Re: Linux on HardDrive

2004-11-22 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:39, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on. > >> Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive > >> and hooke

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:21:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > You might want to re-run "apt-get dist-upgrade" and watch for any > errors. Take care of the errors and repeat until you get no more errors. As you seem to be able to reach the network again you should be able to do a `apt-get update' f

installing sarge via debootstrap

2004-11-22 Thread Lucas Albers
I'm updating a mdk box to debian via debootstrap. when installing files via debootstrap, I get the following error: "Couldn't download console-tools-libs" see debootstrap log below. " ootstrap --verbose --arch i386 sarge /mnt/hdc6 http://htt I: Validating /mnt/hdc6/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-22 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:17:09 -0800 Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone please explain why we need xprint? Yeah, I'm frustrated > that a recent update broke my printing, but I'm using Sarge so I > accept change. In this case, I don't understand it. > > Xprint seems to duplicate so

xprint - why?

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Wohler
Can someone please explain why we need xprint? Yeah, I'm frustrated that a recent update broke my printing, but I'm using Sarge so I accept change. In this case, I don't understand it. Xprint seems to duplicate some of what we already have. Is it supposed to be the new, shiny car on the block to r

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 21:49, "Ben Hutchings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel the need to learn something new today. How could the user replace > > the root owned files in a directory that they own? > > By renaming or unlinking them. Linux treats this as an operation on the > directo

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-11-22 Thread Eddy Jacob
This happend to me, and the problem was faulty memory. Use memtest86+ to check your memory, or as other users suggested before, was to check for bad cabling by doing dd of your harddisk partition into /dev/null On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:48:09 -0500, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTE

tvtime works, xawtv doesn't ?

2004-11-22 Thread Tim Timmerman
Hi, I need some help understanding this one: I'm trying to set up a mythtv system (using some debian packages linked to from the mythtv site, haven't got the URL to hand). I managed to get the database set up etc, but whatever I tried, I couldn't get a picture. However, I can

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-22 Thread Eddy Jacob
I've got Eclipse 3 running on Debian with no problem at all. The only thing is, I only use Sun's JDK and never the others. My current JVM is from j2sdk1.4.2_04. On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:56:38 +0100, Eduard Pauna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all, > > Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on

set fontsize for one app in gnome (or kde)?

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi folks, goes anyone know how to set a UI font size for a particular app in Gnome. I've heard mention of setting a general font but nothing about doing it for one app. TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\

Re: Linux on HardDrive

2004-11-22 Thread Curtis Vaughan
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on. >> Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive >> and hooked it up to my own computer. So, my question is what do I need

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Vikas B N
Hi, it might be reading ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. Put the KDE window manager binary path into that. I can'tremember what it's called, but for another window manager (say, pwm) you'd have /usr/bin/pwm ...in one of those files. It actually reads ~/.vnc/xstartup Put "startkde &" in the last line

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Robert Storey
Just out of curiosity, have you tried booting a Knoppix (or Kanotix, my preferred) CD? I know the purists might not be amused, but that's a pretty good way to find out if your hardware is Debian compatible without having to go through configuration hassles. Not to mention that I see nothing wrong w

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Basri Kanca wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I > simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) > > When I do an 'apt-get install ', does > actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under > the 'Appli

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Cobb
Rui Silva wrote: why not do apt-get install --reinstall gcc3.2 it would download all the dependecies First reason: this damn nVidia box won't give me internet connectivity from Linux until I can apply the patches. Second reason: if it isn't on the download site, it isn't gonna be downloaded an

Re: Linux on HardDrive

2004-11-22 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on. > Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive > and hooked it up to my own computer. So, my question is what do I need > to d

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-22 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:31:01 +0200 ocl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not a GNOME user, but I would expect it to have a menu > > creation/adjustment capability. Maybe one of the GNOMErs will speak > > up. > > I'd be grateful if someone could. I have been unable to locate > one. The KDE one (

Fork, session leader and printing to stdout

2004-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
What will happen when a daemon process with no controlling terminal tries to print to its stdout? More specifically, consider the following pseudo code: int main(void) { pid_t pid; /* Assume that at this point stdin, stdout and stderr are open * because the process was created by the s

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-22 Thread Raquel Rice
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:31:01 +0200 ocl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cybe R. Wizard wrote on 2004-11-23 02:09: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:42:17 +0200 > >>When I do an 'apt-get install ', does > >>actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under > >>the 'Applications' --referring to Gnome.

Re: games & wine/cedega

2004-11-22 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:12:58PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > On Monday 22 November 2004 01:04 pm, Don Hayward wrote: > > Is anyone here using this configuration currently? How do you like it? What > problems have you personally experienced? One of big concerns is whether my > games will work

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-22 Thread ocl
Cybe R. Wizard wrote on 2004-11-23 02:09: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:42:17 +0200 When I do an 'apt-get install ', does actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under the 'Applications' --referring to Gnome. If so, how do I know which menu path has been placed --other than going thru every s

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-22 Thread Joao Clemente
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sayantan Sur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is the firefox (or thunderbird) package going to be in the unstable/testing of Debian Sarge? I am on sarge (testing) and can see only Firefox version 0.9.3 I'm also on sarge, but I use apt pinning to let me pull in particular packages

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sergio Basurto Juarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here is the story so far: > > > > > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > > > 2.Could

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian Coiley wrote: > > >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the category > >of modules", there is no list of categories. The only option reads "Exit > >Finished. Return to previous menu." Which

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Sarge with 2.6.8 kernel. I've got the "udev" package installed. > > Can anyone help clarify the relationship between any of the following > things that may or may not be on my computer? > > ho

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread Rui Silva
why not do apt-get install --reinstall gcc3.2 it would download all the dependecies On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote: > After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before > an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the > CD's

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> yes I did all this! it's the C++ that seems to be causing problems when > looking for header files (eg I compiled up all of mpich without problem) Ok. How about -cxxlib-icc option then? $cat sizes.cpp #include using namespace std; int main() { cout << sizeof(char) << "\n"; cout << sizeo

Re: clock oddity

2004-11-22 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:35 + Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, > > but cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock, > > which is steadfastly 56 minutes

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ron, I have now got it working with the VESA driver, but not, unfortunately, with my USB mouse. Trawling the archives reveals countless suggestions for getting a USB mouse working, all of them dif

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the category of modules", there is no list of categories. The only option reads "Exit Finished. Return to previous menu." Which takes me right back out to the command prompt. There's also an OK button, and a Can

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-22 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:42:17 +0200 Basri Kanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I > simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) > > When I do an 'apt-get install ', does > actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere unde

gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Cobb
After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the CD's ), it appears that I need to be able to build the nVidia kernel-patch with _the_same_version_ of gcc that was used to compile my kernel. I'm us

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ron, I have now got it working with the VESA driver, but not, unfortunately, with my USB mouse. Trawling the archives reveals countless suggestions for getting a USB mouse working, all of them different, and none of

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Punit Ahluwalia wrote: After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, my system does not bring up the lilo or grub menu. I was using lilo initially but tried setting up grub, but it seems the problem is unrelated with either of them. After the BIOS transfers the control, the screen displays a message "searchi

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian Coiley wrote: > > >Here is the story so far: > > > >1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > >2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work > >3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge > >4.Tried to install

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: "Maurits van Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it really locked up? Try CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to the first text console. (CTRL-ALT-F7 to go back usually.) Or right click with your mouse to see if a context menu comes up. I may be wildly off with

Re: lilo

2004-11-22 Thread cjnoyes
when I did lilo -z -M /dev/hda it said can't find /boot/mbr.b. So I tried it with lilo -z -M /dev/hda /boot/boot.b when it booted I got a LI prompt and it hung There were two hidden files boot.300 and boot 3.08 which are basically the win boot sector, I tried them. It worked before and I installe

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: If you are having an excess of trouble getting video to work, use the vesa driver. It's "adequate" for 2D work, and will get you into X while you get the nvidia driver working. His problem was a little deeper than that; but he's getting close now. Stay tuned. -- Kent -- To

Linux on HardDrive

2004-11-22 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on. Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive and hooked it up to my own computer. So, my question is what do I need to do to the hard drive to get Linux to boot up on it, when I put it back in the origi

Re: announcing debian-installer release candidate 2

2004-11-22 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:02, Joey Hess wrote: > This second Debian-Installer release candidate is expected to be the final > release of the installer for Debian 3.1 (sarge). Limited changes have been > made to the installer since the pre-rc2 release last month, but there are > a few: > > * A

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:07 +, Brian Coiley wrote: > >"Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I think it is known as biting off more than you can chew. > > What, trying to get a video card working? Oh boy, that's a terrific advert > for Linux isn't

announcing debian-installer release candidate 2

2004-11-22 Thread Joey Hess
This second Debian-Installer release candidate is expected to be the final release of the installer for Debian 3.1 (sarge). Limited changes have been made to the installer since the pre-rc2 release last month, but there are a few: * All errata items, except intermittent red screen problem are fix

Re: sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently tried to apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, since rcconf seems to >have dropped off the repos, and got this: > >Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ... >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/s

Re: udev + USB camera = ?

2004-11-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:35 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a Kodak > DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears on > digikam's list of supported cameras. > > Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread downtime null
On Monday 22 November 2004 04:59 pm, Greg Trounson wrote: > Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > ... > > > Not that I know anything about gaming, but just one question: since most > > games are designed for windows, why don't you just play them in windows, > > you know, double boot... Is there any particular r

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
>"Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I think it is known as biting off more than you can chew. What, trying to get a video card working? Oh boy, that's a terrific advert for Linux isn't it. Roll up, roll up, you too can waste two days of your life tryi

Apache in a chroot (was: Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root)

2004-11-22 Thread David Mandelberg
You might want to take a look at either mod_security (libapache-mod-security, libapache2-mod-security) or mod_chroot (libapache-mod-chroot) for the actual chroot. As for files, I use makejail, but if you only need mod_php, then you probably don't need to make any changes. If you need perl or mod_p

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Sergio Basurto Juarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is the story so far: > > > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > > 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work > > 3.On the advice of this NG, up

MBR problem

2004-11-22 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, my system does not bring up the lilo or grub menu. I was using lilo initially but tried setting up grub, but it seems the problem is unrelated with either of them. After the BIOS transfers the control, the screen displays a message "searching for the boot record

Re: sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Greg Trounson wrote: > Does sysv-rc replace sysvinit or something? Is it safe to overwrite An old version of it, yes. There's something wrong, are you doing a full update to newest sarge or sid? > this file with the version distributed by sysv-rc, or is this a > temporary

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you get the same error if you run the startup script from the directory where the jar file is located? If not, it might help to add a 'cd /location/of/jar/file' near the top of the startup script. I have had that happen before. - --j Eduard Pauna wro

Re: udev + USB camera = ?

2004-11-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:35 am, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a > Kodak DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears > on digikam's list of supported cameras. > > Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/3,

And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-22 Thread Basri Kanca
Hi all, I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) When I do an 'apt-get install ', does actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under the 'Applications' --referring to Gnome. If so, how do I know which menu path has been p

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Greg Trounson
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: ... Not that I know anything about gaming, but just one question: since most games are designed for windows, why don't you just play them in windows, you know, double boot... Is there any particular reason you want to try them in linux? And AMD64 Debian unstable moreover?

Re: udev + USB camera = ?

2004-11-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:35 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a Kodak > DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears on > digikam's list of supported cameras. > > Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Maurits van Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:13:59PM -, Brian Coiley wrote: > > "Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 9.After much fiddling around with configuration, managed to get

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:02:43PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the chroot step didn't work, rr webmail is being a pain, loging me out > > every 5 sec, sorry if send this mail twice, dont know if it made it > Hmm, it worked before though, are you sure you followed

Re: No Sound On My System

2004-11-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shawn McCuan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > When I first installed my system, It played sounds without a problem. > Now, everytime I load, it tells me that either my sound device, or > sound driver, do not exist. > > How do I go about determining the source of the problem, and then > corre

sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-22 Thread Greg Trounson
Hi, I recently tried to apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, since rcconf seems to have dropped off the repos, and got this: Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/rc', w

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

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
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 SourceForge. > (It might help close a sale.

No Sound On My System

2004-11-22 Thread Shawn McCuan
When I first installed my system, It played sounds without a problem. Now, everytime I load, it tells me that either my sound device, or sound driver, do not exist. How do I go about determining the source of the problem, and then correcting it? I have a C-Media soundcard. (I dont remember the

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:21:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is the firefox (or thunderbird) package going to be in the > unstable/testing of Debian Sarge? I am on sarge (testing) and can see > only Firefox version 0.9.3 Just today I saw Firefox 1.0 coming into sarge. (But I haven't tested

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> How difficult, would you say, was it to get it installed and get everything > working. Do you play any games? Specifically do you play any Windows games > using cedega? Are you happy with your configuration? Would you recommend > this configuration to others? Right now I'm pretty happy with it.

Re: Computer goes unacceptably slow

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Tapio Lehtonen wrote: I have a computer class with 13 IBM ThinkCentre computers, running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge since August. Do you mean you're the admin for these 13, or that you're a student and are just trying to diagnose the problem? Right from the start they go to a strange state where comp

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: Here is the story so far: 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work 3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge 4.Tried to install a 2.4 kernel. Need to change LILO config, but I'm not using LILO, I'm using NTLDR... 5.Fig

udev + mouse

2004-11-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After yesterday's cleaning I have had to reinstall from scratch, don't remember what's the deal with udev and the mouse, can anyone point out? I'm also testing exim. Thankyou. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread downtime null
On Monday 22 November 2004 01:57 pm, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Le Lundi 22 Novembre 2004 18:24, downtime null a écrit : > > I'm going to be upgrading my system very soon and was considering > > upgrading to the AMD 64 bit processor. Are there already binary packages > > available for 64 bit or am I

Computer goes unacceptably slow

2004-11-22 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Hello, I have a computer class with 13 IBM ThinkCentre computers, running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge since August. Right from the start they go to a strange state where computer is extremely sluggish. Looks like any command takes about a minute to execute. This happens randomly, at least it looks rand

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-22 Thread Horst Bursik
Some Add-ons Information: I just turned the debugging output to the highest level and found the problem (although i was not able to solve it yet). Amavis says the following in its log: ---snip--- Nov 22 21:58:21 voyager amavisd-new[2618]: (2618-1) SEND via PIPE: <> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nov 22

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread downtime null
On Monday 22 November 2004 01:04 pm, Don Hayward wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, downtime null wrote: > > I'm going to be upgrading my system very soon and was considering > > upgrading to the AMD 64 bit processor. Are there already binary packages > > available for 64 bit or am I going to have to co

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-22 Thread Horst Bursik
Hi, Frederik, I tested it with your 'recipe' but unfortunately it won't work. Amavis is not able to rewrite the emails because "SEND via PIPE" returns always: "550 5.1.1 Recipient unknown". But the recipient is of course working if I turn amavis of or if it didn't find anything. Is it possible,

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-22 Thread chris-usenet
Sayantan Sur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is the firefox (or thunderbird) package going to be in the > unstable/testing of Debian Sarge? I am on sarge (testing) and can see > only Firefox version 0.9.3 I'm also on sarge, but I use apt pinning to let me pull in particular packages from unstable - i

Re: Is it possible to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
"Robert Cates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it possible with apt-get to upgrade a Woody installation to Sarge? > If so, would that be with: > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > or is that just to completely upgrade the Woody installation.? Read the release notes, available at: http://www.debian.or

Re: openvpn

2004-11-22 Thread chris-usenet
Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need something that can have both linux and windows clients > and which does not create many compatibility problems ... from my own > tests openvpn would do nicely. I use it between GNU/Linux clients, Windows clients, Mac clients, and entire networks.

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Convey
Here's an overview document that no one could point me to a few days ago. Hope it's helpfull... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI Here's the full text for any abysmally lazy readers: Freq

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Spang
Sean O'Dubhghaill wrote: [snip] - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer? Not sure, but new devices plugged in will cause new dev entries to be made. I think hotplug will just load the relevant modules and udev will sort out devices on its own Package: udev Descrip

Re: lvm and initrd

2004-11-22 Thread Tony Middleton
I did this recently so it can be done. Not sure it is the answer to your problem but I had to use the -r flag to mkinitrd. Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i installed Sarge and opted to have all partitions including root on lvm2. /boot is not on lvm2 but plain ext2. However when i try to compile my

Re: testing to sarge

2004-11-22 Thread Tony Middleton
It should work - that is how I have my machines set up. It means that I can control when the machine moves to a new release. In what way doesn't it work? What messages do you get? Regards Tony Middleton. RituRaj wrote: How to avoid problems when "testing" becomes "sarge" when using apt-get?

RE: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is known as biting off more than you can > chew. > > try running modconf at the command prompt and > installing the needed NIC module. > > regards > > Thing > > > --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is the story

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:13:59PM -, Brian Coiley wrote: > "Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 9.After much fiddling around with configuration, managed to get startx > > to do something using VESA, but just shows a grey screen with a black > cro

Re: udev + USB camera = ?

2004-11-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> Is this supposed to be something that I have to wrestle to make work > right, or is this something that in Sarge/2.6.8/udev is supposed to Just > Work? when i was running 2.6.8 the usb mass-storage was broken. plug in the camera and see what 'dmesg' has to say. either use 2.6.7 or 2.6.9. i r

RE: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Steven Jones
I think it is known as biting off more than you can chew. try running modconf at the command prompt and installing the needed NIC module. regards Thing --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the story so far: > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > 2.Couldn

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the story so far: > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work > 3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge > 4.Tried to install a 2.4 kernel. Need to change > LILO config, but I'm > n

ata_piix and ide_generic weird behavior

2004-11-22 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I have spent about the last week setting up the Debian AMD64 Sid port on my brand new AMD64 nforce3 box. I was wondering if anybody can explain the following behavior. I have two ide DVD drives, one a regular ROM, the other RW. Since the ide_generic module does not support DMA, I learn

Re: udev + USB camera = ?

2004-11-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:35 am, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a > Kodak DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears > on digikam's list of supported cameras. > > Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/3,

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Sean O'Dubhghaill
[snip] > > - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer? Not sure, but new devices plugged in will cause new dev entries to be made. I think hotplug will just load the relevant modules and udev will sort out devices on its own > - Does udev make use of devfs? No hope

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Le Lundi 22 Novembre 2004 18:24, downtime null a écrit : > I'm going to be upgrading my system very soon and was considering upgrading > to the AMD 64 bit processor. Are there already binary packages available > for 64 bit or am I going to have to compile everything? I'm pretty sure > there is alre

devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm running Sarge with 2.6.8 kernel. I've got the "udev" package installed. Can anyone help clarify the relationship between any of the following things that may or may not be on my computer? hotplug udev devfs hotplug automount autofs HAL sysfs procfs I know that's a huge question, so

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-22 Thread michael
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:55:49 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Folks, on my Debian dual-Xeon box, I have tried to install the Intel C/C++ compiler (ifc). I have followed Intel's instructions in "Platform ifc is intel fortran compiler. icc is the intel c/c+

udev + USB camera = ?

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a Kodak DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears on digikam's list of supported cameras. Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/3, programs had no problem finding me camera. Under Sarge, however, no lu

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Here is the story so far: > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work > 3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge > 4.Tried to install a 2.4 kernel. Need to chang

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:55:49 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, on my Debian dual-Xeon box, I have tried to install the Intel > C/C++ compiler (ifc). I have followed Intel's instructions in "Platform ifc is intel fortran compiler. icc is the intel c/c++ compiler > > However, when

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, downtime null wrote: I'm going to be upgrading my system very soon and was considering upgrading to the AMD 64 bit processor. Are there already binary packages available for 64 bit or am I going to have to compile everything? I'm pretty sure there is already support for this ar

ATI M card and GLX

2004-11-22 Thread Tom Allison
Does anyone know if this card (ATI Rage Mobility) can support the GLX library? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
Here is the story so far: 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work 3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge 4.Tried to install a 2.4 kernel. Need to change LILO config, but I'm not using LILO, I'm using NTLDR... 5.Figured out how to cha

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Scott
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:30 am, Kent West wrote: > Eric Scott wrote: > >On Sunday 21 November 2004 11:23 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >>>I had a similar problem under Mandrake Linux 9.1 once, and peeps just > >>>told me > >>

Re: initrd kernel image, dual boot with NTLDR

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Coiley
"Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all. > > As a complete newbie, I've had lots of help from people here over the last > few days, and as a result have upgraded Woody to Sarge. However, I have > also been advised to install a 2.4 kernel version, as oppo

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Scott
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:18 am, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:00:18 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > it might be reading ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. Put the KDE window > > manager binary path into that. I can'tremember what it's called, but > > for another window manager (say,

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-22 Thread michael
michael wrote: (more at end) Original Message Subject: intel compiler not finding (system) header files Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:56:32 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:55:49 + From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-11-22 Thread Daniel B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file system errors and reboots the system. Is it an IDE disk? Are you running with DMA enabled? Some versions of the kernel have a bug with s

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