Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:55:39PM -0600, Steve Block wrote: > Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > >You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version > >of Debian are you installing? > > > >Patrick, > > The

[OT] The decline and fall of Google Groups

2004-12-01 Thread William Ballard
Google's becoming evil. Not only have they screwed up groups layout, showing a few columns of text and leaving a big space for ads, now they're pimping their own group namespace beside usenet. It's horrible. Is there any other usenet archive? I'm getting sick of the things Google's doing (put

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the > most knowledgable group of people I know... > > I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. > I want to end with late c.20/ early c21

Re: How to make xkb modifications under Debian

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:52:11PM -0500, Martin D. Weinberg wrote: > Folks, > > I made a new variant to support the "extra" keys on IBM T41p laptop. I > made these changes directly to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/us in a new stanza > called "t41p" and added it to my XF86Config-4 file as XkbVariant "t

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Block
Patrick Albuquerque wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version of Debian are you installing? Patrick, The file is plain text, just typed as binary in the attachment for some reason. -- Steve

OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the most knowledgable group of people I know... I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. I want to end with late c.20/ early c21 technologies of synchronized timekeeping. GPS is one obvious examp

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > are not syntax issues. I have attached the sources.list if someone wants to > look. Pleasee note that any thing above the ftp: listings were done by the > system. I put every thing else in with nano. I hope someone can help me

Network down, reboot fixes, update

2004-12-01 Thread Carl Fink
Further investigation shows that web connections work fine. What isn't working is Privoxy, which fails to start up with the message Fatal error: can't bind to 127.0.0.1:8118: because Cannot assign requested address What seems to be happening is that lo isn't working. "ifconfig lo" reports: lo

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Syed Huq
I went to the local Fry's Electronics and the ASUS seems like a good buy. I have not used an AMD before so don't have much experience. Even if I go with a KV7 as you suggested, I still would like to know if Debian would work on it. The hit/miss is tough proposition. By the time I spend on CPU+DDR M

http Traffic Anayalsis

2004-12-01 Thread JB Hewit
It's a little unrelated to Debian but I'm looking for a package that will allow me to sniff http traffic and give me some traffic anayalsis. Essentially I've got a Squid proxy server dishing out cache web traffic and a big difference in traffic from the bill from our ISP to our Squid logs. I under

Re: Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:41:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Try "apt-get update", then "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead. > Better yet, try "aptitude update", then "aptitude dist-upgrade". Did you even read the error? She's created a mix of real Debian packages and Kanotix packages. This is entire

Re: Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:11:58AM -0800, Michelle Schwager wrote: > Hi, I decided to use a different debian distro, so I found kanotix, a > variant of knoppix, which apparently is based on sid. Yes, it's *based on* Sid. It is not Sid. > I did an apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade. Why did y

Re: Gcc problem on Athlon box

2004-12-01 Thread Lian Liming
Thank you very much for reply. Your solution my solve the problem of compiling kernel. But in my athlon box, i find i can't successfully compile any software form the source. So i just think is there any common rule to solve this problem? Thank you very much for reply. Sarunas wrote: -BEGIN P

Network fails for some tasks, reboot fixes

2004-12-01 Thread Carl Fink
Twice in the past three days (since some apt-get upgrading) my network connection (ethernet via wireless router) has stopped working. Not completely -- I can still connect to external news servers and via ssh to my ISP, but SMTP connections (e.g. fetchmail) and web connections time out. It might

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:07 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? There are a lot of different bits of software that do some of the things that access does. Some of them try to be a little more like Access than others. Rekall does not have a built-in databas

RE: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Croy, Nathan
> From: Leonard Chatagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:35 PM > > Since the last couple of reinstalls, the first was with a bunch of Net > programs installed for first time, I lost my Debian host > name, now it's > (none) and I think its affecting most all of

Re: Pb installe / configuration du xf86config

2004-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:58:29 +0100 (CET), pontier robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bonjour, > > Je vous écris car j'ai obtenu d'un ami une version débian sarge avec > installation des paquets par l'intermédiaire du ftp débian et l'installation > s'est parfaitement déroulée. > > Je n'arr

RE: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (chroot)

2004-12-01 Thread McLaughlin, Toby
> I am not familiar with chroot. Could you please point us out to good > documentation? Of course. I intended to add a link to my last post, but a slip-of-the-keyboard caused me to post prematurely (this is also the cause of the appalling grammar and spelling in my last post). Here are a coup

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:14 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? > > Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel. That is so bogus. > Go check out mysql... Why do you make such facile comm

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-12-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-11-29 05:08:19 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Arch is especially nice because you don't need a server process > anywhere, like Subversion does, but it supports changesets, like > Subversion does. Subversion doesn't need a server process (unless you want a server): The svn client can access fi

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
I keep trying to move your replies back to the list, but you keep using Reply to Author instead of Reply to Mailing List. Please familiarize yourself with this feature. On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:23 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Well, me personally, I hated excel. lol. I'd rather use access,

Re: Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

2004-12-01 Thread Brad Sims
My camera, an Olympus C3000z is supported perfectly under linux thanks to gtkam and the fine folks at gphoto2. However I don't want to have to choose my camera based on gphoto2; so I simply bought a Sandisk ImageMate 6 in 1. The cards show up as mass-storage devices; a little editing of /etc/fst

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:14:06PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? > > Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel. > > Go check out mysql... The nice thing about Access is it doesn't

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel. Go check out mysql... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/ pgpv1RgV0fpAa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Microsoft Access

2004-12-01 Thread Shawn McCuan
Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OOo Printer Setup Frustration

2004-12-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two boxes both using a kernel completed from kernel-source-2.4.26 and both using CUPS and openoffice.org. Both have the latest dist-upgrade from testing. On both I have edited /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf and have enabled export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1. One box finds its attached printer,

Re: difficulty starting mysql server

2004-12-01 Thread rb
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 01 Dec 2004 17:25:31 -0500 > rb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I installed mysql-server 4.0.17 a while ago (Unstable). > > This part makes me assume you installed it via apt-get, using the deb > from Unstable's mirrors. Is that right? yes [...] > If

Re: compiled nvidia module fails

2004-12-01 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Schulman wrote: |>Where in all this would I run module-assistant? | | | Your procedure above looks right. If you wanted to use module- | assistant, you would just omit the nvidia-related parts of the procedure | above, and then run 'module-assis

Re: [OT] booting through RTC wake-up

2004-12-01 Thread Alban Browaeys
> But if I put a timer between the power and the voltage regulator and pop > the timer at 1AM, it does NOT work. I add the same problem years ago. I do not shut the power off with a timer behind the pc now , but nvram-wakeup (on sourceforge) led to think the BIOS timer is not jsut hour-minutes-se

Re: difficulty starting mysql server

2004-12-01 Thread Jacob S
On 01 Dec 2004 17:25:31 -0500 rb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed mysql-server 4.0.17 a while ago (Unstable). This part makes me assume you installed it via apt-get, using the deb from Unstable's mirrors. Is that right? > When I try to start the server, I get the following: > > $ mysql

difficulty starting mysql server

2004-12-01 Thread rb
I installed mysql-server 4.0.17 a while ago (Unstable). When I try to start the server, I get the following: $ mysqld_safe --user=mysql & [1] 687 $ Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 300: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permission denied /usr/bin/mysqld_

Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
I've reinstalled about four or five times trying to get rid of the errors showm on bootup and on the syslog. I've spent about a month with the discussion group at linmodems.com getting my modem to work, finally. If it sound like I'm crying over the user unfriendlyness of Linux OS, Oh well. Since

Re: Knoppix Debian install issues

2004-12-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/01/2004 04:30 PM, Coupe, Mark (ITD) wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian via the Knoppix method. I'm using the instructions found at _http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html_. I'm successful until I run "base-config" from chroot. While going through the Debian Configuration ap

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to > change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. > > locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list > of locale programs including

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:42:08 -0500, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to > change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. > > locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list > of locale program

Re: xprint - why?

2004-12-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 01 15:50 -0600]: > > I don't want to see the > > Mozilla print dialog at all - hence my use of the word 'directly'. > > Hopefully QT builds in the future will do this though. > > Ditto here. kprinter would be a perfect solution, if it weren't for

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-01 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to > change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. > > locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list > of locale programs including

How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list of locale programs including setlocale. The man page for setlocale specifies the header to use in a C p

Knoppix Debian install issues

2004-12-01 Thread Coupe, Mark (ITD)
Title: Knoppix Debian install issues Hi, I'm trying to install Debian via the Knoppix method.  I'm using the instructions found at http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html.  I'm successful until I run "base-config" from chroot.  While going through the Debian Configuration ap I get t

Re: pan 0.14.2.91-2 problems

2004-12-01 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 21:42, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > Now I cant correctly post messages on Usenet, because Pan doesnt want to > break lines: when I hit the key, it does not go to the next > line, but it increses the line counter!... > > Is it a package bug? or a pan bug ? <[EMAIL

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (chroot)

2004-12-01 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:43:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 05:55, McLaughlin, Toby wrote: > > An advanced technique that you could consider is not to dual-boot at > > all, but to run Debian in chroot environment under gentoo. In this > > setup, both distributions

pan 0.14.2.91-2 problems

2004-12-01 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hello, I have this version of pan : # dpkg -l | grep pan [...] ii pan0.14.2.91-2 [...] I just made an 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' ten minutes past. Now I cant correctly post messages on Usenet, because Pan doesnt want to break lines: when I hit the key, it does not go to the n

Re: Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, actually aptitude was not installed. When I tried getting *that*, I got the same errors. I'll keep trying until it gets fixed or until I think of some better way to spend my time. You might also want to look at the settings in /etc/apt/sources.list; if that file is

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-01 Thread Sean O'Dubhghaill
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 8:02 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown > > and reboot the machine? > > It always requires the root password to do it... > > -- Fred > > Yes. Thi

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown and reboot the machine? It always requires the root password to do it... -- Fred Yes. This is from my /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (using Sarge): # The Actions menu (former

Re: php4 packet on debian stable with enable-dbase option.

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:33:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need dbase_open function from php, and php4 is not compiled on debian > stable with "enable-dbase" option. I ask my self, if possible to get the > packet with "enable-dbase" option compiled. Other solution I think is to > mak

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (chroot)

2004-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 05:55, McLaughlin, Toby wrote: > An advanced technique that you could consider is not to dual-boot at > all, but to run Debian in chroot environment under gentoo. In this > setup, both distributions can run simultaneously while sharing the same > kernel. I haven't this my

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box (question)

2004-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does that mean that we will end up with two /boot, one for Debian and one for Gentoo, and two / one for Debian and one for Gentoo? SOmething like /dev/hda1 swap (common) /dev/hda2 /home (common) /dev/hda3 /boot (for Debian) /dev/hda4 / (for Debian) /dev/hda5 /boot (for Gentoo) /dev/hda6 / (for G

Pb installe / configuration du xf86config

2004-12-01 Thread pontier robin
Bonjour,   Je vous écris car j'ai obtenu d'un ami une version débian sarge avec installation des paquets par l'intermédiaire du ftp débian et l'installation s'est parfaitement déroulée.   Je n'arrive pas à configurer le xserver et je n'ai donc aucun interface graphique!!! que du code trop dur !!  

How to make xkb modifications under Debian

2004-12-01 Thread Martin D. Weinberg
Folks, I made a new variant to support the "extra" keys on IBM T41p laptop. I made these changes directly to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/us in a new stanza called "t41p" and added it to my XF86Config-4 file as XkbVariant "t41p". This works fine! My question is: what is the correct approach to adding

gdm and reboot

2004-12-01 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown and reboot the machine? It always requires the root password to do it... -- Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiled nvidia module fails

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.7 nvidia-kernel-source > nvidia-kernel-common > tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.7.bz2 > tar xvzf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz > ln -s kernel-source-2.6.7 linux > cd linux > (fakeroot make-kpkg clean) > make menuconfig > fakeroot ma

Re: Gcc problem on Athlon box

2004-12-01 Thread Sarunas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lian Liming wrote: | Hi all, | I have a Athlon XP 1400 box. And after installing Debian, i find i | can never successfully compile the new kernel, there are always | "internal compile error" reported by gcc. I believe I had the same problem. To suc

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Icebiker
You might ask the folks at alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus. There a very active and helpful bunch. If you know someone who's got a built P5P800 (mebbe the store?), booting knoppix and noodling for 10-15 minutes would give you a good idea of whether it's a go or not. For what it's worth, knoppix

[OT] booting through RTC wake-up

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I think this is OT. Anyway I don't know how to explain the following: I want to boot my KT7A mobo with Award Bios with a RTC wakeup event at 1:45AM (to record music with mplayer from crontab) So I set that time in the menu. I use a voltage regulator to plug the system into (I live in Mex

Re: How do I disable sl0?

2004-12-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:58:41PM +, Sam Nan wrote: > Hi people, > > I installed debian woody just a few days ago. I setup my eth0 with dhcp > and it works well. The problem is that the ip address of the dhcp server is > 192.168.0.1 and it gives me an ip address like 192.168.0.x, while my s

Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, you may try to install Sarge which is on the edge to be the new stable Debain version and which has a _far_ better intaller. hth, Jerome Katrien de Vos wrote: Yesterday I received 4 CD's of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" for i386. Enthousiatically I started to install. I am an experienced W

Re: compiled nvidia module fails

2004-12-01 Thread Tim Beauregard
r.gz ln -s kernel-source-2.6.7 linux cd linux (fakeroot make-kpkg clean) make menuconfig fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=20041201 kernel_image modules_image dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.7-20041201.deb nvidia-kernel-2.6.7-20041201.deb reboot apt-get install nvidia-glx (dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx) Whe

Gcc problem on Athlon box

2004-12-01 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I have a Athlon XP 1400 box. And after installing Debian, i find i can never successfully compile the new kernel, there are always "internal compile error" reported by gcc. Following is the ouput from "gcc -v":

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Syed Huq
Unfortunately that link has a list of a few Motherboards only. Absolutely no mention of ASUS. I am sure there are a lot of Linux users with ASUS.. Thanks anyways, Rathon On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:04:50 +0800, Mark Par <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Syed Huq wro

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Par wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ? OR Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which Motherboard's would work with Debian. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWT

Latest Samba roaming profiles broken?

2004-12-01 Thread Dan Slatford
In the last couple of days or so, about the time I did an upgrade on my sarge box, samba has broken. It's an ldap coupled domain controller, the problem is roaming profiles no longer save. A few files or directories might be saved when logging off to the profiles share, but Windows will fail and c

Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:36:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Are both of these using the 2.2 kernel? I _think_ you can specify "bf24" > to get a 2.4 kernel, which might help considerably. That's correct. 2.4.18. -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm.

Running arson as non-root user...

2004-12-01 Thread Colin Alie
Good morning, I'm running debian sarge w/ kernel 2.6.8 and I'm trying to get arson working. It works fine when started from a root X session but, as a normal user, it won't start; the KDE Crash Handler reports "The application arson (arson) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)." Some notes

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I have decided they would be a g

Re: rescue disk

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tony Godshall wrote: According to Hugo Vanwoerkom, George Iordanou wrote: I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following files: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers.img root.img How can i create a bootable res

Re: Boot-time loading of modules...

2004-12-01 Thread Colin Alie
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:18, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Colin Alie (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out how boot-time loading of modules is > > controlled. I'm trying to keep vesafb from loading. I'm running the > > stock 2.6.8-1-386 kernel from sarge. Below is a

Can't get the sound server up [nVidia drivers + aRts]

2004-12-01 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I tried the nV News forums but I got no replies yet, so I thought some of you here might have had the same problem I am having. I am running Debian SID/unstable with kernel 2.6.9 and KDE 3.3. I have an Asus K8N-E Deluxe mobo with nForce3 250Gb. I installed the nVidia drivers just fine (too

Re: delta updates

2004-12-01 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 14:19, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:08:54 +0100, Borislav Petkov > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there ppl, > > > > i have a debian sid machine that needs to get updated occasionally but > > the problem is that it is not connected to the inter

Re: Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

2004-12-01 Thread Christian Convey
Ron Johnson wrote: The solution was simple: add my user to the 'camera' unix group. That's very, very odd. I don't need group "camera". What files/directories are "owned" by group "camera"? Remember that I'm using Debian Sarge, so the particular scripts I have set up by default might differ from

Re: xprint - why?

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I don't want to see the > Mozilla print dialog at all - hence my use of the word 'directly'. > Hopefully QT builds in the future will do this though. Ditto here. kprinter would be a perfect solution, if it weren't for having to click through the useless Moz print dialog first. -- To UNSUB

Re: Interesting console message...

2004-12-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:19:57PM +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: > I have a little test box (350 AMD) running sarge... this message spat > out on the console: > > # GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 135168): > May lead to memory leak and poor performance. > >

Re: Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Kent West
Michelle Schwager wrote: Hi, I decided to use a different debian distro, so I found kanotix, a variant of knoppix, which apparently is based on sid. I did an apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade. Try "apt-get update", then "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead. Better yet, try "aptitude update", then "a

Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Kent West
Katrien de Vos wrote: Yesterday I received 4 CD's of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" for i386 [and have had all sorts of problems installing it] Who can help me to proceed or do I have bad CD's? No, you don't have "bad CD's"; you have "ancient CD's". Woody, although still the official Debian releas

Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Michelle Schwager
Hi, I decided to use a different debian distro, so I found kanotix, a variant of knoppix, which apparently is based on sid. I did an apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade. It worked fine until I got this message: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libxt-dev: Depends: libxt6 (=4.3.03df

Re: repeated messages in /var/log/syslog from sensord

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: I installed sensord a couple of days ago and since then I am getting these messages repeatedly and I am not sure what to make of them. Should I be worried? If not, then how can I stop these messages(apart from uninstalling sensord)? If yes, what could be wrong? Here is one cycle wh

Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:49:32PM +0100, Katrien de Vos wrote: > The system started windows and > got trouble (endless restarts). I fixed the windows-system by using F8 > and went into the safe mode. This solved (luckily) my windows-problem. > In stead of the SHIFT-key I had to use F8 . Are

Re: delta updates

2004-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:08:54 +0100, Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there ppl, > > i have a debian sid machine that needs to get updated occasionally but the > problem is that it is not connected to the internet. Additionally, I have a > laptop with which i can connect to the intern

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-12-01 Thread Rogério Brito
I think that the following e-mail was meant to be sent to the list: On Nov 30 2004, james derry wrote: > bringing up the homepage of www.msnbc.msn.com crashed my mozilla on linux > and firefox on windows yesterday mid-afternoon. Worked fine for me, but then, that is a dynamic page, and we might h

Re: Xorg and apt-build

2004-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 03:17:33 -0700 (MST), Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I just installed debian testing, and went to install xorg and I > apt-cache search didn't find it, went to the debian site and looked for > packages and didn't find it there either. > > Is it xorg supported

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-12-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 01 2004, s. keeling wrote: > A couple of them have replied to mine, mentioning that woody's old as > dirt, and they're up to their eyeballs trying to bring sarge to > stable. 'Sounds like a fairly reasonable excuse to me. I don't > begrudge them that. But the fact is that I *am* using tes

delta updates

2004-12-01 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi there ppl, i have a debian sid machine that needs to get updated occasionally but the problem is that it is not connected to the internet. Additionally, I have a laptop with which i can connect to the internet through the university network after travelling to the cs department. My question

Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/12/04 12:49), Katrien de Vos wrote: > Yesterday I received 4 CD's of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" for i386. > Enthousiatically I started to install. > I am an experienced Windows XP user and (at home) I have a notebook PC > (Celeron II, 667 MHz). > Partitioning was no problem. I even used

Re: php4 packet on debian stable with enable-dbase option.

2004-12-01 Thread debian
I answer my self... php4-dbase packet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need dbase_open function from php, and php4 is not compiled on debian stable with "enable-dbase" option. I ask my self, if possible to get the packet with "enable-dbase" option compiled. Other solution I think is to make th

Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Katrien de Vos
Yesterday I received 4 CD's of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" for i386. Enthousiatically I started to install. I am an experienced Windows XP user and (at home) I have a notebook PC (Celeron II, 667 MHz). Partitioning was no problem. I even used a second terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F2) to initialize

Re: Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

2004-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 05:40 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > FYI, I finally got the camera working (see millions of earlier emails on > this topic). Congrats! > The solution was simple: add my user to the 'camera' unix group. That's very, very odd. I don't need group "camera". What files/dire

php4 packet on debian stable with enable-dbase option.

2004-12-01 Thread alberto . rodriguez
I need dbase_open function from php, and php4 is not compiled on debian stable with "enable-dbase" option. I ask my self, if possible to get the packet with "enable-dbase" option compiled. Other solution I think is to make the packet my self with this option compiled. Perhaps someone in the lis

Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

2004-12-01 Thread Christian Convey
FYI, I finally got the camera working (see millions of earlier emails on this topic). The solution was simple: add my user to the 'camera' unix group. The things that tripped me up were: - I had the misconception that my camera supported both USB mass storage and the PTP protocol. The truth is

Xorg and apt-build

2004-12-01 Thread Didier Caamano
Hello, I just installed debian testing, and went to install xorg and I apt-cache search didn't find it, went to the debian site and looked for packages and didn't find it there either. Is it xorg supported in Debian? if it's so, do I need to add any line to my source list? if 's not, why is suppor

Re: Wireless nic recommendation ?

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:55:03PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a wireless (b) nic or chipset to use with Debain ? > Either woody, knoppix or ubuntu. > > Thanks > > Matt Joyce > Children's Cancer Institute Australia > http://www.ccia.org.au > Hi Matt, one of the

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Mark Par
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ? > > OR > > Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which > Motherboard's would work with Debian. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/

Re: StarOffice 7

2004-12-01 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-12-01, tjm3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just making sure that the installation was correct. It is a > blank window, not an empty document. Seems like Sun would at > least put some sort of logo here or provide an option to start > the application with a empty default document of my choic

SAMBA 3.0.7 ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER can't be browsed by domain user

2004-12-01 Thread Nirina Michel
Hi all, I am using sarge and samba 3.0.7. I configured samba as a member of a w2K domain and set up a share in /tmp. Now, when I issue the command 'smbclient -L localhost -Uuser_domain%pass' I get NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE but as guest it works 'smbclient -L localhost -U%'. Thank you for your

Re: HTML debloater for reading on PDA

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:32:14AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and > trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and > white PDA? > > "tidy" even with all options turned on isn't aggressive enough. Maybe > I wil

Interesting console message...

2004-12-01 Thread Simon Buchanan
I have a little test box (350 AMD) running sarge... this message spat out on the console: # GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 135168): May lead to memory leak and poor performance. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Question about Dual boot Linux on one box

2004-12-01 Thread Sun Liwen
i think you can install only one grub to boot the two system with editing menu.lst. Do you mean that when i install Debian, I can skip "the boot loader installation" ? skip it or install on the /boot partition of the debian ( root partition instead if you leave a single partition to debian )