Re: Determining a device

2005-01-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:15:45 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to get my Canon LiDE 20 scanner working. So far it works, > kind of. I can find it with lsusb. When I run xsane as a normal user it > cannot find the device. However when I run xsane as root it does

Re: usb problem: usb system refuses to recognize hardware

2005-01-04 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:45, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem. Up to now, I have user digikam to copy pictures > from a ptp compliant camera to my HD. Somehow, suddenly the usb > system in this computer won't properly function anymore. All I have > done is a dist-upgrade

Re: [OT] Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:33 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:28:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:24 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > William Ballard wrote: > > [snip] > > > "Y'know, having Debian experience with Perl and Python on my resume in > >

Re: usb problem: usb system refuses to recognize hardware

2005-01-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:45:51 +0100, Frank Van Damme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have a problem. Up to now, I have user digikam to copy pictures from a ptp > compliant camera to my HD. Somehow, suddenly the usb system in this computer > won't properly function anymore. All I have

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread Sue Spence
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:53 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: Well nothing really out of ordinary, I think, with grub and lilo, as you know. So basically I run Solaris 10 (build 72 now) for Intel (dev environment), XP (fooling around), Linux (main system). I thought SunOS was killed 12

Re: kernel 2.6.9.2-k7 and ne2k-pci

2005-01-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:14:44 -0500, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have upgraded to 2.6.9.2-k7. I find i have to: > > $> modprobe ne2k-pci > > then > > $> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.194 up > > to get eth0 to work. > > i have tried > > $> depmod -a > > too and then > > $>

sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-04 Thread mailmanmike
Sorry if this has been covered, search function gets no result... I have been running sarge flawlessly since May 2004, doing regular apt-get dist-upgrades. Today, dist-upgrade included over 100 MBs of mostly KDE stuff, and others... anyway it finished without errors, when I rebooted, the key

Re: Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread YH
Thanks Kent for your kind reply. I'll try to install sarge. Apologize for my ignorant offense to the list. Peace. YH Kent West wrote: YH wrote: Hi, Is sarge stable to install? Depends on your criteria. For personal workstation use, I find even Sid to be stable enough for my needs, and that way I

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-04 Thread Muhammad Reza
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 05:19 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 02:16 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: debian:/usr/src/linux# lspci :00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master I

Raid 10, mdadm, mdadm-raid problem

2005-01-04 Thread Roger Ellison
I've been having an enjoyable time tinkering with software raid with Sarge and the RC2 installer. The system boots fine with Raid 1 for /boot and Raid 5 for /. I decided to experiment with Raid 10 for /opt since there's nothing there to destroy :). Using mdadm to create a Raid 0 array from two R

Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 > 2.4.27-6

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:10:11 +0100, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 03:27:57PM -0500, Michael Murphy wrote: >> After upgrading, the computer ran so slowly that it was as if I were >> trying to run on a '486. On boot, the lines *crawled* up the screen >> in shifting waves. Possibly

Re: [OT] Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:28:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:24 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > William Ballard wrote: > [snip] > > "Y'know, having Debian experience with Perl and Python on my resume in Las > > Vegas really doesn't have the jobs rolling in. I mean, most pe

[OT] Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:24 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > William Ballard wrote: [snip] > "Y'know, having Debian experience with Perl and Python on my resume in Las > Vegas really doesn't have the jobs rolling in. I mean, most people here want Why do so many people persist in moving to deserts? I

Re: ACPI battery state doesn't get updated

2005-01-04 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 03 January 2005 04:05 pm, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Dear list, > > after installing Debian on an old IBM Thinkpad > everything seems to be working fine, except that > the battery state is constant, i.e. it is read > once correctly at bootup and doesn't change > afterwards. On the other han

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:01 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 08:43 pm, Seeker5528 wrote: > > > There are the Indian Tribes with the related occasional political > > squabbles over casinos and fishing rights. > > Yup, here in Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Re: Some questions from new debian user

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:16 +0300, Serge Matveev wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:46:53 + (GMT) Thomas Adam wrote: > TA> --- Serge Matveev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - How I can setup font lookup order in X. If I have two fonts with > >> the > >> same alias (9x16 by example) - o

Re: Compiling Vanilla 2.4.22 Kernel Help Needed

2005-01-04 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:58 -0500, PHANI ARAVA wrote: > I tried to get that patch but never found it .. I tried to google for it and > still didnt get it > > I have made the initrd image but still i suppose iam still getting a kernel > panic > > Phani Kumar Arava > Grad Student

kernel 2.6.9.2-k7 and ne2k-pci

2005-01-04 Thread Harland Christofferson
i have upgraded to 2.6.9.2-k7. I find i have to: $> modprobe ne2k-pci then $> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.194 up to get eth0 to work. i have tried $> depmod -a too and then $> modprobe ne2k-pci and reboot but the module still does not load as seen w/ $> lsmod how may i repair this so i

Re: Compiling Vanilla 2.4.22 Kernel Help Needed

2005-01-04 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 20:09 -0500, PHANI ARAVA wrote: > Hi, > > Iam having a big and strange problem > > I have Installed Debian Sarge on to the systems of our research lab > I have to implement a patch onto 2.4.22 kernel (vannila) I patched it and > compiled the kernel the deb way (Forgot to te

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
I was really hoping this non-Debian-related thread would have died by now . . . . -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling Vanilla 2.4.22 Kernel Help Needed

2005-01-04 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 04:09 pm, PHANI ARAVA wrote: > Hi, > > Iam having a big and strange problem > > I have Installed Debian Sarge on to the systems of our research lab > I have to implement a patch onto 2.4.22 kernel (vannila) I patched it > and compiled the kernel the deb way (Forgot to tel

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
I just gave the first example that came to my mind, there are others, I'm sure. I know that from time to time it did frustrate me to see software I knew to be released, but not being available yet with apt. Concerning the specifics as to why Gnome 2.8 was or was not there fast enough... Do not

Re: Package includes a .desktop but no /usr/lib/menu/{foo} file

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:01:15PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote: > > Running update-menus does not add a menu entry for this. > > In that case it's a simple matter to add the line > > [exec] (foo) {/usr/bin/foo} > > to your fluxbox menu file. > > Of course, if you do this, you'll want to name the m

Re: User environment and gdm/xdm

2005-01-04 Thread Serge Matveev
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:01:52 + (GMT) Thomas Adam wrote: TA> This was hashed out many months ago here, with some (quite frankly) TA> idiotic suggestions about changing the init sequence. By environment I TA> assume you mean environment vars? In which case put them in TA> "~/.bash_profile" an

Re: Package includes a .desktop but no /usr/lib/menu/{foo} file

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Pack
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:54 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:49:47PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:31 pm, William Ballard wrote: > > > Freeguide packages a .desktop in /usr/share/applications > > > but nothing in /usr/lib/menu, so I don't hav

popa3d auth problem

2005-01-04 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, I have a mailbox size problem with popa3d. Using debian woody with popa3d for our pop server. I have a user 'user1' that has complained of a invalid password... on checking the /var/log/syslog, i found this: Jan 5 14:40:01 intranet popa3d[9246]: Authentication passed for user1 Jan 5

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 00:32, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > One thing I still don't like about Debian is the time it takes to get > new versions of major packages, even on "unstable" or "testing" (think: > Gnome 2.8). The other side of that coin is that the package maintainers > DO keep their eyes on t

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:56:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yeah, except for northeast Portland, which is almost entirely black. > Multnomah County also contains a lot of rural areas far from the city > and the north face of Mt. Hood. It's an extremely large county > geographically for it'

Compiling Vanilla 2.4.22 Kernel Help Needed

2005-01-04 Thread PHANI ARAVA
Hi, Iam having a big and strange problem I have Installed Debian Sarge on to the systems of our research lab I have to implement a patch onto 2.4.22 kernel (vannila) I patched it and compiled the kernel the deb way (Forgot to tell u that i have copied the config file that came with Sarge). I in

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread p
> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:26 pm, Kent West wrote: > > > My personal opinion? Skip Testing and go straight to Sid. __deletia__ > > You also get newer toys to play with. > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:26:31PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote: > I like toys. :) > __deletia__ // ...same here. i

Re: cdimage.debian.org down ?

2005-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
J.F.Gratton wrote: > I'm trying to d/l an up-to-date image of the ISOs with the debian- > installer. All the links on the Debian Project home page point to > http://cdimage.debian.org . For the past 10 hours I've tried connecting > on the server; the connection times out. > > Anyone knows anything

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 03:59 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:32:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 03 January 2005 11:44 am, William Ballard wrote: > > > > > Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I'll live in the > > > 90% white city. Then yo

Re: Package includes a .desktop but no /usr/lib/menu/{foo} file

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:49:47PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:31 pm, William Ballard wrote: > > Freeguide packages a .desktop in /usr/share/applications > > but nothing in /usr/lib/menu, so I don't have a menu entry for it. > > > > I use fluxbox. Is there something I

Re: SDL sound not working (ALSA, kernel 2.6.1)

2005-01-04 Thread Adam Aube
Dan Lenski wrote: > Hi, I have already installed libsdl1.2debian-all, so I should have all > the possible SDL sound drivers installed. Any other ideas? I had similar problems with libsdl1.2debian-alsa; the workaround posted in bug #285074 solved the problem for me. Perhaps it will also work for

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:54 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I know nothing about digital cameras. My daughter suddenly shows up > with one and I google for the brand (I forget it now) and the site > shows only XP info, I tell her: no support for your camera. Might try adding "linux" to any

Re: Package includes a .desktop but no /usr/lib/menu/{foo} file

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Pack
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:31 pm, William Ballard wrote: > Freeguide packages a .desktop in /usr/share/applications > but nothing in /usr/lib/menu, so I don't have a menu entry for it. > > I use fluxbox. Is there something I can install which will > automatically add a menu entry for this for m

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Pack
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:32 pm, J.F.Gratton wrote: > My 2 cents on this: I've been using unstable branches/testing for the > last couple of years now, and only once did I see broken packages that > stuck me there badly (you know, some combination of libc+perl+dpkg, or > something that lethal).

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:24:41PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > >I'm not saying "people are incapable of treating each other nicely." > >I'm just saying is that some areas of the country, people get more > >opportunities to succeed or fail than others. > > Yeah? And?

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Pack
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:23 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:37 am, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > > Having lost two mailboxes to the the "Swem-worm flood", I do > > not willingly post my true address to any public forum. > > Munging is considered harmful, get your mail admin t

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
My 2 cents on this: I've been using unstable branches/testing for the last couple of years now, and only once did I see broken packages that stuck me there badly (you know, some combination of libc+perl+dpkg, or something that lethal). Even then, with some fancy pussyfooting I managed to repair eve

Package includes a .desktop but no /usr/lib/menu/{foo} file

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
Freeguide packages a .desktop in /usr/share/applications but nothing in /usr/lib/menu, so I don't have a menu entry for it. I use fluxbox. Is there something I can install which will automatically add a menu entry for this for me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Pack
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:26 pm, Kent West wrote: > My personal opinion? Skip Testing and go straight to Sid. You have more > chance of breakage (although it's been very rare in my experience (about > 3 years now)), but said breakage also tends to get fixed within hours > instead of 10 days. S

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: I'm not saying "people are incapable of treating each other nicely." I'm just saying is that some areas of the country, people get more opportunities to succeed or fail than others. Yeah? And? This is news? Of course you're not taking it the way I'm taking it. I'm

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:37 am, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > Having lost two mailboxes to the the "Swem-worm flood", I do > not willingly post my true address to any public forum. Munging is considered harmful, get your mail admin to reject viruses the right way. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/m

Printer outputting raw postscript

2005-01-04 Thread Tony Parsons
Hi, I was just setting up my dads computer with Sarge when I ran into a problem with the printing. We're using CUPS, just a basic installation thus far. I was setting it up using KDE Printing Manager, and when it came to trying the test page, all it did was output "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%BoundingBox:

Re: Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Robert
>Alvin Smith writes: >> To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a >> product with a Black African "sounding" name or not. >What a loony notion. >John Hasler Why loony? It hits the nail on the head. As I understand the original question was whether "Ubuntu" is a good

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:10:26PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > But then, I'm a white male and wouldn't know how to treat other people > fairly. It's genetic according to the likes of you. Okay, okay, okay. Persist in your self-delusion. The dutch thought they were tolerant too. I'm not sayi

cdimage.debian.org down ?

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
Me again.. :) I'm trying to d/l an up-to-date image of the ISOs with the debian- installer. All the links on the Debian Project home page point to http://cdimage.debian.org . For the past 10 hours I've tried connecting on the server; the connection times out. Anyone knows anything about this ? J

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
It is the same: [19:03:35] reykjavik (grajea01) (~) : uname -a SunOS reykjavik.dnsalias.net 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5 [19:03:37] reykjavik (grajea01) (~) : I don't know all the historical details, but up to 2.6 the OS could be called SunOS 2.5.x. After that it was Sun

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: Plus we had forced bussing, which engineered a 50% white/black distribution in every school. My idea of diversity is to see as many black people as I see white. Then here's a suggestion; tell 'em to stop killing each other and pump a few more out if that's your goal. B

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 11:07 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > Hmm, I thought he was most notable for the state-wide Urban Growth > Boundaries (a good thing) and for all the out of state businesses he > convinced to relocate to Oregon, the beginnings of the > 'Californication' so many Oregonians were

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 08:43 pm, Seeker5528 wrote: > There are the Indian Tribes with the related occasional political > squabbles over casinos and fishing rights. Yup, here in Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are going head to head with the State because they want to bulldoz

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:32:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 11:44 am, William Ballard wrote: > > > Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I'll live in the > > 90% white city. Then you can demonstrate your "tolerance" and I'll > > moralize at you. > > B

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:53 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Well nothing really out of ordinary, I think, with grub and lilo, as you > know. > > So basically I run Solaris 10 (build 72 now) for Intel (dev > environment), XP (fooling around), Linux (main system). I thought SunOS was killed 12 years ag

usb problem: usb system refuses to recognize hardware

2005-01-04 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hello, I have a problem. Up to now, I have user digikam to copy pictures from a ptp compliant camera to my HD. Somehow, suddenly the usb system in this computer won't properly function anymore. All I have done is a dist-upgrade with target Sarge recently, this is a system that largely runned

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... I know nothing about digital cameras. My daughter suddenly shows up with one and I google for the brand (I forget it now) and the site shows only XP info, I tell her: no support for your camera. Was I wrong? You mean I plug it in anyway and it might work? it's fairly

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 11:44 am, William Ballard wrote: > Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I'll live in the > 90% white city. Then you can demonstrate your "tolerance" and I'll > moralize at you. Been there, done that. Lived in Northeast Portland, which is predominantly

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: My personal opinion? Skip Testing and go straight to Sid. You have more chance of breakage (although it's been very rare in my experience (about 3 years now)), but said breakage also tends to get fixed within hours instead of 10 days. Same for vulnerabilities. Or a nice alte

Re: acidlab/php problem

2005-01-04 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
You know another fine point to look first when having a problem might be the developer maintaining the package itself. That would be myself. From what I gleen from this email it's not enough and I don't recall having yet seen a BTS entry from you so don't have any further info to help from.

Re: X problem - desktop too big for screen size.

2005-01-04 Thread grahams
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:35:50PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Changed monitor and am back running X after a dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. > > Problem is the windows are way too big for the 1024 x 780 resolution, > and the desktop does not fit into the screen. does the screen scroll

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Kent West
rich wrote: First up, I'm running testing on my laptop & want some clarification regarding how secure this is. I know it is not monitored in any way for security problems & as such security problems are not fixed on it - however stable is no good to me since my laptop won't boot any 2.4 kernels, a

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers [Solved]

2005-01-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:05:51PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On Tue 4 January 2005 16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:22:30PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > > But, you can create a user.js file in the same directory as > > > prefs.js and add the following line to it (wi

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:54 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Chuk Goodin wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez > >> > >> > >>>Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in > >>>Windows. To s

Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread rich
Hi, I know these type of questions are asked a lot but there's a couple of things I don't get & I haven't been able to find an answer using google or searching the message archives. First up, I'm running testing on my laptop & want some clarification regarding how secure this is. I know it is no

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Chuk Goodin wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in Windows. To start with, there is no need to install extra software. You simply plug in your camera and i

acidlab/php problem

2005-01-04 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[sarge/testing; 2.6.8-1-686-smp snort-mysql-2.2.0-9 acidlab-0.9.6b20-10 php4-mysql-4:4.3.10-2 apache-ssl-1.3.33-2 mysql-server/mysql-common- 4.0.22-6 ... ] I've tried about everything (including multiple installs of 'mysql', 'php4', and 'snort') I can think of, but no luck. So am turning to d-u

Re: [SOLVED] dist-upgrade > broken modem

2005-01-04 Thread Gordon Schumacher
I saw your post about the Ricochet modem - you put me on the right track, and the good news is that I've been in contact with the guys on the linux-usb-devel list. I've suspected for a long time that the Ricochet modem is buggy hardware, and now we've got proof... it turns out that it's flagra

Re: User environment and gdm/xdm

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Serge Matveev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a "debian way" to set up some user environment preferences > if I > log in with gdm? I mean %PATH, by example. This was hashed out many months ago here, with some (quite frankly) idiotic suggestions about changing the init sequence. By

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 22:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Chuk Goodin wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez > > > > > Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in > > > Windows. To start with, there is no need to install ext

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
Well nothing really out of ordinary, I think, with grub and lilo, as you know. So basically I run Solaris 10 (build 72 now) for Intel (dev environment), XP (fooling around), Linux (main system). To make it a bit worse: on linux I run VMWare so there I can also run SunOS 5.9 and XP, albeit simulta

User environment and gdm/xdm

2005-01-04 Thread Serge Matveev
Is there a "debian way" to set up some user environment preferences if I log in with gdm? I mean %PATH, by example. [EMAIL PROTECTED] spb ru Serge Matveev & ... ICQ 3575357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Chuk Goodin wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez > > > Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in > > Windows. To start with, there is no need to install extra software. > > You simply plug in your camera and if it

Re: ACPI battery state doesn't get updated

2005-01-04 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jan C. Nordholz_, on 03/01/05 20:05,typed: Dear list, after installing Debian on an old IBM Thinkpad everything seems to be working fine, except that the battery state is constant, i.e. it is read once correctly at bootup and doesn't change afterwards. On the other hand, the ACPI syste

Re: Some questions from new debian user

2005-01-04 Thread Serge Matveev
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:46:53 + (GMT) Thomas Adam wrote: TA> --- Serge Matveev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I installed Debian testing (after about year timeout) and now I have >> some questions: >> - Right after install gdm displayed self on my language (Russian), >> but >> aft

Re: Determining a device

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:15 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I'm attempting to get my Canon LiDE 20 scanner working. So far it > works, > kind of. I can find it with lsusb. When I run xsane as a normal user it > cannot find the device. However when I run xsane as root it does find it. > xsan

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:13 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Elimar, Roberto, Danke/gracias. > > I don't plan on gaming much on Linux, it's more my development > environment than anything else. I do play some games on XP (the machine > triple-boots Linux/XP/SunOS). If worse comes to worse, I still have

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:22:30PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > But, you can create a user.js file in the same directory as > > prefs.js and add the following line to it (without Thunderbird > > running): > > > > user_pref("mailnews.headers.sho

Re: snd-bt-sco.ko modprobe success?

2005-01-04 Thread ms419
On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Markus Becker wrote: Hello, I have seen your posting to debian-users. Currently I'm trying to get this running as well on a debian machine, but I have several problems: 1) When doing make in the kernel subdirectory, /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-686/source is not available. Fo

Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 > 2.4.27-6

2005-01-04 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 03:27:57PM -0500, Michael Murphy wrote: > After upgrading, the computer ran so slowly that it was as if I were > trying to run on a '486. On boot, the lines *crawled* up the screen > in shifting waves. Also, the soundcard couldn't be found and alsa > didn't load. I restor

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Chuk Goodin
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez > Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in > Windows. To start with, there is no need to install extra software. > You simply plug in your camera and if it is recognized (by a program > like gPhoto), it will Just Work(T

ulimit problem

2005-01-04 Thread Dipl.-Ing. Martin Lorenz
Dear gurus on this list, I use linux since kernel 0.93 and went through quite a lot of ups and downs but this is something I simply don't understand: for running vmware I needed to increase the limit for open files. ok, ulimit -n is restricted for non-root. I could do a su , ulimit -n and su back

Re: Obtain diploma degree

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Pack
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:42 pm, Alvin Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:35 pm, David P James wrote: > > On Tue 4 January 2005 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I cant get into any of the university sites Steve > > > > I don't know whether to laugh or cry... > > > > On a more se

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:22:30PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On Tue 4 January 2005 14:42, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've installed Thunderbird on Sarge from the testing repository. > > This is an experiment for me. I notice that the normal display > > gives almost no information about where an e

Determining a device

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
I'm attempting to get my Canon LiDE 20 scanner working. So far it works, kind of. I can find it with lsusb. When I run xsane as a normal user it cannot find the device. However when I run xsane as root it does find it. xsane's help suggests this is because of a permissions problem on the

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
Elimar, Roberto, Danke/gracias. I don't plan on gaming much on Linux, it's more my development environment than anything else. I do play some games on XP (the machine triple-boots Linux/XP/SunOS). If worse comes to worse, I still have the on-board controller which sucks big time, but... Thanks fo

Re: Maple 9.5 interfaces on Debian box

2005-01-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, I have just installed Maple 9.5(2) on my Sarge box: 1] I have some trouble with the keyboard when I use the classical interface (Motif); My guess was that the issue is classical. I have trouble with the keyboard: 1] the

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> ps aux | grep [l]pr > >>> > >>> This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", > >>> but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. > >> > >> Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ps aux | grep [l]pr >>> >>> This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", >>> but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. >> >> Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one >> character exactly the same as the character b

Re: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 15:14), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > This is the output of the command > > > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > > > hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr > > > root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684

Unidentified subject!

2005-01-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:27:46 -0500From: Icebiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK > > (stuff deleted) > > ... for your ethernet controller > ... > (got a DI 604 too, wonderful little box). > > /icebiker I saw a Dlink DI-604 in a local sto

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > > example: > > > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > > > This still lists all the processes that c

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > example: > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", but > it will not match the grep p

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".

2005-01-04 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Wednesday 29 December 2004 00:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Thanks. I added that to the append="..." in /etc/lilo.conf and it fixed the problem. Just out of curiosity, why did this become necessary (for my hardware at least) bet

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 the mental interface of J.F.Gratton told: > > Hi, > > I just went on ATI's site, on the site it informed that their binary- > only drivers have been tested on kernels 2.4.x. The FAQ said something > like development for 2.6.x kernels is still underway. > > Since most ABIs ar

Re: ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting "J.F.Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I just went on ATI's site, on the site it informed that their binary- > only drivers have been tested on kernels 2.4.x. The FAQ said something > like development for 2.6.x kernels is still underway. > > Since most ABIs are different on 2.4

ATI Radeon 9200 / 9600 on a 2.6.x kernel

2005-01-04 Thread J.F.Gratton
Hi, I just went on ATI's site, on the site it informed that their binary- only drivers have been tested on kernels 2.4.x. The FAQ said something like development for 2.6.x kernels is still underway. Since most ABIs are different on 2.4 and 2.6 and that module handling does not work the same way,

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 14:42, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've installed Thunderbird on Sarge from the testing repository. > This is an experiment for me. I notice that the normal display > gives almost no information about where an email came from and > when I expand the headers of an email from this li

A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > This is the output of the command > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr > > root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684 pts/1R+ 18:03 0:00 grep lpr > > hjem:~# > > > > Is thi

Re: How to skip installing one package.

2005-01-04 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:11:00AM +0800, Franki wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've a recent convert to Debian from RH and MDK, and this is my first > trip down the dpkg/apt-get route. > > I have setup a mail server using debian woody and several packages from > backports.org, however one package I cou

Re: How to skip installing one package.

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi guys, > > I've a recent convert to Debian from RH and MDK, and this is my first > trip down the dpkg/apt-get route. > Good for you. > I have setup a mail server using debian woody and several packages from > backports.org, however one package I couldn'

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