Re: dc gui

2003-12-21 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 14:40, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello, > I was recomended dc alond with gnutella. I cannot register with > gnutella.com, so will dc allow use without registering? Also, how do I > use dc-gui? > you don't have to register, but share a large amount of data, you'll see hubs ha

Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) Here is what the log file showed after the drivers failed to install... nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sure wish debian had a secure version of the kernel; a binary version of > grsecurity would add a huge amount of security. Anyone know why Debian does not have this in the main archive? At least a grsecurity patc

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:42:32PM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, one of the responses mentioned apt-get install ipmasq > > So I tried it, rebooted, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it > worked. I was able to connect to the Internet just fine on my Win-98 > har

Re: Sid/unstable cds

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:46:26PM -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: > Where can I get debian unstable/sid cds? jigdo. http://cdimage.debian.org/ - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- D

Re: USB Printer

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 23:52, Paul M Foster wrote: > I'm at a loss on how to operate and test USB devices. Is there some > software that manages this stuff, or certain modules which must be > present? I had the same problem... Fixed it by running modconf and selecting the USB Printer module. Worked

Console/X transfer problems

2003-12-21 Thread Paul M Foster
I think I've seen this problem discussed before, but I don't know how I'd even query the archives on it. I'm on Debian stable, version 4.1.0.1 of xserver-xfree86, running a Trident Cyberblade i/1 video card and a generic monitor. Here's the problem: When I'm in X and switch out to a console (Ctrl

USB Printer

2003-12-21 Thread Paul M Foster
Trying to hook up and run an Epson Stylus Photo R300M, which has only a USB connection to the computer. Using CUPS for my printing software. OS is Debian stable. When I try to tell CUPS to send a test page, it says it can't access /dev/usb/lp0, that there is no such device. Of course, the /dev/usb

kdm failed to preconfigure, with exit status 30

2003-12-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
On the Unstable of today. Am I the only one ? Does that matter ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 23:40, GCS wrote: > Also, what kind of ATI card do you have? I have a > simple Radeon, and FB works well, and with XFree86 4.3.0 I have OpenGL > as well. I may help you with my config. Radeon 9800 Pro - Where did you get 4.3 from? Can you give me a sources.list entry? I have

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-21 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Greg, > many people on this list and and may gnu/linux people in general wish > for HW vendors to show some kind of 'yes, this work with $OS_FLAVOR' > on par with the 'we recommend XP' or '

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:42:32PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Problem solved. Out of frustration, I went to ask.com to see what > "Jeeves" had to say about getting the firewall up and running > automatically. I ended up getting sidetracked with an

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Problem solved. Out of frustration, I went to ask.com to see what "Jeeves" had to say about getting the firewall up and running automatically. I ended up getting sidetracked with an old Slashdot article about Comcast cracking down on NAT users (thankful that I'm on Charter...) Anyway, one of

Re: KDE Kmenu list of programs

2003-12-21 Thread CiAsA S'Nuey Boark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday December 21 2003 07:00 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the > structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure > that I can replicate this structure in future in

Sid/unstable cds

2003-12-21 Thread Ralph Bacolod
Hi! Where can I get debian unstable/sid cds? TIA! RAFIKS p.s. Please cc me. Im not subscribed. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

postgres date formatting?

2003-12-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I know this isn't the postgres user group, but if anyone has any insight, I'd sure appreciate it. Summary: attempting to use to_date on a table value results in a to_timestamp error. What am I doing wrong? I have a little database and want to prettyprint some dates on the web interface. In /etc

Re: which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Kent West wrote: Axel Burwitz wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with a ethernet controller onboard, and the system info tool in kde detects: "Ethernet controller : Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1050 (rev02) Subsystem : Dell Computer Corp. Unknown device 0157" Looks like your kernel isn't recog

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-21 Thread Toshiro
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:28, Julius Plenz wrote: > Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very > > ugly set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? > > Well, I just solved this problem: You have to use antialiased-fonts,

Re: which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Kent West
Axel Burwitz wrote: Hi, I installed , for my first Debian try, Debian Sarge from the "LinuxUser" magazine's DVD. After some hurldles it worked but: did'nt configure any network card, eth0 etc. When I try to configure with modconf from the debian KDE set, I don't know which driver to choose, and t

Re: Netinst CD with recent kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Joey Hess
Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > does anybody know about sarge netinst CD with 2.4.23 or 2.6.0 kernel? I have > new computer with SATA HDD, which is not supported in pre 2.4.23 kernels. > > I have also tried to create my own CD, but without success, so if there is > some sort of dumb-user-friendly gui

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > > hey folks, > > > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > > > > my 3-year-old turned off the drive u

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
GCS said: > But no other problem really. Anyway, I _do agree with you strongly_: > 2.6.0 is not for widespread yet. I will switch at ~2.6.10 on my servers, > depending the fixes get in by that time. Until then I use > 2.4.23+grsecurity. You are on my same wavelength. I thought I was the only perso

Re: Run levels and "transportation"

2003-12-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:23:28AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:13:21PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > | Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the > | Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics >

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:25:39PM +0800, csj wrote: > On 20. December 2003 at 12:56AM -0800, > Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Thanks. MPlayer installed fine. Now I need to figure out how > > to install additional codecs for it. > > You can go to the mplayer site and do

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-21 Thread Julius Plenz
Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very ugly > set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? Well, I just solved this problem: You have to use antialiased-fonts, so put a "export GDK_USE_XFT='1'" in you ~/.bash_profile or

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > > available packages

X and screen finding

2003-12-21 Thread r j
hi, i installed more or less a woody on a digital venturis fx 5133 ( year 1996), s3 trio graphics. when i launch X, i get this : (EE) no devices detected fatal server error

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:36:38 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: >> When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used >> to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* >> available packages? > >

Netinst CD with recent kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Hi, does anybody know about sarge netinst CD with 2.4.23 or 2.6.0 kernel? I have new computer with SATA HDD, which is not supported in pre 2.4.23 kernels. I have also tried to create my own CD, but without success, so if there is some sort of dumb-user-friendly guide, it will be helpfull too (bu

ipsec kernel patch 2.4.23

2003-12-21 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'm trying to install freeswan on a woody box with 2.4.23 from backports.org. I apt-got kernel-patch-freeswan, did an export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes, and a make-kpkg. But the patch fails, see below. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.23/include -Wall -Wstrict-prot otypes -Wno-tr

Re: Preciso de sua ajuda

2003-12-21 Thread Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar
Prezado Sr Ziad, A lista debian-users e reservada para e-mails na lingua Inglesa. Gentileza enviar os proximos e-mails na Lingua Portuguesa para a lista de discussao em portugues, pelo endereço: debian-user-portuguese[arroba]lists[ponto]debian[ponto]org Acredito que tenha usado a opcao "Burn Ima

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > hey folks, > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > > my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I > wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned

KDE Kmenu list of programs

2003-12-21 Thread Trey Sizemore
Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Debian & other). -- Cheers, Trey --- "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers e

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:45:48PM +0100, GCS wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dpkg -l \* > > > > It's been like this ever since I started using Debian, IIRC. > > Uh-oh. I just have not know this. Good priest learn 'till death > (hu

diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson there!). Now the drive is still detected

Re: mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread Pablo Aguiar
Rob van den Berg wrote: > I have been trying to find a solution in several mailing lists, but > could not find it (or overlooked). > > What to do? Hi. You could take a look at the thread named "GPM for mouse" at the following link: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thrd5.html#75943

Re: Preciso de sua ajuda

2003-12-21 Thread Pablo Aguiar
Prezado Sr Ziad, A lista debian-users e reservada para e-mails na lingua Inglesa. Gentileza enviar os proximos e-mails na Lingua Portuguesa para a lista de discussao em portugues, pelo endereço: debian-user-portuguese[arroba]lists[ponto]debian[ponto]org Acredito que tenha usado a opcao "Burn Ima

ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-21 Thread Toshiro
I'm running sid and all the old gtk apps (jpilot for example) have a very ugly set of fonts. Anybody know how to fix the fonts? Toshiro. ADSL-Para estar las 24 horas en internet http://www.internet.com.uy Tel. 707.42.52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Preciso de sua ajuda

2003-12-21 Thread geremias
Prezado Senhor   Meu nome é Ziad Fazah. Na verdade, após ter rebaixado a versão do debian 3.1 pelo GetRight no www.linuxiso.org, fiquei decepcionado ao verificar que a instalação noa funcionara no meu pc, em razão da falta do arquivo de iso image a ser usado, onde desconheço completamente os

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg -l \* > > It's been like this ever since I started using Debian, IIRC. Uh-oh. I just have not know this. Good priest learn 'till death (hungarian sentence). I just bow in front of you Colin, you make an exc

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2003-12-21 Thread BogataBossa
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Re: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'

2003-12-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:25, Jeff Penn wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > >> The reason for this can be that you have devfs enabled in your > > >> kernel, but are not using it. > > > > > > That makes sense. I noticed a rant about the need for devfs i

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:45:35PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh right - I have actually got X running using kernel framebuffer > drivers... The only thing is that I don't have a mouse cursor! > > I can see when the mouse goes over a button on kdm and when I right > cl

Apache modules and undefined symbol:

2003-12-21 Thread jokke heikkila
I've just installed/upgraded to Apache 1.3.29.0.1-3. Now that I try to start it, it spits out following error. -- Syntax error on line 18 of /etc/apache/modules.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so: undefined symbol: __db_ndbm_open_400

Re: USB / Gnome 2.2 / Tungsten T2

2003-12-21 Thread Martin Strauss
I had similar problems with my Tungsten T... just as you describe. I found that often it would work for a while, and then stop working. I haven't found a solution for pilot-xfer, but since I've been using gnome-pilot, I've had no problems (touch wood)... And I simply install files now using gpilo

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:03:02 -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > Top copy from one partition to another do thus: > just mount your raid volume as /mnt/md0 then do > cp -ax / /mnt/md0 > > This works, I've done it, and booted off a system copied this way. > I wholeheartedly agree with Luke. I am

Re: which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, thanks for help. But, Dell "Dimension" is a desktop PC not an Mobile PC.. Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > have a look to www.tuxmobil.org : > you may find web page of people which had tried to install > Linux on their Dell: they may give the informationyou want > on their web page. > Other

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 01:49 pm, GCS wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:48:34PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does actually as xdm or whatever is controlling X... xdm starts > > up X and when you kill xdm it kills X >

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 20:12, GCS wrote: > IMHO the ATI driver says that it will taint the kernel. That's > correct, > you can't do anything with that. ATI provides a binary device driver, > so all this means that kernel developers will refuse to help you > debugging problems in the kernel as it cont

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > available packages? dpkg -l \* It's been like this ever since I started using Debian

Re: Trouble installing on Thinkpad 701C

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:12:30PM -0600, Stuart Luppescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made the testing boot, floppy and > net_drivers floppies, and plan to do the main install over the net. Does 'testing boot' mean that you are using the Sarge floppies? It would be better to install a minimal W

Re: AT&T Internet Runner?

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:34:12AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > PS. I find their speeds excellent (Downloading Debian CD's I see wmppp > running at 6000 = 6K/sec.? Not quite. 6000B/sec / 1024B = 5.859375kB/sec - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMA

Re: gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:39:24PM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > I am using > gtk-gnutella 0.80 beta 2. I am new to peer to peer so I don't the > fields that need filling in etc. This is where reading the documentation comes in handy. Try looking

Trouble installing on Thinkpad 701C

2003-12-21 Thread Stuart Luppescu
Hello, I'm new to Debian but I've been using Linux for nearly 8 years. I'm trying to install Debian on my IBM Thinkpad 701C (the butterfly keyboard laptop), which has a 75MHz 486, 16MB of RAM and a 360MB hard drive. It used to have RedHat 6.2 on it, but that was end-of-lifed, and subsequent release

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > available packages? Hmmm. It's not that easy, but you can check the

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:48:44AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) > >> > >>CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started > >>X by the startx command. > > I've been using CTRL-ALT-F12 and then ALT-(

Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java

2003-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been using java (j2re1.4.2_01) for some time without problems on mozilla-firebird 0.7. Today it crashed repeatedly when accessing a particular site (the Telegraph newspaper web page) and finally it became impossible to run firebird at all. I reinstalled it; no luck. I therefore fetched the ta

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 14:56, Rick Pasotto wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see > *all* available packages? Are you looking for something in particular? If so "apt-cache search " is your fr

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Scarletdown wrote: GCS wrote: Argh, I am going to bug the packager of iptables. Just create the dir: mkdir /var/lib/iptables/ Then execute the command again. That seems to have done it (No errors at least.) Now to reboot to test it... It still didn't autostart. Before rebooting, I did the

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:48:34PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does actually as xdm or whatever is controlling X... xdm starts > up X and when you kill xdm it kills X > > Done it myself on my machine... ;) Then you should be right. :-) I just remember doing this doe

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:15:33AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > That worked quite well. There's still one little problem though. How > do I get this to load automatically when I boot up? Those instructions > give examples for Red Hat and Slackware,

dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* available packages? -- "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and n

Re: apache::mp3 questions

2003-12-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 01:46 pm, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark wrote: > On Sunday December 21 2003 01:50 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > yeah, i did, and this makes it segfault now: > > > > /etc/init.d/apache: line 70: 26774 Segmentation fault > > start-stop-da

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:38:08AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Saving iptables ruleset: save "active" with counters/etc/init.d/iptables: line 65: /var/lib/iptables/active: No such file or directory Argh, I am going to bug the packager of iptables. Just create the di

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:56:48PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21 Dec 2003 at 9:16, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started X by the startx comman

Killing a hung X.

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:13:21PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the > Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics > interface? Take a floppy disk

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 20:28, GCS wrote: > It stops ?dm, but does not kill X. 'killall xinit' is and other > story. It does actually as xdm or whatever is controlling X... xdm starts up X and when you kill xdm it kills X Done it myself on my machine... ;) -- Martin J Hooper http://www.martinj

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Toshiro
On Sunday 21 December 2003 16:38, Scarletdown wrote: > GCS wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:53AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There are two ways to load things in Slackware: > >>/etc/rc.d/rc.local or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file. The first > >>method is th

Re: apache::mp3 questions

2003-12-21 Thread CiAsA S'Nuey Boark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday December 21 2003 01:50 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > yeah, i did, and this makes it segfault now: > > /etc/init.d/apache: line 70: 26774 Segmentation fault > start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON > failed > > weird! what'

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:38:08AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saving iptables ruleset: save "active" with > counters/etc/init.d/iptables: line 65: /var/lib/iptables/active: No such > file or directory Argh, I am going to bug the packager of iptables. Just create the dir: mkd

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:56:48PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Dec 2003 at 9:16, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > > If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) > > CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started > X by the startx comm

Re: gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
I am using gtk-gnutella 0.80 beta 2. I am new to peer to peer so I don't the fields that need filling in etc. Thanks. Gavin On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 16:09, Bob Underwood wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 21 December 2003 6:39 am, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > >

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:26AM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, I have many machines, three of them running with kernel 2.6.0, > > compiled with gcc 3.3; no problems. > What a man, I'm not touching 2.6.0 until it's in the 10 release. I agree with you. 2.6.0 still has

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:53AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are two ways to load things in Slackware: /etc/rc.d/rc.local or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file. The first method is the easiest. All you have to do is add the line: [...] I tried the firs

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:44:55PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when I actually try and install it all it pops up a message > saying that the licence of the module will taint the kernel aborting > installation. It's the driver installation, and not module-init-tools in

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:53AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two ways to load things in Slackware: > /etc/rc.d/rc.local or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file. The first > method is the easiest. All you have to do is add the line: [...] > I tried the first te

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 9:16, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started X by the startx command. If you logged in via kdm/gdm/xdm then goto another console, login as root and do /etc/init

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:15:33AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ /etc/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 /etc/rc2.d/ Maybe wrong, I do not know /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. This is what I am trying to accomplish... 2. Slackware: * There are two ways to

Re: apache::mp3 questions

2003-12-21 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:51:59AM -0500, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark insinuated: > On Friday December 19 2003 10:24 am, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > Reloading apache modulesSyntax error on line 271 of > > /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > > Invalid command 'PerlHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a > > module not

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 16:20, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > Try apt-get install module-init-tools . That actually works! But when I actually try and install it all it pops up a message saying that the licence of the module will taint the kernel aborting installation. Am I better off installing

PADO timeout w/ pppoe

2003-12-21 Thread Ivan Fern?ndez
After some problems, I set up my DSL connection with the kernel pppoe driver through a Westell WireSpeed modem. This works with my 2.4.22 kernel (well, sometimes I have to power-cycle the modem and restart the ppp connection). I've been trying to update to 2.4.23 and I just tried 2.6.0, but I'm get

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
* Martin J Hooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > stable and unstable updated to the latest release. > > I can get the kernel to load but none of the modules are loaded or > even seen at all. > > I have tried compiling with and without using make-kpkg and the same > thing results. > > I have upda

Re: Popup suppression, et. al.

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:45:32PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with "Konquerer". Settings > Configure Konqueror Click on "Java & Java Script" Click on the "Java Script" tab. Then you will see at the bottom "JavaScript web popups policy" Make

USB / Gnome 2.2 / Tungsten T2

2003-12-21 Thread Dirk Aubrey
There's piles of traffic concerning USB palms out there. A lot of it has helped. Still, I'm stalemated. Hopefully someone can help me see through this last piece of . Status : Kernel 2.4.22. Has usb-uhci, usbserial, usbcore, visor modules support and active. Pilot-link 0.11.8. I'm on gnom

Re: which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, have a look to www.tuxmobil.org : you may find web page of people which had tried to install Linux on their Dell: they may give the informationyou want on their web page. Otherwhise try google: Dell Inspiron 8300 Linux Debian Hope that helps, Jerome Axel Burwitz wrote: Hi, I installed , f

Re: wireless network problems

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: > I'm relatively new to Linux, and have installed debian woody with the > bf2.4 kernel. I'm having trouble getting my orinoco wireless card to > work. The card beeps during startup, and its green light flickers, but > doesn't stay on. W

Re: AT&T Internet Runner?

2003-12-21 Thread W. Citoan
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:34:12 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi World! > > Having recently switched to Mexican AT&T ISP, they sent me a CD with > something called Internet Runner on it. I did not open it because I > threw out my XP Professional. > > It claims "speeds up to 4 times faster". F

Re: apt-mir script.

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Rob Weir said: > Why not just use "dpkg -i foo.deb" to install them directly off the CD? Then I have to resolve dependencies, by typing in all the package names. Me real lazy. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
GCS said: >> Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? > ? There's no such relationship. > >> I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work >> correctly. > 3.2.3 is _not_ a test version of gcc. There's a newer one, fe I have > 3.3.3 installed. Ple

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 16:02: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 15:14: > > > try checking host and dig -x > > > check in your mail headers exactly what hostname is used. If you set > > >

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
If you go raid software or hardware, compile support directly into the kernel. I also had to have enother disk to boot of my 3ware system. With two disks, as alvin says, go with software raid. Use hardware raid for a monster set. I've not found much appreciable difference in performance between my

which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, I installed , for my first Debian try, Debian Sarge from the "LinuxUser" magazine's DVD. After some hurldles it worked but: did'nt configure any network card, eth0 etc. When I try to configure with modconf from the debian KDE set, I don't know which driver to choose, and try-and-error with thi

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > > that's the 1st of the dozen magic test... > - power off and disconnect a disks and try for hands off reboot > after having written a 2-4GB file is my test for resyncing > >> Even if you completelly clear a partition but don't format it you can >> still boot from hda

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Micha Feigin said: > Read the man page for cp, you'll need the options for preserving file > attributes, symbolic links and remaining on the same file system. > I believe tar is more appropriate then cp I think there is some way to > get it to pipe to the new disk somehow instead of actually tari

AT&T Internet Runner?

2003-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi World! Having recently switched to Mexican AT&T ISP, they sent me a CD with something called Internet Runner on it. I did not open it because I threw out my XP Professional. It claims "speeds up to 4 times faster". Faster than what? Anybody have a clue what that that thing might actually do

Re: Run levels and "transportation"

2003-12-21 Thread Lou Losee
* David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-21 09:03]: > Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the > Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics > interface? > > I only know how to reboot at this point. > Alt-F7 Lou -- To UNS

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-21 Thread csj
On 20. December 2003 at 12:56AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Thanks. MPlayer installed fine. Now I need to figure out how > to install additional codecs for it. > > Also, for some odd reason, the only way I can seem to run > mplayer is by clicking on the KDE "Start Butt

Re: silly gcc problem -- lost my libraries

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 09:19:19AM -0500, michelle wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Remember that you need to link with -lm in order to call mathematical > > functions like sqrt(). > > Thanks, that's it. > After re-running, the fprintf went away as well. (That must have been > linker garbage due

Re: gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 6:39 am, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I was recommended various peer networking software for debian. I > have installed gnutella. Will someone give me instructions on > setting it up and use pls. A brief note is great, e

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Hmmm... > > Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 15:14: > > try checking host and dig -x > > check in your mail headers exactly what hostname is used. If you set > > it using /etc/hostname then it won't match the one

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