CDRW not working on debian

2004-10-27 Thread Vijaya S
Hi Bob, i saw your reply on the following link and i did follow it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/12/msg01942.html sh-2.05b# dmesg | grep ATAPI hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152G, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

Re: using scp to move files

2004-10-27 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
I recently migrated about 100GB of user accounts from one Solaris machine to another. I had better success of using rsync over ssh, see man file there is a couple of useful examples at the end. Regards, Ivan. On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, diego wrote: > I bet the issue is already solved, but I just re

Re: Test message

2004-10-27 Thread linux
I have got it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ed. Greg Trounson wrote: Gidday, Is anyone getting this message? So far no messages I post end up on the list that I can tell. Is the list set perhaps so that messages exclude the originator? This is strange, since the mailer daemon thinks otherwise: - You

Re: exim4 configuration problem with unstable

2004-10-27 Thread Thomas McLean
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:09:58 +0100, Thomas McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem with unstable that it spits out these errors when > I try to start exim4 for the first time after editing it to use > maidlir: > Restarting MTA: 2004-10-28 05:07:46 Exim configuration error

adaptec 2110s raid card detected ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all, More dramas with this card... Do any of the Debian CD's detect this raid card on install ? I've tried CDs 1-5 so far. What's on 6 & 7 ? This section of the debian site doesn't have them listed... http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#bootable Does anyone know how to build a Debian stable system

exim4 configuration problem with unstable

2004-10-27 Thread Thomas McLean
Hi, I'm having a problem with unstable that it spits out these errors when I try to start exim4 for the first time after editing it to use maidlir: Restarting MTA: 2004-10-28 05:07:46 Exim configuration error in line 23 of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf: malformed macro definition Warning! Invalid confi

Re: Test message

2004-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Greg Trounson: > Gidday, > > Is anyone getting this message? So far no messages I post end up on the Yes, it's getting through. d-u has been suffering through some intermittent latency glitches in past months. Something about problems with large receivers and long timeouts fouli

Re: trying to set up a print server; installation problems. Please help

2004-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eduard Breuer: > I searched the web first and also googled the debian site and here is > the resource I got: > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html > to start with the possible source of my troble. > I followed the instructions and did: > 1) ap

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Touset: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Jim Hall wrote: > > > On Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > > > I need things like libs, just the package names. > > > > I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you

Test message

2004-10-27 Thread Greg Trounson
Gidday, Is anyone getting this message? So far no messages I post end up on the list that I can tell. Is the list set perhaps so that messages exclude the originator? This is strange, since the mailer daemon thinks otherwise: - You have added to the subscriber list of: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:57:15AM -0400, PaulNM wrote: As opposed to actually paying attention to the invoice you signed when you bought the box, which details what's in it, of course. Or as opposed to actually doing a modicum of research before you install on the average consumer junkbox. No

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 and usb

2004-10-27 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have been having problems getting the 2.6 kernel to properly identify my usb ports when my printer and scanner are plugged in. The boot process will hang where hotplug is loading the usb modules and configuring the usb devices. The error is "control timeout on ep0in"

trying to set up a print server; installation problems. Please help

2004-10-27 Thread Eduard Breuer
I searched the web first and also googled the debian site and here is the resource I got: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html to start with the possible source of my troble. I followed the instructions and did: 1) apt-get update. successfull 2)apt-get insta

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-27 Thread Jim Bailey
On Oct 26, 10:17, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > During the early days of the Debian project, the members then did > consider going source-based: provide the upstream source and a > debianized patch after which the users would compile it themselves.But > later on they did realize that a binary distr

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 and usb

2004-10-27 Thread JohnOfArc
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:18:50 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I have been having problems getting the 2.6 kernel to properly identify my > usb ports when my printer and scanner are plugged in. The boot process > will hang where hotplug is loading the usb modules and configuring the usb > devices

atp-get error

2004-10-27 Thread Vadik
I just upgraded to Sarge and /I am getting this error, any recomendation on what to do? Thanks - / # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and

Re: two projectors from one laptop

2004-10-27 Thread Greg Trounson
Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to connect two projectors from one laptop sorry for the question quite irrelevant Yes it is (possible to connect two projectors from one laptop, I mean, not irrelevant). You need a VGA splitter cable which sends the signal from one VGA source to two destina

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Peter Hsu wrote: > This is not a bug or quirk in Debian. It's a refusal on the part of > the operating system to compensate for failure to follow procedure. No, it's a bug in Linux (as distributed by Debian). I'm using Linux in the sense of "the kernel

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread Stephen Touset
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > > On Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > > I need things like libs, just the package names. > > I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you everything that is > installed, including

Can't mount DVD any more

2004-10-27 Thread Tong
Hi, I used to be able to mount my dvd, but not now any more. Here is my fstab: $ grep dvd /etc/fstab /dev/dvd/mnt/dvdauto noauto,user When I mount explicitly, I get: % mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /

Re: OT, dvd player playable jpeg pictures

2004-10-27 Thread Tong
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:00:52 +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: >> Anybody know what kind of jpeg pictures are playable in normal dvd player? >> >> I burned some, but it seems that DVD players are very picky about the >> pictures they can show. >> >> My DVD player manual can't help me with this. I've

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:09:04 -0400, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to install a stock Debian kernel (2.6-386) on my system, it > won't boot any longer (VFS: Unable to mount root fs). The stock 2.2 > kernel that comes with Woody rescue disk boots fine. > > As far as I can tell

Re: Firefox(0.10.1+1.0PR-4) window doesn't open.

2004-10-27 Thread [KS]
I removed mozilla-firefox, mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector, and (the dummy package) mozill-firebird. Then I installed it again and it is still showing similar behaviour. I tried starting from the terminal and it shows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla$ mozilla-firefox Error: No running window found auto

[OT] UK report says Linux is 'viable' - Office of Government Commerce

2004-10-27 Thread robin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3960025.stm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firefox(0.10.1+1.0PR-4) window doesn't open.

2004-10-27 Thread [KS]
Hello all, I just did an 'apt-get upgrade' and it included Firefox 0.10.1+1.0PR-4. After the upgrade finished unpacking and configuring the packages, I started Firefox. As I had moved my old firefox profile before upgrading, Firefox asked me to import settings(I said no), and then there was a mess

Re: LDAP on Sarge trouble

2004-10-27 Thread Stephen Touset
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 20:50 +0100, Joe wrote: > I'm getting this error with ldapadd -v run on localhost (default > port): > > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81) I won't be able to say for certain until tomorrow, but I believe that's because you're not attempting to use simple authent

Re: Sound card troubles

2004-10-27 Thread robin
debian wrote: Hello, Sound or no sound, that's the question! I have a computer :) with debian and kernel 2.6.9 There is also a SB PCI64 in the computer so i compiled the kernel for that card. (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 When my computer boots i see this with dmesg: Advanced Linux Sound Ar

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Hsu
I think you missed the point. As Ron Johnson pointed out, you need to use umount before you unplug the device. If you unplug without using umount, then you should EXPECT your system to puke. For practical purposes, you should consider time elapsed since you last wrote to the device irrelevan

Re: Getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel

2004-10-27 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Martijn Brinkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes I did. Well I though that dpkg -i kernel-image would do that. Actually, this isn't necessary true. It depends on the value in kerel-img.conf(5) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --

change the axis id of my gamepad?

2004-10-27 Thread Alexander Fieroch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, is it possible to change the axis id of my gamepad? I've got the gravis Xterminator gamepad with a proportional directional pad (joystick-like control) and a 8-way digital directional pad. There are other proportional flippers and throttle button

Re: Getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel

2004-10-27 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Martijn Brinkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes I did. Well I though that dpkg -i kernel-image would do that. But I > also ran Lilo just in case. Could it be there is some interaction > between Lilo on MBR and Lilo a partition (/dev/hda1) I'm not sure. Usually when I problems you describe, i

Re: Getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel

2004-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, John L Fjellstad wrote: > "Martijn Brinkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I also tried a custom build with 2.4 kernel but "uname -a" still keeps > > reporting "Linux corbu 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 > > i686 unknown" > > Did you update lilo? it als

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jim Hall wrote: on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two systems. Jim I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you everything that is installed, including the libs. The only way of knowing "w

Re: TPR40e suspends forever

2004-10-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Riccardo Tortorici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-27 15:43]: > > I discover that with ACPI the suspend features doen not work properly > because of the module ohci_hcd, I did something like this: > rmmod ohci_hcd && sleep 2 && echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep && sleep 2 && > insmod ohci_hcd > in this way

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two > systems. dpkg --get-selections Note this does not give installed versions. > > Jim >

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
At Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:37:32 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi Debian! > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver > (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? > > I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former >

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:36:03 -0500 Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two > systems. > > Jim > How about "dpkg -l | less"? -- Rodney D. Myers <[E

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:36 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two > systems. > > Jim dpkg --get-selections > machine1.pkgs John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brian On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Brian White wrote: > > # initrd stuff > > Thanks! I eventually found this by, of all things, reading the > files in "doc". In my defense, I did look there before posting, but > either didn't see it or didn't recognize it for what it was. yup... if one do

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Jim Hall wrote: on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two systems. Jim Try dpkg --get-selections HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Just got a wonderful message

2004-10-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Shawn Robinson wrote: Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that comes with the cds, guess i missed a direction somewhere, but i got a real nice message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\ Guess it's time to reinstall. Only t

Replacing root device on a running system

2004-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to change the root device on a running linux system? I tried mounting a different device over the currently mounted root and it claims to have mounted, but I still see the old system. The idea is to give the kernel root=/dev/hda1 for example, and the in /etc/fstab on /dev/hda1 to mo

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver > (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? > > I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former > I ca

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former I cannot get glx to work. Thanks. Hugo It's exactly

LDAP on Sarge trouble

2004-10-27 Thread Joe
I'm trying to set up a small LDAP database on Sarge to replace a Woody installation. The version is OpenLDAP 2.1.30-3, simple authentication, no certificates, nothing exotic. I'm getting this error with ldapadd -v run on localhost (default port): ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81)

RE: SSH/Putty password problem

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Sims
Michael Sims wrote: > I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian > Sarge server running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8. The problem I am having is > that I am only given one chance to enter my password correctly. If I > mistype it on the first attempt, I am prompted a second time, bu

List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread Jim Hall
on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two systems. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ATENTIE !!! Virus in mesaj [:Digicom Mail Scan:]

2004-10-27 Thread ravms
RAV AntiVirus for Linux i686 (snapshot-20010709) Copyright (c) 1996-2001 GeCAD The Software Company. All rights reserved. Registered version for 2 domain(s). Running on host: customers.digi.ro Fisierul (part0001:data.zip)->details.txt

Re: Sid: Mplayer ratio question

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Curt Howland wrote: Hi. Running Sid, using Mplayer to view a DVD. The problem is that the video out is being scaled and I cannot stop it. This is happening with every DVD I own. When playing back, these seem to indicate the problem. The movies are requesting 854x480, mplayer is overriding even

nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former I cannot get glx to work. Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Question about compiling the kernel

2004-10-27 Thread robin
Lian Liming wrote: Hi all, This is a newbie's question about compiling kernel on debian. I follow the steps to compile the kernel: 1) download the kernel source file; 2) use "menuconfig" to choose the compile options; 3) use "make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.1 kernel_im

Re: Just got a wonderful message

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Shawn Robinson wrote: Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that comes with the cds, guess i missed a direction somewhere, but i got a real nice message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\ Guess it's time to reinstall. Only took 7 hours last time o

Re: Building binaries for older versions of libc6

2004-10-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:47 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs > > in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development > > machine running mos

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 and Filters

2004-10-27 Thread Joost Witteveen
Joost Witteveen wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: What's happened to filters in mozilla-thunderbird 0.8? The menu I have no problems running filters etc.. Anyone having filter problems too, please attach more info to: bug #272954. The problem is that when Thu

Re: gvim crashes on alt-tab

2004-10-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/10/04 16:41), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Recently gvim (not vim) is crashing if I press alt-tab and switch to > another window. If I press the alt-tab, then the crash occurs most of > the time but not always. > > I am not sure what I did wrong and could not track down the problem. > Googl

i need help in my debian OS in my pc

2004-10-27 Thread Amit Poddar
the problem in my pc is that i cant get a desktop. how do i get a desktop? i have started using knoppix and it is working fine. i even installed it in the harddrive but i am into to debian. i am planing on gettting a IBM laptop and i want to install linux in it ,especially debian. an i have install

Re: getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3 kernel 2.2

2004-10-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:30:44 +0200, news.cistron.nl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I am trying to get RAID 1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel. > > I used the patch from: > http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/kernel-patch-2.2.20-raid > > I followed the custom build kernel tutorial at: > http:

Re: Re: Setting encoding for application

2004-10-27 Thread Jean-Francois Lefebvre
Hi there. I already use the babel package with the french option, but I don't think it have to do with the encoding, but simply the translation of LaTeX string (like date format, Table des matières in place of Table of Contents, etc.). I also include : \usepackage{aeguill} \usepackage[latin1]{inp

Re: New User

2004-10-27 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/26/04 23:40, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Shawn Robinson: Could some please direct me to a good source on the net to learn how to use debian linux please? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ After a year with debian, I have these bookmarks saved, but I've learned much from this mailing lis

Re: name of the program to use mouse in command line ?

2004-10-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just forgot the name of the program so that i can use my mouse in > command line... Umm, xterm, konsole, rvxt... Unless you meant the console, in which gpm is probably what you're looking for. -BEGIN PGP SI

apache2 as caching proxy

2004-10-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i have my apache2 server on debian unstable configured as a forward proxy and as a disk cache. proxy works, but disk cache does not. it never drops any files in the CacheRoot. i know that the disk_cache module is loaded, and that the CacheRoot directive is being read, because removing the LoadMo

gvim crashes on alt-tab

2004-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Recently gvim (not vim) is crashing if I press alt-tab and switch to another window. If I press the alt-tab, then the crash occurs most of the time but not always. I am not sure what I did wrong and could not track down the problem. Google did not help me. So I am wondering if someone else had the

Re: help with DHCP clinet

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin Wang
Thank you. But seems DHCP server requires a renewal request every 450 seconds. DHCP client works well yesterday and today. But not sure about onwards - Original Message - From: "Nicos Gollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 5:52 PM Subject

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 03:23 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:45:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > ReiserFS expected it to be there, can't find it, and pukes. A bit > > (no, a lot) ungraceful, but totally understandable. After all, > > some process might be trying to wri

Re: Debian package downloader for win32

2004-10-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:13:31AM -0400, Chad Kiser wrote: ... > Here is what I'm requesting, an app on debian which will output my > installed package database and possible sources.list into a file. Then > a win32 program that will read that file, look at my sources.list and > present me with a l

Re: Building binaries for older versions of libc6

2004-10-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs > in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development > machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including > g++-3.4 of cours

Re: Just got a wonderful message

2004-10-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that comes with the cds, guess i missed a direction somewhere, but i got a real nice message: > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\ It seems that the kernel is looking in the wrong place for your root file system.

exim envelope problems

2004-10-27 Thread richard
Hello, I have run into a problem where a remote mail server is not accepting any mail from my machine, which is running exim 3. Here is the error message: > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more o

IBM Rack Server recommendation

2004-10-27 Thread Rishi
Hi I wanted to get an IBM 1 U rack server to host a customer's web, FTP and mail server. Any recommendations on which is a good server to buy for installing Debian? I was thinking of the xSeries 306 with SCSI HDD RAID level 1 http://www-605.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?cata

Re: CUPS Printer Sharing Problem

2004-10-27 Thread Marcos Carneiro da Rocha
I think that you have to configure cupsd.conf at /etc/cups at the cups server to allow your machine to connect and print. Marcos On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 18:37, CW Harris wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:43:50PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Haven't really done much with CUPS via ipp so I

Re: Audio problems on AC97 audio on Shuttle SB65G2 Woody install

2004-10-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marion Hall (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm not getting working audio on this computer. > > When I modprobe ac97, it just goes to a blank line. > I installed Debian with bf24 option and added alias sound-slot-0 ac97 > to modules.conf and ran update-modules Loading the driver for the ac

Re: Managing Disk Quota with emails

2004-10-27 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:41:15PM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have quota enabled for my users like /home/jed, which is working good. > In ths same system sendmail is installed which stores emails like > /var/spool/mail/jed . > > This way the users emails keep on comming with the

Just got a wonderful message

2004-10-27 Thread Shawn Robinson
Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that comes with the cds,  guess i missed a direction somewhere,  but i got a real nice message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\     Guess it's time to reinstall.   Only took 7 hours last time on this pos system

Audio problems on AC97 audio on Shuttle SB65G2 Woody install

2004-10-27 Thread Marion Hall
I'm not getting working audio on this computer. When I modprobe ac97, it just goes to a blank line. I installed Debian with bf24 option and added alias sound-slot-0 ac97 to modules.conf and ran update-modules I'm testing this with ogg123 -d oss songname.ogg and it gives a Cannot open oss device e

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello John Hasler (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: >> Debian Ubuntu >> ... >> ... >> has UNIX root user has regular users use a SUDO-like >> interface > > This makes no sense. Debian provides sudo and Ubuntu must have a > "UNIX root user". It has, but the account is l

Re: CUPS Printer Sharing Problem - Thanks

2004-10-27 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks - you are both right. I missed the in my first reading of the lengthy option-rich /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. When I enabled this option the error message disappeared but the transmission still did not work. The line http:/Dragon:631/ipp was one of the suggested entries listed when settin

Re: I can not see these pages from my machine

2004-10-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | I have tried konqueror, mozilla, firefox, and i can't get to see | anything except the the source code. I noticed that the pages don't | have the '' closing tag. Is this the reason, or there is more | than that? | | The site:

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: > DebianUbuntu > ... > ... > has UNIX root userhas regular users use a SUDO-like interface This makes no sense. Debian provides sudo and Ubuntu must have a "UNIX root user". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TPR40e suspends forever

2004-10-27 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
I discover that with ACPI the suspend features doen not work properly because of the module ohci_hcd, I did something like this: rmmod ohci_hcd && sleep 2 && echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep && sleep 2 && insmod ohci_hcd in this way my laptop finally suspend in 2 secs! I can clearly see the half-moon led.

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-27 Thread Brian White
As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 kernel is compiled with IDE as a module instead of including it in the kernel proper. Is there something I still need to do to allow this module to be loaded? a) either compile your own kernel ... or modify your initrd.gz file that corresponds to your

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:09:04 -0400, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to install a stock Debian kernel (2.6-386) on my system, it > won't boot any longer (VFS: Unable to mount root fs). The stock 2.2 > kernel that comes with Woody rescue disk boots fine. > > As far as I can tell

RE: Re: MMap problem with "apt" -v 0.5.4

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check the archives or try google. That question > comes up every month! > -- Yeah, my bad, that was an easy one. I had just updated my kernel and thought the problem might be there. But maybe the frequency of the question should be telling the pe

Re: Sound card troubles

2004-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, debian wrote: > I have a computer :) with debian and kernel 2.6.9 There is also a SB > PCI64 in the computer so i compiled the kernel for that card. > (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 ensonic 1371 is the easiest sound card to get working under linux # modprobe

Re: xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-27 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I can't be the first person to want to do this, so how do I do this? > > apt-get install gvidm > > -- Thomas Adam > [snip] Thanks Thomas, I didn't know about gvidm, but I installed it and it works. However I am afraid I

Re: [Semi-OT] Funding for speeding up debian release cycle

2004-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Would it be feasible to hire one or more full time developer to spend > all their time ironing out the release critical bugs? buggs are fixed daily ... let the resumes flow in :-) > How much would this developer need to get paid? in silly con v

Re: Question about compiling the kernel

2004-10-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, I am afraid yes. Futhermore, you have to increase your revison string. Note you may use the --append-to-version option to personalize your package. Lian Liming wrote: Hi all, This is a newbie's question about compiling kernel on debian. I follow the steps to compile the kernel:

Question about compiling the kernel

2004-10-27 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, This is a newbie's question about compiling kernel on debian. I follow the steps to compile the kernel: 1) download the kernel source file; 2) use "menuconfig" to choose the compile options; 3) use "make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.1 kernel_image" to generate .deb f

Re: name of the program to use mouse in command line ?

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just forgot the name of the program so that i can use my mouse in > command line... > can anyone help me ? :) Do you mean gpm? ("apt-cache search mouse console" would also have revealed this.) Martin -- ,--. ,

Re: OT, dvd player playable jpeg pictures

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Anybody know what kind of jpeg pictures are playable in normal dvd player? > > I burned some, but it seems that DVD players are very picky about the > pictures they can show. > > My DVD player manual can't help me with this. I've looked everywhere, but

Re: name of the program to use mouse in command line ?

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:14:44AM +0200, debian wrote: > > Hi! > > I just forgot the name of the program so that i can use my mouse in > command line... > can anyone help me ? :) > thnx! > Phil. > gpm -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~

Question about compiling the kernel

2004-10-27 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, This is a newbie's question about compiling kernel on debian. I follow the steps to compile the kernel: 1) download the kernel source file; 2) use "menuconfig" to choose the compile options; 3) use "make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.1 kernel_image" to generate .

Re: Getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel

2004-10-27 Thread Martijn Brinkers
John L Fjellstad wrote: > "Martijn Brinkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I also tried a custom build with 2.4 kernel but "uname -a" still > > keeps reporting "Linux corbu 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 > > EST 2002 i686 unknown" > > Did you update lilo? Yes I did. Well I though that

name of the program to use mouse in command line ?

2004-10-27 Thread debian
Hi! I just forgot the name of the program so that i can use my mouse in command line... can anyone help me ? :) thnx! Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marc Wilson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> By the way, Debian Sarge also installs discover1 and hotplug by >> default, which will detect your hardware, and there is no modconf in >> the new installer. > > Is it possible

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread PaulNM
Marc Wilson wrote: Yeah, modconf is one of the more useless things Debian has ever come up with. The entire idea of /etc/modules ranks a close second. WTH? Modconf can be very useful, especially for newer sysadmins. It's nice to be able to just use a menu to go through and see what modules work/

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-27 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:45:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > ReiserFS expected it to be there, can't find it, and pukes. A bit > (no, a lot) ungraceful, but totally understandable. After all, > some process might be trying to write to the device... I kuh-now, I kuh-now. But that's what the SY

Re: Sound card troubles

2004-10-27 Thread debian
Hi! thnx for the reply! on my second computer (also with the same sound troubles, or me with the same lack of knowledge about it) i get: squidie:~# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [ICH5 ]: ICH - Intel ICH5 Intel ICH5 at 0xda00, irq 17 so the card is recognized. I comp

Re: creating debian "branch"

2004-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Nathan Kroll wrote: > I'm sorry. I did a little more searching and found a nice description > and howto on debian.org with exactly what I need. and what was the magic ?? - other options, one can use anonftpmirror, apt-get+apt-move, apt-proxy[2], or cdrom - the pr