Re: MTA slow to start

2005-12-23 Thread mikepolniak
On 22:22 Thu 22 Dec , Tyler Smith wrote: During boot up it takes about 30 seconds for MTA to start for my Etch install. With Sarge on the same box this takes less than a second. Can I fix this somehow? I'm running a single desktop computer, connected via an NIC through a router to

Re: Check that all packages are stable

2005-12-08 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:02 Thu 08 Dec , Jacob Friis Saxberg wrote: Hello. How can I check that all my packages are from stable? apt-show-versions|wc apt-show-versions|fgrep /stable|wc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:25 Tue 06 Dec , Hal Vaughan wrote: During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot communicate with the

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:12 Tue 06 Dec , Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. I am running unstable I installed sane and xsane. When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as root. The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and

Re: Exim4 LOG

2005-11-29 Thread mikepolniak
On 22:34 Tue 29 Nov , Marco wrote: Hi all, how to disable loggin to syslog, mail.log, mail.info, mail.err, mail.warn for exim4? I would want to leave only /var/log/exim/* log Any idea? edit /etc/syslog.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes

2005-11-28 Thread mikepolniak
On 12:21 Sun 27 Nov , Randall J. Parr wrote: David Baron wrote: I now get /var/log/boot messages like - Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m /etc/network/options is deprecated. Just remove /etc/network/options Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: Setting

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 00:54 Wed 23 Nov , Rutger Wessels wrote: Hello, I administer a debian installation that is connected to the Internet. When I run nmap, I found the following: Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-11-23 00:29 CET Interesting ports on xx (The 1657 ports

Re: multiple default gateways

2005-11-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 11:48 Tue 22 Nov , James Ireson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup my network with multiple default gateways from a debian linux box running 2.6.11.10. I've read lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html and understand about setting up the routes for each interface in separate

Re: need a Swiss Army Knife rescue disk

2005-11-20 Thread mikepolniak
On 21:58 Sun 20 Nov , Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 03:21:41PM -0500, mikepolniak wrote: I have used the Debian install cd as a rescue disk and in the past also the 'BBC-business-card', 'System-Rescue-cd' and Knoppix. Knoppix is OK for Debian rescue but a big d

Re: udev, module-init-tools, 2.6.14

2005-11-20 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:09 Sun 20 Nov , Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. For a variety of reasons, I want to install a hand-compiled (and patched) 2.6.14 kernel. I have two questions concerning that. [1] At present, I have udev version 056 from stable, but the Changes file in the kernel documentation

need a Swiss Army Knife rescue disk

2005-11-19 Thread mikepolniak
I have used the Debian install cd as a rescue disk and in the past also the 'BBC-business-card', 'System-Rescue-cd' and Knoppix. Knoppix is OK for Debian rescue but a big d/l and the others seem a little outdated. I need one that includes iproute, rsync, LVM and grub. Has anyone come across an

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-14 Thread mikepolniak
On 07:48 Mon 14 Nov , Mario Frasca wrote: mikepolniak wrote: Check /dev for lp0. You may have to link your lp0 - /dev/usb/lp0 , but no, the problem is that /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist, not /dev/lp0. well, I tried but the behaviour was the same... kruiskruid:/dev# ls -l lp

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread mikepolniak
On 21:28 Sun 13 Nov , Mario Frasca wrote: it seems quite stupid, I'm using to linux since 1993 more or less, but all these modern graphic or automatic fluffs don't help me much... well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and the only cause I can think of is a

Re: Syslogd

2005-11-12 Thread mikepolniak
On 12:34 Sat 12 Nov , Roy wrote: In /var/log/messages the following lines are apprearing: Date Time machine name -- MARK -- Date Time machine name -- MARK -- Date Time machine name -- MARK -- I'm using the following command, below to get rid of them, but i'm getting an error

Re: pccardd: what is this ?!

2005-11-12 Thread mikepolniak
On 11:04 Sat 12 Nov , Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Hi, I noticed today the following daemons running: UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1121 1 0 Nov11 ?00:00:00 [pccardd] root 1123 1 0 Nov11 ?00:00:00 [pccardd] but can't

Re: Multiple ISP connection

2005-11-11 Thread mikepolniak
On 18:39 Fri 11 Nov , choy wrote: Hi, I have a web server connected indirectly to the Internet(ISP - router - server eth0). I've setup NAT port forward in the router so all web server connections are forwarded to server. Recently, I've added a new ethernet card(eth1) to the server, and

Re: Debian sid and udev problem.

2005-11-10 Thread mikepolniak
On 20:24 Thu 10 Nov , Jon Jahren wrote: snip Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.074-2_i386.deb) ... ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/udev/rules.d/z55_hotplug.rules' to `../hotplug.rules': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing

Re: dhclient assigns new IP address every time

2005-11-10 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:32 Thu 10 Nov , kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: My computer is behind a router (linksys BEFSR41). The computer and the router are connected by ethernet cable (ie no wireless). Every time I run, 'sudo dhclient', the IP address assigned to the computer is different. For example,

Re: Many packages missing from testing

2005-11-10 Thread mikepolniak
On 01:01 Fri 11 Nov , Joona Kiiski wrote: Certainly not. If you want unstable packages, then use *unstable*. If you want to help test the next Debian release, then use *testing*. If you want something that will always work, then use *stable*. Yes, I've tried them all. * Unstable

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 16:40 Sun 06 Nov , Cloaked Hunter wrote: I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now, regardless of what kernel I boot, none of my network interfaces will initialize during boot, not even the

Re: 2.6.14 Problems (was Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot)

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 21:56 Sun 06 Nov , Hendrik Sattler wrote: David Baron wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 19:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats because devfs is creating the nodes in kernels 2.6.14. With 2.6.14 DEVFS is no longer supported in the kernel, so you have to use another method to

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: hi folks, in an effort to get acpi workingo n my laptop (THinkpad 600e) I've upgraded to 2.6.14 kernel. Seemswo work fine! Except I'm having trouble with my wireless card (D-Link DWL-650+). The third-party driver compiled andi nstalled fine,

Re: External SCSI Hard Drive Not Auto-mounting

2005-11-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 00:45 Sun 06 Nov , Scarletdown wrote: I just recently installed an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI adapter, so I could make use of this spare 4.3GB external SCSI hard drive. Anyway, I partitioned the drive and used mkfs to create an ext3 file system on it. I then created a mount point for it

Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:41 Sun 06 Nov , Alex Teclo wrote: Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst on machine A: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.14 root (hd0,4) kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.14 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p7 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.14 savedefault boot

Re: sata_sis on 2.4.27 vs 2.6.8

2005-11-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 16:18 Sat 05 Nov , Facundo Ariel Perez wrote: I'm running a debian sarge on PIV / asus motherboard / using the 181 chipset for my serial ata 80 gb drive. It installs and runs ok using kernel 2.4.27 - but when I upgrade to kernel 2.6.8 the systems crash on while booting just after

Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-05 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:43 Sat 05 Nov , Alex Teclo wrote: I am having problems with a 2.6.14 kernel. snip Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst on machine A: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.14 root (hd0,4) kernel/vmlinuz- 2.6.14 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p7 ro initrd

Re: finding files by content from the command-line

2005-11-04 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:36 Fri 04 Nov , Matt Price wrote: Having checked out beagle and quite liked it, I seet here ae also various graphical file-finding tools outthere, e.g. the gnome search for files program, that allow content searches (e.g., contains the text-type searhcing). In many cases similar

Re: usb storage mount problem

2005-11-03 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:36 Thu 03 Nov , salahuddin pasha wrote: when i try to mount usb storage [kingston 256mb] is shows me = mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error Check if your kernel config has:

Re: usb storage mount problem

2005-11-03 Thread mikepolniak
it both in sarge and sid) (still it is oky in windows) kubuntu mount it auto. :( (i have removed kubuntu becoz i did not like it now using debian sarge and debian unstable in two different partitons) thanx On 11/3/05, mikepolniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17:36 Thu 03 Nov , salahuddin

Re: KVM switch and debian

2005-11-03 Thread mikepolniak
On 09:44 Thu 03 Nov , Richard Swen wrote: I currently have the following setup at home. Linksys DSL Router working as a DHCP Server. 1 Windows NT machine with an HP DeskJet 960C printer 1 Windows 98 machine. This is what I want to do. Install Debian Sarge on a new machine. Connect

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:49 Wed 02 Nov , Thomas wrote: snip Is there a logfile or something that can tell me who is actually denying what? Thanks, Thomas Aha, i found out: mail.log Nov 2 23:26:50 localhost postfix/smtpd[14343]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from nova[10.0.0.2]: 554 [EMAIL

Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

2005-10-31 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:18 Mon 31 Oct , John O'Hagan wrote: Antony Gelberg wrote: John O'Hagan wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a brief summary of the differences between Debian kernel sources (such as those provided by the linux-source-2.6* packages), and the stock source from kernel.org. If you

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread mikepolniak
On 11:09 Mon 31 Oct , [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to

Re: how can have a animal in boot screen

2005-10-29 Thread mikepolniak
On 01:27 Sun 30 Oct , biosedit wrote: how can have a animal in boot screen like freeBSD but not a picture is make with - - - - - - - (like this apt-get install linuxlogo gives you the choice of 4 logos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: intermittent inability to resolve hostnames using sid

2005-10-28 Thread mikepolniak
On 13:02 Fri 28 Oct , John covici wrote: Hi. I am using sid and the latest bind9 and its libraries and what is happening is that either its so slow that many apps time out or something else is wrong -- when some app like sendmail tries to look up aname, it will time out. Now if I look up

Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-26 Thread mikepolniak
On 00:08 Wed 26 Oct , Steve Lamb wrote: Adam Porter wrote: There are several web sites dedicated to WiFi on Linux, with extensive lists of cards and how they are supported. Google is your friend. :) None of which, when I last googled, has specific instructions for Debian with

Re: Grub and linux-source-2.6.12

2005-10-26 Thread mikepolniak
On 08:58 Wed 26 Oct , Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: I tried to upgrade to kernel 2.6.12 using linux-source-2.6.12. I am using unstable. The compilation goes fine, during which there is a message: Root device is (3,2) I have my root partition in /dev/hda2. In the menu.lst

Re: Debian Single User mode from grub how??

2005-10-26 Thread mikepolniak
On 22:46 Wed 26 Oct , amalgam.swhe wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:45:58PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi, How can I get into the Debian Sarge Single user mode from grub? without giving a password??? passing the single option doesn't seem to work :-( set init=/bin/bash? Just

Re: NO latest scanner support under FC?

2005-10-25 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:21 Tue 25 Oct , Deboo ^ wrote: Can someone tell me any latest HP or any other scanner fully supported under linux? I have been using the HP SCanjet 4300C with sane for over a year. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are either too simple (nullmailer,

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread mikepolniak
On 11:56 Mon 24 Oct , mikepolniak wrote: On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 04:17 Sat 22 Oct , SpamHog wrote: Mike, I promise you, I never meant to touch the MBR! Once you bide grub (either interactively or from any boot sector of any partition) root (hdx,y) you overrule the spell in the MBR. I don't usually re-install Grub in the MBR either,

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:41 Sat 22 Oct , stan wrote: Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something (like **SPAM** to the To: header in a message? What I'm trying to do is add this conditionaly if spamassain has labled the message as spam. I have a firend who is getting mail

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-21 Thread mikepolniak
On 08:11 Fri 21 Oct , SpamHog wrote: Thank you for clarifying! I'll never again root =(hdx,x) after a kernel. Yet, there must be something else munching up this boot. Whence the hda5 reference comes is not explained even by a missing SECOND specification of hda6 as running root.

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-20 Thread mikepolniak
On 09:12 Wed 19 Oct , Basajaun wrote: Hi all, I have a weird problem with the response time inside X. I am running Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.12-1-686-smp on a P4 3.4GHz HT with a SATA drive and 1GB RAM. Whenever I start X (XFCE 4.2.2), I experience the following problems: a) When

Re: make-kpkg and small changes

2005-10-20 Thread mikepolniak
On 12:10 Thu 20 Oct , Ross Boylan wrote: I am attempting to recompile a driver (8139too) with one additional entry in the pci_device_id table. I may modify it in other ways if that doesn't work. When I try to make-kpkg kernel_image the file is not rebuilt. I tried deleting the .o;

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 09:28 Wed 19 Oct , wvl wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble getting my Pinnacle PCTV Pro to work, which I bought in the Netherlands (europe) a few (2?) years ago. After loading bttv I only get snow on the top of the screen.. everything below that seems to be frozen in a certain state.

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 01:47 Wed 19 Oct , SpamHog wrote: I am cloning a 1-partition system (3.1/i386) from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hda6, and intend to install grub in that partition. No need to change drivers, etc. - *only* the root device. I already did the following: - copied all files in the / tree to

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:06 Wed 19 Oct , wvl wrote: I don't quite understand. Are you saying my tuner is being incorrectly set by bttv despite it saying bttv0: using tuner=33? In the Netherlands we use PAL, if you meant to say that I needed NTSC. Sorry for my ass_umption. If you read the kernel

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:37 Wed 19 Oct , SpamHog wrote: Thank you too Mike, but I have already tried several times with either GNU/Linuxspeak /dev/hda6 or Grubspeak (hd0,5) so it must be someting else. Moreover, 1) Being the boot root and the running root one and the same, the second root specification

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-19 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:13 Wed 19 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, mikepolniak wrote: Why not just copy over the whole Debian partition from the ide disk to the new disk. I have done this many times without a problem. I make a new partition on the new disk as the target

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-18 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:46 Tue 18 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote: I'm reinstalling my system onto a new sata disk I just purchased. I'd like to know what best practices people do, in order to get through this with the least possible hassle. I'm really just installing Debian in the new disk, and I'd like to have

Re: upgrade, .procmailrc funnels to /dev/null

2005-10-14 Thread mikepolniak
On 01:05 Fri 14 Oct , Willie Gnarlson wrote: Hello fellow Debian users, I upgraded bash on my `testing' machine tonight and 4 hours passed before I realize procmail is filtering everything to /dev/null. Right. Does anyone have any idea why this would be matching on *all* incoming

Re: Printer

2005-10-09 Thread mikepolniak
On 22:55 Sat 08 Oct , Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: Check if you have /dev/lp0 and look at lpr.log I do have /dev/lp0, and the file /var/log/lpr.log is empty. :-( Any other suggestions? I'm beginning to seriously think this is a bug in the Debian kernel 2.6.12. I haven't submitted a bug report

Re: A fresher sk98lin anyone (LG LW20 NIC)?

2005-10-09 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:46 Sun 09 Oct , Didde Brockman wrote: Hey - again. As stated earlier I could not get Debian-stable to detect a NIC or drive(s) on my brand spanking new LG LW20 laptop running on Intel's 915 chipset. Finally I gave up and tried testing (etch) where I could partition the drive,

Re: Printer

2005-10-08 Thread mikepolniak
On 00:16 Sat 08 Oct , Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: If you boot off 2.6.8 -- printing works If you boot off 2.6.12 -- printing does not work Correct? ... Any clue comparing kernel configs? I no longer have the 2.6.8 kernel to check, but when I did have it, printing was working. After

insmod bttv does not find TV card--says no such device???

2002-01-21 Thread mikepolniak
My Pinnacle studio PCTV pro card shows up in /proc/pci and i can load all the required modules (tuner, videodev,i2c)...but when i #insmod bttv card=52 ...it says no such device. Syslog shows : ... bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded ... bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture

Re: gphoto2 with USB digital camera problem

2002-01-11 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:40:59 -0500 Angus D Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:08:37AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: I bought a digital still-image camera today (Canon PowerShot G2) and I want my Linux machine to talk to it. So far, after a few hours of trying to get

Re: Opera and anti-aliasing fonts

2002-01-06 Thread mikepolniak
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:09:40 -0600 shock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've finally become enamored with KDE's anti-aliasing fonts. they look great in konqueror. opera, however, seems to use it's own font scheme. does anyone know what needs to be done to make opera use the anti-aliasing fonts?

how to edit and upload html page to isp web host?

2002-01-01 Thread mikepolniak
What do i need to create a simple index.html page, and upload it to my isp web hosting site. I will mostly use jpeg files from screen shots and digital camera. -- Save bandwidth and time - Get Mailfilter - The Anti-Spam Utility http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/index.html

Re: agpgart -module not loaded automatically

2001-12-25 Thread mikepolniak
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:17:09 +0100 Gerald Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! I finally got my Xpert 2000 card to work propoerly at an even higher frequency than the wicked Windows-driver :)). The only thing that bothers me now, is that the agpgart module isn't loaded

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-23 Thread mikepolniak
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:54:50 -0500 lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karsten Frank... Thank you both very much for your time. 2 gig is on the small side as far as drive sizes go these days..but as this box goes..it's whole mission in life will be to serve as a proxy..which I've been SO

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-22 Thread mikepolniak
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:50:45 +0100 Gerald Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Im currentlc tryin to get my XPert 2000 pro card to work on my woody... In the process I'm at a point, where I suspect, that I got to get the right Kernel with DRI compiled in ... if there is something

how to mount multi-session data CD's ?

2001-12-09 Thread mikepolniak
I have used mkisofs and cdrecord to create a multi-session CD of data tracks containing my digital photo jpegs (as per Creating Multi-session CD's Howto ). I can check the iso before i burn it with the loopback driver and it shows the multi sessions as being on the iso image. After i burn

Re: how to mount multi-session data CD's ?

2001-12-09 Thread mikepolniak
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:31:10 +0100 (MET) Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: High, On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, mikepolniak wrote: I have used mkisofs and cdrecord to create a multi-session CD of data tracks containing my digital photo jpegs (as per Creating Multi-session CD's Howto

Re: Get .config from installed kernel?

2001-12-09 Thread mikepolniak
On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:28:01 -0800 Kendall Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have kernel 2.2.16 installed which I never compiled from source, and I want to add a kernel module to support my sound card. Is there a way for me to generate the .config that matches my installed kernel so

where is alias 'name' for USB controller module?

2001-12-05 Thread mikepolniak
I want to auto-load the module for the USB contoller (usb-ohci) by its alias in /etc/modules.conf: alias usb-ohci Where do i find the alias 'name' that kmod+modprobe use to look up this feature?

digital photo editing in linux---what do i need?

2001-12-01 Thread mikepolniak
I just got my first digital camera and am looking for advice on photo editing programs. I see there is gPhoto to d/l photos from a camera, but since my camera is not supported i found out i can just use a usb card reader to load the pix into my linux box. What do i need to edit the photos,

running startx fails with: timeout in locking authority file ?

2001-11-29 Thread mikepolniak
When i try to start an X session as user mike by running startx it fails with the message: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/mike/.Xauthority But it works ok when i startx as root. This was working fine until yesterday, but i haven't figured out what i may have changed to cause

Re: Would like to make a bootable CD based on my root partition

2001-10-26 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:08:51 -0400 avik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a spare partition or use grub :-) I really would like to know how to create a bootable CD using my root partition as its source. I would have other uses for it :-) Mondo is a program i use to burn a

how to get SiS735 on board sound

2001-10-20 Thread mikepolniak
I have the ECSk7s5a mb with the SiS735 chipset. According to SiS linux support, the on board sound needs SiS7018 support in the kernel. So i enabled it with CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT and tried it as a module and directly in the kernel. cat /proc/pci shows the on board audio at irq 11. I can

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Problem

2001-10-06 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:37:22 GMT Z-Gen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not found during installation. How can I set it up? netconfig or linuxcfg? Thanks in advance. Make sure your kernel has CONFIG_8139TOO=y or =m If its compiled as a module, make sure 8139TOO is loaded.

Re: Sylpheed / libgtk version

2001-09-29 Thread mikepolniak
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:16:15 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im using libranet, a debian derivative, and would love to be able to use the Sylpheed mail/news client.However, it needs libgtk-1.2.6, and i can't find that for debian. Am I just confused or is that not yet available.

Re: Using lm-sensors

2001-08-19 Thread mikepolniak
Ross Boylan wrote: I'm trying to use lm-sensors, so far with no luck. The Readme.Debian is a bit unclear to me. It says: To use lm-sensors, you need the lm-sensors module package and an i2c module package installed. You will probably need to build the modules packages from source, using

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-16 Thread mikepolniak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say go with Woody (compared to Slack), provided you can do a boot off of CD...I wasn't aware of the boot-disk issue. I started with Potato about 8 months ago, and just apt-get updated to Woody in the last few weeks. Tried Slack way back (a number of years ago)

Re: Questions about make a boot CD with Debian.

2001-08-09 Thread mikepolniak
MESQUITA,GIOVANI (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) wrote: I have used Debian to create a Boot CD. I've used two approaches: * Create a CD with boot sector in Linux, but the lilo program didn't recognize a root=/dev/hdc, resulting the error: FATAL: Not a number: /dev/hdc. My lilo.conf is:

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-09 Thread mikepolniak
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Hi all My server's harddisk is making weird noises and telling me at the console that various things went wrong. All in all, I reckon the drive is about to die. How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg details and all) over to another disk

Re: Create install-CD from /var/cache/apt?

2001-08-09 Thread mikepolniak
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: Hi, how do I create a usable installation CD with downloaded packages that are currently in /var/cache/apt? I am running a standard Debian 2.2r3. I just installed KDE 2.1.1 using dselect to fetch and install packages from the net. I need to install this

Re: have stable, desire KDE

2001-08-09 Thread mikepolniak
Bob Koss wrote: I finally have a stable, functioning, system running X, using ice. It works. Cool. I would like to try KDE. What's my best plan to do this, since KDE is in Woody? Should I do a dist-upgrade and then get the KDE packages, or should I get the KDE packages in the order

Re: Anyone know of any issues with this hardware?

2001-06-07 Thread mikepolniak
Kent West wrote: I'm putting together a new computer; main OS=Debian; secondary=Win95. I'd like to be able to watch TV and play DVDs on the Linux side (don't care about the Win95 side). Is DVD and TVcard support mature enough yet for this to be practical? Are there any issues with the

Re: Rage128 and DRI

2001-05-28 Thread mikepolniak
Charles Lewis wrote: I've tried and tried, but I can't get DRI to work for my Rage128 AGP card. My kernel (2.4.4) has been enabled with: /dev/agpart VIA chipset support (I have Abit KT7A-Raid, KT133 chipset) Direct Rendering Manager ATI Rage 128 The relevant portions of

Re: Getting the content of an RPM package

2001-05-27 Thread mikepolniak
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi folks, is ist possible to access the content of an RPM package, without actually installing it? I tried rpm --nodeps --prefix /tmp/foo package.rpm but it says that the package is not relocatable. Since i am not familiar with rpm i would use alien to make

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread mikepolniak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of having to view it through the web browser when connected to the internet. I want something that you can use fetchmail or

usb scanner setup?

2001-05-24 Thread mikepolniak
Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results?

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread mikepolniak
Thomas H. George wrote: I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up useful information from other user's questions and answers but I'm swamped! Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to download

Re: lm-sensors problems

2001-05-18 Thread mikepolniak
Philipp Lehman wrote: In order to access the hardware sensors on my motherboard, I installed the lm-sensors-source package and the corresponding userland utilities. I need the i2c-viapro kernel module for my MB (VIA KT133A/82c686b chipset). Now, when I try to patch the kernel (stricly

Re: Module agpgart not loading

2001-05-18 Thread mikepolniak
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Hi all, I have a Matrox G400 video card and have configured X (4.0.3) with the mga driver and DRI. Upon boot I get an error message, that the drm module (part of DRI, as I understand) failed to load because of the agpgart module wasn't loaded before (well, it says:

lm_sensors temp readings only 8C

2001-05-17 Thread mikepolniak
Just installed lm_sensors for via-pro chipset VT82c596 and ran sensors: max1617-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +8.0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) In /proc/sys/dev/sensors/max1617-i2c-0-18 i get: temp1 0 4 8 temp2 60 8 0 How do

Re: lm_sensors temp readings only 8C

2001-05-17 Thread mikepolniak
On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:16, mikepolniak wrote: Just installed lm_sensors for via-pro chipset VT82c596 and ran sensors: max1617-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +8.0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) In /proc/sys/dev/sensors/max1617

Re: Need help setting up parallel printer

2001-01-09 Thread mikepolniak
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:56:30PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: To quote David Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED], # 'modprobe lp' gives me # modprobe: Can't locate module lp # # This is/was a stock debian kernel from an official CD. # # Anything else I can try, or do I have to recompile the