Re: Can't SSH in to my machine from off site

2004-11-19 Thread Upayavira
Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: --- Chuk Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running mostly Woody with some Sarge updates, and I can't seem to SSH in to my machine from offsite. I can do it on the LAN, so I know sshd is running and working, and I can't do it when I hook my Linux box straight into

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Steven Yap
On Sat, 2004-20-11 at 01:19 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > > > > So, there's a hack - use the all_partitions property for the NAME. > > Here's what I use to get access to my CF slot on my multi-card reader: > > > > BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Zyn

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > > > I'm consideri

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > On Fri, 2004-19-11 at 15:35 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > > > My experience has been great with udev except in the case of multi-card > > reader that I have (not sure how to set that up). > > Most (if not all) card readers (multi or otherwise) do

Re: A bit off subject - Some may even give a crap.

2004-11-19 Thread DC Parris
-- Original Message - Subject: A bit off subject - Some may even give a crap. Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:06:10 -0700 From: "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian (PC) Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As of this morning if you go looking for SuSE.com you now get nov

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > > > i

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:20:09PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as > a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype. > If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money. > > Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on So

about cups-client

2004-11-19 Thread tiger
Hi I got some troubles on configuring cups client machines. I saw this in debian maillinglist: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:35:08AM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > For the benefit of anyone else trying this, you don't have to touch > anything on the client machine(s). Just the default install of the bas

Webcam versus still camera: howto get correct kernel modules loaded?

2004-11-19 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
I have a cheap camera that works both as a webcam and a still camera. So I can use it both with xawtv and gphoto2. The problem is, when I plug it in USB, stv* modules are loaded automatically. These modules prevent gphoto2 from working. Root can rmmod those modules, but I need to find a way for o

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Steven Yap
On Fri, 2004-19-11 at 15:35 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > My experience has been great with udev except in the case of multi-card > reader that I have (not sure how to set that up). Most (if not all) card readers (multi or otherwise) don't provide media change information, so there's no way for the k

radius/pppd problems

2004-11-19 Thread Nathan Kroll
I am setting up a PPTP VPN that authenticates users against a radius server. I compiled pppd with radius support and made the changes to the pptpd and pppd configurations that I found online (they are below). The FreeRADIUS server is set up to authenticate via LDAP. When I tested the VPN as a us

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:20 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as > a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype. > If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money. > > Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on SourceFor

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-19 Thread Walt L. Williams
Actually it works fine on my 0.9 version of Firefox. W. On Friday November 19 2004 7:26 pm, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an > example). > > http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 > > I just disappears all of a sudde

[OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-19 Thread William Ballard
I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype. If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money. Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on SourceForge. (It might help close a sale.) Do I need some kind of dual licen

Re: lyx-1.3.5 for debian

2004-11-19 Thread K-sPecial
belahcene wrote: Hi, every body I want to upgrade lyx to the latest version 1.3.5 I tried the rpm created for fedora, there was error, same thing with the source I need extra files, is there who created it for debian ? thanks a lot bela Install the QT development package, should be something li

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:49 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Since I'm an xterm kinda guy instead of a nautilus user, what is > > > the best package to use to automatically recognize & mount the

A bit off subject - Some may even give a crap.

2004-11-19 Thread Walt L. Williams
As of this morning if you go looking for SuSE.com you now get novell.com. And holy smokes is there a large selection of enterprise software bing offered. I am betting that SuSE/Novell will move the same direction the "Hat" did. away from the desk top. I just thought some might find this a curios

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Since I'm an xterm kinda guy instead of a nautilus user, what is > > the best package to use to automatically recognize & mount these > > Autofs :-) Make some directories under /media for you

Re: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

2004-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: > I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages. > Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently the > error message: > server cyrus/deliver[14580]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) > failed: Permissio

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > Since I'm an xterm kinda guy instead of a nautilus user, what is > the best package to use to automatically recognize & mount these Autofs :-) Make some directories under /media for your devices, and teach autofs to automount them. The devices won't be

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Sridhar M.A.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > >> I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > >> success so far. Cannot get the logo at

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 03:26 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an > example). > > http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 > > I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. > > Is anybody else's doing the same? > I

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/19/2004 09:30 PM, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Hello, Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an example). http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. Is anybody else's doing the same? If not, then which log files should I

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > > installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to > >

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:41:32PM -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: > What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? as root: echo "nvidia" >> /etc/modules -- Jamin W. Collins Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Sridhar M.A._, on 19/11/04 19:53,typed: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. I have it on my machine with a custom logo on bootup. I thought I wo

Re: Can't SSH in to my machine from off site

2004-11-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/19/2004 07:00 PM, Chuk Goodin wrote: I'm running mostly Woody with some Sarge updates, and I can't seem to SSH in to my machine from offsite. Click here to have your port 22 probed: http://www.grc.com/port_22.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

OO is displaying unicode directional characters (LRE LRO PDF ...)

2004-11-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I am having a problem with OO that it is displaying directional unicode characters such as LRM and RLM which are shown as small arrows and LRO, LRE and PDF which are converted to spaces. With red hat 1.1 version these are hidden properly as the should be. These are supposed to be non-printing cha

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:17 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > autofs has a lot of bugs filed against it, but not so many by > > am-utils. But then, am-utils isn't in sarge!!??? > > one need to normalize the "data" > - based on number of users using

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to > figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in.

Re: how to create a binary package

2004-11-19 Thread K-sPecial
belahcene wrote: Hi every body, can I post it here or on devel-list? I try to use the last lyx 1.3.5, from the source ( I didn't find a debian binary), ./configure --with-frontend=qt gives the folowing error checking for moc2... not found checking for moc... not found configure: error: moc binary

mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-19 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an example). http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. Is anybody else's doing the same? If not, then which log files should I look into? I should mention I am using sid

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Micha Feigin
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:59:41 -0700, Anthony Hoskins wrote: > > > Good day folks, > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor. > I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I > don't remember now, but could probably replicate if need be

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:55:23 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X > starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver > and the other ati. > > If somebo

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > autofs has a lot of bugs filed against it, but not so many by > am-utils. But then, am-utils isn't in sarge!!??? one need to normalize the "data" - based on number of users using each app vs the number of bugs filed > So, which should

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Sridhar M.A.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: >> I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without >> success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. > > I have it on my machine with a custom logo on bootup.

autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, autofs has a lot of bugs filed against it, but not so many by am-utils. But then, am-utils isn't in sarge!!??? So, which should I use? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B SpaceShipOne powered flight: #

Re: Can't SSH in to my machine from off site

2004-11-19 Thread Blair Ellsworth
> I've asked other people on my ISP if their port 22 is being blocked, > and I've also tried running sshd on port 60. I would recommend talking to your ISP. I ran into a similar problem a while back when my ISP moved me from a publicly accessible IP pool to a firewalled IP pool. A quick email cl

/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages. Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently the error message: server cyrus/deliver[14580]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: Permission denied But an "ls -la /var/run/cyrus/socket/ " says

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:59:41 -0700, Anthony Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good day folks, > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor. > I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I > don't remember now, but could probably replic

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. I have it on my machine with a custom logo on bootup. I thought I would like to see something other than Tux on bootup sc

Re: Can't SSH in to my machine from off site

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Chuk Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running mostly Woody with some Sarge updates, > and I can't seem to > SSH in to my machine from offsite. I can do it on > the LAN, so I know > sshd is running and working, and I can't do it when > I hook my Linux > box straight into our DSL line, s

FireFox + SOUND

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
How do I get sound into the FireFox application? I am unable to play the sound bytes of Macromedia files. xmms works. xine works. I can play mp3 files just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 19 November 2004 16:41, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 16:08, Jason Rennie wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > > > Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA > > > and IRQ channels are assigned during Knop

Can't SSH in to my machine from off site

2004-11-19 Thread Chuk Goodin
I'm running mostly Woody with some Sarge updates, and I can't seem to SSH in to my machine from offsite. I can do it on the LAN, so I know sshd is running and working, and I can't do it when I hook my Linux box straight into our DSL line, so I suspect it's probably not the router (a DI-604). I've

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 19 November 2004 16:08, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > > Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and > > IRQ channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot? > > You may have to tell the

Re: ssh with X window

2004-11-19 Thread Nate Duehr
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 05:17:31PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Mauricio Lin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I have tried to make the ssh works with X on my debian system and no > > successful results. > > > > On local mahine I have put: > > > > $ xhost ip_remote_host > > Don't

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
Chris Lale wrote: > This reminds me. I cannot view /proc in Nautilus - even as root. Is there a way to do it? Chris. Works for me.. does nothing appear or do you get an error? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postfix + SASL + Amavis-new + ClamAV + Courier-(imap, imap-ssl, maildrop) problems.

2004-11-19 Thread Josh Metzler
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 07:12 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > I just got my system up and running (went from Mandrake to Debian) and > i'm having problems getting Postfix to authenticate with saslauthd. > This is on a "Testing"/"Sarge" system. > To check that sasl is working, I used the

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and IRQ > channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot? You may > have to tell the sound module to use a specific IRQ when it's loaded. I >

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Sergio Basurto Juarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Anthony Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Good day folks, > > > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can > > run Boa Constructor. > > I have tried installing from source, but > encountered > > some errors wh

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Glyn Tebbutt wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:55 -0500, H. S. wrote: I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver and the other ati. If so

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Anthony Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good day folks, > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can > run Boa Constructor. > I have tried installing from source, but encountered > some errors which I > don't remember now, but could probably replicate if > need be. > >

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:35, Michael Spang wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and > > noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly > > what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with th

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:27, Williams, Allen wrote: > Matt, > > Thanks for the help. Another question: > > > > again, the display manager (at least for gdm) has a setting where you can > disable root logins. > > Do you know where this is? On the gdm login screen itself! Drop down the appropri

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:50, Williams, Allen wrote: > I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're there, I > can't > find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) The installation manual http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#install and the Debian Reference http://www.debia

Re: (no subject)

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Hugo Tapia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i finished to install debian linux 3.0 r2, but i > have bot access to the > console that running in gnome. > what i can do? > i only see de text mode console. > i used the debian instruction for installation, i > use woody installation > because i hav

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:55 -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X > starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver > and the other ati. > > If somebody h

(no subject)

2004-11-19 Thread Hugo Tapia
i finished to install debian linux 3.0 r2, but i have bot access to the console that running in gnome. what i can do? i only see de text mode console. i used the debian instruction for installation, i use woody installation because i have 7 cd from debian. thanks. hugo tapia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
Andreas Janssen wrote: Almost all other mainstream distibutions (Mandrake, Slackware, Fedora, SuSE) install 2.6 by default. Knoppix comes with kernel 2.6 (although you may have to activate it using a boot option). Debian Sarge comes with kernel 2.6 (although I think right now the default installati

Sound LTSP esound ALSA

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
I'm setting up LTSP clients. Now that I have video, I want to move up to sound. I'm using the kernel 2.6 ALSA sound on my Debian workstation (LTSP server) The LTSP docs show something can be configured for esound, which might be my best bet. Is there some kind of alsa -> esound emulator I can use

Re: Linux and IPR

2004-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:54:22PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > What SCO does is patently illegal and reeks of the worst things > corporate greed can muster, yet they still go unpunished. "Patently" illegal? :-) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Pr

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Williams, Allen_, on 19/11/04 15:41,typed: What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Thanks, Allen As I had written earlier, just put "nvidia" in /etc/modules and it will be loaded upon boot time. So install the nvidia driver i

Re: Mail login

2004-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:10:36AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Not without more information, such as, "Are you logging in via POP? > IMAP? webmail?" What email client are you using? What do you mean by > "log in"? Email is usually not "logged into" (unless it's webmail, in > which case you may ha

Re: Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Steve Spiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a complete Linux novice, but I'm beating my > head against a wall. > > I have 2 systems with Sarge installed. I connect > through a standard Hub, > onto a Windows Domain (PDC & BDC are Win2k Server) > with 2 Redhat DNS > servers and then out

Re: Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Spiller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm not a complete Linux novice, but I'm beating my head against a wall. > > I have 2 systems with Sarge installed. I connect through a standard Hub, > onto a Windows Domain (PDC & BDC are Win2k Server) with 2 Redhat DNS > servers and th

Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
homeless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > well, ok, as I am not the only one seeing this I am indeed going to > file a bug report. right now. > > for what it's worth, my machine is also seg faulting when i run some > hardware tests, particularly memtest, and this even when using t

RE: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Thanks, Allen > My experience has been great with udev except in the case of > multi-card > reader that I have (not sure how to set that up). Other than > that, I can > insert my USB stick and a

framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver and the other ati. If somebody has that high resolution screen boot up working with the tux

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and IRQ > channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot? You may > have to tell the sound module to use a specific IRQ when it's loaded. I >

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> Hey guys, > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to > figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. > > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Christian Convey_, on 19/11/04 14:43,typed: Hey guys, I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. Is there a general

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file system what ever that is I dont know, secondly

Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Anthony Hoskins
Good day folks, I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor. I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I don't remember now, but could probably replicate if need be. I also tried installing via apt-get, which left me with an outdated d

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
Jacob, Thanks, and, yes, it was a very vanilla install (because it didn't as me any question;>). > > 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was > used to with > > both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find > out what > > device support is installed, and get su

nis, nfs and netgroup problem

2004-11-19 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I'm trying to set up NIS with NFS. The server running NIS and NFS is a nat box. I'm using the package ipmasq for the masquerading. Only boxen behind the nat box are using NIS and NFS. NFS works when I export a directory on the server like this: /home 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Jim Hall
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., download drivers for stuff- although now tha

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 02:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it > than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select > or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to > eyeball. I've had g

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
Matt, Thanks for the help. Another question: > again, the display manager (at least for gdm) has a setting where you can disable root logins. Do you know where this is? Thanks, Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse?

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
H. S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Apparently, _Matt Price_, on 18/11/04 18:05,typed: > >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote: > > > > > Actually, yes. Since when I was having a problem in seeing bold fonts > onscreen, the exported PDF files looked ok

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500 "Williams, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're > there, I can't find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) > > I had been running sarge since June, and I just did a complete > reinstall of the

Re: Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Steve Spiller wrote: > and Windows XP). However, the two Sarge boxes cannot ping each other or > other systems by name, only by IP address (local net range 192.168.0.x). I This means your name resolution is busted. Things that have to do with it need to be checked: /etc/nss

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., download drivers for stuff- although now tha

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both > woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support > is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., > download drivers for stuff- although now that I've said it

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:34:45PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to > > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? > > > dpkg --get-selections > packages.dpkg

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:45 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:27:55 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * alpha - Digital (DEC) workstations, usually originally running VMS, > > although there was a Windows NT port to this for a while. Pretty much > > legacy

Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're there, I can't find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) I had been running sarge since June, and I just did a complete reinstall of the latest sarge (don't ask- it's embarassing), dated 11/17, I think. 1. It never asked me th

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
ot actually during compilation, but when you install the kernel. Here is the screen output of dpkg installing a new kernel: thinkpad:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119_custom.1.00_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119. (Reading databas

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Metzler
*Please* trim the replies folks. As far as your problem . . . On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:18:22 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1 > /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/d

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? > > That's pretty much it. :-/ If you do end up going that route, here's something you can do to at least ma

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 November 2004 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:12:22PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > expect folders to be inside INBOX, the INBOX can only be read in > > mutt at startup. Once you move into another folder, returning to > > the top of the tree only sh

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Colin
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:24:35AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:26, Mauro Darida wrote: > > Some questions on coming Sarge release: > > 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? > > Yes. When you compile a kernel it upd

Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Spiller
I'm not a complete Linux novice, but I'm beating my head against a wall. I have 2 systems with Sarge installed. I connect through a standard Hub, onto a Windows Domain (PDC & BDC are Win2k Server) with 2 Redhat DNS servers and then out to the Internet through a Smoothwall Firewall on a 2Mb Cable co

how to create a binary package

2004-11-19 Thread belahcene
Hi every body, can I post it here or on devel-list? I try to use the last lyx 1.3.5, from the source ( I didn't find a debian binary), ./configure --with-frontend=qt gives the folowing error checking for moc2... not found checking for moc... not found configure: error: moc binary not found in $PAT

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 19 November 2004 09:08, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently took a stab at upgrading my "testing" installation to "sid". > I've had some instability when logging out from KDE, so I've decided > I'd rather live with "testing". Did you upgrade your entire system or just se

battery-graph gives errors

2004-11-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I installed the latest battery-stats package available in sid. When I run the battery-graph command I get the following errors. Is it a known bug? Is there any workaround? I would appreciate if you can point me in the right direction. $battery-graph gnuplot> set ylabel "%Full" 0.00,0.

Re: Help reporting bugs

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 14:54, Joao Clemente wrote: > Hi. Can you clear me what is the procedure to follow to report/reopen bugs? > > I looked at all bug reporting docs I could bind at debian.org and I got > a number of different ways to do things, like: > - submitting to debian-bugs-dist mailing l

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Matt Price_, on 18/11/04 18:05,typed: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote: Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct the problem. On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04

lyx-1.3.5 for debian

2004-11-19 Thread belahcene
Hi, every body I want to upgrade lyx to the latest version 1.3.5 I tried the rpm created for fedora, there was error, same thing with the source I need extra files, is there who created it for debian ? thanks a lot bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

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