Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > Is usbfs in your /etc/fstab? > > $ cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 I just found an old firewire card that I had laying around and tried that. The enclosure has firewire so I figured it'd be worth a shot. It worked find with

Re: CPU Frequency scaling applet not working

2004-12-24 Thread Bob Alexander
Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > Did you install the cpufreqd? When it's installing (or reconfiguring) it asks if you want to run it with suid, say yes, restart cpufreqd and reload the applet, it should work now, it did for me anyway. Glynn you're a genius. I ran dpkg-reconfigure gnome-cpufreq-applet and set

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > /proc/bus/usb is an empty directory. > > Is usbfs in your /etc/fstab? > > $ cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 It's not in /etc/fstab but it is mouted: $ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc t

Re: {advocay] Linspire machine

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 00:01 -0500, stan wrote: > I bought a machine with Linspire preloaded on it today. Nice machien, > and cheaper than I could build it. A bit short on RAM, and the CD is a > reader only (no CD writer or DVD). But great value for the $299. > > Reading through the manual that com

Re: incremental backups howto?

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 23:40 -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > Joao Clemente wrote: > > > In the latest thread about "Synchronize two servers" it was > > talked about incremental backups. Well, can you quick-start me > > in this topic? > > An incremental backup is done by backing up all files that have ch

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:07 -0800, Matt Perry wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > > ]$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices > > > > should show what's on the usb bus and what drivers are attached to each > > > > device. Post that info and it may help tur

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Eric Gaumer wrote: > ]$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices > > should show what's on the usb bus and what drivers are attached to each > device. Post that info and it may help turn up a solution. /proc/bus/usb is an empty directory. On Fri

Re: Linspire -> Devian ?

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
Agreeing with Sam Watkins, go ahead and install the distro you actually *want* on the box rather than trying to upgrade. Since there's no data on there yet, no loss, right? Exception: if Linspire has special hardware-specific modules that aren't in Ubuntu or Knoppix or Mepis or whatever. Note:

Re: Linspire -> Devian ?

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:56:16PM -0500, stan wrote: > Would I be beter off wiping and doing a complet reinstall, or perhaps > doing an apt-ge dist-upgrade? My opinion is that you would be better off with Debian Sarge or Ubuntu. If the end-user of the computer is not very experienced, try Ubuntu.

{advocay] Linspire machine

2004-12-24 Thread stan
I bought a machine with Linspire preloaded on it today. Nice machien, and cheaper than I could build it. A bit short on RAM, and the CD is a reader only (no CD writer or DVD). But great value for the $299. Reading through the manual that comes with it, I find no information as to how to use the pr

Re: incremental backups howto?

2004-12-24 Thread Adam Aube
Joao Clemente wrote: > In the latest thread about "Synchronize two servers" it was > talked about incremental backups. Well, can you quick-start me > in this topic? An incremental backup is done by backing up all files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. How this file lis

Linspire -> Devian ?

2004-12-24 Thread stan
I just bought a rather nice little box today foe $199. I bought it to give to a middle school age youngster. The box cam with Linspire (AKA Lindows) preloaded on it. Desktop looks rather nice, but it's shy of applications. I intend to lad various tings likee Open Office on it. Linspire appears to

Re: Installing all available packages in sarge (testing)

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 08:35:30PM -0800, cfk wrote: > To see what happens. How do you do it. apt-get install '.*' (this won't work, it will output a great list of conflicts - it's worth reading that list of conflicts to get an idea of the magnitude of what you are proprosing to do.) If yo

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:58:21 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any > ideas how to restore it? The drive's filesystem may be toast but the firmware is intact. I think the iPod manual-ettes come with instructions to reset the device. I

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:12 -0800, Matt Perry wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > > Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb > > devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove > > if it doesn't work ;) > > > > I can say that the

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Matt Perry_, on 24/12/04 22:12,typed: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove if it doesn't work ;) I can say that they use SCSI emulation, so ma

Re: Installing all available packages in sarge (testing)

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
To see what happens. How do you do it. On Friday 24 December 2004 20:16, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 08:16:26PM -0800, cfk wrote: > > Is there a way to tell synaptic or apt-get to install all available > > packages in testing and if so, what might it be? > > No, because many of the

Re: incremental backups howto?

2004-12-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joao On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > I have the notion of what an incremental backup is... it would be > keeping the "delta" from the last state, but how is this done in > practice? in real life ... very few people check that backup does in fact work by trying to restore ALL

Re: Installing all available packages in sarge (testing)

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 08:16:26PM -0800, cfk wrote: > Is there a way to tell synaptic or apt-get to install all available packages > in testing and if so, what might it be? No, because many of the packages conflict. (For instance, you probably don't want Exim, Postfix, AND Sendmail all on your

Installing all available packages in sarge (testing)

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
Is there a way to tell synaptic or apt-get to install all available packages in testing and if so, what might it be? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:12 -0800, Matt Perry wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > > Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb > > devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove > > if it doesn't work ;) > > > > I can say that the

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Xinjiang Lu
I am doing the old way. Edit /etc/fstab, add an entry of the device. After plug in the usb hd, there won't be automount. I have to do it in command line or click the icon in the gnome/my computer. -Xinjiang Matt Perry wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm that

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:12:17PM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > It Worked !! > Downloaded the xserver-mach4 using apt. > > Last question, how do I toggle between the various resolution modes. > Right now, it's set to 640X480 and I want to toggle to the 1024X768 1. make sure the right resolutions are

incremental backups howto?

2004-12-24 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi people. In the latest thread about "Synchronize two servers" it was talked about incremental backups. Well, can you quick-start me in this topic? I have the notion of what an incremental backup is... it would be keeping the "delta" from the last state, but how is this done in practice? Is i

Re: apt-build.conf

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
On Friday 24 December 2004 18:48, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:30:39PM -0800, cfk wrote: > > I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an > > apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please. > > take (another) look at that new articl

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb > devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove > if it doesn't work ;) > > I can say that they use SCSI emulation, so maybe some scsi modules are > missing. >

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Syed Huq
It Worked !! Downloaded the xserver-mach4 using apt. Last question, how do I toggle between the various resolution modes. Right now, it's set to 640X480 and I want to toggle to the 1024X768 - Rathon On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:07:52 -0500, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Syed Huq wrote:

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:45:41 -0800 (PST), Matt Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: > [snip] > Do I need hotplug installed for the kernel to see the drive? It's > currently not installed. Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my us

Re: Mozilla (sid) installation needs jdk118

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
On Friday 24 December 2004 18:41, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:39:41PM -0800, cfk wrote: > > I'm trying to get jdk downloaded to satisfy a couple of apt-get demands > > with sid. I keep getting the message with mozilla (and a couple of other > > java dependent programs) point

Re: apt-build.conf

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:30:39PM -0800, cfk wrote: > I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an > apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please. take (another) look at that new article on apt-build: http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: > If you check 'dmesg' output right after you plug it in you should see > something similar to this: [snip] I tried that and there was no new output in dmesg. At the time the usb drivers that are loaded are usbkbd and usbcore. After plugging it in and

Re: Mozilla (sid) installation needs jdk118

2004-12-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:39:41PM -0800, cfk wrote: > I'm trying to get jdk downloaded to satisfy a couple of apt-get demands > with > sid. I keep getting the message with mozilla (and a couple of other java > dependent programs) pointing me at www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux to obtain >

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:19:35 -0800 (PST), Matt Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. I'm running Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-1-686 (from > the deb kernel package). I just bought a USB drive enclosure with a > drive that I wish to mount in Debian. I'm not sure what I need to do > to

Mozilla (sid) installation needs jdk118

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: I'm trying to get jdk downloaded to satisfy a couple of apt-get demands with sid. I keep getting the message with mozilla (and a couple of other java dependent programs) pointing me at www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux to obtain the file "ibm-jdk-l118-linux-x86.tgz" and it into

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > > What I'm looking to do, in more detail, is keep two Woody-based servers > functionally identical by having the backup server periodically grab web, > mailing list, and mail files from the primary server. I want the backup > system to be in full rea

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
Skylar Thompson wrote: Norbert Gruener wrote: It's kernel 2.4.27 which is part of Sarge. Weird. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop with a Broadcom 4400 running Debian Woody with the v2.4. I'll see if I can take a look at the boot sequence when she's in town next week, and let you know what I s

How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
Hi everyone. I'm running Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-1-686 (from the deb kernel package). I just bought a USB drive enclosure with a drive that I wish to mount in Debian. I'm not sure what I need to do to make this happen. I plugged the unit into the USB port but I didn't see anything appear

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread David Mandelberg
Syed Huq wrote: > Hi David, > > >>>Then I changed to Depth of 8 and get this error: >>>(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice, No such device >>>(EE) Generic Mouse: Cannot open input device >>>(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse". >> >>Try reconfiguring xserver-xf

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Syed Huq
Hi David, > > > > Then I changed to Depth of 8 and get this error: > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice, No such device > > (EE) Generic Mouse: Cannot open input device > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse". > Try reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 and changing

Re: apt-build.conf

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
On Friday 24 December 2004 17:17, David Mandelberg wrote: > cfk wrote: > > Gentlemen: > > > > I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an > > apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please. > > > > I am stiving to get on a test computer to where

Re: apt-build.conf

2004-12-24 Thread David Mandelberg
cfk wrote: > Gentlemen: > > I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an > apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please. > > I am stiving to get on a test computer to where I can do an 'apt-build > world' > and am relatively new to Debi

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread David Mandelberg
Syed Huq wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie trying to get my Xserver working using Woody(3.0r1) and > ATI Mach64 Graphics card. > > The general error is: > (EE) ATI(0): Depth 16 is not supported through this adapter > > I had started with a Depth of 24 and got a Depth 24 is not supported > > Then I

apt-build.conf

2004-12-24 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please. I am stiving to get on a test computer to where I can do an 'apt-build world' and am relatively new to Debian, although not to Lin

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 25 December 2004 00:35, Endianto wrote: > Dear List Member, > > I just configured my ppp. > When I try to connect to internet, I got an error message : > > - > /etc/resolv.conf > > is missing or can't be read > ask your system to create this file > --

Re: sem_open / how to use NPTL? [SOLVED]

2004-12-24 Thread Viktor Horvath
From: "Viktor Horvath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Although some otherwise nice texts in the internet like this[1] claim that you don't need to have /dev/shm mounted to have named semaphores, at least my systems really needs it mounted. The second I unmounted it I got the familiar "function not im

resolv.conf

2004-12-24 Thread Endianto
Dear List Member, I just configured my ppp. When I try to connect to internet, I got an error message : - /etc/resolv.conf is missing or can't be read ask your system to create this file --- When I check in /etc there is file named resolv.conf I a

Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I am a newbie trying to get my Xserver working using Woody(3.0r1) and ATI Mach64 Graphics card. The general error is: (EE) ATI(0): Depth 16 is not supported through this adapter I had started with a Depth of 24 and got a Depth 24 is not supported Then I changed to Depth of 8 and get this er

Re: sem_open / how to use NPTL? [SOLVED]

2004-12-24 Thread Viktor Horvath
Hi folks, I posted my problem in the debian-glibc mailing list, and Goto Masanori answered a few lines completely solving my problem. You need tmpfs mounted at /dev/shm. Probably most people have this, I didn't, as I didn't want to waste ressources and I didn't see the consequences. So, if anyon

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 13:47, Wim De Smet wrote: > I'm not sure (don't use sata), but this seems an interesting resource > to start on: > http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html That did it. Thanks so much. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Thomas McLean
If you find the correct key sequence can you please post it here! Thanks, Tam. On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:50:35 +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > (continuing a pm) > > Am Freitag, den 24.12.2004, 21:50 +0200 schrieb George Iordanou: > > unfortunately i cannot switch

Re: xorg

2004-12-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:35:48 +0200 cancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anybody tried out these xorg packages?: > deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main > deb-src http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main I have noticed that after I install nvidia drivers, I cant change resolutio

Re: PPP ip-up and firestarter

2004-12-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Jedi Knight([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, > > I'm using debian and use ppp to dial to my ISP. I > wanted to start firestarter whenever my connection is > up and stop it whenever my connection goes down. > Firestarter creates automatically a script in > /etc/ppp/ip-ip.d/ dir

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 13:47, Wim De Smet wrote: > I'm not sure (don't use sata), but this seems an interesting resource > to start on: > http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html Very interesting. All I've done so far is read it, but thanks much. > >From the looks of it, that other debian

Re: xorg

2004-12-24 Thread Sean O'Dubhghaill
Yes, I'm running them right now and they seem to work well. I have had one small problem with xfree86-common not upgrading right but that hasn't caused any other problems that I can see. Heres the error I get when upgrading xfree86-common: Setting up xfree86-common (6.8.1-0.4) ... update-rc.d:

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, (continuing a pm) Am Freitag, den 24.12.2004, 21:50 +0200 schrieb George Iordanou: > unfortunately i cannot switch it on. Google for "reset ipod press". There is a key combination to reset the iPod. I remember that it was a similar but different combination on my iPod as described in the ne

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:37:01 -0700, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a testing net install a few days ago. The system is 2.4.27 kernel, > P4, 1G RAM, SCSI2 disk, IDE disk, SATA disk, RME soundcard, intel i810 > video. > > No probs with SCSI or parallel IDE, but the SATA disk doesn'

Re: debian logo

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 09:35 -0700, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 6:35 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > >> On Thursday 23 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > "In all the tinsel and terror of the holiday season, we too often > >> > underestimate that murderous brute better kno

Re: Audacity sound problem

2004-12-24 Thread Micheal Mukherji
Sorry for reposting. I did not get that mail for a long time. So I thought it was lost in ether. Anyway, thanks for the pointer. --Micheal On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:34:00 -0500, Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:31:13 -0500, Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

xorg

2004-12-24 Thread cancer
has anybody tried out these xorg packages?: deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main deb-src http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main -- Rise Again! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audacity sound problem

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:31:13 -0500, Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:48:33 +0530, Micheal Mukherji > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can play sound with xmms, mplayer etc. > > I use esd. > > > > Audacity reports"Could not Initialize sound, host error" > > I made su

Re: Audacity sound problem

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:48:33 +0530, Micheal Mukherji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can play sound with xmms, mplayer etc. > I use esd. > > Audacity reports"Could not Initialize sound, host error" > I made sure that no audio appl was holding the sound device. > > Any help wud be appreciated. Th

Audacity sound problem

2004-12-24 Thread Micheal Mukherji
I can play sound with xmms, mplayer etc. I use esd. Audacity reports"Could not Initialize sound, host error" I made sure that no audio appl was holding the sound device. Any help wud be appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread George Iordanou
Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*. Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. An

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:11:34 +0200, George Iordanou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > > > > > >>I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition > >>to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stu

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition > to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*. > Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any > ideas how

Re: Why isn't MPlayer in Debian?

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
Mplayer is available for, if not in, Debian at ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ [your distribution] main If you aren't aware of apt-get.org, it's really useful when a program you want isn't in the main Debian distro. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of P

Re: dumb question - not sure where to begin configuring a wifi card

2004-12-24 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 23 December 2004 05:50 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm using Debian sarge, on an IBM Thinkpad 770x. > > I'm trying to get my pcmcia wifi card (Netgear wg511) working. It > works under windos 98SE, needed for radio programming, but not sure > where to start looking for coinfiguration. >

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread George Iordanou
Brian Nelson wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*. Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software.

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition > to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*. > Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any > ideas how

Re: debian logo

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 09:35 -0700, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 6:35 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > >> On Thursday 23 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > "In all the tinsel and terror of the holiday season, we too often > >> > underestimate that murderous brute better kno

erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread George Iordanou
I've purchased an iPod (40GB) for Macs. I've mounted the hfs+ partition to /media/ipod. Then i've had the *stupid* idea to rm -rf /media/ipod/*. Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any ideas how to restore it? Thanks in advance, George -- George Iordanou <[EMAIL

Re: Why isn't MPlayer in Debian?

2004-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:03:42PM +1100, James Foster wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious about why there isn't an MPlayer package in Debian. The > MPlayer website says that "MPlayer is available under the GNU General > Public License v2", so I don't see why it wouldn't be considered "free > software

Re: Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-24 Thread belahcene
There are more interfaces on linux ( Unix-like) GUI for C++. Glade on gnome desktop ( but depends on gnome) , but there is a very good open source ( multi platformes) software, very simple to use and to learn see http://www.fltk.org best regards bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Audacity sound problem

2004-12-24 Thread Micheal Mukherji
I can play sound with xmms, mplayer etc. I use esd. Audacity reports"Could not Initialize sound, host error" I made sure that no audio appl was holding the sound device. Any help wud be appreciated. -Micheal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: CPU Frequency scaling applet not working

2004-12-24 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 17:42 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > I am running my rebuilt system and still have a few minor glitches. > Please be patient :) > > The GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.3.1 installed from the > corresponding Debian sid package now only show the CPU frequency but > does

CPU Frequency scaling applet not working

2004-12-24 Thread Bob Alexander
I am running my rebuilt system and still have a few minor glitches. Please be patient :) The GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.3.1 installed from the corresponding Debian sid package now only show the CPU frequency but does not permit me to select/change to tother frequencies. Reading in t

Re: debian logo

2004-12-24 Thread Michael
> On Thursday 23 December 2004 6:35 pm, Greg Madden wrote: >> On Thursday 23 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > "In all the tinsel and terror of the holiday season, we too often >> > underestimate that murderous brute better known as Santa Claus. >> > With images of last year's gingerb

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Christian
Am Freitag, 24. Dezember 2004 15:32 schrieb Jean-Michel Hiver: > Carl Fink wrote: > >Hi. > > > >I'm in the process of setting up a warm backup for a server I run. I was > > in the middle of hacking together scripts to keep them in sync, but then > > it came to me: what if Debian has a package tha

PPP ip-up and firestarter

2004-12-24 Thread Jedi Knight
Hello, I'm using debian and use ppp to dial to my ISP. I wanted to start firestarter whenever my connection is up and stop it whenever my connection goes down. Firestarter creates automatically a script in /etc/ppp/ip-ip.d/ directory so that /etc/ppp/ip-up script runs it whenever ppp is up. Howeve

Re: offlineimap duplicating emails

2004-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.24.1543 +0100]: > 1. What mail server is being used? ii courier-imap 3.0.8-3Courier Mail Server - IMAP server > 2. Are you using IMAP or Maildir on the local end? If IMAP, what >local server? Maildir > 3. What mail reader are

Re: dumb question - not sure where to begin configuring a wifi card

2004-12-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:02:00 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:50:57PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I'm using Debian sarge, on an IBM Thinkpad 770x. > > > > I'm trying to get my pcmcia wifi card (Netgear wg511) working. It > > works under windos 98SE, need

Re: offlineimap duplicating emails

2004-12-24 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:51:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > [John... I put you on Bcc to be sure you see this. Please forgive me.] No problem. You'll have to continue to CC me, though, since I'm not on -user. Some data would be useful: 1. What mail server is being used? 2. Are you using

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:54:49AM -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > As for a 'switch' I would do this: > (assuming your servers aren't configured via dhcp and you have control > over the IPs) > On the secondary box have a cron that 'pings' the to see if its alive. > This process should take into con

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-24 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi HS, Thank you for your response and all your previous posts on this topic which helped me a lot! I will hence try with a 2.6.9 kernel. However, reading all the bug report I didn't manage to understand if it is normal that everything works as the "root" user or not? Thanks again, Nico H. S.

alsa mismatch with new kernel-image

2004-12-24 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi Debianers, I recently did an upgrade of the sarge kernel image from 2.4.27-2 to 2.4.27-6. All went well except for my alsa which is now out of sink. Running alsaconf recognises my card correctly but when it tries to install the card I get a mess of "unresolved symbols in /lib/modules..." err

Re: [CVS] Merging external snapshot to local repository

2004-12-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:30:53PM +1100, Sam Watkins said > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Mateusz ?oskot wrote: > > I'm running Debian and looking for some tools and solutions > > which could help me with merging external snapshot of some project > > into my own local version of it in

Re: gcc with Debian on amd64

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Madden
David Purton wrote: Usually development headers and import libraries are not installed by default. You want libc6-dev. dc Thanks for all the help. libc6-dev wasn't installed. I've used potato, woody, and sarge forever, and I never had to install libc6-dev by hand. I guess it is part of the base i

Re: Debian netboot on a SunFire v20z

2004-12-24 Thread Bjoern Boschman
Hi, I have sucessfully installed debian-amd64 on the same hardware but I also was not able to download any packags while the debian-installer was running. Therefor I downloaded the latest netinstall which dows not really needs to download any packages. After installing this way I was able to a

Re: discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Adam Aube_, on 20/12/04 19:32,typed: H. S. wrote: Yesterday, due to some weird reason, my network went down yesterday. When I rebooted into Fedora to see if it worked, it did. Then I rebooted into 2.4.26 kernel in Debian. That worked too. Then I tried again in 2.6.9 and 2.6.7 kernels

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread jeff elkins
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:21 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:25:42AM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:50:08 +0100 > > > > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I'm looking to do, in more detail, is keep two Woody-based servers > > > functi

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Nicolas de Sereville_, on 24/12/04 05:13,typed: Hi list, I have the following problem using debian sid (kernel 2.6.8-1). I am trying to get an icon automatically when I plug in my usb stick or camera. I use udev / hal / gnome-volume-manager. As a normal user the links in /dev are cr

Re: DMA On a DVDRW

2004-12-24 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 14:31 +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Friday December 24 2004 14:04, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > > But when i reboot dma has gone off again, how do I get debian to keep > > the setting? i run 2.6.9 as my stable kernel but iam running 2.6.10-rc2 > > right now. > > Have a look at /et

Re: DMA On a DVDRW

2004-12-24 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday December 24 2004 14:04, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > But when i reboot dma has gone off again, how do I get debian to keep > the setting? i run 2.6.9 as my stable kernel but iam running 2.6.10-rc2 > right now. Have a look at /etc/hdparm.conf -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsin

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-24 Thread Tom Allison
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? Lance if you use the notation */5 * * * * then it will run every five minutes, but not always on the 5 (i

DMA On a DVDRW

2004-12-24 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
Hi everyone I got a new Dell Inspiron 5160 about a month ago and im still setting it up (just bits and bobs here and there now) and ive come across that my DVDRW isn't on DMA, the harddrive is *it gets set at boot*. Now I have ran hdparm -d1 /dev/hda and both hdparm -K1 /dev/hda hdparm -k1 /dev/h

offlineimap duplicating emails

2004-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
[John... I put you on Bcc to be sure you see this. Please forgive me.] Hi all, I love offlineimap and it has enabled me to increase the efficiency with which I communicate. Thanks, John! Recently, however, on one of my machines, it started to download emails, then upload them to the server, from

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-24 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
A complement of information once is inserted my usb key: 12:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~% ll /dev/gyp* brw-rw 1 root hal 8, 16 2004-12-24 12:38 /dev/gyp-cl-sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root10 2004-12-24 12:38 /dev/gyp-cl-usb -> gyp-cl-sdb I hope this can help. Nico Nicolas de Sereville wrote: Hi li

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, I must wonder: Is there a way to "shift" this by a wanted value? >(for instance, when x MOD y = 1, something like putting into cron the >instance (*/5)+1 ? It would run at 1,6,11,16,21, ... Is it possible? Perhaps 1

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:46:26 -0500, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm in the process of setting up a warm backup for a server I run. I was in > the middle of hacking together scripts to keep them in sync, but then it > came to me: what if Debian has a package that does that *for

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Carl Fink wrote: Hi. I'm in the process of setting up a warm backup for a server I run. I was in the middle of hacking together scripts to keep them in sync, but then it came to me: what if Debian has a package that does that *for* me? I'm interested in this too. Ideally I'd like to have a too

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