: lsmod Module Size Used by ide_cd 40260 0 cdrom 34336 1 ide_cd parport_pc 40636

Re: How that dependency turned up?

2003-12-24 Thread David Z Maze
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to upgrade apt-show-versions. I have installed 0.04 and > am going to have 0.05. What bothers me is that the dependencies for > apt-show-versions are > > perl | perl-5.005 | perl-5.004, apt. ...for which version of apt-show-versions? {

Re: upgrade from Corel Linux

2003-12-24 Thread David Z Maze
"David G. Schlecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried recompiling a new GCC but can't because the current one > is too far out of date. That surprises me a little; I thought a goal of gcc was to be compilable with random crufty vendor K&R C compiler. But this isn't actually something I'm

module-less kernel error messages

2003-12-24 Thread Johann Koenig
I built a new 2.4.23 kernel using kpkg, and not only compiled everything in, but went so far as to disable module loading. Therefore, I have no /lib/modules/2.4.23 directory. However, I get a bunch of: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.23/modules.dep (No such file or directory

Re: trouble installing kernel image

2003-12-24 Thread David Z Maze
Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having trouble installing a kernel image which seems to depend on > initrd. The error message below is a verbatim message which follows the > halting of the installation. For some reason after I add > 'initrd=/initrd' I cannot run lilo. Do I need

Re: (no subject)

2003-12-24 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:38:32PM +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 05:56:03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i have install the printer driver and say the it printing but > > nothing happen on the printer. > > Linux is nothing to do with windows and the only similarity of it is th

Re: Challenge to the debian community: ethernet controller doesn't work in debian but in: SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo !!

2003-12-24 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:07:50 -0600, Kent West escreveu: >>>"lspci -v" shows the controller the same way as in Suse and the >>>others... >>> >> What does lspci or cat /proc/pci says about Ethernet controllers? >> > Perhaps I'm missing something, but the Axel already answered the first > part

Re: Gnome-Session ? what's needed for Gnome ?

2003-12-24 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:21:30 +0100, Uwe Dippel escreveu: > Because gdm is quite useless: If you feel you don't like it, don't call it useless. The fact is, kdm is for KDE. If it is capable of launching Gnome, that's a bonus feature that should be [requested|troubleshooted] by KD

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-24 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Hi Micha, > I guess that's were PenguinComputing comes in... :-) They support cetain > win/linux models and handle support I would assume better on both OS's. > K They don't do laptops. Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-24 Thread Martin J Hooper
Right finally got the module inserted and running! Used the ati supplied configurator - fed it my monitor horiz and vert rates from the manual. When I do startx the monitor goes black with the power light turning yellow. Config is here: http://www.martinjh.myby.co.uk/XF86Config-4 Any hints/ti

Re: (no subject)

2003-12-24 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 05:56:03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have install the printer driver and say the it printing but > nothing happen on the printer. Linux is nothing to do with windows and the only similarity of it is that (sadly) Humans also use windows. Why do AOL users always contact l

PPPoE server settings

2003-12-24 Thread Evgeny Boksha
hi2all Can somebody post working settings for PPPoE server ? (kernel, pppd, pppoe) I have 2.4.21 kernel 2.4.2b3 ppp (cvs) 3.3-1.1 pppoe woody 3.0 r1 Briefly - LCP Rejects *really* dont leave pppoe server I read in log Dec 3 15:20:16 wl1 pppd[459]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x0 ] But tcpdump on eth

Re: problems booting with grub

2003-12-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:04:17 -0600, Grant Bierman wrote: > After re-installing debian via knoppix on my parents computer, and > dist-updating. I installed grub again and at the time thought it was all > configured right. > > > But when it once re-started after the storm pass through the other n

Re: Howto? ATI Radeon on Sarge

2003-12-24 Thread Angus D Madden
hanasaki, Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:08:28PM -0600: > Any thoughts on how to use a ATI Radeon (probably 9000 or 9200) sarge? > Sarge has XFree4.2x and the xfree86.org web site documents no radeon > support until XFree4.3x. ATI seems to have some drivers on their site > but only in RPM format (no

How that dependency turned up?

2003-12-24 Thread Shaul Karl
I am trying to upgrade apt-show-versions. I have installed 0.04 and am going to have 0.05. What bothers me is that the dependencies for apt-show-versions are perl | perl-5.005 | perl-5.004, apt. Yet dselect tells me that apt-show-versions also depends on libapt-pkg-perl. Shouldn't

Re: Bootable Debian ISO

2003-12-24 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:17:49 +, > Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've made the changes that I wanted to the CD1 ISO, new kernel and > > all. But how do I make it

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in Debian Sarge

2003-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:48:10PM +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > after downloading CVS-1.11 in order to get access to cvs archives and my try > to ./configure, it results in: > > debian-sarge:/home/axel/packages/cvs-1.11# ./configure > creating cache ./config.cache > checking for prefix by checking

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in Debian Sarge

2003-12-24 Thread Axel Burwitz
Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003, at 13:46 +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > >> allright, then I will try that ! >> May I contact you via email if I have problems to do same you did ? > > Just reply on-list, I'll see it. And if you reply to the list, someone > else might be able t

problems booting with grub

2003-12-24 Thread Grant Bierman
After re-installing debian via knoppix on my parents computer, and dist-updating. I installed grub again and at the time thought it was all configured right. But when it once re-started after the storm pass through the other night what was seen on the screen was error 15 after stage 1.5. *sigh*

Re: Changing bootloader and FS question

2003-12-24 Thread Robert Storey
As someone else pointed out, "apt-get install grub" will install the grub package. To install it in the mbr, your run "grub-install /dev/hda" (assuming you are installing it on /dev/hda). However, once you do this, when you go to reboot, you'll simply be presented with a prompt that says: "grub>".

Re: Defining a group of addresses, sending mail to all , mutt

2003-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:50:18AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I want to define a group of addresses as a set to which I can refer with > > a single name call, to send mail to. What's the best way to do it? > > Setting a forwa

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2003-12-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Dec 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm planning to use iptables as it seems it's powerfull and it will let > me choose really what is allowed and what is not (because of p2p stuff > etc. which allways keeps complaining - and out of curiosity) > > However, I never used ipta

Re: Netinst CD with recent kernel

2003-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:32:36PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > > does anybody know about sarge netinst CD with 2.4.23 or 2.6.0 > > kernel? I have new computer with SATA HDD, which is not supported in > > pre 2.4.23 kernels. > > > > I have also tried to

Re: Gnome-Session ? what's needed for Gnome ?

2003-12-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:51:01 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I just logged out and back in. Yes, there's a 'system', whatever that > is. Taken > By "manually tweaking", do you mean running a GUI gdm configuration > utility? Oh, poor baby. That's just so difficult! This is from within here; sugg

Re: Setting IRQ of ISA dvice

2003-12-24 Thread David Baron
The com ports are reported on bootup with their normal IRQs. The modem is reported without an IRQ and I have not been able to send a fax using efax-gtk -- no response from modem. The KDE send fax program dies immediately so I cannot try that one. As for using setserial, I do not know where th

Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2003-12-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I'm planning to use iptables as it seems it's powerfull and it will let me choose really what is allowed and what is not (because of p2p stuff etc. which allways keeps complaining - and out of curiosity) However, I never used iptables before and it looks like it's got some lea

Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread David Baron
This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? Unmount;mount ? General question: How does one set up a login and logout

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