Tiny fonts in Blackbox

2006-02-11 Thread Juanjavier Martínez
Got xfonts-base-transcoded, xfonts-75dpi-transcoded and xfonts-100dpi-transcoded all installed in the system. Checked from top to bottom .blackboxrc file: didn't find where to specify the size of the fonts :-( Had a go on documentation on configuration can be found at [0] and [1]. [0] http:/

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

2006-02-11 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Friday 10 February 2006 01:14 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:07:25AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > > I want to be able to remotely access my Debian box. I have an SSH client > > on my machine. What do I need to do to my Debian machine? > > 1) install sshd (package open

Re: help with Debian

2006-02-11 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Friday 10 February 2006 11:52 am, ke6isf wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > > First off, Im not sure what you mean to persue /etc/apache/httpd.conf, do > > I type that in the web browser or look for it in my explorer. > > Neither. You'll have to be logged into your

Re: debugger command history

2006-02-11 Thread linux china
Hi, the two pkgs only fix the problem while debuging normal perl program. If I want to interactive debug modperl program using Apache::DB then they won't work, ) - : On 2/10/06, linux china <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks you very much, libterm-readline-perl-perl solved my issue. On 2/10/06, Joe

Re: apt-get mysql

2006-02-11 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
which version of mysql are you running ?try these packages : libmysqlclient15 - mysql database client librarylibmysqlclient15-dev - mysql database development filesor libmysqlclient14 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient14-dev - mysql database development files#apt-get install libmysqlcli

apt-get mysql

2006-02-11 Thread nano
Hello all, I have mysql already running in my Debian server. I am trying to install a program that requires the mysql development libraries install in my system. How can I install only the development libraries with apt-get? Thanks in advance for your help. Fernando -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: your email has been received, please register to send

2006-02-11 Thread henry perez
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Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Sunday, 12 February 2006 12:21, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Thanks for the tips. I did install OpenOffice.org 2.0, and it works > well. My main point was how irritating the udev/kernel image > catch-22 was. I know others have dealt with this quandary too. In my experience, aptitude is quite, eh, ap

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
I'm hoping one day that I'll be samrt and actually make a back-up of my system before trying stuff like upgrading again. You should always have backups. If you are running unstable, you should make the backups NOW. You never know what is going to happen in the next upgrade. Better be parano

Re: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-11 Thread Peter Colton
On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While installing debian-testing-amd64-netinst (downloaded 2006 02 03) > When I got to the point where I get to select "configure software RAID" > I am told, >[!!] pARTITION DISKS > Before RAID can be configured,

Re: pppoe problem

2006-02-11 Thread Michael M.
Dmitri Kostioukov wrote: Hello, I've recently started using a provider that needs pppoe and I'm having problem configuring my box for it. My debian box acts as a router/firewall for several other computers on the network. It seems to connect fine through pppoe, gets an IP address and DNS serve

can't run root as regular user

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I recently upgraded to Sid, and I cannot run root commands as a regular user. When I try to run Synaptic, I get the following message after entering the root password: "Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root: Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper. Received: configuration er

Re: installing packages from testing in sarge

2006-02-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin Paraskevov wrote: Hello, I am a newcomer to the list and have the following question to ask. I have recently installed debian sarge (the stable distribution) but when I search for mozilla-firefox with: apt-cache show mozilla-firefox I get an older version of the browser. 1. Can I in

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:29 -0500, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have two laptops and I need to decide which one is the best. The > best in a long term, (i.e.: quality, performance, scalability and etc) > > So I’d like to hear from you guys which one would be my choice > > Compaq AM

installing packages from testing in sarge

2006-02-11 Thread Martin Paraskevov
Hello, I am a newcomer to the list and have the following question to ask. I have recently installed debian sarge (the stable distribution) but when I search for mozilla-firefox with: apt-cache show mozilla-firefox I get an older version of the browser. 1. Can I install software from the testin

Kde 3.5.1 for Etch available

2006-02-11 Thread Piero Piutti
Kde 3.5.1 for Etch just hit the mirrors (with K3b), I am updating as I write. -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA - Network Technician @ Systems Engineering Group (ICC/DPKO) United Nations Logistics Base - Br

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 11/02/06, Desmond Rivet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:25PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so > > > these things don't get loaded in the first place? > > > > Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Desmond Rivet
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:25PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so > > these things don't get loaded in the first place? > > Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it won't > show up in lspci or /proc and the various au

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: I'm hoping one day that I'll be samrt and actually make a back-up of my system before trying stuff like upgrading again. You should always have backups. If you are running unstable, you should make the backups NOW. You never know what is going to happen in the next upgr

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
> Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so > these things don't get loaded in the first place? Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it won't show up in lspci or /proc and the various autoloading packages like discover and hotplug won't load the drivers for i

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Edward Shornock, > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > > Per previous thread where I was asking about options for running an > > SSH server on my box, I ran apt-get install ssh. I was asked a few > > simple questions and chose support for SSH 1 & 2 and sel

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-02-11 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 10/02/06, noob lenoobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about free music ? > > http://www.musicalibre.es/MUSICA/index.php > http://www.jamendo.com/ > http://www.musique-libre.org/index.php?op=edito&choice_user_language=english > http://magnatune.com/ > http://opsound.org/info/license/ >

AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-11 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Hi everyone,   I have two laptops and I need to decide which one is the best. The best in a long term, (i.e.: quality, performance, scalability and etc) So I’d like to hear from you guys which one would be my choice   Compaq AMD Athlon64 2.0GHz 1GB RAM 80 GB Hard Disk Video card: AT

Totem - optical device......

2006-02-11 Thread M-L
I have posted a question about trying to get Totem to recognise the optical devices on my Acer laptop, on a previous occasion but never received a reply. I have a partial answer to this, but now another question. Totem is still empty without finding any optical devices when started. But if I in

Re: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-11 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 06:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > > The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 > > (Invalid argument). This means Linux won't know anything about the > > modifications you made unito

catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Just some info for those considering upgrading from Sarge to Etch (or Sid). I just upgraded my system from Debian Sarge, to Debian Sid. I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, but circumstances drove me to Sid. I changed the repositories in my sources.list from sarge to etch, and pro

Re: Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize

2006-02-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:46:52 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally had to downgrade these three packages and reinstall the mga > drivers from the Matrox website to get X to start: I have a g450, and use the same X as you do - on debian testing, but don't really have the same p

How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Desmond Rivet
Hi all, I've just installed Debian 3,1 on an old Pentium 200. This Pentium has a limited amount of memory and is only used for email and newsgroups in console mode (no X, no real desktop, no CD burner, etc.), so I'm trying to get rid of as much fluff as I can. Anyway, doing an lsmod, I notice tha

Re: Configuring network

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 16:33 -0200, Henrique Rennó wrote: > When I try pinging a host I get: Destination Host Unreachable. Like my > network configuration were set wrong. I just passed the IP, network > mask, default gateway and DNS during the installation process. I think > I can change them in /e

Ftp Error 421 Service not available loggin in from LAN into the router

2006-02-11 Thread Mark-Walter
Hi, I've compiled and installed the kernel 2.6.15. With 2.4.28 everything worked fine. With the new kernel I can't login over FTP from the LAN into the router but it's possible to login from the router into the LAN. This is the error message that comes while login over FTP from LAN into the rout

Ralink rt61 errors.

2006-02-11 Thread Gnu_Raiz
Dear: Fellow users; Normally I would not cross post to two debian lists, but since it involves the kernels I thought it was appropriate for this situation. As the title states, I am having problems wth my ralink rt61 driver, which was compiled from source. The source was downloaded from ralink we

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:17:53AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > Be that as it may, I just reloaded my whole box. I cannot remember doing > anything else for the past 3-4 days that could have caused the problem. I > installed SSH, rebooted, and BAM, everything haywire... In hindsight, I have > a t

Re: Configuring network

2006-02-11 Thread Kent West
Henrique Rennó wrote: I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop Acer Aspire 3002LCI and I'm not able to connect to any other host. When I try pinging a host I get: Destination Host Unreachable. Like my network configuration were set wron

Configuring network

2006-02-11 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello!!! I'm a new debian user (just one week ago) and I'm posting here because I've sent a message in the debian-laptop list and people there told me to post here too. I want to know ways of configuring the network. I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed debian Sar

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
pinecone wrote: > Now, the /dev/psaux is what Knoppix does for the same machne, so I tried > it. Knoppix runs just fine and it is based on Debian so you can imagine > MY UTTER FRUSTRATION! > > pinecone Have you tried changing the protocol to "imPS/2"? Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

WebDAV server configuration help needed

2006-02-11 Thread Smugzilla
I need some help getting a WebDAV server running on 2.6.12. I had it running a few months ago with a SuSE distro, but either something has changed between distros with respect to Apache and DAV or I didn't copy over apache2.conf correctly. I'd like to use digested authetication, but for now it

Re: Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/11/2006, pinecone wrote: > I'm running Sarge 3.1 downloaded in the summer. My XF86Config says: > Core Pointer's Input Section Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Now, the /dev/psaux is what Knoppix does for the same machne, so I >

Evolution 2.4 and web calendars

2006-02-11 Thread Mathieu Lutfy
Hi, I've been trying to use web calendards (webcal or iCal format) with the Evolution groupware suite (2.4.2.1-1), but without any success. (I have not tried with previous versions) Basically, the user's manual says: "To create a new calendar, click File > New > Calendar. [...] If it is a remote

RE: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Tyson Varosyan
Be that as it may, I just reloaded my whole box. I cannot remember doing anything else for the past 3-4 days that could have caused the problem. I installed SSH, rebooted, and BAM, everything haywire... In hindsight, I have a theory. Whether caused by SSH, I think that the network problems on my ma

Re: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 06:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 > (Invalid argument). This means Linux won't know anything about the > modifications you made unito you reboot. You chould reboot your > computer before doing anything

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Peter Hirdina wrote: Hi, I then found out that the problem is absent when I create my initrd with yaird instead of mkinitramfs. The yaird-generated initrd is also much smaller than the one from mkinitramfs (939 KB vs 2.1 MB). I had the same problem. I checked the generated initrd file and n

Re: [PHP-DB] Help getting php up and running

2006-02-11 Thread CasperLinux
On Saturday 11 February 2006 10:54, David Kirchner wrote: > On 2/11/06, CasperLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone have any input? I am googling till my fingers hurt and everything > > I find says it should be running. Whenever I try to open a test.php file > > all I get is the web browswer

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread pinecone
pinecone wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: pinecone wrote: I am unable to get X going from the installer because of a mouse problem.. The mouse is a plain old wheel mouse from acer but the install cacks saying there is no /dev/input/mice, even after lengthy running of Xf86co

Re: Backport Questions

2006-02-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:13:53AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:27:15 -0800 > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [major snip] > > > ALSO, apt-cache show says that it is for desktop integration. > > Is that for Gnome and KDE? I am using fvwm2 and do not use an in

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread pinecone
Jonathan Kaye wrote: pinecone wrote: I am unable to get X going from the installer because of a mouse problem.. The mouse is a plain old wheel mouse from acer but the install cacks saying there is no /dev/input/mice, even after lengthy running of Xf86config and choosing most of th

Re: help with Debian

2006-02-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > Hello, my name is Sandra Holden, > > We are in the process of creating a website for our company. We have a > domain name cuthbertsmith.com which we aquired through Roger Rendek at > Caisnet. > > So, when I type in t

Re: Re: [PHP-DB] Help getting php up and running

2006-02-11 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/11/06, CasperLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any input? I am googling till my fingers hurt and everything I > find says it should be running. Whenever I try to open a test.php file all I > get is the web browswer trying to save the file instead of serving up the php > content.

Fwd: Re: [PHP-DB] Help getting php up and running

2006-02-11 Thread CasperLinux
Anyone have any input? I am googling till my fingers hurt and everything I find says it should be running. Whenever I try to open a test.php file all I get is the web browswer trying to save the file instead of serving up the php content. On Friday 10 February 2006 21:28, CasperLinux wrote: > I r

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-11 Thread Peter Hirdina
Hi, > I then found out that the problem is absent when I create my initrd with > yaird instead of mkinitramfs. The yaird-generated initrd is also much > smaller than the one from mkinitramfs (939 KB vs 2.1 MB). I had the same problem. I checked the generated initrd file and noticed that the progr

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-11 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/11/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then found out that the problem is absent when I create my initrd with yaird > instead of mkinitramfs. The yaird-generated initrd is also much smaller than > the > one from mkinitramfs (939 KB vs 2.1 MB). > > Older versions of package init

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-11 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/11/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then found out that the problem is absent when I create my initrd with yaird > instead of mkinitramfs. The yaird-generated initrd is also much smaller than > the > one from mkinitramfs (939 KB vs 2.1 MB). > > Older versions of package init

Re: udev is ruining my life

2006-02-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mitchell Laks wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 03:42 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Mitchell Laks (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Now we cant upgrade debian provided kernels beyond 2.6.11 without udev? Why is this a prerequisite?? I can install my own kernel without it. Of course you can. Deb

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi, I have been bitten by this bug now, too, after I recompiled my 2.6.15 kernel from the newest Debian sources today. The exact error messages are (ScrollLock + pen and paper): udevd-event[n-1]: run-program: exec of program '/lib/udev/udev_run_hotplugd' failed udevd-event[n]: run-program: exe

trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-11 Thread hendrik
While installing debian-testing-amd64-netinst (downloaded 2006 02 03) When I got to the point where I get to select "configure software RAID" I am told, [!!] pARTITION DISKS Before RAID can be configured, the changes have to be written . The partition table is the follo

Hauppage Nova-T PCI DVB receiver card not working

2006-02-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Hello folks, I'm trying to set up this DVB card in my box. The v4l drivers seem to work right, as in lots of useful stuff appears in dmesg, and lsmod shows some useful looking modules have appeared, but when I try to run "scan": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scan -c using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/fronte

"No volume control elements and/or devices found" after upgrade to etch

2006-02-11 Thread Luc Saffre
Hello, I am running Debian on a Dell Latitude 110L notebook. Recently I upgraded from sarge to etch. Now my sound system is dead. On each start of either KDE or Gnome I get a message box "No volume control elements and/or devices found". The same box comes also when I invoke the menu command Appli

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > Per previous thread where I was asking about options for running an SSH > server on my box, I ran apt-get install ssh. I was asked a few simple > questions and chose support for SSH 1 & 2 and selected Yes for the use of > some encryp

Re: hd 160GB problem

2006-02-11 Thread mess-mate
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:59 -0800, Robert Kopp wrote: | > | > --- mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > > Hi, | > > i don't know if i've to config something to have a | > > normal accès to a | > > HD of 160GB. | > > | > > I've setted 'hdparm -d0 /d

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Edward Shornock
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > Per previous thread where I was asking about options for running an > SSH server on my box, I ran apt-get install ssh. I was asked a few > simple questions and chose support for SSH 1 & 2 and selected Yes for > the use of some encryp

Interpreting Snort results

2006-02-11 Thread John Halton
I've installed Snort on my Debian desktop (as recommended on the Debian security advice page) but am not sure how to interpret the emails it is sending through. Here's a typical morning email - does this look like anything to worry about? (I'm already running the Firestarter firewall which gets

Re: Pen drive real unmount

2006-02-11 Thread John Halton
Alejandro Salas wrote: My question is that I can mount-unmount the device perfectly, but in windows I notice that when I unmount it the light from the pen drive goes off... and when I unmount it under linux the light stays on. A friend told me that I should unmount it using eject, that the light

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-02-11 Thread John Halton
Wackojacko wrote: I use allofmp3.com. Russian site (click button in top left corner for english) and you pay based on the size of the file downloaded not per song. Supports various different formats too. Quite apart from the credit card security risks, bear in mind these Russian sites are *n