Re: function-hiding feature in Kate rocks...

2007-01-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:44:59 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/12/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:28:45AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I experienced a nice feature

Re: [OT] Re:This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:11:20 -0500 Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:46:59AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: A tad unfair. The authors point out that the proposed escalation is unpopular, that it will make a bad situation worse, and that the US Congress

Re: cant set group owner cdrom for link /dev/dvd

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 08:44 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I have noticed that a number of the video programs xine ogle etc like to use /dev/dvd as a default However they seem to also want the group permission to be cdrom... Note when i do ls -l /dev/hdc brwsrwxrwx 1 root

Re: [OT] Re:This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:57:08PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Opinion polls suggest that the US public opposes escalation by a margin of about 2 to 1. Whether that constitutes the vast majority is a moot point. As for the majority in Congress, it is indeed slim, but weren't only some of the

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:44 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: [...snip...] Without making a single change to the interfaces file I issued a /etc/init.d/networking restart command and low and behold my network just went down again with no access to the server so now I'm wondering if this has to do

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using Debian, kernel 2.6.8. Here's the setup: Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Line in

Re: [OT] Re:This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-12 Thread John C
cut Every authoritative opinion I've read on the subject supports these points. snip authoritative opinion = the opinion expressed matches the opinion of the receiver. It has little to do with reality. But what has all this got to do with debian? linux? the OP's question? If we try

Re: 2.4 series kernel on Sid

2007-01-12 Thread celejar
On 1/12/07, macondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: celejar wrote: Is there a relatively straightforward way to install a 2.4 series kernel on Sid? I currently use unstable repos and would like to do a complete dist-upgrade, but I still have some old stuff, including a 2.4.27 kernel which I can't

Problem: N

2007-01-12 Thread septet
I'm getting the following problem messages when I try to start a few games using bash Problem: No available video device Problem: No available audio device I'm using i386 sarge and video seems fine in GNOME. Soundblaster card installed but how do I get the system to find it? -- To

Re: DVD menu creator

2007-01-12 Thread andy
Kees de Koster wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], andy wrote: Dear all Although I have been using the command line to write up quick and dirty xml files to use in the process of burning DVD video files to disk, I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a (graphical)

Re: Problem: N

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:31:18PM -0500, septet wrote: I'm getting the following problem messages when I try to start a few games using bash in an xterm or in a virtual terminal? Problem: No available video device Problem: No available audio device what games? I'm using i386 sarge and

Re: cant set group owner cdrom for link /dev/dvd

2007-01-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 12:14 Fri 12 Jan , Greg Folkert wrote: In any case, if you are using any kind of Debian Linux other than Woody or before, /dev is managed and should not be messed with directly. Rules for device file creation need to be made. /etc/udev is where this magic resides. For info on how-to

Re: Second sound card is too much hassle?

2007-01-12 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Bruno Buys writes: I have the need for a second mic in on my computer, and I was wondering if I plugging in a spare emu10k1 card was a good idea. The computer has onboard sound realtek alc658 (so says alsamixer), working ok. With two cards, how does sound related apps behave? I never did this

System freeze sometimes when changing CD/DVD media

2007-01-12 Thread andy
Hi all I've been using Etch for a number of weeks now and am *so* really very satisfied and happy with it that I am going to be installing it on my partner's machine, replacing a long tradition of Slackware usage. Well done developers. If I have one snag though it is this: there are

Re: [OT] Re:This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:38:08PM -0600, John C wrote: But what has all this got to do with debian? linux? the OP's question? Nothing really, other than that all participants in the discussion are users of Debian :-) If we try real hard maybe we can keep political viewpoints out of the

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-12 Thread M-L
On Saturday 13 January 2007 03:12, Roberto C. Sanchez shared this with us all: --} On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:57:36AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: --} On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 13:54 +1100, M-L wrote: --} Can someone enlighten me please as to why this the URL below crashes --} Konqueror? --} --}

Re: DVD menu creator

2007-01-12 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: You can take a look at DVD-Styler http://www.dvdstyler.de/ Kees Thanks Kees - that seems to do the trick. Cheers I have been trying out dvdstyler for a few days now. Actually, I have used it to produce to example DVD of my home videos. The basic menu that I make consists

Re: About apt-get messages

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hardik, common etiquette for lists is to inline post, not top post. top posting makes following threads unnecessarily more burdensome. thanks! On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:25 -0800, rangalo wrote: Hi guys, thanks all for the help. I did apt-keys add with the downloaded file and it worked. The

Re: [OT] Re:This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:38:08 -0600 John C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut Every authoritative opinion I've read on the subject supports these points. snip authoritative opinion = the opinion expressed matches the opinion of the receiver. It has little to do with reality. You know the

How to check installed file integrity?

2007-01-12 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Hi, I'm recovering from a serious filesystem corruption and wondered if there is already an interface that checks the files' integrity by comparing their MD5 fingerprints with those under /var/lib/dpkg/info/? (This expected this to be a FAQ, but I wasn't able to find it out.) TIA -richy.

Re: How to check installed file integrity?

2007-01-12 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Richard B Kreckel writes: I'm recovering from a serious filesystem corruption and wondered if there is already an interface that checks the files' integrity by comparing their MD5 fingerprints with those under /var/lib/dpkg/info/? (This expected this to be a FAQ, but I wasn't able to find it

Re: How to check installed file integrity?

2007-01-12 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Richard B Kreckel writes: I'm recovering from a serious filesystem corruption and wondered if there is already an interface that checks the files' integrity by comparing their MD5 fingerprints with those under /var/lib/dpkg/info/? (This expected this to be a FAQ, but I wasn't able to find it

allow normal user to use sched_setscheduler

2007-01-12 Thread as
Hi, I am trying to find out how to let a normal user use sched_setscheduler? Currently I get an error that the process does not have the necessary privileges. I looked around and while I find some references to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO, I can't find any information on what exactly to

Re: What was SA thinking?

2007-01-12 Thread Łukasz Andrzejak
Hi, On 1/12/07, Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09.01.07 09:58, Steve Lamb wrote: Recently a ton of mail running through SA has been hitting the soft-limit for spam. I have it set tight, 5.0 for mark and pass. 7.0 for reject at SMTP. Mail from this list, from

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 12 January 2007 18:00, Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:44 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: [...snip...] Without making a single change to the interfaces file I issued a /etc/init.d/networking restart command and low and behold my network just went down again with no

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-12 Thread charles norwood
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 14:22 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Snip http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10 Thanks for the link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PCI-E Gb LAN controller support

2007-01-12 Thread Paul E Condon
My new ASUS motherboard has PCI-E Gb LAN controller on-board. I can't get the Etch installer to recognize it. Should I be able to? Or is it too new for Etch? ( I don't really need 1 Gb ethernet, but I would like to be able to use the PCI slot for something else than an old LAN card. ) TIA --

Re: [OT] UK petition against software patents

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 12 January 2007 10:29, marc wrote: I am a UK citizen and have signed the petition. However, the arguments used below seem to be fairly weak. Extract: Software patents are used by convicted monopolists to threaten customers who consider using rival software. As a result, patents

Re: [OT] UK petition against software patents

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:38:39AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: This is just taking a side swipe at Microsoft and only asserts that patents stifle innovation rather than explain why. I think the argument as to why patents are wrong is much more concerned with I think that the best

Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Grok Mogger
Hey everyone, If the default kernel that comes with Debian has all these built in drivers and modules, then shouldn't there be some way to just get a list of every supported device? If I want to buy a new piece of hardware, and I want to figure out if it's supported or not (BEFORE I buy

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-12 Thread operator
/interesting to note that mine does not work either, and I am using sarge stable. operator / Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Sid upgraded my gtk-gnutella to gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1. And now it does not work. I appear to be firewalled. AFAIK, I have the right ports in my firewall forwarded

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, If the default kernel that comes with Debian has all these built in drivers and modules, then shouldn't there be some way to just get a list of every supported device? Nope. However, with enough work, you can

Re: For the 4th time please remove the thread from server please

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Kevin Chichak wrote: Can you please Remove the following thread!!! From your server. No, archives cannot be removed. Plus, this list is archived on literally hundreds of sites: Getting it removed here would not get it removed everywhere. Never post anything you don't

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 13 2007 12:49, operator wrote: /interesting to note that mine does not work either, and I am using sarge stable. operator The version is stable is likely a few versions behind, it did work when sarge was released but that was about 19 months ago. I think the best solution in

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread sdpatt2
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0500 Grok Mogger mumbled: Hey everyone, If I want to buy a new piece of hardware, and I want to figure out if it's supported or not (BEFORE I buy it), One good way is to take a knoppix disk to the 'puter store and boot the shiny new machine off it.

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, If the default kernel that comes with Debian has all these built in drivers and modules, then shouldn't there be some way to just get a list of every supported device? If I want to buy a new piece of hardware,

Re: For the 4th time please remove the thread from server please

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:44:31PM -0700, Kevin Chichak wrote: Here's an idea...go get your site's postmaster to do his job already and reject viruses at SMTP time. If he refuses, ask him (and his boss) why he can't be bothered to do his job.

Re: drivers in linux

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Critchlow wrote: Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian? I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of drivers and device manager and stuff from windows. Is there such a device manager in linux/debian? No. In fact, forget

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:51:58AM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: Looks like our encodings do not play well with each other - see all the question marks below. This is what root's recently been up to on my laptop: ? manually adjusting

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:15:41AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: · creating/burning iso images IIRC, the default on Debian systems is to have the cd burner owned by group CD-ROM and have the group writable attribute set. So, if you

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: wizbang 1000 (chipset A) uses kernel module P wizbang 1000 (rev. 2, chipset B) uses kernel Q. They don't even always bother with changing the revision number. Sometimes they just slipstream the change so that all units after a certain serial number use the new chipset. They

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 00:29 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 18:00, Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:44 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: [...snip...] Without making a single change to the interfaces file I issued a /etc/init.d/networking restart command

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Grok Mogger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0500 Grok Mogger mumbled: Hey everyone, If I want to buy a new piece of hardware, and I want to figure out if it's supported or not (BEFORE I buy it), One good way is to take a knoppix disk to the 'puter store and boot the shiny

Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period)

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It is exceptionally offensive. Especially YOUR choices. When corresponding on public mailing lists, Teenage Coloring is an unacceptable habit/practice. Please use only straight text, no HTML. or other techniques to get the cool coloring. Soon, some of the people that

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 22:01 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kernel comes with it's own documentation section. Some good reading there. Sounds great. Where can I find that? =P http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.19.tar.gz Extract it and find

compiz: no spencil buffer

2007-01-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, yesterday my compiz install worked well: I decided to give a try to the last release version, but as I got into troubles, I came back the the distributed version as Packaged by Debian. But now, I got the message: no spencil-buffer Since a while I have goolgled to figure out how to

Can't not see my desktop icon and desktop background.

2007-01-12 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use debian etch. I close nautilus while it working. afterthat gnome desktop not show icon and background. Do you know how to fix it? kan Screenshot.png Description: PNG image

Re: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period)

2007-01-12 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:10:59 -0500 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It is exceptionally offensive. Especially YOUR choices. When corresponding on public mailing lists, Teenage Coloring is an unacceptable habit/practice. Please use only straight text, no

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Grok Mogger
Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to respond. It's helped a lot. I'd still like some more help though if you can spare it. =) My goal is ultimately the following. I want to be able to say I'm interested in getting a Super Device 4000 and then go through whatever steps I need to

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread John Hasler
sdpatt2 wrote The kernel comes with it's own documentation section. Some good reading there. Grok Mogger writes: Sounds great. Where can I find that? Install the kernel source package for your kernel and look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: Is it safe to say that drivers are really for a chipset, not a device? And so therefore, support for a device really boils down to is the chipset supported? not is the device supported? Fairly safe. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-12 Thread Kevin Ross
Here's a code snippet from ne2k-pci.c, the NE2000-clone NIC driver: static struct { char *name; int flags; } pci_clone_list[] __devinitdata = { {RealTek RTL-8029, REALTEK_FDX}, {Winbond 89C940, 0}, {Compex RL2000, 0}, {KTI ET32P2, 0}, {NetVin NV5000SC, 0}, {Via 86C926, ONLY_16BIT_IO},

alsaconf needed every boot

2007-01-12 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Yes, I did search the mail archives, and found lots of potential answers in the search results. However, the web-server could neither find nor display them; so, I am putting forward this (sadly) common question here: is there a way to just have good ol' debian load the sound drivers

RE: For the 4th time please remove the thread from server please

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 20:19 -0700, Kevin Chichak wrote: THANKS!FOR NOTHING! What's the purpose of keeping the thread. I did not send the thread some other crack pot did. Public record, that is all. Are you DAFT? Did you READ the DISCLAIMER from Debian?

Re: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period)

2007-01-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:20 -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:10:59 -0500 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It is exceptionally offensive. Especially YOUR choices. When corresponding on public mailing lists, Teenage Coloring is an

Re: alsaconf needed every boot

2007-01-12 Thread Francisco Zabala
On 1/12/07, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Yes, I did search the mail archives, and found lots of potential answers in the search results. However, the web-server could neither find nor display them; so, I am putting forward this (sadly) common question here: is there a way

Re: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period)

2007-01-12 Thread Francisco Zabala
On 1/12/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:20 -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:10:59 -0500 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It is exceptionally offensive. Especially YOUR choices. When corresponding on public

Re: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period)

2007-01-12 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:50:00 -0500 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:20 -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:10:59 -0500 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It is exceptionally offensive. Especially YOUR choices.

Re: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period)

2007-01-12 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:55:02 -0800 Francisco Zabala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/12/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:20 -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:10:59 -0500 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It

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