Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 20 June 2004 01:08 am, Kent West wrote: > /lib/modules/[your module version]/kernel . . . for the available module > names you can try), and if it works, add this name to /etc/modules for > future boots. I recommend using modconf. Find the alsa modules (snd-*), then find the module fo

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Tadek wrote: (sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was rejected since I had to subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for posting) Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
MillTek wrote: MillTek wrote: I went to install alsa-base from apt-get and I got this result; apt-get install alsa-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: alsa-utils Suggested packages: apmd alsadriver The following NEW p

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread mailmanmike
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: Re: Xserver didn't start > Mike Chandler wrote: > > > > >Hi Kent, as long as you're in here, can I ask a question? > >Does gpm not work with a usb wheel mous

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: Hi Kent, as long as you're in here, can I ask a question? Does gpm not work with a usb wheel mouse? I install gpm, then do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (change to /dev/gpmdata) restart X and the mouse is frozen. Thanks... Yes, it will, but I think there's been some cha

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
MillTek wrote: MillTek wrote: MillTek wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote Kent West wrote: MillTek wrote: Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an

Re: Adding Debian

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Let's move this over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where it's on-topic. "Thomas S. Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have Suse 9.1 pro installed with GRUB as the loader. I have the > Debian CD's I purchased (Woody 3.0r1) and would like to add it as a > separate system to see how it works. If I insta

Re: IEEE1394 permissions of /dev/raw1394 in debian for Kino

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 06/19/04 23:06,typed: I installed Know recently, and I was experiencing the error of: That is supposed to be "Kino" and NOT "Know". Sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IEEE1394 permissions of /dev/raw1394 in debian for Kino

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
I installed Know recently, and I was experiencing the error of: "The IEEE 1394 subsystem is not loaded; all IEEE 1394 options are disabled." when I choose File->Preferences from the Kino menu. I checked the permissions of /dev/*1394* and got: ~# ls -l /dev/*1394* crw-rw1 root disk 1

Status of new version?

2004-06-19 Thread stan
I'm helping a friend set up a new machien at a hosting site. There policy is thta the machines the deliver have Debian "stable" on them. Now, I know I _should_ be able to upgrade this to unstable using apt-get remotely, but I was wondering how far away the next stable release might be? Also will i

Re: Install won't recognise second CD

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:13:53PM +0100, Rich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Sarge and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. > The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. > The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable im

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > Its not enough to copy all the files to the cd (which is probably what > you did if you burned it in data mode). You need to make the cd > bootable by burning a basic system and marking where to find those > files. yup.. a bootable cdrom will ha

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
MillTek wrote: MillTek wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote Kent West wrote: MillTek wrote: Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an Abit NF7-M mot

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:39:27AM -0500, Steve Kleiser wrote: > >Greetings, > > > > Although able to boot from a (purchased) Debian 3.0 i386 Install #1 NON-US CD, > the CD I burned using Roxio >Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and debian-30r2-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso won't boot in the > s

Re: /lib/modules//build -- why a link?

2004-06-19 Thread cwinl
hi, try 'aptitude install kernel-headers-x.xx.xx' but if you use your custom recompiled kernel it wouldn't work fine. - Original Message - From: "Lukas Ruf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:12 PM Subject: /lib/modules//build -- why a

Notícia sobre o kernel

2004-06-19 Thread Igor
*Linus Torvalds propõe alterações no modo de desenvolvimento do kernel *Segundo uma notícia publicada pela Infoword, Linux Torvalds propos alterações no modo atual de desenvolvimento do kernel, para evitar discussões como a levantada pelo processo da SCO sobre a propriedade intelectual do código.

Re: Sarge install - where are ext3 and reiserfs?

2004-06-19 Thread cwinl
hi, as i have a debian mirror locally mirroring per day , i just only have to download a jigdo file. i always wanna a freshest iso to test debian functions. others shouldn't have to do like me. B-> - Original Message - From: "Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When telneting the box I get into the login, asked for username. When > entering a valid username I get this message: > "System bootup in progress -please wait" You probably have an "/etc/nologin" file (containing this text you see) that wasn't deleted b

user X login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Tadek
Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge) and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I can still X login as a root; kde and gnome behave the same. When I enter user name and pa

user x login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Tadek
(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was rejected since I had to subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for posting) Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:55 am, Kent West wrote: > Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so > now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at > the top of the file. > > At this point, it might just be easier to manually modify the > /etc/X1

debian sarge and vmware with kernel 2.6

2004-06-19 Thread Joakim Nordberg
Hi ppl, I hva got som e trouble running Vmware GSX 3.0 on Debian sarge. After it has been running perfectely for a couple of weeks I reached at point where I hit the limit of (I/O) and it starts to crasch! Does anyone have any ideas why? It is an Amd 2500+ cpu on Asus A7N8X motherboard with 3w

RE: ftp server being slow

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Bellears
James Hosken wrote: > Hello all > > I'm having performance issues with ftp servers on my LAN. I > installed vsftp and the performace was really bad, 5kb/s or > so. It was taking about 20 mins to move a 5Mb file! > > I looked at the config file and googled but couldn't find any > solutions, eventu

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:49:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Brian Astill wrote: > > >I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't > >started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. > > > "" all you want, but Knoppix is not Debian; it is based on Debian. > Havi

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Aube
Paul Johnson wrote: >> SBL is better than Spews, although less aggressive. > > SBL? The SpamHaus block list (www.spamhaus.org) - one of two RBLs I use (the other is SpamCop). SpamHaus also offers the XBL (for exploited hosts) and the SBL-XBL list, which combines the two. Adam -- To UNSUBSCR

menu problems after upgrading sawfish

2004-06-19 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I've upgraded sawfish to 1.3+cvs20040617-3, and now the programs menu contains only a few items like xterm, emacs, gv, xcalc, netscape. update-menus doesn't seem to have any effect (it worked with the previous version). I've tried a couple of suggestions from README.Debian and debian-user a

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:03:47PM -0400, Brian Astill wrote: > I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't > started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. ... > Is there a list of packages sorted by Section, rather than by Package, > without logging ont

Re: no icons in nautilus 2.6

2004-06-19 Thread Manu
Jakob Did you get a response from someone? I have the same problem too and on top of it I have gnome settings crashing. I tried to apply the patch from this discussion http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00693.html but it looks like it is already done. anyone has an idea? Thanks Manu

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Michael Satterwhite_, on 06/19/04 13:48,typed: I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. I need to have them match the oth

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:25:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > > >So are there any practical disadvantages to running unstable instead of > >testing? > > > A couple of years ago a bug found its way into PAM in unstable, and > caused a lot of unstable users to be unable to log in

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Brad Nelson_, on 06/19/04 11:39,typed: Greetings, I am a totally new user of Linux. I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descrip

[solved] Re: grub errors, can't get linux (but WindowsXP CD solves it!)

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
See alt.os.linux (same subject) for solution. ->HS Apparently, _H. S._, on 06/19/04 12:22,typed: I have been having a very peculiar problem since a couple of days ago. Two days ago, my hda crashed. Since Debian was installed on hdb, I tried to reinstall grub after removing hda and replacing it wi

Downloading uw-imapd folders

2004-06-19 Thread John Fleming
I have uw-imapd installed and working in that Squirrelmail works nicely. However, using a Windose box, I'm having trouble getting the correct folders downloaded. The Windose client will let me specify the path to my mail folders. If I leave it blank, it appears to be downloading hundreds of thous

Re: Adding Debian

2004-06-19 Thread Bob Hentges
Thomas S. Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > I have Suse 9.1 pro installed with GRUB as the loader. I have the Debian > CD's I purchased (Woody 3.0r1) and would like to add it as a separate > system to see how it works. If I install it to a separate disk will I have > any problems or are there specificate th

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
MillTek wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote Kent West wrote: MillTek wrote: Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas McLean
Hi Jim, Try downloading the also sources and compiling from them. I had problems with the binarys that were provided. Wehn you download it, it's very easy to setup (well for me it was). Get the sources from here: www.alsa-project.org/ (the site appears to be down at the moment for some reason). Al

Adding Debian

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas S. Atkins
Hi, I have Suse 9.1 pro installed with GRUB as the loader. I have the Debian CD's I purchased (Woody 3.0r1) and would like to add it as a separate system to see how it works. If I install it to a separate disk will I have any problems or are there specificate things I should look out for. The syst

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas McLean
Hi Steve, You should burn the cd as a .iso, not sure about data though...i think if you just double click on the iso and tell it to open with your cd burning software it should make it bootable by default. I've not used windows for a while so my info may be a little inaccurate. It works over here

Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Kleiser
Greetings,     Although able to boot from a (purchased) Debian 3.0 i386 Install #1 NON-US CD, the CD I burned using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and debian-30r2-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso won't boot in the same Pentium desktop clone. The directory structures of the two CDs appear to be identic

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden
On Saturday 19 June 2004 11:10 am, Paul Scott wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, > > so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff > > at the top of the file. Yeah, I saw that. If I need to configure again I

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:29:13AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:41:27PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > > > > If the on

Re: starting error with thunderbird 0.7 on woody-system

2004-06-19 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Bluejack wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:55:26 +0200, Palfalvi Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed this library without problems but after trying to start again thunderbird I got another error message: "./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: c

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote Kent West wrote: MillTek wrote: Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NForce2

exim and mozilla

2004-06-19 Thread Art Edwards
My fire wall box died and, for now, I'm using one of my inner boxes as the mail center. Exim is set up as a node on the internet and, using mutt, I can send and receive nicely. By setting up pop3d I can also pop from the /var/mail area to the mozilla mail box. However, when I try to send mail from

exim and mozilla

2004-06-19 Thread Art Edwards
My firewall box died and, for now, I'm using one of my inner boxes as the mail center. Exim is set up as a node on the internet and, using mutt, I can send and receive nicely. By setting up pop3d I can also pop from the /var/mail area to the mozilla mail box. However, when I try to send mail from m

ftp server being slow

2004-06-19 Thread James Hosken
Hello all I'm having performance issues with ftp servers on my LAN. I installed vsftp and the performace was really bad, 5kb/s or so. It was taking about 20 mins to move a 5Mb file! I looked at the config file and googled but couldn't find any solutions, eventually I gave up. Now I have installed

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 19 June 2004 14:18, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote: > > Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group > > between machines so that you know the gids are the same across all >

Re: gDesklets -- Which Work?

2004-06-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Ed Sutherland told: > I'm using Gnome 2.6 and trying to get gDesklets to work. The several > desklets I've tried have all complained about 'possible broken sensors.' > Does anyone know for certain which desklets actually work with debian > and Gnome 2

Re: alt key is sticky after upgrading sid today.

2004-06-19 Thread Doug Holland
On Friday 18 June 2004 01:34 pm, Paul Scott wrote: > > ok, I had this: > > $ xmodmap | grep mod1 > mod1Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x7e) > > I don't remember having Meta_L there any time, i.e. before dfsg.1-5. > So after doing: > > $ xmodmap -e 'clear mod1 -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L'

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote > Kent West wrote: > > > MillTek wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get > >> sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has > >> an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NFor

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
Kent West wrote: MillTek wrote: Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NForce2 chipset. I tried the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get t

X upgrade changed modifier key definitions

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
The latest X upgrade in sid seems to have changed the key definitions for some of the modifiers. Did anyone else notice that? My window key is now recognized under emacs as H-s whatever that means and it seems that the alt is also making problems (I don't think it is recognized as meta under fvwm,

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote: > Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group between > machines so that you know the gids are the same across all the machines? > This would also save you the time of having to create al

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Kent West wrote: Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at the top of the file. Thanks. I had already deleted that part of the thread. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:48:35 -0500 Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be > networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm > noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. > I

Re: mozilla doesn't load

2004-06-19 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Friday 18 June 2004 06:40 am, Nicolau Leal Werneck wrote: > Hello. I'm installing mozilla on a diskless network. The machines > can boot normally, I can load lots of programs, like GIMP, mplayer, > glade, mutt... Everything looks fine, but some programs, > most notably mozilla-fre

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Keep doing: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and restarting X) until the mouse works. I should have said that if you are letting debconf manage your configuration then it will remember all your previous configuration answers and you will just have to press En

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Keep doing: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and restarting X) until the mouse works. I should have said that if you are letting debconf manage your configuration then it will remember all your previous configuration answers and you will just have to press Enter or occasionally

Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. I need to have them match the other machines for sharing purposes; I haven't been able to tal

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Brenden T. wrote: Now it gets new and improved errors and refuses to start. (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages dis

Install won't recognise second CD

2004-06-19 Thread Rich
Hi,   I'm trying to install Sarge and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable image and appears to be OK and indeed disk one worked just

Re: programming editor

2004-06-19 Thread Rob Benton
Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:05:24PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: William Ballard wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: XEmacs is another editor that could be worth looking into. Bit nicer interface than plain Emacs, and should not tak

Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-19 Thread HdV
Hi all, Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the digests, so something else must have happened. Anyone else experienced the same? Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: want ftp access through my gateway

2004-06-19 Thread Luke Reeves
Hi Marty. In the properties page of your shared Internet connection, go to the firewall/sharing page and choose the option to forward services to another machine. This will allow you to forward FTP (port 21) to the the IP address of the Debian system. Clients though will have a rough time acc

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brad Nelson wrote: Greetings, I am a totally new user of Linux. I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descriptions of the the directory trees,

grub errors, can't get linux (but WindowsXP CD solves it!)

2004-06-19 Thread H. S.
I have been having a very peculiar problem since a couple of days ago. Two days ago, my hda crashed. Since Debian was installed on hdb, I tried to reinstall grub after removing hda and replacing it with hdb. Since then I have been getting "Grub hard disk error". Now yesterday, I bought a new di

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brad Nelson wrote: Greetings, I am a totally new user of Linux. I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descriptions of the the directory trees,

Re: Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread jakob bratkovic
You can do pretty much everything you do in Windows and more. Here is a link to The Linux Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org/ Perhaps it will be in some help to you. Have fun with it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
MillTek wrote: Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NForce2 chipset. I tried the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get the following mess

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console. Look in the log

Newb user

2004-06-19 Thread Brad Nelson
Greetings,   I am a totally new user of Linux.  I do not have any experience with it and installed it(debian) on an extra machine purely out of curiousity. Now what? I am looking for some good online texts with lists of commands, simple descriptions of the the directory trees, and basically

Re: sources url wanted

2004-06-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:43, Preston Boyington wrote: > recently there was a post in which someone posted a url to their apt > sources.list. the one i saw began as such: > > # > # My source.list that covers all versions of Debian > # usually uptodate, some backups are present if some fail > # whi

Re: HD about to die?

2004-06-19 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:44 am, Michael Bellears wrote: > Googling on the above errors has given me very little hope of fixing the > issue - But I am welcome to any suggestions as the server is about > 1000km away! Buy a plane ticket? Hard drives sure don't seem to be as robust as they used t

Sound system

2004-06-19 Thread MillTek
Hi, As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NForce2 chipset. I tried the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get the following message; osscommon

Re: Mysql and php in sarge and sid different than in woody.

2004-06-19 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 19 June 2004 05:38, Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:43:01 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Accidentally I upgraded mysql to the sarge version form woody and [...] > The best solution would be to remove the new mysql (but don't > purge

Re: Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded?

2004-06-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Micha Feigin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:05:54AM -0500, John Foster wrote: >> 2. Can I run Debian with a non-threaded perl installation without >> having to alter every perl dependency on the current pure SID system >> that I have? >> > > There is the equivs

want ftp access through my gateway

2004-06-19 Thread Marty Landman
Hi, My gateway machine runs windows xp. Using zoneedit's nameservers am pointing a domain at my ip address and would like FTP requests from the internet to get proxied through to my Debian box's FTP server. Anyone know how something like this can be done, or even if it's more a Windows than Debi

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
William Ballard wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:20:27AM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others re

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Teulings
Hallo! I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if these app categorie

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brian Astill wrote: I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. "" all you want, but Knoppix is not Debian; it is based on Debian. Having said that, I'd agree that you're now located in the Debian cosmos, and

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:20:27AM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments > (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I > understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while > others require the whole ki

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:20:27 + Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if these app categories can politely run in a window > manager (that is, using just the gnome toolkit.) > > E-mail (Thunderbird) > Web (Firefox) > Office (OpenOffice) > Contacts (Rubrica) Thunderbird, Fi

Re: Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:05:54AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > 1. Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded? > > 2. Can I run Debian with a non-threaded perl installation without having to > alter every perl dependency on the current pure SID system that I have? > There is the equ

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:41:27PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > > > instructions in a

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:17:20AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 22:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > > >> It has a few characteristics > >> relateing to this: if some part of kde in 'testing' has may bugs, and > >> this cases kde to not function, the whole of kde is removed from > >> '

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Adam Funk wrote: So are there any practical disadvantages to running unstable instead of testing? A couple of years ago a bug found its way into PAM in unstable, and caused a lot of unstable users to be unable to log into their machines. testing users, IIRC, did not get that problem, as it wa

Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-19 Thread Ed Sutherland
I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if these app categories can p

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transistors doing > > anything, so les

Re: Jabberd on Woody

2004-06-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:52:40 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > Do the Jabber packages in Woody come with the modules for acting as > > a gateway to aim/icq/etc.? > > No. > > > /etc/jabber/jabber.xml said to be sure

Re: apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:03:47PM -0400, Brian Astill wrote: > I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't > started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. [snip] > Is there a list of packages sorted by Section, rather than by Package, > without logging ont

Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded?

2004-06-19 Thread John Foster
1. Why is the Debian perl environment set up as threaded? 2. Can I run Debian with a non-threaded perl installation without having to alter every perl dependency on the current pure SID system that I have? 3. Is there a way to convert my current threaded (by default I guess) installation , to

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transistors doing > anything, so less power gets consumed. > > AFAIK, all modern i386 (AMD, Intel, etc) CPUs at least h

Re: sarge, gnome icons gone

2004-06-19 Thread Juraj Kubelka
On Fr Jun 18 10:30, Richard Weil wrote: > I updated my sarge system yesterday and gnome upgraded to 2.6 -- great! > However, all of the icons are now gone and I can't see how to get them > back. The different themes are all there, but no icons. Any > suggestions? http://oskuro.net/~jordi/blog ht

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:54:55 +1000: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:04, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > > By far the most false-positive entries I have had are from > > > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org an

apt-get update lists

2004-06-19 Thread Brian Astill
I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD. The distro works very well, but there are one or two things I want to do and/or install that Knoppix doesn't cover, though Debian packages certainly can. First things

Linux working with/on Alphasmart Dana?

2004-06-19 Thread cecil
I have a device called an Alphasmart Dana. This is a wide screen Palm OS device that is marketed as a wireless writing appliance/ internet tool. It's grayscale(16 shades), has a USB port, 2 SD slots, and a IR port. Has anyone ver heard of making this device work with linux? Or even better, has

Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

2004-06-19 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
cool, thanks for the tip! Chris On Sunday 13 June 2004 15:08, Andy Firman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > 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 so

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:04, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > By far the most false-positive entries I have had are from > > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org and abuse.rfc-ignorant.org. The > > That's because rfc-ignorant.org's lists aren't a

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