Re: DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-18 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Thursday 15 April 2004 15:30, James Vahn wrote: Hi, > Having the same trouble here with Flightgear too, just last week it > began running at 1 FPS. I strongly suspect "xlibmesa-gl" but that's > just a guess. I've been running Sarge all along, the problem seems > to have started about 2 weeks a

Re: DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-18 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:38, Chris Metzler wrote: Hi, > I dunno, but I've been wondering too. Ever since I upgraded from > X 4.2 to 4.3, my OpenGL performance has gone into the toilet. I > used to be able to play bzflag normally; since I upgraded to 4.3, > I've had to lower many graphics pa

Re: scanner setup

2004-04-18 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:25:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running woody and i have kernel 2.6.5 compiled. > i would like to make my scanner work. it is a "Mustek 1200 UB plus". > i installed "xsane, sane, libsane, sane-utils" through apt-get. > when i run xsane it shows as device on

Re: Message is frozen ???

2004-04-18 Thread Support
At 02:16 PM 4/19/04, Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:07:29PM +0800, Support wrote: > Hi! Debian Users > > What is the meaning of Message is frozen in Exim. When I type mailq it show > me > > 4d 1.8K 1BDw0f-0001R5-00 <> *** frozen *** > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3d 1.7K 1BE

Re: Message is frozen ???

2004-04-18 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:07:29PM +0800, Support wrote: > Hi! Debian Users > > What is the meaning of Message is frozen in Exim. When I type mailq it show > me > > 4d 1.8K 1BDw0f-0001R5-00 <> *** frozen *** > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3d 1.7K 1BEHNb-00022r-00 <> *** frozen *** >

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Nicolaus Kedegren
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > >I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I > >am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can > >anyone help me find replacements for these pr

Message is frozen ???

2004-04-18 Thread Support
Hi! Debian Users What is the meaning of Message is frozen in Exim. When I type mailq it show me 4d 1.8K 1BDw0f-0001R5-00 <> *** frozen *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3d 1.7K 1BEHNb-00022r-00 <> *** frozen *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3d 1.7K 1BEHNb-00022s-00 <> *** frozen ***

Re: "Couldn't start console" in KDE or other Xwindow Manager

2004-04-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
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Re: Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless and Kernel 2.6.5

2004-04-18 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:38:37PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:13:34PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > When I plug in a Cisco 350 card the power light on the card does not > > come on. Cardmgr does detects the card, though: > > > > But iwconfig then shows to interfaces, a

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
I use stable on my servers, and testing on my laptop, mostly because of the newer Xfree. I used to have unstable on my workstation when I had a faster connection, but now that I'm back on dialup, I try to update as little as possible and still have a working system. Although on the server, I do r

Re: distcc & dpkg-buildpackage

2004-04-18 Thread ms419
Thanks very much for the info. Spot on. I've now got it working. In addition to editing "debian/rule", I discovered using "CONCURRENCY_LEVEL" instead of "-j" is advised (necessary)? Jack On Apr 18, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:17:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

FIXED: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread ms419
Thanks Jo! That should save me future problems. Jack On Apr 18, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for the hostname when configuring

Re: Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless and Kernel 2.6.5

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:13:34PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > When I plug in a Cisco 350 card the power light on the card does not > come on. Cardmgr does detects the card, though: > > But iwconfig then shows to interfaces, and I cannot bring either up: > > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"tsun

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:22:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The installer does indeed create that line. In recent daily builds, > we've changed things around to the more sane: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname Hm... someone's assuming that d-i rather than the more normal boot-floppies i

Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless and Kernel 2.6.5

2004-04-18 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm using kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 on a Toshibia laptop and I can get one wireless card to work, but not the Airnet 350. It works with the old 2.4.21 kernel. Any ideas how to get it working? I can plug in a SMC2632W wireless card and it works. iwconfig reports: eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:

What is the correct method to change mount point?

2004-04-18 Thread users
Current setup: swaphda1 /home hda2 / hda3 (based on this layout, /usr/local and /var should be on hda3?) I'll be installing another HDD (partitioned into hdb1 and hdb2). How should I go about changing the mount point for /var and /usr/local from hda3 to hdb1 and hdb2 respectively?

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: >Creative PlayStation ( Used to rip audio CDs) cdrecord >Weather Bug (Local weather on the task bar) kweather >MailWasher (anti spam program) Lots. What kind of filtering do you want to do? Bayesian, rules-based, blacklist, server side, client side, etc. >

Re: Sendmail --> Exim howto?

2004-04-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to convert a mail system from Sendmail to Exim. Anyone > know of a tutorial/HOWTO on the subject? I did a fairly extensive > web search and all I could find was someone on a mailing list > commenting on a great HOWTO that was no longer available.

Re: Kernel 2.6.5: Unable to mount root fs or unknown-block(0,0)

2004-04-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-04-18T23:16:38-0400, Adam Kessel wrote: > - I get the following kernel panic when trying to boot: > > Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I believe this means that the kernel could not read the root file system. What file system are you using? I am quite sure that I got som

Re: where are netboot ide-disk modules?

2004-04-18 Thread Joey Hess
Michael West wrote: > I am installing debian on a system with no removable media. > I am netbooting the installation using pxe, dhcp, tftp. This works > fine and I can start the installation. However, the install cannot > access my harddisk because the ide-disk.o modules is not found. That > t

Re: Sendmail --> Exim howto?

2004-04-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-04-19T03:07:10Z, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to convert a mail system from Sendmail to Exim. Anyone know of > a tutorial/HOWTO on the subject? OK, I have to ask. If you have a running Sendmail installation, and you don't know Exim, then why are you converting to it

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distribut

2004-04-18 Thread dircha
David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What arguement should I use with 'apt-cache search' and 'apt-file search' to specific the distribution? Eg. If I want to search for source packages (or normal packages) in unstable distribution, what would the complete comma

Kernel 2.6.5: Unable to mount root fs or unknown-block(0,0)

2004-04-18 Thread Adam Kessel
A couple of questions with respect to the Debian 2.6.5 kernel: - Why is there no longer an AMD K6 Debian kernel? It appears that only a K7 kernel is now built, which won't boot on my K6. - I get the following kernel panic when trying to boot: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can > be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for > the hostname when configuring the network - but I'd have to do another > installation to be sure. The installer does indeed

scanner setup

2004-04-18 Thread tsitras
I am running woody and i have kernel 2.6.5 compiled. i would like to make my scanner work. it is a "Mustek 1200 UB plus". i installed "xsane, sane, libsane, sane-utils" through apt-get. when i run xsane it shows as device only /dev/video0 which is my webcam. the scanner it is USB. also i did: debia

家庭PC办公室方案

2004-04-18 Thread wmr12345
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where are netboot ide-disk modules?

2004-04-18 Thread Michael West
I am installing debian on a system with no removable media. I am netbooting the installation using pxe, dhcp, tftp. This works fine and I can start the installation. However, the install cannot access my harddisk because the ide-disk.o modules is not found. That the module is needed is autodet

Sendmail --> Exim howto?

2004-04-18 Thread Carl Fink
I'm about to convert a mail system from Sendmail to Exim. Anyone know of a tutorial/HOWTO on the subject? I did a fairly extensive web search and all I could find was someone on a mailing list commenting on a great HOWTO that was no longer available. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROT

setting up HP psc2110 with hpoj, Debian Sarge

2004-04-18 Thread Mike Chandler
After doing some reading and searching, and trying to re-install hpoj, I get this error at the END of the 'make install': #Setting /etc/init.d/ptal-init symlink. /bin/sh: line 1: chkconfig: command not found Warning: chkconfig not available to set up SysV init script symlinks! Refer to setup

Re: How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distribut

2004-04-18 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What arguement should I use with 'apt-cache search' and 'apt-file > search' to specific the distribution? > > Eg. If I want to search for source packages (or normal packages) in > unstable distribution, what would the complete command for

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Josh Metzler
On Sunday 18 April 2004 05:49 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > > I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few > > programs I am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a > > hard time. Can anyone help me find replacements for these program

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird questions [partly solved]

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Well, here's a partial answer to one of my questions. Posting it here in the hopes it helps others, too. Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > 2) How can I force Thunderbird not to wrap specific long lines in an > email? If for instance I'm writing a bug report, I want it to wrap > paragraphs of text, bu

Re: dvd burners

2004-04-18 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 16:08, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi world! > > I noticed that dvd burners are quite reasonably priced now. > > Any recommendations? > > I also noted terms that I am not familiar with: > > Write Speed: 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD+RW, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD-RW, 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW > > What d

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Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > >I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I > >am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can > >anyone help me find replacements for these pr

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird questions

2004-04-18 Thread dircha
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi all, I switched from pine to Thunderbird last week, and there are two issues that are really frustrating me. I would be using mutt myself but it frequently flakes out for imap over ssl, which is unacceptable, so I gave up on it for now. 1) How can I get Thunderbird to

Re: devfs / noflusd

2004-04-18 Thread D. Frye
After installing sarge on a laptop, I get the error that not all packages were setup correctly. Looking at it closer, the error is that the kernel is configured with devfs, but devfs is not mounted anywhere. As a result, noflushd cannot work. There is a reference to the noflushd README which sug

Re: PCMCIA Networking -- who controls?

2004-04-18 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Jesse Hein wrote: > I have the following to /etc/network/interfaces (Xed out the sercutiy stuff) >auto wlan0 >iface wlan0 inet dhcp > gateway 192.168.1.1 > wireless mode managed > wireless_essid X > wireless_enc on >

syslog filling up with "no addrs found for root NS"

2004-04-18 Thread shri shrikumar
Hi List, I just experienced a pseudo denial of service issue. A server of ours runs woody and bind seems to have filled syslog and daemon.log with about 1.3g worth of messages along the lines of Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Apr 18

/var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log getting very big

2004-04-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi List, I just experienced a pseudo denial of service issue. A server of ours runs woody and bind seems to have filled syslog and daemon.log with about 1.3g worth of messages along the lines of Apr 18 18:25:38 server named[241]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Apr 18

Mozilla Thunderbird questions

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I switched from pine to Thunderbird last week, and there are two issues that are really frustrating me. 1) How can I get Thunderbird to insert a text file into the body of an email that I'm writing? In pine this is just Ctrl+R, but in Thunderbird the only way I've found is to cut-n-pas

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can anyone help me find replacements for these programs? NewsRover (Auto download messages and attachments from selected

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Johan Kullstam
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from Loren M. Lang: > > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or > > Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. > > I've never felt any need for anything but stable. Have you ever owned

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Re: festival 1.4.3 is not working on debian testing

2004-04-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:44:56PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all >I have always received wonderful advice from this group which > successfully solved my previous problems. Thanks you all. > > I installed festival 1.4.3, a speech synthesis system couple of day

Re: Before going with debian questions.

2004-04-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:36:35AM -0800, Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 07:39:19PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:26:53AM -0700, Robin Lynn Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > Basic benefits: > > > > ... > > > > - Choice o

dvd burners

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi world! I noticed that dvd burners are quite reasonably priced now. Any recommendations? I also noted terms that I am not familiar with: Write Speed: 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD+RW, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD-RW, 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW What does DVD+R/-R DVD+RW/-RW mean? And a 10-pack of DVD+RW is only $40.- Hugo

Cupsys problems

2004-04-18 Thread Vittorio
Under testing I've just installed cupsys + gimp-print + BSD support via apt-get. In a nutshell, a complete installation where I can see all the packages with the cupsys prefix! Under KDE 3.1 I've quickly installed my local Epson Stylus Color local printer which I've defined as the default pri

Re: How to rebuild glibc w/compiler flags designed for my system

2004-04-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:47:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Read somewhere on the web that this will somehow do some speed > optimization. > > Any advice on this? apt-get install pentium-builder -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=g

Re: Mozilla 1.6-5 not printing anything

2004-04-18 Thread steef
J.S.Sahambi wrote: steef wrote: J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am using Debian/unstable. Recently after an upgrade, mozilla has stopped printing. When I print a page from mozilla, it sends a ps file to printer and nothing gets printed. My printer is HP2300TN and I am using cups for printing. The output

Re: lm-sensors

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Alex Lorca wrote: A note on the jpeg images: the jumps in temperature occur because I turn an external fan on/off. That makes a huge difference in CPU temps. It was noted in this list a while ago: best is to maintain positive pressure inside the case with a fan: you keep

Re: kernel 2.6.x + hotplug + usb scanner - not work.

2004-04-18 Thread Egor Tur
> Hi folk. > I have problem with using my USB Epson 2400 photo scanner. > uname -r > 2.6.6-rc1 > lsusb | grep -i epson > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b8:011b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2400 Photo ... > sane-find-scanner | grep -i epson > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011b [EPSON

Re: Nero

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:12:32PM +1000, Jac van Oosterom wrote: My system is windows 2000 Bad thing! Get Debian and use cdrecord. Right on. Then while you are booting Debian and he offers to format your drive, go ahead and use that window$ partition and have hi

Disclaimer (was: Re: eth0 dissappeared after install)

2004-04-18 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
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Re: udev, autofs & module loading

2004-04-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
Michael Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cd /mnt/cdrom > > works as expected and the cdrom is mounted. But if the module hasn't > been loaded then this fails > > bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: No such file or directory > > because the device /dev/hdc does not exist yet and neither hotplug nor > udev cr

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Re: Before going with debian questions.

2004-04-18 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:36:35 -0800 Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this still your recommendation? I've used testing in the past for > workstations, but from the recent discussions thought that unstable > would be the preferred choice when stable won't cut it. If you were to only tra

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Adam Aube
Tomy Alarie wrote: > How can i dist upgrade to Sarge ? 1) Do a basic install with the Woody installer 2) Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, remove any security.debian.org lines, and change "stable" to "testing" or "sarge" in the other lines 3) Run "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" You now are

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:29:15PM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or > Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. > I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software > is like KDE 3.

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Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread ms419
Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for the hostname when configuring the network - but I'd have to do another installation to be sure. Jack On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Ken Irving wrote: On

Recording DVDs with k3b

2004-04-18 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm trying to record DVDs with k3b, but I've found problems. If I try to record media at 2x (maximum speed of the recorder) or "auto" I get an error message: "Failed to change write speed: 2117->2700" (complete error message is at the end).

Re: PCMCIA Networking -- who controls? (SOLVED)

2004-04-18 Thread Jesse Hein
Okay, I figured out my mistake. I stumbled across a reference that for hotplug cards you are NOT supposed to have the auto line in the stanza. Oops! Jesse Hein wrote: I succesfully installed wlan-ng and have the card working, kinda. When first put in, or at bootup, I get an error message about

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Thorn
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:30:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I also encountered this problem a few weeks ago. I then noticed that > there was an option to check the status of the CD and it said it was > faulty. I had that too. I tried CDs from a couple of sources but both failed. I assu

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:33:11AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:32:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- > > 127.0.0.1 kas localhost > > --- > > This realized, it was a quick fix: > > --- > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > --- > > > > If this entry prevents "hostn

Re: Before going with debian questions.

2004-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 07:39:19PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:26:53AM -0700, Robin Lynn Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ... > > > > 1) What are debian's strong and weak points as a server? > > 2) What are debian's strong and weak points as a desktop workstation

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Apr 2004, Tomy Alarie wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40:00PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: > > Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the > first, > > i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to initialize a > > hard drive, it couldnt complete this s

Re: Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built

2004-04-18 Thread dircha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate some elaboration on what kernel module loader does exactly, since none of the modules get loaded automatically during runtime. Understanding this will perhaps help to decide which features will stay as a module and which are the ones that will be built in

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Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Dave Thorn wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40:00PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the first, i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to initialize a hard drive, it couldnt complete this step etc.. or something that me

Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

2004-04-18 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 18 April 2004 00:40, Steven Yap wrote: > Oops! Sorry. Please look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst > which contains descriptive text of what the various options are. Thanks, that's a useful file I didn't know about. >> How could I get my right alt key (which as far as I can

How to 'apt-cache search'&'apt-file search' by distribut

2004-04-18 Thread users
/etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian [b:9a928ec131]unstable[/b:9a928ec131] main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian [b:9a928ec131]stable[/b:9a928ec131] main contrib non-free deb-src http:

Re: exim4 and adsl connection

2004-04-18 Thread David
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:25:06PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > How can I setup exim4 so that if I send email to outside world (non > home.pvt domains), the Sender field contains my sympatico domain, and if > I send mail to a local user on my home network, Sender has "home.pvt". I've put these lines

Re: Debian has turned unusable.

2004-04-18 Thread Johan Kullstam
"Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm new to the Debian community, but I have used RedHat for about 8 > years, and Gentoo for almost two. I must say, Debian is quite good > compared to these other distro's. Perhaps RH is more stable than > Sid/Sarge, but there

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Tomy! On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:45:14PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: > How can i dist upgrade to Sarge ? Please see the Debian Reference at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html#s-testing-transition Although this chapter describes updating from Potato to Woody (when it

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-04-18 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Sonntag, 18. April 2004 15:01 schrieb Sherry Winkler: > not sure what i'm doing here, but trying to hook up a video camera to my > dell and it's not working. Thanks, Sherry Thank you for the info. -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser: 295882 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/04/04 00:44), Katipo wrote: > To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:44:36 +0800 > Subject: Re: firefox deleted all my bookmarks > > Micha Feigin wrote: > > >I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite >

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Tomy Alarie
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40:00PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: > Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the first, > i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to initialize a > hard drive, it couldnt complete this step etc.. or something that means it > does

Re: ALSA configure problem

2004-04-18 Thread Hans
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: This problem has been mentioned before, but after lots of googling I still can't find the solution. I have a (minimal) running Sid system now, with kernel 2.6.5. I want to compile ALSA 1.0.4 from source (don't ask me why), so I got all th

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 17, 2004 10:29 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or > Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. > I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software > is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:47:14 +0100 Dave Thorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40:00PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: > > Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the > > first, i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to > > initialize a

Re: mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Marc Wilson told: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:49:31PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I have built mutt-1.5.6i and xv with an pdf-plugin for testing/unstable. > > You need the following entries in /etc/apt/sources: > > Not to knock your building x

Re: Xinerama across Network

2004-04-18 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: } Hi all, } I'm looking for a way to see if its possible to have real Xinerama } across the network some how. What I'm talking about is more than x2x or } VNC in that if I say started something on 10.0.0.1:0.0 I could drag the } entire wi

How to rebuild glibc w/compiler flags designed for my system

2004-04-18 Thread users
Read somewhere on the web that this will somehow do some speed optimization. Any advice on this? Thanks ! Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Thorn
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40:00PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: > Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the first, > i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to initialize a > hard drive, it couldnt complete this step etc.. or something that means it > doe

Sarge not working

2004-04-18 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i've downloaded 2 first cd iso of sarge today and boot with the first, i configure my location keyboard, and after when its time to initialize a hard drive, it couldnt complete this step etc.. or something that means it doesn't recognize my drive... any ideas ? Thanks - e6e9fe46b17

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:32:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- > 127.0.0.1 kas localhost > --- > This realized, it was a quick fix: > --- > 127.0.0.1 localhost > --- > > If this entry prevents "hostname -f" and "hostname -d" from working, > why does Debian create it? Debian

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 18 April 2004 12:29 am, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or > Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I have been running Unstable here for about nine months as my desktop. I switched from a muchly

Re: mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:49:31PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I have built mutt-1.5.6i and xv with an pdf-plugin for testing/unstable. > You need the following entries in /etc/apt/sources: Not to knock your building xv w/ PDF support (it's useful), but the license prohibits distribution of

Re: firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-18 Thread Katipo
Micha Feigin wrote: I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite a lot of them) I think that happened with the last upgrade. Anyone else see this? There was a thread on this within the last week. I forget the title, but it won't be buried too deep in the archive yet. C

Xinerama across Network

2004-04-18 Thread Rus Foster
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to see if its possible to have real Xinerama across the network some how. What I'm talking about is more than x2x or VNC in that if I say started something on 10.0.0.1:0.0 I could drag the entire window onto 192.168.0.1:1.0. Does anyone know if this is possible? Than

firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite a lot of them) I think that happened with the last upgrade. Anyone else see this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)

2004-04-18 Thread Alain
Thank you for the feedback. As you proposed I checked (and tried different set-up) with the smarthost but without any positive result. I agree that as I do not have a fixed ip address I am fitting the criteria for inclusion in the DUHL. But I still have one question: why can I send email from outlo

Unidentified subject!

2004-04-18 Thread Sherry Winkler
not sure what i'm doing here, but trying to hook up a video camera to my dell and it's not working.  Thanks, Sherry Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢

TV tuner misdetection in linux 2.6 v4l

2004-04-18 Thread csj
The tuner of my TV card is apparently being misdetected by linux 2.6's video4linux drivers. The tail of `grep -ih 'tuner:.*type' /var/log/syslog*` makes me suspicious: Apr 18 09:15:40 chilia kernel: tuner: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw] Apr 18 09:43:30 c

Re: help with smtp-auth (exim4)

2004-04-18 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:33:57PM +0900 or thereabouts, Brent Russell Langille wrote: > i have fetchmail set up to contact my isp and grab my emails and dump > them to exim which then delivers them to a Maildir style directory. that > works great. > > the problem is sending mail out through exim

Re: udev, autofs & module loading

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Graham
Michael wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Michael :) > normally if you insert a CD a corresponding pci hotplug event should > be generated and hotplug should load the right module. Check out the > logfiles when inserting a CD. I've rebuilt my kernel with the pci hotplugging support and loaded the pci_hot

Re: lm-sensors

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Alex Lorca wrote: hi all i'm trying to install lm-sensors in a debian woody 2.4.25 i made: - apt-get lm-sensors-source i2c-source - unpack and make-kpkg modules-image - install the .debs - run sensors-detect and detected the following: # 2C adapter drivers # modprobe unknown adapter Philips Parall

Re: eth0 dissappeared after install

2004-04-18 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting Sarah Trefethen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I installed a base image (testing, kernel 2.4.25-1) on a dell Latitude > D500 (laptop with centrino package) with no problem. Essential hardware > was all detected nicely and I was able to use my ethernet device to > connect to my friendly local DH

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Carl Fink
The server I administer runs Stable. My home box that I'm typing this on runs Sarge. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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