Jessie KDE desktop doesn't communicate with Java

2014-12-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
I'm running Jessie KDE, updated through today with the following Java installed: openjdk-7-jre:amd64 7u71-2.5.3-2 openjdk-7-jre-headless:amd64 7u71-2.5.3-2 I have the following gnome and libbonobo libraries installed: libgnome-2-0:amd642.32.1-5 lib

Jessie and nvidia

2013-08-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
I installed Jessie on my Lenovo W530, which has two graphics adapters. The relevant lines of lspci are: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K2000M] (rev a1)

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-03-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with > ext2 or reiserfs format? The error message is the same when trying to mount a reiserfs device. My recollection is that it's the same for ext2 as well, and I can confirm

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

2012-03-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:22:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with > ext2 or reiserfs format? My external hard drives are elsewhere, but one of my thumb drives is formatted ext2. I get the same message trying to mount it. Kevin -- To

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:17:21 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Conclusions: > > 1. Back up the MBR and everything else, first! > 2. Be very, very careful when using 'map' to swap drives around > 3. It's probably safest to let DOS/Windows occupy Drive 1, where in its > blinkered arrogan

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:39:43 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :| I'm sorry, that was a typo on my part. The second grep also needs to be > egrep. Or you could drop the u? and use grep on both if you don't have > udeb's mirrored. > > The idea of the command is to return *de

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:23 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Your list has the virtue of being much simpler; I wonder what 5 Gb I have > >that you don't? > > > I'm not sure, what does this command return on your system? > > find pool/ -name "*deb" | egrep -v '_i386\.u?deb$' - |

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:21:55 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now you have me interested. Do you already have a script to mirror only > stable and unstable with rsync? I think I would try only mirroring > stable with such a script, but I thought it would take having a program >

Re: can't make debconf handle X-config

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I make debconf handle the X-configuration? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common It's the first question. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: cant find es1371 (audio) module

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 16 Sep 2003 21:21:46 +1200 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do I load the es1371 kernel module? I need it for my sound card. It > is not in modconf, I can modprobe or modinfo it and it is not in > /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci directory[s]. I am running woody. > > I i

Re: Kernel with initrd, remove unused modules

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:45:48 +0200 Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (I am running sid), which > boots using initrd. Thus, after booting, lsmod shows a lot of unused > modules. I'd like to know which is the clean way (even the > Debian

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:55:50 +0200 francois mounier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but when I run > rsync 192.168.1.2::test/ /var/www > > it returns this error > @ERROR: invalid gid nobody > rsync: connection inexpectedly closed (39 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data str

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:51:35 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > du -hs debian > 15G debian > > One of us does unless another 6.5 GB has been added in the last two > days. I use to be closer to 10GB, and as of last Saturday morning I am > up to 15GB. (I mirror once a week) I tr

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:46:41 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's possible that this is caused by the substantial divergence between > testing and unstable due to glibc 2.3.2 over the last month or so. 6.5Gb > kind of shocks me, but it's a possibility. The binary package archive f

Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to almost 21.5 Gb. Is there really that much material, or do I need to invest

Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:07:43 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that there are a whole host of tools out there that for > imagining/backup, > but I have no experience with any of them. Can anyone out there provide > some pointers and insight? What do you all use? Do

Re: open office spell checking

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:52:19 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the same selection of spell* as you, I opened a new document and > > typed: > > > > Now is the tmie for all goood men to come to the aid of thier party. > > > > "thier" was automatically corrected to "their", but

Re: CUPS admin web site errors

2003-09-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:23:36 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been staring at this for a while yet and haven't found anything to > help me here. > > google.com shows me that this happens with a lot of people out there (or > has in the past) but I haven't found anything to show

Re: open office spell checking

2003-09-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:50:41 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is interesting. Spelling works for me, but I don't have any > myspell* installed : Does it really? With the same selection of spell* as you, I opened a new document and typed: Now is the tmie for all goood men to

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:39:50 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have tips on how to avoid this? Is another aptish (quick from > the command line) dpkging tool out there that points out suggested > related packages on an upgrade? aptitude It can be configured to install re

Re: make-kpkg compiled kernel is too big

2003-08-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:56:09 +0300 Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux is too big > > compiled kernel as follows:- > atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --initrd clean kernel_image > and also tried > atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean binary > > Where could I

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:02:23 +0200 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 5:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution, > > which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandros, etc. > > What bothe

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:40:22 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I beg to differ: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 9% dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc > 126 9528173 > > Seems there are 126 that are not both installed and desired. It shows > all the packages that it knows about. The

Re: automatic overwrite with cp

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:20:49 +0200 alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to > another partition (destination) that has a large number > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is: > > # cp -apRv source/* /d

Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 25 Aug 2003 15:15:27 -0400 Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system. /etc/rcX.d has some > meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it corresponds > to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system passes through

Re: What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > The computer I'm using has two hard discs: > /dev/hda Windows ME > /hev/hdb Linux Debian > > Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to > replace it with XP; > What are the risks

Re: convert RedHat to Debian

2003-08-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a RedHat box and I would like to convert it to Debian. Is it > possible to do it without reformatting the hard drive? If yes, how. > > I am not on the list so please reply to me directly. If yo

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks s

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:58:42 -0400 Mike Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:37, Tom Allison wrote: > > this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. > > lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} > > Firebird would not print for me. I use cups. Changi

Re: kernel source (file name and location)

2003-08-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:00:13 -0700 "M.Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know what the name and location would be as for the > kernel-source in order to get my Ethernet card working. > I was getting an error in line 27 that the kernel source was not able to > be found. I was able to

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Approved

2003-08-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:00:50 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO someone with admin privs should have a script to immediately > unsubcribe the account and send a nice, canned, notification message. > The notification message would be sent "from" the bit-bucket so as to > a

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Approved

2003-08-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:55:14 -0700 "Susan Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am out of the office until 08/24, I will read emails when I am back. > > If this is related to VXL issues, please contact Vissu Burela or my > manager Wai Ho. Well then, I'll add one for you to read, since you rud

Re: Whick kernel ???

2003-08-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:40:08 +0200 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..Victory, at the commandline, run 'apt-get install newbiedoc', > to install Debian's newbie-docs. You _need_ them. Read them. Except that the kernel-pkg document on sourceforge is newer and more complete than the one

Re: Samsung ML-1210 with CUPS on Woody

2003-08-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:12:56 +0200 Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2003, a las 10:44, Kevin McKinley escribe: > > I'm going starkers trying to set up a CUPS server using only stable > > packages(and whatever extra print

Samsung ML-1210 with CUPS on Woody

2003-08-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
I'm going starkers trying to set up a CUPS server using only stable packages (and whatever extra printer-specific file(s) I need). I installed cupsys, cupsys-client, cupsys-bsd, gs and a2ps from stable. I went to www.linuxprinting.org and downloaded the Samsung-ML-1210-gdi.ppd and foomatic-rip fi

Re: How to upgrade kernel and another question about nvidia driver

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:20:25 -0400 (EDT) Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > I just made my X-server work with the help of some > people in the list. Now I have other questions. > I have installed woody on my machine and I think the > kernel version is 2.2.20. Now here are the q

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:20:35 -0600 Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using an ML-1210 with CUPS on a system tracking unstable for > about a year and a half, so sometime in that period it must have been > working with what now is the stable distro... > > The one thing I had to do

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:05:34 -0400 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That sounds like a BIOS problem. I saw it on an Inspiron 8000, when the > > BIOS was upgraded past A17. Reverting to A17 fixed the problem. > > It stopped happening after I switched my BIOS not to do anything when > I close t

Re: cloning Debian?

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:12:17 -0500 Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a working system, and want to clone it to a bigger, newer, faster > one, keeping the old one as a backup... > > I looked at a lot of options, (Dolly, G4u, ...) including Cloneit, and > Partimage, but have tro

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:20:24 -0500 "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. > First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. > I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. > I inst

Re: Newbie Hardware Question

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:23:03 -0400 Hershel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to purchase a new machine on which I hope to install Debian. I > was told by someone that I should insure that the new hardware will be > Linux compatible. I thought that one of Debian's claims to fame is t

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:55:23 -0400 lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I actually got the make file pointed to all the right directories, > kernel-headers-2.4.18bf2.4 and the correct drm firectory in > kernel-source-2.4.18. Ran the make.sh script and ended up with this error: > firegl_publi

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:41:30 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html > > The disturbing thing, as one of my friends commented recently, is: while > it seems ridiculous on the surface, every time I look at it (once a year > or so) it seems

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:03:02 + "Jeff Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > said that RMS is indeed a loser), I'm just saying that RMS shouldn't be > taken at face value anymore, that is all :) I respectfully disagree -- RMS is one of the few people I'm aware of who *should* be taken at face

Re: Building Ati Radeon 9000 module for Debian bf24 Kernel

2003-08-17 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:27:53 -0400 lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I installed Debian I selected the BF24 flavor of the pre built > kernel but I've check and there are no source packages for it. Since I > couldn't find the sources for Bf24 I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.18. I > modifie

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:42:56 -0400 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks- > > I finally got a framebuffer console to actually WORK on my Inspiron > 4100 with its GeForce2 GO under Sarge 2.4.21 by compiling with only > VESA framebuffer and 16-color VGA framebuffer support in the kernel. >

Re: kernel-package and grub

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:42:07 +0200 Engosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Is there any way to update grub menu.lst when installing a kernel > package made by kernel-package (I mean as it does whith lilo)? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#GRUB-KERNEL-PKG Kevin

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 13 Aug 2003 18:25:16 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. Proceed with installing the rest of the packages I need. Of >course, I have a list of such packages, since I make regular >backups, including a "COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > package.lis" and >scp it to another machine.

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing/etc/lilo.conf?

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:36:17 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > A longer answer is that writing a new boot block with the existing > > lilo.conf would simply re-write the current boot sector, which would > > boot the old kernel. > > Are we talking about the same question? At the poi

Re: net install with eepro100 / 845G

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:45:53 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > The 2.4.18 bf24 kernel has the eepro100 driver build in. The modular > kernels need eepro100 in /etc/modules. Or modprobe it manually and > restart networking to avoid needing to reboot. Perhaps you're thinking of anothe

Re: rcS directory

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:01:39 +0200 Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that when my server gets rebooted the /etc/init.d/ntpdate > script doesn't get run. > > Even though there is a symlink to it in the rcS.d directory. > > Where can I see that the rcS.d directory gets called? S

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:35:00 +0200 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We-ell. That looks horrible. 31 or 32 packages to remove by name (and > the names of several are truncated by the display from dpkg -l so I don't > even > know them all). But dpkg --configure kdebase leads to dependen

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing/etc/lilo.conf?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:37:19 -0800 Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand WHY this excellent reference: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > advises one to do the following: > > "Be sure you say "no" when the script asks if you want > to install a boot

Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:00:21 +1000 Chris Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried what you suggested and found plenty of files however apt-cache > still didn't tell me where they were on my computer. > > How do I figure out the file path to the kernel-headers? Kernel headers are in subdirecto

Re: Mirroring problem

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:52:56 +0200 Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the last two days our updates of the main debian archive failed > (non-us and security.debian.org worked well) with the following error > message: > > receiving file list ... done > ./ > dists/sarge/ > dists/sarge/Co

Re: Debian based rescue disc

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:38:00 +0200 Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The image is avaible at his homepage [1], or can be ordered at > LinuxLand [2]. > > > Links: > 1: http://people.debian.org/~joerg/rettcd/ > 2: > http://www.linuxland.de/katalog/01_linuxdistri_bs/debian/debiangeb

Automated security updates?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
Is there a way to use cron to apply updates from security.debian.org? Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:03:14 +0200 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. I do 'startx' - it switches to tty7 and a big debian logo on > crumpled paper appears. Looks like correct screen res. etc. The mouse is > active. There is a square thing called 'main' with a paperclip icon and >

Re: Automated security updates?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:23:36 -0400 Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-cache show cron-apt Thank you. I've downloaded it and I'll give it a try. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:22:17 +1000 Chris Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a look in /usr/src and all I can see there is a directory called > "rpm" which contains the following directories: > > BUILD > RPMS > SOURCES > SPECS > SRPMS > > Am I looking in the right place? I would think

Partitioning for mail and web server

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
A friend of mine has just purchased his first "real" server -- until then he has, like most of us, used desktop machines in server roles. This machine has an 80Gb IDE hard drive; my friend would like to use it as a web and mail server, using Debian Woody (and he would like to apply security update

Re: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:03:35 -0500 Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I > > dont care how > > ugly it is. I use fluxbox on all my Debian systems. It's light, fast, and not even ugly. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem with apt-move

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:22:03 -0500 Patrick Albuquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I try to maintain a partial mirror of unstable but I have a problem > with apt-move, mainly it's a bit too efficient. > > apt-move update (as root) will build a repository in > /mnt/data/mirrors/debian

Re: need help with compile of pcmcia card driver

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:25:36 -0600 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old laptop on which I have recently installed Woody. I have > a new pcmcia NIC which I would like to use on said laptop to connect > it to my LAN. The CD which comes with the NIC contains two files of > softwa

Re: apt-get; all messed up by update...

2003-07-20 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:19:17 -0500 Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Woody system that has been running for over a year now without > much change, and I just tried to do an apt-update, and then apt-upgrade, > and the whole thing seems to be totally messed up. (see below) > >

Re: netinstall basically, well, F****D up.

2003-07-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:35:06 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DHCLIENT doesn't work with 2.4 kernels. However, you can use udhcpc > instead. It works fine with my 2.4.20 kernel, and it worked fine with my 2.4.18 kernel before that. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: TCP/IP printing under Debian

2003-07-17 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:20:06 +0200 "Leif B. Kristensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trick was to define it as an "AppSocket/JetDirect" printer in the > cups interface, (which I eventually got working,) and use the static > IP-address in the Device URI, like "socket://192.168.0.20:9100/". If

Re: Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Bruce Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I only used the exclamation marks to get your > attention. My problem is that I had to change my IP > address from dhcp to static to setup my dlink > broadband router then I changed eth0 back to dhcp. > Now u

Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:47:47 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have framebuffer support enabled in the kernel (and it works with > your card) you can try vga=791. That will give you 1024x768 (128 columns > x 48 rows) at 16 bpp. It's what I use on my laptop to avoid

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:33:08 +0100 Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've posted before on this list about this problem, I've had some > help in my quest for solving this problem but it still exists. > > Programs like "make menuconfig" and "aptitude" that use line drawing > c

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:05:02 -0600 Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely that > you > have an unstable source in you apt list. But to answer your question: I don't believe this is correct. I recall there was (is?) a

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 12 Jul 2003 17:56:41 - "Cameron L. Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a complete list of the Debian-specific administration commands > someplace? Now and then I run into one here, or in the FAQ. > dpkg-divert? > update-alternatives? > Makes me (a long time unix user,

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:13:55 +0200 "Joachim Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I did: (according to documentation from www.debian.org) Try this: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html In the kernel configuration, you need to include support for both your onboard co

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:15:13 +0200 "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please trim replies. > The funny part is that if I do a "make dep && make && make modules" there > is no error message and it compile correct. why is that? > > Could it be possible that I are missing some kind of lib t

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:39:35 +0200 "JZidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't the correct syntax something like: > make-kpkg --append-to-version=.something kernel_image (note the = and .)? The period isn't required; I used it to separate the kernel version from the rest of the append-to-version

Re: using the debianlogo kernel patch fails. (sollution provided)

2003-07-10 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 10 Jul 2003 16:50:52 +0200 Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install tk8.4/unstable (-> i removed it prior to the kernelbuild > so i reinstalled it. This could be useful to add to newbie kernel > procedure doc of Kevin McKinley) What would need

Re: xine playback is jerky

2003-07-09 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:29:37 -0500 Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Run xine-check again, do you still get those errors?. Yes, even though I can watch the DVDs. > > Debian doesn't have lib-xine; it has xinelib0 and xinelib1. > > > I installed libxine1 and xine-ui (unstable) with apt

xine playback is jerky

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
I have been able to play DVDs on my testing-sid system until tonight, when I panicked and reinstalled xine: ii libxine1 1-beta9-1 the xine video/media player library, binary ii xine-ui0.9.21-2 the xine video player, user interface Now the video playback is jerky (alth

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the > kernel configurati

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda You want to write the boot loader to the MBR, not the partition boot sector. If

Re: Kernel Compile the Debian Way... was RE: ADI Soundmax 1881(intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:54:54 -0500 Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The procedure for the "Debian Way" is: > make xconfig > make-kpkg kernel-image > > Should I be doing other steps when doing it the Debian way? For instance > instead of first running make xconfig should I run make mrpr

Re: Getting original GLX back

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:47:41 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No the files are not there (i think Nvidia overwrites them) > > i reinstalled xserver-xfree86 and reinstalled xlibmesa3. > Aditionaly i deleted all libGL win /usr/lib witch pointed to the Nvidia > implemetation. Now

Re: Wireless setup questions

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:39:34 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'Choose current network environment' screen at boot. Grepping through /etc > didn't reveal any startup scripts with a similar message. I seem to recall > that being mentioned during sid's install, but I can't quite remember

Re: Getting original GLX back

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:56:38 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i get my old GLX back? Of wichpacket is it part of? MESA? XFree? The files should still be there. Just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to load the old modules when starting X. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:23:25 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod. Can they also be loaded > via modprobe? And - this is probably a stupid question but, where would > I find these modules - sg, sr_mod and ide-scsi? insmod can't find > them - >

Re: Compiling 2.4.20 for Woody

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:31:26 +0200 (MEST) Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im using the original source for 2.4.20, i.e. not a deb package. Is there > anything Debian specific that I may be missing for the kernel to work with > apmd? BTW this isn't machine specific, it happens when

Capturing sound from xine

2003-07-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
If I'm playing a DVD in xine, is there a way to capture a few minutes of sound to a file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel compile the debian way

2003-07-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:42:57 +0200 Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every time I install a new kernel it moves the kernel I am using at > that time to vmlinuz.old (the symlink). > > Can I configure that it just adds a new entry in lilo? I don't believe it is. That's a limitation of usi

Re: configuring start options of X

2003-07-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 19:45:22 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Negative... > > If i reconf xserver-xfree86 it only asks me about if i want to configure > XF86Config-4 via debconf. It does not ask me about the acess issues. > > U can be sure that tried xserver-xfree86 ;)) Try

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

2003-07-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:48:37 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, which package shall I use to have the recent patches to improve > responsivness ? kernel-patch-ck ? lowlatency (and which version ??) ? > preempt ? I've found all these : > > kernel-patch-2.4-lowlatency >

Re: compiling the kernel with GCC 3.3

2003-07-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 09:49:05 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I tried to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with GCC 3.3 and failed. > I searched through several list and the web to find more infos. I found > some docs about GCC3.1 and its implemetation (wich isnt). > > Just to be

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

2003-07-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 09:46:26 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know a way to check if a patch was successfully applied ? There > seems to be nothing obvious... If you redirect the output of your make-kpkg command line to a file, you can examine the file. There will be

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:32:38 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to add debianlogo (from sarge ; as a first patch before trying > something else) to my 2.4.21 kernel. The command line is : > > nice -n 19 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.ccs.25+debianlogo > --r

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:39:08 +0200 Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > > > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync that > > against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:48:03 +0100 (CET) Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the > initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I > want to update a non-broadband machine with the security upd

Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:45:30 -0400 Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future reference. > Steps: > 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). > 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) > 3. ty

Re: Kernel Build Methodology

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 01 Jul 2003 22:05:53 +0200 Johan Parin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read through chapter 7 in the Debian Reference and man make-kpkg, > but I'm not sure I'm completely clear on the "Debian standard method" > to build the kernel. I built my first custom kernel the way it's > described, no p

Re: Trying Again

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:01:44 -0500 Abrasive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had some trouble posting to this group, so I'm trying again with a > different mail client. > Here's my problem. I don't know what I'm doing... But about my other > problems... > I just installed a fresh copy of Debi

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:41:56 +0100 Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > > ITYM 'for file in *'... > > ISTR earlier versions... > flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email. > Guess i should learn some acronyms

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:43:01 -0500 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I am wondering: what am I doing wrong? I *should* be able to > > compile modules for an existing kernel tree without write privs to > > /usr/src/modules/..., right? > > > Right. > > What is MODULE_

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