Re: Gnome panel already running - error message

2005-09-05 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El mar, 06-09-2005 a las 10:09 +0700, Ms Linuz escribió: > I had this problem and solved by editing my gnome2 session file. > $home/.gnome2/session > I found two entries of gnome-panel there and delete one ( backup first > of course ) > Make sure you delete all line which start with the same numbe

Is it safe to dist-upgrade kde* now?

2005-09-05 Thread Kim Adil
Subject says it all I think. I and many others had to roll back, and I was advised to hold back. How will I know when to proceed? Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: installation problems with SATA drives

2005-09-05 Thread Žáček Kryštof
This is a known issue of the Debian Sarge Installer: See the "Errata" section in http://www.us.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ and try out the mentioned workaround. > -Original Message- > From: Erik Steffl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:09 A

Remove Hardware mixing from mplayer

2005-09-05 Thread Raghunandan H K
Hello, Could you please tell me how to configure mplayer to not use hardware mixing.I want different applications to play sound simultaneously at different volume levels.And could you also tell me if there is a method to force all applications to use software mixing only. Thank you in advance,

Re: installation problems with SATA drives

2005-09-05 Thread Erik Steffl
SALAH NOURI wrote: Hi, did anybody figure out how to install debian on a machine with 2 or more SATA drives? i get the error "no partitionable media" when booting the installer with the default parameters. and booting with expert26 gives me "no common cd-rom drive was detected". - make sur

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
James Haskell wrote: > my /etc/inputrc (without comments) is: > set input-meta on > set output-meta on > so, i don't think my readline configuration is the > cause. That looks normal. The problem now is that what you describe sounds really normal to me. And apparently to the other responders.

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/6/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Niemi wrote:> Bob Proulx wrote:> > In the future when you install Debian it is highly recommended to> > install using the linux 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel.  Yes, I>> Wasn't obvious when I read through the install instructions :) Yes. 

Re: mutt rocks

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Block
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:38:07AM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: mutt really is super. Thanks a lot to everybody involved. And to think it took me all these years to find out. Happy day! If you're like many of us your muttrc will grow over time, getting longer and longer like a cancer. =D No w

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2005-09-05 Thread Joe Mc Cool
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Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Haskell
elimar, i tried: echo "export PAGER=less" >> ~/.bashrc echo "export aCeiMs=LESS" >> ~/.bashrc not sure about the second line; shouldn't it be echo "export LESS=aCeiMs" >> ~/.bashrc anyway i tried both ways -- unfortunately, neither of these work. if you follow this thread, it seems that less is

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Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff D
David R. Litwin wrote: Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening. In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?) w

Re: Mutt and html

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:05:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Some MUAs can be configured to send the same message as both a plain > text message and an HTML message, nothing very magical and only slightly > more wastful than HTML alone. Yes, I've noticed that. Wasteful maybe, but it gives yo

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Haskell
Bob, in my previous post, i forgot to mention that i have no ~/.inputrc file. --- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Haskell wrote: > > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it > *seems* > > that in the process, my pager has changed from > > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > > e.g. if

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Haskell
Bob, you're right. after trying the 'ps -efH', i can verify that bash is using the built-in pager and not /bin/more. > If you are seeing differences I am guessing it has to > do with bash and libreadline upgrades combined with > your own personal readline configuration. my /etc/inputrc (without

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Isn't this perhaps the problem?  I've been trying to get to gripswith debian for years and I haven't ventured outside stable.  I still feel out of my depth and - no offence meant, honestly -you're obviously out of your depth and you shouldn't think youhave the right to demand answers to all your qu

Re: Mutt and html

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:26:48PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2005-09-06T03:47:55+0200, David Jardine wrote: > > (a) the difference in the way mutt deals with html emails > > (sometimes outputting them as normal text, sometimes presenting > > them as attachments), > > I do not un

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:06:22PM -0700, James Vahn wrote: > David Jardine wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > >> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > >> > Any way, have you any advice > >> > >> not using HTML... > > > > Us

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread charlie
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Alvin used the keyboard to craft this: >|bad boy ... >| >|i asume you do know, that your system is statisticly more likely >|to die exponentionally each time you reboot your PC.. the more >|you reboot it, the lifespan of your machine just wend down

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:51:46PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I'm using Sid Isn't this perhaps the problem? I've been trying to get to grips with debian for years and I haven't ventured outside stable. I still feel out of my depth and - no offence meant, honestly - you're obviously out

Re: debconf

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Use sudo.Hm My sudo is not configured.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—‽ <--You've just been Interrobanged.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: debconf

2005-09-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:38:16PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I have set debconf to use gtk by accident: I want it to be displayed with > KDE's Qt. When I try to do dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it either says I do not > have permission, or it says: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Xlib: connection

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Haskell
Peter, the result of running: ls /usr/include/ | pager is that the output of ls is piped to less. i think your're right in that less is already my default pager. --- Peter J Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:55:09AM -0700, James > Haskell wrote: > > > hello all,

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Haskell
Thomas, as root, i ran: update-alternatives --config pager here is the output: There are 4 alternatives which provide `pager'. SelectionAlternative --- 1/bin/more *+2/usr/bin/less 3/usr/bin/most 4

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: >> I find it easiest to just grab the vanilla sources straight from >> kernel.org. The Debian ones tend to be crippled and patched, which >> makes it a pain to apply new patches. > > I always find it easier to use the Debian stock kernels. They have > all o

Re: non-free internet radio?

2005-09-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:05:58 -0700 Colin Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyways... My question relates to internet radio feeds. Some of the stations I > like to listen to over the internet actually offer feeds in formats that > aren't > a problem for linux (mp3, ogg) but most stations give

debconf

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
I have set debconf to use gtk by accident: I want it to be displayed with KDE's Qt. When I try to do dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it either says I do not have permission, or it says: # dpkg-reconfigure debconfXlib: connection to ": 0.0" refused by serverXlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keydpkg-reconfi

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
You don't need grub to use linux, lilo can be used instead. I prefer lilo togrub. I actually started my Linux days with LILO. I like GRUB more. IMHO, grub is too flexible.If I may: Huh? How can some thing be too flexible? This is most interesting.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-cra

Re: Messaging Users

2005-09-05 Thread Ms Linuz
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thursday 01 September 2005 02:27 am, Ms Linuz wrote: > > > >>>And with that, I say what's wrong with running your own jabber server and >>>using Psi? >>> >>> >>100% Agree. >>Even I prefer eJabberd server with client using Gaim or Kopete ;-) >> >> > >Gah! How ca

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:51:46PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: snip... > Also, one good-man mentioned that I would need to configure GRUB when I > install the kernel. Every time I have apt-got a linux-image, it says it is > searching for GRUB and modifying it accordingly (and, in fact, also for

Re: Gnome panel already running - error message

2005-09-05 Thread Ms Linuz
vasaka wrote: > David Purton wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 09:06:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Preston, >>> >>> I am having the same problem. Did you find a solution for this issue >>> yet? >>> >>> >>> After a recent update (I am running Unstable) I receive an e

Re: Mutt and html

2005-09-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:47:55AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:23:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:04:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2005-09-0

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David R. Litwin wrote: > > My appologies: I really, really want Bootsplash. than you be able to make it work "yourself", as it is tons of work > As I wrote (and so alluded to), my computer IS re-booted quite a bit. bad boy ... i asume you do know, that your system is st

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
All was going well until:$ make xconfig** Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the* QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR* environment variable is set to the correct location. *make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck] Error 1make: *** [xconfig] Error 2I

Gnome doesn't start on Debian etch for amd64

2005-09-05 Thread Danilo Horta
Hi folks Sometimes the gnome works, sometimes not (the majority of times). And when it works, i experienced a very unstable system. For example, the gnome halts whenever i try to logout. And i just installed this distro yesterday and I'm wondering why is so unstable considering that's a testing ve

Re: Mutt and html

2005-09-05 Thread Allan Wind
On 2005-09-06T03:47:55+0200, David Jardine wrote: > (a) the difference in the way mutt deals with html emails > (sometimes outputting them as normal text, sometimes presenting > them as attachments), I do not understand the question. By default mutt list html files as attachm

Re: Newsgroups for Debian

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:56:48PM -0400, Adam wrote: > Are the linux.debian newsgroups offical? Also, are they mailing list > copies? No and yes (mostly). But the gateway is used to be one-way, where what you posted in the ng didn't go back to the ML. I have no idea if that's still the case. -

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/5/05, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now then, AFAIK, ALSA doesn't care about /dev/dsp* entries. Again, > > AFAIK, those are part of OSS, not ALSA. If I understand how things > > work correctly, they kind of run parallel to each other, and are > > independant. > > It's simpl

Re: Mutt and html

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:23:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:04:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > > Any way, have you any

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
The upper-left corner of the "page content" slightly overwrites theupper-left header field.  Do I need to "tweak" things just a bit more? Would I use a value less than or greater than 0.25?Honestly, I have no idea. It works for me (for now). Feel free to tweak and report your findings. Myabe I've d

Re: firefox won't download files

2005-09-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:10:42AM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > When I click on a link to a file (.iso .pdf .ps etc.) on the www, > firefox will not download or open the file. The file never appears in > the "download list". I tried with mozilla browser and it worked. How > do I fix firefox?? >

firefox won't download files

2005-09-05 Thread Vegard|drageV
When I click on a link to a file (.iso .pdf .ps etc.) on the www, firefox will not download or open the file. The file never appears in the "download list". I tried with mozilla browser and it worked. How do I fix firefox?? Firefox version: 1.0.4 Debian Sarge, kernel 2.4.27-2-686 Thanks in adv

Re: Newsgroups for Debian

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/5/05, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are the linux.debian newsgroups offical? Also, are they mailing list copies? They're mirrors of the lists at lists.debian.org -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Newsgroups for Debian

2005-09-05 Thread Adam
Are the linux.debian newsgroups offical? Also, are they mailing list copies?-- Love Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,  Faithfulnes, Gentleness, Self-Control.^^ You need all of these.

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread James Vahn
David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: >> > Any way, have you any advice >> >> not using HTML... > > Using mutt, I see no html. Is this a bug or a feature of mutt? > (I do ofte

Re: X windows libraries??

2005-09-05 Thread Pablo Bullian
Thanks a lot for your recomendation about qemu, i can compile it and it works grate and also i can run the bochs virtual disk with the OS inside. Pablo E. Bullian

Re: Linux 2.6.10 kernel with IBM xSeries 336, HP DL360G4 & ASUS AP2400R servers

2005-09-05 Thread valentin_nils
Hello Ravindra, sorry I mistook the 336 for the 335. I am terrible sorry. So anything I said 2 days ago (in the below e-mail) MIGHT NOT BE FULLY TRUE and applied to the 335. I did a follow up on the 336 and found that basically they have 2 differences 1) Chipset for the 336 is Intel E7520 2) Gr

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread James Vahn
Bob Proulx wrote: > I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should > move away from sendmail. Half will be to postfix. Half will be to > exim. Any idea why? I've never understood why Debian moved to Exim as the default MTA. Longtime sendmail user, 10-11 years. I didn't

Re: 2 NIC card questions

2005-09-05 Thread Bruno Buys
This setup seems ok to me. Even though eth cards are very cheap, you can keep the existing realtek. I have one computer here in a similar condition, but running coyote linux. Its very easy to setup a linux firewall. I'm no expert and found no problem. Adam wrote: I currently am running a Deb

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > not using HTML... Well, what did you expect? You're using evocrap as a MUA. Switch to something decent that actually allows you to control which part of a correctly-formatted rich-text message (ie including both HTML and

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:04:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > Any way, have you any advice > > > > not using HTML... > > Using mutt, I see no html. Is t

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread Sanjay Debian
On 9/5/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sanjay wrote:> I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails> from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries> about spam and stuff.I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you sho

2 NIC card questions

2005-09-05 Thread Adam
I currently am running a Debian Stable server with two NIC cards. Only one NIC card is configured and providing the machine Internet access. The two NICs are: 1 RealTek (forget model number) - 10 MB/S 1 Network Everywhere (tulip) 10/100 MB/S Now I was thinking of possibly using my machine as a n

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > Any way, have you any advice > > not using HTML... Using mutt, I see no html. Is this a bug or a feature of mutt? (I do often get html attachments - and also

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Sorry if this came in double, the resend i did might have tricked your mail rules (it did trick mine) Jeroen On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian Nelson wrote: > "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is > > dual-boot and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: > > Shutting Down every Evening. But the other user will never see bootsplash. You booting li

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns a "command not found" On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:25, Kent West wrote: jeroen wrote: I used apt to get me the fil

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Crean
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: [snip] > > Any way, have you any advice to get me closer to me goal of > Bootsplashedness? > You might find this url helpful: http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124 FWIW, I've got bootsplash here working fine on a 2.6.11 kernel but I canno

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Sanjay wrote: > I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails > from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries > about spam and stuff. I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should move away from sendmail. Half will be

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread Kenneth Jacker
drl> In Firefox, under File, choose Page Setup. Now, click on the drl> tab Margins & Header / Footer. Set all values to 0.25 drl> (inches). Click on OK. Next, under File again, choose drl> Print. Click on Properties and set all number values to 0.25 drl> (inches). Click on OK. Thanks for

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Coyner wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote.. > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > The results you post look like there is a bug in the option > > > processing of find. Note that I also mentioned that this was unlikely and asked about other possibilities such as aliases and wrappers. > > I think the

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Brian Nelson
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and > the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening. > In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't > Debian have Bo

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
David Niemi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > In the future when you install Debian it is highly recommended to > > install using the linux 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel. Yes, I > > Wasn't obvious when I read through the install instructions :) Yes. Agreed. Grumble, grumble. In the future

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
This is a rather common problem with a simple solution.In Firefox, under File, choose Page Setup. Now, click on the tab Margins & Header / Footer. Set all values to 0.25 (inches). Click on OK. Next, under File again, choose Print. Click on Properties and set all number values to 0.25 (inches). Cli

Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread George App
I am currently running debian testing (etch) I am unable to get the page footer to print when for example printing a webpage using firefox. When I do a page preview both the header and footer show up. Any ideas? Thanks, George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:42:09PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote.. > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:56:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes > > > (though pathnames do). That means that '-iname /tmp' will > > > probably evaluate > [snip]

Re: Illegible Firefox menus

2005-09-05 Thread David Balch
On 05/09/05 21:21, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:45:15PM +0100, David Balch wrote: > >>The menus in Firefox (and Thunderbird) are illegible pure white, as in >>this screenshot: http://davidbalch.f2s.com/linux/ff-menu.png > > > People never search list archives, people never us

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Any way, have you any advice not using HTML... -- Administration & Formation à l'administration de serveurs dédiés: http://www.google.fr/search?q=aspo+infogerance+serveur

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:56:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though > > pathnames do). That means that '-iname /tmp' will probably evaluate [snip] > The results you post look like there is a bug in the option processing > of find. I

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >jeroen wrote: > > >>With my limited knowledge i though i could have forgotten to add a >>window manager >> >> > >I don't think so; this looks like a video sync -type issue. > > You can double-check this possibility by installing another wm ("aptitude install icewm", etc

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Peter J Ross
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:55:09AM -0700, James Haskell wrote: > hello all, > > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibilitie

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
No one *needs*bootsplash.My appologies: I really, really want Bootsplash. > (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?)Is there some particular reason it should?  Most people actually *use* the computer rather than rebooting it over and over and over and over...As I wrote (and

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
jeroen wrote: > I used apt to get me the files i needed during the installation (i > did have to do an 'ifup -a' to get the network up - and still have to > after every reboot - but that's slightly OT here). Take a look at "/etc/network/interfaces" (also "man interfaces" for examples). Once con

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:48:25PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot > and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every > Evening. In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. What do any of those

Re: Illegible Firefox menus

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:45:15PM +0100, David Balch wrote: > The menus in Firefox (and Thunderbird) are illegible pure white, as in > this screenshot: http://davidbalch.f2s.com/linux/ff-menu.png People never search list archives, people never use Google, people never even read. It's a given.

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works > for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are > installed. The x-session-manager updates: > /etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager Why should th

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Lupton
jeroen wrote: Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so t

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > .xsession or .xinitrc > > Not sure what the difference between those two files are. > > .xinitrc is invoked by "xinit". "startx" invokes "xinit". > > .xsession is read by xdm.

starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so thx debian! I u

Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening. In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?)I know I need to compile a ker

Re: Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-05 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:53:27PM +0200, Andreas Moser wrote: > (...) > Seems so that my controller is working. > Now I had to check whether the group dialout can access on /dev/capi20 > and the user "uucp" is member in this group too. > > alpha:/dev# ls -l capi20 > crw--- 1 uucp dialout 68,

Desktop document search DWWW

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas
On Debian systems there is a packaged named "dwww" http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/dwww that permits searching your installed documents via a web browser similar to a Google search. I have grown so accustomed to it that I would like to have it on my Fedora FC4 system. Or better yet, have

Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Spang
Hubert Chan wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:40:58 +0100 (BST), Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dear All, Is there a way of switching on permission to have hard links to directories? Is there a rationale for disallowing this? The Linux kernel VFS does not allow directory hard links f

sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread Sanjay
Hi, I am trying this for a while, I am close but not sure what is missing. I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries about spam and stuff. What I need to do is to be able to connect to this

Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Moser
Hello debian-user. At the moment I'm very desperate with the installation of the hylafax-server on my debian system. The receiving of facsimiles is working but there is no way, that the delivery of a facsimile is working too. In this mail I will try to explain, how I installed the hylafax-ser

IP vs IFCONFIG (was Re: Network card recommendation)

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel L. Miller wrote: My firewall is continuing to run reliably - of course. I have noticed that on of the 3com NICs, I have a single RX overrun reported. Just one - no errors, and no increases in the overrun number. :00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporati

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread David Niemi
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 12:13 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Niemi wrote: > > Yub, another Debian noobie here. > > Welcome! > > When I installed the 2.4.27 XX kernel was installed but I'd like to > > go up to the 2.6.8-11-emt64t-p4-smp kernel as I've got a dual Xeon > > emt64 3.2Ghz system. > >

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
David Niemi wrote: > Yub, another Debian noobie here. Welcome! > I am also running Fedora 4 i386_64 and this is my first install of > Debian a couple days ago using a DVD from the magazine Linux Format. > When I installed the 2.4.27 XX kernel was installed but I'd like to > go up to the 2.6.8-11-

Re: Kernel changes

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Tim Bedding wrote: > I would like as much time as possible to move to a newer kernel. I would > like to avoid a situation where I have to do a hurried kernel upgrade in > order to move to the new "stable". You do not necessarily have to do a kernel upgrade in order to move to the new Stable, nor d

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
James Vahn wrote: > Edit or create ~/.inputrc to contain the line: > > set page-completions off > > and new instances of bash will no longer use the internal pager. I think you knew this but just did not say it explicitly. But for the original poster... But then no pager will be used a

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Coyner wrote: > I've been using linux for quite a while but am still perplexed by > the proper usage of the 'find' program. I always end up using > locate instead. Anyway, I need it now so I re-read the man and > tried the following: > > cd /tmp > touch testfile > find . -iname

Re: [Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text]

2005-09-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 05 September 2005 09:49 am, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > That sounds like it could be it.  I do have a sharp LCD screen.  The > recommended resolution stated on page 29 is 1280x1024.  Looks like my > highest resolution in the XF86Config-4 file is 1152x864.  Can you suggest a > good way to gene

Re: uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 18:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Cedric BRINER wrote: > > # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6 > > kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian > > patches # > > arrgh ! that's it . why can't I see the kernel-source-2.6.11 ??? > > Because the name was chan

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > Incidentally, I think '-print' is superfluous; I'm pretty > > sure the default is to print. > > Yes, I think so too, but I do recall being on some UNIX's where this was > not the case. The classic legacy find from AT&T UNIX V7 did not default t

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Vahn
James Haskell wrote: > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n) > when i type y, bash lists the files using /bi

Re: uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Cedric BRINER wrote: > # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6 > kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian > patches > # > arrgh ! that's it . why can't I see the kernel-source-2.6.11 ??? Because the name was changed to linux-source-2.6.11 to differentiate it from the h

Re: configuring locales: "double free or corruption"

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Frederik Eaton wrote: > I'm running into the following problem. Whenever I try to configure > 'locales' (which is whenever I try to install something with 'apt', > since the configuration fails each time), I get the following error: > > # dpkg --configure locales > Setting up locales

Re: Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
David Niemi wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 09:49 -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Sorry, I keep sending to personal rather than debian-user.  David's suggestion worked.  Thank you David.  I've got much better video now, and good window sizing. xc email message attachment (Re: Every fif

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > .xsession or .xinitrc > Not sure what the difference between those two files are. .xinitrc is invoked by "xinit". "startx" invokes "xinit". .xsession is read by xdm. (And I think by other foodm programs, too, such as kdm, gdm.) Kai -- To UNSU

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