Re: How to download/install a harddrive file

2005-08-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 8/5/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pinecone wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-03-08 at 11:39 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi pinecone > >> Could you explain what a "harddrive file" is? There are various ways > >>to get a file from other computers (connected t

Re: gnulib ?

2005-08-04 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:19, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am trying to compile PSPP from CVS and it says something > > If you checked Gnulib out in a directory named `gnulib' at the same > level as PSPP, then this is sufficient. Otherwise, provide the

Re: udev - easy setup ?

2005-08-04 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:37, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > * Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Aug 03 20:04 -0500]: >> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:24, Jules Dubois >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >> > I've skimmed some officia

why?

2005-08-04 Thread corass
my email had been removed from debian-user mailing list but i can recived mail now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Missing Open Office Impress templates

2005-08-04 Thread Mr Mike
Is there some reason Impress does not have any templates? There are a couple *.sti files in these directories.. /usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/english/layout/ /usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/english/presnt/ but they don't show up anywhere in oo.. I created a directory /usr/lib/ope

Re: OpenOffice and Scientific Notations

2005-08-04 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply. Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:23:42PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, my boss sent me a PPT file: I can read with openoffice.org, but unfortunately some scientic symbols are replace by retangles: how can we fix

Re: 855resolution help

2005-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2005 17:37, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [snip non-error messages] >Does this mean that my LCD won't support anything beyond 1024x768 or > can I make it work ? Generally speaking, unless your lcd monitor is an aftermarket, big one that costs a couple of little red wagonloads o

Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English (SOLVED)

2005-08-04 Thread David R. Litwin
A Brief Summary for the Archives: I wished to change the Language of both Debian and KDE to British or Canadian English. I ended up doing both: Debian in to Canadian English and KDE in to British English. This is how: For Debian: (as root) dpkg-reconfigure locales # enable the en_GB options For

Re: Debian CD Reseller

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Wolfe, MCP
"The easiest way, however, is to distribute both binary and source CDs at the same time and at the same price. Since CDs are quite cheap these days, this will only slightly increase the price. " This would be the way I want to go. If I do get some Netinst purchased I want to include the source pa

Re: udev - easy setup ?

2005-08-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Aug 03 20:04 -0500]: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:24, Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I've skimmed some official documents and some Apple developer documents, > > [snip] > > Sorry to follow-up to my own message, bu

gnulib ?

2005-08-04 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hey, I am trying to compile PSPP from CVS and it says something If you checked Gnulib out in a directory named `gnulib' at the same level as PSPP, then this is sufficient. Otherwise, provide the location of GNULIB on the `make' command line: make -f Smake GNULIB=/gnulib/base/directory/na

Re: Debian CD Reseller

2005-08-04 Thread Joe Smith
Hi all. I was wondering what I would need to be an OFFICIAL seller of Debian CDROMs. I currently have 12 available (either in sets or netinst CDs) in my eBay store and was wondering what I would need to do to get myself on the OFFICIAL CD (re)seller listing? First read this: http://www.debian.

Debian CD Reseller

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Wolfe, MCP
Hi all. I was wondering what I would need to be an OFFICIAL seller of Debian CDROMs. I currently have 12 available (either in sets or netinst CDs) in my eBay store and was wondering what I would need to do to get myself on the OFFICIAL CD (re)seller listing? Thanks! -- Robert Wolfe, MCP Adel

Re: Installing a new kernel on Debian.

2005-08-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:35:51PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6 kernel on the i386 architecture? What files do I need? Packages.debian.org, search for "kernel-image", pick one, read the dependencies on that page.

Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English

2005-08-04 Thread David P James
On Mon 1 August 2005 23:23, David R. Litwin wrote: > I've looked all over the place: KDE, I've googled it, the help files > in KDE. Nothing seems to tell me how I can change my language in KDE > to British (since they don't seem to have Canadian, not there there > really is a difference). For KDE:

Re: Debian Sarge - kernel 2.6 problem

2005-08-04 Thread Grant Thomas
I believe after you modprobe, to switch back to the installer try (Alt-F1). This should switch you back to the original console. Hope this helps. On 8/4/05, John Willby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > > > 1. boot the sarge CD and type "linux26" at the prompt > > 2. switch to second virtual

Re: Installing a new kernel on Debian.

2005-08-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:35:51PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6 kernel on the i386 > architecture? What files do I need? Packages.debian.org, search for "kernel-image", pick one, read the dependencies on that page. -- Carl Fink

Re: Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

2005-08-04 Thread Grant Thomas
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please. 1). I believe if you re-run the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, there should be a section where it asks you which modes your monitor can display, if you choose either medium or advanced. 2.) Another method is to copy your XF86Config-4 file to XF86Config-4

Re: Installing a new kernel on Debian.

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/4/05, Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running Debian Sarge with the 2.4.27 kernel. I would > like to update to a 2.6 kernel. I don't have an internet connection to > my Debian box yet, so I can't use apt-get. > > Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6

Re: Debian Sarge - kernel 2.6 problem

2005-08-04 Thread John Willby
Hi > > 1. boot the sarge CD and type "linux26" at the prompt > 2. switch to second virtual console (Alt-F2) as soon as the language > selection screen appears 3. manually load ide CD drivers by typing: > # modprobe piix ide-generic ide-cd No problem > 4. Return to first console and continue s

pppd and no more V92

2005-08-04 Thread Nobrin ;-\\
A few hours ago, kppp connected with my US Robotics 56K External Faxmodem using V92/LAPM/V42BIS. After playing around with minicom, it connects only with V90. And this is not what I want. I tried to send an AT&F1 to reset the modem, but got no result (ie just V90 works). Is it possible? I search

Installing a new kernel on Debian.

2005-08-04 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm currently running Debian Sarge with the 2.4.27 kernel. I would like to update to a 2.6 kernel. I don't have an internet connection to my Debian box yet, so I can't use apt-get. Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6 kernel on the i386 architecture? What files do I need? I apprecia

postfix

2005-08-04 Thread gothic doom
Hi there. I'm trying to make a rule that will analize 'mail from' *only* if the message comes from a certain IP address. Sorry about this lamme question, but couldn't find out reading http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html. Thanx

Dell 1850/Sarge

2005-08-04 Thread John Fleming
I've done some googling in this area, but would like to ask here. Has anyone had experience installing Sarge on a Dell 1850 with SCSI drives? (No RAID) Anyone care to predict what might happen trying to do a mondorestore (nuke) on an 1850 using a DVD made on a 600SC? I have a nicely-configur

Re: Mod perl backport for Sarge.

2005-08-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Andy Davidson wrote: > > > Hi, > > I recently asked this on debian-perl, but the list seems to be much quieter > than this one; hoping someone on here might have an answer. > > Is anyone maintaining a, or planning to maintain a backport of the released

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:47, Bob Proulx wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to > >> the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in > >> the various rcX.d director

Re: Cups+printer install?

2005-08-04 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Derek Broughton wrote: > Ishwar; > this question has nothing to do with debian-kde - but you don't need X to > use a browser. Use lynx or any other text browser. It was posted to debian-user. I have no idea about debian-kde part. Sorry for asking the question :-( -ishwar

855resolution help

2005-08-04 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, I used 855resolution to get a better resolution on my laptop but it couldn't help me much. I followed all the documentations, setup my /etc/default/855resolution file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/855resolution $ cat /etc/default/855r

Re: How to stop X, to get a text mode console (new to Debian, need help)

2005-08-04 Thread Kent West
Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: >This I didn't know, I read in a Linux Book to go >to another console and enter init 3. I tried it >also with init 2 (IMHO default text mode runlevel >on Debian), but it didn't work). Thank you. > > Many distros use the runlevels to activate different features; Debian ha

Re: could not find the spam button

2005-08-04 Thread [KS]
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > [KS] wrote: > >> Raju, if you go to >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00499.html you will see a >> "Report as spam" button on top left of the page. Would you like to click >> it and test ;) >> >> /KS >> >> > That is interesting. I get the spam button

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Adam Mercer
On 04/08/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror > (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my > mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages > were

Re: Kernel Build Failure (long post!)

2005-08-04 Thread Edward Dunagin
jon, i don't know where you got the instructions for building that kernel, but that is not the way i have read about and have followed instructions from the kernel sites i have followed. use your HOWTO's about building a kernel and try again.. good luck and Peace.ed *

Re: How to download/install a harddrive file

2005-08-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
pinecone wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-08 at 11:39 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi pinecone Could you explain what a "harddrive file" is? There are various ways to get a file from other computers (connected through lan or internet). The choices that come to mind are http, ssh, scp, sftp e

Re: could not find the spam button

2005-08-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[KS] wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On the recent DWN, the following was mentioned Report Mail as Spam. From now on there is another possibility for the normal user to help the Debian project. A button has been added to all mail pages of the [31]mailing list archive to report this mail a

Re: playing contained mp3-files

2005-08-04 Thread Jan Schledermann
Florian Dorpmueller wrote: >>I dont know about you, but I am a KDE-man! >>Therefore I use Kaffeine. >>Install: >> kaffeine(I use 0.6-1) >> kaffeine-mozilla(I use 0.4.3.1-1) > > I have tried that with the packages provided by debian sarge. Kaffeine > only op

Re: Has anyone experience installing StarOffice 5.2 on Debian (new to Debian, StarOffice 5.2 is most important for me)

2005-08-04 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
On 02.08.2005 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:59:40PM +, Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: > > Hi, > > Note that its successors (Open Office) are no solution > > for me (no integrated Desktop, no news reader/mail client, > > no StarShedule, ...). Especially the news reader would

Re: Nearly unreadable fonts with native resolution (1280x800) of my notebook (new to Debian, need help)

2005-08-04 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
On 02 August 2005 Clive Menzies wrote: > > After I have changed XF86Config-4 (see below), to be able > > to use the native resolution of 1280x800 of my notebook > > (which works), the fonts (which looked good with interpolated > > resolution of 1024x768) are nearly unreadable, but not > > because

Re: How to stop X, to get a text mode console (new to Debian, need help)

2005-08-04 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
02 August 2005 Kent West wrote: >>How can I shutdown X to get a normal text mode terminal, >Ctrl-Alt-F1, followed by (see below) I knew that. >>Currently the Gnome Display Manager (gdm?) is loaded >>when booting (graphical login), and there seems to be >>no option, to stop it, to get a text m

Re: upgrade from python2.3 to python2.4

2005-08-04 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 04 August 2005 22:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I downloaded a game sudoku recently but I'm having troubles installing > > > it. It requires Python 2.4 or higher and when I downloaded it first > > > Python 2.3 was on my system. So I searched in aptitude if I can > > > upgrade it a

Re: could not find the spam button

2005-08-04 Thread [KS]
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On the recent DWN, the following was mentioned > > Report Mail as Spam. From now on there is another possibility for the > normal user to help the Debian project. A button has been added to all > mail pages of the [31]mailing list archive to report this mail as > spam.

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I've been running gkrellm since forever and it has never done that. I > think I'd be for investigating the dma status of your hard drives > with hdparm as someone else already suggested. This is a new machine: a Sun dual Opteron box with

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2005 14:25, Glenn English wrote: >On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:40 -0600, Glenn English wrote: >> Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea >> what might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do >> something every 5 seconds? > >Hate to reply to

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:47, Bob Proulx wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to >> the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in >> the various rcX.d directories in RH & Fedora and is the last thing >> executed before the login sc

Re: Swap always full

2005-08-04 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Berg wrote: > It seems that with in 15 minutes of logging into my account I'm out of > swap and low on physical memory. > > Swap partition is 64 Meg and I have 128 Megs of Physical. I'm > upgrading to 1Gig very shortly but would still like to

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Joerg Beyer
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > I ended up using apt-proxy to build a mirror of just the packages that I > use. Works great. How do you translate the /etc/apt/sources.list entries to apt-proxy backend configuration entries? Joerg > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:13:54AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrot

Re: (Briefly) Fstab

2005-08-04 Thread Rob Benton
Cubells wrote: Try this: /dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfsnls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0 See you on the net... David R. Litwin wrote: I have changed my fstab so that it automatically mount my Windows partition in to /mnt/windows: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #

could not find the spam button

2005-08-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On the recent DWN, the following was mentioned Report Mail as Spam. From now on there is another possibility for the normal user to help the Debian project. A button has been added to all mail pages of the [31]mailing list archive to report this mail as spam. Everybody who finds a spam message ca

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 12:25 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:40 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > > every 5 seconds? > > Hate to re

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:40 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > every 5 seconds? Hate to reply to my own post, but it was gkrellm. Never mind... -- Glenn En

Re: External USB and dirvish -- getting error

2005-08-04 Thread [KS]
Preston Boyington wrote: > From: [KS] > To: Debian User > >>Hi, >> >>I run nightly backups on my external USB drive using dirvish and it has >>been working perfectly since the last few days when I started them. >>However, when I went to work on the machine this morning, I heard some >>wierd noise

Re: sarge, kernel 2.6.12.3, and sound

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/4/05, Steven Pasternak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! I have sarge, with kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I upgraded to a 2.6.12.3 > using sarge's 2.6.8 config, but now I don't have sound. /dev/{dsp,mixer} > are gone. I have the "use OSS API" set under "Device > Drivers->Sound->Advanced Linux Sound Archi

Re: sarge, kernel 2.6.12.3, and sound

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan King
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:22:03PM -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote: > Hi! I have sarge, with kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I upgraded to a 2.6.12.3 > using sarge's 2.6.8 config, but now I don't have sound. /dev/{dsp,mixer} > are gone. I have the "use OSS API" set under "Device > Drivers->Sound->Advanced Lin

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread James Burke
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:40:11 -0600 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > every 5 seconds? > > -- > Glenn English > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I had the

Mod perl backport for Sarge.

2005-08-04 Thread Andy Davidson
Hi, I recently asked this on debian-perl, but the list seems to be much quieter than this one; hoping someone on here might have an answer. Is anyone maintaining a, or planning to maintain a backport of the released, stable mod_perl 2 framework for Sarge ? Such a shame that the mod_perl 2

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do > something > every 5 seconds? Well, there's a few ideas. It could be that, if you're using ext3, the journal is be

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Glenn English wrote: > Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what > might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something > every 5 seconds? Low batteries if it is wireless? Receiver too close to some other EM source like the monitor/speakers? A

twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Glenn English
Every 5 seconds, my mouse freezes for about .2 seconds. Any idea what might be causing that? Or a way of listing processes that do something every 5 seconds? -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Hi I finally installed Sarge (dual boot with WinXP) on a P4 with an D865GBF Intel Motherboard using packages downloaded from a previous installation on another older PC (via jigdo, which worked fine) I have a few pending details to adjust, but one of them I eluding me... Post install and with

sarge, kernel 2.6.12.3, and sound

2005-08-04 Thread Steven Pasternak
Hi! I have sarge, with kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I upgraded to a 2.6.12.3 using sarge's 2.6.8 config, but now I don't have sound. /dev/{dsp,mixer} are gone. I have the "use OSS API" set under "Device Drivers->Sound->Advanced Linux Sound Architecture" Is that bad? I installed alsa-base and alsa-utils

Re: Cups+printer install?

2005-08-04 Thread Derek Broughton
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: >>On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: >> Is there a way to install a printer using cups without a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)? I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server in the dept but have no interest i

Re: Glennie-? Do you have url for Apache2 info we discussed?

2005-08-04 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Thursday 4 August 2005 16:56, Johnny Smith(Johnny Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) disait: > > Hi Glennie, Hello, > > Since I want to educate myself more on the subject of > Apache2 as used in Debian, I am hoping you might point > me to a particular url which would have more > information on Apach

Re: upgrade from python2.3 to python2.4

2005-08-04 Thread Dom
On 8/3/05, Christian Henz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/3/05, Dom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I downloaded a game sudoku recently but I'm having troubles installing > > it. It requires Python 2.4 or higher and when I downloaded it first > > Python 2.3 was on my system. So I se

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Gene Heskett wrote: > I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to > the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in the > various rcX.d directories in RH & Fedora and is the last thing > executed before the login screen in a RG/Fedora runlevel 3 boot. On Debian there

Re: Kernel Build Failure (long post!)

2005-08-04 Thread Nick Miller
Jon D. Irish wrote: I am trying to build a kernel off of 2.6.12.3 I want to do this to get sound working. Thus, I downloaded everything from www.kernel.org and uncompressed it to /usr/src. Upon running "make xconfig" I load the default debian config from /boot.Next, I

Re: Restoring mysql 3.23.54a-0.woody backups to 4.0.24-10 (sarge)

2005-08-04 Thread Tom
Sorry.. here are the details of the syntax errors: mobile:~# mysql -u root -p < mysql_backup.sql.sql Enter password: ERROR 1064 at line 20: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'from varch

Restoring mysql 3.23.54a-0.woody backups to 4.0.24-10 (sarge)

2005-08-04 Thread Tom
Hello! I have a old woody mysql 3.23.54a DB and have to transfer all databases and privilegies tables to a new mysql installation, version 4.0.24-10, running on debian sarge. Well, I ran mysqldump -u root -p --opt -A > mysql_backup.sql to crea

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Preston Boyington wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian > mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when > I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it > should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" an

Re: Onboard Graphics Problem

2005-08-04 Thread Roger Creasy
On 8/2/05, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I am trying to get Sarge installed, but am having difficulties with > the video. The output is pixelated and the only resolution setting > available is 640X480. lspci reports that the graphics card is: > :00:01.0 VGA compatible co

Re: 884MB instead of 1024MB memory and HIGHMEM enabled

2005-08-04 Thread sYs
Problem resolved, i recompiled the kernel and restarted, probably it was my m8s fault . Also enabled config.gz support it's very useful. Thanks for youre advices. Regards, sYs^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just ran into a bit of a problem caused by the diffs between a RH install and a debian-3.1 install. I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in the various rcX.d directories in RH & Fedora and is the last t

Re: AM radio recorder

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:35:05AM -0700, dbp lists wrote: > On 7/31/05, dbp lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I've been thinking about just using a radio (with AM capability, > > obviously) and using an 8mm plug (male conneciton on both ends) and > > connecting the output of the radio to

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I ended up using apt-proxy to build a mirror of just the packages that I use. Works great. On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:13:54AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror > (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but wh

Re: External USB and dirvish -- getting error

2005-08-04 Thread Preston Boyington
From: [KS] To: Debian User > >Hi, > >I run nightly backups on my external USB drive using dirvish and it has >been working perfectly since the last few days when I started them. >However, when I went to work on the machine this morning, I heard some >wierd noise and noticed that the external USB wa

System Log Daemon on Bootup

2005-08-04 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I have just moved which means I did not have any Internet access for a few days. When I moved, however, my computer was working but did not have a connection which lead me to notice two things (at bootup): First of all, the DHCPDISCOVER messages took a really long time not finding anything (which,

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/4/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror > (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my > mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages > were du

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Katz wrote: > Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, and > thunderbird is unfolding on debian-security: [snip] > Alexander Sack has backported thunderbird 1.06: > http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/84-Sarge-Backport-Re

Glennie-? Do you have url for Apache2 info we discussed?

2005-08-04 Thread Johnny Smith
> --- Glennie Vignarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Le Saturday 30 July 2005 18:40, Johnny > Smith(Johnny > > Smith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) disait: > > Hello, > > > Could someone tell me what command allows me to > > > reconfigure Apache2 and add this module? > > You can do this with 'a2e

Re: PCMCIA wireless help needed

2005-08-04 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Thu, 2005-04-08 at 23:53 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This is what I have in my /etc/network/interfaces file: > > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless_mode managed > wireless_essid homenet > wireless_key xx > name Wireless LAN

Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Preston Boyington
I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as "

Re: alsa and oss configuration

2005-08-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Lubos Vrbka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> ok, this seems to be clear now. none of alsa-native applications work |> for me - they give different sorts of errors, similar to one given |> above. the problem with permissions was my mistake - i added myself to |> the audio group but di

External USB and dirvish -- getting error

2005-08-04 Thread [KS]
Hi, I run nightly backups on my external USB drive using dirvish and it has been working perfectly since the last few days when I started them. However, when I went to work on the machine this morning, I heard some wierd noise and noticed that the external USB was the cause of the noise. Usually,

Re: PCMCIA wireless help needed

2005-08-04 Thread joe
Hi, This is what I have in my /etc/network/interfaces file: iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless_mode managed wireless_essid homenet wireless_key xx name Wireless LAN card Hope this helps, Joe > On Wed, 2005-03-08 at 19:45 +, Terrence

Re: PCMCIA wireless help needed

2005-08-04 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Wed, 2005-03-08 at 19:45 +, Terrence Brannon wrote: > eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"not_sure_what_to_set" Nickname:"HERMES I" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 > > Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 >

Re: Cups+printer install? (fwd)

2005-08-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:44:19 +0200 From: "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cups+printer install? On Thursday 04 August 2005 06:35, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > >On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote:

Re: Cups+printer install? (fwd)

2005-08-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:03:18 +0100 From: Andrzej Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:18:47 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Andrzej Doyle wrote: >> >> >> On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: >> >> >>

Re: kPDF

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Day
Thanks for that source, put it in, ran apt-get update and then apt-get sintall acroread when it was done I sintaleld the suggested acroread-plugins as well. opened up each file continuously of TUX, with out it crashing. Thank again On Wednesday August 3 2005 10:36 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote: >

RE: SATA/RAID

2005-08-04 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Boskey, Boskey schreef: > Intel SR1350CW2 Server Platform with 7501 chipset motherboard > Silicon Image Sil3112 SATA raid Controller > 2 X 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive > ATI rage XL display controller on board See for more info: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html Groeten, Joost Kra

Re: SATA/RAID

2005-08-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/08/05 14:53), Boskey wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Our company is in the process of purchasing intel based servers with the > below > config to install Debian Sarg 3.1 over it. > > Has any body installed Debian with Raid support successfully on any of such > machines? > > The Config is

SATA/RAID

2005-08-04 Thread Boskey
Hello everybody, Our company is in the process of purchasing intel based servers with the below config to install Debian Sarg 3.1 over it. Has any body installed Debian with Raid support successfully on any of such machines? The Config is : - Intel SR1350CW2 Server Platform w

Re: alsa and oss configuration

2005-08-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer are the device-files used by OSS (and therefore also by the OSS emulation-layer in ALSA). Native ALSA applications like alsaconf, alsamixer, and aplay use a different set of device files---the ones in the /dev/snd/ directory. It sounds like maybe those device files d

RE: Debian Sarge - kernel 2.6 problem

2005-08-04 Thread Žáček Kryštof
I agree this is a serious bug - the debian installer guys should pay close attention to that !!! The linux26 is currently not installable on many PC's with SATA disks and IDE CDROM's. The problem is probably caused by the broken ata-piix/SATA driver being loaded before ide-cd driver and locking

Re: Apt-Get Troubels

2005-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:59:59PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Well, actually, I'm not sure that it is Apt-get. Here is the message: > > # apt-get -V upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. > The

Re: Simple Services Question

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I know this is rather simple, and I must just be using the wrong search > terms, > because I know it's been mentioned here. > > I've installed ssh on some systems, but it doesn't start automatically on > boot. I *thought* apt-