corrupt dpkg + kernel panic --HELP!

2004-03-01 Thread Michael Bonert
My computer locked-up during the install of "debhelper" as a part of an update. On reboot I couldn't get into the only graphical UI I have installed -- KDE crashes. Working with the command line I figured out debhelper has a problem... and tried removing it: TRYING TO REMOVE DEBHELPER: - sto

Re: iptables firewall, help.

2004-03-01 Thread John Hedge
Brian, You might like to take a look at www.shorewall.net. It helped me when I was at a similar stage as it seems you may be. Another idea is to join [EMAIL PROTECTED] John On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 17:53, Brian Schmidt wrote: > I'm trying to make a good firewall/gateway iptables script, this is

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use ntp-simpl. This is a leap year, 29 days in February, but ntp is > short by one day. I can adjust the date manually but when ntp runs it > sets me back a day. Is there away to tell ntp about leap years ? First, not to be a wiseass, but you might w

Exim/fetchmail problem

2004-03-01 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! I've been running a server with Debian GNU/Linux stable for a few years now. Due to some reasons I recently upgraded to unstable. I didn't change the configuration of exim and fetchmail, but now I'm experiencing problems. The relevant part of my /etc/fetchmailrc looks like this: poll POP3_SE

iptables firewall, help.

2004-03-01 Thread Brian Schmidt
I'm trying to make a good firewall/gateway iptables script, this is what I have so far but I would love input and ideas, as well as some help with a few features. Below is the script I've put together so far, hopefully this post could get a nice allround firewall/gateway iptables script made for

Re: Exporting running display ala Remote Desktop or VNC for windows

2004-03-01 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to continue working on a running GNOME desktop in my office from > a remote location. Maybe it's sufficient to just run the applications you need? Just ssh into your office (using the -X option if needed), and start running X11 programs. This is n

Re: testing versus unstable: tradeoffs?

2004-03-01 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I run unstable on all the workstations I administer. > But, then again, I like living dangerously :-) Heh ;-) > If your people want more current apps, then think about backports > (either from www.backports.org, or doing it yourself). Do

Re: Howto customize GRUB during Debian installation

2004-03-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:19:04PM -0500, Hamid wrote: > > Hi > > I am trying to install Debian next to XP. After the first installation, > system froze at loading grub > with a "Error loading grub" message. > I used DOS "fdisk /mbr" to at least get back to XP and I realized that > Debian had c

Re: kernel 2.6.2 ALSA config sb16

2004-03-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 01 March 2004 23:04, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to setup kernel-2.6.2 with ALSA support > for a SB 16 PNP. I keep getting the error > > modprobe snd-sb16 > > Sound Blaster 16 soundcard not found or device busy > In case, if you have AWE card, try snd-sbawe mod

Re: wireless bridge, & nic IP addressing (FIXED)

2004-03-01 Thread Rodney Myers
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:34:52 -0800 Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I just got my wireless internet this morning, and have > > run into a small problem. > > > > The wireless bridge, attached to my nic has been > > assigned a static IP(

Re: Howto customize GRUB during Debian installation

2004-03-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 01 March 2004 23:27, Hamid wrote: I wrote > > In my setup I have a hard disk with (the output from fdisk as) > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 1 65 32728+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda2 * 66 13164

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform - bingo !!!

2004-03-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-02, j smith penned: > > ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition exactly. is there any > > Linux programs similar to ghost? > > > > In my personal experience, ghost does *not* always copy the files in a > partition exactly. If a

what does xlibmesa-dri provide?

2004-03-01 Thread Nano Nano
I'm running XFree 4.3 from SID with the FGLRX drivers from ATI. My OpenGL is working *very* well. Obviously a non-tainted kernel would be preferable, but framerate is God. Would xlibmesa-dri provide (1) additional, (2) alternate, or (3) orthogonal functionality? Is it the open source "OpenGL-

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

2004-03-01 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:51:43PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Have you looked at slimp3? I have now. I wonder if the slimp3 device works the same way as a client running xmms. I suspect it does. Here's a short summary for the archives. [I'm new to these programs, so don't trust my c

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Jules Dubois
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:49:14 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > Do I have to remove Debian first [...] You shouldn't have to do anything special to "remove Debian." Tell RedHat (or whatever) to reformat (or initialize or create a new filesystem) in the partit

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, j smith penned: > ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition exactly. is there any > Linux programs similar to ghost? > In my personal experience, ghost does *not* always copy the files in a partition exactly. If at all possible, keep backups when using it. -- monique --

Re: Hi:Installation Help

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-28, Pritpal Dhaliwal penned: > New to debian and theis list. Coming from Redhat. Just wanted to say > hi. > > Pritpal Dhaliwal > Hi! Hope the installation went well. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Metacity: You need to have "metacity-setup" installed. Once you have >> that using it to change the workspace settings. > > Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or > with gconftool-2 li

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-01, Douglas Pollard penned: > > I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor > shows what looks like files being loaded but is not. The on screen > printing seems to stay the same although it looks to be scrolling. > I took the disc out and the same thin

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

2004-03-01 Thread Nano Nano
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:01:55PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > j smith wrote: > >ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition > >exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? > > > > Systemimager. It also supports making configuration I use partimage to backup and restore my NTF

discover/kudzu + ide-cd

2004-03-01 Thread Rob French
Hello, I'm running a sid/unstable system with devfs+devfsd and kernel 2.6.3. I've got both kudzu and discover running, with basically their default configurations. My question is: what is the "proper" devfs/autoloading way to get a DVD drive loaded w/ the ide-cd module? By default, discover loads

discover/kudzu + devfs + parport/lp

2004-03-01 Thread Rob French
Hello, I'm running a sid/unstable system with devfs+devfsd and kernel 2.6.3. I've got both kudzu and discover running, with basically their default configurations. I recently switched back to devfs+devfsd from a non-devfs configuration (I had some issues with the non-devfs setup). I've generally

mounting LVM volume by label

2004-03-01 Thread Rob French
How can I go about mounting an LVM logical volume by label? The volume has an ext3 filesystem on it labelled "BACKUP". The device configuration in /etc/fstab is "LABEL=BACKUP". When I call "findfs LABEL=BACKUP", it correctly returns /dev/vgsys1/backup0. However, "mount /mnt/backup" reports that it

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: I use ntp-simpl. This is a leap year, 29 days in February, but ntp is short by one day. I can adjust the date manually but when ntp runs it sets me back a day. Is there away to tell ntp about leap years ? I also run ntp-simple, and it got the 29th day with no problem. Perhaps you

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

2004-03-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
j smith wrote: ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? Systemimager. It also supports making configuration changes directly to the image (via chroot), overriding parts of the image on each client, skipping over specific parts of the d

ghost-like programs for Linux platform

2004-03-01 Thread j smith
ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

ntpdate leap year

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use ntp-simpl. This is a leap year, 29 days in February, but ntp is short by one day. I can adjust the date manually but when ntp runs it sets me back a day. Is there away to tell ntp about leap years ? - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-01 Thread Henrik Enberg
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Metacity: You need to have "metacity-setup" installed. Once you have > that using it to change the workspace settings. Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or with gconftool-2 like so: $ gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/me

Re: Video card - AGP 8x???

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 20:58, Maxime BrouBrou wrote: > Hi, > > I got a Geforce FX 5200 128 mo...and i want to know if Debian will accept > it...and if not...what can i do? Using the EXACT same Card. I use Debian Exclusively. I am using v5336 nvidia drivers for X. I have AGP Status, AGP Rate 8x, F

RE: gpm-X guide

2004-03-01 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
> For those who have had trouble or will have trouble in the future > getting gpm and X to cooperate, I have now published a short guide on > how to do it successfully. Enjoy. > > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/gpm-X/ Nice stuff, short and straight to the point. Keep up the good

RE: gpm-X guide

2004-03-01 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
> For those who have had trouble or will have trouble in the future > getting gpm and X to cooperate, I have now published a short guide on > how to do it successfully. Enjoy. > > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/gpm-X/ Nice stuff, short and straight to the point. Keep up the good

Re: sarge installation troubleshooting

2004-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:54:35PM +0100, Cyril Bérion wrote: > I'm trying to install a sarge on an ext2 partition. > Partitionning configuration is ok but then I face the following > problem: > System installation ends with an error. The file > /target/var/log/debootstrap.log says: > > ln: /targe

Blocked message - Virus In - T68183480bc0a2128337c0

2004-03-01 Thread Extadmin
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Blocked message - Virus In - T6818347d510a2128337c0

2004-03-01 Thread Extadmin
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Re: Ann: gpm-X guide

2004-03-01 Thread Kent West
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: For those who have had trouble or will have trouble in the future getting gpm and X to cooperate, I have now published a short guide on how to do it successfully. Enjoy. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/gpm-X/ Kernel 2.6 extends this device node to inclu

Re: Sound problems in Sid

2004-03-01 Thread Kent West
Curt Howland wrote: Hi. Well, it worked under Knoppix, so I'm sure it's just me. I've just finished wiping and reinstalling Sid on a Vaio PCG-GRT170, which has worked before but got messed up with a Xwindows upgrade last week. Everything has come back except sound. mpg123 and xmms just hang

Re: Power management with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-01 Thread David Kanter
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I wasn't clear from your message, how are you turning off you machine? > apm suspend usually (always?) requires a dedicated partition (which > usually needs to be created using a dedicated tool under M$) into which > it stores the memo

Re: Power management with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-01 Thread David Kanter
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:34:18PM +0100, Israel Herraiz Tabernero wrote: > It seems your motherboard only supports APM, so you should specify > "append="apm=on acpi=off" in your /etc/lilo.conf, and remove all the > acpi related packages (such as acpid). I just added this to lilo.conf, then put ap

InterScan MSS has deleted a message

2004-03-01 Thread Trend Allert
*** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan. ***-*** This notification has been sent to inform you that a message has been deleted by InterScan MSS. * Per acced

Video card - AGP 8x???

2004-03-01 Thread Maxime BrouBrou
Hi, I got a Geforce FX 5200 128 mo...and i want to know if Debian will accept it...and if not...what can i do? Thanks you for reply! Maxime B. From Quebec Canada boring of window! _ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis

OT: EV1 caves to SCO

2004-03-01 Thread techlists
I'm sure most of you have seen or heard about this http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/01/1818201.shtml I must say that I didn't think I could have a lower opinion of the owner of EV1, but I have been proven wrong. I used to work for EV1, as a matter of fact one of the early employees, when they

Ann: gpm-X guide

2004-03-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
For those who have had trouble or will have trouble in the future getting gpm and X to cooperate, I have now published a short guide on how to do it successfully. Enjoy. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/gpm-X/ -- If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people

Re: wireless bridge, & nic IP addressing

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just got my wireless internet this morning, and have run into a > small problem. > > The wireless bridge, attached to my nic has been assigned a static IP > (for the time being), and to get my nic (eth0) to find it, it was also > assigned an IP ad

Sound problems in Sid

2004-03-01 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. Well, it worked under Knoppix, so I'm sure it's just me. I wiped Knoppix and installed Sid from scratch after my X windows mess up last week. Now that I've done it, I'm sure the X problem was KDE not launching correctly, but it's too late for that. Oh well. I've just finished wiping and rei

Re: what are all the bytes streaming into my modem all about?

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 05:22:09 +0800 Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's several minutes thru my modem connection, and the icewm ppp > traffic meter is still quite high even though my wwwoffle fetch is > over, noffle is over, exim, fetchmail are over, and mozilla is quiet. > > How frustr

what are all the bytes streaming into my modem all about?

2004-03-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
It's several minutes thru my modem connection, and the icewm ppp traffic meter is still quite high even though my wwwoffle fetch is over, noffle is over, exim, fetchmail are over, and mozilla is quiet. How frustrating not to know what all they bytes streaming into my computer are all about, or if

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-03-01 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:10:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, S.D.A. wrote: > Hm, I'll try it. > > > Update: Well I've changed the 'rc file so lets see... > > > No, not working - it's appending my hostname to the key # and putting it > in the to: field. Oh, OK Kevin, got it. I have

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-03-01 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:39:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi S, > thanks for the 'ability to post' update. > > if I take the COMMAND part of the 'send-hook' and make it: > set send-hook '~C debian' 'set pgp_sign_as = "XYZ"' > it sets my pgp key to XYZ when I replay to a message

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-03-01 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:39:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:11:53PM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > > > Well thanks, I know how to do a vanilla reply hook, I've got several > > setup already. But I'm wondering how to get a specific gpg key to be the > > default

Re: DVD-R(W)

2004-03-01 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 09:49, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Monday 01 March 2004 12:21 am, Gary Sandine wrote: > >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 > >dr

Won't recognize CD-RW

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Bailey
Debian-unstable (and kernel 2.4.24) don't seem to recognize my CD-RW drive (a Sony CRX216E apparently.) The machine has a SCSI drive on an LSI controller, and the CD-RW drive is apparently the master on the second IDE bus. A special kernel for Dell machines says this about the drive: ... kernel:

Re: modules after kernel make - can't get new kernel finding its modules

2004-03-01 Thread CW Harris
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:37:22PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > On 1 Mar 2004 at 13:28, CW Harris wrote: > > > I thought you were using make-kpkg? It does all this for you when you > > "build" the .deb package. > So I thought: but it isn't! I think that's because it's picking up a > .config that

Re: fake

2004-03-01 Thread webmaster
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Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:34, Joakim Hove wrote: > Hello, > > I just changed from debian stable to debian testing. The "upgrade" was > remarkably smooth - I only have one small (but oohh so important) > gripe. > > The gnome workspace applet comes up with *one single workspace*. Every > time I log

Re: Howto customize GRUB during Debian installation

2004-03-01 Thread Hamid
Hi I am trying to install Debian next to XP. After the first installation, system froze at loading grub with a "Error loading grub" message. I used DOS "fdisk /mbr" to at least get back to XP and I realized that Debian had completely changed the structure of partition table of the Hard disk, I h

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-03-01 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:07:47PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:31:47PM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > Maybe I was just too hasty to say that, it appears it's now working with > > the default key. Thanks! > > > > Now, how do I get it to list my keys, and/or

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:16, H. S. wrote: [...] > To the OP: If you want to try Redhat, try Fedora. The installation is a > dream as compared to Debian. Debian installation might be easier if you > were to use the new installed, or so they say. The New Debian-Installer is Phenomenal. I am alway

Re: PCL only printer

2004-03-01 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Marc Wilson-- > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:39:23PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > The main problem now is that almost everything prints in red or shades > > of red. When postscripts were not printing correctly before, what was > > being printed

kernel 2.6.2 ALSA config sb16

2004-03-01 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, I have been trying to setup kernel-2.6.2 with ALSA support for a SB 16 PNP. I keep getting the error modprobe snd-sb16 Sound Blaster 16 soundcard not found or device busy In case, if you have AWE card, try snd-sbawe module FATAL: Error inserting snd_sb16 (/lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel/sound/

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Douglas Pollard
HS, I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor shows what looks like files being loaded but is not. The on screen printing seems to stay the same although it looks to be scrolling. I took the disc out and the same thing continued 30 min. or so. I had to stop it by killing

Re: Howto customize GRUB during Debian installation

2004-03-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 01 March 2004 22:19, Hamid wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install Debian next to XP. After the first installation, > system froze at loading grub > with a "Error loading grub" message. > I used DOS "fdisk /mbr" to at least get back to XP and I realized that > Debian had completely changed

Re: Fetchmail Query

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:37:52 +0100 Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > > Hi again Oliver, > > > > I've added the first part you suggested above and double checked the readme file > > to ensure my syntax was correct, but it's still leaving the

broken package dependencies

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Weil
I seem to have really broken a couple of packages and I now I can't do anything with dselect/aptitude. None of the dpkg commands, even using --force, is helping me fix the problem packages. So, I'm looking for some help on how to perform surgery on the package database. I compiled the 2.4.23 kerne

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread H. S.
Ken Gilmour wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:04, Douglas Pollard wrote: I installed debian from cd without any documentation other than what I have been able to get on line.After struggling with it for a while, I bought a Red hat Linux book with a couple cd's. With a book in front of me I hope to d

Mozilla and mailcap entries

2004-03-01 Thread Bill Moseley
Doesn't Mozilla 1.6-1 use /etc/mailcap?? Playing with Netjuke which sends playlists as audio/x-mpegurl I wanted to modify how xmms is called. I wanted to add -e so that songs are added to the playlist instead of replaced. BUT, although mozilla reads /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap (per strace -e

Howto customize GRUB during Debian installation

2004-03-01 Thread Hamid
Hi I am trying to install Debian next to XP. After the first installation, system froze at loading grub with a "Error loading grub" message. I used DOS "fdisk /mbr" to at least get back to XP and I realized that Debian had completely changed the structure of partition table of the Hard disk, I

Re: testing versus unstable: tradeoffs?

2004-03-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People at my site wish to migrate away from Debian stable to > something more current. I understand that unstable is more bleeding > edge than testing, and that there is some kind of automatic process > whereby packages migrate from unstable to testin

Re: Postfix: gate local users

2004-03-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mark Gillingham wrote: As usual, I'm confused. My users get mail via a Netware system, but a Debian box often must send mail to them. How do I tell Postfix to gate all local mail to the Netware systems. The format is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Mark Modify

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:18:46 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Another possibility would be looking at the dates on the files for > > the package in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > > Oh yes, the *.list files would do that. (A

Re: Debian / NFS

2004-03-01 Thread Angus D Madden
Devin Atencio, Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:58:07PM -0700: > > > I currently have a NAS server running Debian Linux with kernel 2.4.22 > with XFS filesystem. The NAS currently has 1.5 gigs of Memory and is a > Dual Pentium III 1.4 gigahertz machine. I have 4 machines that mount What kind of storag

Problem installing a gimp plugin

2004-03-01 Thread diego
Hello. I'm trying to install a gimp plugin, but the configure script complaints: checking for GIMP - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The gimptool script installed by GIMP could not be found *** If GIMP was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GIMPTOOL environment v

Re: modules after kernel make - can't get new kernel finding its modules

2004-03-01 Thread Chris Evans
On 1 Mar 2004 at 13:28, CW Harris wrote: > I thought you were using make-kpkg? It does all this for you when you > "build" the .deb package. So I thought: but it isn't! I think that's because it's picking up a .config that isn't marking the module packages for inclusion > What are the diff's b

DTC-3130BPNP

2004-03-01 Thread Van . Kolb
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Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-03-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > 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 P

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040301 12:15]: > BTW, it's "fun" to set the hardware clock to UTC on a dual-boot > Debian-Windows system. Windows doesn't "get it" and thus displays UTC > as if it was EST. Just remember never to set the clock to local time > while Windows is running,

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:19 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Mandrake (which has a free version and also it's backend is Debian) Mandrakes backend is not debian, they use rpms. In fact they started out as a RedHat compiled for pentium CPUs, but have since then matured into being just Mandrake. You may

Re: Power management with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:34:18PM +0100, Israel Herraiz Tabernero wrote: > > With kernel 2.4.22 I enabled power management in the BIOS and placed > > "apm" in /etc/modulesHere is some ACPI-related dmesg output > I wasn't clear from your message, how are you turning off you machine? apm s

Debian / NFS

2004-03-01 Thread Devin Atencio
Dear Debian Users, I currently have a NAS server running Debian Linux with kernel 2.4.22 with XFS filesystem. The NAS currently has 1.5 gigs of Memory and is a Dual Pentium III 1.4 gigahertz machine. I have 4 machines that mount this NAS for e-mail/pop services. The mail servers are normally un

Re: how does make-dpkg (and linux/debian) map modules?

2004-03-01 Thread Chris Evans
On 1 Mar 2004 at 12:25, CW Harris wrote: > What are the errors you are seeing? First one comes in the boot up after the line about setting the System Cllock and says: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 then (I've

Re: sarge installation troubleshooting

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 01 March 2004 20:54, Cyril Bérion wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a sarge on an ext2 partition. > Partitionning configuration is ok but then I face the following problem: > System installation ends with an error. The file > /target/var/log/debootstrap.log says: > > ln: /target/usr/

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040301 12:45]: > Incoming from Ken Gilmour: > > > > windows but you have to pay for it) or Mandrake (which has a free > > version and also it's backend is Debian). They are a lot more user > ...^^ > > Is that true? Where has t

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ken Gilmour: > > windows but you have to pay for it) or Mandrake (which has a free > version and also it's backend is Debian). They are a lot more user ...^^ Is that true? Where has that fact been hiding all these years? This is the first I'd he

Il tuo messaggio a pluto-meeting attende l'approvazione del moderatore

2004-03-01 Thread pluto-meeting-bounces
Il tuo messaggio alla lista 'pluto-meeting' con oggetto hi è stato trattenuto in attesa che il moderatore della lista possa esaminarlo per l'approvazione. La ragione per la quale è stato trattenuto: Messaggio inviato da un non iscritto ad una lista chiusa A seconda della decisione del

debian jr.

2004-03-01 Thread Elvis Presley
where can i download debian jr. Simon _ Chat: Ha en fest på Habbo Hotel http://habbohotel.msn.se/habbo/sv/channelizer Checka in här! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: modules after kernel make - can't get new kernel finding its modules

2004-03-01 Thread CW Harris
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:38:07PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > On 1 Mar 2004 at 18:27, Martin Wood wrote: > > > I think this is exactly where i went wrong the other day. > > > > try adding : > > > > make modules > > make modules_install > > > > and hopefully your modules will show up > > Thank

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:04, Douglas Pollard wrote: > I installed debian from cd without any documentation other than what I have > been able to get on line.After struggling with it for a while, I bought a > Red hat Linux book with a couple cd's. With a book in front of me I hope to > do better. Ca

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-01 Thread Roger Chrisman
> to UTC. I am a newbie. Only know basic stuff. However, if I wanted to set my Hardware Clock to UTC, I would try 'hwclock' (man hwclock). Wishing I knew why compiling my NIC's driver (VIA Rhine) into kernel 2.4.24 has rendered my system unable to connect to the network when adding the driver

Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?

2004-03-01 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:34, Matt Price wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power > efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't > use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd. :) You definitely want noflushd

Re: patches applied to debian kernel packages

2004-03-01 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ross! On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:28:40AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > For 2.4.2[1245] and 2.6.3 they are on the mirrors, see > > > apt-cache search kernel-patch-debian ^^^ > The patches applied to the Debianized sources in kernel-source-xxx are > NO

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-01 Thread Joakim Hove
Hello, thanks a lot > Run sawfish-ui go to workspaces and add the workspaces there. that did the trick. Joakim -- Joakim Hove Stabburveien 18 5231 Paradis 55 91 28 18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postfix: gate local users

2004-03-01 Thread Mark Gillingham
As usual, I'm confused. My users get mail via a Netware system, but a Debian box often must send mail to them. How do I tell Postfix to gate all local mail to the Netware systems. The format is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:52:30PM -0500, stan wrote: | I'm building a MythTV machine from KnoppMYTH. Somehow I have wound up with | the machine knowing what time zone I live in EST, but the hardware clock | also being set to the current time in this timezone, rather than being set | to UTC. | | H

Re: easy way to install sid by ftp?

2004-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:17:04PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I would like to simply install sid with a basic system and add the > applications I want. Is there no easy way to do this? Nope. sid isn't intended to be installed directly, it's wha

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:52:30PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm building a MythTV machine from KnoppMYTH. Somehow I have wound up with > the machine knowing what time zone I live in EST, but the hardware clock > also being set to the current time in this t

Re: exim HELO=fully qualified host name?

2004-03-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:16:23PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | 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

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-01 Thread Michael Graham
Joakim wrote: > The gnome workspace applet comes up with *one single workspace*. Every > time I log in I bring up the preferences dialog and ask for more > workspaces, and even save the session. But on the next login it is > back to one workspace again. Any suggestions on how to keep the number > o

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-03-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:47:01PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya pigeon > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: > > > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: > > > > - cheap :-) > > - DDR 266MHz min, 333MHz preferred > > - does *NOT* have an nVidia chipset > > - 5 (

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

2004-03-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:53:45AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > For my money, the A7M266-D from Asus still takes some beating... I only found one vendor, and they wanted two and a half grand for it! The rest are all saying "not available [at the moment]". Pity, really. > It's hard to get a board these

sarge installation troubleshooting

2004-03-01 Thread Cyril Bérion
Hi, I'm trying to install a sarge on an ext2 partition. Partitionning configuration is ok but then I face the following problem: System installation ends with an error. The file /target/var/log/debootstrap.log says: ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists umount: /target/dev/pts: Invalid argument u

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-01 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:02PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from stan: > > I'm building a MythTV machine from KnoppMYTH. Somehow I have wound up with > > the machine knowing what time zone I live in EST, but the hardware clock > > also being set to the current time in this timezone, rath

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