Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-21 Thread Isaac Claymore
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Isaac Claymore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any > > page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click "Bookmark this > > page" on any random p

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Isaac Claymore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any > page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click "Bookmark this > page" on any random page, a warning dialog pops up saying: > > XML Parsing Error: not well fo

Re: Aptitude Wants to Delete/Remove Way Too Much

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Nelson
David Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did an update in aptitude last night, and it now wants to remove > most of my system "because they are no longer used" or "due to > unsatisfied dependencies." Since some of those packages are used > every day, I must have broken something. I have no

Re: Sitecom networkcard not working after kernel upgrade

2004-03-21 Thread Matthijs
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:40:04 +0100, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthijs wrote: > > >Today, I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4.25 (Debian > >system). I didn't compile it, just installed using apt-get. > >Reason for upgrade: I wanted USB support. > > > >Booting is fine, but

Re: Error trying to install Qmail on Debian

2004-03-21 Thread Dee McKinney
>-Original Message- >From: Anil Gupte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 04:27 AM >To: 'debian-user-list' >Subject: Error trying to install Qmail on Debian > >I used the instructions at >http://www.pantz.org/email/qmail/qmailondebian.shtml to attempt to install >Qmail.

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-21 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:08:39 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say reboot. Did the deed, still boots to the old kernel. I've read the man lilo.conf til I'm blue in the face, changed, rechanged, changed again, still no other boot option. Uncommenting the alias line helped give opt

RE: packages in unstable

2004-03-21 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: Rajesh Menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 1:43 PM > To: Matthew Joyce > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: packages in unstable > > > why not install the proprietary sun jdk available from the > sun download site? the install is

Re: Ever heard of Brief?

2004-03-21 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:39:06PM -0600, Anil Gupte spake thus: > Once upon a time, long, long ago there was an editor called BRIEF (by > Underware). Yes, they were an Aussie firm. Anyway, this was my favorite > editor for the longest time in DOS - I am dating myself here aren't I? One > pa

Re: dual-boot after crash

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:42:29 -0800 (PST) Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry about the last message sent incorrectly... > > As I was saying, I still have some problems. X > (running gnome) froze. For a while the virtual > consoles were working, but then I started getting > error me

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:53:23 +0100 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound Server > > to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to play > because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome Sound server, Rhythmbo

Ever heard of Brief?

2004-03-21 Thread Anil Gupte
Once upon a time, long, long ago there was an editor called BRIEF (by Underware). Yes, they were an Aussie firm. Anyway, this was my favorite editor for the longest time in DOS - I am dating myself here aren't I? One particularly neat feature was the ability to cut and paste columns. I have

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:02:55 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK my way is definetly not the right way. If I enable the gnome sound > > server I get sounds when I open a window or such but then players like > > rhytmbox complain that

Re: Sound problem when two sound devices

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:25:41 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a motherboard which has an intel810 audio chipset on it AND an > Soundblaster Live card. My loadspeakers are connected to the > Soundblaster (emu10k1) > > When I boot up, something is loading the sound modul

Error trying to install Qmail on Debian

2004-03-21 Thread Anil Gupte
I used the instructions at http://www.pantz.org/email/qmail/qmailondebian.shtml to attempt to install Qmail. Specifically, I used (in that order): apt-get install ucspi-tcp-src apt-get install qmail-src apt-get install procmail build-ucspi-tcp build-qmail At this point it fails. The latter part

Re: VPN & NAT

2004-03-21 Thread mike
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:05:11 -0500, Matt Peter wrote > Hello All, > > I'm currently attempting to get VPN (windows 2000 remote access) > working through a nat setup. I'm having problems, and I know there > are some special things I need to setup to get this to work, but I'm > having trouble fi

Re: supported nics

2004-03-21 Thread Ben Russo
James LeClair wrote: hey all. what network cards are recomended for using with woody ( or sarge for that matter )? i have a couple that work right now and am about to set up a few new boxes and was wondering what the least botherome nics are. thanks these "just work" out of the box:

Re: supported nics

2004-03-21 Thread Ben Russo
James LeClair wrote: hey all. what network cards are recomended for using with woody ( or sarge for that matter )? i have a couple that work right now and am about to set up a few new boxes and was wondering what the least botherome nics are. thanks these "just work" out of the box:

mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-21 Thread Isaac Claymore
Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click "Bookmark this page" on any random page, a warning dialog pops up saying: XML Parsing Error: not well formed Location: chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/add

Re: Duplicate messages

2004-03-21 Thread pan
I too get duplicates all the time. Using Sylpheed for email client. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/profile and setting env variables

2004-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to set two specific environment variables (I'm installing Sun Java) and I need to append a path to the PATH variable and also create a new environment variable. The problem is, however: I have no idea WHERE to do this. I want to do this for all users on the system, so I thought: edi

Re: packages in unstable

2004-03-21 Thread Rajesh Menon
why not install the proprietary sun jdk available from the sun download site? the install is quite an easy one. On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > I have an oportunity to use Debian for an important project, this > project requires the following app versions. > > Java 1.4.1 > Postgre

mozilla-mail smtp through proxy?

2004-03-21 Thread Rajesh Menon
hi. i use the proxy addr of my schools' to access our libraries. and sometimes, i use another isp to get online, in which case, my mozilla-mail smtp settings dont seem to help. is there a way to use the smtp addr of my school when im on another isp through the schools' proxy addr? rajesh menon a

packages in unstable

2004-03-21 Thread Matthew Joyce
I have an oportunity to use Debian for an important project, this project requires the following app versions. Java 1.4.1 Postgres db 7.4 Tomcat 4.1.29 I can see that Postgres and Tomcat are in unstable, but I have not found a java package '1.4.1'. Looking at these two packages... http://packa

mortgage lead info

2004-03-21 Thread Anitaudell
could I please have ino on mortgage lead generation   thanks     anita udell 312-671-5753

Sysvconfig: A text menu based utility for configuring init script links

2004-03-21 Thread John Hasler
You might want to (cautiously) test sysvconfig, available in the Experimental archive: Package: sysvconfig Architecture: all Depends: dialog Description: A text menu based utility for configuring init script links It provides extensive explanations at each step. Some features supported by sysv

SOLVED DSL Verizon.com

2004-03-21 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
After struggling trying to build a tulip driver from the manufacturers source, not having seen it, because I wasn't looking for it, I finally realized that it was their and it installed fine. I configured pppoe and it worked just fine without any trouble whatsoever 88kbit download speed. Chr

Re: Sitecom networkcard not working after kernel upgrade

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Matthijs wrote: Today, I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4.25 (Debian system). I didn't compile it, just installed using apt-get. Reason for upgrade: I wanted USB support. Booting is fine, but my network connection is gone. During boot, I see eth0 related error messages (beginning of a

Newsreader Question

2004-03-21 Thread Tim Philp
I am looking for a news reader program for linux that will allow me to stitch together multiple attachments. I am using Mozilla for the newsreader, but it does not seem to allow me to stitch these files together when the parts are split over several messages. If anyone knows how to to this under

Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

2004-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-17, Roland Dunn penned: > > - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users - > > that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat? > > I don't know about this. > > > - On RedHat /etc/rc.d

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: [initrd.img] should be in /boot. It should have been installed automatically. Indeed it is - many thank for the reference. But ls -l shows that there is no symlink to the initrd.img. Should there be one? This is where the apt-get called a problem, and see

Re: ppscsi on 2.6 kernels

2004-03-21 Thread Rapsys|Phoenix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I a mandrake user building myu own kernel, I have get a bug that has got too... here is what I found to solve it... It's just for help... http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2004-March/54.html | Hi, | | thanks to Jochen Eisinger for

VPN & NAT

2004-03-21 Thread Matt Peter
Hello All, I'm currently attempting to get VPN (windows 2000 remote access) working through a nat setup. I'm having problems, and I know there are some special things I need to setup to get this to work, but I'm having trouble finding a good guide to this process. Does anyone have a resource

Soundgrab problem

2004-03-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Has anybody else had this problem and/or know what it means. I'm using debian unstable but this is apparently also the same package being used in testing. I found no current bugs listed. Here's what I got when i tried to export; the program was exited after this message: Uncaught exception from us

CLEAN: Report Message from KAV for MS Exchange Server: you recent ly sent an infected message

2004-03-21 Thread KAV for Microsoft Exchange
KAV for MS Exchange Report on detecting virus in the following message: from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: date: 22 March 2004 time: 00:00 subject: Re: Your music the message contains virus I-Worm.NetSky.d. = This message chec

CLEAN: Report Message from KAV for MS Exchange Server: you recent ly sent an infected message

2004-03-21 Thread KAV for Microsoft Exchange
KAV for MS Exchange Report on detecting virus in the following message: from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: date: 22 March 2004 time: 00:00 subject: Re: Your music the message contains virus I-Worm.NetSky.d. = This message chec

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph wrote: I got the same impression the author if the Mondo Rescue is not a Debian user and not very receptive to this distro. I was trying to test mindi and here is what I got: = quote == # mindi Warning! You are a Debian user. If mindi doesn't generate a good mou

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Walker
Kent West wrote: Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: Compiling a kernel is a great thing to do if you want the education, or if you have some esoteric need to do so, but for 90%+ of the population out there, the standard Debian kernels will do just fine. That should be the case here; support

Re: dselect issues with woody update

2004-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 01:13:54PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: > I downloaded the woody update image and wrote to a cd. I tried to use > dselect to install from it. I tried using CD-ROM but it didn't work. > It had setup apt as the method so I tried it and tried to point it to > the right pl

Re: xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:22:54PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > See "man xterm" 78 percent down under "CHARACTER CLASSES" > for xterm's default character class numbers like "48"; > although my "man xterm" brings up "man uxterm"; > so you can "man -a xterm", "q", then "return", > to see

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks for the help, Pigeon. I just reloaded KDE from the Debian ftp site. Still get the same error in the same place...I'll keep trying. On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:19:53PM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Yes, when I tried to start it wouldn't come up. Plenty of messages but > no error messages. >

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread James LeClair
> > I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze > installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. > The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on > hda6. > I have tryed to boot with "toms root boot" and some other boot disks, but > no l

(50 % solved)how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-21 Thread Hector Scaramelli
Hi, I've imported the .dbx files directly from kmail and it worked. Now I need to import the address book and make up my mind between evolution or kmail. Thanks Hector -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Joseph
I got the same impression the author if the Mondo Rescue is not a Debian user and not very receptive to this distro. I was trying to test mindi and here is what I got: = quote == # mindi Warning! You are a Debian user. If mindi doesn't generate a good mountlist, it's b

SOLVED Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread ernst
Thanks for help, everyone This was several good and woking solutions, thanks all:) /e-m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sitecom networkcard not working after kernel upgrade

2004-03-21 Thread Matthijs
Today, I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4.25 (Debian system). I didn't compile it, just installed using apt-get. Reason for upgrade: I wanted USB support. Booting is fine, but my network connection is gone. During boot, I see eth0 related error messages (beginning of a line, something

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:32:24PM +0100, ernst wrote: } I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze } installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. } The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on } hda6. } I have tryed to boot with "t

Re: YaST

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040319 22:49]: >> Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > About the only thing I've ever found in the FHS or SuSE that I really >> > liked was the concept of /srv directory for holding file providing >> > servi

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph wrote: Is anybody using mondo with Debian? I'm trying to test "mindi" (ver. 0.86) and I get an error message "Where is liblvm?" Could it be because I'm using Knoppix Debian installation? -- Joseph I do not know what that means. But this what I do: I am using mondo with Debian but I don't

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze > installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. > The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on > hda6. > I

Re: Installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)

2004-03-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:30:41PM -0800, mike wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:23:02 -, Roland Dunn wrote > > Hi, > > > > Anyone had any experience of installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)? > > I have read that it requires a kernel recompile but wondered > > whether this is truly the case?

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Glenn Meehan wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:48, Tom Simnett wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote: My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should be. How can I rectify this problem? have a look at this: "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
ernst wrote: Hi I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on hda6. I have tryed to boot with "toms root boot" and some other boot disks, but n

Re: YaST

2004-03-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040319 22:49]: > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > About the only thing I've ever found in the FHS or SuSE that I really > > liked was the concept of /srv directory for holding file providing > > services. > > > > Is there any discussion on Debian an

Re: Re: aol art files:

2004-03-21 Thread Gmpy57
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restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread ernst
Hi I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on hda6. I have tryed to boot with "toms root boot" and some other boot disks, but no luck so far

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:31:49PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > I've been having the same problem, with a PS/2 and USB mouse installed > in tandem. Looks from this info like I need to choose between running > 2.4 and 2.6. Any suggestions about how I could dualboot between both? > > Please CC me, I

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound Server to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to play because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome Sound server, Rhythmbox plays fine. However if I start up xmms and also play a file there it doesn't work

Fwd: SAMBA 3.0.2a-Debian INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11

2004-03-21 Thread Roman Gischig
Hi Guys, I have upgraded to samba 3 a while ago and since then I have troubles when I'm trying to overwrite files. Connecting from a win2k SP4 to the sambe server, open a MS word document (existing one), modifying it, and then trying to save it, I'm getting an error that I can not save the file

mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Joseph
Is anybody using mondo with Debian? I'm trying to test "mindi" (ver. 0.86) and I get an error message "Where is liblvm?" Could it be because I'm using Knoppix Debian installation? -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Your sound chip is not properly supported by whatever kernel > you're using, >or > 2) You don't have the correct modules installed >or > 3) You're running a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome which > expects a sound daemon like artsd or esd,

powermgmt-base error ...

2004-03-21 Thread Josh
hi when i try to reinstall the pkg powermgmt-base using apt-get or dpkg, i have the following error : host:/var/cache/apt/archives$apt-get --reinstall install powermgmt-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: powermgmt-base

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:48, Tom Simnett wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should > > be. > > > How can I rectify this problem? > > have a look at this: > "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Usi

Re: Severe network slowdown

2004-03-21 Thread mike
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:16:16 +0100, F.L. Tak wrote > Hi, > > I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly > random amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it > happen after a few days, but also after a few hours), all network > traffic slows to almost a halt. I

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Simnett
On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote: > My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should > be. > How can I rectify this problem? have a look at this: "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Using KPrinter in any app" Should help you out. TS -- To UNSUB

Re: Installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)

2004-03-21 Thread mike
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:23:02 -, Roland Dunn wrote > Hi, > > Anyone had any experience of installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)? > I have read that it requires a kernel recompile but wondered > whether this is truly the case? Is it not possibly as simple as apt- > get netatalk? Its as simpl

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
"Ken Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many concurrent connections would be possible on a file server running > Debian? Is it a limited number? Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 concurrent connections... > Als

Re: Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
James Tappin wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:22:55 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6 Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to wor

Re: xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-21 Thread Jameson C. Burt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:53:30PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Some of us prefer this behavior, but it is configurable. You need to get > the following X resource to be noticed by xterm: > > XTerm*charClass: 0-32:1,33-126:2,127-160:3,161-255:2 > > There are many ways of going about it, but th

Re: apt questions

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) Is there an update to this documentation somewhere that would > give me more> information? (I'm running sarge) Just move up to sid instead of you want newer stuff. There's really not a lot of reason for people to use apt-pinning as often as t

Re: Building kernel for another computer

2004-03-21 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:55:17PM +, Gary wrote: > the result onto a floppy. I then try and boot the laptop from the floppy (I > want to be sure the kernel works okay before I replace the one on the hd). > Everything goes well until it reports a kernel panic because it is "unable > to mount ro

Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I am having a problem printing from mozilla. This is what I am doing: File -> Print I then select postscript-default for printer. Under properties I am using lpr as the print command. I then click the print button. My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should be.

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Currently it's still microsoft, mainly because of games, Non-issue. http://www.transgaming.com/ I'm a *serious* Vice City junkie, and I don't have any consoles and I don't do Windows. > but I am sure this will change sometime in the future when Linux > gets a little

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My reccomendation is to download the kernel-source-* package >> that corresponds to the kernel you run now. Use the configuration >> for your currently running kernel (since you know it works). >> After going through the process a few times, you will b

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread glenn
Sounds like you won't be using the server for much more than samba, which once configured should run solid ad infinitum. I think gnome-setup-tools has simple interface to samba. However (almost) everything is controlled by one file in practicse, (/etc/samba/smb.conf) and configurations can be made

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK my way is definetly not the right way. If I enable the gnome sound > server I get sounds when I open a window or such but then players like > rhytmbox complain that /dev/dsp is temporarily unavailable :( That's normal. You need to set other players t

Re: Building kernel for another computer

2004-03-21 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:55 +, Gary wrote: > I need to build a newer kernel for my laptop in order that it will support a > parallel network interface I have for it. Since my only way of getting > anything onto the laptop is via floppy, what I did was build a suitable > kernel on my potato box

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the feeling that what I did is not the official way to set > things up. For example in Fedora both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer have as > permission crw--- and are owned by root:root So far, so good, except for the permissions. Permissions on audi

Re: Building kernel for another computer

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Gary wrote: I need to build a newer kernel for my laptop in order that it will support a parallel network interface I have for it. Since my only way of getting anything onto the laptop is via floppy, what I did was build a suitable kernel on my potato box (yes, I know, that's old as well! it is not

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: Compiling a kernel is a great thing to do if you want the education, or if you have some esoteric need to do so, but for 90%+ of the population out there, the standard Debian kernels will do just fine. That should be the case here; support for the tulip dri

Re: /boot is readonly file system -why?

2004-03-21 Thread glenn
Bingo - thanks Glenn > First of all, you are correct that /boot is mounted read-only in > accordance with /etc/fstab's settings. This is done because it contains > data that is very important to the function of the system, and being > read-only makes it very hard to accidentally damage it. > > Tha

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Ken Hansen wrote: I work in a call center, and support about 350 workstations, all running various versions of Windows. We are using a file server that has Win98. I am working on a proposal to change to a Linux file server. At this point, the company standard is Windows. We have one Red Hat pri

Re: Sound problem when two sound devices

2004-03-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:25:41PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a motherboard which has an intel810 audio chipset on it AND an > Soundblaster Live card. My loadspeakers are connected to the Soundblaster > (emu10k1) > > When I boot up, something is loading the sound modules for both chi

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread uzoma nwosu
Alan Chandler wrote: I am not sure I understood all your snippets, but some things that didn't see correct. Alan, you have giving me a ton of info to process. I'm going sit back and go through it step by step. I definitely appreciate all the suggestions. I'll post what happened when I'm done

Thank you for contacting Nightingale-Conant

2004-03-21 Thread support
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Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Jaap Haitsma wrote: I now listed my soundcard driver (maestro3) in /etc/modules Strange thing is that previously I'm pretty sure that it got loaded automatically by the Debian boot process. Does debian have something like redhat's kudzu that recognizes hardware changes or do I always need to li

Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:43, Tom Allison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As glenn posted, it seems like you need to setup the > > /etc/postresql/pg_hba.conf file. > > > > Oliver, I CC'ed you on this because I don't have a formal bugreport > utility working yet and thought it would helpf

Dns Port Problems

2004-03-21 Thread George Roman
Hi I'm using Debian Woody, and i configured a master DNS server on my network. It suposed to transfer the master zone to my ISP but it doesn't. i've tried to investigate my problem from a station situated on the internet to see what happends. i mention that tried to configure a slave DNS server

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread uzoma nwosu
Stephen Patterson wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:20:07 +0100, uzoma nwosu wrote: /etc/network/interface file snippets. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Can you also post the results of ifconfig, 'route -n' and the /etc/resolv.conf file from the laptop. sure, all from the laptop. from /e

test msg

2004-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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Re: pppoe speed problem

2004-03-21 Thread forum
> I am doing nat with a i486/16MB behind a 256/64Kb adsl dynamic ip. I > cannot seem to be able to download at more than 10Kb/s. However the same > box was giving me 26KB/s when I had a router between the adsl modem and > the i486's eth0. That router provided a static ip. > I run pppoeconf and chan

Sound problem when two sound devices

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a motherboard which has an intel810 audio chipset on it AND an Soundblaster Live card. My loadspeakers are connected to the Soundblaster (emu10k1) When I boot up, something is loading the sound modules for both chipsets, which seems to mean I get no sound. If I rmmod the i810_audio mod

dselect issues with woody update

2004-03-21 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
I downloaded the woody update image and wrote to a cd. I tried to use dselect to install from it. I tried using CD-ROM but it didn't work. It had setup apt as the method so I tried it and tried to point it to the right places on the CD-ROM. I got that far and selected modules and went to inst

Re: Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
James Tappin wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:22:55 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6 Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to wor

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
> Nope; not what you want to do. Instead, add your user to the audio > group, like so: >adduser jaap audio >> >> What I first tried is adding the audio group to my group but that >> didn't work. > > After adding your user to the audio group, you'll need to logout and > back in. Thanks, forgot t

Re: [Solved} Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Mar 2004, Ken Bloom wrote: > On 2004-03-21, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm > >> getting: > >> -- > >> (Reading database ... 82789 f

Re: usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-21 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Thomas Hood_, on 03/21/04 04:09,typed: 1. You don't need the "down" line. ifdown runs pon and poff for you. OK. 2. The up and post-down commands don't work properly with ppp ifaces. See bug #127786. The problem is that ifup simply runs pon and then the "up" commands; pon r

Re: [Solved} Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Bloom
On 2004-03-21, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting: >> -- >> (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.) >> Pre

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-21 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Christophe Combelles wrote: [] For gnome you have capplets, which features the gnome-display-properties that does exactly what you want and very easily. (it is an GUI for randr) apt-get install capplets capplets-data then go to the desktop properties menu -> screen resolution But as I found xrand

RE: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Hansen
I won't need to run any Windows programs on it. I've tried Lindows 4.5 Developer Edition (I signed up and got a free copy), and it seems to work fine. I haven't tried it under full production, but am using it for the IT files, and have set up folders to house programs to be installed over the netwo

Aptitude Wants to Delete/Remove Way Too Much

2004-03-21 Thread David Crane
I did an update in aptitude last night, and it now wants to remove most of my system "because they are no longer used" or "due to unsatisfied dependencies." Since some of those packages are used every day, I must have broken something. I have not let aptitude actually upgrade/uninstall anythi

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