grip and/or cddb crashing

2005-01-13 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I've been having problems with grip and cddb recently. I'm not entirely sure when it started, but I think it was a week or two ago. I started noticing that the cddb lookups with the gnome cd player application would crash occasionally. Now, when I try to use grip, it works for a

Cannot boot with cdrom and LVM

2004-04-05 Thread Jason Martens
right direction, I would much appreciate it! Thanks, Jason Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB Mouse and XFree86 4.3.0-7

2004-04-06 Thread Jason Martens
I have Debian installed and running, and XFree is working, except I cannot get my USB mouse working under X. The touchpad on my laptop works just fine, however. The mouse is correctly recognized by the system. While I'm on the console, if I unplug it, then plug it in again, I get messages sa

Re: USB Mouse and XFree86 4.3.0-7

2004-04-06 Thread Jason Martens
You rock! I tried loading mousedev while running earlier, and nothing happened. I added mousedev to /etc/modules, rebooted, and it worked! Thanks. Jason Tobias Eichert wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2004 01:19, you wrote: I have both input and usbcore installed (they show up after a lsmod).

Re: installing kernel sources

2004-04-08 Thread Jason Martens
, not singlequotes), it will install the kernel headers to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.25-1-686 or something like this. Try pointing vmware to this directory and you should be ok. Jason Martens Mike Partyka wrote: Hello all, I am pretty new to Debian, used SuSE and RedHat for the last year or so

Re: replace kernel and upgrade packages?

2004-04-09 Thread Jason Martens
called alien, which converts an rpm to a .deb package, but I wouldn't recommend it if you want to use a lot of packages from fedora. Try to find a debian package first, and if you can't, then maybe try alien. Debian has a lot of software packaged already... Jason Martens -- To UNSUB

Re: make-kpkg

2004-04-10 Thread Jason Martens
el-package" package. Jason Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's up with dfsg packages?

2004-05-11 Thread Jason Martens
I just ran aptitude, and noticed that almost anything related to X has been renamed with dfsg in the version of the package. Does anybody know why? Jason Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FAM and CDROM Drives

2004-05-06 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I just ran into the annoying fam and cdrom issue. It seems like it was fixed in Fedora Core 1 back in December. Does anyone know how to fix this issue in Debian Testing? Thanks, Jason Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: FAM and CDROM Drives

2004-05-06 Thread Jason Martens
g a cdrom into the cdrom drive, fam starts monitoring the drive, causing a "device busy" error when attempting to unmount/eject the cd. If fam is shutdown (/etc/init.d/fam stop), then it is possible to unmount the cdrom. Sorry for the lack of information... Jason Martens -- To UNSUBS

Help with "umount -f /mnt/smbfs"

2004-06-11 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I have a situation where I mount a smb filesystem, and occasionally the server becomes unavailable. However, after the server is unavailable and I try to force unmount the share, I get the following error messages, and am unable to unmount it: server:~# umount -f /mnt/smbfs umount2

Missing Gnome Icons

2004-06-18 Thread Jason Martens
I just upgraded my testing system with the new gnome packages (I think they're 2.6?), and all of the gnome icons are missing. For instance, in nautilus, every item has the same generic icon. I tried installing any icon and theme packages I could find, but it didn't help any. Does anybody kno

[Fwd: Re: Missing Gnome Icons]

2004-06-18 Thread Jason Martens
Thanks for the info. I don't really want SID packages, so I'll just wait for the rest of the packages to make their way into testing. Jason Jason Martens wrote: I just upgraded my testing system with the new gnome packages (I think they're 2.6?), and all of the gnome icons ar

Problem mounting SMB filesystems

2004-07-16 Thread Jason Martens
up as well, but I was able to do a Force Quit. The program went away, but all of the icons on my desktop disappeared. I know there were some new samba packages that just came through, but has anyone else seen this behavior? Thanks, Jason Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Problem mounting SMB filesystems (Solved)

2004-07-19 Thread Jason Martens
Has it worked for you before? Yes, right until I updated the samba packages to the most recent version. Have you got the kernel module smbfs? Doh! This fixed my problem. I guess something changed with the new version. Maybe it's not autmagically loading smbfs into the kernel? Thanks, Ja

Re: Sarge NetInstall latest build

2004-07-26 Thread Jason Martens
It cannot connect to the network. What is even more annoying is that when I try to go to a shell and see what the problem is, look at a few configuration files, etc, I don't have vim, so I can't edit them, and to get vim I have to go to the network, and I don't have the network... There is a

Re: unable to boot 2.6.7 on sarge

2004-08-09 Thread Jason Martens
Robert Van Horn wrote: Hi, Not sure this qualifies as a debian-testing issue but here goes. Installed sarge from the latest netinstall iso. Machine is supermicro u2 with adaptec 320 scsi card. Boots ok. Now, compiled 2.6.7 to get smp but the problem is after the initrd.img file loads I get the me

forcedeth driver always loads

2004-08-16 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I'm trying to set up the binary NVIDIA nforce drivers on a sarge machine. I was successfully able to install the binary drivers for the nforce board, but the forcedeth driver keeps loading on startup, which conflicts with the nvidia ethernet driver. I added a "skip forcedeth" line

Re: how to use installer

2004-08-19 Thread Jason Martens
belahcene wrote: Hi, I try to use the sarge-installer (sarge-i386-businesscard.iso) , i've just downloaded it. The problem is that it search for a mirror to install, I want to install from CD ( I haven't a direct access to internet) How to do it . maybe it is not good installer to use ??? thank

Re: kde 3.3

2004-08-20 Thread Jason Martens
Vishal Vatsa wrote: SO when will kde 3.3 make it into testing? Thanks Not until after Sarge is released. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/08/msg00222.html Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lost file wierdness

2004-08-31 Thread Jason Martens
Hey, I just wanted to see if anyone else has noticed strange behaviour recently. I just updated my system yesterday, and I have started seeing strange things happening with various configuration files. My Thunderbird configuration was lost (after starting it, I got the new account setup scree

Machine crashes after logging out of Gnome

2004-09-09 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I have a very annoying problem. Everytime I log out of my gnome session, my machine locks up hard, and I have to power it down and reboot. This is also causing data loss, especially with my configuration files. After the machine comes back up, strange things don't work. For instan

Re: Machine crashes after logging out of Gnome

2004-09-09 Thread Jason Martens
Stefan May wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:37:17PM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: At any rate, the root of the problem is gdm crashing, but I can't get any logs because it doesn't save any before the crash occurs. Sounds like a hardware problem. Are there any problems with othe

Re: Machine crashes after logging out of Gnome

2004-09-09 Thread Jason Martens
Stefan May wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] So this ist you vga controller. I don't know how ATIs Radeon is supported by XFree. Maybe there w

Re: ALSA Problems

2004-10-11 Thread Jason Martens
Miguel Filho wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:39:57 -0500, Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a debian testing system that will be my mythtv, as soon as I can get the sound working. I had it working previously with Fedora Core 1, but decided to move to a much better distro. I t

Re: OpenOffice - Unrecoverable Error - Debian Sarge

2004-10-13 Thread Jason Martens
David Nicholls wrote: Hi There, I did a standard apt-get install openoffice.org to install open office. When starting open office, I get the splash screen come up, but then before the application actually starts (any open office package) I get a box come up with: Unrecoverable error, and open off

Nautilus SMB Browser

2004-09-29 Thread Jason Martens
Hey All, I was just playing around with the Nautilus "Network Servers" browser. It can find all of the windows machines on our network very easily, but I can't figure out how to add my username and password to the browser. I keep getting "You don't have permissions" errors, I assume because

ALSA Problems

2004-10-04 Thread Jason Martens
I have a debian testing system that will be my mythtv, as soon as I can get the sound working. I had it working previously with Fedora Core 1, but decided to move to a much better distro. I think I have alsa configured correctly, but for some reason, it doesn't detect the sound card. My mothe

Re: hfsplus in 2.6.8-1-686 kernel not honoring mount flags?

2004-10-06 Thread Jason Martens
Peter C. Norton wrote: In kernel 2.6.8-1-686, setting user, uid, and gid seems to have no effect on the state of a filesystem. I would like to have an fstab entry along the lines of: /dev/sda/mnt/ipod hfsplus user,noauto 0 0 To enable the user (me, when I don't hav

Re: failed to bring up eth0

2004-10-06 Thread Jason Martens
Salaheldin Mohamed wrote: i am using sarge on my dual boot system(winxrprof),recently i got a problem connecting to the net.whenever i launch konqueror(web bro) i got a blank page with the following message: an error occured while loading the web site. i poked arround the system to fix the proble

CD-Burning Problem

2004-10-18 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I have a laptop with a CD-RW/DVD drive in it. When I run k3b as a regular user, it detects the drive incorrectly as a reader, but it won't let me burn with the drive. If I run k3b as root, it correctly detects the drive as a CD-RW drive, and I am able to burn stuff without a proble

Re: Installation Report

2004-10-18 Thread Jason Martens
6. Installed a desktop environment and thought that the GNOME desktop would support my USB drives. No icon, no notification, nothing. Plug and play isn't supported in any way on the GNOME desktop. I just got udev and gnome-volume-manager working on my system, and the plug and play is gre

Re: CD-Burning Problem

2004-10-18 Thread Jason Martens
ernel-Parameter "hdx=ide-scsi" Testing with "cdrecord --scanbus". Sorry for my bad english... Holger Am Montag, 18. Oktober 2004 20:03 schrieb Jason Martens: Hey all, I have a laptop with a CD-RW/DVD drive in it. When I run k3b as a regular user, it detects the drive in

Re: CD-Burning Problem

2004-10-19 Thread Jason Martens
funky soul wrote: hi Jason, On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:03:07 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any thoughts? kernel 2.6.8 is currently a bad choice for k3b. here (http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/news2) is why: Do not use Kernel 2.6.8 A patch that was introduced in

Re: No sound in GNOME !!!

2004-10-20 Thread Jason Martens
xerces8 wrote: Installed sarge from with the debian.installer pre-rc2 netinst CD. Used the official weekly binary snapshot from 20040925 for the rest. I selected Slovene keyboard, "GNOME destop" package and mostly accepted the default settings. I log into the destop ( X11 / GNOME ) and ... No sound

Re: Removal of not used kernel

2004-10-23 Thread Jason Martens
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I'm going to change from kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.7, but I've heard that the old kernel will still be on my computer after I've installed 2.6.7 with this command: # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 # shutdown -t1 -r now I don't plan on ever returning to kernel 2.6.8, c

Re: How can I install gnome on my nec versa note

2004-11-05 Thread Jason Martens
ntr wrote: well, technically, all you need is apt-get install gnome for the X is necessary and will be downloaded anyway... Unless the package dependencies have been fixed, gnome does not depend on xserver. It is necessary to manually select the xserver-xfree86 package (or some meta package)

Re: How can I install gnome on my nec versa note

2004-11-05 Thread Jason Martens
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Re: XMMS

2004-11-08 Thread Jason Martens
Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi Tried asking this question elsewhere and didn't get any answers... Anyone have any ideas of what this might be about ? I've installed Debian Sarge into my workstation. It's really nice. Look forward to turning some work out with it. Everything seems to work even aft

Re: XMMS

2004-11-09 Thread Jason Martens
Richard Ibbotson wrote: Jason Make sure you have the ogg vorbis and mp3 codecs installed. I had to install the xmms-vorbis package. They won't work without it. Also, fire up your mixer application (I right click on the sound level on the toolbar) and make sure that the PCM volume control is tu

Re: XMMS

2004-11-09 Thread Jason Martens
Richard Ibbotson wrote: Jason Check the permissions on your alsa device file. By default this is /dev/dsp(1?). if you do a "ls -l /dev/dsp*" you should see what the permissions are. Mine looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp* crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 9 03:18 /dev/dsp

Re: no devices after apt-get upgrade

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Martens
Lasse Bombien wrote: Hi Dominik, I experienced the same problem after upgrading today. I had to interact twice when preconfiguring packages (I just confirmed the suggestions and can't recall the names of the packages). When I rebooted later, I noticed that I couldn't find my floppy device, just now

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Jason Martens
btb wrote: hello- i have kernel 2.6.8 - and am having difficulty understanding how to properly keep the ipv6 module from loading. initially, i included it in the hotplug blacklist, along with a few others, but this didn't work. the other modules were not loaded, but ipv6 still was. i believe,

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Jason Martens
Jörg Harmuth wrote: Sorry, forgot to send it to the list, my fault. btb schrieb: On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I had problem without ipv

Re: Sarge nvidia: too low resolution

2004-12-16 Thread Jason Martens
SÃren Dyrsting wrote: Thanks for all the answers. None worked. A part of my XF86Config-4 listed below, where I have tried different settings. The settings for HorizSync and VertRefresh are taken from my screen manual. I will keep on trying. The funny thing is that some tool named xf86conf or s

What happened to my MIME settings?

2004-12-20 Thread Jason Martens
I'm running Debian Sarge, and I can't find the mime setting application since sometime before the 2.8 gnome migration (I think). Anyone know where I can configure my mime settings? Jason -- http://public.xdi.org/=jason.martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc