Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:01:08AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > You cannot unsubscribe. Noone can. Why would you want to anyway ? His continued resistance is futile. He has been assimilated. munch, munch... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _te

Re: voodoo3 troubles

2003-02-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my voodoo3 working but i am having some serious problems... The computer boots up fine w/ the card in, and X works great w/ the "vesa" driver (other than no acceleration of course). If i try the "tdfx" driver, however, X goes crazy (the screen is br

Re: voodoo3 troubles

2003-02-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my voodoo3 working but i am having some serious problems... The computer boots up fine w/ the card in, and X works great w/ the "vesa" driver (other than no acceleration of course). If i try the "tdfx" driver, however, X goes crazy (the screen is br

Re: ut2003/Games in general woes

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:43:50PM -0500, karrottop wrote: > Ok, I installed ut2003 under debian 3.0 (woody) and it ran. I have > recently upgraded to (Sid) and now it only goes to splash screen then > blacks out my window, just to return directly to my desktop. > Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NO

Re: Iptables Help

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:39AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:34:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > It would be very useful to have some script that would ask you what > > services you intended to run, and generated scripts for iptables etc. > > that ensured that only the mi

Re: Using new Apple displays on Debian/Intel box?

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:46:15PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:42:42AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am looking at the new Apple displays (the 23" 1920x1200 display). > > > > What would I need to make this work on a Intel Pentium III box with an > > ASUS P2B-DS MB? >

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:52:58PM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Fer'had Erdogan: > > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. > > Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I > > still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to dea

Re: invisible cursor in X

2003-02-13 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 04:44, Rev. Dave Terkanian wrote: > Hello, > I've got a problem with X (or something else, don't know.) When I start > X (via xdm or gdm) my mouse cursor is invisible. The mouse is there, I can > change focus, and with lots of effort select things and push buttons, but

voodoo3 troubles

2003-02-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I'm trying to get my voodoo3 working but i am having some serious problems... The computer boots up fine w/ the card in, and X works great w/ the "vesa" driver (other than no acceleration of course). If i try the "tdfx" driver, however, X goes crazy (the screen is bright shifting colors and

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:19:09PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? Yup. > How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? It'll happen automatically at umount, or you can r

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:22:50PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: | Then you should filter your mail before looking at it with pine. Make the | *computer* do all the work. Good. | Here's a procmail solution for you: | | # Debian lists ... | :0: | * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<].*@lists\.debian\.org[>] | *

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-13 Thread George Georgalis
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:51:41PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:46:55AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> Have you done it? I've tried single / double quotes and "\ " to no >> avail... but I am setting a variable ($fn) and using -fn $fn on the >> command line (in a script)

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:12:14AM +, Scalar wrote: > Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few > letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the > list from other email? No. Bad. Very Bad. Leads to incomprehensible Subject lines. > I use pine over telnet in 25x80 m

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 13, 2003 07:13 pm, Russell wrote: > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Russell wrote: > >>Michael D. Schleif wrote: > >>>Any pronto mua users here? > >>> > >>>As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, > >>> ~100 message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail > >>> archi

Re: Disabling the framebuffer

2003-02-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:58:38PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > In /etc/lilo.conf if I want to disable the frame buffer what d I need to > change the vga= line to here is my /etc/lilo.conf. this turns framebuffer off :) # Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask,

Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:50:32PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: | Thus spake Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:39PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: | > > I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, | > > the other is Stable. On both

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: | You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from | opening up each time I reboot into gdm? It sounds like you have some open when you terminate your gnome session, and you told gnome to save the session. A real

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > its Dialog-based menus) twice. All packages, or just some? If the latter, please file bugs ag

invisible cursor in X

2003-02-13 Thread Rev. Dave Terkanian
Hello, I've got a problem with X (or something else, don't know.) When I start X (via xdm or gdm) my mouse cursor is invisible. The mouse is there, I can change focus, and with lots of effort select things and push buttons, but I cannot see the mouse cursor. Does anybody have any idea wh

Re: SOLVED - Re: Dlink Wireless USB Card: Unresolved symbols

2003-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:49:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Anyone know how quickly an upload to the Debian ftp site makes it down > to the main mirrors? Is it minutes, hours, or days? The accepted queue is processed once a day at 19:52 GMT. Once it's finished, mirrors sync over the course of th

Re: Iptables Help

2003-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:34:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > It would be very useful to have some script that would ask you what > services you intended to run, and generated scripts for iptables etc. > that ensured that only the minimum necessary services were available. Don't we have this kind of t

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Russell
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Russell wrote: Michael D. Schleif wrote: Any pronto mua users here? As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail archive to debian woody. Currently, this is used by netscrape mail in an convenien

Re: ut2003/Games in general woes

2003-02-13 Thread Caleb Walker
You have to go to the UT2003 help files. I had this once and you have to redo the video driver. I have an nvidia card what do you have? On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:32, Josh McKinney wrote: > On approximately Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:43:50PM -0500, karrottop wrote: > > Ok, I installed ut2003 under de

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 05:29 PM -0800): > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 14:16]: > > > ... I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 > > > message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail a

Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:39PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, > > the other is Stable. On both of them I do a: > > > > host (ip6 addr for a known machine) and I get

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Russell wrote: > > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Any pronto mua users here? > > > > As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 > > message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail archive to debian > > woody. Currently, this is used by netscrape mail in an convenient and

[no subject]

2003-02-13 Thread dbalder
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-14 03:02]: > Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. > >oooh i810. what sound card are you using? sis chipset onboard-sound? >if yes, then i had the same problem.. and, as sorry as i am, the >only way i got sound in q

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 14:16]: > > > > Any pronto mua users here? > > You could grep this mailbox for User-Agent headers... > > > As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 > > message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day

RE: Problems with Quake]I[ Arena

2003-02-13 Thread dbalder
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-14 03:02]: > Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. > >oooh i810. what sound card are you using? sis chipset onboard-sound? >if yes, then i had the same problem.. and, as sorry as i am, the >only way i got sound in q

Re: Iptables Help

2003-02-13 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:17:59PM -0500, jereme wrote: > Let me reidirate, this is a _very_bad_ way to conscruct a firewall. A > better arpproach would be to tell us what services you do want to > provide, and to whom, the number of interfaces and their connections, > etc. > > Then you set the d

Re: ut2003/Games in general woes

2003-02-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:43:50PM -0500, karrottop wrote: > Ok, I installed ut2003 under debian 3.0 (woody) and it ran. I have > recently upgraded to (Sid) and now it only goes to splash screen then > blacks out my window, just to return directly to my desktop. So, I > installed tu

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:12:33PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? > >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? > > who knows maybe it's software er

Re: Using new Apple displays on Debian/Intel box?

2003-02-13 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:42:42AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am looking at the new Apple displays (the 23" 1920x1200 display). > > What would I need to make this work on a Intel Pentium III box with an > ASUS P2B-DS MB? > > Am I crazy to try this? I would clearly need a new graphics car

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 05:29 PM -0800): > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 14:16]: > > > > Any pronto mua users here? > > You could grep this mailbox for User-Agent headers... ... and you'll likely find about half of them use mut

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

2003-02-13 Thread Gemini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Absolutely nothing tricky. I just downloaded an mp3 file and I issued the command line : mpg123 filename.mp3 and it played the song just fine ... I even raised the volume on my speakers to be sure it works :)) I also tried an ogg file with xmms. It

Re: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-13 Thread Christian Arthaber
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-14 03:02]: > Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. > > After trying 1.32b point release and after a *lot* of googling I am > convinced that the problem (crashing with sound) is related to i810 sound > driver. I am u

Re: /cdrom -vs- /dev/hdc

2003-02-13 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 03:51 PM +): > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:27:47PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > > I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory. > > > Before I

Re: Bad fortune

2003-02-13 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:39:54PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > [/usr/games/fortune now works as expected] dpkg -L is a nice trick. also, try -S 'filename' if you want to know what package owns a particular file. > I looked before and did not see this directory. Neither did locate > fortune t

Re: Printing Problem

2003-02-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
hi ya roberto on your print server... d/l and install magicfilter to make life 10x easier vi /etc/printcap # # http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Downloads/LPR/printcap # lp|Epson800:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :pw:132:\ :fq:\ :sh:mx#0:\

ut2003/Games in general woes

2003-02-13 Thread karrottop
Ok, I installed ut2003 under debian 3.0 (woody) and it ran. I have recently upgraded to (Sid) and now it only goes to splash screen then blacks out my window, just to return directly to my desktop. So, I installed tuxracer, all it does is turn my monitor on a different resolution then quits, and

RE: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-13 Thread dbalder
Just a quick update on my efforts to solve this sound problem with Q3A. After trying 1.32b point release and after a *lot* of googling I am convinced that the problem (crashing with sound) is related to i810 sound driver. I am using i810 sound driver (OSS) (which is reporttedly 'very alpha') and s

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Do you have IDE disks? Yes. > > Are you using DMA? It's a Western Digital 80G HD. The WD website at http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=5&Lang=1 says, among other things: Interface: Ultra ATA/100 Mode 5 Ultra ATA100.0 MB/s

Re: Bad fortune

2003-02-13 Thread karrottop
I don't know if this will help but fortune installs to /usr/games/fortune with apt-get. My only other thought is that you might do a updatedb before you try and locate fortune...but that is a long shot. Hope that helped On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:51, David Turetsky wrote: > I ran apt-get install f

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > its Dialog-based menus) twice. > > Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong? Glad t

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Russell
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Any pronto mua users here? As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail archive to debian woody. Currently, this is used by netscrape mail in an convenient and elaborate hierarchy of folders sometime

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 14:16]: > > Any pronto mua users here? You could grep this mailbox for User-Agent headers... > As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 > message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail archive to debian > woody. Curren

Re: Help with bootable backup

2003-02-13 Thread Russell
Vivek Kumar wrote: Hi, I want to create backup of my system on regular basis and make it bootable. I don't mind creating 2 backups- one for booting and another for data. Kindly suggest how can i do that. I am using Debian woody. Maybe you could burn an el-torito CD. IIRC, it boots from a floppy

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake David Turetsky: > You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from > opening up each time I reboot into gdm? > Earlier today, if there was one, there was 60.70.80 > Seems like each time I reboot, the number doubles!!! 1) are you properly exiting from X when you go t

RE: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
Yes. Did that too... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of DvB Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:18 PM To: Debian-User Subject: Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe "Fer'had Erdogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UM.. Yeah.. I did that (fol

packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or its Dialog-based menus) twice. Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

anyone using drbd succesfully? other mirroring options?

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Roach
I have been pounding my head against the wall (figuratively) trying to get drbd working. I have taken the kernel-source-2.4.18 and the upstream debian package (version 0.6.2) and am trying to mirror 2 140G servers with little (no) success. My systems connect fine and I get one of two outcomes Eit

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread DvB
"Fer'had Erdogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UM.. Yeah.. I did that (followed the instructions) three times over > a 24 hour (earth hours) period before I posted this thing in the actual > user list. > There might be a confirmation message asking you if you're sure you want to be unsubsc

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Levi Waldron wrote: > > ... Do you > think there could be a problem with the bios or memory now that is now > scrambling a previously good hdd through the fsck process? Do you have IDE disks? Are you using DMA? If so, what kind of motherboard and/or IDE controller cards are you using? Danie

SOLVED - Re: Dlink Wireless USB Card: Unresolved symbols

2003-02-13 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I've put a D-Link Wireless USB "card" on this box, and installed "linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.20-686" to match my 2.4.20-686 stock kernel. When I try to "modconf" o r"modprobe prism2_usb" I get a lot of unresolved symbols. When I manually run "depmod" I also get these errors, l

My cup runneth over!

2003-02-13 Thread David Turetsky
You sure there ain’t some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from opening up each time I reboot into gdm?   Earlier today, if there was one, there was 60…70…80   Seems like each time I reboot, the number doubles!!!   -- David

RE: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
UM.. Yeah.. I did that (followed the instructions) three times over a 24 hour (earth hours) period before I posted this thing in the actual user list. -Original Message- From: Gary Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-13 Thread Chris Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:34:01PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:04:49PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working... (snip) > > lsmod has this to say: (snip) > This looks good, but it appears that the

RE: Bad fortune

2003-02-13 Thread David Turetsky
Package 'fortune is not installed A list is directories is then rendered starting with /. /usr /usr/games /usr/games/fortune [/usr/games/fortune now works as expected] [more directory listings] Package 'fortune-min' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files

Re: Netgear EA201C isa nic - compatable or not

2003-02-13 Thread Jason M. Harvey
> > Yes. I have two of them in the 486 I use as a router. Just keep an > MS-DOS boot disk handy. > > Snippets from `dmesg` : > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 read-only ether=11,0x300,eth0 > ether=15,0x320,eth1 mem=8192K > > ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Gary Turner
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >Quoting Fer'had Erdogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. >> Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I >> still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to deal with. Driving me >> cra

RE: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message You cannot unsubscribe.  Noone can.  Why would you want to anyway ?     Matt -Original Message-From: Fer'had Erdogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 9:16 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: how the fuck do I unsubscribe I have bee

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:37:05PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Fer'had Erdogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. > Always start by looking in the headers. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject

unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread DebiDeaux
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Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:39PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, > the other is Stable. On both of them I do a: > > host (ip6 addr for a known machine) and I get nothing. > > root@wally > {0}:/usr/share/doc/apache-common>ho

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-13 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:29:01PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > New development: (in some quarters, called Progress) > > I chatted on the phone today with WD. Apparently the ~120GB limitation > is a consequence of my using native Windows drivers which do not have > 48-bit addressing capability a

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Fer'had Erdogan: > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. > Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I > still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to deal with. Driving me > crazy. Boy these headers sure don't have anything

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:20:23PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: | On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:31, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: [found a 'D' process, can't kill it, short explanation] | Although referring someone who is frustrated wit

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Fer'had Erdogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. > Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I > still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to deal with. Driving me > crazy. Always start by looking in

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-13 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:04:49PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > Hi all. > I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working... > and I've been unable to find much in the way of docs for ALSA > (No "man alsa", /usr/doc/alsa* adds up to a couple examples, several > copies of the chan

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 February 2003 22:04, Chris Mitchell wrote: > Hi all. > I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working... > and I've been unable to find much in the way of docs for ALSA > (No "man alsa", /usr/doc/alsa* adds up to a couple examples, several > copies of the changelog,

how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to deal with. Driving me crazy…

Re: /cdrom -vs- /dev/hdc

2003-02-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:51, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:27:47PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > > I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory. > > > Before I start talking about the problem, here are

pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Any pronto mua users here? As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, ~100 message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail archive to debian woody. Currently, this is used by netscrape mail in an convenient and elaborate hierarchy of folders sometimes (10) or more levels deep

Re: Windowmaker question

2003-02-13 Thread donw
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:37:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Windowmaker question. When you launch a program (say xterm) > you get the program window and an icon. How do I get windowmaker to > not display the extra icon? I know that you can have the clip auto > attract them a

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 February 2003 19:07, Craig Dickson wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) > > > > For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 13, 2003 11:42 am, George Georgalis wrote: > anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the > questions. I thank both of you for the tips. We're still not sure what caused the catastrophic hard drive failure, although it may become more clear after figuring out w

Re: need help on using acpi for power management

2003-02-13 Thread James D. Freels
Never mind here. I discovered my newly compiled kernel was not getting liloed correctly. All is well now! On Thursday 13 February 2003 14:38, James D. Freels wrote: > Hello All ! > > I have been fortunate enough for my employer to have acquired me a new > machine on which I naturally am running

ALSA sound setup

2003-02-13 Thread Chris Mitchell
Hi all. I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working... and I've been unable to find much in the way of docs for ALSA (No "man alsa", /usr/doc/alsa* adds up to a couple examples, several copies of the changelog, and some copyright info... and alsa-project.org seems to have li

Re: Detecting memory leaks

2003-02-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ppl, > > I'm using Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18,KDE 3.1 on a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 > MB Swap. > > I've noticed that in a few days time or weeks the system slows down i.e screen > refresh takes longer, apps may take longer to launch,etc. > > The

Re: Disabling the framebuffer

2003-02-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:58:38PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > In /etc/lilo.conf if I want to disable the frame buffer what d I need to > change the vga= line to vga=normal but you could disable the fb in your kernel as well. Good luck, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Can you tell me exactly what you do to play audio (any audio would be fine at this point, just to show it's working)? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina,

Re: Bogus e-mails sent ....iConnectHere has received your mail! (KMM2416947V99452L0KM)

2003-02-13 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:24:41PM -0200, Barry Rab wrote: >> We have received your message and will respond as quickly as possible. >> This is an automatic response, please do not reply to this message. >> >> Please visit our on line help section, as it may help to answer yo

Re: DAT tape

2003-02-13 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:18, GBV wrote: > I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... > > How i can mount? I don't think you can mount a tape - not so you can browse it, anyway. > How i can use cron to make backups? > > There an frontend backup soft? Amanda does the job for me. It's

Windowmaker question

2003-02-13 Thread cwhmlist
I have a Windowmaker question. When you launch a program (say xterm) you get the program window and an icon. How do I get windowmaker to not display the extra icon? I know that you can have the clip auto attract them and then collapse, but I want to use the clip to display icons for programs

IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, the other is Stable. On both of them I do a: host (ip6 addr for a known machine) and I get nothing. root@wally {0}:/usr/share/doc/apache-common>host test-ip6.company.com root@wally {0}:/usr/share/doc/apache-common> Howev

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 13, 2003 01:19 pm, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi, > > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? >From http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/RE

Re: how do you save a buffer out as a file in vim?

2003-02-13 Thread Xavier Barnabe-Theriault
* Drew Cohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-02-13 12:09]: > Hi, > > > > I want to be able to open one file in vim (vim file1), copy some arbitrary > lines (v, down arrow, yy), and then save that buffer out as a file (file2). NB: try "j" instead of down arrow (j is closer than the arrow). > > > Wh

Re: Help needed w/ PLIP connection

2003-02-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 12, 2003 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all: > > I am having trouble debugging my plip connection. I haven't set up plip for a couple years so my memory is a little foggy. I used the PLIP-HOWTO to set up the following scripts on the machine cedar to connect it via plip to b

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? Simply mounting it is the easy way and should be ok if your filesystem has been correctly unmounted.

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:19:09PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? Yes, you just mount it as ext2. > How can I synchronize the modification stored in the journal file? No need. As I understand i

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

2003-02-13 Thread Gemini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Jeudi 13 Février 2003 18:55, Andrew Perrin a écrit : > Thank you for this - it got me further than I had been before. But I still > have no sound. > > Any advice? I'd rather not surrender and install another sound card. Here is my sound file that

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Bruno Diniz de Paula said on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:19:09PM -0500: > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? Yep. Just change the fstab entry from ext3 to ext2, and then

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:32:21PM +0100, René Seindal wrote: > With such a system there is really no way of dragging a recalcitrant > process out of kernel mode. If it is stuck in there, it is stuck. > Signals are registered, but not delivered, because the transition to > user-space never happens

Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Thu Feb 13, 2003 at 01:19:09PM -0500, the boisterous Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the > type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored > in the journal file? Just replace ext3 to

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Craig Dickson wrote: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) > > > > For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to > > a better OS. > > Such

Re: Synaptic & can't run in console with "su" or "xhost local:roo t"

2003-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* deFreese, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 11:07]: > >-Original Message- > >From: Haralambos Geortgilakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:30 AM > >To: Debian User Listie > >Subject: Synaptic & can't run in console with "su" or "xhost local:root" > > > >H

need help on using acpi for power management

2003-02-13 Thread James D. Freels
Hello All ! I have been fortunate enough for my employer to have acquired me a new machine on which I naturally am running Debian/Sid. All goes quite well, but I do not have the acpi features of the motherboard working. The motherboard is an Intel SE7500CW2 housing dual Xeon 2.4Ghz processors.

Dlink Wireless USB Card: Unresolved symbols

2003-02-13 Thread Kent West
OT: I've just built a box from Sid; got KDE3. Wow! Very Macintosh Aqua-ish. I like it. Back on-Topic: I've put a D-Link Wireless USB "card" on this box, and installed "linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.20-686" to match my 2.4.20-686 stock kernel. When I try to "modconf" o r"modprobe prism2_usb" I get

Re: Iptables Help

2003-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* GBV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 10:08]: > I have an webserver on port 3321 > how I can use iptables to deny(drop) all packages coming from internet?? iptables -P INPUT DROP will drop all incoming packets period. > > my inet interface is eth0 iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -i eth0 will drop all p

Re: Iptables Help

2003-02-13 Thread jereme
"GBV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an webserver on port 3321 > > how I can use iptables to deny(drop) all packages coming from internet?? [...] > Deny any request coming from eth0, destinated to this host on port > 3321 I had a bit of trouble interpretting what you really wanted answer

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