OS-Adobe-Macromedia etc All under $15-$99 CDS

2005-05-23 Thread Aloys
What IS OEM software and why do you care? http://xfkly.ls7062leivlai43.sdlkfkb4islo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

offlineimap/dovecot SSL error

2005-05-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm thinking the problem is offlineimap, but I don't really understand what the error message is telling me. In .offlineimaprc, I have set "ssl = yes" so I'm not sure what the problem could be. Can anyone shed some light here? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ offlineimap -o -1 -u TTY.TTYUI OfflineIMAP

Re: 3D gaming

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Majer
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >Hello, > >Does anyone know why FLOSS programmers haven't built superb 3D games, say ones >comparable to titles like 'Halo' or 'Burn-Out'? > >I'm not sure how tough it is to create high-profile games like these two, but >I believe that it can't be as tough as something

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:50:12PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > > > > ... | perl -pe 's/^(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/$1*60**2 + $2*60 + $3/e' > > > >in case the time string represents "hours:min:sec". > >If it's "min:sec.msec" (looks like it to me...), then it'd be > > > > > its actua

Re: SATA HDD compatibility

2005-05-23 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 24 May 2005 05:19:38 -, abhishek basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi, > > I have just bought a PC with the following configuration: > > Intel P4 GHz > Intel D915GAV Motherboard > Seagate Barracuda HDD (80 GB) > Samsung 510N Monitor (TFT) > Transcend 512 MB RAM > Sony C

C Compiler?

2005-05-23 Thread David R. Litwin
This message keeps croping up and giving me heck: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. Some thing to do with perl? It says that it can't find a language (some thing) C or place? Does this make

SATA HDD compatibility

2005-05-23 Thread abhishek basak
  Hi, I have just bought a PC with the following configuration: Intel P4 GHz Intel D915GAV Motherboard Seagate Barracuda HDD (80 GB) Samsung 510N Monitor (TFT) Transcend 512 MB RAM Sony CRX 320E combo drive Please advise as to the suitability of installing debian on the above configuration. I h

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: > I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default > config file. Is there any indication whatsoever that the "default" configuration file is appropriate for your hardware? If you don't know what you're doing, s

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Jardine: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:43:43PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from David Jardine: > > > > > > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just > > > > I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend > > two seconds

[sid] Kernel upgrade made system unbootbale

2005-05-23 Thread Gokul Poduval
Hello,   I just upgraded my computer running sid today (24th May, 2005). This upgraded the kernel (2.6.11-1-686-smp), not now my computer does not boot anymore. After the kernel loads, I get this message Kernel cannot convert a name into device number check your 'root=' argument paseed on boot by

Signature Confirmation - October Name Change - 1 - fujbm

2005-05-23 Thread PetitionOnline
Dear Artie_Effim, This email message is sent to you from PetitionOnline.com to confirm your signature as "Artie_Effim" on the online petition: "October Name Change" hosted on the web by our free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/fujbm/ Your signature on the peti

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Larry Felton Johnson: > keep the folks in my work group > amused with a "Spam of the Week" posting, often involving the stream I recently stumbled across a thread on my local user group list where victims were holding "dick wars" over the highest SA scores they've seen ("mine's bigg

Re: Changes to apt-get

2005-05-23 Thread Glenn Meehan
You could chmod 666 sources.list. But I suspect that the default permissions are set to 644 for a good reason, so you probably ought not go tampering with them. -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:43:43PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from David Jardine: > > > > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just > > I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend > two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers,

Changes to apt-get

2005-05-23 Thread David R. Litwin
How do I make a change to the source.list (for example) with my regular login? I need su privelages. Can it be done from Kate or Kwrite? Or, do I need command-line? If so, how? Thank you kindly.-- —Moose Moose Jam Sausage Meow-Mix.—My Hover-Craft is Full of Eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Ingram
Almut Behrens wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:17:44PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote: (...) this creates a file that looks like this: 00:00.000, 3.24557e+007 00:02.510, 3.23482e+007 00:05.007, 3.24578e+007 00:07.507, 2.77091e+007 ---snip--- I now need to covert the "elapse time" column from t

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Ingram
Paul Smith wrote: %% Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ci> This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you ci> could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file Why would you choose bash to do this? The shell is great for running commands, but it's really

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Vangel
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi The problem is like this. If I post a message to linux.debian.user then it takes about 0.5-1 hour to show up in the news group. The behaviour is same even if I use gmane. But if I am using the mailing list the messages show up immediately. I know this because I

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-23 Thread Josh Rehman
On 5/23/05, André Carezia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No. Look for AllowTcpForwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I don't have permission to read that file - I'll contact the sysadmin. Thanks.

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-23 Thread André Carezia
Josh Rehman wrote: > [...] > I agree. However I'm not sure how to look deeper into my providers > configuration. I'm thinking that some usage of either ps or netstat > could tell me what's going on. No. Look for AllowTcpForwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- André Carezia Eng. de Telecomunicaçõ

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread Larry Felton Johnson
My own approach to spam has been to get very quick with the delete key, and to have a lot of fun with the more bizarre or congenitally stupid spam. I've done a moderate amount of 419 baiting (as Waldo Bundersnuff, ferret rancher, or Louis Napoleon rightful heir to the Empire of France, or Gomer Pi

sarge netinstall and pcmcia-cs

2005-05-23 Thread Dot Deb
I've an old laptop with a CL 6729 pcmcia bridge that is not supported by the kernel pcmcia shipped with the sarge netinstall. Does anybody know if there is a flavour of the debian netinstall with pcmcia compiled as external module (not yenta_socket)? Many thanks, a.

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread Josh Rehman
The ubiquity of spam has been ironically liberating - I no longer make any attempt to hide my email address. I rely on spam filtering and enjoy openness.

CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-23 Thread David R. Litwin
My print manager will not work. Going to http://localhost:631 does not work: It times out with out doing a thing. It used to work. I have downloaded the hpijs 1.7.1 driver for HP DeskJet 842C. I think either this shall be a very easy thing to solve: Or, very hard. Thank you in advance. By the by

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Nick Price: > > Part of the problem is that this list is also a widespread public usenet > group, > and many spammers harvest e-mails from them as well as post spam to > the group itself. And some of us harvest spammers simply by posting to Usenet. How are you going to get the cha

my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi The problem is like this. If I post a message to linux.debian.user then it takes about 0.5-1 hour to show up in the news group. The behaviour is same even if I use gmane. But if I am using the mailing list the messages show up immediately. I know this because I have experimented with two

Re: How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:04:50AM -0400, Bee Jay wrote: > When Sarge becomes stable since I am running Sarge do I just change my > sources from testing to stable? I find Sarge does what I need it to do > and no longer have to have the latest thing. > > Thanks your time Hi Bee, if you track 'uns

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-23 Thread Josh Rehman
On 5/23/05, André Carezia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Josh Rehman wrote:> [...]> Does mod_proxy have some sort of priveledged access to ssh tunnels?> Are you saying that my simple telnet test cannot work ever?Please send your replies to the list. Of course.  Gmail "Reply" does not work correctly wi

Re: local IP and new MAC address

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
michael wrote: I'm trying (again!) to sort this out and can't find any answers so, fingers crossed, one of you guys can help! I have a Broadband connection and my Debian box sits behind a router. I recently upgraded the motherboard so it now has a new MAC address. The router therefore assigns my

Re: local IP and new MAC address

2005-05-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/05/05 00:32), michael wrote: > I'm trying (again!) to sort this out and can't find any answers so, > fingers crossed, one of you guys can help! > > I have a Broadband connection and my Debian box sits behind a router. I > recently upgraded the motherboard so it now has a new MAC address. Th

OpenOffice Writer and Bold text.

2005-05-23 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I'm using openoffice writer. When I select text and apply the bold attribute to that text the text does not exhibit the bold appearance one would expect. When I print the text it does appear bold. Am I missing a font? How can I make the text appear bold on my screen in open office writer

local IP and new MAC address

2005-05-23 Thread michael
I'm trying (again!) to sort this out and can't find any answers so, fingers crossed, one of you guys can help! I have a Broadband connection and my Debian box sits behind a router. I recently upgraded the motherboard so it now has a new MAC address. The router therefore assigns my box as 192.168.0

Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread Nick Price
On 5/23/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from David Jardine: > > > > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just > > I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend > two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers, they'd know

[OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Jardine: > > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers, they'd know I had nothing to do with it. Blast it back to those fools

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Paul Smith
%% Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ci> This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you ci> could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file Why would you choose bash to do this? The shell is great for running commands, but it's really poor at parsing tex

Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:54:15PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from michael: > > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho: > > > > > > > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract > > > > all of the ema

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Colin Ingram wrote: This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file to prepare it for input into a program which will fit the data by a non-linear least squares fitting routine. This program takes input from a file

Re: [OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:17:44PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote: > (...) > > this creates a file that looks like this: > 00:00.000, 3.24557e+007 > 00:02.510, 3.23482e+007 > 00:05.007, 3.24578e+007 > 00:07.507, 2.77091e+007 > ---snip--- > > I now need to covert the "elapse time" column from the strin

Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from michael: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho: > > > > > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract > > > all of the email addresses from the web archive. > > > > It _is_ very easy and many s

Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-23 Thread mike
On Monday 23 May 2005 09:49, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or > I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and > ran update-menus. The new menus show up on other windowmanagers, but > don't under fluxbox. > > Th

[OT] Bash Script Help

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Ingram
This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file to prepare it for input into a program which will fit the data by a non-linear least squares fitting routine. This program takes input from a file containing two column

Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-23 Thread michael
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho: > > > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract > > all of the email addresses from the web archive. > > It _is_ very easy and many spammers do that. > > Your best optio

Wireless presenter: buttons don't work

2005-05-23 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
Hi all! I have a wireless presenter (USB mouse with laser pointer) that isn't recognized well in linux. It has a trackball in the upper side together with 4 buttons: left/right mouse click and PgUp/PgDown. The trackball works fine and (to my surprise) the PgUp/PgDown buttons also. The proble

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-23 Thread André Carezia
Josh Rehman wrote: > [...] > Does mod_proxy have some sort of priveledged access to ssh tunnels? > Are you saying that my simple telnet test cannot work ever? Please send your replies to the list. > internal>[start server on 8080] > internal>[make sure server is listening] > internal>ssh -R 8080

Re: Firefox and MIDI

2005-05-23 Thread Jim Hall
Again, replies are inline. Jim Peter J Ross wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:25:28PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: Replies are inline. Jim Nicos Gollan wrote: On Saturday May 14 2005 05:02, Jim Hall wrote: A user needs MIDI to work in Firefox. I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-686, then ALSA

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ said: > Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing > available for debian? I could not find using apt search. you can use a combination of html2ps and ps2pdf. They are both available as deb packages. - -- /phil

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:59:19PM -0400, Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing > available for debian? I could not find using apt search. You've got HTML to PS. Then PS to PDF is trivial. The GS scripts require an input and output

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:55:09PM -0400, Marty wrote: [...] > After solving my own beep problems I wrote the following command > called "twinke-beeps," (GPL, all rights reserved) which proves that Sarge is > still a contender in state-of-the-art multimedia: > > beep -f 1000 -n -f 10

Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 23/05/05 19:36: |> Here's my kernel configuration: | |> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8$ grep SND |> /usr/src/linus-2.6.8/.config |grep =y Marty, I don't know if it's relevant but did you compile

Samba printer shares list

2005-05-23 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Since upgrading samba from woody to sarge (2.2 -> 3.0), I have the following problem: I can still use my printer shared via cups, but it doesn't show up in the browse list. This is my smb.conf: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.20.20 (192.168.20.20) # Date: 2005/05/2

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread ice.dp
On 5/23/05, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/23/05, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:59 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing > > > available for debian? I could not find using apt search. > > > >

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/05, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:59 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing > > available for debian? I could not find using apt search. > > Have you considered bringing up the file in a browser and

Re: Pausing the scroll (was Re: Small issues, but still annoying)

2005-05-23 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:34:49PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > > Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the > > > word "FATAL" follo

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:59 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing > available for debian? I could not find using apt search. Have you considered bringing up the file in a browser and "printing" it to a pdf file? -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: lvm2 (sid) and pvmove - device-mapper targets

2005-05-23 Thread hmh
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:50:17PM +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > mirror: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel pvmove needs raid1 support in device-mapper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing available for debian? I could not find using apt search. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

lvm2 (sid) and pvmove - device-mapper targets

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Searle
Sid box. Running lvm2. I have the following: /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp on /tmp type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/vg0-usr on /usr type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/vg0-var on /var type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/vg0-local on /local type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/vg0-home on /home type xfs (rw) All working just fine. pvcreate, p

Re: Problem with optical mouse PS/2

2005-05-23 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Hi, Thanks for your comments. But, they dont solve my problem. I googling (search on google) for any commentary and I found a lot of messages on Linux-Kernel, like this http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.1/0005.html If I change my mouse to another one, optico too, I get this

Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 23/05/05 19:36: |> Here's my kernel configuration: | |> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8$ grep SND |> /usr/src/linus-2.6.8/.config |grep =y Marty, I don't know if it's relevant but did you compile your own kernel from

gnupg: can't see my private keys after partition resize

2005-05-23 Thread Mohammad Halawah
Hello guys, I am facing a problem with gnupg, that It doesn't detect my private keys after partition resizing. So when I run the kgpg, my public keys are present but no private keys (i.e. I can't sign any message).At the same time the file "secring.gpg" is 5.6kb which means that it has 5 priv

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hello Alberto, I run 2.6.11-ck8 and 2.6.11.2 with no issues. Both compiled with make-kpkg. Could it be a wrong .config file ? Regards, Ionut On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:11:00PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm running sid > > Alberto > > On May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31P

Re: Install procedures

2005-05-23 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hello Nigel, is this of any help ? Using kbdrate without any options will reset the repeat rate to 10.9 characters per second (cps) and the delay to 250 milliseconds (ms) for Intel- and M68K-based systems. These are the IBM defaults. On SPARC- based systems it

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Kenneth Jacker wrote: martyb> Did you try to "beep" as root? I grabbed the 'beep' package, installed it, and it worked! So, I can now add the invocation of /usr/bin/beep to the 'xalarm' cmmd line. I still wonder why "$ echo ^G" doesn't work in "terminal" windows ... something missing in /et

Re: bluetooth how to?

2005-05-23 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hello Alberto, has your host controler been recognized ? (look into dmesg) Ionut On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to make working the bluetooth of my laptop. > > I read some documentation, and it seems simple... > > - I'm running sid, kern

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Colin wrote: Marty wrote: Did you try to "beep" as root? (I use the program /usr/bin/beep for this test. The reason I ask is because I think once I had to be root to run "beep." I forget what the problem was, probably a permissions issue.) Man! Now that's being a bit paranoid! You need t

Re: How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Bee Jay wrote: When Sarge becomes stable since I am running Sarge do I just change my sources from testing to stable? I find Sarge does what I need it to do and no longer have to have the latest thing. Thanks your time FAQ. The short answer is change your sources to sarge. For more detai

Re: audacity problem: no I/O devices

2005-05-23 Thread Marty
Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 22/05/05 22:19: |> /dev/dsp; no /dev/dsp1 nor /dev/dsp2. Do you know what's using these |> /dev's? Have you run alsaconf, etc. and all is well? | | | Here is where I suspect a problem, since alsaconf fai

Re: kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Alberto Bert
Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm running sid Alberto On May 23, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: > Hi, > > I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default > config file. > > I doesn't boot giving endless loop with and error apparently related > to proc and i

Install procedures

2005-05-23 Thread Nigel
Hi, whoever. I have searched the various forums (hours of work) but I cannot find an answer to the following question. Where in the OSS Unix/Linux is the control of switch debounce for input devices. Reason: during install of a couple of versions of Linux, Debian based or not, I've discovered t

kernel compilation buggy?

2005-05-23 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi, I just tryed to compile the 2.6.22 kernel with make-kpkg and the default config file. I doesn't boot giving endless loop with and error apparently related to proc and init. I cannot be more precise cause I don't know where to find back what it was on the console... Is that a known problem of

Re: problems with a new kernel

2005-05-23 Thread Colin
Marc Jackson wrote: > I'm runing linux-2.4.20. I created a kernel specifiying a 3com NIC. > I was brought a linksys NIC. *sigh* How do I add the tuilip module > to make this NIC work right? Load the *tulip* module if it exists. If not, compile it as a module. My general rule of thumb is that

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Colin
Marty wrote: > Did you try to "beep" as root? (I use the program /usr/bin/beep for > this test. The reason I ask is because I think once I had to be root to > run "beep." I forget what the problem was, probably a permissions issue.) Man! Now that's being a bit paranoid! You need to be root t

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Re: Sources for sarge...

2005-05-23 Thread Bill Day
I guess I fogot to mention I was running sarge which was testing? I seen in another thread to change testing to sarge so Id id and ran the update where originally I recieved this mess: beast:/home/bill# apt-get update Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages [3359kB] Get:2 http://no

Re: Pausing the scroll (was Re: Small issues, but still annoying)

2005-05-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the > > word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I > > am not sure what

Re: Sources for sarge...

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Bill Day: > I got a quite a few errors when I changed all of my stuff in sources.list > from > testing to sarge and unstable to sarge. Below is a copy of my sources.list I've never heard anyone report success in rolling back unstable to testing. Make a backup, get a sarge neti

Re: No "Beep" from PC Speaker

2005-05-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
martyb> Did you try to "beep" as root? I grabbed the 'beep' package, installed it, and it worked! So, I can now add the invocation of /usr/bin/beep to the 'xalarm' cmmd line. I still wonder why "$ echo ^G" doesn't work in "terminal" windows ... something missing in /etc/terminfo/*? Thanks,

Sources for sarge...

2005-05-23 Thread Bill Day
I got a quite a few errors when I changed all of my stuff in sources.list from testing to sarge and unstable to sarge. Below is a copy of my sources.list should I not have changed these? I only ran apt-get update and have not done an apt-get upgrade. With the errors it returned on update o

bluetooth how to?

2005-05-23 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I'm trying to make working the bluetooth of my laptop. I read some documentation, and it seems simple... - I'm running sid, kernel 2.6.11-686. In that kernel the default config options seems to be ok for the bluetooth. - I installed bluez-utils, bluez-hcidump, bluez-firmware - The modu

sdr problems with name resolution...

2005-05-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
I'm having dumb problems with sdr, not sure if it's me or sdr being dumb though... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sdr SDR: getaddrinfo failed, couldn't resolve 'spoon'! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep spoon /etc/hosts 128.30.28.19spoon.csail.mit.edu spoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ host spoon spoon.csail.mit.ed

Re: discover1 vs discover vs discover2 debian installer bug

2005-05-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 23 May 2005 10:22 am, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > Desktop System Setup with Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 'Sarge' located at > http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/desktop-system-setup-debian-sarge.ht >ml#installation mentions this problem abd suggests work around. > > (In Installation section):

rsync fails to connect on kernel 2.6.10 over plip

2005-05-23 Thread hacker
I've successfully used rsync (2.6.4-6) to transfer files over a plip connection via a cable connecting the parallel ports of my desktop and laptop, using kernel 2.4.27. Now, I'm trying to use kernel 2.6.10 and rsync won't establish a connection. root #: rsync mydesktop:: rsync: failed to connect

Re: Java printing on Sarge

2005-05-23 Thread Bill Day
Have you setup a java enviroment for your system yet? It may be as simple as following this page: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch11.html HTH, On Monday May 23 2005 9:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm not sure if this post fits in group, if not please tel

Re: How to make Firefox default to CUPS printer (rather than Xprint spool dir)

2005-05-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/05/05 10:47), Jason Rennie wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:47:42 -0400 > Subject: Re: How to make Firefox default to CUPS printer (rather than Xprint > spool dir) > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:57:02PM -0400, Pa

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/05/05 08:20), s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from A Mennucc: > > > > I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge > > overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches > > > > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any > > other application > > that draws white char

Re: Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System-No Problem!

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Thanks to everyone who patiently helped me to remove all my scepticism about defragging a linux system. I am convinced and Carlos Rodrigues' explanation of how a linux/unix fs works went a long way in doing this. I'm going to remove/purge e2defrag from my HD and just forget about defragging alt

Re: How to make Firefox default to CUPS printer (rather than Xprint spool dir)

2005-05-23 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:57:02PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Purge xprint, unless you have some use for it. That fixed the problem, but created a new one. Now, when I hit Ctrl+P, there's a 12 second delay before the print window pops up. And Firefox is "frozen" during those 12 seconds. Any

gnome/metacity - customizing window menu

2005-05-23 Thread michael
I've failed to find a suitably informative link about how to personalize the window menu under Gnome/Metacity. eg in fvwm2 you can maximize-horizontally -- how do i get this option on all my windows? Thanks, -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from A Mennucc: > > I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge > overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches > > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any > other application > that draws white chars over black background, is much worse > > I attach a

Re: K3b

2005-05-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Dennis Stosberg wrote: | Am 23.05.2005 um 06:53 schrieb Michael Satterwhite: | | |>Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window. |>Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock |>the project window with the main window. There has got to be a way to |>put

Re: discover1 vs discover vs discover2 debian installer bug

2005-05-23 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:30 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 10:04 am, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > discover issues: > > > > I have seen references to /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom2 not being created > > as a result of a bug in discover. > > > > > apt-cache show discover1 is what i

Pausing the scroll (was Re: Small issues, but still annoying)

2005-05-23 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > Hi, > > Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the > word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I > am not sure what the FATAL error message is as it goes out of my screen > way t

Re: firefox and mozilla fail to pring if papersize is incorrect, is there a fix?

2005-05-23 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Default papersize for firefox: set print.postscript.paper_size in /etc/mozilla-firefox/pref/firefox.js I did not try, but it should work. On the other hand, you should set the printers to scale the document if the paper size is different. Think of guest notebooks. Regards, Ionut On Mon, May 23,

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:32:55AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > I do plan to start up a more structural package checking effort after > Sarge is released, hopefully addressing at least part of your concerns. Bring back the maintainer ping! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread David Dorward
On 5/23/05, Bee Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When Sarge becomes stable since I am running Sarge do I just change my > sources from testing to stable? I find Sarge does what I need it to do > and no longer have to have the latest thing. Change "testing" to "sarge" now. Then you'll be tracking

How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread Bee Jay
When Sarge becomes stable since I am running Sarge do I just change my sources from testing to stable? I find Sarge does what I need it to do and no longer have to have the latest thing. Thanks your time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

firefox and mozilla fail to pring if papersize is incorrect, is there a fix?

2005-05-23 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
I do not have xprint installed. I encountered a problem with the latest firefox and mozilla (in sarge and sid). Both firefox and/or mozilla fail to print to a remote cups server if paper size specified in File > Print > Properties is different from the paper size configuration of the printer the j

Java printing on Sarge

2005-05-23 Thread bo_kid
Hello all, I'm not sure if this post fits in group, if not please tell me. I'm a newbie when it comes to debian, so please bear with me. I have problem printing from a java when updated to Sarge. The printer list is almost emty! It only contains one printer that cannot be accessed! The same java

problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-23 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and ran update-menus. The new menus show up on other windowmanagers, but don't under fluxbox. They don't seem to be listed properly in either /etc/X11/flux

Re: Sarge

2005-05-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/05/05 08:07), John Moran wrote: > I need to download the latest sarge iso and do a new install and went to > the website to get it. I'm just a little confused as to what to > download. There is a testing release dates May 22 and a sarge release > dated april 27. Is sarge still testing or

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