Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:12, Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 3:59 PM, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up bogofilter to deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to a known mailing

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote: Nigel Henry writes: I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works fine with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to deal

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:22, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/09/08 14:59, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up bogofilter to deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to a known mailing list that wasn't too

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Henry
Ron Johnson wrote: ATA converter cable? Where does the power come from? I've only heard of HDDs in external USB enclosures. The fact that it works on WinXP should've given you a clue :) It has a seperate power cable that plugs straight into the wall outlet. --andrew -- GnuPG Key ID:

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Henry
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/08/08 12:37, Andrew Henry wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: ATA converter cable? Where does the power come from? I've only heard of HDDs in external USB enclosures. The fact that it works on WinXP should've given you a clue :) Not really, since I'm not clued

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 07 January 2008 18:51, joseph lockhart wrote: Don't blame DEBIAN. I'm getting hit hard from everywhere!!! phishing and Nigerian is up significantly. A huge increase from previous months. On 1/7/08, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: I

detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Henry
I have connected a laptop hdd to another laptop using a usb to ata converter cable. The laptop has an sata drive and the internal drive i have hanging off the usb cable is ata, and fdisk -l does not recognise the device at all, but WinXP does see it OK when I boot into Windows. Does the USB to

Re: kmail: spam filtering

2008-01-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 07 January 2008 22:00, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 11:50 AM, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to set up bogofilter on Kmail to filter out spam from mailing lists? Why not use the spam filter wizard in kmail? Last I used it, the spam filtering wizard

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

2007-12-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote: 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

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

2007-12-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 15 December 2007 22:28, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:46:58PM +0100, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: How do I prevent

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

xsane-0.993 backport for Etch?

2007-12-09 Thread Andrew Henry
I have installed Etch on a laptop being used as a SSH server and printer/scanner server but I need xsane 0.993 to be able to use my Canon Pixma MP450 multifunction printer and Etch comes with 0.991. Does anyone know if there is a DEB for a later version of Xsane out there on the net? Yes I have

Where is LUKS passphrase stored?

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Henry
I am about to wipe my server and reinstall, and I have an external 1394a disk that is encrypted with LUKS and dmcrypt. Is the passphrase stored in the header of the partition on the external drive? If it is then it should not be an issue to reinstall my server but if it is stored anywhere on the

Test (and really annoyed)

2007-12-05 Thread Nigel Henry
Just a test ,as I've just had 3 replies to mailing list refused, as below. - These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail server: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Failed; 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address) Remote MTA liszt.debian.org: SMTP diagnostic: 550 5.7.1

Re: Test (and really annoyed)

2007-12-05 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 19:02, Nigel Henry wrote: Just a test ,as I've just had 3 replies to mailing list refused, as below. - These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail server: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Failed; 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address

Re: Installing xfce on existing Etch gnome install

2007-12-02 Thread Andrew Henry
Well, I installed the single xfce4 meta package and it dragged in a few extras and it all seems to work great, but I miss some of the Gnome applet stuff, so I guess I will look into the plugins etc that you mentioned Micha. Thanks for the replies. --andrew -- GnuPG Key ID: ECB18ABA

Installing xfce on existing Etch gnome install

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Henry
Is this easy to do? Is it as simple as installing an xfce meta package and then selecting xfce as the desktop when logging in? I've never tried using multiple desktop environments before and wonder if there any caveats I need to be aware of. --andrew -- GnuPG Key ID: ECB18ABA Fingerprint:

Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nice guide. it was definitely part of my list of open tabs when I was setting up my encrypted laptop. He's got some other good ones there as well. A Somethings broken :( I followed the guide to the letter, and it all seemed to work wonderfully. Then the

Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: It comes down to this. Backups -- if its something you don't want to have to go through the work to replace, then you should back it up. Even if it's something that can't be lost because you have original cds lying around, is the *effort* to re-rip it all something

LVM and encrypted partitions

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Henry
I recently installed the latest Debian stable on a server and chose encrypted LVM using the guided partitioning option. I chose seperate partitions for /home, /var, /tmp, / and /usr. All works fine, but I have one query: the first partition was for /boot and is unencrypted. The second

dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Henry
I have a big disk that I cannot backup due to space constraints and want to encrypt it. It is an ext3 external WD MyBook drive. I keep movies music and backups on there so its nothing I cannot lose, but I would hate to spend time ripping all my CDs and DVDs again. I run Debian Etch on the

Re: listening to radio stations

2007-11-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 23 November 2007 18:31, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 11:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Jude. Jude DaShiell, 23.11.2007 15:17: Do any command line tools exist in debian that will allow a user to listen

Re: Internet Problem

2007-11-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:57, Bill Smith wrote: Henrique Rennó wrote: I have a Windows XP machine connected to the Internet and an additional network card with a fixed IP configured (192.168.0.5). I connected a crossover network cable to my laptop in which I installed Debian Sarge

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 18 November 2007 20:03, Paul Johnson wrote: On Nov 16, 7:10 pm, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or

Re: netstat output evidence of a cracker?

2007-11-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 10 November 2007 22:40, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El sáb, 10-11-2007 a las 12:46 +, Adam Hardy escribió: [...] I can't see anything running on the server now that might be using those ports, but then if it's rootkitted, I wouldn't would I? Is there a website out there that I

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 01 November 2007 16:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] I am just following Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. The Documentation

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 01 November 2007 21:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:18:35PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: ... I'm not sure which packages are required to upgrade the alsa driver on Debian, and any help/suggestions would be welcome, not only for me, but perhaps Richard

Re: Getting power off to work in Etch...

2007-10-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:58, Digby Tarvin wrote: Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't seem to have helped. I know the hardware can do it, because it worked with the very old version of

Re: Getting power off to work in Etch...

2007-10-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:58, Digby Tarvin wrote: Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't seem to have helped. I know the hardware can do it, because it worked with the very old version of

Re: Help Getting Connected to Internet

2007-10-21 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 21 October 2007 22:36, Ed wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:40:12 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: What kind of n.i.c. card in the old computer? You could need a new n.i.c. card in the old computer or the card may need to be reseated. Did that old computer fall off of anything or get hit

Trying to find 80wire ide extension cable in France

2007-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
Sorry for posting this here. I've got one fixed drive, vertical on the front of the machine. the other drives are accessed using a 5 1/4 slot hard drive caddy. This is a carrier that fits in one of my 5 1/4 slots, and I have numerous harddrives in drawers that slot into the caddy. The problem

Re: Anyone got realtime on Lenny now that schedutils is no more?

2007-10-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 06 October 2007 16:31, Nigel Henry wrote: On Saturday 06 October 2007 14:57, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 20:50:46 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I've got realtime working on Etch, with a realtime kernel from the musix repo, along with rtirq, and schedutils

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:50, Raquel wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:38:59 -0400 Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:36:40AM -0700, Raquel wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:14:44 -0400 Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suddenly I'm getting lots of

Re: Anyone got realtime on Lenny now that schedutils is no more?

2007-10-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 06 October 2007 14:57, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 20:50:46 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I've got realtime working on Etch, with a realtime kernel from the musix repo, along with rtirq, and schedutils as a dependency to rtirq. Saying that, rtirq doesn't appear

Anyone got realtime on Lenny now that schedutils is no more?

2007-10-05 Thread Nigel Henry
I've got realtime working on Etch, with a realtime kernel from the musix repo, along with rtirq, and schedutils as a dependency to rtirq. Saying that, rtirq doesn't appear to be running, but the chrt tool in schedutils has worked around the problem, and I have my soundcard set up with a prio of

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 15:27, ankit . wrote: Sir Please help me to install intex RTL 8139d nic on debian 4.0. Debain is unable to detect the nic on it's own. What should I do to install the nic. The technical specification of the nic I am using:

Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
I realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, and have been googling a bit, and found this. http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html It says to add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list, but after running apt-get update, and opening synaptic, I can't find

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 19:16, across.the.universe wrote: hi, you might want to try http://www.64studio.com - this is what i am using. across.the.universe Ideally I was looking to resolve the problem on my Etch, and Lenny installs. Someone I know on the LAU list has just mentioned

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:39, David Baron wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, and have been googling a bit, and found this. http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html It

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 September 2007 01:54, C. G. Montgomery wrote: In linux.debian.user Nigel Henry wrote: I read a while back that earlier versions of lilo could only have 6 entries on the menu. My lilo version is 1:22.6.1-9.3. I think it may not be a limit on the number of lilo entries

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 September 2007 05:04, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/28/2007 03:18 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on Etch yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which shows

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 September 2007 19:43, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/29/2007 12:23 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: I usually keep all kernels. Alright the ones that don't boot properly can go, but sometimes older, non udev ones, are usefull to keep if you are appearing to have problems with the udev ones. I

Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-28 Thread Nigel Henry
All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on Etch yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which shows up in /boot ok, but running lilo doesn't add it to lilo's menu. I read a while back that earlier

My complaints to Murphy about sex spam on the list are being rejected

2007-09-09 Thread Nigel Henry
I've just complained twice about s-x spam that's turning up on the list, and neither of my posts are to be seen anywhere. Murphy seems to be moderating complaints from legitimate users of the list, but allowing spa--ers to do what they like. I've had a few drinks, but am especially pi--ed off

Sex spam again on the list

2007-09-09 Thread Nigel Henry
This has got more than a joke now. We are being bombarded with s-x spam yet again. I can't send it to Spamcop because it will identify the list as the sender. Come on Murphy, get your act together, get the sawn-off out of it's case, and filter these spammers off the list. One way or the other

Re: My complaints to Murphy about sex spam on the list are being rejected

2007-09-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 09 September 2007 20:57, Nigel Henry wrote: I've just complained twice about s-x spam that's turning up on the list, and neither of my posts are to be seen anywhere. Murphy seems to be moderating complaints from legitimate users of the list, but allowing spa--ers to do what they like

Re: Sex spam again on the list

2007-09-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 09 September 2007 21:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: This has got more than a joke now. We are being bombarded with s-x spam yet again. ... Sorry if this sounds a bit sarcastic, but I'm feeling sarcastic

Re: Sex spam again on the list

2007-09-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 09 September 2007 22:41, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 21:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: This has got more than a joke now. We are being bombarded

downgrade

2007-09-08 Thread Henry Yuniarfan
how to downgrade debian etch from 4.r1 to 4.r0 thanks before

Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)

2007-09-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 07 September 2007 05:30, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but

unsuscribe

2007-08-31 Thread Henry
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Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 03:27, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:50:14PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Any comments, suggestions, and including go and get a life, welcome. This is no big deal, but would be nice to resolve this problem. So its a script in /etc/network/ip

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 22:52, Sven Joachim wrote: Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before closing this post, and I've still got tail -f /var/log/messages running. I keep getting every 20 mins debian -- MARK -- . What's that all about? It's only the syslogd who tells you

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:19, Joey Hess wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: It obviously didn't work, and appears that if a script is in /etc/init.d, and there are no links to it in the runlevel directories, the script is run anyway. I think that avahi may be started by /etc/network/if-up.d

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 03:53, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: On Monday 27 August 2007 03:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Since this is all happening in /etc/rcS.d, I'd suggest booting with init=/bin/sh and running the /etc/rcS.d scripts

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:42:51PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I've had this problem for a while. When booting Debian Lenny, and perhaps Etch as well. When booting up I've had the following output trying to access 224.0.0.251. eth0

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:53, Avi Rozen wrote: Looks like zeroconf traffic (avahi/mdns), maybe try: /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop and see what happens. HTH, Avi. Thanks for that Avi. As soon as your first line mentioned zeroconf, bells started to ring in my head. Zeroconf has caused

Re: How to disable ipv6

2007-08-26 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 26 August 2007 15:34, Alber wrote: Hi! Have the same problem on Debian Etch. What have been done: in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases alias net-pf-10 ipv6 changed to alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off (problem exist) on next stage: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist blacklist ipv6 (problem

Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-26 Thread Nigel Henry
I've had this problem for a while. When booting Debian Lenny, and perhaps Etch as well. When booting up I've had the following output trying to access 224.0.0.251. eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions lp0: using

Re: Problem accessing PS/2 mouse using input core

2007-08-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 23 August 2007 13:13, Isidor Zeuner wrote: Dear mailing list subscribers, after upgrading from kernel 2.4.31 to 2.6.21 on a debian box I'm not able to use the PS/2 mouse (Logitech optical) anymore. On kernel 2.4.31 it worked fine using the character device driver. As this driver

Re: dpms setting does not work for vesa

2007-08-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:46, - Tong - wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:33:55 +, - Tong - wrote: My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more: $ xset dpms force off server does not have extension for dpms option xset: unknown option force load/enable the following

Re: carte son : snd_hda_intel

2007-08-21 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 18 August 2007 11:33, Jean-Michel OLTRA wrote: Bonjour, Le vendredi 17 août 2007, Nigel Henry a écrit... Pour votre problème avec Xmms. As tu le paquet alsa-oss installé? Je voix que Xmms utilise liboss. J'installe le paquet alsa-oss toujours, et ça c'est peut être

Re: shutdown

2007-08-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 16:02, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:00:13 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's more a kernel thingy, along with some hardware. Anyway. when you get Grubs menu, select the kernel you want to boot, then press a. Do one space, and add

Can you disable SMP in the kernel by appending the kernel line in GRUB

2007-08-20 Thread Nigel Henry
I've been trying to help someone on the list with acpi related shutdown problems, with no success up to now. When I had shutdown problems with FC5 (fixed with using acpi=force), someone on the Fedora list suggested that it could be a problem with SMP kernels. I Googled a bit the other day, and

Re: Can you disable SMP in the kernel by appending the kernel line in GRUB

2007-08-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 20 August 2007 19:24, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: I've been trying to help someone on the list with acpi related shutdown problems, with no success up to now. When I had shutdown problems with FC5 (fixed with using acpi=force), someone on the Fedora

Re: french accents

2007-08-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 18 August 2007 21:01, Phill Atwood wrote: This isn't debian specific, but I'm wondering if someone could point me to a good resource for understanding how-to enter french accents into, for example, emails. I know that it is probably got something to do with locales and character

Re: carte son : snd_hda_intel

2007-08-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 August 2007 12:04, Jean-Michel OLTRA wrote: Bonjour, Le jeudi 16 août 2007, Franck Joncourt a écrit... Lenny avec noyau 2.6.21-2-amd64 lspci me donne : Audio Device : nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio Et voila la mienne : Audio device: nVidia

Re: shutdown

2007-08-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 16:02, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:00:13 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's more a kernel thingy, along with some hardware. Anyway. when you get Grubs menu, select the kernel you want to boot, then press a. Do one space, and add

Re: shutdown

2007-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 12 August 2007 21:29, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:28:47 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: shutdown Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I'm using Debian Etch. My machine does not completely shutdown

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-08 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:27, Philipp Marek wrote: Hello Nigel, On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote: ... Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after some updates a bit back, now gives me a kernel to old message. anyway, looking at synaptic

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:36, Ph. Marek wrote: Hello everybody, I'd like to ask for some help. I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing the whole system. (That would be gnuplot,

Re: Issues with ethernet in testing/lenny

2007-08-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 04 August 2007 08:14, percy tiglao wrote: Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card, at least according to the

Re: Mise à jour des paquets installés

2007-08-04 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 04 August 2007 19:32, Alex PADOLY wrote: Bonjour à tous, J'ai essayé d'installer le paquet cdrecord et le srcipt me renvoie qu'il y a plusieurs paquets dont les dépendances ne sont pas satisfaites, il me propose d'exécuter la commande apt-get -f install. Depuis ma première

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-08-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 19:21, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 00:45:54 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 19:47:51 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] My TV card was set as /dev/video0, and some time later the webcam was set as /dev/video1. this works

Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-07-31 Thread Nigel Henry
I've managed to resolve most of my problems on my own, but Udev has beaten me. Sarge is not a problem, as it's using the 2.4.27, or 2.6.8 kernel, and Udev is not in the equation. Etch has a 2.6.8, and a 2.6.17 kernel, and Lenny has a 2.6.11, and a 2.6.17 kernel. The problem is with the 2.6.17

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-07-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 23:21, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 19:47:51 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I've managed to resolve most of my problems on my own, but Udev has beaten me. Sarge is not a problem, as it's using the 2.4.27, or 2.6.8 kernel, and Udev

Re: what is this in tcpdump?

2007-07-26 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:47, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I get a lot of these in my tcpdump on my machine: 15:45:47.427003 IP basement.ipp 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 129 15:45:48.427004 IP basement.ipp 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 167 192.168.1.31 is my broadcast address, and

Re: ATI 3D Rage and /dev/video0; was /dev/video0.

2007-07-15 Thread Nigel Henry
-686. At Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:19:14 +0200 Nigel Henry wrote, Just a thought, but are you a member of the video group in /etc/group? Yes; I'm in the video group. You may have to reboot. Done. Still no /dev/video0. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xawtv This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686

Re: USB bus fails to see devices

2007-07-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:55, Haines Brown wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if Hugo was responding to my question or some other, but in any case, this allows me to ask a simple question or two. My problem was that the kernel stopped recognizing my camera

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 14 July 2007 23:32, Mastery wrote: I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root partition is full (7GB).What can i do now? Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is

Re: /dev/video0

2007-07-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 09 July 2007 01:59, Helen Easthope wrote: Debian Folk, I'm still trying to get a TV display from the ATI 3D Rage II under Etch. Xawtv complains about absence of /dev/video0. The ati and fglrx drivers are present, hald and udev are alive and I installed the unstable gatos

Re: How to move the master boot record?

2007-06-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 30 June 2007 22:41, Felix Karpfen wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:33:09 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:33:09 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to do so beacuse: now I'm still using Debian Sarge, which is installed in hda6; I want to install Debian Etch in

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 29 June 2007 13:39, Chris Lale wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Nigel. Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:08, Chris Lale wrote: Some of my Etch sound apps have stopped working: Audacity, RealPlayer 10, XMMS. Others continue to work OK: gxine, mplayer, VLC Media

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:08, Chris Lale wrote: Some of my Etch sound apps have stopped working: Audacity, RealPlayer 10, XMMS. Others continue to work OK: gxine, mplayer, VLC Media Player. Hi Chris. Is this a new install of Etch on this machine, and some sound apps just arn't working, or is

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 21 June 2007 15:55, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that apt-get purge now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an invalid operation. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com I think the last

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:29, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry: That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with the 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:29, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry: That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with the 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:35, Orestes leal wrote: Do you use Frame-Bufer? Sorry. Not sure on that. Where (showing my ignorance) would I check that out? dmesg | grep framebuffer That's just returned me to the prompt. So is that a yes, or a no? Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny

2007-06-17 Thread Nigel Henry
I'd commented out the options DPMS line in my xorg.conf, so that the monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or so, and up to last nights updates, (including a load of X stuff) this had been working ok. This morning after installing all the updates, I rebooted the machine,

Re: What's this error message telling me?

2007-06-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 17 June 2007 19:21, Telly Williams wrote: Here's what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: ephome:/home/telly# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed

Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny

2007-06-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:40, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I'd commented out the options DPMS line in my xorg.conf, so that the monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or so, and up to last nights updates, (including

Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny

2007-06-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 18 June 2007 00:34, Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I'd commented out the options DPMS line in my xorg.conf, so that the monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
, then go to the top Nigel Henry a écrit : On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
Bonnel Christophe wrote: I remember an old option in kernel that asked you which size of ram you think to be used. This option seems to have disappeared now. If you want a 2.6.11 kernel, try to compile the kernel and search for such an option... Christophe Nigel Henry a écrit

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 15 June 2007 19:50, Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo

problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Nigel Henry
I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) + (shift). Someone mentioned using xkbprint, but I'm darned if I can find out how to use it, or

Re: problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 June 2007 18:33, Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/11/2007 11:15 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr

Re: selecting default browser under icedove

2007-06-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:48, andy wrote: Hi all I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't seen anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced configuration/browsers section,

Re: Realplayer10 probleme avec artsdsp

2007-06-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 07 June 2007 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonjour, quand j'essaye de lire un fichier avec Realplayer10 (basé su helix) j'obtiens le message d'erreur suivant: cannot open the audio device. another application may be using it Le probleme est que les options ne permettent pas de

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