Re: sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion

2003-06-23 Thread Levi Waldron
On June 24, 2003 01:58 am, Jon Haugsand wrote: > * Levi Waldron > > > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable > > by web browsers, ie png or jpg. > > Have you tried convert? convert (part of the imagemagick package) worked perfectly! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: need help with NFS setup

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Paul E. Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /cmn > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive > > What does this mean? And how do I fix it? First, look into the nfs howto, you'll find it by searching for 'nfs' and 'howto' on the web. Then here is a few things to consider: Do you

Re: sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Levi Waldron > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by > web browsers, ie png or jpg. Have you tried convert? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 04:49, stan wrote: > > Hmm, I'm at home now. Given that list I'd be missing: > > Dictonary lookup > CPU load Both there. Don't believe every incomplete list you see :) > Slashapp Not there > This is a _very_ weak looking list of choices. > > Is this on purpose? Gnoem

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 02:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > The complete(?) list of applets in gnome-applets 2.2.1 : > Battstat > CD player > Character Palette > Command line > Drivemount > Geyes > Keyboard Layout Switcher > Modemlights > Stock ticker > System monitor > Volume control > Weather

Re: identify correct boot hd for grub

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 23 Jun 2003 23:36:07 +0200 Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, i have specified the framebuffer like vga=791 > Woud this be correct for grub: > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro > # kopt=vga=791 ro hdd=ide-scsi > > As i understand, these need to be commented out but can i use severa

Re: X sudden brokenness

2003-06-23 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Laugh.. I solved it. Somehow, my XF86Config-4 must have been replaced after the last apt-get upgrade. I noticed it was having trouble loading "GLcore"; that's when I changed it to "nvidia" in the Modules section. However, I failed to notice that the "Device" section in the file I just sent the list

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:04:47 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I did this, it took the values and reset them to to the default > values. So having gone around in circles more than once, I tried just > booting without update grub and it worked fine. Is there a flag in > menu.l

sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion

2003-06-23 Thread Levi Waldron
I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by web browsers, ie png or jpg. Using xv there is a bad loss in image quality, so that the text becomes unreadable. I tried adjusting all the xv dials, but couldn't achieve acceptable quality. tifftopnm from the net

Re: need help with NFS setup

2003-06-23 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Martes, 24 de Junio de 2003 01:11, Paul E Condon escribió: > I am attempting to setup a replacement for a server that > I have had running for a couple of years. Eventually, the > replacement will have "wonderful new features", but for > now I am haveing trouble merely getting a minimal NFS > wo

Re: choosing version of gcc to compile with

2003-06-23 Thread Nick Hastings
* Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030624 10:13]: > Hi, > > How do I tell make (or, in the case of a kernel compile, make-kpkg) > which verison of gcc to compile with? You can put make-kpkg options in ~/.kernel-pkg.conf For example I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 6% cat ~/.kernel-pkg.conf maintaine

Re: installing mouse

2003-06-23 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:27:17PM -0400, Leonard Stevens wrote: > I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least at > this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made the > mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but without a > mouse. I t

Re: Creative Audigy

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
Please don't top post, it's really quite annoying. On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:46:13AM +0100, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:20, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > james leclair wrote: > > > > > > Hello all. Having trouble getting sound running under stable woody since > > > upgrading

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:17:47PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" application

X sudden brokenness

2003-06-23 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi all, My x server suddenly became inoperable after a routine reboot to Windows and back. I changed nothing as far as configuration or messed with any related files since it last worked. One pecularity, and the only clue I have as to the cause, is I found a few files in my /lost+found directory,

My Scsi Drive Disappeared...

2003-06-23 Thread Jake Johnson
Has anyone seen a SCSI device disappear? I was copying a disk with cdrdao and my device disappeared and I had to reboot (figure that)? Any info would be helpful. Thanks in Advance, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Plutoid -

Re: how to use rpm in debian

2003-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Proulx wrote: > Not even with "The Gross Hack" of creating an rpmdb? The Intel C/C++ > compiler could be described using exactly the same description used to > describe IBM's db2 in the previous messages. I install it by picking > it apart and reassembling because I am a purist. I end up wit

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: > matt zagrabelny wrote: > > i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first > > _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people > > running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. > > but i am not experie

Re: passing environment variables back to shell

2003-06-23 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, June 23 at 11:05 PM EDT Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > anyone know if it's possible to pass the value of variables assigned > within a bash script back out to the executing shell? Or better yet, > to all subsequent shells? > > I've written a tiny script to figure out th

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On 23 Jun 2003 20:33:14 -0500 matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first _serious_ > problem i have run into, and my guess is other people running unstable > dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. Just wanted to confirm

Re: eth0/1

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
In /etc/modules.conf you can assign whatever you like to whatever module. For example: alias eth0 8139too alias eth1 eepro100 you get the gist I hope. -- Arthur H. Johnson II, [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: bytor4232 YIM: arthurjohnson IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Scott Minns wrote:

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> note: i dont think the leak is in the normal applications as matt> mentioned in previous email, something seems to be gobling matt> up memory even before i log in to an x environment. What do you have matching /etc/rc2.d

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Igor Stroh
Hi there, On Die, 2003-06-24 at 04:13, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what > >>version of Debian are you running. > > > > > > the normal scenario is i leave my computer running at night and then i > > come down in the morning and find applicatio

long delays switching from consoles to x with nvidia

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Price
Hi, my gazillionth post this week... Now that I have a second debian system at home (yay!), I notice a problem at the work machine. At work I have an NVidia GeForce something/or/other video card, and use the nonfree nvidia drivers to run it. When I switch form console to X, it takes about 30/45

Re: nfs through dsl router

2003-06-23 Thread Jamie Email
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:07:54AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > 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 (though > I can be pretty dumb if left to my own de

passing environment variables back to shell

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Price
Hi, anyone know if it's possible to pass the value of variables assigned within a bash script back out to the executing shell? Or better yet, to all subsequent shells? I've written a tiny script to figure out the IP address of my (dynamically assigned) home computer and pass it to ipmasq on my w

Re: choosing version of gcc to compile with

2003-06-23 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen various recommendations: > 1) CC= (or CXX) > kernel builds, at least with some add-ons, apparently require some > other variable get set too. I can't remember it offhand. > > or > 2) edit the makefiles by hand (ugh) > > or > 3) use dpkg-dive

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread stan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:12:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:55, stan wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:04:03PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:00:38PM -0400, stan wrote: > [snip] > > The panel applets are a key part of why I use Gnom

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:35:01 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Metzler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> >>> man gpm >>> >>> <- quote on -> >>> >>> -t name >>>Set the mouse type. Use `-t help' to get a list of allowable >>>types. >>> >>> <- quote off -> >

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote: > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applications running than top. >

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach matt zagrabelny (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 03:17:47PM -0500): > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applicat

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
matt zagrabelny wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: "matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what version of Debian are you runni

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
matt zagrabelny wrote: > i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first > _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people > running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. > but i am not experienced enough to debug this one on my own except > every

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 [SOLVED]

2003-06-23 Thread Donald Spoon
Josh Metzler wrote: -SNIP- < So, it seems to me that linux thinks the sound chip is a VT8233. I'm satisfied now that sound works, but I'll do any more probing you want if you are still curious. Thanks so much, Josh No need for anything else on this end! After all it is YOUR MB & not mine ;)

Re: Creative Audigy

2003-06-23 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
You should use ALSA, if you are using stock kernel you could install all of it through apt-get. On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:20, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > james leclair wrote: > > > > Hello all. Having trouble getting sound running under stable woody since > > upgrading sound card to SB Audigy fro

Re: ``Can't exec'' during installs ???

2003-06-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Greg Norris (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 08:02:19PM -0500): > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:53:42PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Ah, yes! I recently added that as a recommended security enhancement. > > > > What is the best way to umount/mount /tmp, without rebooting? > > > > How about

Re: new gnome2 in sarge : startup error

2003-06-23 Thread Mark A. Garland
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:07:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [snip] > See my recent post to debian-release on what's needed: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release-0306/msg8.html > > (I'm not sure how much sense that will make if you don't follow release > issues closely, but it migh

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what > version of Debian are you running. the n

Re: choosing version of gcc to compile with

2003-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:45:30PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > How do I tell make (or, in the case of a kernel compile, make-kpkg) > which verison of gcc to compile with? > > thanks, > matt I've seen various recommendations: 1) CC= (or CXX) kernel builds, at least with some add-ons, a

Re: ``Can't exec'' during installs ???

2003-06-23 Thread Greg Norris
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:53:42PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Ah, yes! I recently added that as a recommended security enhancement. > > What is the best way to umount/mount /tmp, without rebooting? > How about `mount -o remount,exec /tmp'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-23 Thread Cam Ellison
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

GpsDrive map download

2003-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
Has anyone managed to get GpsDrive to download a map. As I understand it the supliers of these maps were both taken over by Microsoft, and the URLs seem to have changed from those used by GpsFetchMap (which ships with GpsDrive). When I try to download from GpsDrive the download completes very qui

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:55, stan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:04:03PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:00:38PM -0400, stan wrote: [snip] > The panel applets are a key part of why I use Gnome. My panel (on the > bottom) is slap full. Let's see, on this machine

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Chris Metzler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > man gpm > > > > <- quote on -> > > > > -t name > >Set the mouse type. Use `-t help' to get a list of allowable types. > > > > <- quote off -> > > > > Would that "basic document" do? > > Well, as someone who was once in the

Re: new gnome2 in sarge : startup error

2003-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:39:09PM -0400, Mark A. Garland wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:43:39PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > > just updated to gnome2 in sarge with an: > > apt-get update > > apt-get distupgrade [...] > > any thoughts on resolving this? did the upgrade go smooth for

Re: exim4

2003-06-23 Thread Robin Gerard
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:24:56PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:01:37AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > | Hello, > | I installed exim4 on my box. > | > | There are 3 users: > | root > | user1 > | user2 > | > | For user1 all is ok: messages being sent and received

Re: More disk issues (DMA/VIA)

2003-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya aaron On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Aaron wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hdparm -d /dev/hdb > > /dev/hdb: > using_dma= 0 (off) > > But, unfortunately, I can't turn it on, either: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb > > /dev/hdb: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed

Re: ``Can't exec'' during installs ???

2003-06-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach David Z Maze (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 02:21:23PM -0400): > "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am I the only one getting debconf errors during installations? I > > suspect that this began after the upgrade to perl v5.8x, and the > > installations appear to complete succ

Re: 'DriveReady SeekComplete' errors with new hard drive

2003-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Mark C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-06-23 13:23]: > > > I just recently added a new hard drive to my firewall machine and I'm > > > seeing the following errors: > assuming your fw was runnig fine .. until you added your new drive a) make sure you have the sa

Re: Mail lists lots of headers but mozilla does not see any imapmail (solved)

2003-06-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Derrick, your directions were a great help. The weirdest thing is that Netscape seems to tell IMAP daemon where folders are, I think. I only entered the IMAP directory in Netscape and then the IMAP daemon somehow picked this up and started serving the files that I had placed in that directo

Re: new gnome2 in sarge : startup error

2003-06-23 Thread Mark A. Garland
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:43:39PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > just updated to gnome2 in sarge with an: > apt-get update > apt-get distupgrade > > worked like a charm, till a logout / login > > gdm tried to login my id and something failed and send me back to gdm. > nothing in the

choosing version of gcc to compile with

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Price
Hi, How do I tell make (or, in the case of a kernel compile, make-kpkg) which verison of gcc to compile with? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: signature and missing key

2003-06-23 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:15:09PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:32:14PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > | With a dialup, it would be rather useful to be able to do this from the MTA > | rather than the MUA. > > True. > > | Unfortunately /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz c

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > who said my invocation was intentional? hmm. the fact that you invoked it means it was intentional, surely... i'm not aware that it's possible to accidentally invocate. :) iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 04:00 pm, Brian McGroarty wrote: > 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. :-( Root me

need help with NFS setup

2003-06-23 Thread Paul E Condon
I am attempting to setup a replacement for a server that I have had running for a couple of years. Eventually, the replacement will have "wonderful new features", but for now I am haveing trouble merely getting a minimal NFS working. The old system was potato, the new is woody. I have a client hos

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:21:52PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis?? >

Re: bash: problem with [sets]

2003-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:57:07PM +0100, David selby wrote: > My bash masterpeice is almost complete ... I have one last problem that > no matter how many "" or '' I use I cannot get around. > > I need to use an if...then construct to check that my 4 digit date field > is 4 numerical digits.Thi

Re: bash: problem with [sets]

2003-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:37:43PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:57, David selby wrote: > > If this is the case, how can I test a string ? > > for your enjoyment: > > #!/bin/bash > > if echo $fourdig | grep ^[0-9]*$ > /dev/null 2>&1; then That *really* needs some quo

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what version of Debian are you running. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: installing mouse

2003-06-23 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:27:17PM -0400, Leonard Stevens wrote: > I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least at > this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made the > mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but without a > mouse. I t

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"aaron" == aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aaron> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dmesg | grep ^hd | grep sector aaron> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, aaron> CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(33) aaron> I haven't had a chance to go verify the DMA settings on my aaron> Deb

Re: telnet: could not resolve

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Nathan" == Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> Use localhost when you mean localhost? I wasn't aware Nathan> that '0' was valid shorthand for localhost. Actually it is. From RFC 1700 ("Assigned Numbers") (a) {0, 0} This host on this network. Can on

More disk issues (DMA/VIA)

2003-06-23 Thread Aaron
*sigh* After a lot of coaching from everyone here it was decided that ext3 probably has nothing at all to do with my disk performance problems. More likely it was that DMA is not enabled on my drive. This is true, as shown... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hdparm -d /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: using_dma= 0 (

Re: how to use rpm in debian

2003-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:21:03PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > I have this myself, and the installation scripts use 'rpm' to attempt > > the installation, which on Debian just won't work, period. It *could* be > > done by editing the installation scripts to replace 'rpm' with

Re: bandwidth limiting

2003-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
K S Sreeram wrote: > I have read lartc (lartc.org), but all the techniques it talks about > (cbq, htb etc) works only for outgoing traffic, not for incoming data. > The linux ingress qdisc doesnt seem suitable for this problem. That's a nice howto. Did you notice section 9.7 on IMQ? -- see shy j

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-23 Thread SYNeR
The mousewheel still doesn't work - Original Message - From: "Sebastian Kapfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Wheelmouse > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:40:12 +0200, SYNeR wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have the same problem. I chang

Re: tray open or drive not ready

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 16:11), Kent West wrote: > > Thanks for the response, Clive. Turns out I was doing things the proper > way; it's just that something was screwy with the MBR I reckon. (hd0 > refers to the first hard drive that the BIOS lists, not to the first > hard drive on the first IDE port -- g

Re: installing mouse

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:27, Leonard Stevens wrote: > I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least > at this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made > the mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but > without a mouse. I told it in set

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 16:36), Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:56:37 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings back to > > their original val

Problem installing modified kernel

2003-06-23 Thread Ryan Anderson
I'm trying to install the vmlinuz-2.4.20-mppe kernel (2.4.20 with kernel-patch-mppe for using Microsoft encryption using pptp) on a SUN Netra T1. The resulting kernel created is too large to load from silo. When I try to create an initrd image either manually with the command: "mkinitrd -

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0200, JZidar wrote: | I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I | would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook | mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail cli

Re: Compiling kernel 2.4.21 and gcc version

2003-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
Marino Fernandez wrote: 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 mess

need help with NIS authentication on Debian

2003-06-23 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 an

identify correct boot hd for grub

2003-06-23 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i want to move from lilo to grub. I have a 2 harddisk setup where hda is windowsxp and hdb is linux. My fstab file: /dev/hdb1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdb7 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdb8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /

eth0/1

2003-06-23 Thread Scott Minns
Hiya guys, I have just finished setting up some clustering stuff on debian. Basicly i'm having some trouble getting the ethernet cards to assign to the right place. I want eth0 to be my 10/100 card and eth1 to be my gigabit card Need them setup like this 4 the clustering. Now i'm fairly sure I h

installing mouse

2003-06-23 Thread Leonard Stevens
I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least at this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made the mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but without a mouse. I told it in setup that it was a bus ps/2 mouse but it could care les

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis?? > > > > > > oh look, a mention of the nazis, i declare this thread dead :p

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debian chroot

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:24:56AM -0600, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:47:21PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for ... > > > > Other

Re: Window manager troubles in Sid

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:36:32PM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:53:55AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > I just installed Debian on a friend's machine yesterday. I used Knoppix to > > detect the hardware (and write down what it produced) then I used an >

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:44, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake matt zagrabelny: > > hi, > > > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with n

Re: tray open or drive not ready

2003-06-23 Thread Kent West
Clive Menzies wrote: On (23/06/03 11:22), Kent West wrote: So I've tried "grub-install /dev/hd0 which complains about hd0 having a tray open or drive not ready, and that /dev/hd0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I may be "barking up the wrong tree" but hdc = hd2. ie 1st drive

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 [SOLVED]

2003-06-23 Thread Josh Metzler
On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:32 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > 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 >

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis?? > > > > oh look, a mention of the nazis, i declare this thread dead :p > > you do know that doesn't work, right? evidently

Re: Need help with KDE/KDM

2003-06-23 Thread Rich Johnson
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 02:24 PM, David Z Maze wrote: Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can't log on through kdm_greet. All I see is a momentary loss of video signal then the login screen comes back. That symptom sounds very much like you're successfully logging in, whatever your

Re: net-snmp trouble

2003-06-23 Thread Tsuyoshi Takada
Is there anyone who help me...?(;_;) -- Tsuyoshi Takada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake matt zagrabelny: > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applications running than top. What do you mean

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: My "testing" macines tried to remove gnome-core this mrning, when I did a dist-upgrade. What's going on here? Is this another case of "just wait a while and it will get better"? gnome-core itself is a meta-package and unimportant, but I too am sitting on the upgrade for now. It scar

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:52:01 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro > # groot=(hd0,0) > # alternative=true > # lockalternative=false > # altoptions=(recovery mode) single > # howmany=all > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.2.20-idep

Management of users using webmin?

2003-06-23 Thread jennyw
Just wondering how to setup Webmin to manage users? I've inherited a Debian box and it was setup so that there was an icon there that allowed it to manage users. We added a webmin module and then it messed up webmin so we had to remove and reinstall ... now there's nothing in webmin to manage

Re: bash: problem with [sets]

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:57, David selby wrote: > My bash masterpeice is almost complete ... I have one last problem that > no matter how many "" or '' I use I cannot get around. > > I need to use an if...then construct to check that my 4 digit date field > is 4 numerical digits.This is for erro

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:56:37 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings back to > their original values. Perhaps something was wrong with the way you edit

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, debian_newbie wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to respond. > > Yes, Euphoria also does the same thing. Except it is even worse. Euphoria has an > 18 second delay between jerks (movements). I also noticed that I have a lot of > screensaver names listed but they don't work. So

memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other "user" applications running than top. so i believe that a daemon process has a memory leak. howe

Found something, but...

2003-06-23 Thread Guldo K
I found out a previous post about this, but I still can't get my mouse to work porperly... I read: From: Juergen Stuber Hi, this is a bit from the back of my head, as I didn't yet bother to configure the extra buttons on my new machine: You can get the two buttons on the lef

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread stan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:04:03PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:00:38PM -0400, stan wrote: > > My "testing" macines tried to remove gnome-core this mrning, when I did a > > dist-upgrade. > > > > What's going on here? > > > > Is this another case of "just wait a wh

Re: tray open or drive not ready

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 11:22), Kent West wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:22:38 -0500 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: tray open or drive not ready > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > debian users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've been trying to install grub on my har

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debianchroot

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:47:21PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for ... > > > > Other people have answered most of your questi

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:29:43PM -0700, Jerry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a Radeon 7500 card. Using KDE 3.1.1a on Woody system. I have > screensaver Solar Winds selected. When it runs, it runs jerky. It will move > about an half an inch and stop, then move another half an inch and stop.

Re: debian

2003-06-23 Thread Moe Binkerman
From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: debian Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:23:18 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:50:22AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I'm not saying I will be moving from Debian to red

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