Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-10 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
Justin Guerin wrote: Would you be willing to try installing Sarge? I'm strongly considering to wait for the next Stable before installing.In these days I also tried to run some Deb-based distributions (Knoppix 3.3 Live Cd,Morphix and Progeny),but no one installs.Slack 10.0 does it (with the b

Re: Sendmail - how to disable ipv6 AAAA lookups

2004-09-10 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Robert S wrote: > I have posted a question recently about sendmail not resolving host names. > It looks to me as if it is failing to do lookups. That'd be a DNS failure - not sendmail... Some resolvers are b0rked wrt /A6 lookups :( > Is is possible to prevent sendm

Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-10 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
Pigeon wrote: Try turning off the APIC in the BIOS setup rather than in the kernel. I had something similar once and this got it going. Tried.No way! Thnx anyway Lorenzo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, the package initrd-tools was recently updated [and if I remember well important bugs were fixed]: have you check that your kernel was built with the latest version ? hth, Jerome Steven Curtis wrote: Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: I'm

Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-10 Thread Johann Koenig
On Saturday September 11 at 09:43am kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GMail Google is very clever, they get other people to send out their SPAM -- -johann koenig Today is Pungenday, the 34th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/ pgpEBsBg2cht9.

Re: initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Steven Curtis
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7

Re: recent wierd aptitude update

2004-09-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:09:34 -0400, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi D-u folks, > I just did an update of my source lists and on my next reboot, my > root password no longer worked. I followed 8.1.1 of the Debian reference > to fix it, but for the life of me I cant figure what caused it.

Re: Gnome XDMCP on server

2004-09-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:37:17 +0200, Rado Rethmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using cygwin-X on my WinXP-Box to access the Gnome-Desktop (2.6) on my > Debian-Sarge-Server (Kernel 2.6.7) over XDMCP. > My problem is that GDM has to be up and running to login via XDMCP (then > it w

Install Compress::Zlib

2004-09-10 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to use the ClamAV Webmin module. The module seems to work, but there is a message to please install Compress::Zlib. However, when I try to do with CPAN, I get the follwoing: CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz Parsing config.in... Building Zlib enabled Look

Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall

2004-09-10 Thread Brendon Higgins
Executive summary: KPPP is to blame, pon does not have the behaviour I described. Details: I knew older Debian's used to work, so I got out my old Potato CDs to see if this really was a problem with bad hardware disliking the Linux IP stack. My theory was that if it was bad hardware Potato would

Re: Default Mail Client for Mailto

2004-09-10 Thread J. Hannemann
--- Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evolution ? Seems you have gnome for your desktop. > Then : > Click Applications --> Desktop Preferences --> > Advanced --> Preferred > Applications > In the Mail Reader tab choose Custom Mail Reader and > type in > mozilla-thunderbird > > Hope thi

Unidentified subject!

2004-09-10 Thread Tim Connors
X-reply-to-bofh-messageid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: overriding files in nfs mount In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Face: "/6m>=uJ8[yh+S{nuW'%UG"H-:QZ$'XRk^sOJ/XE{d/7^|mGK<-"*e>]JDh/b[aqj)MSsV`X1*pA~Uk8C:el[*2TT]O/eVz!(BQ8fp9aZ&RM=Ym&[EMA

recent wierd aptitude update

2004-09-10 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi D-u folks, I just did an update of my source lists and on my next reboot, my root password no longer worked. I followed 8.1.1 of the Debian reference to fix it, but for the life of me I cant figure what caused it. Cosmic rays? I use this sid box for email, websurfing and other minor stuff. -Kev

GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-10 Thread kernel
Hello All, I have more then a few GMail invites. but rule of the game is FCFS. -- Nayyar Ahmad Lecturer Faculty Of Computer Science, Institute Of Management Sciences, Hayat Abad Peshawar , Pakistan. Office : 92-091-9217404 , 9217452 Cell : 92-0333-9139461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Squid Proxy Permission

2004-09-10 Thread Adam Aube
My Linux wrote: > Can squid proxy configure control user authentication and desktop IP > control..? Yes - see Squid's Access Controls and Authentication FAQs for details: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-23.html Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-09-10 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:12:57 -0700 (PDT), Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Roger Creasy wrote: > > > > > > > > Roger Creasy writes: > > > > > > > I just installed sarge with K

Re: Cannot get this virtual package right!

2004-09-10 Thread David A. Cobb
REPLIES INLINE Travis Crump wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many key components up to the bleeding edge. I have apt at 0.6.25 I keep getting (aptitude, and others) depends on "libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3; however: Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-

Re: Still trying to update to sarge.

2004-09-10 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:51:55PM -0400, Spencer wrote: > Hi again, > I can't seem to get around, if that's the right way of putting it, > the error I'm still getting while trying to update to sarge. > After several hours I always end with this error -- > > Preparing to replace nano1.0.6-3 (using

Re: exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?

2004-09-10 Thread Travis Crump
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:45:41AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: Carl Fink wrote: I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge (and automatic

Still trying to update to sarge.

2004-09-10 Thread Spencer
Hi again, I can't seem to get around, if that's the right way of putting it, the error I'm still getting while trying to update to sarge. After several hours I always end with this error -- Preparing to replace nano1.0.6-3 (using .. /archives//nano_1.2.4-2_i386.deb) .. update alternative/editor.1

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-10 Thread matt okeson-harlow
it also comes down to this... if you are going to have people adding users, they should be people that have SOME level of trust. if you don't trust them to not INTENTIONALLY screw things up, don't give them access. write your wrapper to the best of your ability to take care of possible honest mis

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-10 Thread Brian Pack
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:44, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:04:35PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote: > > > I ran xine-check after reading this thread and got a few [OUCH!!]'s of > > my own. I installed libxine-dev and they went away. > > Same here, but I think that's a bug. Either xine-ch

Re: Default Mail Client for Mailto

2004-09-10 Thread Mailing List
Evolution ? Seems you have gnome for your desktop. Then : Click Applications --> Desktop Preferences --> Advanced --> Preferred Applications In the Mail Reader tab choose Custom Mail Reader and type in mozilla-thunderbird Hope this help cheers, --me-- J. Hannemann wrote: I would like to know ho

Re: Jigdo Sarge templates outdated?

2004-09-10 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neilen Marais wrote: | internet through a straw, and need recent ISO images! I did find | some unofficial DVD images http://www.dafuer.de/downloads but I | need CD-Images Hi Neilen! Perhaps you shuold simply ask me? I can do a run on my machine and prod

Re: exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?

2004-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:45:41AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting > >frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, > >and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge (and > >automaticall

Re: Shrinking of NTFS partition??

2004-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
GNU partman can do it, but it isn't part of Debian. I used the commercial Boot-IT NG (much cheaper than Partition Magic). -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:04:35PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote: > I ran xine-check after reading this thread and got a few [OUCH!!]'s of > my own. I installed libxine-dev and they went away. Same here, but I think that's a bug. Either xine-check shouldn't report OUCH when xine-ui works fine, or xine

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:38:11 +0800, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > ><#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Gebhardt Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >>it is possible to delegate the adding and

Re: Debian and Xeon processor

2004-09-10 Thread Adam Garside
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > Has anyone installed Debian on a system with a Xeon processor. We're > considering getting a server with a Xeon processor, and was wondering > if anyone has experience installing debian on such a system? Sure, I just installed sarge (us

Re: xcdroast

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the 2.6 kernel. > using this I've assumed I can run ATAPI burners, but XCDroast has > heart burn itself... > > help? Please help us help you by filling in the details. h

Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-10 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:32:54PM +0200, Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote: > Hi! > John Summerfield wrote: > >Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote: > > > >The two events are unrelated. The spurious interrupts have been going on > >for years. Not that I can locate one just now, but a little googling > >should clear

Re: Debian and Xeon processor

2004-09-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:45:32 -0700 (PDT), Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone installed Debian on a system with a Xeon processor. We're > considering getting a server with a Xeon processor, and was wondering > if anyone has experience installing debian on such a system? A lot here

Re: xcdroast

2004-09-10 Thread Brian Pack
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 19:24, Tom Allison wrote: > I have the 2.6 kernel. > using this I've assumed I can run ATAPI burners, but XCDroast has heart > burn itself... > > help? What errors? Which 2.6 kernel? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Debian and Xeon processor

2004-09-10 Thread Lars Jensen
Has anyone installed Debian on a system with a Xeon processor. We're considering getting a server with a Xeon processor, and was wondering if anyone has experience installing debian on such a system? Thanks for any responses. Lars. -- Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-

Re: initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has > an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 > kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7xxx > module line

initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Steven Curtis
I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7xxx module line to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and recreated the initrd image with 'mkinitr

xcdroast

2004-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
I have the 2.6 kernel. using this I've assumed I can run ATAPI burners, but XCDroast has heart burn itself... help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMAP server with fast search

2004-09-10 Thread Vadik
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Vadik wrote: I run my own email server which support 5 accounts, but a few of the accounts have a lot of messages (4000 in the a single sub-folder is not uncommon), in addition to this I often need to run search for words in [...]

Re: IMAP server with fast search

2004-09-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Vadik wrote: > I run my own email server which support 5 accounts, but a few of the > accounts have a lot of messages (4000 in the a single sub-folder is not > uncommon), in addition to this I often need to run search for words in [...] > Any recommendation of server with go

KDE Apps Fonts without KDE

2004-09-10 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
Hi all i've just today finished installing debian unstable on my main workstation. Before all my installs were done on workstations without a cdrw/dvdrw. Anyway my main workstation has a pioneer dvdrw and in the past i've always used k3b for dvdrw/cdrw. My problem is when i load it the fonts are hu

Sendmail - how to disable ipv6 AAAA lookups

2004-09-10 Thread Robert S
I have posted a question recently about sendmail not resolving host names. It looks to me as if it is failing to do lookups. Is is possible to prevent sendmail from trying to do lookups? This might solve the problem. I'm not very keen on recompiling sendmail - I'd like to keep the orig

Debian is your OS, Linux is your kernel.

2004-09-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2CGZM-La-1%40gated-at.bofh.it says Debian is your OS, Linux is your kernel. So does http://www.debian.org/ . However $ uname --help -s, --kernel-nameprint the kernel name -o, --operating-system print the operating system $ uname -s -o Linux GNU/Lin

Re: Sendmail: Deferred: Name server: : host name lookup failure

2004-09-10 Thread Robert S
I still haven't resolved this problem. One correspondent suggested the following test - here it is with output: Any clues? # sendmail -v -d8.20 -d38.20 -qIi89KZMRf031334 getcanonname(emailme.net.au), trying files text_getcanonname(emailme.net.au) getcanonname(emailme.net.au), trying dns dns_ge

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-10 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:00:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > I need to be able to test whether an x server is running on a given > display on localhost, for a script I'm writing (it's a python script > automating openoffice, but I could launch it from a bash wrapper no > problem). I

Re: Epiphany, Galeon, Mozilla printing Problem, Konqueror works fine

2004-09-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 10 September 2004 13:13, Chrissie wrote: > On 2004-09-06, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 05 September 2004 14:41, Chrissie wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> If i print a website, the text is scrambled. I only see squares. > >> The graphics of the website is printed ok > >>

Re: IMAP server with fast search

2004-09-10 Thread Vadik
Nate Duehr wrote: I can only agree with this part -- I have a few users with insanely large folder trees on an mbox-based UW-IMAP system, and it definitely makes the server eat RAM at a horrendous rate... but that's to be expected... I've been meaning to convert that box over to maildir to see

Automatic / Pushed Updates

2004-09-10 Thread Scott Robinson
In the cases of user-oriented Debian based systems and server-farms, the issue of keeping the system updated comes up. cron-apt and friends work well for ensuring the latest patches are downloaded to a Debian machine, but how do I get those patches installed without needing to login to each machin

Re: about:config in Firefox is broken

2004-09-10 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:03:45PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > Trying to load about:config results in > > XML Parsing Error: syntax error > Location: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/config.xul > Line Number 1, Column 1:ig.xulUT > > Is it just me, or is this a problem wit

Re: IMAP server with fast search

2004-09-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Vadik wrote: UW-IMAP: Having all messages in one file with improve search, but opening and manipulating such big file will slow down server. I can only agree with this part -- I have a few users with insanely large folder trees on an mbox-based UW-IMAP system, and it definitely makes the server

Re: Tripwire

2004-09-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 03:48, David Baron wrote: > Anyone using this on Debian? > > This is a file-system integrity checker, will detect hacks, intrusions, > etc. I tried it but seems to find lots of stuff that seem part of the > dynamics of the ongoing system operation, and attempts to change

Re: bandwidth management

2004-09-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 10:53, Delta Sierra wrote: > hi guys, > > i'm just finish installing woody for our gateway. > Is there any bandwidth management tool in dist? The QOS stuff in the kernel is good, but the iproute version in woody (the tools to manipulate the kernel features) is showing

writing a usb detection routine

2004-09-10 Thread Rob Benton
I've worked on and off in the past a usb zip drive installed w/linux. I boot from a floppy using a ramdisk to get the usb mass storage module loaded so I can boot. One thing I've always had to do was put a pause in my ramdisk script to wait for usb devices to be detected. Is there a routine i

getting forecast image as background

2004-09-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know of a script that will pull a forecast from noaa or somewhere and put it up as a background image in X?? I created one using w3m, html2ps, and convert but doesn't seem to work anymore and I cannot find any sites that post forecast as gif's instead of html?? Lance --

Re: debian on IBM T42

2004-09-10 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Kevin Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen evidence on the web that the IBM T42 > notebook has excellent > Linux-compatibility, but I was wondering if someone > has had experience > installing debian testing on this computer. Do the > power management > features work? > > Than

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-09-10 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Roger Creasy wrote: > > > > > Roger Creasy writes: > > > > > I just installed sarge with KDE. I have DSL > > internet connectivity through my > > > network card, so the card is working. However, >

removing entry in routing table

2004-09-10 Thread Geordie Birch
I'm trying to delete an entry from the routing table: $ /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 207.216.243.171 - 255.255.255.255 !H 0 -0 - 207.6.224.0*

debian on IBM T42

2004-09-10 Thread Kevin Murphy
I have seen evidence on the web that the IBM T42 notebook has excellent Linux-compatibility, but I was wondering if someone has had experience installing debian testing on this computer. Do the power management features work? Thanks, Kevin Murphy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-09-10 Thread Roger Creasy
Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> > Roger Creasy writes:> > > I just installed sarge with KDE. I have DSL> internet connectivity through my> > network card, so the card is working. However, if,> from the KDE desktop, I go> > to home -> LAN connect

Re: Tripwire

2004-09-10 Thread ghcbc
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:48:31AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Anyone using this on Debian? > > This is a file-system integrity checker, will detect hacks, intrusions, etc. I > tried it but seems to find lots of stuff that seem part of the dynamics of > the ongoing system operation, and attempt

Re: Re: Jigdo Sarge templates outdated?

2004-09-10 Thread Eric K. Ray
>So this begs the question, how does one get recent images? I currently >have a bunch of bandwidth, but soon hereafter I'll be accessing the >internet through a straw, and need recent ISO images! I did find some >unofficial DVD images http://www.dafuer.de/downloads but I need CD >images. Jigdo let

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:01:22 +0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janne Blomqvist) wrote: > > > Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really > > crappy ones. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests to avoid the rt8139 > > chipset based cards,

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Freddy > Freeloader wrote: > > > > > >>Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Your configuration looks fine to me. > >>> > >>> > >>Well, that's interesting. I ha

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-09-10 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roger Creasy writes: > > > I just installed sarge with KDE. I have DSL > internet connectivity through my > > network card, so the card is working. However, if, > from the KDE desktop, I go > > to home -> LAN connection, I get an error that > says

Re: Epiphany, Galeon, Mozilla printing Problem, Konqueror works fine

2004-09-10 Thread Chrissie
On 2004-09-06, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 05 September 2004 14:41, Chrissie wrote: >> Hi! >> >> If i print a website, the text is scrambled. I only see squares. >> The graphics of the website is printed ok >> Printing from Konqueror is ok. I have made a photo to illustrate

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread Freddy Freeloader
John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Your configuration looks fine to me. Well, that's interesting. I have no sound whatsoever out of my machine. :( Any ideas then as to why when the configuration is g

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-09-10 Thread Roger Creasy
Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes:> I just installed sarge with KDE. I have DSL internet connectivity through my> network card, so the card is working. However, if, from the KDE desktop, I go> to home -> LAN connection, I get an error that says that the protocol is not> available. What's up

about:config in Firefox is broken

2004-09-10 Thread Norman Walsh
Trying to load about:config results in XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/config.xul Line Number 1, Column 1:ig.xulUT Is it just me, or is this a problem with the Debian firefox distrib? (I'm running unstable, updated this morning.)

Re: Network Connection/Newbie

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed sarge with KDE. I have DSL internet connectivity through my > network card, so the card is working. However, if, from the KDE desktop, I go > to home -> LAN con

test (sorry)

2004-09-10 Thread Monique Mudama
I can't seem to get any emails through with my normal email account at bounceswoosh.org ... let's see if this works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbfs problems after upgrading from Woody to Sarge

2004-09-10 Thread Sam Snow
Sam Snow said: > Hello, > Further follow-up. I am getting one error message at startup that I don't remember having see before: Sep 10 11:01:20 aslan modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686/modules.dep Sep 10 11:01:21 aslan last message repeated 3 times

Re: Bastille-firewall

2004-09-10 Thread Marcos Carneiro da Rocha
Hi, what user account are you logged in ??? are you using the root account ??? Marcos On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 15:08, Mark J. Carpio wrote: > I am trying to start the bastille-firewall by using > /etc/init.d/bastille-firewall start, but I keep receiving the message > "access denied". > > Is th

IMAP server with fast search

2004-09-10 Thread Vadik
I run my own email server which support 5 accounts, but a few of the accounts have a lot of messages (4000 in the a single sub-folder is not uncommon), in addition to this I often need to run search for words in the body of the message. Such searches are extremely slow. I have setup with Mail

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >Your configuration looks fine to me. > Well, that's interesting. I have no sound whatsoever out of my > machine. :( > > Any ideas then as to why when the configuration is good I get no > sound? > I

Bastille-firewall

2004-09-10 Thread Mark J. Carpio
I am trying to start the bastille-firewall by using /etc/init.d/bastille-firewall start, but I keep receiving the message "access denied". Is this the proper way to start|stop|restart the firewall? I have tried to redo the interactive setup, but with the same outcome. I am using debian sarge wi

Default Mail Client for Mailto

2004-09-10 Thread J. Hannemann
I would like to know how to get mailto to bring up mozilla-thunderbird (my chosen mail client) when I click on an email URL on a webpage. It brings up evolution, which I don't use. I have looked in mailto.conf and edited it, but email links still bring up evolution. I'm using Firefox as a browse

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread Doug Wiltanger
Do you get an error trying to access the sound device? Or is it becuase the volume is just turned all the way down? - Original Message - From: "Freddy Freeloader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:44 PM

Command line arguments in applications and X

2004-09-10 Thread Inge Thorin Eidsaether
Hi all! Does anyone have an idea what command line arguments or switches to pass to an MDI application, so that, when a running instance of the application exists in system memory, a new one isn't spawned? I believe that kind of arguments to be local to the application, and not global in X, b

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Freddy Freeloader (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I'm having problems with my soundcard. I have a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 installed on a box running sarge on a 2.6 kernel. Hotplug tells me that my sound card is "blacklisted". Doing some Googling I find that alsa is the

Re: problem to install on SCSI harddisk

2004-09-10 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:22:24 -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:53:39 -0600 > Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 21:47, David YC Yu > wrote: > > > Hi : > > > Sorry to bother you guys. > > > I have 3 hard disks, one IDE, two SCSI ha

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Freddy Freeloader (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm having problems with my soundcard. I have a Soundblaster Live! > 5.1 installed on a box running sarge on a 2.6 kernel. > > Hotplug tells me that my sound card is "blacklisted". Doing some > Googling I find that alsa is the default for

Re: Webmin and usermin

2004-09-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Robert S wrote: > I am wanting to install usermin on debian-3.0. I wish to use this to allow > users to use a simple web-based interface to do tasks like changing > passwords. There doesn't seem to be a .deb package for usermin when I do > "apt-cache search usermin" and there

test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-10 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I need to be able to test whether an x server is running on a given display on localhost, for a script I'm writing (it's a python script automating openoffice, but I could launch it from a bash wrapper no problem). I don't know how to do that -- any hints? thanks much, matt

Re: wireless lan

2004-09-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:26:46PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I want to connect to a neighbour's network to use his adsl connection > for large downloads. Presumably he knows that ;-) > I have a Usb Belkin Adaptor (F5D6050) which works fine in W2000, > but I need it in Sarge with a 2.4 ker

Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I'm having problems with my soundcard. I have a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 installed on a box running sarge on a 2.6 kernel. Hotplug tells me that my sound card is "blacklisted". Doing some Googling I find that alsa is the default for the 2.6 kernel, but that hotplug will load some OSS m

Re: X.org 6.8.0

2004-09-10 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Edon Kelmendi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to make a few questions about Xorg-6.8.0 > and debain. > > Is there any way to install it with the xcompmgr > extension, trough apt > of course? > > Is there any success story about installing it this > way? > > Cheers. > > -- > E

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X.org 6.8.0

2004-09-10 Thread Edon Kelmendi
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Re: Sound Problems

2004-09-10 Thread Noah Durell
Awesome! That worked. I had the wrong driver installed for some reason. Thank you! Justin Guerin wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 10:29, Noah Durell wrote: When I type 'alsamixergui' I get the following: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device Sounds lik

Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue

2004-09-10 Thread Cathayan
Hi, friends, I am using Debian Unstable, and try to switch from xtt font engine to freetype. But when I change this in XF86Config-4, xmms, rxvt can not run. The error is: Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) serial 99 error_code 2 request_code 45 minor_code 0

Re: problem to install on SCSI harddisk

2004-09-10 Thread Raquel Rice
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:53:39 -0600 Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 21:47, David YC Yu wrote: > > Hi : > > Sorry to bother you guys. > > I have 3 hard disks, one IDE, two SCSI harddisk2. And I use > > CD-ROM to install Debian. I wanto to install Linux i

bandwidth management

2004-09-10 Thread Delta Sierra
hi guys, i'm just finish installing woody for our gateway. Is there any bandwidth management tool in dist? thx D.S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 09 September 2004 00:32, Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote: > Hi everybody! > Here is the nth newbie having problems with this error. > I searched over the Net (uncle Google rules... ) but not encountered the > solution to my puzzling dilemma. > I ever read about poeople who experience this erro

Re: Sound Problems

2004-09-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 09 September 2004 10:29, Noah Durell wrote: > When I type 'alsamixergui' I get the following: > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device Sounds like your sound card is either not properly configured or running OSS and not alsa. Run modconf. Select the appr

Gnome XDMCP on server

2004-09-10 Thread Rado Rethmann
Hi there, I'm using cygwin-X on my WinXP-Box to access the Gnome-Desktop (2.6) on my Debian-Sarge-Server (Kernel 2.6.7) over XDMCP. My problem is that GDM has to be up and running to login via XDMCP (then it works perfectly well). But - as servers are - I don't have a mouse, keyboard or monitor

Re: problem to install on SCSI harddisk

2004-09-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 21:47, David YC Yu wrote: > Hi : > Sorry to bother you guys. > I have 3 hard disks, one IDE, two SCSI harddisk2. And I use CD-ROM to > install Debian. I wanto to install Linux in my one of SCSI hard disk. > But install program only can detect the IDE harddisk, and

smbfs problems after upgrading from Woody to Sarge

2004-09-10 Thread Sam Snow
Hello, I earlier this week upgraded from woody to sarge on a machine that does a nightly backup to another machine via a samba share. Since then I have had some issues with accessing that share with I believe are a result of the upgrade. I upgraded the kernel at the same time to 2.4.27-1-686 #1 vi

Re: overriding files in nfs mount

2004-09-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 10 September 2004 03:52, Micha Feigin wrote: > I have a difficult problem of setting up and maintaining mostly > identical linux installations on several machines which are sitting on > a local switch which is also the gateway to the outside world. > > The problem is that they are not the

Re: Why no "initrd" for Debian?

2004-09-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Eric Dickner (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [compiling kernel] > Do I need to get some kind of mkinitrd and get that > into lilo.conf? Is this one of those areas where > debian diverges from other linuces? You only need an initrd if you want to compile support to access the root file syst

Re: CPU and Other Information ?

2004-09-10 Thread Marcos Carneiro da Rocha
Hi, you can get cpu info and ram info from /proc directory. any command that give any kind of information gets the information from /proc directory. the top and atop commands can give some information about cpu and ram usage. Marcos On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 03:53, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All,

Re: dead X install

2004-09-10 Thread Blake Swadling
I have sorted the problem. I disassembled the damn PC and there is a distinct odour of the magic smoke inside the case. Cant see what went pop but I'm guessing it was related to the GPU. Thanks for the help -- Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.swadling.com signature.as

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