Re: upgrade from thunderbird 0.7.x to 0.8 in unstable

2004-09-19 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/19/2004 03:18 AM, Alexander Sack wrote: | You need to remove the compreg.dat file in your profile to fix this | without pain. | I will upload a new package soon that makes the 0.7-> 0.8 transition | completely painless. good to know. lg, clemens -

[SOLVED] syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Sunday 19 September 2004 23:08, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:57:31PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > > To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically > > writes such messages to /var/log/messages: > > > > Sep 19 22:09:27 debian -- MARK -- > > Se

Re: Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues

2004-09-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:44:17 +0100 (BST), [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I mostly use Firefox or Mozilla for my web browsing > purposes. Both programs are great and provide the user > with a lot of choice for configuration and using > features and extensions. > > However, I have not

Re: epoll

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:10:40PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: > Is there anyway (short of compiling a 2.6 kernel) to get epoll? A debian > package? Anything? IIRC that is a system call, so you'll need either a new kernel or a new libc. But you don't need to compile a 2.6 kernel. Just: sudo

epoll

2004-09-19 Thread Cole S. Ashcraft
Is there anyway (short of compiling a 2.6 kernel) to get epoll? A debian package? Anything? Cole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 08:18:01PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:54:13PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > ... > > > I think what he(?) (yes) :-) > > meant was something that extracts the navigation > > URLs within a flash animation so that the site is navigable. For > > exa

Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Mike Arnold
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:01:55 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > > >Hmm. I'm fairly certain the keyboard fails to work when I haven't > >pressed any keys yet (not even 'return' to select the kernel in GRUB--it > >usually just picks the first one after 5 seconds

Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Kent West
Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: Hmm. I'm fairly certain the keyboard fails to work when I haven't pressed any keys yet (not even 'return' to select the kernel in GRUB--it usually just picks the first one after 5 seconds). I can't for the life of me think of what would make it occur only occasionally, tho

Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
Thanks for your suggestions: On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > To enter text into the terminal, open up a file using your destop (like > say /etc/passwd), select one letter, then middle click in the terminal. > Will be slow, should work. The problem with this is tha

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:43:07PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:09:29PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:58:59PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > Well, there's a Mozilla extension that does that, anyway. > > > > What's it called? I was googling for such a

Re: bash profile does not get loaded?

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:04:21PM +1000, Blake Swadling wrote: > Howdy folks > > when i log into X ~/.bash_profile and /etc/profile do not get > automagically loaded. however if I log in from the console it load fine. > any ideas? > > I am running unstable with xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and

bash profile does not get loaded?

2004-09-19 Thread Blake Swadling
Howdy folks when i log into X ~/.bash_profile and /etc/profile do not get automagically loaded. however if I log in from the console it load fine. any ideas? I am running unstable with xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and bash 3.0-6. tia Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Tele

mouse: kernel 2.6.6 -> 2.6.8 ???

2004-09-19 Thread Michael D Schleif
What broke? What changed? I have been running 2.6x kernels on this legacy PPro box for most of this year -- first kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686, then kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- without incident. Today, the only change I made was to install these: kernel-doc-2.6.8 kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-686

DRAC problems

2004-09-19 Thread Ravindra Kumar
Having problems configuring DRAC with sendmail. I am running Debian unstable and followed the steps given in the DRAC documentation. I did add the necessary line in sendmail.mc and patched the sendmail.cf file as directed but to no avail. I still get the message from my email client "relaying d

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

2004-09-19 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry to be a spoil-sport but when replying (TB0.8) to an email I found the "Compose' pane stuck one third of the way down the screen, and the written text proceeding out of sight below the screen. Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander Sack wrote: I will upload a new package soon. In the mea

Re: uname problem??

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:32 pm, Eddy Parris wrote: > Ah ok, sorted > > dunno wat it was but i dl'ed the coreutils deb file and reinstalled it with > dpkg, seems to have fixed the problem... i wonder wat it was though? > very odd! > > nevermind.. its sorted now and im happy :P I was thinkin

Re: glibc 2.3 and updated gcc for woody

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: > Is there an updated version of glibc (2.3) and gcc for woody? > > Thanks, > Cole There is no updated anything for woody. But, you can install the libc6, libdb1_compat, gcc-3.3, etc from woody: ~/homework/2004/09 %% dpkg -s libc

Re: Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues

2004-09-19 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:10:04 +0200, [KS] wrote: > Is this is know issue with Mozilla and Firefox? Is > this called memory leak? Is is solely related to > Mozilla or does Debian has to do something with it? Sounds to me like normal memory caching of recently used code & data, especially as the debi

glibc 2.3 and updated gcc for woody

2004-09-19 Thread Cole S. Ashcraft
Is there an updated version of glibc (2.3) and gcc for woody? Thanks, Cole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 19 September 2004 06:30 pm, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > To enter text into the terminal, open up a file using your destop (like > say /etc/passwd), select one letter, then middle click in the terminal. > Will be slow, should work. At first this whole post left me baffled, and wondering what

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:54:13PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: ... > I think what he(?) meant was something that extracts the navigation > URLs within a flash animation so that the site is navigable. For > example, many sites have a flash-based homepage with no non-flash > links presented, so if

Re: Build Kernel Error

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
> line 1 > dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package > make: *** [stamp-buildpackage] Error 1 > > Have i done something wrong? Probably, but the real question is whether you ended up with ../*.deb or not. I get some kind of funky error like that (don't have an example handy,

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

2004-09-19 Thread Adam Bogacki
Thanks, I deleted ' /home/adam/.thunderbird/default/xx/compreg.dat ' and it worked. Adam. Alexander Sack wrote: I will upload a new package soon. In the meantime you can remove the compreg.dat file in the users profile directory (e.g. /home/user/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/xx/compreg.dat). Th

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:43:07 -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the most obvious is flashblock. I don't think that's what Pigeon had in mind, useful though it is. I think what he(?) meant was something that extracts the navigation URLs within a flash animation so that the site is

NDIS Wrapper

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Jackson
How do I go about installing NDIS wrapper. I have tried to follow the directions on the website but it is unable to build the sources.   Thanks

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-19 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi, Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:23:23 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:53:58 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I have an Ati 9600XT graphical card and I want to ge

Re: usb hub

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:42:12PM -0300, Robson Azevedo Rung wrote: > Hi, > > I have an usb hub on my monitor that is used to connect my printer and my > webcam. I'm getting the message below when I quit from X to text mode: > > > hub.c: port 2 over-current change > > The kernel doesn't stop to

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-19 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:23:23 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Wim De Smet wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:53:58 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi list, > >> > >>I have an Ati 9600XT graphical card and I

usb hub

2004-09-19 Thread Robson Azevedo Rung
Hi, I have an usb hub on my monitor that is used to connect my printer and my webcam. I'm getting the message below when I quit from X to text mode: > hub.c: port 2 over-current change The kernel doesn't stop to show this message, so I can't use the system. I made a test, disconnecting the hub

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:09:29PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:58:59PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Well, there's a Mozilla extension that does that, anyway. > > What's it called? I was googling for such a thing a few days ago > without any luck, and I've looked through the "

Re: right handheld computer for a Debian user?

2004-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:15:40AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I suppose if I don't insist on being able to use Linux I can lessen > the price lots? If all you want is to read documents, the Palm Zire 21 can be obtained for under $60. Mind you, that's only 2MB of storage, so it would depend on

Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:39:11PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > Please cc me on replies. > > I've got a couple of problems for which I can't identify the responsible > subsystem, so I thought I'd ask in a general forum like this. Here's the > first: > > Running Debian Sid, various 2.6.x k

Bluetooth activity prevents new ttys from being created

2004-09-19 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
Please cc me on replies. Okay, here's the other question I'm stumped on. Again, Debian sid, various 2.6.x kernels. More than 75% of the time (but not *always*) when I use my phone as Bluetooth modem, I'm no longer able to create new ttys. That is, in gnome-terminal, I can't open new tabs or new

Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
Please cc me on replies. I've got a couple of problems for which I can't identify the responsible subsystem, so I thought I'd ask in a general forum like this. Here's the first: Running Debian Sid, various 2.6.x kernels. About one out of every three times I boot up my laptop, my keyboard i

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:58:59PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:47:00PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > > >It would be useful if there was a flash plugin that did nothing but > > >extract URLs and present them in clickable form, so you could still > > >navi

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-19 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:21:28AM +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote: > pour Monsieur)> Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is > now in > > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in > > sid be

Thank you for submitting your resume to Pierce Technology

2004-09-19 Thread Resumes
Thank you for your interest in pursuing opportunities with Pierce Technology Corporation. One of our recruiters will review your resume, and will contact you within 48-72 hours if there is an appropriate opportunity that is a match with your background. Please visit www.pierce.com for additional in

Re: Failed PPP hangs system

2004-09-19 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:51:47PM +0300, Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello! > > I have a very strange problem to deal with. When a ppp connections gets > broken, the whole system (Sarge) hangs and I cannot do anything with it > - neither through ssh, nor even through the normal keyboard. > > Wha

Re: Audio/Video Editing program

2004-09-19 Thread LeVA
2004. szeptember 19. 23:13, Andrew Konosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I am looking for an audio editing program that I can use to mix songs > from my CDs that I've ripped in order to create custom mixes, and > possibly add them to a video file as well. Any suggestions? I would > p

Audio/Video Editing program

2004-09-19 Thread Andrew Konosky
I am looking for an audio editing program that I can use to mix songs from my CDs that I've ripped in order to create custom mixes, and possibly add them to a video file as well. Any suggestions? I would prefer a GUI application, but I can use a text-based application also. What about a video e

Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues

2004-09-19 Thread [KS]
Hello, I mostly use Firefox or Mozilla for my web browsing purposes. Both programs are great and provide the user with a lot of choice for configuration and using features and extensions. However, I have noticed that if I use Firefox for a long time, it tends to eat up a lot of memory. And I mean

Re: K3B equivalent for GNOME

2004-09-19 Thread Rob Benton
Andrew Konosky wrote: James Cummings wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:17:31 GMT, Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2004-09-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to try and use GNOME after sometime with KDE. And I was wondering if there was a GUI equivalent of K3B for

Re: K3B equivalent for GNOME

2004-09-19 Thread Andrew Konosky
James Cummings wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:17:31 GMT, Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2004-09-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to try and use GNOME after sometime with KDE. And I was wondering if there was a GUI equivalent of K3B for the GNOME desktop.

Build Kernel Error

2004-09-19 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
Hi all Im building my first kernel the debian way *build kernels the old way loads of times* but im developing some software so i wanted to check it against the debian patches. Anyway i receieve the following error make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8' echo done > stamp-kernel

RE: syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Dan Roozemond
> > RTM So my post should have started with 'STW'? ;) Regards Dan -- There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. -- Calvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: right handheld computer for a Debian user?

2004-09-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:15:40AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I suppose if I don't insist on being able to use Linux I can lessen > the price lots? IMO, the low-budget Treos and whatnot don't offer much beyond what you can get in a cell phone. Just go ahead and buy the $500 iPaq and the $300 GP

Re: syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:57:31PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically > writes such messages to /var/log/messages: > > Sep 19 22:09:27 debian -- MARK -- > Sep 19 22:29:27 debian -- MARK -- > Sep 19 22:49:27 debian -- MARK --

RE: syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Dan Roozemond
> How is it possible to adjust the frequency of such entries? > I'd like to make it less frequent than 20 minutes. Googling on 'mark interval syslog' gives: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2000/10/msg00027.html which says: You can change the interval of the --Mark-- by adding

syslog MARKs interval change

2004-09-19 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically writes such messages to /var/log/messages: Sep 19 22:09:27 debian -- MARK -- Sep 19 22:29:27 debian -- MARK -- Sep 19 22:49:27 debian -- MARK -- How is it possible to adjust the frequency of such entries? I'd like to make it le

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: > Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. > > I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to > remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of > pr

Re: right handheld computer for a Debian user?

2004-09-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
> What's the right handheld computer for this particular person? I was just thinking of copying some documents onto the handheld to finish reading them there, to reduce wear and tear on the desktop computer. I understand handheld computers have no moving parts to wear out etc. and don't fear ligh

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-19 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:53:58 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I have an Ati 9600XT graphical card and I want to get 3D acceleration > with the propriatary drivers (fglrx). I am using debian Sid with the > last xserver version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-7). > > [instal

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:14:00 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, thank you for the very fast reply! (see below for my answer) > [...] > > Anyway, I am not sure to understand well how work dpkg-divert. Does it > allow to have two versions of the same file and to choose w

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:42:13 -0500, Pepper Orlando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. > > I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to > remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Pepper Orlando
Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of problems that Michael did when trying to remove gcc-3.3-base. My goal is to

Fwd: Zoom ADSL 5X Router,Modem,Switch error

2004-09-19 Thread Werner Otto
-- Forwarded message -- From: Werner Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:11:38 +0100 Subject: Zoom ADSL 5X Router,Modem,Switch error To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, I recently bout a Zoom X5 Router modem. I set it up on Windows XP Pro with no errors. I booted into Deb

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
> 1024x768, it seems to be fast enough). Even doing just this seems to take > up about 235 MB according to df -h. I'm guessing there's far more installed > than I really need. > > Thanks in advance for any help with this matter. In spite of the rant you just got about how ultra-minimal the basic

xfce4-cvs packages

2004-09-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, according to http://www.xfce.org/ http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=37 http://www.os-cillation.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=deb-news;action=display;num=1095432830 I built the xfce4-cvs packages for ppc. I've added xfce4-taskbar-plugin, xfce4-wavelan-plugin and xfce4-cpugraph-p

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:53:58 +0200, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I have an Ati 9600XT graphical card and I want to get 3D acceleration > with the propriatary drivers (fglrx). I am using debian Sid with the > last xserver version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-7). > [...] > > S

ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-19 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi list, I have an Ati 9600XT graphical card and I want to get 3D acceleration with the propriatary drivers (fglrx). I am using debian Sid with the last xserver version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-7). Following the "ATI Radeon Linux How-To", I managed to get the 3D acceleration with the previous xserver vers

Installed debconf version is broken. Aborting preconfigure.

2004-09-19 Thread Bill Moseley
I got this message when doing an upgrade on Woody. I do have few backports installed, so it's not a pure Woody machine. # cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep '^deb ' deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-U

Re: Re. Bootloader for Sarge ("L 99 99 99 99 99...")

2004-09-19 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:42:53PM -0700, Matthew Jackson wrote: > Ok. I posted earlier about not being able to boot GRUB or LILO on my second > HD from the XP NTLDR. It gave me the error "Unable to load from hard drive. > Please insert System disk and hit enter" I though that was bootpart giving

Re: Not optimal display

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:52:45 +0200, Pascal Bonesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Thank you for your quick reply. > > # lsmod | grep agp > intel_agp 22752 1 > agpgart34696 2 intel_agp > > The Computer is an IBM Thinkpad T40p. > > Oops, i've missed it's a R

Re:

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:46:14 +0200, Jürgen Heil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody, > > i've got problems removing my proftpd. every time i try to remove it with > the command dpkg -r proftpd or dpkg -P proftpd i get following error > message: > > eco1015:~# dpkg -r proftpd > (Reading data

Re: SAMBA printer drivers?

2004-09-19 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:24:23 -0400 Robert Harris wrote: > I've got a samba server up and sharing out my printer to my test > windows machines. I just went to setup my printer on one of the > windows boxes and it said the drivers aren't there for my HP 882C. Is > there a place on my Samba server i

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Pepper Orlando wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfac

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-19 Thread martin f krafft
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 18:13 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions > problems. The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but > only root has read/write permissions. What I have been doing is > manually changing the permissions access

Re: K3B equivalent for GNOME

2004-09-19 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 19:39, Juha Siltala wrote: > On 2004-09-17, Glyn Tebbutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you have a problem with the fonts of k3b within > > gnome? mine are huge and i've no idea *bar installing > > kde* to change them. > > No idea. Perhaps my fonts are OK because I've i

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-19 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you > need some kernel > header files you'll probably find them installing > kernel-headers > packages. > > > Andrea > Yeah, putting that empty directory there only made it insist on specific files. That at least led me to the proper pack

Gimp2 won't start - some scriptfu problem

2004-09-19 Thread LeVA
Hi! I've tried to run gimp(2.0.4) compiled from sources, and installed from deb packages (sarge, gimp2.0.4), but neither of them could start. I get this error message everytime: $ gimp (script-fu:7027): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error $ What could be the problem? Thanks!

Re: Not optimal display

2004-09-19 Thread Pascal Bonesh
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 09:48, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:44:18 +0200, Pascal Bonesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > I do hope the problems are related, or else I just annoyed the original > > poster > > > > Oh, and: > > ~$ uname -a > > Linux lo

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya micha On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition > > > > > That NOT true. The right line today is > /boot no longer needs to be a separate partition. okay ... i'll bite ... > It used to be required due to bios limitations on the

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:29:59PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition > > That NOT true. The right line today is /boot no longer needs to be a separate pa

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

2004-09-19 Thread Alexander Sack
I will upload a new package soon. In the meantime you can remove the compreg.dat file in the users profile directory (e.g. /home/user/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/xx/compreg.dat). This should solve your problem Thanks, I'll give it go. Apart from that, nice work ! 0.8-2 is in unstable. It shou

Re:Tripwire

2004-09-19 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 18 September 2004 08:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "The tripwire command has a policy update mode which means that a change in > policy does not require us to reinitialise the database. The policy update > mode simply synchronises the existing database with the new policy file." This

problems removing proftpd

2004-09-19 Thread Jürgen Heil
hi everybody, i've got problems removing my proftpd. every time i try to remove it with the command dpkg -r proftpd or dpkg -P proftpd i get following error message: eco1015:~# dpkg -r proftpd (Reading database ... 20849 files and directories currently installed.) Removing proftpd ... dpkg: error

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2004-09-19 Thread Jürgen Heil
hi everybody, i've got problems removing my proftpd. every time i try to remove it with the command dpkg -r proftpd or dpkg -P proftpd i get following error message: eco1015:~# dpkg -r proftpd (Reading database ... 20849 files and directories currently installed.) Removing proftpd ... dpkg: error

Errors and problems reading DVDs (dual layer?)

2004-09-19 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hi, As soon as I put a DVD video in my drive, kern.log starts filling up with: Sep 18 09:40:56 localhost kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 18 09:40:56 localhost kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x54 Sep 18 09:40:56 localhost kernel: hdd: p

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-19 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Chris Purves said... > > > If the device is not set to group scanner, have a look in > > /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap. The comments at the top of this file > > describe how the scanner permissions should be managed. > > My scanner is listed in this file; however, there aren't

Re: How to fix sound?

2004-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:47:19AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to KDE 3.3 recently and now the sound on my Thinkpad X31 no > longer works... I get a /dev/dsp can't be opened error on most of the > sound utilities, and looking at the Sound entry in InfoCenter in KDE, it > notes t

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-19 Thread Andrei Badea
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 11:45:11PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in sid being 1-7). Thanks for help. Andrei -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://movzx.n

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:17:08 +0800, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 18 September 2004 19:18, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > [...] > > I add myself to the scanner group, but still not working. > I should look on the machine attached to the scanner, but i don't recall having

Re: Not optimal display

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:44:18 +0200, Pascal Bonesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > I do hope the problems are related, or else I just annoyed the original > poster > > Oh, and: > ~$ uname -a > Linux localhost 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Sat Aug 28 14:11:39 EDT 2004 i686 > GNU/Linux > > > Pas

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:42:40PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. > Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing > machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very > minimal

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:16:03 -0400, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:10:46 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > >>>What am I missing here, besides these .h

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 11:45:11PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in > sid being 1-7). > > Thanks for help. > > Andrei > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://mo