Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joe On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. i assume you mean: /vmlinuz and there is no such thing in linux as \vmlinuz as far as the kernel file itself though you can name it anything you like it c

Re: removeltmodem

2005-06-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 16:10 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: > > How do I purge this package without it calling the script (or > > alternatively, any links to info on how to get this to work would be > > useful too!)? Here's the output: > > > You can edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/ltmodem.prerm, and e

Re: SoundCard Problem

2005-06-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit, a 24/06/05 03:20: > > tried compiling latest alsa source...downloaded kernel source ... > but make doesn't work ...complains about some memory allocation issues, > in coda.h and some other header files.. > any ideas??? > > > What kernel are you using? Is it 2.

Re: Gnome doesn't see user's PATH

2005-06-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of > user's environment vars, specifically PATH? Sure... because gdm isn't a shell, neither is metacity, or the panel, or any other part of Gnome with the possible exception

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration -- Do NOT do that!

2005-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:12, Paul D. Bain wrote: > > I am not an expert on network security, but, IIRC, putting a web server > on the same physical box as a firewall is an incredibly _bad_ idea, at > least from a security point of view. Why? Well, if your web server is > compromised (via th

Re: cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files

2005-06-23 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
H. S. wrote (Friday 24 June 2005 8:23 am): > While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting around > 728MB of wav files from the original. If I understand the process correctly, this is entirely normal. You see, a given CD can either have up to 700MB of data or up to 80mins of audi

Re: cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday June 23 2005 3:23 pm, H. S. wrote: > While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting > around 728MB of wav files from the original. I am using grip to rip > the CD using the cdda2wav command. The rip command in grip is: > -D %C -x -t %t -L 1 -O wav %w Are you ripping at a

Re: chinese fonts too small

2005-06-23 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
On Friday 24 June 2005 00:14, Cam wrote: > Hi, > > There's been a problem that has bugged me for a while now (just not > enough to do anything about earlier). Chinese fonts on my desktop > are too small! The english fonts are fine, so i don't want to make > them any bigger. Is there anyway to ma

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Re: ALSA: no sound, no error! -- Solved

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
[KS] wrote: > Colin wrote: > >>[KS] wrote: >> >> >> >>>I did that too. After reboot, I can hear noise when I do cat >>>/dev/urandom > /dev/dsp. But the sound stops working as soon as I login >>>to KDE! I notice that after I log into KDE, I have to stop alsa, remove >>>the file from /var/lib/alsa a

Re: hardware autodetect

2005-06-23 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Petri Varsa wrote: Hello, does anybody know how to rerun the hardware autodetect program that is executed when you install sarge? thanks, -petri I'm assuming you mean hotplug and discover: /etc/init.d/hotplug restart /etc/init.d/discover restart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

gvm, pmount, loopback

2005-06-23 Thread David Purton
Hi all, I finally got around to installing a 2.6 kernel and got hald and gnome-volume-manager playing nicely. There does not seem to be any way to mount a disk image, though. And even when you mount it as root, gnome does not appear to treat it as a removable medium. It would nice to get Mac OS

Re: Sarge in vmware == 0.000 MHz

2005-06-23 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
John Kelly wrote: Have you seen ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/readme.txt which says: Work around problem when cpu MHz is reported as '0.000 MHz' Looks like Petr's update 91 has a fix to work around the problem. Yes, but that's meant to vmware running on a Linux host (patch to the kernel modu

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

2005-06-23 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I just upgraded from the 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel, now LinuxOLD on my LILO menu, to the 2.6.8 686 kernel available from sarge. Unfortunately the 2.6 kernel gives me the f

Re: Finding the origin of a package installed by APT

2005-06-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:47:04PM +0100, Steven J. Murdoch wrote: > My current machine has a number of packages installed from backports > which no longer exist, so will not be upgraded should there be any > security problems. I am about to reinstall my machine so would like to > avoid this in the

Re: removeltmodem

2005-06-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:47:00PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I tried installing the ltmodem-2.6.8-1-686 package, during install with > apt-get it calls a script that failed. So I'm trying to remove it, and > it calls a script again, which fails. When I try to apt-get install > s

Re: devmapper mount names

2005-06-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Joel Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > A basic question that I can't seem to find an answer to (maybe not so > basic?). > > Using LVM and therefore devmapper, the volume names are such that they > are accessible under /dev/mapper/-. Likewise, these > names are used in repor

Re: SoundCard Problem

2005-06-23 Thread ankur . kumar
tried compiling latest alsa source...downloaded kernel source ... but make doesn't work ...complains about some memory allocation issues, in coda.h and some other header files.. any ideas??? Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22/06/2005 03:52 PM          

Re: Sarge in vmware == 0.000 MHz

2005-06-23 Thread John Kelly
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:30:53 +0100, Carlos Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >weird output in /proc/cpuinfo, like "cpu MHz: 0.000" Have you seen ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/readme.txt which says: > Work around problem when cpu MHz is reported as '0.000 MHz' Looks like Petr's update 91 has a f

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

2005-06-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > >I just upgraded from the 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel, now LinuxOLD on my > > LILO menu, to the 2.6.8 686 kernel available from sarge. > > Unfortunately the 2.6 kernel gives me the following panic: > > >

Re: APT can't recognize Packages.gz?

2005-06-23 Thread Mr Mike
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 04:29 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > > > I'm learning a little something new about apt and dpkg and the like > > every day here in this list... But I have a question about this one. > > > > I have a directory full

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration -- Do NOT do that!

2005-06-23 Thread Paul D. Bain
Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to add tomcat4 into my existing apache2 system so that I can experiment with java (in the form of servlets and jsp). Although in reality I only have a single computer, for learning purposes I want to similate the situation where I have potentially split web and

Re: annoying iptables messages

2005-06-23 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 06:37:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Alban Browaeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Le Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:39:07 -0400, Jeff Elkins a écrit > > : > > > > > I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages > > that are clogging up > > > the console and dme

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:19, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > I have docs to do that. It was on a redhat server, there shouldn't be > any problems doing the same on debian. The only problem is that the doc > is in french... can you read french? No need - I am going with mod_jk - see other posts above

Sarge in vmware == 0.000 MHz

2005-06-23 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Hi! I have Sarge installed in VMware (Workstation 5, Windows XP as host). I changed "/boot/grub/menu.lst" so that "noapic nolapic clock=pit" is passed to the kernel on boot. This solves the problem with the clock running too slow (well, mostly anyway). But... this "fix" causes some weird out

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 23 June 2005 22:11, Mark Lowe wrote: > If you're up for compliling jk and for that matter apache then there's > no problem using apache2 and jk.. But you'd lose the benefit of the > package management that is a big plus with debian.. You misunderstand me - the link you gave below build

Re: annoying iptables messages

2005-06-23 Thread ephemeroot
Quoting Alban Browaeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:39:07 -0400, Jeff Elkins a écrit > : > > > I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages > that are clogging up > > the console and dmesg. To my firewall script I've > added: > > > > echo 0 > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netf

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
Colin wrote: > [KS] wrote: > > >>I did that too. After reboot, I can hear noise when I do cat >>/dev/urandom > /dev/dsp. But the sound stops working as soon as I login >>to KDE! I notice that after I log into KDE, I have to stop alsa, remove >>the file from /var/lib/alsa and start alsa again to g

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Colin
[KS] wrote: > I did that too. After reboot, I can hear noise when I do cat > /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp. But the sound stops working as soon as I login > to KDE! I notice that after I log into KDE, I have to stop alsa, remove > the file from /var/lib/alsa and start alsa again to get sound working > a

Re: About blackdown

2005-06-23 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 17:21 -0400, Tong a écrit : > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:01:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > Obviously all this from standard debian packages if that is possible > > I've noticed that many of the answers for this thread suggest to avoid the > blackdown. Any justificatio

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > VFS: Cannot open rootdevice "301" or 30:01 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 30:01 > > Ok, not worried at this time as I have my woody > CD's and can do a >

cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files

2005-06-23 Thread H. S.
While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting around 728MB of wav files from the original. I am using grip to rip the CD using the cdda2wav command. The rip command in grip is: -D %C -x -t %t -L 1 -O wav %w Since I am not familiar with cdda2wav, I was just wondering how does the r

[OT]Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-23 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le jeudi 23 juin 2005 à 12:59 +1200, Simon Kitching a écrit : > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:21 +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > > Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:05 +0100, Alan Chandler a écrit : > > > > > > > For the record, the static typing in Java is acknowledged as one of the > > worst imaginable

Re: locales: tr_TR.ISO-8859-9...LC_MONETARY: value of field `int_curr_symbol' does not correspond to a valid name in ISO 4217

2005-06-23 Thread Alphan Bayazit
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:53 -0700, Alan Ezust wrote: > I just did an upgrade today, and locales fails to install, when it is > working with tr_TR. > > Preparing to replace locales 2.3.2.ds1-21 > (using .../locales_2.3.5-1_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement locales ... > Setting up locales (2.3.5

Re: Logcheck error: Failed to get lockfile: /var/lock/logcheck/logcheck.lock

2005-06-23 Thread Michal Sedlak
Thank fou for response. I am nearly sure that there is no lock file in that directory. may be it is because of permissions but I do not know how to check it. Reinstalling of logcheck didn't help best regards michal sedlak - Original Message - From: "Adam Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
(in my earlier reply, I accidently sent it only to the author. apologies for that). Jonathan Kaye wrote: > En/La [KS] ha escrit, a 23/06/05 20:42: > > >>Ah, that made sound work. Thanks. But the solution does not seem to >>solve the problem permanently. The sound came back after stopping alsa, >

devmapper mount names

2005-06-23 Thread Joel Johnson
A basic question that I can't seem to find an answer to (maybe not so basic?). Using LVM and therefore devmapper, the volume names are such that they are accessible under /dev/mapper/-. Likewise, these names are used in reporting (du, df, mount, etc...). I would prefer to have the volumes rep

Re: New Debian 3.1 Installation, GDM no keyboard no mouse

2005-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/05 18:28), Christoph Simon wrote: > I just installed debian 3.1 and chose to setup a desktop > environment. Everything seemd to go smooth until GDM showed up and > neither the keyboard nor the mouse would work. The keyboard does work > in text mode. In case of the mouse, complains about /

Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......

2005-06-23 Thread Fred L Youhanaie
Redefined Horizons wrote: With a Java client application you can use JDBC. With a Microsoft Application you can use ODBC. I would like to write a client application in GNOME witha GTK GUI. What driver would I use in this case? I haven't tried this myself, Is unixODBC from http://www.odbc.org

Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......

2005-06-23 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 22:33, Redefined Horizons wrote: > With a Java client application you can use JDBC. > With a Microsoft Application you can use ODBC. These are database abstraction layers. > I would like to write a client application in GNOME witha GTK GUI. > What driver would I use in thi

Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......

2005-06-23 Thread Redefined Horizons
With a Java client application you can use JDBC. With a Microsoft Application you can use ODBC. I would like to write a client application in GNOME witha GTK GUI. What driver would I use in this case? Thanks, Scott Huey

belkin pre-n wi-fi pcmcia drivers

2005-06-23 Thread noc ops
Hi, Has anyone got it running successfully? If so, can you point to the driver(s) for sarge 3.1. Search around w/ no avail. Any pointers will be appreciated. regards, /virendra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

New Debian 3.1 Installation, GDM no keyboard no mouse

2005-06-23 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi, I just installed debian 3.1 and chose to setup a desktop environment. Everything seemd to go smooth until GDM showed up and neither the keyboard nor the mouse would work. The keyboard does work in text mode. In case of the mouse, complains about /dev/input/mice not being a valid device. The mo

Re: X Font size

2005-06-23 Thread Christopher Desjardins
On 6/23/05, j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Nikolai Hlubek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > KDE and GNOME integration > > = > > > > When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not > > running a complete > > GNOME or KDE session (not using "kwn" o

Re: X Font size

2005-06-23 Thread j Mak
--- Nikolai Hlubek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > KDE and GNOME integration > = > > When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not > running a complete > GNOME or KDE session (not using "kwn" or "metacity" > as windowmanager) > you have the problem, that many su

RE: apt-get "Errors were encountered while processing: locals"

2005-06-23 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get "Errors were encountered while processing: locals" On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:05:12PM -040

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:17, Mark Lowe wrote: > I'd stay away from jk2 is deprecated in favour of maintaining the > original mod_jk. The configuration for jk2 meant more hoop-jumping > than with jk and thus is fell out of favour.. Yes I know - thats why I was puzzled that even unstable does not

Re: openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Matt Price ha escrit, a 23/06/05 18:46: > hi folks, > > The printeruse is hooked up to a little printserver/router which > runs an lp queue. I can't access it directly, so instead I go through > a shared windows printer queue on anotherm achine. > > Prining works fine, but lately, I'

Re: apt-get "Errors were encountered while processing: locals"

2005-06-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: > > > -Begin- > Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 2.6.8-16 > [15.5MB] > Fetched 15.5MB in 2m59s (86.7kB/s) > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your lo

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La [KS] ha escrit, a 23/06/05 20:42: > Ah, that made sound work. Thanks. But the solution does not seem to > solve the problem permanently. The sound came back after stopping alsa, > removing the file asound.state and then starting alsa again. However, > there was no sound when I rebooted the m

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-23 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to add tomcat4 into my existing apache2 system so that I can > experiment with java (in the form of servlets and jsp). > > Although in reality I only have a single computer, for learning purposes I > want to similate the situation where I have potentially split

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Lowe
I'd stay away from jk2 is deprecated in favour of maintaining the original mod_jk. The configuration for jk2 meant more hoop-jumping than with jk and thus is fell out of favour.. Unfortunatly the apache2 modules for the debian distribution only has a compiled jk2. Assuming you want to use the deba

Re: Movie players

2005-06-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Piero Piutti writes: >All you need is mplayer, the w32codecs and mozilla-mplayer (aka >mplayerplug-in). It will work as a charm: tested with the Quicktime trailers >on Apple's website. I second that. I installed MPlayer-1.0pre7 and the codecs directory that one should also install and

apt-get "Errors were encountered while processing: locals"

2005-06-23 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
Hello all, I just installed Debian on a new server for work and I was upgrading the install with apt, now I get errors when I do an "apt-get install XXX". I was trying to upgrade the Kernel and here is the error that I now get: -Begin- Errors were encountered while processing: locales E: Sub-p

libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to add tomcat4 into my existing apache2 system so that I can experiment with java (in the form of servlets and jsp). Although in reality I only have a single computer, for learning purposes I want to similate the situation where I have potentially split web and application servers.

Re: Movie players

2005-06-23 Thread Guido Heumann
Piero Piutti schrieb: On Thursday 23 June 2005 17:51, Jim Hall wrote: Sarge, Gnome, Firefox, ALSA, and MIDI are already installed and working. A user needs a movie player for certain sites. A notice on the site recommends: Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or RealOne. I searched the pkg databas

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Peter J Ross
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:38:25PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > Peter J Ross wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:21:09PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA) > >>under KDE(and sometimes GNOME) without any problem till a few w

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
Daniel Déchelotte wrote: > [KS] a écrit : > > [...] alsamixer is at full volume, nothing is muted [...] >> >>[...] It detects my sound card >>as always. And I can't see anything in bootup log about anything >>related to sound. > > > May I suggest something like : > > # /etc/init.d/alsa sto

Re: Finding the origin of a package installed by APT

2005-06-23 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:50:07PM -0400, Marty wrote: > I suppose that if you include in sources.list to the old > distribution archive repositories (which I think goes at least as > far back as slink) then any packages which still aren't recognized > are presumably from a third party repository.

Re: video slower than sound

2005-06-23 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 19:08, Michal Simovic wrote: > hi, recently as i was watching video in Xine on my Sarge system i found > out the video is slightly slower(or more accurately - it's shown a bit > later) than the accompanying sound(the singer opens her mouth a bit > later then you can hear her

Re: xorg package

2005-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/~branden/blog/exuberance/Debian/a_good_day_to_make_World.html > says upload into experimental will be done soon. More news: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gravityboy/14364.html (X.org will be uploaded to experimental in the next few days) J. --

video slower than sound

2005-06-23 Thread Michal Simovic
hi, recently as i was watching video in Xine on my Sarge system i found out the video is slightly slower(or more accurately - it's shown a bit later) than the accompanying sound(the singer opens her mouth a bit later then you can hear her sing:)). don't you know what could be the problem? it

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
[KS] a écrit : > >>[...] alsamixer is at full volume, nothing is muted [...] > > [...] It detects my sound card > as always. And I can't see anything in bootup log about anything > related to sound. May I suggest something like : # /etc/init.d/alsa stop # rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state # /etc/in

Re: Finding the origin of a package installed by APT

2005-06-23 Thread Marty
Steven J. Murdoch wrote: In this particular example, it's not that much of a problem since they both came from the Debian project, but say a third-party APT repository publishes a package with the same version number as an official Debian package. If that repository goes offline, how can I find

removeltmodem

2005-06-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I tried installing the ltmodem-2.6.8-1-686 package, during install with apt-get it calls a script that failed. So I'm trying to remove it, and it calls a script again, which fails. When I try to apt-get install stuff, it tries to remove this package first, and apt-get exits after the sc

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > En/La [KS] ha escrit, a 23/06/05 18:30: > >>Cam wrote: >> >> >>>run alsamixer and turn your volume back up? >>> >>>Cameron Matheson >>> >> >>Sorry, I forgot to tell that everything in alsamixer is at full volume, >>nothing is muted and that running alsaconf does not help eit

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
Peter J Ross wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:21:09PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA) >>under KDE(and sometimes GNOME) without any problem till a few weeks ago. >>But now I get no sound what soever. There is no sound if I

Re: X Font size

2005-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeff Elkins: > > Thanks! gnome-settings-daemon fixed me right up :) If you don't want to wait for g-s-d to startup on every login, you can tweak your ~/.Xresources file: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb These settings correspond to the things yo

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-23 Thread CoolFox
Maurice O'Regan a écrit : Hi, How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? Maurice Just edit and modify your /etc/network/interfaces file ++ -- Faire reagir les cons,

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-23 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 17:17 +0100, Maurice O'Regan wrote: > Hi, > > How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. > using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. > > Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? /etc/network/interfaces -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-23 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > VFS: Cannot open rootdevice "301" or 30:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 30:01 > Ok, not worried at this time as I have my woody CD's and can do a > rescbf24 to mount woody still installed and correct the li

Re: lilo / raid1 / mbr problem

2005-06-23 Thread peter colton
On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:20, Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote: Here is a link that should be of use to you with setting up raid1 from a debian install. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ bye for now peter colton > Hi All, > > Ru

openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-23 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, The printer use is hooked up to a little printserver/router which runs an lp queue. I can't access it directly, so instead I go through a shared windows printer queue on anotherm achine. Prining works fine, but lately, I've been printing out Openoffice Impress slideshows to take

Re: gnome system sounds crackling (or hoarse) after upgrade

2005-06-23 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _David Roguin_, on 23/06/05 09:47,typed: > i have the same deal, i believe the GStreamer is still buggy. > maybe has something to be with lack of RAM? The desktop I mentioned earlier running Sarge has 256MB and the laptop I had mentioned earlier has 512MB. With the sound distortion the

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-23 Thread peter colton
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 17:02, Martin McCormick wrote: Have a look at bittornado bittornado-gui apt-cache show bittornado apt-cache show bittornado-gui These bittorent clients have been tweak up by debian. there is up and down bit rate control. The link for the

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-23 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Maurice O'Regan wrote: > How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. > using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. > > Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? Yes, in "/etc/network/interfaces". See "man 5 interfaces"

Re: possible solution for eth0 eth1 mixup on boot

2005-06-23 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Chris Bannister_, on 23/06/05 12:30,typed: > Hi, > > Try setting Plug-n-Play to NO/OFF/FALSE in bios > > HTH > There are around 3 method to do so (learned while googling for the problem, maybe somewhere metioned them on this list too, not sure). I chose an easier one. I just mentio

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-23 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Maurice O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How can the server's IP address be modified > permanently. > using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies > till a reboot occurs. > > Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? > > Maurice In deed my friend, the file where you can chan

amd64 dvd image testing - jigdo files

2005-06-23 Thread Marcos -Queóps
Hi how are you? i'm sending this email because i have problem to download amd64 dvd image testing - jigdo files some files, do not download, don't import what server i choose and i choose a lot of primary servers( i don't use all yet) one example "13:16:25 -- http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-no

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La [KS] ha escrit, a 23/06/05 18:30: > Cam wrote: > >>run alsamixer and turn your volume back up? >> >>Cameron Matheson >> > > Sorry, I forgot to tell that everything in alsamixer is at full volume, > nothing is muted and that running alsaconf does not help either. > > Thanks, > /KS > > Hav

modify server's IP

2005-06-23 Thread Maurice O'Regan
Hi, How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? Maurice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Finding the origin of a package installed by APT

2005-06-23 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
My current machine has a number of packages installed from backports which no longer exist, so will not be upgraded should there be any security problems. I am about to reinstall my machine so would like to avoid this in the future. I have a partial solution, but have hit a problem in my understand

Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection

2005-06-23 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jim Hall_, on 23/06/05 11:15,typed: > > > For those of us who haven't run into this situation yet, could you > please explain how the marker helped. > > Jim > > I searched google when I realized the CD was not a standard audio disk (did not have Compact Disc digital audio logo).

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Peter J Ross
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:21:09PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > Hi, > > My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA) > under KDE(and sometimes GNOME) without any problem till a few weeks ago. > But now I get no sound what soever. There is no sound if I do $cat > /dev/urandom > /d

Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-23 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
So frustrating, just fixed KDE Knotify problem and Debian only stayed fixed until installed a dist-upgrade. Stayed fixed less than a day.  Ok, the problem is related to lilo.conf for an initrd.img.  I followed the dist-upgrade messages closely and thought I did it as described, but apparently

Re: Broadcom wireless driver

2005-06-23 Thread John W Mislan
Did you try the broadcom website for a linux driver. I have a broadcom nic bcm-5700 that driver was dropped in debian 2.6.11 kernel, so I downloaded the driver from broadcom.com. The driver was an src-rpm that I had to use alien to convert to a deb package. Was not too much of a hastle, but

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
Cam wrote: > run alsamixer and turn your volume back up? > > Cameron Matheson > Sorry, I forgot to tell that everything in alsamixer is at full volume, nothing is muted and that running alsaconf does not help either. Thanks, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread Cam
run alsamixer and turn your volume back up? Cameron Matheson On 6/23/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA) > under KDE(and sometimes GNOME) without any problem till a few weeks ago. > But now I get no sound what soever

ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-06-23 Thread [KS]
Hi, My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA) under KDE(and sometimes GNOME) without any problem till a few weeks ago. But now I get no sound what soever. There is no sound if I do $cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp Also, when I try to play audio (audio CD or mp3s) with XMM

chinese fonts too small

2005-06-23 Thread Cam
Hi, There's been a problem that has bugged me for a while now (just not enough to do anything about earlier). Chinese fonts on my desktop are too small! The english fonts are fine, so i don't want to make them any bigger. Is there anyway to make it so that chinese fonts display bigger, without

snmp problems

2005-06-23 Thread Cam
Hi, I'm trying to set up snmp on my system, but i've run into a few difficulties. Some queries w/ snmp work fine (for example, uptime, ssRawContexts, etc.), but some i can't load. I want to set up cpu monitoring of some of my hosts w/ cacti, but for some reason i can't get to the cpu stuff w/ sn

Re: Movie players

2005-06-23 Thread Piero Piutti
On Thursday 23 June 2005 17:51, Jim Hall wrote: > Sarge, Gnome, Firefox, ALSA, and MIDI are already installed and working. > > A user needs a movie player for certain sites. A notice on the site > recommends: Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or RealOne. I searched the > pkg database and found sever

possible solution for eth0 eth1 mixup on boot

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Try setting Plug-n-Play to NO/OFF/FALSE in bios HTH -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

jack and ardour in sarge broken?

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Saw this on linux-audio-user (names removed) > don't forget to update to the demudi's jack,ardour version. sarge's > broken (ehem, it doesn't work for me). Didn't Sarge ship with the horrible NPTL 0.60 bug? That should be reason enough to use Ubuntu, Debian does not seem to mind shipping c

Re: blueMail 1.2

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:06:02PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi all! Just wanted to ask a question here real fast. > > I just downloaded and built blueMail 1.2 (a QWK/BlueWave reader) for the > Sparc version of Debian GNU/Linux and was wondering what I would need to > do to contribute it to

Re: APT can't recognize Packages.gz?

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > I'm learning a little something new about apt and dpkg and the like > every day here in this list... But I have a question about this one. > > I have a directory full of *.deb files that may OR maynot have been > installed already with d

Movie players

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hall
Sarge, Gnome, Firefox, ALSA, and MIDI are already installed and working. A user needs a movie player for certain sites. A notice on the site recommends: Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or RealOne. I searched the pkg database and found several pkgs that look promising for Quicktime; "juk" for

Re: NIC driver needed

2005-06-23 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:11:52 -0400 Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless > card. > > I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then > pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using > windows m

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. > > These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory. I hope you mean "/" instead of "\" in all cases. :-) > 1st confusion: > But my /boot directory sh

Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hall
H. S. wrote: In any case, the problem has been solved. A felt tip white-board marker was immensely helpful ;) ->HS For those of us who haven't run into this situation yet, could you please explain how the marker helped. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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