Re: apt

2003-10-13 Thread wjl
Faheem Mitha wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:28:30 +0200, wjl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [apt-get install crashing] > Why not try doing a backtrace with gdb to see where the problem lies? Hi Faheem, yes, that would be a good idea, but this morning everything works again autmagically... hmmm..

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread Marshal Wong
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:25, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I > discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts > under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on, results in myriad yet > often contr

Re: dictd doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread csj
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:25:57 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2003-10-14T12:47:06+0800, csj wrote: > > Something seems wrong with my dictd. It was working until > > this morning. Now it seems I can't get it to start despite > > repeated /etc/init.d/dictd start|restart's. Here's the > > result o

Re: dictd doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread csj
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:25:57 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2003-10-14T12:47:06+0800, csj wrote: > > Something seems wrong with my dictd. It was working until > > this morning. Now it seems I can't get it to start despite > > repeated /etc/init.d/dictd start|restart's. Here's the > > result of

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread Paul William
> (4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying > /etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit > rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir "..path..to..bitstream-vera"). > (4) is representive of all Xft v1 apps. (4) also takes care of old GTK1 > apps. I am

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 at 04:27 GMT, J Y penned: > Hi, Yeah I thought of that (resov.conf being a directory rather than a > file) but it is a file. I meant to include that in the post and > forgot. I'll run the command just to be sure though. You have the > command as ls-ld /etc/resov.conf is the 'd'

Re: dictd doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-10-14T12:47:06+0800, csj wrote: > Something seems wrong with my dictd. It was working until > this morning. Now it seems I can't get it to start despite > repeated /etc/init.d/dictd start|restart's. Here's the > result of using the dict client: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

rescue mail off secondary server contingency plan

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low bandwidth users to use. Mail is accruing on the secondary, but not yet cleaned of spam, nor in a mailbox fetchable. We copy our latest .procmailrc, and .spamass

International Characters

2003-10-13 Thread Tom
As you might have read in another of my posts, I've got a pretty "beautiful" font-environment going. However, I'm completely stuck with American characters -- everybody's accent-e, umlaut-u, and of course chinese just shows up as ? in Mutt in gnome-terminal, and Mozilla the slightest unusual c

Re: Use of apt-proxy with net install of sarge. New thoughts, questions.

2003-10-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:28:25PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it > > > asks me to specify

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-13 Thread csj
At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:32:20 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > Any ATA CD-RW and DVD-RW/-RAM/+RW drive should work just fine > with Linux, since they are controlled by the ATAPI driver and > useland apps. CD and DVD writers are a userland problem. Almost all CD writers should work with cdrecord

dictd doesn't work

2003-10-13 Thread csj
Something seems wrong with my dictd. It was working until this morning. Now it seems I can't get it to start despite repeated /etc/init.d/dictd start|restart's. Here's the result of using the dict client: ~ $ dict -v test Trying /home/gandalf/.dictrc... Trying /etc/dict.conf... Configuration f

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:53:22PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > As an addition, note that this guide will cover only the X core font system. > AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), fontconfig is not available under Stable, > which rules out a discussion of Xft at this time... > > I'm pledging to k

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:25:30 -0700 "M. Kirchhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I > discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts > under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on, result

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:25:30PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > This guide will cover *only* stand-alone workstations. As of Xfree 4.x, it is > absolutely unnecessary to run a font server if serving fonts isn't a requisite, > i.e. most users. It will also cover on Woody stable. There will be n

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
I changed some permissions but it didn't fix the problem. I did notice that pon highstream.net doesn't produce anything-no modem dial. kppp does get the modem to dial. The following output is too long and I didn't know what might be relevent. deblnx:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf -rw-r--r--1 ro

More info...? NFS bug

2003-10-13 Thread Neal Lippman
I am convinced something is wrong with nfs. This is a f/u to my earlier post on nfs permissiosn problems with root_squash. Having played with this a bit more, I find that as userA -> su to root, sometimes I can see userB's files and sometimes not on the nfs share...even though with root_squash and

Strange permissions behavoir on NFS mount...

2003-10-13 Thread Neal Lippman
Wondering if anyone can explain sort of odd behavoir I noted tonight on an nfs share. The setup: I have mounted an exported nfs share from my server onto my /home directory on my workstation (mount -t nfs nfs:/home /home). On the server machine (nfs), /home is exported with root_squash, so I would

Software Solutions for Accounting,Payroll,Mail/Task Management

2003-10-13 Thread JL Infomatrix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir, Greetings from JL Infoamtrix Ltd We would like to introduce ourselves as the company that has been offering business solutions to industries and business houses for over twelve years from six locations in India. We are giving below a brief description of our product

Software Solutions for Accounting,Payroll,Mail/Task Management

2003-10-13 Thread JL Infomatrix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir, Greetings from JL Infoamtrix Ltd We would like to introduce ourselves as the company that has been offering business solutions to industries and business houses for over twelve years from six locations in India. We are giving below a brief description of our product

RE: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread M. Kirchhoff
As an addition, note that this guide will cover only the X core font system. AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), fontconfig is not available under Stable, which rules out a discussion of Xft at this time... I'm pledging to keep the guide up-to-date, so at some point it will cover the transition

Re: Help - kernel 2.4.22 (hangs on rcS.d scripts)

2003-10-13 Thread Cam Ellison
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > >http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html > > > > > >http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html > > > > > >In your kernel config you probably

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, Yeah I thought of that (resov.conf being a directory rather than a file) but it is a file. I meant to include that in the post and forgot. I'll run the command just to be sure though. You have the command as ls-ld /etc/resov.conf is the 'd' in there a typo? I thought it was ls-l. Quoting Pige

Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread M. Kirchhoff
While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on, results in myriad yet often contracting font guides. The two biggies--The Font De-Uglif

Re: apt

2003-10-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:28:30 +0200, wjl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > since today I have a strange behaviour of apt 0.5.14 in unstable: when > trying to install a package or doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I get: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > S

Re: How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-13 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031014 10:42]: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:23:44PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > * Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031012 16:56]: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:53:46AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need to know how to c

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-13 Thread Todd Pytel
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:00:23 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I go into the Gnome configurator, and try to go to the windows > section it gives me an error message about "window manager 'unkown' > not being registred. > > What window manager should I have installed? Metacity is the s

downgrading libc6

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I've inherited a Debian system that primarily uses the stable distribution and yet on which the previous manager must have upgraded libc6, libc6-dev and locales to, likely, the testing distribution as they are higher versions than available from stable. Now that it is in my hands, I'd prefer i

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:01:41 -0400, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub, if you use RSA authentication) from the host on which the login attempt will originate. Is it actually necessary to use the

Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-13 Thread stan
I just installed a new "testing" machine, and most everything works. But in the Gnome sessiosn there is some strange stuff going on with windows. When I go into the Gnome configurator, and try to go to the windows section it gives me an error message about "window manager 'unkown' not being regist

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Rob Sims wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: KDE works when I use the "radeon" driver, but I get no DRI. Where do I go from here? I didn't find a user forum for the ATI drivers, just a no-response bug reporting link. Hmm.

Adding more files to CD-RW using k3b

2003-10-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
I have burned some data (.mp3 files) on a CD-RW using k3b. It only used about half of the disk. Now I want to add some additional files to it (new session?) but can't seem to find a way to take more files and add to the existing CD-RW disk. Am I missing something. Should I have saved the first

Re: Use of apt-proxy with net install of sarge

2003-10-13 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:28, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it > > > asks me to specify a mirror. Som

Re: Where is modversions.h with kernel 2.6.0-test6?

2003-10-13 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 13, 2003 07:14 pm, Naitik Shah wrote: > You need to patch your nvidia-sources in order to compile > them with kernel 2.6. I dont quite remember where I got the > patch from but the file name is NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4496-2.6.diff > If you want I could post it here. http://www.minion.de/

Cellular internet?

2003-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone have experience connecting a Debian system via a cellular link, either PC Card or Bluetooth (or for that matter IR) to a phone? My schedule is going to mean being away from home something like half the time, so I'm looking for a non-hotel-rate connection. I'm well aware of the fact that ce

screen/script output and funny color characters

2003-10-13 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, say I've captured a lot of stuff from screen and script, and have an output file with a lot of information in it that I don't need -- and makes reading the files pretty difficult. Is there a program or script to make viewing/editing this output easier? Strip the color codes, placement,

Re: Help - kernel 2.4.22 hangs

2003-10-13 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:08:06PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Check out my kernel config: > > http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ro668344/kernel-2.4.22-config_athlon-xp [snip] > As far as kernel 2.4.22, I haven't found any real problem to get it > functioning. I used the Debian kernel-source package

Re: Host Name; WWW.mydomain.com

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Thomas Kroljic penned: > All, > >First off I'm a newbie to linux. I recently installed Debian Linux >(woody) on a Dell Optiplex. During the installation process, I set >the following: installed Apache Web Server, used a host name of >"Debian-Dimens

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:37:06PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > Tom wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:48:15PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > > > >>Rob Sims wrote: > >> > >>>On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > >You can get the latest "unrele

Re: At last a promising audio player for KDE

2003-10-13 Thread peter vdm
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:46, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > Shameless plug but here goes: > > http://amarok.sourceforge.net/index.php > > Also has sidplay2 and modplug plugins for arts. > > Anders > Wouldn't mind giving this a try but I get this prob on woody with the 0.6.91 compile on KDE 3.1.

Re: exim exposed to the internet

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031012 08:43]: > I'm happily using exim3 and exim4 on woody and sid systems. Still, on > systems that don't need a full-blown MTA, I use ssmtp (as it is much smaller > and simpler) and on systems that need a more complete MTA but don't need to > receive ma

Fw: Re: Completely OT: Romanization of Chiense speech

2003-10-13 Thread David Palmer.
Begin forwarded message: Sorry, I was tired last night and didn't realize that I hadn't posted this to the list. If you are really interested in this sort of thing, there are plenty of chinese associations/societys around that are perfectly approachable. I have been an amateur sinologist for som

Re: need help with kde 3.1.4

2003-10-13 Thread Sidney Brooks
Even though I really don't know what happened, I solved my problem. Somehow, kde was being contaminated by gnome. I logged into and out of gnome. Then I logged into kde 3.1.4 and everything worked properly. As an old friend of mine used to say, "No knowledge, confidence". --- Sidney Brooks <[EM

Re: Host Name; WWW.mydomain.com

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Thomas Kroljic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031013 15:56]: > All, > >First off I'm a newbie to linux. I recently installed Debian Linux > (woody) on a Dell Optiplex. During the installation process, I set the > following: installed Apache Web Server, used a host name of > "Debian-Dimension", used a

Re: login-delay after boot

2003-10-13 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Damien Solley wrote: This sounds a bit like problems I had when logging in with a misconfigured localhost line in my /etc/hosts file. What does the line beginning with "127.0.0.1" read in yours? For example, mine reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain serenity If this is con

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-13 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday October 13 at 03:49pm Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > > of KaZaA clients for Linux? > > No, but I think the Windows client is supposed to work OK with wine, > thoug

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability > of KaZaA clients for Linux? No, but I think the Windows client is supposed to work OK with wine, though I haven't tried it myself. -- I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets t

Host Name; WWW.mydomain.com

2003-10-13 Thread Thomas Kroljic
All, First off I'm a newbie to linux. I recently installed Debian Linux (woody) on a Dell Optiplex. During the installation process, I set the following: installed Apache Web Server, used a host name of "Debian-Dimension", used a static IP address, and also assign a domain name that I registere

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-13 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday October 13 at 10:57pm Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it > can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots > itself before it has finished booting. The standard cure of > reinstalling Windoze is not po

Re: BIOS corrupted by Woody CD2

2003-10-13 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Michael Day wrote: > (I wonder whether there is usually a write lock sequence > in BIOS writing programs?) There may well be a write-protect jumper on the motherboard. Or you may find that there was one on earlier releases of the motherboard but now the oh

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:01:57AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather > than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm > seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an > exit status 1; I put exit 0 i

Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-13 Thread Pigeon
A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots itself before it has finished booting. The standard cure of reinstalling Windoze is not possible because he doesn't have the Win2k CD. Also, he's fed up with virus a

Re: Where is modversions.h with kernel 2.6.0-test6?

2003-10-13 Thread Naitik Shah
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:59:05PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all! > > Installing the 2.6.0-test6 kernel with make-kpkg and > trying to install the Nvidia kernel module, I get: > modversions.h not found. It indeed is not there. > > Using kernel_image and kernel_headers

need help with kde 3.1.4

2003-10-13 Thread Sidney Brooks
I upgraded to kde 3.1.4 following the instructions in David Pashley's FAQ. In order not to spoil my working woody system, I installed another woody system on a different partition to try things out. On my tryout partition, kde 3.1.4 works properly. When I installed it on my working woody partition,

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, Oct 13 at 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned the following: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned: > >> These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized >> that the from: would be from your network and the to: wou

Re: bayesian spamassassin throwing error

2003-10-13 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:33:28PM +0200, Stephan Seitz insinuated: > > > > Look at README.Debian, section "Upgrading from perl5.6:" > > This could be the problem. Depending on the version, that might be README.Upgrade (at least it was

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:21:04 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > > >>Please see the advocacy howto and the output of "dict troll". > >> > >> > > > >No off

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Tom wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:48:15PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Rob Sims wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: You can get the latest "unreleased" ATI drivers at: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html Cool. However, ATI ha

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:48:15PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > Rob Sims wrote: > >On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: [snip] > Hmm... well I'm glad you were fortunate enough to get the kernel module > working on a 2.6 kernel (aren't the ATI prop. modules

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:44:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do > > 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). > > 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgra

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Rob Sims wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: KDE works when I use the "radeon" driver, but I get no DRI. Where do I go from here? I didn't find a user forum for the ATI drivers, just a no-response bug reporting link. Hmm... well I'm glad you were fortun

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:43:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > stan wrote: > > > How cna I do this? > > > > > > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating > > > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:01:41 -0400, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or > id_rsa.pub, if you use RSA authentication) from the host on which > the login attempt will originate. Is it actually necessary to use the key? In other

Re: Use of apt-proxy with net install of sarge

2003-10-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it > > asks me to specify a mirror. Some particulars of my system: > > > The url of the host run

Where is modversions.h with kernel 2.6.0-test6?

2003-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! Installing the 2.6.0-test6 kernel with make-kpkg and trying to install the Nvidia kernel module, I get: modversions.h not found. It indeed is not there. Using kernel_image and kernel_headers still no results. Specifying loadable modules -> module versioning produces a modversions.h in /i

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: Please see the advocacy howto and the output of "dict troll". No offense, but most of the "advocates" should be shot. Have you never read COLA? Or slashcrap? References, please? What's COLA? Where can I r

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned: > > > >> These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized that > >> the from: would be from your network and the to: would be you, also > >> on your network, so that would diffe

Re: au8820 driver

2003-10-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Marc Loebbers wrote: > Hi, > > I have a au8820 soundcard and i downloaded the driver from > http://src.braincells.com/debian/sid/au88xx/ . > After finally getting 'modversions.h ' i was able to run 'make install-all' > without any error messages. > But still there's no sound...

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Sims
On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > Hi yall, > > subject says what wants said. Follow the yellow brick url too > > http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=18&submit.y=10 I trie

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread Alan Shutko
duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use CUPS and XPP with a Optra T610N. Feed CUPS the PPD and you're > all set. I also recommend CUPS. I use it with a 2100M (just like 2100TN but no network card). Able to control it all. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Magicians do it t

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Please see the advocacy howto and the output of "dict troll". No offense, but most of the "advocates" should be shot. Have you never read COLA? Or slashcrap? -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #92: Stale file handle (next time use

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:30:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I did not know about the '+' option. That is nice. > > > Now once that is done, you need to determine what to do with the 4 > > mail types: inline forward, attachment forward, inl

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do > 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). > 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading logic rather than what you > selected. > > Cheers, Hi Colin and

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > stan wrote: > > How cna I do this? > > > > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating > > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. > > > > Will this ne a problem? > > > > On source machine: > > dpkg --get-s

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-13 Thread jaycee . spam-me-rigid
Antony Gelberg had the gall to say: > Hi all, > > Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. > without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, > infact I'd rather not have one. Here's something I posted to d-u a while back: Fwd: --- A couple of

Re: return of DNS problem-pppd daemon

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, I did not compile the kernel. as I said the bf2.4 kernel was working . I have an athlon cpu and thought I was running with the k7 kernel because that's what I selected during installation. I had been booting with a floppy though so when i got grub working correctly I began using the k7 kern

BIOS corrupted by Woody CD2

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Day
I've been having problems attempting to install 'Woody' on my pc by booting from CD2 to install the 'plain vanilla' flavour.  The installation hung approx 30s after the boot prompt.  No disc access, etc.  Eventually, I attempted a restart.  The BIOS appears to have been corrupted, my pc wouldn't

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread duck
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 19:35, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to set up my printer I came to scratching my head so much that > I'll be bald real soon now. > The device in question is a Laserjet 2100 tn, network adaptor and > additional paper tray. > > The problem isn't printing as

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031011 02:15]: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:23:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > HAHAHHA! What even makes you think that? Debian is an OS. It > > > doesn't run on other OS's, it *is* one. Did you even read the web > > > page (http://debian.org/) to avoid

'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, Trying to set up my printer I came to scratching my head so much that I'll be bald real soon now. The device in question is a Laserjet 2100 tn, network adaptor and additional paper tray. The problem isn't printing as such -- i had the first test page out in less than five minutes. But I'd

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
%% Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: oa> Thanks. Is there any occasion where disabling these makes life oa> easier? Well, it makes life easier if you want to use TTY applications that use those keys for something else... like bash. If course, alternatively you can always rebind the fun

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather > than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm > seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an > exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /

Re: Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:34:07PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote: > I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. > > I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. > > Is there a way to say: > > This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them an

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 13 Octubre 2003 02:36, en Antony Gelberg va escriure: > Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. > without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, > infact I'd rather not have one. I haven't tr

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:07:28 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get, dselect, and aptitude answer every but the most casual > user's needs. and synaptic. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:40:01PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R > >> (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using > >> Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). > > Your termin

Re: Group src

2003-10-13 Thread Frank A. Uepping
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El domingo, 12 de octubre de 2003, a las 19:37, Colin Watson escribe: >> This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be >> used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source >> code. > > Also, they are given write acc

Re: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Peter N. Vargo (LTS)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello (huge) mailing list, hello world :) > > I'm using Woody+backports KDE&X. > > I'm trying to install OpenOffice >= 1.1RC4 - 1.1 final. > I want to use apt-get method. > > But, actually, I can't. > Thats all from me, reports

Re: Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 09:34, Bob Alexander wrote: > I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. > > I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. > > Is there a way to say: > > This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their How

Re: vmware with win2k as the guest os

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm running debian (woody) dual booted with win2k on my work laptop, and I'm trying > to set it up so that I can run just debian. I'd rather not boot to windows ever > again if I can help it. > > My solution was to install vm

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
%% csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R >> (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using >> Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). Your terminal is set for terminal flow control. "Old" terminals allowed you to halt

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* J. Bruce Fields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031012 19:34]: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 13 October 2003 4:39 am, Rob Weir wrote: >You're not converting an mp3 to a wav and then back again, are you? Have to, unless you know of a utility that will repair mp3s. I suspect the original encoder was sloppy, but these in particular report garbage in the headers, plus other proble

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned: > >> These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized that >> the from: would be from your network and the to: would be you, also >> on your network, so that would differentiate it from other mails >> using procmail. Also, you

return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx

help with cmi8738 sound card.

2003-10-13 Thread Attila Konietzka
Hi, I got a c-media cmi8738 sound card on my computer as soundcard on board. It is working so far, the only problem i have, and which i want to solve with your help is the mic boost switch. It happens that it's effect is only noticeable on the mic monitoring output, but the record level which i obv

The "Do Not Call Sign" Up Info

2003-10-13 Thread American Profiles Marketing News
Friend, Here is the latest on the Do Not Call (DNC), regulations. As you may be aware, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of a lower court ruling that deemed the Do Not Call registry unconstitutional. What this means is the FTC will be moving forward to enforce its DNC program.

Problems accessing /. with straw

2003-10-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
for the last week or so, I've been unable to access the slashdot rss feeds using straw - all my other feeds are fine, and I can wget the .rss files manually. is anyone else experiencing this? I'm wary of filing a bug on straw over this, as it's quite possibly something else entirely. cheers, ia

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:27:23AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > >> Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing "." > >> from $1 and tacks on ".wav". > >> > >> "${1%.*}.wav" > > > > T

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