Re: Command Line and Video Capture/Tuner Cards

2006-06-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:44:00PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > In Linux, is it possible to use the command line to > command one of those video capture/tuner cards to begin recording > to a file? Yes. I have a PVR-150, and I use it with cat. ivtvctl for the codec parameters ivtv-tune -

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:01:36PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my > computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to > testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch > freeze

Re: javadoc like system for C wanted

2006-04-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > I'm looking for some opensource software that will allow me to embed > documentation into C source files--similar to the way javadoc allows > documentation inside of Java source files. try doxygen Frank > Cw

Re: Xorg driver for old S3 cards in unstable

2006-04-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:23:45PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:23, David Goodenough wrote: > > But the xserver-xorg-video-s3 package only seems to include the > > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-s3 directory and its changelog and > > a copyright. No driver. Tha

Re: usb2 to fast

2006-02-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:43:10PM +0100, nicals wahlgren wrote: > Is there a way to slow an usb connection to usb1 speed? I can think of two ways : * rmmod ehci_hcd (remove the usb2 host controller driver, that should force 1.1 for everything) * put an usb1 hub between the two. However, I am n

Re: Which video card is supported for a DEC Alpha?

2006-02-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:31:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Debian Linux v. 3.1 (sarge) for an Alpha computer system. I > am using a DEC Alpha motherboard 164-LX running at 533 MHZ. I have tried > using a Matrox Millennium II video card in both MGA and VGA modes and ha

Re: for the lllovvve off gggood

2006-01-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:17:49PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > theo wrote: > > thanks for your answer... > > in the meantime i figured myself that "xset r off" would help but "xset > r rate 200 50" doesn't fix it... > > it's like my old post above.. the repeatition of keys is random if not > turned off

Re: wildcard and variable expansion

2005-12-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > export MASTER_HOST=`hostname` > export FILE_PATH=some_file_path > pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c 'scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:' Have you tried double quotes ? pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c "scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:" Frank -- "Debuggin

Re: Deleted auth.log

2005-12-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:50:28AM +1100, Arafangion wrote: > This leads to an interesting question - are there any tools that can reveal > "lost" files - those who no-longer have an entry in the fs, but are still > open? lsof can do that Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the c

Re: Default Route On Boot.

2005-11-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:54:11PM -, Nick Porter wrote: > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.42 > netmask 225.225.225.0 This is wrong : should be 255.255.255.0 Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first pl

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:13:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) > is there a way of having several active terminal windows? > > I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling >

Re: Hot-pluggable SCSI devices

2005-10-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:28:37PM -0400, John Miller wrote: > Note: I've also posted this to debian-isp, but I figure that there might > be some more eyes on this list. > > Does anyone know which kernels support hot-pluggable SCSI devices? I'm > trying to add a new disk to our Dell PowerEdge 240

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:18:18AM -0400, Ralph Eagle wrote: > Ran the tar through buffer: Yes, but you didn't give tar an output block size. > shinzon:~# find /usr/kbmosas/std | buffer | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T - Try: mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 32768 find /usr/kbmosas/std | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T -b 64 -

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > PEBKAC? Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair, or user error. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not

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: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:43:43PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > > > ticked. The help file says: > > > > > > Use Router As DHCP Server

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:18:43PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > googling hasn't helped. > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems

Re: Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

2005-09-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:20:01PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" > and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Normally, /usr/bin/time -v, but apparently since 2.4 kernels a lot of information is not available. Fran

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > for anyone who might benefit from this in future ... it's a DLink problem. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01093.html It is not necessary to turn off dhcp. Just add a "prepend domain-name-servers" line to /etc/

Re: Embedded SQL with Postgres

2005-08-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: > > If you must use embedded SQL, the libecpg-dev package includes/depends > > on the necessary libraries, headers, and ESQL preprocessor (ecpg). > > > > No, I have already tried that package... According to

Re: Funny Dependencies !

2005-07-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:51:50AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > # apt-get install libc6-dev > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > linux-kernel-headers > > Huh, why do we need kernel headers to compile "Hello World" ?

Re: Sid wants to kill off abiword, aspell, and gedit

2005-07-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0400, Joe Potter wrote: > I figure that someone at Debian hates the editors I like. What to do? Just wait. Sid is migrating to gcc 4.0. That means recompiling all software written in C++, which has to be done gradually and takes time. Frank -- "Debugging is t

Re: debugfs on RAID volume

2005-07-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:10:34AM +0400, George Chelidze wrote: > Hello, > > (It's not debian related question, but general linux question so maybe > someone has a clue) > > I have removed a number of files yesterday on one of my boxes (RH 7.3) > and now would like to recover them. I have used

Re: Space recovery

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:45:41PM -0400, John Graves wrote: > I am still discovering what I don't know...Among that is why after I > deleted a 17GB error log, df does not report that space as usable. Is > there some process I need to start after deletion to actually recover > that space? > T

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:29:40AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me explain > what I am trying to do. > > There are not currently any ports forwarded from the firewall to this > computer and we do not have any access to the f

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:15:31AM -0500, Luke Pacholski wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > > > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > > > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ > > I was actually reading that as I was going through

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:00:40AM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: > > Hello. > > I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to > 3.1 stable > and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of > course). > > This is is the text I get: > > ...

Re: how chk memory for printers

2005-06-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:46:22PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:35 +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Does CUPS care ? Do you print using Postscript or PCL ? > > Well I'm no printer guru... > > I use PS so I guess CUPS just bangs each page in one g

Re: how chk memory for printers [was: [Bit OT] Printers]

2005-06-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:22:45PM +0100, michael wrote: > While I think of it, do I need to do anything to get CUPS etc to know > that I've put extra memory into my Brother printer? I vaguely recall > somewhere it thought it still had the default (16Mb?) but I've stuck an > additional 128Mb stick

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:06:43AM +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > I have a HL-5150D too, and I have problems with some PDF files too. I use > the postscript driver and the printer is supposed to support postscript > but still some pages fail to print. I get a Syntax error message printed. I use a

Re: Where did the unstable branch of the debian archives (ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/) go?

2005-06-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:38:17AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > Hi all, > > I am not sure I am posting in the right place, so please let me know if > it is so. Thanks. > > For a few days now, I noticed that the non-US packages on the mirrors I > use for apt/aptitude/synaptic are unreachable. I

Re: apt or aptitude on sarge

2005-06-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:21:26PM +0100, michael wrote: > I note that it seems that aptitude is recommended over apt for Sarge. I > was wondering if it's as str forward as just using aptitude from now on? > eg I do not have to rebuild anything the first time i use aptitude (ie > it uses the same d

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:36:21AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > >if resizing / really cannot be done, maybe create a new /lib partition > >instead Don't do this! /lib, /bin and /etc MUST be on your root filesystem or the system won't boot. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the co

Re: debian sarge/testing question

2005-05-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:42:17PM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote: > Hi, > I have some questions about the upcoming Debian Sarge and the testing > version Sarge right now: > > -is software raid suported during the installation like red hat does? > Can I create software raid /dev/md* devices and boo

Re: bash, perl, C

2005-01-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:18:33AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:32:57AM +1300, Andrew Walbran wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 6:28 am, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > Hello, > > > can someone explain to me if it is possible that the functions sleep of C > > > and Perl work like

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:54 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > >> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB RAM > >> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with such a > >> slow

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 04:17:38PM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hi all, > > (Another question, new thread Appreciate all the > help as I try to understand Debian and Linux.) > > I have a machine running Debian Woody that's being > used as a server--no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. I > h

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:39:51AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wim De Smet wrote: > >Calling people islamic terrorists is about the same as claiming that > >Islam is responsible for their actions. > > Facts are facts. Outside of a few isolated incidents with the Irish > where has the majority

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:26:36AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > > Yuck! OK, thanks Ron. Unfortunately, this machine > (circa 1998) has only 1 PCI slot, which is occupied by > my wireless card. (The video is onboard.) Forgive my > ignorance, but would an ISA video card work? Yes, but I doubt w

Re: Program to display process information (especially sockets)

2004-12-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:28:35PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 15:19 +0700, David Garamond wrote: > > Anyone knows of a program (command-line or GUI) to display process > > information, e.g. which TCP/UDP/Unix sockets are used by the process > > and what are their ports/hosts/

Re: how to mount a scsi scanner

2004-12-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:30:58PM +, Rob Clack wrote: > I'm running Debian (3? Don't know how to tell) with an Agfa snapscan > scanner attached to a scsi card. Provided the scanner is switched on > when I boot the linux box, all is well and Gimp can scan stuff in fine. > I have xsane inst

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:47:50PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very > > fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of > > xml documents... > Has

Re: Looking for a potato mirror

2004-12-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:23:40PM +0100, Jim MacBaine wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Is there still any active mirror for Debian Potato? I've not > found any apt repository except the security and the non-US > ones. http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive has a list. They don't all work anymo

Re: Deleted Partition Recovery ?

2004-12-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:12:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:35 +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > One of my PC have two hard-disks, one is used for > > Linux and other for M$ windows, My young brother > > unfortunatly have deleted the partitions of that >

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:00:29PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > *snip* > > > >Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure > a > >client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot > >workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware co

Re: which mouse?

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:59:15AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:34:11 +0100, todag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a utility I can run to reinitialize the mouse/mouse driver? I can > > live without the mouse wheel, but it would be nice if I could get it back > > with

Re: echo server?

2004-12-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Does Debian offer an echo server? I can't seem to find one in the > package list. Thanks, A. I think you just have to enable echo in /etc/inetd.conf, and restart inetd Frank > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: putting ascii keys in a script

2004-12-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:29:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Robert Vangel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.09.0154 +0100]: > > what about > > > > echo -e "\n" > > echo -e "\012" > > (that's octal) IIRC the OP wanted character 13, that is "\r" or "\015" Frank > -- > Please do n

Re: setting GTK 1 font size

2004-12-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:22:51AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:14:46 -0200, Rog?rio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 05 2004, Stephen Patterson wrote: > > > Everything's looking good apart for the rather huge font size on the few > > > remaining gtk1 programs (xmms

Re: OT: down with memory protection!

2004-12-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:38:38PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > and the compiler and programmer could be required to prove that the code > > would not loop forever without calling yield. > > This is provably impossible. Reference "the halting problem". Not really. Let the programmer try to pr

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:55:15PM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > I was testing some stuff that needed rebooting my sarge installation an > I tought to myself that it was a waste of time to startup X at every > boot > So I headed to /etc/inittab to change it to runlevel 3... but I was > amaze

Re: Problem Installing Debian 3.0r1 on HP Visualize C3700 workstation

2004-11-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:47:06PM -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I am experimenting with Debian 3.0r1 and have a Visualize C3700 workstation. I guess [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be more helpful than debian-user for this. Frank > I have downloaded the > HPPA images and have gone

Re: ssh -X woes

2004-11-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:58:23AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It has `xauth` but in a different place... > > ~$ which -a xauth > /usr/bin/X11/xauth > > SO what else may I need to set up? Does the server accept X forwarding (i.e. does /etc/ssh/sshd_config have "X11Forwarding yes") ? Frank

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- > > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. > > How do you get it? Thanks find .

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:12:22PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:50, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:15:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > >> So I'd like to know if there is any easy way to switch between them, > >

Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:50:11AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > Thanks, but what I really want to do is use some of mplayer's other > options to record it to a WAVE file (as I had been doing until it > mysteriously stopped working). I can do it with vsound and realplay, > but that doesn't work as wel

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:15:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > So I'd like to know if there is any easy way to switch between them, > just for local printing. I'm considering adding a second printer > to /etc/printcap with the same device (/dev/lp0) and other > specifications but a different driver,

Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please

2004-11-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:28:32AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > Here's the case here - RAID 1 indeed does not mirror physical disk > errors (else there's no real point in using RAID at all). However, > should there be errors in the disks during reconstruction of the RAID > array, RAID 1

Re: initrd.img and booting

2004-10-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:19:06AM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > Also, is there a URL or reference listing > what should be compiled directly into a kernel to avoid the > need to create an intrd.img? I guess not, because it is specific to your system. In general, all drivers needed to mount your

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hi, > > somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: > > -rw---1 matt matt 16K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.png > -rw---1 matt matt 80K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.wmf > -rw---

Re: Lesson learned / file permissions

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:45:59PM +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > Hi > > In one of my moments last night I thought, why should any of the files in > my home directory need to be world-accessible? I didn't think long about > it before I decided to remove all read, write and execute rights for > w

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:59:24PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/04/2004 11:30 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > | So can we hear from Matrox users about their experiences? > | Particularly, from Linux gamers? > > I have got a Matrox G40

Re: Current State of Linux Input Devices

2004-10-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:36:55PM +0200, Timo Hoenig wrote: > Hi, > > I am carrying out a survey on the current state of Linux input devices. > The results will have influence on my diploma thesis and the > corresponding project which is called Input Abstraction Layer [1]. > > The survey is loca

Re: Compaq LTE 5400/Debian stable - Xfree86 configuration.

2004-10-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:26:05PM +0100, Ian McCall wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Compaq LTE 5400 on stable (Woody), and as ever the > dreaded XFree86 set-up is driving me up the wall. It's a Cirrus Logic > CL5478 card apparently, and has an LCD with 16bit colour 800x600 native > display. Car

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:08:54AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have a problem with my

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4 support

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:56:35AM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > Just out of curiosity, you installed it on the G4 ML350 or was it the > G3 ML350? This was with the 642 raid? I'm not exactly sure. It might be a G3 (I can't check easily, it is at a customer site).I believe it was a 641 raid. Fra

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:07AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > > >Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't > >think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, > >so we might as well have a look at .config. > > > >Frank > > > > alright, let

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4 support

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:15:00PM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > First of all, this is my first usage of the Debian mailing lists, so > if I have mailed this to the wrong list, I apologize and ask that you > simply direct me to a more appropriate list. > > I am interested in the HP Proliant ML350

Re: I've changed keyboards, now how do I change the mapping...

2004-09-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:45:05PM +0200, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, and thanks for your quick reply! > > I just tried both of your suggestions, and dpkg-reconfigure console-data > gave me some text which in part said - "Select keymap from arch list" will > allow you to select one of the predefin

Re: I've changed keyboards, now how do I change the mapping...

2004-09-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:03:06PM +0200, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > I've had to replace my defective US style keyboard with a spare German > style keyboard, but cannot seem to find where/how to reconfigure for the > correct mapping. I chose US style keyboard at install time, and now need >

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:25:12PM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > >>1) video acceleration? I believe the "glxinfo" command should tell you > >>if you have acceleration. > I'm running the drivers i got from the nvidia website, I was not aware > that there were other drivers available for this nvid

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:40:24PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > >recently I installed Debian sarge on a P4 2Ghz machine using the new > >debian-installer. After setting up this new machine, which previously > >ran windows XP, I started noticing that many processes were not

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:19:27AM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:54:13PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:43:07 -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, the most obvious is flashblock. > > > > I don't think that's what Pigeon

Re: Recursive copies of selected files

2004-09-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:28:13AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:09:22PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > > I needed to copy a bunch of files from a directory tree -- but only > > > selected files (say all regular files that end in .foo). I want the > > > destination tree

Re: IDE Bus rescan

2004-09-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:25:07PM +0200, pir aa wrote: > Is there a way to rescan the IDE Bus under Linux. (Not looking at the need of > HW). The only thing I want to know, is if I can rescan the Bus after power on. > I heard about hdparm -U and hdparm -R, but does it really make a rescan and > re

Re: Bridging problem

2004-09-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:51:21PM +0100, Ognjen_Bezanov wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am trying to set up bridge utils but everytime i type "brctl addbr br0" i get the > error message "add bridge failed: Package not installed" yet checking with apt-get > tells me that bridge-utils is installe

Re: Getting disk labels

2004-08-24 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:02:00PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use e2label to get disk labels. But now I also have reiserfs > disk, and e2label won't work on reiserfs disks. > > What is the generic way to get disk labels? I don't think there is a generic way. Labels are filesystem

Re: Woody and HP DL320G2

2004-08-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:54:52PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am preparing to buy a new HP server, a HP DL320G2, and would like to > install Woody onto it. > > The questions I have relate to the: > - On-board NICs, given on the HP site as "Two NC7760 PCI Gigabit Server > Adapt

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:24:01PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I second that recommendation. I always prefer to have passwords with > the following features: > > Minimum of 8 characters > At least 1 capital letter > At least 1 lower case letter > At least 1 number > At least 1 special character

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). Try http://dban.sourcefo

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-06-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:11:14PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 15:51, cecil wrote: > > He says we will only use Ansi C++ > > Then there's no reason you can't use gcc/g++ to do the work. As long as > he doesn't want pre-compiled Windows binaries from you you should be > fi

Re: Is there a utility to get IP address from interface?

2004-06-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:08:12AM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear debian users, > > Is there a utility to simply return the IP address of an interface, say > eth1 or ppp0? I need something that works like: > > $ netutil eth0 > 144.133.251.117 > > ... or is it necessary to use ifconfig some

Re: Username length limit?

2004-06-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:56:45PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Daved Daly wrote: > > So, is it true that the only documentation is the source code? But what > source code should I look at? passwd, pam, glibc, ... ? Those, and all utilities that work with usernames. Traditionally, 8 char usern

Re: resolves all non-existent address to my local host

2004-04-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:05:02PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > > Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:55:47 -0400, marcelo escreveu: > > > >> My debian box (woody) resolves all non-existent hostnames to the local > >> host. > $ cat /etc/bind/domains/redcetus.com > > * CNAME

Re: Will the package search ever be available again?

2004-04-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:41:05PM +0200, Simmel wrote: > Hi Party People, > > the package search on http://search.debian.org/ is down for nearly a month > now, Jeez, will it be repaired? Somebody here who can answer that question? > I tried the "contact", but even this page only brings back "Page

Re: Ogle / DVD playback

2004-04-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've read the DVD playback documentation on the debian site and tried > following it's instructions. > > When I tried to run ogle, I get the error message "Root not set", th

Re: Intel Pro/100 VE

2004-04-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:12:05AM -0400, Paul wrote: > Hey peoples, > I have been trying to get debian to work and have been very > unsuccessful. I just got a Toshiba M35-s320 laptop and have been > trying to install the network adapter with the 3.0r2 disk image. I did > some research and I

Re: new printer: Is there support for HP DeskJet 3550 ?

2004-04-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:28:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > We also have the problem that this computer has only two usb > > ports, so > > > we want to use a serial mouse; What kind of modules do I need to > > > build? I'm using a custom 2.6

Re: Trouble installing nic driver for intel 82562ET

2004-04-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:11:28PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have just intalled the debian 30r2 binary 1 cd for the first time on my second > computer but im having trouble installing my network card. I have the 82562ET > ethernet adapter so after checking on the intel w

exim/ldapm problem

2004-04-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I am using exim with users in an ldap repository. Mail delivery regularly fails with the message: exim: /build/buildd/openldap2-2.0.23/libraries/libldap/error.c:221: ldap_parse_result: Assertion `r != ((void *)0)' failed. 2004-04-01 10:38:02 queue run: process 15364 crashed with signal 6 whi

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:26:19PM +0800, csj wrote: > On 24. March 2004 at 10:51AM +0100, > Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can compile in more than one fb driver. If there is no > > radeon card, the radeonfb driver just won't be used. I >

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-24 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:44:09AM +0800, csj wrote: > On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800, > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, > > Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Okay, I removed drm-trunk so I c

Re: quick help - kernel won't build

2004-03-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:45:38PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > Hi Party people, > > could you please help me out with this. I got a stable system running woody > and I'd like to build a new kernel I've done this a dozen times with > this page http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote: > For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) > under linux 2.6 using the debs from: > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ > > The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. > > Can somebody confirm if

Re: FileSystems, Partition sizes, LARGE files??

2004-01-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:10:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 4. Where I'm only using large files, is the Block Size set to 4k by > default ok or should it be changed higher or lower to 2k or 8k? Higher is better, but AFAIK on x86 you are limited to 4k > 5. Should the number of inodes b

Re: / & /boot lost, re-install?

2004-01-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:06:39PM -0800, David Robinson wrote: > Ok, I was keeping / , /boot, and swap on a small HD and running rest of > file system on larger drive w/ Promise controller(My old MB wouldn't > support such a large drive). Just lost the small HD (it was old). But > kind of pla

Re: Cross Compilers

2004-01-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > working on various platforms, it would ease my job really a lot if I > would find pre-configured/compiled/packaged cross-compilers for Debian > (sarge) built by the pros. Or differently: > > Is anyone aware of a location

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:38:18PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi There: > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked this > question from a fellow friend of mine: > > "Write a program, which promts the uset to enter some numbers. The user > should terminate the sequenc

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help - Thank You

2003-11-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:39:30AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I still must learn about the "/rr_moved" directory which blocks my In case it helps : rr_moved is the name used for a special directory on iso9660 filesystems when using Rock Ridge extensions. IIRC it is needed because standard

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