Re: debian dvd setup question

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thursday 13 December 2007 02:35, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read > > dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's > > directory structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on >

Re: debian dvd setup question

2007-12-12 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read > dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's directory > structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on ubuntu machine > all file structure seems present and correct. Ho

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:05:43PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Are you sure that you have tried all possible configurations for setting > the capture controls? Post the output of the "amixer" command. Yes, I am sure. Here's the amixer output, if it helps. Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0

Streaming video

2007-12-12 Thread Keith Bates
For some reason I have problems downloading video clips from most mainstream news providers. For example on the front page of www.smh.com.au there is a picture at the moment of a mouse fearlessly staring down a cat. This picture links to a Windows Media clip. When i clikc on the picture (using ei

Re: OT: Turion64 motherboard?

2007-12-12 Thread Bob
koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, My Turion64 notebook's motherboard is dying, and since replacing it costs more than another notebook (which I already bought...), I'm hoping to use the CPU in a little media-center/file-server box. Does anyone have experience of using Turion64 CPUs on desktop boa

DVD support question

2007-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners available? If this one won't work I should have a phillips as a replacement next week. This one can't be mounted yet because of a missing helper application according to the mount utility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Bob
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Bob wrote: Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a preferred

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Does anyone think another bug report is called for ? > It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour > needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list. I'm currently busy work

debian dvd setup question

2007-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's directory structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on ubuntu machine all file structure seems present and correct. However as soon as that DVD

Re: lost sources.list file during atempted upgrade

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:51:00PM -0500, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hello, >Thanks for your reply. I've included my sources.list file below. I am > getting this error with the file, any suggestions on what to do with it? > I've run the apt-get update many times each with t

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found > that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum > behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various > failure situations, wh

aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-12 Thread Nick Boyce
In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various failure situations, which is unhelpful, to say the least. For example: Although it helpf

Re: Files/directories dated 2012?

2007-12-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Robert Bond wrote: I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down to the fact that many files and directories on my

Re: back to basics: what's wrong with this exim condition statement?

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:03:29PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > nevermind - I finally figured it out... do tell Bob! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

back to basics: what's wrong with this exim condition statement?

2007-12-12 Thread Bob Goldberg
nevermind - I finally figured it out...

Re: how to use ted?

2007-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 07:10:44 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I installed ted on Sid and expected to be able to edit a new > rtf doc. > > No such luck, it just sits and stares at me. > > Anybody able to edit a new doc with ted? Why do you want to attach a turtle excluder device to you

Re: how to use ted?

2007-12-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
> I installed ted on Sid and expected to be able > to edit a new rtf doc. > > No such luck, it just sits and stares at me. > > Anybody able to edit a new doc with ted? Hugo I tried the ted rtf editor under Debian Etch and had no problems creating new documents -- Stanley C. K

Re: import in kino from screen recording tools (avi, mov, ?)

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Werner
Hi, On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:36:41PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > But I can't to import them on Debian Etc with kino. > I get an error message: > Failed to load media file > "/dfat32/Iskola/SketchUp video folveteleim/sketchup.avi.dv" > or > Failed to load media file "/dfat32/Iskola/SketchUp video

import in kino from screen recording tools (avi, mov, ?)

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! Debian Etch is my system. I have installed kino and I want with it to edit some screen recording videos. The screen recording I have done on win 32 with free software, like krut, camstudio, icord, taksi. These screen recording tools can to save video files in avi & mov formats. But I can

Re: Files/directories dated 2012?

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0800, Robert Bond wrote: > I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ > packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared > to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down > to

Files/directories dated 2012?

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Bond
I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down to the fact that many files and directories on my system had a modifica

Re: NFS setup

2007-12-12 Thread Jesus Arocho
Do user names, uid, and gid match on the NFS server and the client? This will also have to be true for group names and uid. On Wednesday 12 December 2007 14:10:09 Peter Werner wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:56:57PM -0300, iuri de araujo sampaio wrote: > > I would like to know if i hav

Re: NFS setup

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Werner
Hi, On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:56:57PM -0300, iuri de araujo sampaio wrote: > I would like to know if i have done everything properly on the server > and client machine. did you do "exportfs -a" or restart/reload nfs-kernel-server after editing /etc/exports? > i can ping between each machine. I

Re: NFS setup

2007-12-12 Thread Patter
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:00:20 +0100, iuri de araujo sampaio wrote: > I have installed nfs to the server via.. > sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap nfs-kernel-server > > I have installed nfs to the client via.. > sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap > > > My desktop is the server mach

Re: How to stop a pkg being updated to the latest with Apt

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Werner
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > How do I prevent the fltk package being upgraded using Apt? put the package on hold. see 6.12 in http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html on how to do this. greetings Peter Werner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

How to stop a pkg being updated to the latest with Apt

2007-12-12 Thread Nigel Henry
Apologies, as this question applies directly to my Fedora installs, where I've always used Apt. I also run Debian Sarge.Etch. and Lenny. I don't expect any replies from the Fedora list, as Yum is the default package manager. Anyway. This is the problem. I've had problems with ZynAddSubFX, and f

Re: lost sources.list file during atempted upgrade

2007-12-12 Thread Thilo Six
Dave wrote the following on 12.12.2007 18:51 > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free deprecated since sarge (oldstable) iirc -- Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: network modules loading?

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:09:16AM -0500, Dave wrote: > Hello, >Newbie to Debian. I've got a 4.0 system with two nics in it, one a > realtek 8139, the other a 3com 3c905. One is configured via dhcp, the other > will be via static. I read that /etc/modules contains the names of kernel > drive

Re: lost sources.list file during atempted upgrade

2007-12-12 Thread Dave
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I've included my sources.list file below. I am getting this error with the file, any suggestions on what to do with it? I've run the apt-get update many times each with the same msg. Check me on this, comment out the stable lines and uncomment the testing lin

Re: network modules loading?

2007-12-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Dave([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, >Newbie to Debian. I've got a 4.0 system with two nics in it, one a > realtek 8139, the other a 3com 3c905. One is configured via dhcp, the other > will be via static. I read that /etc/modules contains the names of kernel > drivers l

Re: KDE doesn't connect to HAL

2007-12-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:16:32 +0100, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > Dear Charlie, > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 22:55, Charlie wrote: > > You have installed hal? > > > > # apt-get install hal > > yes, I did. And /usr/sbin/hald (which is part of the hal package) > is running. Run lshal --monitor

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 13:50:59 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:45:45PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Dear Debian Users, > > > > I've been trying for a long time to record from my sound card's PCM > > out to a Wave file. I've tried many things, but all I get is silence!

Re: galeon and mutt

2007-12-12 Thread Gerard Robin
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:22:41PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Subject: Re: galeon and mutt X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=4.0 tests=AWL,LD

Re: galeon and mutt

2007-12-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 12/12/07, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > with xterm installed in my box, when I clicked on an address e-mail > galeon opened mutt in an xterm. > Now I have removed xterm and I installed roxterm instead, but when I > click on an address e-mail nothing happens. > How can I

NFS setup

2007-12-12 Thread iuri de araujo sampaio
Hi all, I´ve read other threads on this and posted some of my problems. As it stands i am stuck, so forgive me for starting a new thread in what i think is the right section. My aim is to share my backup folder to the other computers on my home network. The location of this folder is home/backup

galeon and mutt

2007-12-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, with xterm installed in my box, when I clicked on an address e-mail galeon opened mutt in an xterm. Now I have removed xterm and I installed roxterm instead, but when I click on an address e-mail nothing happens. How can I set galeon so that it opens mutt via roxterm ? tia -- Gérard

Re: lost sources.list file during atempted upgrade

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:05:34AM -0500, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >I'm a newbie to Debian Etch but not new to Linux in general. >I was reading the Debian Reference doc section 5.2 going to upgrade from > i believe the terms are Etch Stable to testing. I did a > cp -f so

Re: how to use ted?

2007-12-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I installed ted on Sid and expected to be able to edit a new rtf doc. No such luck, it just sits and stares at me. Anybody able to edit a new doc with ted? Forget ted. Oowriter does it very nicely. Sorry. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: no email

2007-12-12 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/11/2007 10:56 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm subscribed to the digest of this list, and used to > regularly receive email. Suddenly, it stopped. I resubscribed, but > still am receiving nothing. I now follow the list via the web. > > Has anyone else had this issue? Hi Mark --

Re: System Lockup - Thanks

2007-12-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:50:26PM +0100, strawks wrote: > > I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard > > with an Iceape screen open. > > > I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then > > Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. > >

Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?

2007-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 07:40:25 am Kent West wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:29:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On 12/11/07 20:20, Michael Pobega wrote: > startx /usr/bin/startkde > >>> > >>> Remembering that, I tried "startx sta

Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?

2007-12-12 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:29:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/11/07 20:20, Michael Pobega wrote: startx /usr/bin/startkde Remembering that, I tried "startx startkde", but that bombed. Now I know why... Why? I _think_ Ron is saying that earlier

Re: X server crashes everything

2007-12-12 Thread Kent West
Andrew Varner wrote: Hi I have a problem with the X server. When I type 'X', the screen goes black and everything stops. SysRq+b doesn't even work. Is it likely that I am missing the driver? The video driver is where I would start. I'd shoot for the lowest common denominator to start, by "dpk

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-12 Thread iuri de araujo sampaio
Hi Amit, good to know you did not have problems at all. I run Ubuntu on AMD64 platform. Plus a debian etch server on AMD 32bits platform. I just amazed how beauty is it!! iuri On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 23:59 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:56:10 +0900 > js <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

2007-12-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Márcio Luciano Donada: > Jochen Schulz escreveu: >> >> What part of the message don't you understand? You are trying to >> install a kernel image in a version which you already have >> installed. Overwriting the /lib/modules/ directory >> might be a bad idea and that's why you should probably mov

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

2007-12-12 Thread dulev
> without the mail server. So just move the 2.6.18 for a 2.6.18.old? > > > mx:/lib/modules# ls -alh > total 32K > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4,0K 2007-10-03 15:22 . > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 12K 2007-12-07 16:59 .. > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K 2007-10-03 14:29 2.6.18 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0

how to use ted?

2007-12-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I installed ted on Sid and expected to be able to edit a new rtf doc. No such luck, it just sits and stares at me. Anybody able to edit a new doc with ted? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Bob wrote: >Bob wrote: >> Is there such a thing? >> >> When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address >> from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. >> >Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a >preferred work around for this? How d

Re: Compile Error, Debian 2.6.23.9

2007-12-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Telly Williams wrote: I may be dense but what exactly are you compiling? The 2.6.23.9 kernel obtained from kernel.org. Kernel recompiling works on my Microtel without errors. Like the error said, it looks like a hardware error dealing with the USB port, but I l

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

2007-12-12 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz escreveu: > Márcio Luciano Donada: >> We have an HP server with 8Gb of memory, but the system is >> recognizing just 4Gb. Baixei the sources of kernel to the >> compilation of the PAE module, but when I install the new kernel >> I have t

network modules loading?

2007-12-12 Thread Dave
Hello, Newbie to Debian. I've got a 4.0 system with two nics in it, one a realtek 8139, the other a 3com 3c905. One is configured via dhcp, the other will be via static. I read that /etc/modules contains the names of kernel drivers loaded at boot. I checked this file expecting to see the nam

Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?

2007-12-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:29:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/11/07 20:20, Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:36:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, To enter GNOME, I type "startx". I tried entering KDE by typing "startkde" which I what I remember doing a c

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-12 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Wed December 12 2007 10:58 am, hce wrote: > Almost, but it has following error for certificates, it seems that was > a ssl proglem, but I don't know how to fix it: > > Dec 12 21:50:42 debian postfix/master[2740]: reload configuration > /etc/postfix Dec 12 21:50:42 debian postfix/qmgr[4881]: B7BF

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

2007-12-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Márcio Luciano Donada: > > We have an HP server with 8Gb of memory, but the system is recognizing > just 4Gb. Baixei the sources of kernel to the compilation of the PAE > module, but when I install the new kernel I have the following message > system: What part of the message don't you understand?

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-12 Thread hce
On 12/12/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > > > > $ /usr/sbin/postconf -n > > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases > > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases > > append_dot_mydomain = yes > > biff = no > > canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical > > config_directory = /etc/pos

OT: Turion64 motherboard?

2007-12-12 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, My Turion64 notebook's motherboard is dying, and since replacing it costs more than another notebook (which I already bought...), I'm hoping to use the CPU in a little media-center/file-server box. Does anyone have experience of using Turion64 CPUs on desktop boards? I'd prefer Mini

Kernel (Enable PAE)

2007-12-12 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List We have an HP server with 8Gb of memory, but the system is recognizing just 4Gb. Baixei the sources of kernel to the compilation of the PAE module, but when I install the new kernel I have the following message system: You are attempting to

Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Benjamin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find > > > / -print ...". Instead use tar, like: > > > >

lost sources.list file during atempted upgrade

2007-12-12 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm a newbie to Debian Etch but not new to Linux in general. I was reading the Debian Reference doc section 5.2 going to upgrade from i believe the terms are Etch Stable to testing. I did a cp -f sources.list sources.list.old and later discovered that both files were of zero length.

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. This is a well know bug [0] and there are a lot of posts about it but no consensus on a work around. Any help? Thanks [0] it's so

Re: System Lockup

2007-12-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:05:22PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Were you by chance using flashplayer? When I used to use the flash > package I got random crashes and lock ups...When I realized that flash > was the cause of these lockups I stopped using it

Debian kernel with make uImage?

2007-12-12 Thread André Berger
I have pulled the latest security fixed 2.6.18 sources and extracted them with "dpkg-source -x *dsc", copied my .config, run "make oldconfig". Will "make uImage" result in a security fixed kernel now, or are there any commands I would have to run manually if not using "make-kpkg kernel_image"? -

X server crashes everything

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Varner
Hi I have a problem with the X server. When I type 'X', the screen goes black and everything stops. SysRq+b doesn't even work. Is it likely that I am missing the driver? Everything installed is the stable version. It's an HP laptop with a GeForce Go video card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: KDE doesn't connect to HAL

2007-12-12 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Dear Charlie, On Tuesday 11 December 2007 22:55, Charlie wrote: > You have installed hal? > > # apt-get install hal yes, I did. And /usr/sbin/hald (which is part of the hal package) is running. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:56:10 +0900 js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think debian works well on my ppc mac (iBook). > I would buy thinkpad or something. > > > Really? I am running Debian Etch on a PowerBook G4 and have no problems at all. In fact, I really did not have to hack around or