Re: missing /dev/lp0

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:06:16PM +1000, Glenn Meehan wrote: > Hi, > > When I do and lpstat -t I get the following message: > > Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": No such device > > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26 > > These are my relevant kernel options: > >

Re: xmms window behavior

On Friday, 11 Jun 2004 05:07, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Could someone tell me how to convince xmms' playlist to follow suit, > once I minimize the main player window? > > Right now what happens is that only the player window is minimized, > leaving a "headless" playlist window sitting there.

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

Make sure you are a member of the "audio" group. My mixer looks like: crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/mixer Ed Sutherland wrote: Ah! Now I can eject the audio CD. How do I set the correct permissions for me to use "Volume Control"? When I try to set my volume, I get

Re: Console only box?

For a sound app, take a look at 'mplayer'... it plays almost any digital music format you can think of. It plays video too, but that requires X I'm pretty sure... unless you use aalib or some sort of framebuffer driver possibly. For "IM" there are plenty of command like aim, yahoo, jabber, etc

missing /dev/lp0

Hi, When I do and lpstat -t I get the following message: Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": No such device I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26 These are my relevant kernel options: CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERI

Re: where is the 2.6 kernel source tree located?

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 15:14, welly hartanto wrote: > --- cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to know so the nvidia driver can install. > > Anyone know? > > Are you sure you have installed kernel-tree of your > current kernel ??? ( apt-get install > kernel-tree-2.4.26 for 2.4.26 kernel ) >

Re: where is the 2.6 kernel source tree located?

--- cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know so the nvidia driver can install. > Anyone know? Are you sure you have installed kernel-tree of your current kernel ??? ( apt-get install kernel-tree-2.4.26 for 2.4.26 kernel ) If so, then go to /var/cache/apt/archieves. You'll probably find i

Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for > my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can > install, and load the drivers via modconf and be done . . . . i want $100B tooo and not have to pay

kernel panic - no /dev/console

howdy all I've got a box with a custom 2.4.18 kernel (customed to use some funny hardware, and win4lin). I no longer need the customizations, and wanted to upgrade 2.6 - so installed 2.6.6 kernel image. When i boot off this image I get a kernel panic, following a message from sbin/init, that it

802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

Team: I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can install, and load the drivers via modconf and be done . . . . TIA madmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

Ah! Now I can eject the audio CD. How do I set the correct permissions for me to use "Volume Control"? When I try to set my volume, I get this error: "Unable to open audio device /dev/mixer. Please check that you have permissions to open /dev/mixer and that you have sound support in your ker

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

Dan C wrote: > Only passing along what Joey Hess was able to work out when I wrote to > the list a few days ago :) I'll be filing a bug report before I go to > bed tonight -- I was a bit preoccupied with trying to get X working > decently on an Epia MII-12000 :) It's already been fixed in the ar

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

Stephen Touset wrote: >I'm working on a fairly large program for a class, and now every time I >run it, it segfaults. > >I've secluded the part that seems to cause the problems, and wrote a >small file called test.cc, which contains a minimal implementation fo >the code that brings up the segfault

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:49, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:36:04PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > > I've opened and read files hundreds of times in my life. What gives now? > > > > -- > > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > #include > > > > using namespace std; > > > > i

Re: Proxy question

You can try user iptables to redirect port 80 to 3128 (transparent proxy). Hugs Gilberto On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:08:58 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi dear list, > > My problem is quite simple to explain, but I'm afraid it is not so simple to solve. > I have a Debian Box with 2 NICS: > >

Re: How to get better quality display

jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, Sorry to have left out some details. My monitor is a HP Ultra VGA 1280 and my Intel chipset is 865G. I have upgraded xfree86 to 4.3.0. Don't see any improvement in display quality though. Now I can select i810 for controller. But even when I select res of 1024x768 and d

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:36:04PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > I've opened and read files hundreds of times in my life. What gives now? > > -- > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > #include > > using namespace std; > > int main(void) > { > > ifstream fin("test.cc"); > char* s

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 21:42, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:36:04PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > > read(3, "#include \n\nusing namesp"..., 8192) = 218 > > read(3, "", 4096) = 0 > > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > +++ killed by SIGSEGV ++

Re: Console only box?

On Jun 10, 2004, at 11:26 AM, cecil wrote: Just curious, one of my madcap ideas i had today was the idea of a console only install of debian, but with sound and sound progs installed. Just for giggles, does anyone have a setup like this? No X, just console? Are their IM programs, and such? How w

Re: why is logcheck failing?: [Fwd: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:13:38AM +1000 or thereabouts, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > tia > zen > > -Forwarded Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors > > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:02:01 +1000 > > >

Re: How to make my own .debs

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:56:09PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a downloaded > tarball? I've read the "New Maintainer's Guide" but that doesn't seem to > be geared toward the Average Joe who wants to make one or two informal > .debs. >

Re: Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:36:04PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > read(3, "#include \n\nusing namesp"..., 8192) = 218 > read(3, "", 4096) = 0 > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Shouldn't you get symbols for read() and step into that? An

Basic, but what the hell am I doing wrong here?

I'm working on a fairly large program for a class, and now every time I run it, it segfaults. I've secluded the part that seems to cause the problems, and wrote a small file called test.cc, which contains a minimal implementation fo the code that brings up the segfault. It's attached. The code sim

Re: 2.4.26 upgrade => no auto power off

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:16, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > What version of sysvinit are you running? 2.85-16 had a bug that > caused this. Has been fixed in the current version. 2.85-15 I upgraded to 2.85-20 but still no joy. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

why is logcheck failing?: [Fwd: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors]

tia zen -Forwarded Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:02:01 +1000 > > Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have been > checked! > > Details:

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

Only passing along what Joey Hess was able to work out when I wrote to the list a few days ago :) I'll be filing a bug report before I go to bed tonight -- I was a bit preoccupied with trying to get X working decently on an Epia MII-12000 :) Three cheers for the new Debian Installer --it's rathe

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Re: Console only box?

The rvplayer package can play RealAudio in a text-only environment. -- 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 PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Installing Java

Hi, I am using Sarge on an ABit board with Nforce2 integrated sound. During my boot, the following entries are made in the log; Jun 10 17:59:58 localhost kernel: Jun 10 17:59:58 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels. Jun 10 17:59:58 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Defa

Re: Installing Java

On Thursday 10 June 2004 07:07 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Thank you for your rapid response! I tried your former recommendation (PATH=/home/tilleyrw/downloads/j2re1.4.2_04/bin:$PATH ./azureus) and all was good. Thanks again! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

If you were blonde, female, and weighed less than 400 lbs I'd kiss you :) Yes, you're 100% right... that's exactly the problem. If you're installing to a hard disk of 100gig or greater, the Beta 4 installer and the Testing Candidate 1 installer will fail, giving you no real error messages, etc.

Re: Installing Java

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:25, Robert Tilley wrote: > I want to run Azureus, which requires the JRE from SUN to be installed. I > install the j2re1.4.2 and hope that Azureus runs. > > The message returns that something is wrong with my java installation. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tilleyrw/downl

Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

On Thursday 10 June 2004 16:36, Luis R Finotti wrote: > > It would appear your dvd is being treated as a SCSI device. Check your > > scsi device nodes, and change your fstab as appropriate. > > That was it. Thank you so much Justin! > > I don't how that happened? But is there any problem in havi

Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

> It would appear your dvd is being treated as a SCSI device. Check your scsi > device nodes, and change your fstab as appropriate. That was it. Thank you so much Justin! I don't how that happened? But is there any problem in having the DVD drive as a SCSI device when it actually isn't? Tha

Installing Java

I want to run Azureus, which requires the JRE from SUN to be installed. I install the j2re1.4.2 and hope that Azureus runs. The message returns that something is wrong with my java installation. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/azureus# ./azureus Starting Azureus... Java exec found in

Re: KDE Window Controls Stop Responding

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 20:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have this weird problem where, in KDE 3.2, my window controls stop > responding -- that is, I mean i can't click the minimize, maximize, or > close controls on the Window title bar. In fact, I can't click and drag > the window at all, no

Re: Good News Server

On Thursday 10 June 2004 1:19 am, Loren M. Lang wrote: > Does anyone know of a good news server I could use?  I'd like to post > an article to the gnuplot newsgroup, but my isp seems to no longer be > offering free usenet service.  If I could just post articles to a > mail->news gateway would be ni

Re: Using the cp command.

On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:49 am, CW Harris wrote: > What version of cp are you using?  I cannot duplicate this behavior > here.  Are you sure you don't have an "-i" set?  Are you using /bin/cp > or an alias? > > cp (coreutils) 5.0.91  [here] > > you might check out "--reply=yes" option (man cp)

Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

On Thursday 10 June 2004 13:11, Luis R Finotti wrote: > Dear all, > > For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it > and I get the following message when I try to mount it: > > debian[~]% mount /dvd/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, >

Re: xmms window behavior

2004. június 10. 23:07, Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi! > > Could someone tell me how to convince xmms' playlist to follow suit, > once I minimize the main player window? > > Right now what happens is that only the player window is minimized, > leaving a "he

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

... On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:54:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame > and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE. > > Two guys were talking about their cars with a mechanic. > > First guy: When I try to start my car in the morning,

xmms window behavior

Hi! Could someone tell me how to convince xmms' playlist to follow suit, once I minimize the main player window? Right now what happens is that only the player window is minimized, leaving a "headless" playlist window sitting there. I'm using xmms 1.2.10-1 on sarge. Thank you -A -- To UNS

Re: Can this be a DNS problem? or ... ??

--- David Piniella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in mozilla (you don't specify version) type "about: > config" in the > address bar and from there you may be able to see if > there's a > "CheckHostIP" (or similar) option. > > -d. Thanks for the suggestion. The only option I could see that looked

Re: Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

>Incoming from Luis R Finotti: >> Dear all, >> >> For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it >> and I get the following message when I try to mount it: >> >> debian[~]% mount /dvd/ >...^ > >What's that doing there? It was the TAB completion in b

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and > Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always > die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting > the installer use

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Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

Incoming from Luis R Finotti: > Dear all, > > For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it > and I get the following message when I try to mount it: > > debian[~]% mount /dvd/ ...^ What's that doing there? -- Any technology distinguishable from

can't mount DVD-ROM

Dear all, For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it and I get the following message when I try to mount it: debian[~]% mount /dvd/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE dev

Re: Console only box?

'ellow, That's an interesting idea; I have thought about going console-only as pretty much the only X apps I use are Evolution, Gaim, the GNOME Panel, metacity and loadsa gnome-terminals. I have heard that mutt is a great mailer and there are framebuffer (or ASCII art!) programs to view graphic a

Re: xmllint & libxml2? Stable.

Incoming from CW Harris: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:34:58AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > I've been looking for xmllint which is supposed to be in libxml2. I > > have libxml2 installed but no xmllint. Do I need a backport or am I > > Seems to be in libxml2-utils not in stable[1]. libxml2-utils

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

Your a far better person than I, therefore I should leave all questions on the list to be answered by you. Sorry for my arrogance... Ralph Joey Hess wrote: I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE. Two guys were talking about th

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE. Two guys were talking about their cars with a mechanic. First guy: When I try to start my car in the morning, my radio plays an advertisment for cheerios, and then the engine

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I had simalar issues on one machine. It looks like the installer can't > read from the disk at some point. Anyway try a different/newer CDROM > drive. It worked for me. Actually, since [EMAIL PROTECTED] did not include any real error messages in his report, there is no w

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

I had simalar issues on one machine. It looks like the installer can't read from the disk at some point. Anyway try a different/newer CDROM drive. It worked for me. Ralph Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and

Reboot hangs with Sarge and Intel SE7501WV2 serverboard

I am attempting to commission a new server based on an Intel SE7501WV2 motherboard with a pair of 2.6MHz Xeons and 2GB Ram. Most of this is working superbly but it refuses to reboot. shutdown -h now (or any time) works properly but shutdown -r now gets most of the way through but hangs after di

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and > Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always > die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting > the installer use the entire disk). > > Looking in t

Re: KDE Sound?

Hello Ed Sutherland (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > What are the steps I need to enable sound within KDE and play audio > CDs? Mostly the same you have to do to play CDs from the command line: load the driver for your sound card add yourself to the audio group make sure you have permission to ac

Random loss of domain name resolution!

Dear: Fellow Gnu/Linux Debian users. I am at a loss as to solve this problem, other than to reinstall Debian Sarge. I am using a cable connection, with DHCP enabled getting a permannet IP address from my hardware Zyxel ZyWall router, which allows me to set IPs according to MAC addresses. I a

Re: xmllint & libxml2? Stable.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:34:58AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > I've been looking for xmllint which is supposed to be in libxml2. I > have libxml2 installed but no xmllint. Do I need a backport or am I > just not finding it? Seems to be in libxml2-utils not in stable[1]. libxml2-utils 2.6.9-2 in t

Re: Console only box?

cecil wrote: > Just curious, one of my madcap ideas i had today was the idea of a > console only install of debian, but with sound and sound progs > installed. Just for giggles, does anyone have a setup like this? No X, > just console? Are their IM programs, and such? How would you setup such > a i

kbdrate doesn't work from apmd_proxy

If I run kbdrate as root from the command line: # kbdrate -r 23 Typematic Rate set to 21.8 cps (delay = 250 ms) it works fine. But if I run it from a script in /etc/apmd/event.d #!/bin/sh case "$1" in resume) kbdrate -r 23 2>&1 | logger ;; esac I get ioctl(KDKBDREP):

Console only box?

Just curious, one of my madcap ideas i had today was the idea of a console only install of debian, but with sound and sound progs installed. Just for giggles, does anyone have a setup like this? No X, just console? Are their IM programs, and such? How would you setup such a install to have full

Re: 3ware escalade 8006 SATA RAID recommendations; dual boot windows

I merely add more questions and an observation, and embelish on these further below. a. Doesn't command queing (NCQ) bring SATA much closer to SCSI performance? b. Aren't 3Ware adapter cards and most SATA disk drives Frankenstein drives with bolted-on translater cards that necessarily disallo

Re: Can this be a DNS problem? or ... ??

in mozilla (you don't specify version) type "about: config" in the address bar and from there you may be able to see if there's a "CheckHostIP" (or similar) option. -d. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded the kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.3. Everything works, but Mozilla is now unusable. Wh

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

Incoming from Ed Sutherland: > > Still, I am unable to mount /dev/hdb or /dev/cdrom in order to play the > audio CD. You don't mount audio CDs, and it's not /dev/cdrom; it's /cdrom. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.

xmllint & libxml2? Stable.

I've been looking for xmllint which is supposed to be in libxml2. I have libxml2 installed but no xmllint. Do I need a backport or am I just not finding it? Thanks. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Ed Sutherland wrote: > ... > Still, I am unable to mount /dev/hdb or /dev/cdrom in order to play the > audio CD. ...and therein lies your problem. Except in very unusual cases, you don't mount audio cd's. You play them with a program that refers directly to the device that co

Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting the installer use the entire disk). Looking in the error logs, I see: umount: /target

Re: 2.4.26 upgrade => no auto power off

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26 and now my system won't >auto power down. >I am running testing/unstable. What version of sysvinit are you running? 2.85-16 had a bug that caused this. Has been fixed in the cu

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

While "eject" alone did nothing, "eject -v" ejected the CD after giving these messages: digital:/home/ed# eject -v eject: using default device `cdrom' eject: device name is `cdrom' eject: expanded name is `/cdrom' eject: `/cdrom' is not mounted eject: `/dev/hdb' can be mounted at `/cdrom' eject:

Re: Network/DSL uptime log? solution is icpld

Internet Connection Performance Log Daemon icpld is a nice solution. I found no Debian package that logs when internet connections cease working, although this may be included as a minor aspect of some Debian package having broader purposes. I found this package at http://freshmeat.net/projec

No fonts/text in GTK2 apps

Since some time I don't have any fonts/text in GTK2 apps anymore. Everywhere characters should be , there's void and spacing is like minimal, so it looks like font nothing, with space 0 is selected or so. The configure app switch (for GTK1) has text, switch2 is empty like the rest of the GTK2 apps.

Re: Using the cp command.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:21:18AM -0400, alex wrote: > I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with: > cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/ > > Normally, the command works fine except when (partition b) already > contains a large number of directories and files th

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

Did you try a straight eject with no arguments? -Jason --- Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I eject a CD within Debian? > > I tried "eject /dev/cdrom" > > The "eject" command replied: "Unable to open > /dev/hdb" > > There is a /dev/hdb file. There is an fstab entry: > > /dev/

Howto: Eject CD?

How do I eject a CD within Debian? I tried "eject /dev/cdrom" The "eject" command replied: "Unable to open /dev/hdb" There is a /dev/hdb file. There is an fstab entry: /dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 But /dev/hdb isn't mounted. When I try to mount /dev/hdb, I get this error: "wrong fs t

OT: Re: Good News Server

Incoming from Simon Kitching: > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:29, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Loren M. Lang: > > > Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'd like to post > > A "good news" server sounds like a fine idea - none of this depressing > war, famine and SCO stuff :-) Th

Can this be a DNS problem? or ... ??

I recently upgraded the kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.3. Everything works, but Mozilla is now unusable. When I go to a URL, it just sits there with (e.g.) Resolving host login.yahoo.com at the bottom in the status frame, for about 40 seconds. Thinking I maybe had some DNS setup problem, I tried typi

KDE Sound?

What are the steps I need to enable sound within KDE and play audio CDs? Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wvdial connects but no internet and KPPP dies

Okay, been a while since I used ppp, but I'll give it a try... On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:28:39AM -0700, Jason Kretzer wrote: > Here is the output from the commandline when I run > KPPP from a shell as root. > > ~# kppp > Opener: received SetSecret > Opener: received SetSecret > Opener: received

Re: Using the cp command.

use tar or cpio? (cd /partitiona; tar cvf - ./) | (cd /partitionb; tar xf -) or something like that... On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:21:18 -0400, alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with: > cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/ >

Re: Using the cp command.

--- alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with: > cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/ Please see this: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic

Using the cp command.

I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with: cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/ Normally, the command works fine except when (partition b) already contains a large number of directories and files that are duplicates of those in (partition a) . The command work

where is the 2.6 kernel source tree located?

I need to know so the nvidia driver can install. Anyone know? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:Cannot fill form on a web page

Hi folks,   Thanks for the info on jre. I can access www.apt-get.org but can't find any jre or jr2e package. There is a permanent error msg on the page. I prefer to install it as debian package. Is there any other site to get that package?   Cheers   Do you Yahoo!?Friends. Fun. Try the all-new

Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:58:58AM +, Simon L wrote: > Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > > >Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > > > >>Vijaya S wrote: > >> > >>>Hi all, > >>>Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? > >>> > >>>Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. > >>> > >>> > >>>R

lvm and resizing /usr

Hi, on a Debian Woody, i installed lvm10. After a while my /usr ext3 parition was slowly filling up so i wanted to do: lvextend -L+1G /dev/main/lv_usr resize2fs /dev/main/lv_usr The first command succeeded, the second didn't because the partition was mounted. I couldn't unmount the partit

Re: How to get better quality display

jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, Sorry to have left out some details. My monitor is a HP Ultra VGA 1280 and my Intel chipset is 865G. I have upgraded xfree86 to 4.3.0. Don't see any improvement in display quality though. Now I can select i810 for controller. But even when I select res of 1024x768 and d

Re: matlab on debian

* /User-agent/: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Thank you very much! Finally it is running. sysvinit was not installed and therefor no /dev/ptmx. INstalling sysvinit (version 2.85-20 ) and running 'invo

Re: how to have a transparent/no background in desktop of gnome 2.6.1

oops! On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:31 -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote: > two gconf keys do this for me, > > /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop = false > /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background = false > ^^^ This should be show_desktop, ie: $ gconftool-2 -s /ap

Re: Good News Server

Loren M. Lang writes: > Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'm very pleased with newsguy . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

smbclient "RAP code 143"

i am trying to print to a networked printer through my linux firewall from my windblows machine on a subnet. does anyone have suggestions as to what i am doing incorrectly? $# smbclient -L printserver -U myusername -d 3 Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configura

Re: how to have a transparent/no background in desktop of gnome 2.6.1

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:57 +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I want to run mplayer in rootwindow and I think I have have to disable > the background of gnome desktop. I am using Debian/unstable with gnome > 2.6.1 and could not find any way to disable the gnome background. Can > anyone give some idea

how to get Clock cursor in place of Hourglass cursor when system is busy in Debian/unstable

I recently updated the system (Debian/unstable) from debian servers. When the system is busy the cursor changes to the standard hourglass. I also installed Debian/unstable from the same server on a new system from scratch. In that system the system busy indication is with a new Clock cursor. I

Re: sarge dvd iso

Jacques wrote: Hi there, I'm a slackware user interested in trying Debian so I'm currently downloading the dvd iso from fsn.hu ftp site. 1. Can anyone let me know if this iso is an installable debian image ? I grabbed the sid dvd iso but it ain't install. Someone told me it is to upgrade a GNU/

Re: Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:47:30PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > I wonder why would edid info (that comes directly from monitor, as > far as I can tell) result in worse settings then what X does based on > vert/horiz frequencies. I don't know. It's an 18" flat panel monitor who's "natural resol

Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. Regards, Vijaya Hello, Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. You need to have severa

Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. Regards, Vijaya Hello, Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or m

Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. Regards, Vijaya Hello, Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or more disks... And you can

Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

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Debian testing, 2.6. kernel, LVM2 problem after crash

Have searched all the archives & source I know, but have a problem with my system (Debian testing with lvm 2.00.08-4, custom kernel 2.6.5 or debian stock 2.6.6 (happens with both, only kernels installed on system)). I had the system crash, and now I get an error on startup of sorry, forgot about e

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