Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > >Hi > > > >I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been > >pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) > > > >It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of > >game on Debian? Why not buy him

uml doesn't show login prompt

2005-09-21 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, I'm having problems with UML on Debian Sarge. When i start my uml under X Windows with con=xterm, i get a loging prompt but when i try the same NOT from X, i am not able to get a login prompt. It boots until it should show the prompt (right after starting cron) and this is what i get: Sta

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-21 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/22/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1L.V.Gandhi on Monday 19 Sep 2005 12:46 wrote:> I have found the problem with debian apt-get kernel which contains> debian patches.Debian shipped kernels don't come with with bootsplash patch include

Re: starting irexec in a startup script

2005-09-21 Thread Andras Lorincz
If I start irexec from console, not at sstartup, then it works. As you said I should check if the irexec starts before lircd.On 9/21/05, Simo Kauppi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:58:47AM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Yes, something like that.>> On 9/20/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMA

upgrade problem

2005-09-21 Thread Kai Hendry
I am trying to upgrade my system, but apt-get won't let me. Am I missing something? The problem seems to be with Perl. bible$ apt-cache show perl Package: perl Priority: standard Section: perl Installed-Size: 11488 Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 5.8.7-5 R

Re: Foomatic can see but not connect to network printer

2005-09-21 Thread Smugzilla
Disregard. I didn't have the CUPS server installed on the client. Smugzilla wrote: I'm rebuilding up a small home network using debian on all machines. I'm trying to configure a server for print sharing with samba (see my current smb.conf file at http://www.iit.edu/~simkpet/code/smb.conf). Th

Re: installing debian

2005-09-21 Thread steef
Thomas Jollans wrote: steef wrote: hi all, a friend of mine asked me to install debian_sarge on his machine: with the netinstaller; for the first time. he is getting fed up with xp.he has got an empty hd on a usb-port. my question: does the installer recognizes: sees this usb_harddisk? o

Install USB mouse, lose keyboard

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Here is the situation recap, plus some more information... Machine has been working fine. Celeron 2+GHz 512MB RAM, 2x80GB hard disc, one formatted for NT. PS/2 Mouse PS/2 Keyboard Dual boot Windows and Debian, using GRUB. Debian issues a few messages during boot, but nothing that appears to be se

Foomatic can see but not connect to network printer

2005-09-21 Thread Smugzilla
I'm rebuilding up a small home network using debian on all machines. I'm trying to configure a server for print sharing with samba (see my current smb.conf file at http://www.iit.edu/~simkpet/code/smb.conf). The server can print fine, and the client can see the printer with foomatic during the

scroll-lock in X

2005-09-21 Thread James R. Phillips
Hi Debian users, I bought an illuminated keyboard that uses the scroll-lock key to turn the illumination on/off. Works ok in wink. In sarge, it sort of works on a virtual terminal, i.e., the illumination turns on/off with the scroll-lock key, but it also locks the terminal when the illumination

grave bug in epiphany extensions (was: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing)

2005-09-21 Thread Levi Waldron
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Strange. I've got Epiphany 1.6.3, and the Tools menu is there. Are the versions of your epiphany-browser and epiphany-extensions packages the same versions? (i.e. are they both 1.6.4?) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep epiphany ii epiph

apt wants to remove kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Vikas Rawal
I am trying to install a package using apt (r-base) but among the packages apt would like to remove in the process includes the kernel image!! I have tried installing other packages also (emacs and ess), but I get the same message. My sources.list and an illustrative output of apt-get is reprodu

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 08:33 +0530, Rishi wrote: > > dgen will run the Sega Genesis / Megadrive versions of > > Road Rash, RR 2, and RR 3 if you've got the rom images. > > What does rom images mean? To add detail to Joe Smith's reply: $ dict rom 3 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2

debian for sun sparc 3i-solaris 9-sun blade 2500

2005-09-21 Thread padmini
Please let me know whether there is a Debian linux for sparc 3i processor based system model Sun blade 2500. We download 64bit version for sparc but when we boot from the CD the system Sun 2500 repeatedly reboots and installation is not done. Best Regards padmini [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISAC Air Port

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Smith
- Original Message - From: "Rishi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:03 PM Subject: Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux dgen will run the Sega Genesis / Megadrive versions of Road Rash, RR 2, and RR 3 if you've got the rom ima

labplot crashes when plotting from a file

2005-09-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On unstable machine, If I do $labplot & plot -> New plot from data -> 2D data Change the file name from 2d.dat to temp.dat Then click on "check data" At this point, labplot crashes with the following messages printed on konsole. Audio File Library: 'temp.dat': unrecognized audio file forma

Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Smith
"S3GFAULT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SUMMARY: Files or chunks of files from the root (reiserfs) partition are being inserted into memory at the rate of 4-16k/5 secs (2.4.18) or 60k/5 secs (2.6.8). This memory is never freed. Thi

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Rishi
> dgen will run the Sega Genesis / Megadrive versions of > Road Rash, RR 2, and RR 3 if you've got the rom images. What is dgen? Tried apt-cache search dgen. No joy. Regards -- Rishi

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Rishi
> dgen will run the Sega Genesis / Megadrive versions of > Road Rash, RR 2, and RR 3 if you've got the rom images. What does rom images mean? -- Rishi

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread David Koski
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 03:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Apply for a job with a TLA, they have the > > equipment to do this. > > You must be inferring a secret government agency, because I work > for a company that has a TLA, and they don't have any such equipment. Must be another Three

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:37:28 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Click on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item. Then select >> the extensions that you want to activate. > This apparently is my problem: the only menus I h

Re: New install, no desktop

2005-09-21 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: > Do I actually have a desktop installed? And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list, and do 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. If that doesn't work, you'll need to install the xserver package - and probably gnome or KDE while yo

ggv watch not working

2005-09-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I set the `watch file' option on the `GGV Preference/Document' tablet, but apparently it does not work: what must I do to make it work as expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

2005-09-21 Thread Eric P
I'm running etch, and I recently ran an upgrade which installed many packages including Gnome 2.10 and Xorg. During the middle of the upgrade, apt-get kept erroring out with the following (xbill just as an example): Unpacking xbill (from .../archives/xbill_2.1-4_i386.deb) ... Setting up at (3.1.9

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Paul Stolp
* Rishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-21 14:45]: > Hi > > I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been > pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) > > It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of > game on Debian? > > Regards > -- > Rishi > dgen will run

Re: hosts.allow, Apache and others

2005-09-21 Thread garaged
tcpwrappers is, IMO, a quite deprecated tool, firewalls are reliable and more adequate this days. To answer your question, if apache is started by xinetd, host.* files are relevant, most distributions now dont bind apache to xinetd, i'm not even sure if it's convenient, I would think that it is no

hosts.allow, Apache and others

2005-09-21 Thread Ross Boylan
Are the hosts.{allow,deny} files relevant to Apache2? If so, what service name should I use? More generally, how do I find the answer to this question for an arbitrary program or service. READ.Debian for Apache2 doesn't mention tcpwrappers, and the Debian reference doesn't list these files as re

Re: Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11

2005-09-21 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: >>>An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All >>>Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. >>> >>>It says: >>>udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. >>> >>>However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. >> >> >>Look for "l

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?]

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Mitja, > The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse > I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user > of Debian. I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. >But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
> Hi Mitja, > >> The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse >> I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user >> of Debian. > > I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. > >>But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first

Re: Replies to echo difficult

2005-09-21 Thread James Vahn
Mike McCarty wrote: > I have a suggestion for this list. Ha! > What do people think of the list adding a "Reply-To:" in the > header so that replies automatically go to the list? You could accomplish that yourself by using procmail on your incoming mail. I haven't tested this directly but you're

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Levi Waldron wrote: I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just installed epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat features like middle-click to scroll down web pages. Installing epiphany-extensions (apt-get epiphany-extensions) has no effect on the epiphany-bro

Re: fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Rodney Richison
Bob Vloon wrote: Hi Rodney, RR> I've got an odd problems with a second ide drive. It will not mount at RR> boot. Though I can mount -a and it mounts just fine. My current fstab is <..> RR> Running sarge. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Apparently, the RR> system is not ready to see the

Re: FIXED! Re: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-09-21 Thread Tom Allison
Ben Pearre wrote: D'oh! Thanks to your question (and knowing that it worked for a similar system), while simplifying my config file in order to post, I tracked down exactly what the problem was. Now I'm a little embarassed that I'd let this bother me for so long! In the InputDevice section for

New install, no desktop

2005-09-21 Thread Albert
I just installed Debian 3.1 using the minimum CD and the net. I selected desktop for installation, even though there was no option for gnome, kde, or etc. I also opted to not install grub, because I already had grub installed handling three other distributions and I didn't want the installer s

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 07:44 -0700, A.Melon wrote: > > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > > information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, > > however, > > since the hd is

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:50 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: [snip] > > > P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away > > > from? > > > > Infinite

Re: grep bug?

2005-09-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:20:12PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > if: > > $aptitude search kernel-image > v kernel-image snipped > > if: > $ aptitude search kernel-image|grep 2.6 > p kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 - Linux kernel > image for version 2

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 21 september 2005, 15:59, Mitja Podreka wrote: > At the moment we are only offering web access. We would like to > create a place where people will come and do some creative stuff with > computers. What exactly depends on people itself. Sounds great! For one thing, you allready have tr

Re: grep bug?

2005-09-21 Thread garaged
wrong regexp usage, and whats wrong with the output ?? what columns? you mean rows ?? $ aptitude search kernel-image|grep 2\.6|wc -l 49 $ aptitude search kernel-image|wc -l 76 -- Linux garaged 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 #3 SMP Mon Aug 30 12:14:50 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineInte

Re: upgrade and keyboard problems

2005-09-21 Thread Hannes Mayer
It's a known feature that any Xfree update will possibly break an existing config. I filed this bug (overwriting the XF86Config-4) in June: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312101 Feel free to add info to the bug report. Best regards, Hannes.

grep bug?

2005-09-21 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I'm using sid. kernel: 2.6.11-1-686-smp bash: 3.0-9 grep: 2.5.1.ds1-6 if: $aptitude search kernel-image v kernel-image - v kernel-image-2.2.25 - v kernel-image-2.4

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Levi Waldron
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Click on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item.  Then selectthe extensions that you want to activate. This apparently is my problem: the only menus I have in my Epiphany 1.6.4 are File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tabs, and Help.  No Tools

problem with adaptec 6360L scsi card

2005-09-21 Thread sqrt3
i have a ISA scsi card with adaptec 6360L chip (CardModel=AC520A). i am using woody and kernel 2.4. i believe aha152x module is for me, but the following command does not works: modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=9 scsiid=4 /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: No such devi

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Seth Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:53 PM <...> > I have attached the output of the two lsmod queries. For two systems that are supposedly closely related, there is not a lot in common between the loaded modules. The hardware detection must be

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Bob Vloon on 21/09/05 19:10, wrote: Hi Robert, RDC> I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I RDC> have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use RDC> [x|g|k]chm but I am blind and need to get them into a text buffer or w3m RDC> under emacs. T

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:14:19 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just > installed epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat > features like middle-click to scroll down web pages. Installing > epiphany-extensions (apt-g

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Wackojacko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:00 PM <...> > If the CD works with Knoppix it should work with debian. That's what's been running through my mind. It appears that something did not get installed or configured correctly for this particular har

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Wed, 2005-21-09 at 20:40 +0200, Arvind Autar wrote: > If SELinux is also suitable for desktop users for example if we look > at the targeted policy (for fedora and RHEL) it > shows that it doesn't restrict users sessions. Short conclusion, there > is no loss of functionality, why hasn't debian

installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Levi Waldron
I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just installed epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat features like middle-click to scroll down web pages.  Installing epiphany-extensions (apt-get epiphany-extensions) has no effect on the epiphany-browser, and there are no clu

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Rishi wrote: Hi I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of game on Debian? Regards -- Rishi Wow that game sure was rad... i don't know of any open-source equi

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 L.V.Gandhi on Monday 19 Sep 2005 12:46 wrote: > On 9/17/05, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know whether this is a stupid doubt, but are you using >> `pristine' kernel sources or Debian patched kernel sources (apt-got >> ones)?

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:07 PM > > > Did you run an md5sum on the CD itself and see if it matches up with > what it should be in the MD5SUMS file? No I did not. Now that the CD's are burned, I don't believe I can do this, as the MD5S

Re: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Wackojacko
Seth Goodman wrote: I burned an ISO of the Sarge netinstall CD using a Windows box and booted a new box with this CD. The bootloader was able to read the CD, go through all the hardware detection stages, format and partition the hard disk (one large partition). When it got to the stage of reboo

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Arvind Autar wrote: > is no loss of functionality, why hasn't debian implented SELinux as > default? It is not that simple. We are doing it slowly. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the L

Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-21 Thread Rishi
Hi I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of game on Debian? Regards -- Rishi

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Antony Gelberg
Sorry for the top post, blame this fricking Blackberry. I think there is awareness that the documentation and access to it, could be better. I have raised a bug against www.debian.org to this end. May I suggest that you raise a bug for the breakage, or better still, submit a patch? -Origi

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Arvind Autar wrote: Helllo, I have been using debian for quite some time now, how ever I have watched several distrobutions implentating so many great ideas, and I have been wondering why such a robust distorbution as debian GNU/Linux(*) hasn't done this. One of them is: SELinux If SELinux is

SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Arvind Autar
Helllo, I have been using debian for quite some time now, how ever I have watched several distrobutions implentating so many great ideas, and I have been wondering why such a robust distorbution as debian GNU/Linux(*) hasn't done this. One of them is: SELinux If SELinux is also suitable for desk

Re: Debian on AMD64?

2005-09-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Not sure about pci express, but gigabit support is working here, under my VIA onboard ethernet. Module is via-velocity. Which one is yours? Did you see Graham's page? http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/amd64.jspx Jacob wrote: Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64... I would l

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Mitja, > The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse > I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user > of Debian. I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. >But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm >

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi Robert, RDC> I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I RDC> have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use RDC> [x|g|k]chm but I am blind and need to get them into a text buffer or w3m RDC> under emacs. The chmlib-bin package contains the pro

RE: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Did you run an md5sum on the CD itself and see if it matches up with what it should be in the MD5SUMS file? Have you ever successfully installed Debian before or is this the first time? -Original Message- From: Seth Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Otto Wyss
Robert D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I > have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use Have you tried chmviewer (http://www.herdsoft.com/linux/themen/chmviewer.html)? O. Wyss -- Development

RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Coppens
Upgraded to 2.6.12. The network now comes up beautifully. Thanks for the help! Peter > -Original Message- > From: Peter Coppens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:02 PM > To: TR; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enable

Re: digital camera software

2005-09-21 Thread gothicdoom
Hi. This may depend on your camera type. Mine is a kodak, and I made it work with ptpcam ( http://libptp.sourceforge.net/ ) Hope this helps Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I need nice software for my digcameraital . But I have'nt any idea which software is fine for accessng, reading, ... all ena

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Sep 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It > > > was due t

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Sep 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It > > was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by

unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
I burned an ISO of the Sarge netinstall CD using a Windows box and booted a new box with this CD. The bootloader was able to read the CD, go through all the hardware detection stages, format and partition the hard disk (one large partition). When it got to the stage of rebooting with the new kern

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Antony Gelberg wrote: I think that whenever somebody installs an OS, he should read the manual. You need to read the Debian Reference. http://www.debian.org/doc And I always think it's tacky when the official support website has link rot.

Re: Help with Defoma (Installing Hindi fonts in Debian)

2005-09-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Saurabh Nanda (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've downloaded Akshar.ttf (unicode hindi font) and want to install it > 'system-wide', i.e. all applications installed on the system should be > able to use it. > [...] > I read through the manpage of defoma-font and figured out that a 'font > h

Re: Mouse Driver, Evdev, Xorg SDK Problems

2005-09-21 Thread David R. Litwin
What mouse? It's a Logitech 518 mouse. The standard two buttons plus wheel, then two near the thumb and three around the wheel. Before you go and move creation around, what does evtest say: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/linuxconsole/ruby/utils/evtest.c Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you wo

Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Sounds to me like you need to set apt-proxy, or http replicator. Acts like a proxy for deb files. Look at http://gertjan.freezope.org/replicator/ Robert Storey wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another machine. Let me explain more clearly: If, for exampl

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Kent West
Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Andrej Repisky napisał(a): > >> Hello, >> >> I have encountered the following problem after installation of >> Debian i386 on a computer. For istallation I used CD that I had >> prepares using an image from the debian website. Most of the >> commands do not work.

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Patrick Rittich
Borislav Petkov wrote: Hi there, my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and

converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Robert D. Crawford
I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use [x|g|k]chm but I am blind and need to get them into a text buffer or w3m under emacs. I have installed archmage from the rpm file (it is not in the deb repos

Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Mark Crean wrote: > All I've done is "sudo apt-get install java-package" which enables you > to build a deb for a java jre using a file downloaded from the issuer. > Then I downloaded the latest jre .bin file from Sun and ran "make-jpg" > against it which produced "sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.d

subversion 1.2.3a for sarge?

2005-09-21 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Does it break anything essential to build and use the sources for subversion 1.2.3a, found in sid, for sarge? The build dependencies in debian/control can be met on a properly maintained sarge box, but perhaps this may not be the full truth or? Anders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Andrej Repisky napisał(a): Hello, I have encountered the following problem after installation of Debian i386 on a computer. For istallation I used CD that I had prepares using an image from the debian website. Most of the commands do not work. For example links, lynx, gcc and so on. B

Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Robert Storey wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another machine. Let me explain more clearly: If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed.

x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Andrej Repisky
Hello, I have encountered the following problem after installation of Debian i386 on a computer. For istallation I used CD that I had prepares using an image from the debian website. Most of the commands do not work. For example links, lynx, gcc and so on. But if I run

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

2005-09-21 Thread gothicdoom
Hi and sorry for the delay I'm not using a frontend. I'v tryed xcdroast once, but I'm not using it. Thanks for all the replies. I'll try this. Erdi Balint wrote: Hi, Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it wo

gsm 07.10 standard

2005-09-21 Thread Marc Brünink
Hi, I found http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gsmmux/ and I'm just wondering if there's any other approch to implement the GSM 07.10 standard. Thanks Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:02:42AM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for > all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, > the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the > d

RAID recognition?

2005-09-21 Thread John Fleming
I run mondoarchive/restore on a Dell 600SC with IDE drives on sarge. It works great, and I've even used mondorestore nuke to restore to a different machine with IDE drives. However, now I need to restore to a new Dell 1810 with 2 SCSI drives and Perc4 RAID 1 controller. Mondo apparently doesn'

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Mike McCarty wrote: Borislav Petkov wrote: [snip] P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away from? Rather than say something negative, I'll say something positive: Seagate and Western Digital are chammpion drives in my estimation. I would agree minus Weste

Re: starting irexec in a startup script

2005-09-21 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:58:47AM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Yes, something like that. > > On 9/20/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:42:53PM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The lirc daemon starts at startup and I want to launch t

Re: Installing individually downloaded debian packages

2005-09-21 Thread Wackojacko
Oliver Lupton wrote: Saurabh Nanda wrote: # Short Question: How do I install a debian package which I've (manually) downloaded. I don't have a net connection so I can't use apt-get or something similar to fetch an entire package list and then install the package. # Long story: I trashed my R

Re: upgrade and keyboard problems

2005-09-21 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Em Quarta 21 Setembro 2005 10:58, gothicdoom escreveu: > XF86Config-4 > I've this line in addition to the listed bellow: Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbModel" "abnt2" > Option "XkbLayout" "br" > -- Mario O.de Menezes, Ph.D. "Many are the pl

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.09.2005 at 10:23 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The only things it has ever failed to do out-of-the-box for me are * > identify which mailing lists I've subscribed to (so I can use L for > rep,y-to-list) I agree that by parsing the List-ID headers, Mutt should be able to do that ..

Re: problems with 'yenta_socket' installing debian

2005-09-21 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
miche wrote: I'm a new linux user, or that's what I'm trying to... I'm installing debian 3.1 (sarge) on a Toshiba Satellite300CDS from the CDs, but when the installer start the research for cd-rom drivers it stops at 2% while loading the 'yenta_socket' module for 'Toshiba America Info Systems

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread A . Melon
> my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the > information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, > since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it > gi

Re: fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Basajaun
Rodney Richison wrote: > I've got an odd problems with a second ide drive. It will not mount at > boot. Though I can mount -a and it mounts just fine. My current fstab is > /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0 > Though I've tried /dev/hdg1 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 1 2 > and all I get

upgrade and keyboard problems

2005-09-21 Thread gothicdoom
Hi. I agree it's way to lame to ask this, but since I couldn't find out by myself here is the question: I have an abnt2 keyboard and it was just perfect until my last apt-get upgrade. All keys work fine BUT the 'question mark' and '/'. This happens just on X. Here is the info: XF86Config-4

Re: Deskop performance

2005-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:38:37PM +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > hi: > > I am building a custom debian kernel for use in Desktop Systems. I > have patched my kernel 2.6.13 using ck patch available at > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ and it is working fine > i guess. does any one h

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:34:15AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian > > 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. > > It should work out-of-t

readcd -c2scan fails with lots of C2 errors

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Kabs
Hi there, just installed Debian Sarge (replacing SuSE) and wrote my first data cd-r using cdrecord. The warnings that cdrecord emits at the start (something about "Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface" and "there are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.") made me worry but eve

Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Mark Crean
Roberto Mura wrote: Hi, I'm a linux debian newbie, and i havo no idea about get working j2se 5.0 I have downloaded binaies, converted in deb, installed with dpkg, but still get error: java NoClassDefFound java/lang/Object when trying to execute ./java -version Could somene help me? All I'v

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Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Roberto Mura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm a linux debian newbie, and i havo no idea about get working j2se > 5.0 > > I have downloaded binaies, converted in deb, installed with dpkg, > but still get error: > > java NoClassDefFound java/lang/Object You probably need to set the "CL

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