Re: Kmplayer package

2004-02-29 Thread Slaanesh
Le lundi 1 Mars 2004 00:16, Carl Fink a écrit : > A search at apt-get.org finds three. But all the matches don't work :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kmplayer package

2004-02-29 Thread John Foster
Slaanesh wrote: Hi, Does somebody know if a debian package of kmplayer is available somewhere ? Slaanesh Try some of these: I use the unstable ones currently uncommented # KDE3 #deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3 ./ #deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/woody ./

Re: exim problem

2004-02-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/02/04 22:12), Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:36:05PM +1100, Ivan Wills wrote: > > Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email > > message. (It never did this before) > > It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the > >

Re: Error

2004-02-29 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:12:42PM +, Pedro M. wrote: > Using synaptic appears the next error : > > perl:warming : setting locale failed. > perl: warning:Please check that your locale settings : > > What can I do ??. > dpkg-reconfigure locales -- Incrsease your earoning poswer and gaerner

Re: exim problem

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:36:05PM +1100, Ivan Wills wrote: > Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email > message. (It never did this before) > It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the > ser

Re: OT: establish private network (no wires)

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Brett Carrington wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:54:54PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote: Hello I'm seeking advice on a technical matter. I want to establish a private (wireless) network in an area of say 5x5 km2. In this area there are a number of vehicles moving around and each of the vehicles

VIA Rhine (NIC) as module okay, but compiled into 2.4.24 no good?

2004-02-29 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi, On a server on my LAN, I had Woody and then Testing (installed from CD#1 + Net) connecting fine to my LAN (DHCP) with the bf24 (kernel 2.4.18) from the Woody CD with VIA Rhine, my NIC's driver, added as kernel module. But when I compiled my own kernel 2.4.24 (from the .deb kernel source) an

Re: exim problem

2004-02-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:49]: > Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email > message. (It never did this before) > It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the > server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client.

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Re: Question RE IDE Tape Drives

2004-02-29 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a > > Debian box. > > > > My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in > > order to

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Travis Crump wrote: > From my tests that error doesn't appear to be fatal and can be ignored. My version of tar is (GNU tar) 1.13.25. Yes, I also think that this error can be ignored because the rest of the archive is correctly untared. But to be honest I cannot find an exp

Re: DVD-R(W)

2004-02-29 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:26, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Is there OSS software out there that works with DVD-R(W)? growisofs works for this, too (works together with k3b if you want a drag and drop GUI): http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/-RW/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Initrd

2004-02-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:45:17PM -0800, Jason D. Berg wrote: > I'm compiling a new kernel and I need to create a new initrd for it. I > don't want to go through and manually copy all the files (especially the > modules). Is there any easy way to do it? Any debian package? Any script > that you ju

Re: Netscape segmentation fault

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Marie Regine SAPIR wrote: Hello, My bank is driving me crazy... I can't get their online banking > system with any of the browsers I regularly use (galeon, opera, > mozilla). They absolutely want Netscape 4.7 (or IE, but that's > not really an option). What bank is this? What's the url? Have you

Re: Any reason why mounting /tmp as tmpfs would be a bad idea?

2004-02-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Chris Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:52]: > Given that /tmp gets cleaned on reboot anyway, I can't think of a reason > why it'd be a bad idea to use a tmpfs filesystem for /tmp. But the fact > that I can't think of one doesn't mean there isn't. > > So . . .any reason why this would be a

Any reason why mounting /tmp as tmpfs would be a bad idea?

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Metzler
I'm doing some audio work with JACK. For performance reasons, the developers recommend having JACK use a tmpfs filesystem for its scratch work. Normally, JACK does its work in /tmp. One possibility is to rebuild JACK from source, with a configuration option to use a different location; and then

problems with tty's (especially tty3)

2004-02-29 Thread Lorenzo Prince
I am having problems with my tty's. For some reason, most of my tty's, except tty1, are slow to recycle after logout. Tty3 is especially slow, and sometimes doesn't recycle at all. It just hangs and I get an error message every 5minutes that says: INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for

Initrd

2004-02-29 Thread Jason D. Berg
I'm compiling a new kernel and I need to create a new initrd for it. I don't want to go through and manually copy all the files (especially the modules). Is there any easy way to do it? Any debian package? Any script that you just threw together? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

exim problem

2004-02-29 Thread Ivan Wills
Hi I am using Exim 3.35-1woodie2 under Debian Stable. Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email message. (It never did this before) It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client. D

Re: faster start

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Gunnar wrote: The whole idea is to have a Linux system with no GUI if you like, so almost every server app is started before GUI. Yes, but why can't the mailserver start in the background or somewhere else? Why do I have to wait for it to finish it's startup? I wan't to login (without X) as fast

DVD-R(W)

2004-02-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm using DVD+RW discs (and growisofs) for the most part, but I still have some DVD-RWs. I pulled them out from the stack to do some backups and lo & behold, I had to update my cdrecord-prodvd "key" in order to use them. This disturbs me. What if Schilling gets hit by a bus? I wrote Mr. Schill

Re: Question RE IDE Tape Drives

2004-02-29 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Phillip Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a > Debian box. > > My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in > order to get such a drive working? > > My first thought w

Re: Bad News -- Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:21:04AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:06:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > This means that unless SOMETHING is done about the license, it has just > > become Non-Free. Sorry. > > Before spreading FUD, please understand that "GPL-incompatible"

Re: networkprinting/cups

2004-02-29 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:36:03PM +0100, ijbd wrote: } my desktop has an HP-720C, which works fine on cups locally. If I use } KDE menu Settings/Printing Manager, I can open a printer wizard } offering me all kind of things (to be able to push prints to the LAN I } think, I want to pull them from

Re: Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Great news! 4.4 version is out. > > http://www.xfree.org/#newrel > > Finally my card is there (ati radeon 9800) Look for the Xfree86 license problem in lwn.net before you get too happy. Until that mess is sorted out one way or another, you will fi

Problems with new apache-ssl certificate

2004-02-29 Thread Matthew Joyce
Dear Debian-Users I had apache-ssl working ok with a self-signed certificate, but now I come to use a cert from http://certs.ipsca.com I am having problems. I created the key and csr... $openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 $openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr after submitt

Re: Bad News -- Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:21, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:06:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Sorry Folks... but XFree86 v4.4 is GPL incompatible: > > > > to quote from http://xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html > > > > quote > > What about GPL-compatibility? > > > > T

Re: sms-gateway

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ross Tsolakidis: > > I'm looking for a way to send the subject of an email via SMS. > Is this possible with any packages thru Debian ? > > Can anyone direct me to any information about SMS > Email ? > > Do I require a Mobile Phone company to be part of this process ? Eg, > Use the

Re: Installation Questions

2004-02-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Martin Kuball wrote: Hi! I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because I use it on my laptop. So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to skip some of the tasks? Especially fo

MIMEDefang 2.38 and Perl 5.8.3 Segfault

2004-02-29 Thread Peter A. Cole
Hi all, I'm experiencing a major drama whereby mimedefang is segfaulting after what I believe to be the latest Perl update. I've posted a query on the mimedefang list and so far it looks to be a perl issue of some sort causing the segfault. Is anyone else experiencing this and if so have you r

Re: Bad News -- Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:06:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > Sorry Folks... but XFree86 v4.4 is GPL incompatible: > > to quote from http://xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html > > quote > What about GPL-compatibility? > > The 1.1 license is not GPL-compatible. To avoid new issues with > ap

Re: Bad News -- Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 14:47, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Great news! 4.4 version is out. > > http://www.xfree.org/#newrel > > Finally my card is there (ati radeon 9800) Sorry Folks... but XFree86 v4.4 is GPL incompatible: to quote from http://xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html quote What a

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols on install new kernel modules

2004-02-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I just built a custom kernel and modules, and got a bunch of errors about unresolved symbols errors from depmod: # dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.24advncdfs_1.0.2c-2+rb.2_i386.deb i2c-2.4.24advncdfs_2.8.1-1+rb.2_i386.deb lm-sensors-2.4.24advncdfs_2.8.1-2+rb.2_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected p

Re: nvidia

2004-02-29 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Preben Ingebricson cognita.no> writes: > Is nvidia not supported by > XFree86? I have a GeForce4 MX440 card; it works under XFree86 4.3, which is now available in the Unstable/Sid release. I'm running Testing/Sarge, so I simply pulled in the Sid packages via apt-pinning (apt-get install -t uns

Question RE IDE Tape Drives

2004-02-29 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a Debian box. My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in order to get such a drive working? My first thought would be to use the IDE-SCSI Emulati

SMC wireless woes, need advise

2004-02-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
After following wireless postings, I decided to try it out. I bought a SMC2804WBR router (802.11b,g w/wep and wap) and a SMC2835W PCIAM card. After installing it on Win XP (dual boot w/libranet 2.8.1) my windows broke! I figured I would install it on the "easy one" first so I can "see" it in oper

Re: mozilla mailcap

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Rick Pasotto wrote: How do I get mutt to use an already running mozilla to display text/html documents. It's popping up the profile selector and then saying it can't use the only one there is because it's already in use. Have you tried the remote option? From mozilla --help -remoteExecute

invisible text menu/dialog boxes in sarge/kde

2004-02-29 Thread Sneferu
Hi all, I've installed debian via debian-installer (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/) in a vmware environment. All went well, configured and so; however, when I enter X, I can't read anything on the menus. The text simply doesn't appear. Sometimes it appears for a brief period of

Re: mozilla freezes on geocities.com?

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Steffl
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Erik Steffl: mozilla seems to be working fairly well but when I went to geocities.com it repeatedly froze - the CPU usage went to 100% and mozilla windows were not updated at all, X window close didn't work, kill -15 worked. You're obviously mistaken. I see n

Re: Installation Questions

2004-02-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-29, Martin Kuball penned: > Hi! > > I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has > a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because > I use it on my laptop. > > So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to > skip some

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:31:09AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > .^^^ > > pgp or gpg? My mutt is 1.3.28i (Woody). gpg (Gnu

sms-gateway

2004-02-29 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to send the subject of an email via SMS. Is this possible with any packages thru Debian ? Can anyone direct me to any information about SMS > Email ? Do I require a Mobile Phone company to be part of this process ? Eg, Use their gateway ? Or can I do it all myself

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:00:19PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > See my other post in this thread. They all came from /etc/Muttrc. I would recommend when you make changes to make changes only to your personal ~/.muttrc. Changing the /etc/Muttrc default

Re: Fetchmail Query

2004-02-29 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:37:52 +0100 Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Did you recreate the sendmail.cf file with e.g. sendmailconfig. Yep, I ran sendmailconfig telling it to use the existing files. > 2) No I only have the feature added to my sendmail.mc. There goes that idea :-)

Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird

2004-02-29 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:04:46 -0500 "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah really?! You can read/write an e-mail while Sylpheed is pulling > down mesages? Cool -- not being able to b4 is the primary reason I > left it, for Mozilla. > > I liked it's ability to reply with higlighted materia

Re: headless firewall application recommendation

2004-02-29 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 00:40, MJ Inabnit wrote: > Greetings: > > I am looking for recommendations for firewall/router software for > Debian. I have looked over several packages, but I feel swamped. I > used an old Woody CD for very basic install, updated kernel and then > upgraded the system to S

Re: mozilla freezes on geocities.com?

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Erik Steffl: > mozilla seems to be working fairly well but when I went to > geocities.com it repeatedly froze - the CPU usage went to 100% and > mozilla windows were not updated at all, X window close didn't work, > kill -15 worked. You're obviously mistaken. I see nothing like

Re: Kmplayer package

2004-02-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:51:43PM +0100, Slaanesh wrote: > Does somebody know if a debian package of kmplayer is available > somewhere ? A search at apt-get.org finds three. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UN

Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Rati
I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recognize. With the 2.4 kernel, I was able to disable PNP OS in my Award BIOS, and the 2.4 Linux kernel found the card as ju

confirm unsubscribe to yfcdevos@cafereality.org

2004-02-29 Thread yfcdevos-help
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mozilla freezes on geocities.com?

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Steffl
mozilla seems to be working fairly well but when I went to geocities.com it repeatedly froze - the CPU usage went to 100% and mozilla windows were not updated at all, X window close didn't work, kill -15 worked. not sure what triggered freeze, it wasn't a particular page or action but it w

debian menu sorting does not work anymore

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I added the custom sorting to my debian menu configuration, it used to work but some time ago it stopped working. I have the following in the /etc/menu-methods/menu.h: # item first, submenu later: # sort=ifelse($command, "0", "1" ) ":$title" sort=ifelse($priority, $priority, "99") and here

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Travis Crump
Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next parameter is the file to use: tar cvzf test.tar.gz / Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it. Yes, that is right ... my fault. By default, tar doesn

Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 14:19, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > David Clymer wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: > >>http://ballsome.com > >> > >>Thoughts? > >> > > > > > > Perhaps I'm just den

Re: exim HELO=fully qualified host name?

2004-02-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-02-23 22:24:28 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > That depends on who's mail server you connect to. Some admins require > the HELO parameter to be resolvable, and some even require it to > resolve to the IP of the machine making the connection. They should fix their configuration, then

Re: CUPS Admin (was Re: [Fwd: Re: No printing at all!])

2004-02-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 22:07, CW Harris wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:54:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (27/02/04 13:00), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:18, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > On (25/02/04 17:23), Alisdair wrote: > > > > Here's the URL for CUPS whe

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 03:14:42PM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > > > Is there a good SxS for this anywhere. Any I'm found, don't really go > > through this step x step. I followed one, and it didn't even mention an > > Ah! "SxS" == "Step by step." Yes, (not

Help: Battstat

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Hill
Apologies if it's a lame question: I am trying to get battstat showing the correct current battery charge, but it's not picking up any info. I have built ACPI and APM into my 2.6.3 kernel and I'm running Deb 3.0 testing/unstable. This is on a Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop. Cheers, Ben -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Error - yet another locale problem. :-(

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Pedro M.: > Using synaptic appears the next error : > > perl:warming : setting locale failed. > perl: warning:Please check that your locale settings : > > LANGUAGE = (unset) > LC_ALL= (unset) > LANG = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > are supporeted and installed on your system. > > perl: w

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > > Is there a good SxS for this anywhere. Any I'm found, don't really go > through this step x step. I followed one, and it didn't even mention an Ah! "SxS" == "Step by step." See http://codesorcery.net/mutt/mutt-gnupg-howto -- Any technology distinguishable from magic

Error

2004-02-29 Thread Pedro M.
Using synaptic appears the next error : perl:warming : setting locale failed. perl: warning:Please check that your locale settings : LANGUAGE = (unset) LC_ALL= (unset) LANG = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" are supporeted and installed on your system. perl: warming : falling back to the satandar locale ("c")

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:11:27PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Joel Konkle-Parker: > > challenges they've had to face. The fact that approximately 6% of our > > archive fails to meet bare minimum expectations leads me to believe that > > we may want to inaugurate a special process for

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

2004-02-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-29, Bill Moseley penned: > Just looking for suggestions on a distributed jukebox for mostly audio > files for my home lan. There seems to be a few available but wanted > to see if anyone here has a favorite. > > Anyone using http://www.theory.org/software/djukebox/ ? > > My current setu

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread CW Harris
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: > > >cd / > >tar cvzf /somewhere/test.tgz . > >cd /somewhere > >tar tvzf test.tgz > > > > Note the "." btw, tarring the whole root dir will tar the entire > > filesystem, inclu

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:31:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > .^^^ > > pgp or gpg? My mutt is 1.3.28i (Woody). gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2 mutt 1.5.6i (compiled

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:06:14PM +0100 or thereabouts, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > S.D.A. told: > > > > Elimar, > > > > Wierd, I don't seem to have an 'options' file. I'll see if it's > > somewhere else. > > Did you install the gnupg package? Th

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:11, s. keeling wrote: > > That might be a great way to draw in potential maintainers (hey, I'd > > read it!), and with %96 good vs. %6 bad, the numbers are promising. > > ^^^ > You mean from at leas

Re: I've lost my 'k' key, in some apps. - Fixed!

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
This is just one for the archives. Maybe it'll help someone should they run into something like it. The moral is, after installing a kernel package, run modconf! This is in Woody 3.0r2 Incoming from s. keeling: > Incoming from s. keeling: > > This is the kind of thing that annoys the living day

soundcard driver

2004-02-29 Thread john
I'm using Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.19 that came with it. I've installed xmcd and it works just fine but I get no sound. I installed alsa-base and added 'alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio' to /etc/modutils/aliases but I still get no sound. All I want to do is play a CD. What else do I need to do?

Installation Questions

2004-02-29 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because I use it on my laptop. So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to skip some of the tasks? Especially formatting the partitio

Re: Problem installing Debian onto Proliant server

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:06 am, Douglas A. Paquette Jr. wrote: > To whom it may concern at Debian, > > I have a Compaq Proliant 8000 server with 4 Ultra 320 10k 72.8 gig > scsi hard drives. > > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant80

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
Andreas Janssen, thanks so much, best help every. Sound now works. SO happy. Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:11, s. keeling wrote: --snip -- > That might be a great way to draw in potential maintainers (hey, I'd > read it!), and with %96 good vs. %6 bad, the numbers are promising. > ^^^ You mean from at least 102 % of Debian packages? -:)) Vlada

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Oliver Fuchs: > > So the conclusion would be that trying to tar the / directory I have to cd > into that directory to make it working while with any other directory I can > start the tar-process from where ever I want? The answer should be in the manpage but for what it's worth, I _

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joel Konkle-Parker: > > challenges they've had to face. The fact that approximately 6% of our > archive fails to meet bare minimum expectations leads me to believe that > we may want to inaugurate a special process for orphaning such packages. 'Sounds to me like a job for [EMAIL PR

Kmplayer package

2004-02-29 Thread Slaanesh
Hi, Does somebody know if a debian package of kmplayer is available somewhere ? Slaanesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I asked Branden Robinson a question about his DPL platform, and got a pretty good response, so I thought I'd post it here. Question: While I am in no 'official' position to request this (I'm just a random interested user), I'd really appreciate you guys including some stuff about the current r

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next > parameter is the file to use: > >tar cvzf test.tar.gz / > > Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it. Yes, that is right ... my fault. > By default, tar doesn't, so

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 20:42 schrieb Oliver Fuchs: > I want to tar my whole / directory. > > I do > tar cvfz test.tar.gz / > and afterwards trying to untar the directory I receive the error-message: > tar::Cannot mkdir: No such file

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of S.D.A. told: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:27:17PM +0100 or thereabouts, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > > S.D.A. told: > > > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > > >

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Oliver Fuchs: > > I want to tar my whole / directory. > > I do > tar cvfz test.tar.gz / > and afterwards trying to untar the directory I receive the error-message: > tar::Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar th

Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
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tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I want to tar my whole / directory. I do tar cvfz test.tar.gz / and afterwards trying to untar the directory I receive the error-message: tar::Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory Typing tar tf test.tar the list shows me: / /boot /root [...] I do not understand why tar

Re: changing to debian from slackware

2004-02-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Joel Kaasinen said: > Hi, > > I have an old dual 133mhz pentium server (64mb ram, ~8Gb scsi harddisk) > with > slackware 9.1 installed. >So now I'm seriously thinking about switching to debian. > > Any tips (I want to keep my config the same and avoid reconffin')? > Differences between debian an

Problem installing Debian onto Proliant server

2004-02-29 Thread Douglas A. Paquette Jr.
To whom it may concern at Debian,   I have a Compaq Proliant 8000 server with 4 Ultra 320 10k 72.8 gig scsi hard drives.   http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant8000/   I had a guy from a computer store successfully install debian into my proliant 8000 but ran into some problems

Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: http://ballsome.com Thoughts? Perhaps I'm just dense, but what's new here? To me, Ian's "plan" sounds like a fairly good description of debian with

Re: a good mirror to download sarge

2004-02-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Didier Caamano said: > I'm wondering if any of you know a good mirror, preferably from Canada to > download sarge, the isos or the network image? if the mirror is in the US > I wouldn't mind either. run apt-spy to find fast mirror. install apt-cacher to cache all apt requests. apt-cacher speeds u

Re: please help apt upgrade issue openoffice locales

2004-02-29 Thread developer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am running a debian woody mixing stable and testing and very random >> few >> unstable packages with the 2.4.24 kernel. I just did an apt-get -u >> dist-upgrade and there was a couple upgrades none seemed very >> significant >> but it bombed out at the end. Now it b

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Evans
On 29 Feb 2004 at 6:10, Nick Jacobs wrote: > I also needed to use the via-rhine driver with > Woody. I used the one from the Scyld site. There > are some minor things to fix but basically the > Scyld driver will solve your problems. By the time I got Nick's very helpful post I had discovered that

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:36:21AM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > > > > fwiw, mine isn't (I've been told you probably don't want this) and > > mine works. > > Hm, what entries did you need in your .muttrc? I'm also puzzled as to See my other post in this thread

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Evans
On 29 Feb 2004 at 13:28, Steven Leach wrote: > Which Via board are you running? I believe it is a CL1000 > I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M1 as a > little desktop cube. Aha, you lucky man you! > Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M1 (single ethernet) using

Re: OT: establish private network (no wires)

2004-02-29 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:54:54PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote: > Hello > > I'm seeking advice on a technical matter. I want to establish a > private (wireless) network in an area of say 5x5 km2. In this area there > are a number of vehicles moving around and each of the vehicles should > consta

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:36:21AM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Elimar Riesebieter: > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > > S.D.A. told: > > > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > > > The problem I'm having is that m

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:27:17PM +0100 or thereabouts, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > S.D.A. told: > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > The problem I'm having is that mutt can't seem to find my keys. I've > >

Re: Kernel 2.6.3 again

2004-02-29 Thread Kai Schindelka
Pigeon wrote: * Is it sufficient, or did I miss something? I would add to Andreas's list: libsysfs and sysfsutils. These were mentioned in a thread Google found for me on lkml, along with procps, as being update candidates for getting rid of the error message "Unknown HZ value! (xx) Assuming 100."

RE: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
-Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LILO On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote: >my lilo seems to be screwed up, it >boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tri

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Janssen Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6 Hello MacNean Tyrrell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like it a

Re: Kernel 2.6.3 again

2004-02-29 Thread Kai Schindelka
Hello Andreas; Kai Schindelka (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Ok. My name's not Wes, but I've got some questions anyway. :) Please start your own thread next time instead of answering a message in an existing thread. my apology. I thought it would be the best to keep the topics together, but I have

Re: cdrecord and kernel 2.4 problem

2004-02-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 11:43 schrieb Nejc Novak: > Fixating... > WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. There is no problme. You simulate only the burn process. And the Program says, that some drives don't like this. Try it wi

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Steven Leach
Which Via board are you running? I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M1 as a little desktop cube. Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M1 (single ethernet) using the via-rhine driver. On the dual lan, however, only eth0 was recognized. Upgraded to sid (possibly

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