Re: MIDI questions

2004-10-23 Thread robin
Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi IwaiThis is free

Re: Intel AC'97 soft modem

2004-10-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 October 2004 06:53 am, Christophe Broult wrote: > > hi all, > > I'm having a Compaq Presario 2203AL with a soft modem in it. > > You should install sl-modem-daemon and should be all set.  You may > want to install sl-modem-source and the

Re: Find out what process is accessing the network

2004-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 11:16 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi > > Is there any way to find out what processes are causing a transfer of > data across the network card? > > Netspeed applet shows a continuous download rate of about 10kbytes per > second and I am unable to figure out what process

Re: moving from plain SCSI to Hardware Raid, possible ?

2004-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 14:11 +1000, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a few servers in production which have a couple of SCSI hard > disks. > Currently only using one of them. The 2nd just houses some data as a > backup. > We're not really interested in going down the software RAID pat

Find out what process is accessing the network

2004-10-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hi Is there any way to find out what processes are causing a transfer of data across the network card? Netspeed applet shows a continuous download rate of about 10kbytes per second and I am unable to figure out what process is causing that. Thanks Rajkiran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: regular expressions

2004-10-23 Thread Rui Silva
On Sunday 24 October 2004 04:14, David Clymer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 23:09, Rui Silva wrote: > > Hi people > > > > can anyone point me to a website that teaches me how to build regular > > expressions... i need it from a school work anda i'm finding anything on > > google. only found site w

Re: Sound problems

2004-10-23 Thread ms linux
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: >Hello, > >I have a dell workstation 470 with (of course) debian. >The soundcard is a: > >Analog Devices ADI 198x and this should be a Intel 82801DB AC'97 >(according a post i found on google) but i don't know how to install it >or what driver to use (don't find anyt

moving from plain SCSI to Hardware Raid, possible ?

2004-10-23 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all,   We have a few servers in production which have a couple of SCSI hard disks. Currently only using one of them.  The 2nd just houses some data as a backup. We're not really interested in going down the software RAID path, much prefer hardware RAID.   Anyways we have a few Adaptec

Re: SMP settings - Dumb Newbie Question

2004-10-23 Thread ms linux
Stuart Murray wrote: >Ok, So I booted from an image which the author >reckoned had SMP compiled in. How do I actually know >if both processors are being used? > beside cat /proc/cpuinfo you can use top, then press 1 button to see how much resource used by each processor. >Yeah I know, its dead

Re: Modules can't work after recompiling the kernel

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 11:07 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, > I am newbie to debian. I tried to recompile the kernel 2.6.8 following a > debian-kernel-how-to doc. > And now, i successfully install the new kernel and it can work. But the > problem now is that modules can't work on my new kernel

Re: MIDI questions

2004-10-23 Thread Peter J Ross
On Sunday 24 Oct 2004 01:03, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed > playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following > error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.mid > Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. L

Re: regular expressions

2004-10-23 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 23:09, Rui Silva wrote: > Hi people > > can anyone point me to a website that teaches me how to build regular > expressions... i need it from a school work anda i'm finding anything on > google. only found site with one or examples, need a full (or wide) > description of r

regular expressions

2004-10-23 Thread Rui Silva
Hi people can anyone point me to a website that teaches me how to build regular expressions... i need it from a school work anda i'm finding anything on google. only found site with one or examples, need a full (or wide) description of regular expressions thks -- Rui Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Modules can't work after recompiling the kernel

2004-10-23 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I am newbie to debian. I tried to recompile the kernel 2.6.8 following a debian-kernel-how-to doc. And now, i successfully install the new kernel and it can work. But the problem now is that modules can't work on my new kernel system. I get the error message when using the command "lsmod":

tpkg cross compiler

2004-10-23 Thread madprops
Hi, I need a mips cross compiler with target "mips-idt-elf". I used tpkg-make to set up a mipsel-linux compiler. It worked that way but it doesn't work with mips-idt-elf. How can i figure out what crosscompilers are available and how can I set up the mips compiler I need ?? Any ideas ?? thx Thom

Installing USB Network on Woody

2004-10-23 Thread Gilbert Grodsky
I am very new to Linux, but not new to computers. I just installed Woody from CDs, and it went fine except for the network. I have a USB connection to a tiny 2wire box that then goes into my phone line. My house uses PNA 2.0 to a router, then, in turn, to a cable modem. The old system worked fi

Re: SB Live! with 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-10-23 Thread Glenn Meehan
I had the master muted. I was sure I unmuted it before. Thank you very much for your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Organizing Multiple OSes on Drive(s)

2004-10-23 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Phil Bardanes wrote: 1. Using a single /home partition with one user/UID. Can I make this work even if one OS only uses Gnome and another only uses KDE? Also if one OS uses Evolution 1.4 and the other uses Evolution 2.0? 2. Using a single swap partition. 3. Using a single boot partition to stuff th

MIDI questions

2004-10-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi IwaiThis is free software with ABSO

Re: [OT] kudos to the debian-installer team!

2004-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
H. S. wrote: > The only glitch I faced was it didn't auto-detect the Broadcom 4400 > series of 10/100 MBps ethernet adapter but it was listed in the list of > adapter it presented. I just had to select the right one (of course here > is where the knowledge about your hardware comes handy). I am

Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Rthoreau
> From: "Kevin Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually, if you installed with Woody and afterwards change sources > list to > testing, everything would go mad. > > So just use sarge to install if that's what finally you like to use. It should not be a problem to use dist upgrade, you will replace

Re: Blackdown java Debian package appears out of date

2004-10-23 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead, follow the more manual route of getting a regular binary > (e.g.,ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.2/i386/fcs/j2re-1.4.2-fcs-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin) > and follow the instructions, for example, in There are debs for 1.4.2 which take care of settin

Blackdown java Debian package appears out of date

2004-10-23 Thread Ross Boylan
The j2re1.4 Debian package available from BlackDown (e.g., deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian unstable main non-free) is not as current as other versions available from BlackDown. It's over two years old. Judging from the fact I couldn't get it to work with mozilla firefox 0.9.3-5, my guess is

Re: Mail Server Questions

2004-10-23 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Bardanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Arias, Thanks for your reply and thanks for laying it out in an easy-to-understand manner. I'll try it out! The current default mail server for Debian is exim4, though you can use others. As stated already, there are several

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #1447

2004-10-23 Thread David Baron
/dev/hda would most likely be (one of) the hard disk(s). Back it up and think about replacing it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how stable is testing?

2004-10-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Szabó András wrote: > Hi! > > Testing sometimes had problems in the last some years, not so much, > but more than zero is a problem :) Anyway, it is called testing :) > > I have some machines running stable debian & some testing packages, > and i have no problems at all. So

Re: want to get back apt urgetn help

2004-10-23 Thread Alban Browaeys
> > Authenticating apt_0.6.25_i386.deb ... > > debsig: Origin Signature check failed. This deb might not be signed. > > > > dpkg: error processing apt_0.6.25_i386.deb (--install): > > Verification on package apt_0.6.25_i386.deb failed! > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > apt_0.6.25

Organizing Multiple OSes on Drive(s)

2004-10-23 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, Noob again. I have a box that I'm using to boot multiple OSes (eight in all). The boot is working fine with Grub (which I know fairly well), but the OSes are just kinda thrown on the drive(s). I want to re-install them in a more organized manner. I'm posting here because five of the OSes are

Re: Mail Server Questions

2004-10-23 Thread Phil Bardanes
Arias, Thanks for your reply and thanks for laying it out in an easy-to-understand manner. I'll try it out! PB On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:40, Arias Hung wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Phil Bardanes wrote: > > > Hi, noob here. > > > > We have five machines running various OSes (only one Windows b

Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Kevin Wang
Actually, if you installed with Woody and afterwards change sources list to testing, everything would go mad. So just use sarge to install if that's what finally you like to use. - Original Message - From: "Thierry Michalowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday,

Re: no joy with external USR modem

2004-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2004-10-23, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The modem was working fine, and isn't very old. I set up a Linux box for a > guy across town. I threw an ethernet card in and plugged the machine into my > LAN to do a net install. All was well until I took it back over to try to > futz arou

xzgv and gnucash: Gdk-ERROR in Sarge/Sid

2004-10-23 Thread James Vahn
Anyone else seeing this? $ xzgv Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) serial 56 error_code 2 request_code 45 minor_code 0 $ gnucash Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) serial 102 error_code 2 request_code 45 minor_code 0 x

Re: Inn2 + Suck: don't download all the messages

2004-10-23 Thread James Vahn
Eriberto wrote: > How to make suck download all messages of a group? The suck pull 62 of > 2328 messages stored in remote group. I switched to newsx for the same reason sometime last year. I mentioned it to the maintainer and he replied back with info that it might take a while to fix (my memor

Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Thierry Michalowski on 2004-10-23 16:58:41 +0200: > The question is : should I nevertheless proceed with a woody > installation CD , manually change my sources.list and apt-get > dist-upgrade at will ? > Or should I use the sarge-rc1 CD install ? You should use the new debia

Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Thierry Michalowski
Hi , I'm going to install a new machine on Debian, and I will surely follow testing, as I've been used to for years. Nevertheless, installing a new machine with woody today, just to upgrade it to testing (and I do want a 2.6 linux kernel!) looks cumbersome. The question is : should I nevertheles

Re: SMP settings - Dumb Newbie Question

2004-10-23 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Murray wrote: | Ok, So I booted from an image which the author | reckoned had SMP compiled in. How do I actually know | if both processors are being used? Hi Stuart! You can have a look into /proc/cpuinfo - there you might find if there are two

Re: SMP settings - Dumb Newbie Question

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 21:00 +0100, Stuart Murray wrote: > Ok, So I booted from an image which the author > reckoned had SMP compiled in. How do I actually know > if both processors are being used? > cat /proc/cpuinfo -- Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a di

SMP settings - Dumb Newbie Question

2004-10-23 Thread Stuart Murray
Ok, So I booted from an image which the author reckoned had SMP compiled in. How do I actually know if both processors are being used? Yeah I know, its dead obvious to you gurus out there, but I've had a hard day ;-) On the plus side I have got all my partitions in place, learning how to mount

Re: SB Live! with 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-10-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Glenn Meehan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 19:29, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> Kernel 2.6 comes with both ALSA and OSS drivers. It is very likely >> that discover/hotplug try to load both and because of that the card >> does not work properly. Make sure the alsa-base

More on the Horrible Problem!!

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Dickner
Oh yeah, and it reset the clock on the Windows side to Greenich time. I am pretty sure I didn't screw up the choice there, but I could be wrong about that... ejd __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://mes

Horrible Problem!! ide Interrupt error during install

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, During a reinstall onto a dual boot partitioned hard drive I have twice in a row been stopped during the unpacking of the packages selected using 'tasksel'. Both times the error was a 'busy' coming from the 'hda' device. I think that is the CD-ROM, right? The machine will get stuck polli

Re: SB Live! with 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-10-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > should I tell kde the device is OSS or ALSA? ALSA, or autodetect. > I have checked all the volume levels (that I can) in alsamixer. Did you unmute the channels? > There is no mention of the sound card in dmesg. Does this mean that > the card is not b

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
I tried compiling the program, and had no problems. No compiler errors crapping out or anything. Running on Debian Sarge. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: how to change font of desktop icons

2004-10-23 Thread JohnOfArc
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:14:33 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi >I am using KDE, debian sid update regularly. Can someone please > tell me how to change the size of the fonts used for kde-desktop icons. I > searched google and went around the kcontrol window but could not find > anything.

ATI Radeon Driver Debian Packages

2004-10-23 Thread Mark Schonfeld
I know about the page hosting debian versions of the ATI vid drivers where you can either build from source or use pre-built binaries. The problem is when I follow the directions (either building from source or using the prebuilt packages) I get an error at the end saying that the module was not f

Re: Intel AC'97 soft modem

2004-10-23 Thread Christophe Broult
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:57:06 +0530) writes: > hi all, > I'm having a Compaq Presario 2203AL with a soft modem in it. You should install sl-modem-daemon and should be all set. You may want to install sl-modem-source and then build a package corresponding to you

Re: Network driver for Dell PowerEdge 1850

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 05:24, Stuart Murray wrote: > Anyone know which network adapter to use for this > server? > > Thanks > We've got about 300 Dell servers here. PE 1550, 1650, 1750, 2650, 2850 but no 1850s. I can tell you that all these servers use either tg3, e100, or e1000. I'd be surpris

Re: USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
Pardon my jumping in, but if Knoppix by default handles USB 2.0 correctly and Sarge fails to, shouldn't that be reported as a bug against Sarge? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: php4-gtk not available in testing/unstable repositories on Debian?

2004-10-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:07:25 +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: > I would like to some developing using gtk-php, I've done several google > searchs and also search debian.org under the packages, but there does not > seem to be any php4 versions of this available, that is compatible with > the current ver

Re: USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-23 Thread robin
Cristi Banciu wrote: Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot my machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast transfer rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so). When I boot my regual installation of Debian (sarge), wit

Inn2 + Suck: don't download all the messages

2004-10-23 Thread Eriberto
Hello all, How to make suck download all messages of a group? The suck pull 62 of 2328 messages stored in remote group. Thanks, Eriberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-23 Thread Cristi Banciu
Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot my machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast transfer rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so). When I boot my regual installation of Debian (sarge), with both kernels 2.4.2

Network driver for Dell PowerEdge 1850

2004-10-23 Thread Stuart Murray
Anyone know which network adapter to use for this server? Thanks ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

perl program to log apache access.log with mass virtual hosting

2004-10-23 Thread Cristi Banciu
Hi, I am using apache with mass virtual hosting. I need to keep separate log files for each vhosts into something like thist /var/log/httpd/$vhost.without.www/$year/$month/$day/access.log I have found a little perl script that says it does that. Unfortunatelly it does not working, apache error.l

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread James Wiggs
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 00:27, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:45:17AM -0400, James Wiggs wrote: > >I'm trying to determine if I've found bugs in the C++ compiler > > on Sarge or not. I'm trying to compile quickfix-1.9.2 and some of > > I tried compile, just for kicks.

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 Support in Sarge

2004-10-23 Thread Szabó András
There is some problems with the 7500 series of radeon cards in laptops. On the ati site, there is no specific drivers neither for windows or linux. Ati site sais there are differences between the manufacturers cards, so download their drivers. On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:09:58 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falco

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-23 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these "kept back" packages? Thanks! Which packages are you referring to

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-23 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these "kept back" packages? Thanks! Which packages are you referring to

Re: USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-23 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:52:49AM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > On Friday 22 October 2004 15:08, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:06:38 +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. Wh

Re: no joy with external USR modem

2004-10-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:34:21 -0400, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The modem was working fine, and isn't very old. I set up a Linux box for a > guy across town. I threw an ethernet card in and plugged the machine into my > LAN to do a net install. All was well until I took it back over to t

Re: software suspend 2 (swsusp2), patching a Debian source package kernel vs Vanilla

2004-10-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:14:26 +0300, scorpix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Quoting "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>On the webpage > >>(http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/Software-suspend-2.html) in Section > >>2.4, they say regarding swsusp2 patches : > >>"I

Re: want to get back apt urgetn help

2004-10-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:08:35 +0530, Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > i accidentally removed apt package itself. > now how do i get it back > i tried with dpkg -i apt_0.6.25_i386.deb > but i get error like > Authenticating apt_0.6.25_i386.deb ... > debsig: Origin Signature check failed. T

Re: udev with Xwindows and winmodems,

2004-10-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:33:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having installed the udev.deb package, the following problems have been > encountered. > > 1) Xwindows does not start unless first, /etc/init.d/udev stop > Once Xwindows is up, it is retained after /etc/init.d/udev restart > > 2

Re: udev with Xwindows and winmodems,

2004-10-23 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:33:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having installed the udev.deb package, the following problems have been > encountered. > > 1) Xwindows does not start unless first, /etc/init.d/udev stop > Once Xwindows is up, it is retained after /etc/init.d/udev

recent gmail headers etc...

2004-10-23 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi D-u, I've notice that gmail adds its own header. Do people remove any headers from their mail to make mbox's smaller? which ones would be useful to keep? -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... signature.asc Description: D

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 Support in Sarge

2004-10-23 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:01:00 -0700, Gilbert, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've told KDE to apply the settings on startup and logged out, logged back > in... even rebooted completely only to have the problem back. Is there a > step I'm missing... do I have to do something special to get f