Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:18:21PM -0800, Barry deFreese wrote: > We're not talking about reality here, we're talking about corporate > America! :-) I agree that certification doesn't necessarily keep you up > to date in reality, but it looks that way on paper, which unfortunately > too many pe

Re: docs via www behaviour

2003-02-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just discovered something interesting - when I view docs for > my installed packages via apache, there are some files I don't see. > > I _think_, this is because apache treats files starting with > "README" special

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been playing around with my machine and I have determined that > some how when I performed an upgrade I triggered the package libfam0c102 > to replace libfam0. The latest KDE packages that require libfam0c102 I > was not able to get to work at all.

orinoco_cs driver on kernel >= 2.4.20

2003-02-14 Thread Florentin Ionescu
I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20 / 2.4.22 (both from binary and compiled) and the driver for linksys pcmcia card, orinoco_cs driver gives the error, IRQ in use. I tryed in /pcmcia/config.opts to set reseve the IRQ 3 but this didn't change anything. The 2.4.18 kernel worked fine. Any ideeas ? Tha

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Barry deFreese
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:31:21AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: I think the stigma is changing some after many companies have been burned hiring the "certified" morons. However, getting certified is never necessarily a bad thing. It can be a way to keep up with technolog

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Webster
I have been playing around with my machine and I have determined that some how when I performed an upgrade I triggered the package libfam0c102 to replace libfam0. The latest KDE packages that require libfam0c102 I was not able to get to work at all. Also there are a number of packages that are eith

my CUPS RUnneth Over!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, I saw on the web that CUPS stands for Can't Usually Print Stuff. That describs my current situation perfectly. Here's the situation: 1) CUPS 1.1.15 (testing) on a mostly-woody box 2) Lexmark z53 on USB 3) /usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark/Lexmark-Z53-lexmarkinkjet-ppd.ppd as my ppd fi

RE: Where is kernel source?

2003-02-14 Thread David Turetsky
-Original Message- From: Duncan Baynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where is kernel source? On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:03, David Turetsky wrote: > Iÿm looking for the debian linux kernel source > > > > Apparently

Re: CUPS errors

2003-02-14 Thread Matt Price
Fixed it by upgrading to testing (CUPS 1.1.15). (in case anyone has same problem). see new thread for new problems! matt On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:54:37PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hi everyone, > > after some misguided, uninformed apt-getting I broke my CUPS system > and couldn't figure out w

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:31:21AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > I think the stigma is changing some after many companies have been burned > hiring the "certified" morons. However, getting certified is never > necessarily a bad thing. It can be a way to keep up with technology and it > also sho

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > Certification is for PHBs only. Right? Is there any evidence other than > marketing blather that certification is a worthwhile endeavor? Not that I know of. Though if you want n^3 reasons against it, go cruise alt.sysadmin.recovery or

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:25:14AM -0800, Rowland Fellows wrote: > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > downloaded from Oregon State. Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which

Re: Build & install a single module for existing custom kernel

2003-02-14 Thread nate
Paul Mackinney said: > Hi, I've been compiling my own kernels for a while thanks to dgpkg, but > recently I've purchased a USB mouse, and I don't seem to have a require > module (HDI...something or other) to run it on USB. Is there a quick & > easy way to build & install the module? My kernel sourc

Build & install a single module for existing custom kernel

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
Hi, I've been compiling my own kernels for a while thanks to dgpkg, but recently I've purchased a USB mouse, and I don't seem to have a require module (HDI...something or other) to run it on USB. Is there a quick & easy way to build & install the module? My kernel sources have been sitting untouche

Possible bootstrap problem with nfs mount?

2003-02-14 Thread Peter J. Farley III
Hi all, I'm encountering problems trying to nfs mount a ifle system to the debian bootstrap system during an install. I'll try to provide all details I can think of below. The base system is RH7.3, the nfs mount problem has occurred with both hercules versions 2.16.5 and 2.17.1 running Debian

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to > apt-get remove each package? Easiest way is to either run debfoster, or purge Qt and then clean up with deborphan -Pa Also, kinda wondering why the default

docs via www behaviour

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've just discovered something interesting - when I view docs for my installed packages via apache, there are some files I don't see. I _think_, this is because apache treats files starting with "README" specially. Is the appropriate solution to turn this behaviour off in apache, or woul

I will never go back to RH

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
After less than a week with Debian, I'm simply astounded at the power of the apt pkg managment system. I'm in the middle of compiling KDE3.1 and when I come up with a missing part, apt-cache search, apt-get install and BAM I'm in business. No RPM searches...god what a blessing! Thanks list, f

Re: ide aptapi tape drive installation

2003-02-14 Thread David Zuccaro
I have got the tape drive working. First I used the kernel boot option "hdd=ide-scsi". Then I used: modprobe ide-scsi /dev/hdd to load the pseudo lower level SCSI device driver. Now I can access the tape using /dev/st0. This link was helpful: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/sr.html#s

Re: Locale?

2003-02-14 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:55:49PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Knoppix HD install apparently thinks I'm German. At any rate, ispell wants to > use the German dictionary. > > How can I fix the default locale to be US? I'm not sure if this is an ispell thing or a locale thing; however, this is how

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:18:39AM -, Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: [ please don't top post. ] > Thanks for you msg. > What i'd like to would be to use hardware raid, i'm used to Compaq (HPAQ) > servers whith smart array controller i thought i would get the same kind of > functionality (limi

Re: via82cxxx_audio module

2003-02-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I downloaded the source and complied a kernel and it all worked > fine(ish). I am using the machine to write this mail. There were a few > problems, but the one I am really stuck on is sound. I know the correct > sound driver is via82cxxx_audio.o. I co

RE: bbc emulator

2003-02-14 Thread matt
> It was called the BBC Microcomputer; it was made by Acorn and > sponsored or something by the BBC, as an educational thing. > Schools got grants to buy either BBCs or RM 380Zs - nobody > bought the RM. It used a 6502, and had an interface to hook > up second processor units; you could get a

Locale?

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
Knoppix HD install apparently thinks I'm German. At any rate, ispell wants to use the German dictionary. How can I fix the default locale to be US? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-14 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:02:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:03:08PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > FWIW I'm running X4.2, with a 15" CRT and a K6-III/550Mhz. I'd be > > looking to try Quake I/II/III (or as far as the K6 will let me go), > > and general desktoppy

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-14 Thread Chris Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:09:39PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:43:25AM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > > I think you should be using 'snd-emu10k1', rather than > > 'snd-card-emu10k1' here. See the note at the top of > > /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian. > > Hmm...

Re: flash, shockwave, and quicktime; and web browser incompatibilities

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 4:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a science teacher, I built a four machine GNU/Linux network. The biggest headache from the getgo (through all years, in fact of using GNU/Linux exclusively) has been incompatibilities with web sites. While it is a pain, you might w

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-14 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Johnathan, yo man, I've got one of those cpu's also (K6-3-400-+), mine will OC to 600 :-) I killed the motherboard (FIC 503, *sobs*), with a 7200 rpm kooler plugged into it & not directly to the power supply. Doh! If you can afford it, the Radeon 7500 64mb, will do what you want,

flash, shockwave, and quicktime; and web browser incompatibilities

2003-02-14 Thread adavis
As a science teacher, I built a four machine GNU/Linux network. The biggest headache from the getgo (through all years, in fact of using GNU/Linux exclusively) has been incompatibilities with web sites. It seems to me an immorality for scientists to build web sites on proprietary formats; but t

Galeon opens multiple frames recursively, endlessly

2003-02-14 Thread adavis
On a sid box, not really up to date (in the middle of a 350MB upgrade over a dialup connection) galeon is recursively opening up windows when started up. I cannot use galeon. Tried under all users on this system: it's a system wide problem. I have reinstalled galeon, with no change. This ha

Re: via82cxxx_audio module

2003-02-14 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:42:02PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Normally I don't stray from stable. I am happy to be a little behind and > have it all work together nicely, however I recently got an Acer Aspire > 1300 laptop, and the hardware requirements were such that I needed > kerne

Re: Howto setup USB wireless card

2003-02-14 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I've got a new Sid box, with 2.4.20-686 kernel. It has a 3c905c ethernet card, and a USB wireless D-Link DWL-120 "card". The 3com card works fine (it's how I'm on the net now to send this email). I installed ftp.debian.org/pool/main/l/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng_0.1.15-6_i3

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-14 Thread Chris Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:43:25AM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:35:24PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > > > I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working... > > (snip) > > Hmm... *PokePokeRummage* > > The relevant bit of my modules.conf sez: > > # --- ALSA

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Andy
> Linux certifications (which is what you're probably most interested in, > since you're asking on this list) are still so new that they're not > well-known, the only one that seems to be widely known is RHCE because > Red Hat never misses an opportunity to mention it. How much a Linux > certificat

Re: Motherboard with vid, sound, nic

2003-02-14 Thread Michael West
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:00:34AM -0600, Steve Waterman wrote: > Looking for a good, stable all-in-one motherboard with a small form factor in > which all the components are supported. The board should have video, sound, > nic, modem, usb, etc. Hoping to build a small box with enough power to

Re: [Solved] cfdisk not working!

2003-02-14 Thread Michael West
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:55:21AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:52, Michael West wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:55:30AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > Hi there: > > > > > > I want to repartition my hard disk, but when I try running cfdisk (and > > > yes, I am

Re: Sid & KDE 3.1

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 1:39 am, Paul Johnson wrote: RSN. Some of the dependancies are filtering in already. I think at this point if you want it faster, grab a compiler and start building it yourself. Which is what I've been doing. I compiled it under RH8 and made the unfortunate deb-new

Re: Where is kernel source?

2003-02-14 Thread Duncan Baynes
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:03, David Turetsky wrote: > Iÿm looking for the debian linux kernel source > > > > Apparently itÿs not kept at /usr/src/linux > > > > -- > > David Hi, I think you'll find the source is in /usr/src it'll be a file called something like 'kernel-source-2.4.20.tar.b

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:08:03PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? > > > > Remove the basic libraries and watch the d

Re: OT Knoppix installation

2003-02-14 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 14 February 2003 09:17 am, stan wrote: > I have a new laptop, and I was planing on istalling Koppix to take advantge > of it's _great_ hardware auto detection, then merging back intot the Debain > mainstream. > > Problem is, I can't figure out how to actully install Knoppix. I have a > bo

Re: interpretting DHCP Client messages

2003-02-14 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
This is a home network so all configuration issues with the access point are because I'm incompetent. ;) On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:10:14PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 > > This is "hello, I'm alive, what address can I have?".

Re: ide aptapi tape drive installation

2003-02-14 Thread Russell
David Zuccaro wrote: Hi, How do I install an ide aptapi tape drive under debian? The tape drive is a seagate STT8000 (4/8gb) I have physically installed it. It works for the other os'es I have installed on this pc but I want to use it with debian. You need to install the ide-scsi module and

Re: bbc emulator

2003-02-14 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:48:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 03:46]: > > > Hey All, > > > I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just > > > realise that there isn't one in sid. > > > > ] 2 defini

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? > > Remove the basic libraries and watch the dependencies sort it out? Is there a case for introducing that kind o

Re: How to mount CDROM and CDRW?

2003-02-14 Thread Russell
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 19:09, Carlos Jiménez wrote: I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM (hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Does it

RE: Where is kernel source?

2003-02-14 Thread David Pastern
David Turetsky said: > I'm looking for the debian linux kernel source > Apparently it's not kept at /usr/src/linux Nate said: >apt-cache search kernel-source-`uname -r` > >or just apt-cache search kernel-source >once you find the package you want, apt-get install it, >I think that will create a

Re: interpretting DHCP Client messages

2003-02-14 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Emma writes: > I'm curious to know what's actually happening when I pull up my > wireless ethernet connection. Below is what I do and then what I > see. I don't understand what the DHCPOFFERS received means. This > seems to be the longest part of the connection. Hi Emma, This is from http://www.

Re: Where is kernel source?

2003-02-14 Thread nate
David Turetsky said: > I'm looking for the debian linux kernel source > > > > Apparently it's not kept at /usr/src/linux apt-cache search kernel-source-`uname -r` or just apt-cache search kernel-source once you find the package you want, apt-get install it, I think that will create a .tar.bz2 fi

RE: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-14 Thread Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI)
Thanks for you msg. What i'd like to would be to use hardware raid, i'm used to Compaq (HPAQ) servers whith smart array controller i thought i would get the same kind of functionality (limited to raid 0 and 1) on this ide controller. I guess i'll toss out this controller and use the onboard ide co

Where is kernel source?

2003-02-14 Thread David Turetsky
I’m looking for the debian linux kernel source   Apparently it’s not kept at /usr/src/linux   -- David

RE: Emacs Key Bindings

2003-02-14 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Bob Hilliard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Emacs Key Bindings > > > I like to indent the first line of each paragraph. By default, > emacs (in text mode) considers only blank line

Re: No sound from kde

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:00:06PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > /usr/bin/artsd: error while loading shared libraries: libvorbisfile.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory baloo@ursine:~$ apt-file search libvorbisfile.so.0 libvorbis0: usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 libv

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:03:08PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > FWIW I'm running X4.2, with a 15" CRT and a K6-III/550Mhz. > I'd be looking to try Quake I/II/III (or as far as the K6 will let me > go), and general desktoppy stuff. I'd like to have the facility to run You won't be running Qu

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:15:50PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Even PINE has built-in filtering capabilities, and threading. Yikes! Try leaving for a week and watching Pine try opening debian-user... -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `-

Re: mounting sound cdroms

2003-02-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:29:40AM -0800, Joris Huizer Paul> wrote: >> - mounting manually, won't work - I get: mount: wrong fs type, >> bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted >> file systems

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Mike M
On Friday 14 February 2003 19:17, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > Don't forget about LPI. It's pretty decent, and alot of employers know it > pretty well. Really? I did find LPI on a Google of "debian certification" - not that they offered Debian certification. The price seemed reasonable - $100

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:48:16AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 02:18, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > 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

Re: Sid & KDE 3.1

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:30:44PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Has there been any word on when Sid will have KDE 3.1? RSN. Some of the dependancies are filtering in already. I think at this point if you want it faster, grab a compiler and start building it yourself. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL

Re: Upgrade to Sid by apt

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > I want to upgrade to sid, is there a rule for sources.lists? Basically change where it says "stable" or "testing" to "unstable". Just a word of warning, though, if you use KDE or Gnome, now is *not* a good time to switch to Sid.

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Mike M
On Friday 14 February 2003 18:07, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:30:40PM -0500, Mike M insinuated: > > I saw a post on the French debian user list where someone suggested > > using the number of your Debian user list posts as your > > certification rating. Clever. > > dude, on my e

ide aptapi tape drive installation

2003-02-14 Thread David Zuccaro
Hi, How do I install an ide aptapi tape drive under debian? The tape drive is a seagate STT8000 (4/8gb) I have physically installed it. It works for the other os'es I have installed on this pc but I want to use it with debian. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: mounting sound cdroms

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:05:11AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > You mean, when inserting in a normal cd player ? it > just goes on and plays everything. > (The computer cd player doesn't have a play button) Wow, cheapass CDROM. > cdparanoia -v -B just gives a lot of messages with > lots of /dev

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Don't forget about LPI. It's pretty decent, and alot of employers know it pretty well. -- Arthur H. Johnson II, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer, The Linux Box Debian GNU/Linux Advocate AIM: bytor4232 IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14,

Re: OT Knoppix installation

2003-02-14 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
There is a hardware autodetection package in debian. Its called discover. It works very good. -- Arthur H. Johnson II, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Advocate AIM: bytor4232 IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, stan wrote: > I have a new laptop, and I was planing on istalling Kop

Emacs Key Bindings

2003-02-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
I like to indent the first line of each paragraph. By default, emacs (in text mode) considers only blank lines and page delimiters as paragraph delimiters, and binds the TAB key to "indent-relative". To change this, I have the following lines in .emacs: (setq default-major-mode 'paragraph-i

Re: howto update automatically

2003-02-14 Thread nate
Joris Huizer said: > Hello everybody, > > I'd like to know wether & how I could keep the Debian > installation up to date - and using stable progs at > the same time. check /etc/apt/sources.list and be sure you have some http or ftp mirrors in there for the various sites, for updates ONLY dependin

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:10 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase Thanks Mike! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: debian mailing list archive in mbox format

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:00:02PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Is it possible to get mailing list archive messages in mbox format? They're stored on master.debian.org in one-per-month mbox format, but as far as I can tell not exported. A wishlist bug on listarchives might be in order, if th

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > >The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde > >with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one f

compiling modules-scyld-source

2003-02-14 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have a cheap RLT 8139 card that works with kernel-2.2.20 and the rtl8139 module, but it won't with the 2.4.20 kernel and the 8139too module (locks up the machine when I do an insmod 8139too). I saw that there is a modules-scyld-source (which I downloaded) that contains the rtl8139.c and

Re: Broken Symbolic Links in /etc/alternatives

2003-02-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra Colin> wrote: >> I just removed and purged emacs21 and emacsen-common since I >> didn't use it. Looking at the folder /etc/alternatives, I find >> out that t

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-14 Thread Frank Copeland
On 14 Feb 03 15:39:11 GMT, Pedro Ruivo TRQV-DSI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to say one other thing, wich is the disappointmento with linux > in this concern, shouldn't there be "a Linux Driver" ? > I find drivers for Red Hat, Suse, Turbo, ... Linux but not for > Debian and

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gary" == Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Thanks to Shyamal Prasad for noticing the syntax error in Gary> the config. I wish he had noticed the dot com thing too :) I guess I was not using "the same pop server as you" ;-) I just caught up with this thread, was out of t

freeamp problems ?

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Selby
Is anyone else having problems with freeamp ? I love its user interface but it seems to lock up a lot on my machine PIII 700Mhz, debian woody. I can select a ogg file AOK, it plays AOK but oftern the GUI seems to die, I can move the sliders, select buttons but zip happens. The music continues b

Re: interpretting DHCP Client messages

2003-02-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:19:36PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: | Hey all: | | I'm curious to know what's actually happening when I pull up my wireless | ethernet connection. Below is what I do and then what I see. I don't | understand what the DHCPOFFERS received means. This seems to be the | l

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/02/03 Jeff Elkins did speaketh: > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to > apt-get remove each package? If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase somethin

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:30:40PM -0500, Mike M insinuated: > I saw a post on the French debian user list where someone suggested > using the number of your Debian user list posts as your > certification rating. Clever. dude, on my end, that would only rate my curiosity / # of things i break! ;)

cron won't activate changes

2003-02-14 Thread
Hi all. I need to block an (internal) ip-address a few hours a day. I added iptables -I FORWARD -s -j DROP to iptables. Works perfectly. However when I add this to cron it keeps saying (cron) 'installed succesfully' but is won't do that job. I added it in /etc/crontab (as root, using crontab -

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Bill Webster wrote: > My laptop was running KDE3 from unstable. About 3 days ago I did an > upgrade that upgraded it to what appears to be a partial upgrade to > version 4. But in the process it removed something that is needed in <...> > Does anyone have any idea what might b

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:17:09PM -0600, Michael Heironimus insinuated: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > Certification is for PHBs only. Right? Is there any evidence > > other than marketing blather that certification is a worthwhile > > endeavor? > > Depends on the c

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread alex
If I understand your problem correctly, this might help: log in with regular user name su (enter root's password) cat /etc/gdm/gdm.conf Look through the list for 'AllowRoot=_' If it says 'false', run an editor and change it to 'true'. Then save. Alex Rowland Fellows wrote: I am able t

procmail out of memory

2003-02-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
anyone seen this before? i just got a blank message at the top of my inbox, dated Jan 01 (that's all -- no headers, no nothing), and checking the procmail logs, i see: Out of memory! Callback called exit. END failed--call queue aborted at /usr/bin/spamassassin line 50. huh. extraordinarily weir

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Jeff Elkins writes: > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have > to apt-get remove each package? Unfortunately, yes (though the dependency list in the KDE package will tell you what to remove). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwoo

Re: maildir

2003-02-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* john gennard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 11:44]: > I run Woody and use getmail to pull email into mboxes. > The latest release of getmail supports only maildirs, so > I need to get use to them. Getmail 2.x (which are in woody, testing, and unstable) supports maildir, mbox, or even piping off to

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having a problem and I am wondering if someone out there is having > the same problem or can explain what is going on. > > My laptop was running KDE3 from unstable. About 3 days ago I did an > upgrade that upgraded it to what appears to be a partial

howto update automatically

2003-02-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I'd like to know wether & how I could keep the Debian installation up to date - and using stable progs at the same time. I had a quick look at the man page of autoupdate but I can't really tell what it's really doing - it just says a bit on changing a configure file I don't know

debian mailing list archive in mbox format

2003-02-14 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Is it possible to get mailing list archive messages in mbox format? My primary reason is being able to select archived messages online and reply to them with the correct Reference, Mail-followup-to and other headers being automatically set correctly in my e-mail client. I know that I'd probably ha

No sound from kde

2003-02-14 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, After my upgrade to testing/unstable everything still works fine except my KDE sound. Tried XMMS, this one works fine but there aren't sounds from KDE. When I go to the shell and run commands with arts in it, I still get the message: /usr/bin/artsd: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-14 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 14, 2003 02:56 pm, alex wrote: > I'll be installing Debian on another computer and would > like to have the  'multi cd  Install from a CD-ROM set' to > make things easier.  How can I add this option to my > dselect access menu? As root, just type "apt-cdrom add" for each cd while it is

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2003 16:25 schrieb Rowland Fellows: > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > downloaded from Oregon State. However, once installed, the system goes > directly into a login screen from which I cannot l

Sid & KDE 3.1

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
Has there been any word on when Sid will have KDE 3.1? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mounting sound cdroms

2003-02-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Joris Huizer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 16:19]: > --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:29:40AM -0800, Joris > > Huizer wrote: > > > - mounting manually, won't work - I get: > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock > > on > > > /dev/hdc, or too

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Mike M
On Friday 14 February 2003 13:31, deFreese, Barry wrote: > >-Original Message- > > From: Mike M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:16 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Certification > > > > > >Certification is for PHBs only. Right? Is there any evidenc

RE: Gnome xterm windows

2003-02-14 Thread David Turetsky
-Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gnome xterm windows On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:54:00AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > Each time I reboot, gnome opens what seems to be twice as many x

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-14 Thread nate
Jonathan Matthews said: > Hi everyone. > > Can anyone recommend/warn me off any PCI graphics cards that > are still available at retail? > > I've googled a bit, but can't find any info written in the last year or > so, or any relevant to X4.x > > FWIW I'm running X4.2, with a 15" CRT and a K6-III/5

interpretting DHCP Client messages

2003-02-14 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey all: I'm curious to know what's actually happening when I pull up my wireless ethernet connection. Below is what I do and then what I see. I don't understand what the DHCPOFFERS received means. This seems to be the longest part of the connection. Is there a way to optomize this so that it take

RE: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: > Certification is a double-edged sword. I don't know about the Linux world > yet but in the old Novell days and in the M$ world, many organizations > will not hire someone who is not "certified", regardless of their true > experience level or talent. novell especially. I h

Request confirmation this is a dpkg bug

2003-02-14 Thread Simon Vandemoortele
Hello everyone, I've been having some trouble with dpkg and afaik it is a bug. Can someone confirm this is worth a bugreport ? _Symptoms:_ Sometimes (not all packages, not always) dpkg fails as follows: #+v dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/noatun-plugins_4%3a3.1.0-2_i386.deb (--unp

Re: bbc emulator

2003-02-14 Thread Pete Robinson
On Friday 14 Feb 2003 11:30 am, Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > Hey All, > I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just > realise that there isn't one in sid. > > Has anyone setup a bbc emulator on their debian box? Could they recommend > what they think is the best one? > > cheer

Re: bbc emulator

2003-02-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 03:46]: > > Hey All, > > I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just > > realise that there isn't one in sid. > > ] 2 definitions found > ] > ] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)

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