Re: kernel-source-2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:53:10PM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote: > Honestly, is there any advantage on that kernel compared to the one you get > from www.kernel.org and compile the clasic way, other than a slight ease of > installation. Yes. You a

removing software with apt-get or dselect

2003-06-22 Thread Jon Doe
Hello all, I've read the available documentation pretty thoroughly and still cannot find the answer to this. How do I remove packages that were installed with another package using apt-get or dselect? For example, say I want to install mozilla but later decide that I don't want it anymore. How do

bandwidth limiting

2003-06-22 Thread K S Sreeram
[debian sarge] Hi I am connected to the internet thru a 128kbps connection, with a single box. There is no separate router. I have a 'cvs update' going on for a rather large repository. Whenever there is any HTTP traffic(browser/wget/apt-get etc), the CVS traffic seems to come to a halt. So it l

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:18:07PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Glad this has *never* been the case for me. You did report any > > difficulties you had with any of the versions, right? > > No. I burned out on reporting problems to larger

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Geordie Birch
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 08:21:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > On Sun,

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"aaron" == aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aaron> I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post aaron> enough of my silly problems already). The first is why my aaron> ext3 drive is so slow, and the second is what other aaron> alternatives I have, if any.

Re: exporting /var/spool/mail/user as mailbox

2003-06-22 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:49:31PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > have access to a Windows pc and a modem connection. I would like to > be able to pick up my mai, which I can do already through my > university account; but I'd rather not have to refilter it and reread > it all when I get back home. s

Re: nfs through dsl router

2003-06-22 Thread Matt Price
James, Bob, and others, thanks for your help. sorry to take so long getting back (see below for explanation!) On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:24:05AM -0400, James Strandboge wrote: > > > Ouch. You may already be hacked. jeez, guys, it was only up for about 5 minutes -- I'm not THAT stupid (thoug

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Aaron
A follow up: I'm running kernel version 2.4.21 on the file server, and in RedHat I was running 2.4.18-3. None of the hardware has changed between distros. Right now my system drive is hda and my storage drive (the one in question) is hdb1 and hdb2 (two 100 gig primary partitions on a single 200

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Richard Heycock
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 12:49, Aaron wrote: > Fellow Debs, > > I'm sorry this is so long. Specificity before brevity when asking for > help, that's what I always say... Okay, I don't say that a lot. > > I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post enough of > my silly problems alread

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:32PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > What is this all about?! Is there any way I can fix it? Is it not an > ext3 problem? It is almost definitely not an ext3 problem, and you'd likely see the same behavior with whatever fs you use. More likely, the problem is that you don't ha

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Donald Spoon
Josh Metzler wrote: -SNIP- < Ok, before writing the above, I had installed the stock debian kernel-image-2.4.20-3-686, along with alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-686, alsa-base, alsa-headers, and alsa-utils. I had not run alsamixer to unmute the sound. I have now done so, but still no luck. alsamixer s

reconfigure broken network? (kinda urgent)

2003-06-22 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, In an effort to change form a dynamic to a staticIP configuration, I seem to have partially broken my network setup. Here's what I did: -- added an extra line to /etc/hosts: 192.16.8.2.199 matts-mac localhost -- changed the devinition of eth0 in /etc/networking/interfaces from

Evolution

2003-06-22 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Why doesn't Evolution do message "join" for a message that gets split? Recently I tried "metasend" to send out an email; indeed, the mail got split into 3 parts. Tried to read it using Evolution, the mail still being split. TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Seahorse

2003-06-22 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, How do you sign a key using Seahorse? ii seahorse 0.7.3-2A Gnome front end for GnuPG It seems not to be working. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:39:24PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you > > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in Debian. > > Success and failure is very ver

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:39:24 -0500 > "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you > > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in > > Debian. Success and fai

Re: kernel-source-2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:53:10PM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote: } On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:10 am, Colin Watson wrote: } > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:50:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: } > > Anybody know what the holdup is for 2.4.21 hitting Debian? } > } Honestly, is there any advantage on that

Compiling kernel 2.4.21 and gcc version

2003-06-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
Something unexpected happened to me. I upgraded gcc to 3.3.3, and afterwards I was unable to compile the 2.4.21 kernel. I was still able to compile the 2.4.20 version. However with gcc 3.2.3 and 2.95 I can compile the 2.4.21 kernel. I do not remember the exact error message, but it was at the v

Re: No 3D support after custom kernel compilation [solved]

2003-06-22 Thread Steven Yap
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:53, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Saturday 21 June 2003 03:26 am, Marino Fernandez wrote: [Adventures with DRI and Custom kernel elided ] > > Any ideas. Thank you. > > I just needed to reboot... JUST LIKE IN WINDOWS!!! Actually, you don't. I'm sorry that I didn't see you

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Epting
> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > > > up to ask if it would work with Linux. > * Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 21:32]: > > There is some truth to what the woman told you. I just

Inconsistency detected by ld.so !?

2003-06-22 Thread chevre
When I try to start the Apache web server I get the following error message: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 386: elf_machine_rel_relative: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 8' failed! The box runs Debian potato 2.2r6 updated using apt-get update; apt-get upgra

Re: kernel-source-2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:10 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:50:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Anybody know what the holdup is for 2.4.21 hitting Debian? > Honestly, is there any advantage on that kernel compared to the one you get from www.kernel.org and compile the clas

Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Aaron
Fellow Debs, I'm sorry this is so long. Specificity before brevity when asking for help, that's what I always say... Okay, I don't say that a lot. I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post enough of my silly problems already). The first is why my ext3 drive is so slow, and the s

Re: Apache mod-ssl HOWTOs?

2003-06-22 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:29:33PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:53:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:03:04AM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > > So I *think* what I need to do is to have two separate > > > invocations of apache running all t

Re: dma fails with kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:17 pm, Kristian Peters wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I had dma running with kernel 2.4.20. On 2.4.21 hdparm gives an error: > > > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed > > > > Anyone know why this is or what has changed between the two kernels? It must be

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Piero([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Changing "PS/2" into "ImPS/2" did the magic, and solved my problem. > > But the answer condained an even more useful suggestion: "read the > docs". And here is where my thread joins the "debian" thread. <- snip -> > > (An example: which doc

Re: No 3D support after custom kernel compilation [solved]

2003-06-22 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Saturday 21 June 2003 03:26 am, Marino Fernandez wrote: > I have debian testing/unstable, gcc 3.2, kernel 2.4.20-xfs from knoppix. 3D > support works fine (Intel830M). > > I compiled a 2.4.21 kernel and noticed no 3D suport; then I compiled a > 2.4.20 (no xfs patch) and the same problem.. I used

nis authentication problem (Debian 3.0)

2003-06-22 Thread Matthew Adams
Hello, I seem to be having a little problem with NIS and am hoping someone might be able to help, if it isn't a bother. I've set up an NIS server and client as per the howto (3.9-3) using Debian 3.0. Everything *appears* to be working, i.e. I can finger NIS users from the NIS client properly and

Re: How to switch from KDE to GNOME after startx

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find the .xession file? What should I do > if I want to switch from Kde to Gnome "in global"? You change /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager it is a symlink to the default session-manager. To use gnome you do: ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-session /

nis authentication problem (Debian 3.0)

2003-06-22 Thread Matthew Adams
Hello, Thanks for writing the nis.debian.howto - it's been of great use to me. However I seem to be having a little problem with NIS and am hoping you might be able to help, if it isn't a bother. I've set up an NIS server and client as per your howto (3.9-3) using Debian 3.0. Everything *appears

HW. address read/write mismap

2003-06-22 Thread Dan Jones
Can anyone tell me what causes the subject error? It's being generated by an older SMC Ultra network card that I'm temporarily trying to use. The card was functioning in another machine before I installed it in this one. When I added the SMC card to the machine, it became eth0. I edited /etc/ne

Re: How to switch from KDE to GNOME after startx

2003-06-22 Thread Terence Ng
Where can I find the .xession file? What should I do if I want to switch from Kde to Gnome "in global"? --- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > Newbie question: > > > > When I type in "startx", Kde is displayed. How do > I > >

kensington expert mouse pro

2003-06-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
I have a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro (it's a trackball), which has six non-mouse buttons. These are a lot like the multimedia buttons on some keyboards. I'd kind of like them to do something, but the USB driver doesn't seem to register them (cat /dev/input/mice then pressing these buttons gives no

Re: Apache broke on me (unstable)

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pim Bliek | PingWings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 13:04]: > Hi all, > > I have apache running fine on my unstable box for months now. I am > hosting some test websites (which are important for my business and for > my friends business, so I am f*cked...see below ;)) for myself and for a > friend

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 21:32]: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > > confidently assured me, over and over

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 > > > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 08:37:35PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, if the "free license" was written to be revokable, then they > > could revoke it. Remember, as much as some people would like to > > think it, RMS didn't carve the GPL in stone with

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Epting
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > Linux. I spoke to her a long

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 > > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > When was this? It's pretty much been this way s

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:10:14 +0200, Piero wrote: > But the answer condained an even more useful suggestion: "read the > docs". And here is where my thread joins the "debian" thread. > > I have actually choosen Debian because of its reputation of being a > rather spartiate distribution. Linux Fro

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Josh Metzler
On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:39 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Josh Metzler wrote: > > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > > working on my new box. > > > > The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 > > sound. > > > > I have been testing

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:50:11 +0200, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I'm sorry that I offended you by pointing out that this is not > technically Free Software. Debian aims to be a Free operating system. > Now I might run a piece of proprietary software if I really have no > choice (I even use Windows),

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Stay away from SBC if you can...their support is a nightmare. Try speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net). They cost more, but they are worth it. Great tech support, linux friendly, and quick to respond to any questions. On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:10, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Theres an important difference though, quake 2 uses an outdated engine > that has very little to no market value anymore. I'm not saying its > not great to have it released into the public domain but there is a > huge difference between releasing an

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and > > > surely since the 80s. Unix

Keysigning opportunity in Portland, OR

2003-06-22 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm going to be in Portland, Oregon, for June 22-28. I'll probably have time for a keysigning and maybe a quick beer if any Debian developers and/or users are interested. Just drop me a mail if you want to meet somewhere. -Brian -- Poems... always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil. pgp

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > It was fairly common in the early 80's for application source to be > printed in a variety of magizines and to be shared between users. I'm > not referring to pirated software, but rather Free software. I remember > Commodore (yes Commodore) magazin

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Kevin writes: > When UNIX was first released it was free as in both freedom and beer. Could we see some evidence supporting this amazing claim? > Then the lawyers got involved. Lawyers were involved from day one. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI --

Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-06-22 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:17:19 -0700 Charles Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Woody on a HP pavilion 524c. The problem I am > having is getting the Xserver running. My HP has a S3 ProsavageDDR KM > 266 intergraded chip with 32 megs of shared memory. Question? D

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 01:23 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > > > > announced Version 1.7.0 of A

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Sunderhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's livable, yes; but are you content with just working around windoze? > As much as I like, admire and respect Bill Gates (and his victory vs. > IBM), I'd like to push his campus in Redmond into the Pacific ocean. I don't admire Bill Gates. Neither

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and > > surely since the 80s. Unix was never free at first. Not until Linux > > came around and the B

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. vrms (99.5%) keeps me warm at night. :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:21:39PM -0700, John Sunderhaus wrote: > But your point is well taken; you can productively run X on an > underpowered machine - but I'll bet you aren't happy. I'd bet quite the contrary. Chances are they use it because they *are* happy with it. I much prefer my Black

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > The early 30GB Onstream required special, proprietary drivers. The > later ones worked much better on Linux because the standard drivers > worked. I was using it under NT, and crashing the fileserver anytime i went to do a backup. > > > Also, be w

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > My name is Gabe Lazdins > > I have been using debian linux for a while now, and i have been using linux > (and unix) for about 4 years, I recently got linux on my home computer and i > want to connect it to the net but i don't get highspeed internet, >

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread John Sunderhaus
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 14:10, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > John Sunderhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just don't see how its physically possible to install Linux on a > > machine with less than 256MB and a nameless monitor and find happiness - > > unless you like working at the command prompt

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:02:20 -0700 Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. Well, people who damn "free software holier than thou zealots" certainly don't sound either f

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and > surely since the 80s. Unix was never free at first. Not until Linux > came around and the BSD's became free. Au contraire! When UNIX was first re

Unidentified subject!

2003-06-22 Thread gabe
Hello, My name is Gabe Lazdins I have been using debian linux for a while now, and i have been using linux (and unix) for about 4 years, I recently got linux on my home computer and i want to connect it to the net but i don't get highspeed internet, No one has been able to tell me how to conn

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:39:24 -0500 "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in > Debian. Success and failure is very version, software, and hardware > dependent

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:35:55PM -0700, John Sunderhaus wrote: > > In order to graphically see that Linux *looks better* and *performs > better* than Windoze, you *must* have the following: > > Tons of memory - I'd say at the very minimum, 256MB. > A graphics card that can do a colo

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:39:24PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in Debian. > Success and failure is very version, software, and hardware dependent. Glad this has *

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:44:34PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Proprietary software won't die in a day, it'll take time for the > > industry to reacquaint itself with it's formerly open past. > > When was this? It's pretty much been this way sinc

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Marcin M. Bis
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:56:23 +0200 "JZidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building a small system for working at home. I would be like to watch > some movies sometimes but I don't know if that's enough: > - Pentium II 266 MHz > - 196 Megs of ram > - graphic card Geforce2 MX Should be sufficien

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Be wary of the Onstream units, at least the 30 gig unit, I had one years > ago, and Onstream was not interested in fixing the lockups. As well, > some google searching will show you just what people think of their > stuff. > The early 30GB Onstr

net-snmp trouble

2003-06-22 Thread Tsuyoshi Takada
Hi, I downloaded net-snmp-5.0.8.tar.gz and executed the following. %tar zxfv net-snmp*.tar.gz %./configure %make %su #make test but many tests fail. 1:testing SNMPv1 support...FAIL 2:testing SNMPv2c get of system.sysUpTime.0...FAIL 3:testing SNMPv2c getnext of system.sysUpTime...FAIL 4:testing

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start my x > server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system locks up. > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you can. Try each, working backwards and

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Sunderhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just don't see how its physically possible to install Linux on a > machine with less than 256MB and a nameless monitor and find happiness - > unless you like working at the command prompt. I run gnome2 at work. Machine is a celeron 466 with 64 meg

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. > > Especially since the Army is trying to do something *ni

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread John Sunderhaus
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 15:30, cr wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest > > > > here, if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be able to

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The real problem is that I cannot 'visualise' what has to be done > to make an .iso image bootable. It's simple the ".iso" file has to be burned directly onto CD as a series of ones and zeros. Then you end up with a standard Debian CD with all the files

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > > > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > > > support for the firs

Re: dma fails with kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Kristian Peters
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I had dma running with kernel 2.4.20. On 2.4.21 hdparm gives an error: > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed > > Anyone know why this is or what has changed between the two kernels? Do you have CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO or CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK enabled ? Try to

Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-06-22 Thread Charles Cates
Hello, I am trying to install Woody on a HP pavilion 524c. The problem I am having is getting the Xserver running. My HP has a S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266 intergraded chip with 32 megs of shared memory. Question? Does Woody support this chip? Maybe there is a suitable work around? Has any one else re

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:20:13 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote: > It is in our best interests that the Linux > version of this and other games be successful. So anyone thinking about > pirating this, please don't. =) Eh? I though AA was free (as in beer)? How should I pirate it? -- Best Regards, |

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 21:33, John Klos wrote: > But I am not looking for installation files. I'd like to get an m68k > Debian tree into a directory on an m68k NetBSD system so I can test > NetBSD's Linux ABI emulation. > > I did find the base2_2.tgz file, but is there anything newer? Nope 2.2

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Klos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 12:56]: > I can do this with base2_2.tgz, but I'm surprised that such a file isn't > available for the latest stable release. Is there a reason for this that > anyone knows of? Yes, the latest release doesn't use a base tarball. Instead, a script called deb

[SOLVED] Re: XFree86 ctrl:swapcaps

2003-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:46PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 08:47]: > > Hi group, > > > > I upgraded from testing to unstable and I can't get my keyboard to swap > > the control and capslock keys. The option was ctrl:swapcaps, and > > according to /e

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 12:50]: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > This is good for everybody. It is in our best interests that the > > Linux version of this and other games be successful. So anyone > > thinking about pirating this, please d

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 08:27:42PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I do most of my burning with K3b (which I find easy and effective) > and a little with Xcdroast which I find often fails (I've noticed > others on the list complain of problems with this prgram). I'll > have to try getting to grips w

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-22 Thread Piero
I receaved this useful answer to my joined question. Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:20:12 +0200, Piero wrote: I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section "InputDe

Apache broke on me (unstable)

2003-06-22 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi all, I have apache running fine on my unstable box for months now. I am hosting some test websites (which are important for my business and for my friends business, so I am f*cked...see below ;)) for myself and for a friend. I do this in $HOME/public_html directories. Since this afternoon I ca

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. Especially since the Army is trying to do something *nice* f

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 10:10]: > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the > first time. > > You can download it here: > ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/icculus.org/armyops-lnx-170.sh

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:06:09PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Cool. Thanks for the tip. I couldn't find any mention of this on the > america's army website. Nothing in the news and nothing in the > downloads section yet. > Which means the servers are still going fast :) You said it, gett

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > So anyone thinking about pirating this, please don't. =) It's produced by the United States Army. Your American tax dollars at work, you get the full version, it's paid for. - -- .''`

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hi, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on > > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r1a/main/disks-m68k/base-images-curr

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Nick Apostolakis
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, SYNeR wrote: > Your CPU really won't have an affect on your ability to play movies provided > you have a semi-decent video card. Because nvidia's video drivers for linux > are decent, > (at least for the GeForce4), you should be fine as your video card's GPU > will handle > th

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 10:46]: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > > > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux

Re: LAN Saturated by Unwanted Transmission

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hi, > I have three debian boxes on a wireless LAN. Wnen my grandson's Windows > XP is included on the LAN it saturates the system with transmissions. I > installed tcpdump which shows repeated lines of transmissions to > 172.179.211.254.1781 > > I set up the LAN with no difficulty but I have z

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Josh Metzler wrote: > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > working on my new box. > > The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 > sound. > > I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /d

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread john gennard
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > * john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-06-2003 19:46]: > > I burned the .iso image to a CD, but to make it bootable, I was > > asked to add the contents of a floppy - presumably containing > > drivers to activate a CD-ROM drive. > > > 1. How to I get

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 09:46 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > support for the first time. > > You can download it here: > ftp://ftp.sten

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > > support for the first time. > > > > You can download it here: > > ftp://ft

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: > Still looking for a Linux-compatible 30-80 GB tape drive that is most > likely going to be USB. > > Has anyone used the Seagate Travan TapeStor 40 (STT6401U2-R) or the > OnStream USB 30 or ADR2.60usb? I haven't heard anything Linux about > the former, but

Re: XFree86 ctrl:swapcaps

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 08:47]: > Hi group, > > I upgraded from testing to unstable and I can't get my keyboard to swap > the control and capslock keys. The option was ctrl:swapcaps, and > according to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86, xkb should still be able to > recognize it. Thou

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 10:46]: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the > > first time. > > Is this Free Software? It doesn't

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Hilliard wrote: >> The redirection " 2>&1" isn't portable - it doesn't work with >> /bin/dash. > > Yes it is, and yes it does. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dash > $ perl -e 'print STDERR "foo\n"' >/dev/null > foo > $ perl -e 'print STDERR "foo\n"' >/dev

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