Re: Can't play audio CDs

2003-11-30 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I can't play audio CDs on my Mac 8500. It's running debian for PowerPC, > but I don't know if it's a problem with the powerpc port. > > I have /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd0 (first SCSI CD drive). The > permissions for /dev

Re: Debian woody or sarge?

2003-11-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Stable is not up to handling gforge at the moment. > > There are packages for stable available though. They seem to work well. There is a gforge backport for woody? You have my attention. Where can I find such a beast. I tried backporting this mys

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-11-30 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:32:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:13:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Is there any functionality in mutt, or a good way to implement it in > > mutt, that allows you to killfile with roughly the same flexibility > > that tin gives you for ne

Re: SA, Debian Woody, Exim3, help

2003-11-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:48:32PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Well, I mentioned my incoming email was not getting spam-tagged, and still > isn't. > > Someone (sorry, lost the email :-( pointed me to: > > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/node11.html > > which did

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:22:28AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Just get an external serial modem. Those Just Work in any OS without > > any difficulty, period. > > ...and before getting an USB modem, make sure it is > _NOT!_ another damn usb-wire

Re: [solved, testing] OK, I want to join the PGP World, but need help.

2003-11-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:34:23PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:08:18PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Where is the use of GnuPG within Mutt documented? > > I want to set up checking of signatures on emails > > to this list, but I don't find info. Where is it? > > Tha

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:19:44AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:19:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > enough to contain the axioms of arithmetic, then there are statements > > which can be made but not proved within that system. It is possible to > > add further axi

Can't play audio CDs

2003-11-30 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I can't play audio CDs on my Mac 8500. It's running debian for PowerPC, but I don't know if it's a problem with the powerpc port. I have /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd0 (first SCSI CD drive). The permissions for /dev/scd0 are rw-rw-rw-. I have esound installed. I've tried this with and withou

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Miernik
On 2003-12-01, Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Show me a good reason to separete /boot to a separate partition at=20 >> all. What's the extra security we get out of this?=20 > > The kernel file itself isn't available to be mucked with, until _after_ > the cracker gains shell, gains ro

Re: tar question

2003-11-30 Thread Ralph Alvy
my home directory in the >> following location: >> >> /mnt/back >> >> When I try it uncompressed with >> >> tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~ >> >> it succeeds. >> >> But when I try to do it compressed with >> >>

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:15:16 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > > I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an

Re: tar question

2003-11-30 Thread Bob_parker
/mnt/back > > When I try it uncompressed with > > tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~ > > it succeeds. > > But when I try to do it compressed with > > tar cvfz /mnt/back/20031130 ~ > > I get the following error message after it traverses the entire home &

Re: [solved, testing] OK, I want to join the PGP World, but need help.

2003-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:08:18PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Where is the use of GnuPG within Mutt documented? > I want to set up checking of signatures on emails > to this list, but I don't find info. Where is it? > > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks to all. I

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Deryk Barker
Sorry to weigh in rather late butyou have enabled DMA on the DVD-ROM haven't you? Debian doesn't seem to do this by default and I had a similar experience when I first played a DVD on the computer. Which led me to turn on DMA not just for the DVD-ROM but for both hard drives too. What a differ

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:23:27PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:11:51PM -0800, John insinuated: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > orange:~# ll -alF /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Apr 21 2001 /dev/cdrom -> > scd

tar question

2003-11-30 Thread Ralph Alvy
I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the following location: /mnt/back When I try it uncompressed with tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~ it succeeds. But when I try to do it compressed with tar cvfz /mnt/back/20031130 ~ I get the foll

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:14:26PM -0500, Paul Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Elementary System Administration and Security > - > > Lesson #1: Don't mount things not needed for the operation of the system > > Lesson #2: Mount things with the min

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:21:24PM +0100, Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2003-11-30, Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I recommend making it far larger than in the Debian security doc > >> though. On my servers I have /boot and /usr read-only, and I've been > > > > You can l

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2003-11-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's even worse: > > > > $ modprobe amd74xx > > Segmentation fault > > > > And now I have: > > > > amd74xx 9468 1 (initializing) > > > > The module cannot be removed and interferes with other processes as > > for instance ifconfig (

Re: bind and dynamic ip

2003-11-30 Thread Lucas Bergman
LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have registered > a domain name to that server, and I want to use a hostname for my > dynamic ip. Can I do this? I thought it would be like, connecting to > the remote dns server, and then update the zone file,

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote > Create a file in /etc/modutils containing the following: > > options ide-cd ignore=\"hdc hdd\" > alias scd0 sr_mod > alias scd1 sr_mod > pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi > pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi I think I may have scre

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sunday November 30 at 08:30pm John Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a difference this is :'( Yeah, the differences seem exponential. I thought some of the people accidental added extra digits when I saw I maxed at about 610 with TWM. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Rollins Band - Shame

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:43:25AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote > I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems that all I > had to do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is lower > the default resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running > 1024x768 24- Bit color. Changing to

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:19:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > enough to contain the axioms of arithmetic, then there are statements > which can be made but not proved within that system. It is possible to > add further axioms to prove the statements, but then this richer > axiomatic base will lea

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy

2003-11-30 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > I don't know about the "instant". But most newspapers worth their name > have the equivalent of a "letters" section. Which print only a minuscule fraction of the letters received. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
%% Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pm> - however, my dumbest stunt came from an su to root: pm> rm -fr /bin /usr pm> instead of pm> rm -fr bin usr pm> ...that one's tough to beat on the scale of dumbness. Or on the pm> scale of "negative system impact", as they say. Heh. T

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-30 Thread Jan-Marek Glogowski
Hi When you get "Input/Output" error, there may be a hardware error :-( Check your /var/log/messages. You can check the partition layout using gpart. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/, or the deb. Look at man e2fsck, especially -b, -B and -n. HTH Jan-Marek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Info Problem

2003-11-30 Thread John Hasler
Walter Dnes writes: > With man, I can hit "/" (the slash key) and type in a character string to > look for, and the entire document gets searched in a second. "/" works fine in info for me. Have you ever tried "info info"? Of course, you could just forego installing packages the use info documen

Re: Limiting port speed

2003-11-30 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Rus posts: >> what comamnd I can use to force an network card down the 10mbp 1/2 >> duplex `mii-tool' is the command. Use it with the -F option and choose the media you want. -- ragOO Amateur Radio VU2RGU Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, You'll

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:16, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an > > > AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video

SA, Debian Woody, Exim3, help

2003-11-30 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Well, I mentioned my incoming email was not getting spam-tagged, and still isn't. Someone (sorry, lost the email :-( pointed me to: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/node11.html which didn't seem to do much even after I added it. I have been using SA successfully on

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2003-11-30 Thread Alf Werder
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:12, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But then the disappointment: > > > > $ modprobe amd74xx > > > > $ hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > >

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-11-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:13:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there any functionality in mutt, or a good way to implement it in > mutt, that allows you to killfile with roughly the same flexibility > that tin gives you for news? All I did was add a couple of macros that saved from(s) and subj

Re: Info Problem

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:14:59AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:29:55PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote > >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:58:43PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> > >> > Whats wrong here, and what should I do to fix i

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:11:51PM -0800, John insinuated: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: > I did not :) ha, sorry :) got a better suggestion? > > > man hdparm > >

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an > > > AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:50:10AM +0800, csj insinuated: > On 30. November 2003 at 4:03PM -0800, > John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- > > > an AMD Duron 950 MHz; an

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an Intel > Pentium 4 that the debian configuration software never did detect. I went > on to try and configure PPP as best

Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any functionality in mutt, or a good way to implement it in mutt, that allows you to killfile with roughly the same flexibility that tin gives you for news? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2003-11-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But then the disappointment: > > $ modprobe amd74xx > > $ hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma= 0 (off) It's even worse: $ modprobe amd74xx Segmentation

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: I did not :) > > man hdparm > > hm, i have ... but i get: > > orange:~# hdparm /dev/dvd > /dev/dvd not supported by hdparm Yo nori!

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread csj
On 30. November 2003 at 4:03PM -0800, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it > > -- an AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; > > 512M of RAM. but, xine and ogle

[OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-11-30 Thread csj
On 1. December 2003 at 7:51AM +0800, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:01:22 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:53:37PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 03:22 G

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:50:55 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 14:52, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:54:37 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: >> > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 11:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >> Hello List ! >> >> >> >> here are naive questions: >> >> What is the ba

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

2003-11-30 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:43:36 -0700 From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 10:07 GMT, csj : >> On 29. November 2003 at 11:07AM -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" : >>> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 at 14:56 GMT, Roberto Sanchez : >>> > >>> > I don't see how this is an issue. I foun

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:54:38 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I second that. Even at a higher price where I live, I consider the money > well spent on my US Robotics external modem. It is immediately found all > the time. > The hassle of getting winmodems to work just ain't worth it. > Just

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:10:22 +, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:34, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:37 -0600, tripolar wrote: >> >> > Thanks a million >> > both gnome & kde work now as regular user >> > Paul Morgan wrote: >> > >> >>/tmp should be owned by root

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:19:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ... > > I thought it was neither complete (the doesn't capture all truths thing) > > nor consistent (may contain both a statement and its complement)[1]. > > But I can look that up. > > > > The S

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:30:05 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >>>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >You have a

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an > > AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; 512M of RAM. > > but, xine and ogle both appear to b

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:53:51PM -0600, John Hasler insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen writes: > > that same thread also suggests that this might be a DMA issue > > (which VERA seems to define as "digital memory access"). > > I don't know what "VERA" is, Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms > but it's w

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Morgan wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:17:41 -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: This is not meant as a smartass answer, but, as "real" modems are relatively cheap, I would respectfully suggest that you consider getting one instead of using CPU cycles running a winmodem. I second that. Even at a hi

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:34, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:37 -0600, tripolar wrote: > > > Thanks a million > > both gnome & kde work now as regular user > > Paul Morgan wrote: > > > >>/tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: > >> > >>drwxrwxrwx9 root root

Re: Rationale

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 17:01, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a > usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs). > > What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable? > Running woody I get > > /usr/local/bin:/usr

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an AMD > Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; 512M of RAM. but, > xine and ogle both appear to be dropping frames. > that same thread also suggests that this

Re: Nvidia

2003-11-30 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 18:06, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ##~'##'@'### > // > . > . Well said, sir. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Modules/Ethernet setup

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:32, Paul M Foster wrote: > When I was installing Deb 3.0r1 on a new machine, I couldn't find what I > thought was the right module/driver for the ethernet card, so I just > skipped it. Later I found the right driver. I can get the card up and > working. Manually, I can d

lp print queue unclearable

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i haven't used my printer in a bit, but usually it's just fine. but now, trying to print a letter, i find that some mysterious print queue appears to be full. i /etc/init.d restart lpd several times, making sure there are no zombies; i lprm *; yet whenever i turn on the printer, it wants to print

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:03, tripolar wrote: > it didnt work. mom just tried to access her pogo games , yeah she is > addicted ;-) > and got java not working error. I was trying to get it worked out for > her before I went out of state :-( no such luck. > will have to try again when I get back >

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John Hasler
Nori Heikkinen writes: > that same thread also suggests that this might be a DMA issue (which VERA > seems to define as "digital memory access"). I don't know what "VERA" is, but it's wrong. DMA stands for "Direct Memory Access". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisco

Re: Limiting port speed

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 14:54, Rus Foster wrote: > HI, > Can anyone tell me what comamnd I can use to force an network card down > the 10mbp 1/2 duplex apt-get install ethtool man ethtool only works on 2.4+ kernels. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry s

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 14:52, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:54:37 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 11:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello List ! > >> > >> here are naive questions: > >> What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? > >> Is there

Re: Slasdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-11-30 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:01:22 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:53:37PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 03:22 GMT, John Hasler penned: > > > Monique wrote: > > >> The difference is that, by allowing repli

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by logging into X as root, unless

HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2003-11-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I finally wanted to enable dma, so did a lspci: 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 03) I concluded that amd74xx would be my driver and compiled and installed modules with the following settings: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FO

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:21:24 +0100, Miernik wrote: > On 2003-11-30, Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I recommend making it far larger than in the Debian security doc >>> though. On my servers I have /boot and /usr read-only, and I've been >> >> You can leave /boot unmounted altogeth

Nvidia

2003-11-30 Thread Keith O'Connell
##~'##'@'### // . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slasdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:53:37PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 03:22 GMT, John Hasler penned: > > Monique wrote: > >> The difference is that, by allowing replies to accumulate and reading > >> them filtered to +3, you have a decent chance of finding

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Miernik
On 2003-11-30, Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I recommend making it far larger than in the Debian security doc >> though. On my servers I have /boot and /usr read-only, and I've been > > You can leave /boot unmounted altogether. The only times it needs to be > accessed are: > > -

Re: Rationale

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:01:35 +0100, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a > usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs). > > What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable? > Running woody I get > > /usr/local/

DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i'm trying to play DVDs. i should have the hardware for it -- an AMD Duron 950 MHz; an ATI rage fury pro video card; 512M of RAM. but, xine and ogle both appear to be dropping frames. i ran across this post[1] (granted, from debian-powerpc) which suggests that it was just a bug in xine, and i ne

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:37:23 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: You have a fair chance of gaining some unexp

Re: Query

2003-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:25:37PM -0800, dhiraj kiran wrote: > Hello, > I have a query pertaining to Debian Linux > installation. > For the complete installation of Debian Linux(on line > installation), is it a must that I have a LAN internet > connection? The installation manual clearly indicate

Rationale

2003-11-30 Thread John Smith
Hi All, checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs). What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable? Running woody I get /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games as a normal user. As root

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:47, Sven Hoexter wrote: > I did the following do get the java plugin working on my > testing/unstable box: > > Download: > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2sdk-1.4.1-01 >-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bi

Re: Modules/Ethernet setup

2003-11-30 Thread Alf Werder
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 21:32, Paul M Foster wrote: > When I was installing Deb 3.0r1 on a new machine, I couldn't find what I > thought was the right module/driver for the ethernet card, so I just > skipped it. Later I found the right driver. I can get the card up and > working. Manually, I can d

Re: kde 3 on testing/unstable -- newbie query

2003-11-30 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. said, : I now want to install kde 3.1.4 (it's present in knoppix). I added the line You might want to try using Debian Unstable/"sid" since it does contain kde 3.1.4 already. You will just need to modify the line that you have for stable and chang

Re: Modules/Ethernet setup

2003-11-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul M Foster (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > When I was installing Deb 3.0r1 on a new machine, I couldn't find what > I thought was the right module/driver for the ethernet card, so I just > skipped it. Later I found the right driver. I can get the card up and > working. Manually, I can do

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:22:37 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 19:52 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> Man, everyone and his brother is writing IRC clients these days. >> >> Any opinions? Last time I looked there weren't so many, and I plumped >> for xchat. Which I'm more o

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:35:06 +, RichardA wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You >> can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can >> copy the files you

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >>> >>> You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points >>> by logging into X as root, unless you are

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:37 -0600, tripolar wrote: > Thanks a million > both gnome & kde work now as regular user > Paul Morgan wrote: > >>/tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: >> >>drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:14 /tmp >> >>as root, do >>chown root:root /tmp

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 19:52 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > Man, everyone and his brother is writing IRC clients these days. > > Any opinions? Last time I looked there weren't so many, and I plumped > for xchat. Which I'm more or less happy with, BTW. > I still prefer xchat. bitchx is extremel

Modules/Ethernet setup

2003-11-30 Thread Paul M Foster
When I was installing Deb 3.0r1 on a new machine, I couldn't find what I thought was the right module/driver for the ethernet card, so I just skipped it. Later I found the right driver. I can get the card up and working. Manually, I can do it this way: modprobe natsemi ifconfig eth0 inet 192.16

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Elie De Brauwer wrote: (I didn't turn any of my processes of, attached is ps axf) Hardware: AMD Athlon T-Bird 900mhz 768mb Crucual PC2100 GeForce4 MX440SE 128mb IBM G74 1280x1024 24bit Matrox Millennium2 8mb Acer 79g 1280x1024 24bit FIC AN11 mb (VIA 8266/A/7) 2x Maxtor 160gb (7200

dhcp3-client does not bring up interface

2003-11-30 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! Back in July, when version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-5 of the dhcp3-client package came out, I noticed that my notebook no longer worked together with the DHCP server. I investigated a bit, but at that time it was easier for me to revert back to version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 and wait till somebody else reports

bind and dynamic ip

2003-11-30 Thread LeVA
Hello! I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have registered a domain name to that server, and I want to use a hostname for my dynamic ip. Can I do this? I thought it would be like, connecting to the remote dns server, and then update the zone file, and then reload bind. But how

Re: X won't start

2003-11-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:58:01 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > >> problem I'm ready to tackle X not s

Re: X won't start

2003-11-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:22:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > >> problem I'm ready to tackle

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by >> logging into X as root, unless you are unplugging all external network >> devices first. Not allowi

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:54:37 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 11:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List ! >> >> here are naive questions: >> What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? >> Is there a Gnome interface ? > > Here goes: > ayttm - Universal Insta

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
Thanks a million both gnome & kde work now as regular user Paul Morgan wrote: /tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:14 /tmp as root, do chown root:root /tmp chmod 777 /tmp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
it didnt work. mom just tried to access her pogo games , yeah she is addicted ;-) and got java not working error. I was trying to get it worked out for her before I went out of state :-( no such luck. will have to try again when I get back thanks Kristian Niemi wrote: Hmm ... Strange. I do ha

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:17:41 -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an Intel > Pentium 4 that the debian configuration software never did detect. I went > on to try and configure PPP as best I could... > > When I try to use '

creating password for shadow file

2003-11-30 Thread LeVA
Hello! I need to add users to a passwd/shadow file, but these files does not reside in /etc dir. Thus I can not use the adduser or useradd tool to add the user, because they will add it to the /etc/passwd|shadow file. I managed to create a passwd file, and wrote the user name and uid, and home

Limiting port speed

2003-11-30 Thread Rus Foster
HI, Can anyone tell me what comamnd I can use to force an network card down the 10mbp 1/2 duplex Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-633

Re: Install problems on Asus A7V333

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:01:42 -0500, Chris Gumm wrote: > I'm trying to get debian installed on an asus A7V333 and I am running in to a > problem. Now, I didn't think debian supported the RAID controler so I disabled it > with a jumper setting. Now when it gets to the partition hd, I have 3 choice

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:08:06 -0600, tripolar wrote: > I have had problems with permissions in /usr/X11R6 > I set them #chmod 755 -R /usr/X11R6/ > does that look right? > that has worked in the past. > I was told to remove files in /tmp relating to dcop or orbit ( sorry I > forgot and I am not on

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:07AM +0100, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: > > Gerard Ceraso wrote: > > > I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right > > > now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
.kde3-errors + break + sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap + usrmodmap=/home/suley/.Xmodmap + startup=/home/suley/.kde3rc + resources=/home/suley/.Xresources + startssh= + sshagent=/usr/bin/ssh-agent + '[' -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent -a -z '' ']' + startssh=yes + '[' -x /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap ']' + '[' -f /etc/X11

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