RE: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
yes, there does seem to be a reduction, hopfully these boring threads will stop soon too. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 10:54 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down? >

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > How do I know which color names are available for a given colordepth? I > assume that using 'set t_Co=16' is going to give me fewer color options > than if I set that to, say, 256 (and would any terminals support 256?). Terminal

Different images on Root Window with Xinerama?

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm using Icewm on Sid and running Xinerama. Anyone know how I can put different image on each screen of my root window? I've tried the display command but my image just gets tiled across all monitors: $ display -window root foo.png Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUB

Debian 3.0r1 Apache 1.3.26 cgi-bin behavior depends on script name and browser (?)

2003-09-29 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting ready to study "MySQL and Perl for the Web" [Paul DuBois, 2002] and I have come across some baffling behavior with CGI scripts on Apache 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0r1 -- sometimes Apache executes the scripts as expected, other times it tries to download them or generates a

Re: kde package installation???

2003-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Jordan Haddow wrote: > > Hello, this is my first use of this mailing list. I am sorry if > > this is the wrong area for this type of question. If it is could > > someone tell me where I should send it instead. debian-user is a fine place for user questions such as this. Welc

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:42:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:53:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > After getting hundreds of infections per day early in the week of > > 14-Sep, it seems to have radically tapered off: > > Well, I don't know about an

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:34:11AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > In my .vimrc I have the following mail-specific settings: > augroup Mail > au! > au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline > au FileType mail set comments+=n:\| > " clear the old sig an

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, That is not nonsense. I used to have Mandrake 8 running on one of my computers and it sure as hell was dependency hell. Even with Mandrake's own RPMs for Mandrake 8, I sometimes was unable to install software because of - unmet dependencies: libraries could not be found even though they were

intel board (soundmax) driver?..

2003-09-29 Thread Louie Miranda
anyone got ideas how to active soundmax on intel boards? im using a D865PERL board, i couldnt activate the sounds. -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
R Ransbottom wrote: I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems that intermediate iso images are required. Given that I plan to use dvd+rw's for backup this did not appeal. Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment. I

Re: Laptop battery

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, This should be possible via APM or ACPI. In the latter case make sure you have flashed the latest BIOS and have enabled ACPI in BIOS setup. In the first case, make sure you have enabled APM in BIOS setup. In any case, you may have to recompile the kernel to enable ACPI and/or APM. MJ On T

Re: about lilo

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
1) Read the other mail that I sent to this list in reply of your first question about lilo 2) man lilo MJ On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:22, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo > on the root sector of a partition, does this mean that > it has no affect on the

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Edward Murrell
Since I can't reply to everyone, I'll reply to myself. Peter - Cheers for the link to table of equivalents. Much Appreciated. ;) http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/ Several things to note; I'm not buying Libranet. While I support what they're doing, it's more than the guy wants to spe

Re: help please

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Dude, you're so close *holding up two fingers* to get on my blacklist forever if you're gonna send one more HTML mail to this list you're about to get ignored 'till the end of the universe. And please please please, we're not stupid. Writing one single message is enough, no need to send the sa

Re: Re. uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Even if you're booting Linux via floppy, there's still a Lilo installed on that floppy disk. Plus I don't see what the problem is, thousands of users are running both, Windows and Linux on their computer and using Lilo without any trouble. The file /etc/lilo.conf should exist either way but s

RE: getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
I have to admit that I was asking myself that very same question... this is like the email to tech support that says "Dear tech support, I can't send emails, please help"... On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > If s/he can't get his mail; how is s/he going to get these repli

Re: Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:05:35PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You probably only need to hit the "send" button once (seven copies of > the message ended up on the list). Given that AOL rejects my mail at SMTP connect: $ telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 205.1

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:02:58PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > Before you crank out a bunch of code you might want to have a look at > GutenMark which will > convert PG text files into LaTeX or HTML for prettyprinting. This looks great, thanks! emma

Javascript in Moz/Galeon/unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Neilen
Hi. I regulary use www.xe.com/ucc to check currency exchange rates. Recently, however, it always claims that I did not fill in the required fields when I request a conversion. I then tried several other currecy conversion sites, and none of them worked, except for one that did not use any java-

Problems with IMAP

2003-09-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
OK. The saga continues as I try to tweak my lab's mail server. Here is where I am at: server: Debian Woody packages: postfix-ldap, postfix-tls, postfix-mysql, postfix, postfix-pcre, openssl, libssl0.9.6, uw-imapd-ssl - Opened ports 465 (smpts) and 993 (imaps) on the firewall - Changed /etc/p

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:56, uGAH man wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 05:54, devotion wrote: > > > >> Hi. [snip] > When I run dmesg|grep -n -B 3 -A 3 eth , i get: > Kernel 2.2: > 53-3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others > http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > 5

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:47, csj wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:14:38 +0200, > Manrtin Jungowski wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > > > > David Palmer. wrote: > > > > > > > > If I should advice somebody new to Linux,

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:05, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:11:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > hi ya > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > > * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: > > > > > > > > > > the other system is at 486 days 16 hours 36 minutes

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:54, csj wrote: > At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:28 -0500, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [...] > > > Not a bug, but the limitation of 32-bit integers. The kernel > > "ticker" has a resolution of 1/100th of a second. Thus, a > > little math will show you that it takes 497 days, 2 h

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:16:11 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: I don't remember (don't use apt-get these days). Aptitude does. I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when

vim: available colors?

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are almost impossible for me to read). How do I know which color names are available for a given colordepth? I assume that using 'set t_Co=16' is going to give

about lilo

2003-09-29 Thread Sidney Brooks
Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo on the root sector of a partition, does this mean that it has no affect on the MBR? Exactly, what does it do when it is on a partition? Presumably, it specifies the kernel to be used on the partition, but how do you get to the partition in the fi

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread Tom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:58:40AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:09:45 -0400, > Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > par (debian package "par") > fmt (debian package "coreutils") Whoever wrote the help for par ate *way* too much acid. [/me nods, maintains eye contact, slowly edges towards th

Re: How do you know if it works in Linux?

2003-09-29 Thread csj
At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:13:45 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > > Quote/This will only work for expensive or really dumb products like > PS/2 keyboards. A case in point: I'm trying to google for > Linux-compatible USB modems (dialup). The only recommendations I > could find are for the ultra-expen

How to have Exim send to another Exim server before bouncing?

2003-09-29 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, I'm trying to get mailman working right. We have separate machines for web and email, and in order to use mailman's web management tools, it needs to be installed on the web server. Don't have the option of putting a webserver on the email machine - long story. Anyway, all email sent to

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-29 Thread uGAH man
uGAH man wrote: uGAH man wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 05:54, devotion wrote: > >> Hi. >> I asked help some time ago and got no reply... trying again (sorry if >>that unappropriate). >> I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using >>default kernel th

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread csj
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:14:38 +0200, Manrtin Jungowski wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > > > David Palmer. wrote: > > > > > > If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say > > > RedHat, that's where I started. RedHa

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread csj
At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > Not a bug, but the limitation of 32-bit integers. The kernel > "ticker" has a resolution of 1/100th of a second. Thus, a > little math will show you that it takes 497 days, 2 hours, 27 > minutes and 53 seconds worth of 1/100th of a

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread csj
At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:09:45 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > I'm interested in printing a Gutenberg Project text (it's ok, > I'm a bookbinder--printing is typical behaviour for me). The > problem is the line breaks in the .txt files. > > Does anyone know how I could convert single hard returns

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-29 Thread csj
At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:03:27 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Monday 29 September 2003 22:06, Juri Haberland wrote: > > Though I don't know much about kernel opps messages I still > > recommend to check you RAM, e.g. with memtest86, as it might > > be just a bit flipped due to failed memory. >

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:16:11 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > I don't remember (don't use apt-get these days). Aptitude does. I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when necessary ... Seems

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:09:31 -0500, Scott C. Linnenbringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > --Signature=_Mon__29_Sep_2003_20_09_31_-0500_pe/V4DcYATcxTKe7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:29:07 -0500

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-29 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In addition to what Ron Johnson asked for, what does /proc/pci say? - -- John_ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
cr wrote: > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the > largest part timewise if one uses it. What makes it frustrating is that, > while working through the huge list of apps in dselect (which isn't the most > intuitive piece of software ever written ;)it's

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > > Is there a way to mark things on "hold" via the apt tools? > > I don't think so. aptitude hold packagename > > It seems like apt-get respected dselect "hold" last time I used it ... > > or was I mistaken? > > Um, I can never remember :) I don't remember (don't use apt-g

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:26:32AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the > > > largest part timewise if one uses it. > > > > You don't have to, though. >

Re: ACPI gnome applet for battery

2003-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
David Fokkema wrote: > Well, what is a lot? I think I can confirm this. It takes a constant > 3.0% on my 2.8Ghz, which would be about 17% on my previous 500Mhz > laptop. I would consider that a lot, yes. > > Maybe a bug report? The kernel's acpi implementation in /proc is very slow. I am not clea

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-29 Thread uGAH man
Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 05:54, devotion wrote: > >> Hi. >> I asked help some time ago and got no reply... trying again (sorry if >>that unappropriate). >> I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using >>default kernel that comes with it, the 2.2.20idepci. >> I

Ruby and Emacs support problem

2003-09-29 Thread wcrowshaw
Hi, I'm trying to install ruby support into xemacs21. I installed the ruby-elisp package and I still don't have ruby support in emacs. Has anyone experienced this problem? Should I have installed another package? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! -- wcrowshaw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Laptop battery

2003-09-29 Thread Steven Schlansker
I have an ancient NEC Versa 4080H laptop, and I wiped Windows off of it to install Debian. I'd like to be able to check the power left in the battery. How would I do that? (Note that there's no X windows installed, so command line only please) Is there a /proc entry? I couldn't find one. T

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-29 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:29:07 -0500, "debian.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I'm having trouble posting a question to the lists. I tried to do it > via the newsgroup, dosent' appear. I used my subscribed address. Can > one post via the newsgroup? What settings are required? > > I

Re: 2.6.0-test4, ALSA and Ensoniq 1371 sound card

2003-09-29 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Shoul have sent this to the list: Nick Hastings wrote: * Christopher L. Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030929 10:37]: when Gnome 2.2 cranks up after I log in, I get an error message saying "Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer". perusing /dev, I see a /dev/sound directory, but no /dev/sou

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Tom
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:11:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: > > > > > > > the other system is at 486 days 16 hours 36 minutes, and I expect that it will > > > do the rollover in another

Re: help please

2003-09-29 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:49:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I sent out same e-mail before if you read it then don't bother > yourself with this one > > Hey, I'm about to buy VIA C3M266 Mainboard Or VIA P4MA Pro 533 > Mainboard for Linux Debian Woody.   Like you said all VIA > motherboards, we

Re: Help Please.....

2003-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * ***Hey, I'm about to buy *VIA C3M266 Mainboard *for Linux Debian Woody. Like you said all VIA motherboards, well almost all, should work fine. if you have any thing you wanna add to help me install debian on this motherboard please do, Little things can help too yo

help please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
I sent out same e-mail before if you read it then don't bother yourself with this one Hey, I'm about to buy VIA C3M266 Mainboard  Or  VIA P4MA Pro 533 Mainboard for Linux Debian Woody.   Like you said all VIA motherboards, well almost all, should work fine. if you have any thing you wanna add to h

Re: Subversion apache module will not load in unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Monday 29 September 2003 16:41, Philipp Weis wrote: > > These are the relevant (I think) packages installed: > > > > ii subversion 0.30.0-1 Advanced version control system - in > > develop ii libapr02.0.47-1 The Apache Portable Runtime > > ii libsvn00.30.0-1

ip_forwarding in kernel

2003-09-29 Thread Mike Mueller
Can anyone provide history on why CONFIG_IP_FORWARD no longer exists in the kernel config. The function is now controlled with /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward - is this correct? Maybe some googling hints? I am reading modem, ppp, dialin howtos. I came across the change as a result of reading t

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: > > > > the other system is at 486 days 16 hours 36 minutes, and I expect that it will > > do the rollover in another 11 days. > > is there anything I can do so that the uptime will be retained? >

Help Please.....

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hey, I'm about to buy VIA C3M266 Mainboard for Linux Debian Woody.   Like you said all VIA motherboards, well almost all, should work fine. if you have any thing you wanna add to help me install debian on this  motherboard please do, Little things can help too you know. Thanks you so much fo

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-29 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Dan Bowtell wrote: > > > I didn't mean to CC you, i just hit reply assuming it would go to the > > > list but it went t you instead. My DMA settings in the kernel are: > > > > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set

Exim dress rehearsal

2003-09-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I'm just configuring an Exim setup and I want to test it. I do not want to change my MX records yet, but I want to be sure it will accept email and relay it properly. Is there anyway to do this ? Are there any tools to analyse exim configs ? Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > For compatibility reasons, I need to add a user with a dot (.) in his > name. "adduser" does not allow this, even if I invoke it with the > parameter "--force-badname". The '.' characte

hmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Croy
Hello, I have been using fetchmail to pop mail into exim without problems for a few years now. But recently I started getting this error: Reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 238 (17205 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from e

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Mark Ferlatte schrieb: > Kjetil Kjernsmo said on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:03:27PM +0200: >> How about memtest...? This box is under some load, but usually not too >> bad, would it be a good idea to run it overnight? How would I go about >> to test a much as possible of my memory with it? > > It w

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:09:45PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in printing a Gutenberg Project text (it's ok, I'm a > bookbinder--printing is typical behaviour for me). The problem is the line > breaks in the .txt files. Before you crank out a bunch of code you migh

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Hans Kristian Eiken
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? I installed stable and got the controller working OK - but the kernel support fails the acid test, when a HDD is unplugged, the sys

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:10:05 +0200, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From what I read, I must > install the module uhci to do this. I do not know where to find this > module and how to install it. modconf -- Best Regards, | Wer Windows-Rechner ins Internet

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kjetil Kjernsmo said on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:03:27PM +0200: > How about memtest...? This box is under some load, but usually not too > bad, would it be a good idea to run it overnight? How would I go about > to test a much as possible of my memory with it? It would mean taking your hardware o

Apt-get removing perl libraries

2003-09-29 Thread Victor Cain
I'm running Debian SID and normally update packages daily. The last update removed ten perl libraries and about 90 other packages dependent on them. I have two questions: Is there any thing I can do to fix this, or is it something that I just have to wait for? Second, if this is a know problem

Re: cdrecord gives buffer underrun warnings

2003-09-29 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op ma 29-09-2003, om 19:33 schreef John Spray: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > >cdrecord.mmap: WARNING: This causes a high risk for > >buffer underruns. > > > >Can anybody tell me what to do to solve this? > > > > > This has to do with you burning as a normal user rather than root. It's > possible

Re. uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Sidney Brooks
-- Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two reasons why the module is not loading: > > First of all, it's named "usb-uhci" not "uhci" hence > the right command > is > > "modprobe usb-uhci" > > which you'll have to execute with root privileges. > However if you're > running the

RE: getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
If s/he can't get his mail; how is s/he going to get these replies? > -Original Message- > From: Martin Jungowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: getting my email > > > You wanna ask your ISP why you're not gett

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:02, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:50:16 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > Why? Your uptime is the amount of time your machine has been running, > > not the output of the uptime command. Just because you overflow a > > 32-bit number with it, it doesn't m

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-29 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > When I got my cd burner, I started using the ide-scsi module to access > it and the cdrom drive. This has worked well, until today. I > received two new audio cds in the mail. I put one in each drive and > played them throu

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-29 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 29 September 2003 22:06, Juri Haberland wrote: > Though I don't know much about kernel opps messages I still recommend > to check you RAM, e.g. with memtest86, as it might be just a bit > flipped due to failed memory. Oh, yes, that's right, I forgot. Thanks. However, it requires taking i

Re: who are you

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:02, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:21:27AM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 28. September 2003 09:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > [Subj: who are you?] > > > > I am what I am. > >...what I am what I am, > >

Re: getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
You wanna ask your ISP why you're not getting mail... or provide us with way more informations. Martin Jungowski On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't get my email. This is the first time I haven't been able to > get it. Any ideas? Please response soon. Thanks > > [EM

Re: [OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Matt Price
problem solved -- I had been editing a local .mc/mc.ext file, but had failed to remove the .mc/bindings link ot the default bindings. After several attempts failed, I thought I must have badly misinterpreted the man pages, and that perhaps mc.ext did something else entirely... anyway, it's all ok

sendmail and procmail , spamassaign

2003-09-29 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi , I am using sendmail for my mails. I was told that if i want to use spamassassin and redirect the rejected mail to some user account (like spam user) I need to use procmail. I installed procmail but I don't understand that can i use this for entire domain or procmail is only good for one user

Re: running short on DMA buffers during badblocks

2003-09-29 Thread Mich Lanners
On 26 Sep, this message from Bastien Nocera echoed through cyberspace: >> Dunno why, but if my powerbook runs out of juice while suspended it >> screws the time. > > That's because the battery that keeps the time is a very small > capacitor. Doesn't hold for long at all... Hmmm, IIRC from the l

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
There are two reasons why the module is not loading: First of all, it's named "usb-uhci" not "uhci" hence the right command is "modprobe usb-uhci" which you'll have to execute with root privileges. However if you're running the stock Debian Woody installation, you have Kernel 2.2 which does not

installing kernel-image

2003-09-29 Thread Andrea Allonno
Hi, while executing a: dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.22-rc2_0.9.4-1+10.00.Custom_i3 386.deb I've got the output inside errKernel-image... So I have execute a #depmod Then I retry and I've got this output: dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.22-rc2 (--install): subprocess post-installation scrip

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sidney Brooks (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > When I use "modprobe uhci", the response is "Can't > locate module uhci". Try modprobe usb-uhci instead. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:25:48AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From > what I read, I must install the module uhci to do > this. I do not know where to find this module and how > to install it. I have tried apt-get with no success. > This must be some

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Sidney Brooks
--- John Spray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sidney Brooks wrote: > > >I must install the module uhci > > > Linux kernel modules are already present on your > system. Installing the > module refers not to obtaining it, but to loading it > into the running > kernel. This is generally done with a

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:33, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:07:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Gak! And send him into Dependency Hell? > > That's nonsense. People like to throw that crap out, but users cause it > for themselves when they install RPM's from random places, same

Re: Subversion apache module will not load in unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Philipp Weis
On 29 Sep 2003, Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running subversion on an unstable server for quite a while. A while > ago (over a month I'd say) it stopped working following an upgrade. > Subversion has been through a few upgrades in the meantime but still willl > not loa

getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread Vtgreen
I can't get my email. This is the first time I haven't been able to get it. Any ideas? Please response soon. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question about ~/.xsession

2003-09-29 Thread Jaque Moreau
According to the Debian reference Debian uses both ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc for setting up an X-environment. I use wdm as display manager and need a personal PATH. If I set it up in ~/.xsession it works as desired but if I now login on a terminal and start a separate X-Server my ~/.bash_profile

xfce4 install problems in unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Amal Phadke
Hi all, It seems xfce4 package in unstable is broken. I get the following message when I try to apt-get it. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install xfce4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages

LPRng

2003-09-29 Thread Sam Warren
I have Debian running on my s/390. I have LPRng serving printers to a variety of different clients. My mainframe prints lpd to the server, my windows NT/95/98 clients print samba to the server, and my 2000/XP clients print lpd. I started out with a few printers as a test and now I am adding printer

Re: Problem With vsftpd - "tunable_ftp_username" ???

2003-09-29 Thread Steve Darnell
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:35:38AM +0100, Nick wrote: > I just replaced the ordinary ftpd as supplied with my Debian Woody/Pre > system by the vsftpd deb in Testing, but now can't actually run any > FTP sessions because vsftpd dies every time I connect, as follows : > > # ftp django > Connected to

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Kjetil Kjernsmo schrieb: > These segfaults started to appear, and I found there were little I could > do to repair it. Eventually, it seems like more and more programs got > this problem, and finally I couldn't log on anymore on Sunday evening. > > In the server room, I booted the machine with

Re: Subversion apache module will not load in unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:50:27PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > I've been running subversion on an unstable server for quite a while. A while > ago (over a month I'd say) it stopped working following an upgrade. > Subversion has been through a few upgrades in the meantime but still willl >

Re: who are you

2003-09-29 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:21:27AM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. September 2003 09:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > [Subj: who are you?] > > I am what I am. ...what I am what I am, A family man (a family man) --

Re: Black Holes.

2003-09-29 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:29:19PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, and am struggling > to find directions that make sense. > It's got to the point where I have actually got to the point of starting > off a series of posts at an open source forum to

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Sidney Brooks
--- John Spray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sidney Brooks wrote: > > >I must install the module uhci > > > Linux kernel modules are already present on your > system. Installing the > module refers not to obtaining it, but to loading it > into the running > kernel. This is generally done with a

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:25:48 -0700 (PDT), Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From > what I read, I must install the module uhci to do > this. I do not know where to find this module and how > to install it. I have tried apt-get with no success

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:50:16 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Why? Your uptime is the amount of time your machine has been running, > not the output of the uptime command. Just because you overflow a > 32-bit number with it, it doesn't mean your machine is any less stable. BTW, wouldn't this wrapar

Test, disregard, excuse static please

2003-09-29 Thread HadRedhat
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Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sidney Brooks (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From > what I read, I must install the module uhci to do > this. I do not know where to find this module and how > to install it. I have tried apt-get with no success. > This must be something that e

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:25:48AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From what I read, I > must install the module uhci to do this. I do not know where to find > this module and how to install it. I have tried apt-get with no > success. Depending on the k

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:18:13 +0200, Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hi, > > I would DEFINITELY not suggest to use unstable if you're a Debian or > even worse, Linux newbie. It may work 95% of the time but it may also be > either unstable or not work at all after an update. That's wh

Re: debian Sid & Alsa & kernel 2.6.0-test6

2003-09-29 Thread Mental Patient
Seppe Van Sande wrote: Hi all,Well, I'm trying to setup ALSA with my Debian Sid with kernel2.6.0-test6 for my Audigy (emu10k1), but I get nothing but errors :-( I downloaded the driver, libs and utils package, but the driver failswhen I do a make. First, I did: You just need libs and utils. Use the

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