Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Katipo
Bruce Miller wrote: Joey Hess was on the mark to criticize members of this list for rising to flamebait. This far exceeds flamebait. It is a serious issue. I, myself, feel that we should have all been advised of this. By using Debian, we endorse it, and everything it represents. To be placed in

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-04 Thread Toshiro
> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try > > to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I > > don't have any problem using a normal user. > > > > Anybody know what's the problem? > > Problem exists between keyboard and chair. Don't log

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2004-04-04 Thread GBBASSARENO
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RE: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: dircha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 5 April 2004 1:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? > > > Bruce Miller wrote: > > It is perfectly reasonable of Debian to adopt an international > >

Re: USB pen drive

2004-04-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
|>> I want to mount an 128Mb USB pen drive IBM on my woody 3.0_r1. |>> The kernel version is 2.4.18 and it has disabled USB support, so I |>> have to recompile it. Which options should I have to enable in the |>> kernel to mount the pen drive (in adition to USB support)? |>You didn't search too h

/dev/pts/X not getting reused

2004-04-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hi, since some days ago, I've noticed that pts devices are not being reused. I mean, the usual behavior was: open a xterm, which gets e.g. pts/7, close it, open another one, which will get pts/7 again. Now it'd get pts/8, and then pts/9, and so on. Not that I care *that* much but I just prefer the

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-04 Thread S.Squarepants
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:15:31 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear People, > > I have a minor but annoying problem with lokkit. It does not start at > bootup. The runlevel look normal eg. > > etc/rc0.d/K99lokkit > etc/rc1.d/K99lokkit > etc/rc2.d/S01lokkit > etc/rc3.d/S01lokki

Re: Exim, Cyrus, Mutt + what?

2004-04-04 Thread Paul Mackinney
Pigeon declaimed: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:05:13AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > I'm relatively happy with mailfilter, which connects to a POP server and > > deletes messages based on header content without downloading them. It > > supports scoring although I haven't gotten that far. Mailfil

Ksysguard problem

2004-04-04 Thread Caveman
Hi, I am having a problem with ksysguard. It does not show any processes running. I though that starting ksysguardd both with and without the -d option would work.. but this has not happened.. Any ideas as to whats wrong? I am using debian testing Caveman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RE: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable

2004-04-04 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hello Kevin, Thanks for answering. I seem to be having a problem with the debian-user list : I never saw my own message, nor the message from the other person who said "rename this and do it again" (which I had already tried). Luckily I saw yours... > This is already filed -- hopefully it will be

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread dircha
Bruce Miller wrote: It is perfectly reasonable of Debian to adopt an international standard. It raises Debian above the debate which is taking place here. I protest. It is not perfectly reasonable. This is not a political issue for me. I have no established opinion as to whether or not Taiwan is

Re: ./configure options

2004-04-04 Thread Alec Berryman
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:18:25PM +0800, Enrique Samson Jr. wrote: > how do i know about what configure options were used in building a > particular package? particularly mysql-server... You'll want to find out what's in the debian/rules file. You can get to that at least two ways: Via package

./configure options

2004-04-04 Thread Enrique Samson Jr.
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Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:38:14AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:54:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >| Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >| > >| >On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:23:27PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >| >| Now Eric S.

Re: postalias: relocation error (was Postfix2.0.19-1 fails to install)

2004-04-04 Thread Jokke Heikkilä
On 5.4.2004, at 00:55, Allan Wind wrote: On 2004-04-05T00:29:40+0300, Jokke Heikkilä wrote: postalias: relocation error: /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1: undefined symbol: db_version_4001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/sbin/postalias libpostfix-global.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-global.so.1

Re: [OT] robots.txt creation script?

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:29:24AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all! > > I've recently developed an interest in preventing spiders from accessing > certain areas of my site ... but as near as I can tell, robots.txt is > pretty stupid. It only lets you *disallow*, where

kernel-image 2.6 ppc

2004-04-04 Thread Jean-Michel
The various package lists contain kernel(2.6)-images for all sorts of architectures except ppc. Why ? It would be nice to have an apt-get(table) 2.6 kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Bruce Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess was on the mark to criticize members of this list for rising to flamebait. International technical fora are adamant that they discuss only technical issues and leave politics to the politicians. To help this international technical forum

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 4, 2004 05:47 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I > > try to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login > > manager. I don't have any problem using a normal user. > > > > Anybo

Re: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable

2004-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: > > Hello, > > When trying to upgrade my system today, I got this error when > installing libgimp2.0 (output from apt-get -f dist-install follows) This is already filed -- hopefully it will be fixed soon: http://bugs.debian.org/241587 > > trying to overwrite > >

where can I find glutf90.h file?

2004-04-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am trying to compile the source code of f90gl package from http://math.nist.gov/f90gl/software.html In the INSTALL file contained in f90gl-1.2.9.tar.gz , it says I should have glutf90.h to proceed with the compilation. I could not find this file

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Re: Systemwide Gtk2.0 configurations?

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:53:54PM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm looking to fix a few borken settings in gtk2. Preference for emacs > keybindings, and others, as described here: > > http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.0.0-notes.html > > What I'm *not* finding is a systemwide,

Re: Promise MBFastTrak133

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:17:54PM -0400, Linux Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a command to list the drives attached (not mounted) to the system? The SOP is to scan 'dmesg' or /var/log/dmesg (saved after boot) for drive listings. > Cause I didn't see anything listed on bootup for my e

Re: Re: Re: VT switching broken in Gnome

2004-04-04 Thread Garcia, Jose Manuel
I had exactly the same problem as you after i upgraded my debian. I think the problem is related to key mappings. To solve the problem you can rename the .Xmodmap file in your home folder to .Xmodmap.bak or whatever you want, so gnome doesn't loads this configuration file. It works fine for me.

Re: How can I halt the PC during boot if CPU is running too fast?

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:13:47AM -0800, William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can O/C my computer stable to 230mhz FSB in Windows but it's not > stable in Linux -- I get ReiserFS corruption. Up to 220mhz is stable > everywhere. (Actually I can push it farther but don't want too much

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Miles Bader
Anthony Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? Why can't it > > just stick with a neutral "Taiwan". Why single out a geographical > > name and append a political statement to it? Sticks out and looks > > kind of silly. > Debian cannot win

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Johnson writes: > We have to choose names from some standards body somewhere... The "standards body" in question is the UN, which has labeled the place "Taiwan, a province of China" for purely political purposes. In normal conversation the place is referred to simply as "Taiwan". Tacking

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Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread dircha
John Hasler wrote: The problem is that we have to use some STANDARDIZED source of country names. Why? First, the purpose of Debian in selecting and presenting a locale name is not to make a political statement or political value judgment. What is the purpose of Debian in selecting and presenting

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:28:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > same. If Debian has a Chinese language version for which the final arbiter > of language usage is a Mainlander, the name in Debian should also be of > that person's choosing. If the final arbiter is a resident/citizen of Here's a w

Upgrading to 'testing'

2004-04-04 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   Thanks for the suggestions. And Kent, point taken. I'll be more explicit on every msg.   First, my current set-up. I have 'stable' with a 2..2.20 kernel. My broadband modem is a Prolink Hurricane 8000 with a USB interface to the computer and a phone link to the wall phone socket. Under

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Anthony Johnson
--- Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of > China"? > Why can't it just stick with a neutral "Taiwan". > Why single out a geographical name and append a > political statement to it? > Sticks out and looks kind of silly. Debian cannot win this argu

ppp problem,

2004-04-04 Thread Jack Curry
I upgraded to 2.6.4, and now my PCMCIA modem doesn't work. The following line in /var/log/syslog Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error What to do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screen size in GNOME?

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:07:03PM +0200, Michal R. Hoffmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > > Recently I found I couldn't log in into GNOME. I found the reason. In > XF86Config-4 I have defined resolutions: > > 1024x768, 1280x1024, 800x600, 800x600PAL (this is for my VooDoo 3 TV-Out) > an

racoon for host to host IPSEC

2004-04-04 Thread minge_wang
Hi folks, I am using debain unstable with kernel 2.6.4.1 SMP, racoon 2.4.3. and try to do host to host IPsec, always get the error: isakmp_parsewoh(): invalid length of payload though the manual IPSEC is ok using sample from http://www.ipsec-howto.org/t1.html. anyone has some clue? t

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:43:04PM +0300, E&Erdem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this > possible? I've heard something like this. > > Is there a document or how-to about this? > > I use Gnome2.4 on testing with 2.4.18-bf2.4 ke

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul E Condon: > We have both. We are inclusive. Inclusive is PC. PC is good. ...^^ Please, don't drag that into this. This was a fairly civilized discussion before that happened. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuffic

Re: LICENSE/ SERIAL NUMBERS for INSTALLATION

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 08:27:35AM -0500, Stephen Touset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 03:31, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I've seen bullshit legal boilerplate on emails from a lot of small > > > companies (including those from t

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:04:23AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Dan Jacobson wrote: > > >Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? > > > > [snip] Three thoughts: 1. The UN is not the final arbiter of names of political entities. e.g. except for US veto, Isreal would have ceased to have

Re: Database performance

2004-04-04 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Glenn Meehan wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 11:51, Christopher L. Everett wrote: So, what kind of hard drive subsystem can I run that would get me 3 to 4 times the performance that wouldn't break the bank? Which file system are you using? I find the performance of ext2 superior to that of ext

Re: Unable to find Ncurses libararies/Compile Kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Robert Gingher
Forest,   Don't wade through all the bullshit, you basically have to load the developer's version of ncurses:   apt-get install libncurses5-dev   Regards,   Rob

Upgrade and instillation problems

2004-04-04 Thread Bill
I have been using unstable for a fiew months now. today, I used apt-get update/upgrade. After reboot, I can not use my motherboard ethernet or sound. I downloaded the current sid (4/2/04) disk 1 to reload debian. On boot, I get the following error: attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00:

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try to > startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I don't > have any problem using a normal user. > > Anybody know what's the problem? Problem exists between keyb

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Alex Malinovich writes: > The problem is that we have to use some > STANDARDIZED source of country names. Why? > According to the UN listing, the country name of the location called > Taiwan, is "Taiwan, Province of China". Screw the UN. Shorten it to "Taiwan". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mouse problems with kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7

2004-04-04 Thread Thomas Beresford
Hello again fellas, I recently upgraded my 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel to 2.6.3-1-k7 kernel. I have an AMD Athlon processor and a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX440 video card and a Genius NetScroll PS/2 mouse. The problem is that since I upgraded my kernel and installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run drive

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Thomas Beresford
Man! It worked! Besides lo, I had sl0 running and I guess that was the problem. So after shutting it down, I dialed out again and now it's working! Thanks a lot Marvin, and I hope it will help others with the same problem! But now I wonder why things like this happen with this new kernel? - Or

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 16:25, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? > Why can't it just stick with a neutral "Taiwan". > Why single out a geographical name and append a political statement to it? > Sticks out and looks kind of silly. > Who cares what the two go

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Joey Hess
Please don't crosspost flamebait to multiple debian mailing lists. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Katipo
Dan Jacobson wrote: Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? If this is true, it is an gross understatement to call it a political faux pas. The chinese nationalist movement left China and took over Taiwan (Formosa) during the red campaign. To remove all 'face' from them in this

Re: Linux Server, Please Help

2004-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Bill Kalebaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to change my Windows server to a Linux server but can not > find out what programs to use or if it is possible. There's no clean conversion tools, if that's what you're looking for. You will need to get your hands dirty. > I have goggled and lo

Re: email signatures

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:32:14AM +1100, Matthew Joyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer > > > > > to an email, is it '--' befor

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? Why can't it just > stick with a neutral "Taiwan". No reason I can think of. -- John Hasler You may treat this work as if it [EMAIL PROTECTED] were in the public domain. Dancing Horse Hill

Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-04 Thread Toshiro
I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I don't have any problem using a normal user. Anybody know what's the problem? Toshiro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:53:02PM +0100, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Derrick 'dman' Hudson um 15:46: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:59:24AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > > | > Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. > >

Re: Visor & Pilot-xfer - Not synching up regularly

2004-04-04 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:45:01PM -0800, Jon Hughes wrote: > I'm attempting to get my Handspring Visor to work with > Debian stable and I'm running into some errors that > for the life of me I can't figure out. > (somewhat lengthy post but I want to make sure I give > as much data as possible) A

Re: Upgraidng to 'testing'

2004-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
jack kinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I started off with 'stable' and a dial-up modem. Now I have upgraded to > broadband. The idea was to have faster download to assist in upgrading to > 'testing'. The trouble is that 'stable' only works with dial-up. INow I have > 'stable' and broadband but

Re: Disk speed on different partitions (was: Re: ext2/ext3/vfat on laptop vs. desktop)

2004-04-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stefan On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Stefan Goessling-Reisemann wrote: > Question1 : could this be related to the position of the partition on the > disk? yup > How could I verify this? wite a block of data to certain cylinders starting from cylinder-0 to cylinder 10,000 ... ( be aware of th

Re: [Fwd: Re: ext3 journal problem]

2004-04-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:12:00AM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > Thanks all > > After turning off the journal with > tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2 > e2fsck reported bad superblocks ...all of them? You can specify alternative superblocks with the -b option; there are usually several. --

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
S.D.A. wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:43:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Werner Mahr wrote: Or shorter: make dep bzImage modules modules_install This will make the Steps one by one, and if one fails the other will fail also. The Debian way is much easier: http://newbiedoc.s

Re: 2.6 kernel install, lilo problems in sarge (?)

2004-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Michael Bonert wrote: I'm having some probs with lilo: # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_cobalamin.1.0_i386.deb# install of a custom kernel === {SNIP} You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf? [Yes

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:22:52PM +, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:25:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/16CND-TECH.html?hp > > Arrgh. www.nytimes.com is one of those FOUL sites which requires you > to enter full

why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? Why can't it just stick with a neutral "Taiwan". Why single out a geographical name and append a political statement to it? Sticks out and looks kind of silly. Who cares what the two governments' official names for Taiwan are. Why thrust Debian

2.6 kernel install, lilo problems in sarge (?)

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Bonert
I'm having some probs with lilo: # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_cobalamin.1.0_i386.deb# install of a custom kernel === {SNIP} You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf? [Yes] yes Testing lilo.co

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:43:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Werner Mahr wrote: > >Or shorter: make dep bzImage modules modules_install This will make the Steps > >one by one, and if one fails the other will fail also. > > > > The Debian way is much easier: > > http://newbie

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:35:08PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That > > just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called > > "third" world) from downloading them and

Re: Need a working /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file, mine got hosed when apt-get updated (Sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Joseph Jones
Michael Biebl wrote: Joseph Jones wrote: If anyone can paste their KDE Session file for Sid into an e-mail, I'd much appreciate it. Mine exists, but GDM is conveniently ignoring it for some reason. Joe Hi Joe, there was already a discussion on the german debian user mailinglist regarding th

Re: Debian WiFi card recomendations please

2004-04-04 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
For linux compatibility with 802.11 a or g chipsets, check out: http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 02:45:30AM +0100, Ben Edwards (lists) wrote: > I am sure I have asked this before but got no response. I simply would > like to know which 802.11 a or g cards work with

Re: Need a working /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file, mine got hosed when apt-get updated (Sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Joseph Jones wrote: If anyone can paste their KDE Session file for Sid into an e-mail, I'd much appreciate it. Mine exists, but GDM is conveniently ignoring it for some reason. Joe Hi Joe, there was already a discussion on the german debian user mailinglist regarding the same problem. The pro

Re: Disk speed on different partitions (was: Re: ext2/ext3/vfat on laptop vs. desktop)

2004-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stefan Goessling-Reisemann wrote: > Question2 : Why does this not happen on my Desktop? I also have a Windows/vfat partition (at the beginning of the disk) and a Linux/ext3 partition somewhere else on the disk, but there is *no* difference in disk I/O. Is DMA enabled on your laptop? When you upgr

Re: How to create a *freezed* distribution of a debian mirror

2004-04-04 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I use apt-mirror[1] to grab sid at a particular point in time and then use that to install all my desktop machines. [1] http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/ - Ryan On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:56:39PM +0200, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: > > Hi all, > > I administer a bunch of hosts at work. I have someth

Re: newbie: net install via wireless PC card?

2004-04-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:38:25PM -0500, Webster Kelsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to install Debian (woody) on an old Thinkpad 560. I have > created the rescue, boot and drivers1-4 floppies. > > My only means of loading stuff on to the laptop are the floppy drive and > wireless ca

Re: Need a working /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file, mine got hosed when apt-get updated (Sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Joseph Jones wrote: If anyone can paste their KDE Session file for Sid into an e-mail, I'd much appreciate it. Mine exists, but GDM is conveniently ignoring it for some reason. Joe GDM now reads session files out of /etc/dm/Sessions/ Here is mine for WindowMaker (it is called wmaker.desktop):

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 23:43 schrieb Roberto Sanchez: > Werner Mahr wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 20:04 schrieb Sebastiaan: > >>Then it's a simple make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make > >>modules_install > > > > Or shorter: make dep bzImage modules modules_install > > This wil

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Re: Advice for setting up a file server

2004-04-04 Thread Stefan Goessling-Reisemann
Hello all! Thank you all very much for your replies. I will try to heed your advice and install the recommended packages. Maybe more questions later ;-) Greetings Stefan (debian @ goessling . de) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: postalias: relocation error (was Postfix2.0.19-1 fails to install)

2004-04-04 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-04-05T00:29:40+0300, Jokke Heikkilä wrote: > postalias: relocation error: /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1: undefined > symbol: db_version_4001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/sbin/postalias libpostfix-global.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-global.so.1 (0x40021000) libpostfix-util.

kmod aliases

2004-04-04 Thread ms419
Where does Debian recommend putting network driver kernel module aliases for kmod (eg. alias eth0 8139too)? Should they all go in "/etc/modutils/aliases"? Or in a separate file, like "/etc/modutils/net"? Or each in its own file: "/etc/modutils/eth0", et cetera ... Or even something else? W

Disk speed on different partitions (was: Re: ext2/ext3/vfat on laptop vs. desktop)

2004-04-04 Thread Stefan Goessling-Reisemann
2nd try. With attachments. On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > > After I switched to ext3 on my installation partition (Acer TM 803, Debian > > stable/testing, based on Knoppix 3.2, heavily upgraded, kernel 2.4.24) I > > noticed a severe performance loss. Actually, the system suddenly felt

postalias: relocation error (was Postfix2.0.19-1 fails to install)

2004-04-04 Thread Jokke Heikkilä
I'm still stumbled as what is going on with my postfix install. I tried the 2.0.18-1 package from snapshots, but the same problem persist, so its not in the package I would think. The install script will fail while it tries to create the aliases.db. The called postalias command will spit out p

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Werner Mahr wrote: Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 20:04 schrieb Sebastiaan: Then it's a simple make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install Or shorter: make dep bzImage modules modules_install This will make the Steps one by one, and if one fails the other will fail also. The D

Need a working /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file, mine got hosed when apt-get updated (Sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Joseph Jones
If anyone can paste their KDE Session file for Sid into an e-mail, I'd much appreciate it. Mine exists, but GDM is conveniently ignoring it for some reason. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-04 Thread dircha
Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I have a minor but annoying problem with lokkit. It does not start at bootup. The runlevel look normal eg. etc/rc0.d/K99lokkit etc/rc1.d/K99lokkit etc/rc2.d/S01lokkit etc/rc3.d/S01lokkit etc/rc4.d/S01lokkit etc/rc5.d/S01lokkit etc/rc6.d/K99lokkit but I get errors a

Promise MBFastTrak133

2004-04-04 Thread Linux Nick
Is there a command to list the drives attached (not mounted) to the system? Cause I didn't see anything listed on bootup for my expansion card, and I have both promise things listed in the kernel and compiled in. It is built onto the mobo and it is a   MBFastTrak133   The drives show

Solution: Re: Problems getting D-Link DFE-530TX+ working

2004-04-04 Thread Steven Luke
From Bob Proulx I cannot think of any reason changing kernels would affect the installation of the X server which is in the xserver-xfree86 package. I guess that what steef had said, that since I had been using the security packages with the bf24 install there might have been an error getting

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I have a minor but annoying problem with lokkit. It does not start at bootup. The runlevel look normal eg. etc/rc0.d/K99lokkit etc/rc1.d/K99lokkit etc/rc2.d/S01lokkit etc/rc3.d/S01lokkit etc/rc4.d/S01lokkit etc/rc5.d/S01lokkit etc/rc6.d/K99lokkit but I get errors a

Re: canon_camera: problem downloading pictures to de hd

2004-04-04 Thread Wayne Topa
steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > hi out there, > > please help me with the following [possible] problem: > > after some googling and apt-cache search etc. etc. i could not find > debian software that allows me to download pictures to my harddisk from > my < canon eos 300D d

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 20:04 schrieb Sebastiaan: > Then it's a simple make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make > modules_install Or shorter: make dep bzImage modules modules_install This will make the Steps one by one, and if one fails the other will fail also. -- MfG usw. Werner M

Re: canon_camera: problem downloading pictures to de hd

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Biebl
steef wrote: hi out there, please help me with the following [possible] problem: after some googling and apt-cache search etc. etc. i could not find debian software that allows me to download pictures to my harddisk from my < canon eos 300D digital camera >. well..., i guess [and I hope] i mi

Re: canon_camera: problem downloading pictures to de hd

2004-04-04 Thread steef
Chad Davis wrote: steef wrote: hi out there, please help me with the following [possible] problem: after some googling and apt-cache search etc. etc. i could not find debian software that allows me to download pictures to my harddisk from my < canon eos 300D digital camera >. well..., i gue

which RAID tools?

2004-04-04 Thread martin f krafft
I had the impression that mdadm is the latest RAID management stuff -- it's definitely got the better set of features. However, e.g. mdrun(1), which comes with mdadm, reads 'obsolete'. On the other hand, raidstart and raidstop of the raidtools2 package give me kernel warnings about old ioctl calls

Re: Problems getting D-Link DFE-530TX+ working ... among other things

2004-04-04 Thread steef
Steven Luke wrote: I have been trying to install Debian (3.0) from ISOs I got off of the Debian site (I believe). When I install Debian using the default option at the boot: prompt when the install process begins, I can get through the entire boot process but eth0 is never recognized. I had t

Re: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: Hello, When trying to upgrade my system today, I got this error when installing libgimp2.0 (output from apt-get -f dist-install follows) alpha:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done Calcu

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-04 Thread dircha
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: I find references to such document, but cannot find it. Anyone knows where it might exist? package: apt-howto-[language prefix] e.g.: $ apt-cache search apt-howto # apt-get install apt-howto-en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been looking at the documentation for compiling the kernel, and something seems missing to me. There is ample documentation on configuring the kernel, but I don't see the issue of the starting point addressed anywhere.

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > I find references to such document, but cannot find it. > Anyone knows where it might exist? I think you are looking for apt-zip? apt-cache show apt-zip These scripts simplify the process of using dselect and apt on a non-networked Debian box, using removable media li

Re: Problems getting D-Link DFE-530TX+ working ... among other things

2004-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven Luke wrote: > I have been trying to install Debian (3.0) from ISOs I got off of > [...] > I can get through the entire boot process but eth0 is never > recognized. Debian 3.0 does not have any automatic hardware discovery program. You have to tell it specifically what hardware your system c

lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I have a minor but annoying problem with lokkit. It does not start at bootup. The runlevel look normal eg. etc/rc0.d/K99lokkit etc/rc1.d/K99lokkit etc/rc2.d/S01lokkit etc/rc3.d/S01lokkit etc/rc4.d/S01lokkit etc/rc5.d/S01lokkit etc/rc6.d/K99lokkit but I get errors at bootup which don

canon_camera: problem downloading pictures to de hd

2004-04-04 Thread steef
hi out there, please help me with the following [possible] problem: after some googling and apt-cache search etc. etc. i could not find debian software that allows me to download pictures to my harddisk from my < canon eos 300D digital camera >. well..., i guess [and I hope] i missed somethin

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 April 2004 13:36, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > You _could_ do this, but I recommend very highly compiling the kernel "the > Debian way." It takes care of all the little details missing any one of > which might leave you with a hosed system!

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