mouse emulation with keyboard in X

(I will try my luck again:) I offten use mouse emulation (activated by Ctrl+Alt+NumLock). It works fine, my problem is that emulation is automaticaly deactivated if not used for a while. How do I prevent this. In man Xserver I found command line option: [+-]accessx [ timeout [ timeout_mask [ fee

Re: KDE 3.4.2 and British English

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:12:12AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I just upgraded to 3.4.2. In 3.4.1, I was able to acquire British English > for KDE (and Debian, but I digress) by simply apt-get install kde-i18n-engb. > When I upgraded, that file was also upgraded. Well, it doesn't work. I trie

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:16:18 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a > screen(part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do > that? > > I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a > window) and of

Re: How do you "move to testin =?iso-8859-1?Q?ng/etch=22??=

You may already know this, but just in case you don't . . .you need to understand that the decision to track testing instead of stable or unstable is a serious one, with potentially serious hazards. Many people have the concept in their heads that testing is a fairly robust distribution that's

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 00:16 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen > (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? > > I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) and > of

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

Matt Price wrote: ssh -p 2000 -l me mydomain.dyndns.org which gets to the router; the router sees that it's supposed to forward requests on port 2000 to 192.168.2.199; 192.168.2.199 picks up the request and an ssh tunnel is formed You won't need tunneling for this, just the NAT that your "r

Re: How do you "move to testin =?iso-8859-1?Q?ng/etch=22??=

> Subject: How do you "move to testing/etch"? You may already know this, but just in case you don't . . .you need to understand that the decision to track testing instead of stable or unstable is a serious one, with potentially serious hazards. Many people have the concept in their heads that t

KDE 3.4.2 and British English

I just upgraded to 3.4.2. In 3.4.1, I was able to acquire British English for KDE (and Debian, but I digress) by simply apt-get install kde-i18n-engb. When I upgraded, that file was also upgraded. Well, it doesn't work. I tried to re-install it (three times): No go. I tried to install another file

Re: Is cdrecord broken?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:27:59AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Any ideas? > > 1. Switch to 2.6.13. Not something I want to do, as I would rather stick with what is in Sarge. I will give it a shot :-| > 2. Use the ATAPI interface

Re: Is cdrecord broken?

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Any ideas? 1. Switch to 2.6.13. 2. Use the ATAPI interface (not scsi emulation). 3. Use a backport of sid's cdrecord which has some important fixes. That should do it. Oh, and make triple sure you have ATAPI DMA capabilities enabled or you WILL ge

Re: Freshness of packages

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:27:56PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: Hi, Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and not

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen >(part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? > >I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) and >of GIMP (which doesn't completely meet my

Re: Re: screen resolution

Did you try to check the X log? It usually has useful information regarding problems with the video. LeoOn 9/14/05, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/14/2005 03:10 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:> only thing I can think of is that your monitor settings aren't right.> I had similar probl

Re: Installing mplayer

On 9/14/05, Ganeshram Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/14/05, John Talbut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone give me or point me to precise instructions as to how to do > > this? I use Aptitude to get packages. > > > > Or should I give up with Christian Marillat's package and go with

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

I agree with Sanchez. I run an old Pentium II as a NAT box with iptables and it gives me much more flexibility than a ("standalone") router. Routers dont need to be a cutting edge machine, old ones will do it just great for home networks. If you are not sure how to set up one, try reading the masqu

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

On 9/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen(part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that?I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) and of GIMP (which doe

Re: Freshness of packages

On 09/14/2005 02:10 PM, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? > > Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages > need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those > packages been in Debian Testing repository?

Re: Re: screen resolution

On 09/14/2005 03:10 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > only thing I can think of is that your monitor settings aren't right. > I had similar problems for a while with my envision en-710e. my horiz > sync and vert refresh ranges weren't right and consequently it > couldn't get a good set-up for the

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? Not sure about Gnome. But KDE has ksnapshot which is useful for this purpose. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate

Re: Freshness of packages

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:27:56PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? > >>Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of pac

gnome and mime types

When I click on a realplayer link (.smil extension) in epiphany or galeon, it wants to open it in a text editor. I can't find any way to change that behavior. Unlike what I'm used to in mozilla, there's no preference setting for helper applications. I guess these are supposed to be handled by th

Re: Freshness of packages

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: Hi, Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those packag

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:16:49PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > I have 2 computers on a home network, connected to DSL through a modem > and a cheap SMC router (Barricade g = SMC2804WBRP-g). I would like to > be able to ssh into both of them form the outside world. I have > successf

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

On 09/14/2005 02:56 AM, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 9/14/05, *Ralph Katz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On 09/13/2005 08:20 AM, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Though I get print header and footer, in header I don't get title and > > for date/time in footer I get only ti

Is cdrecord broken?

Today I just got a new DVD burner. I thought that the problems I was previously having where cdrecord would burn at a max of 16x were attributable to the cheap CD burner I had purchased. However, this new DVD burner burns DVDs fine at its max burn speed (8x or 16x for the various DVD flavors) usi

expose internal network to the outside world

hi folks, I have 2 computers on a home network, connected to DSL through a modem and a cheap SMC router (Barricade g = SMC2804WBRP-g). I would like to be able to ssh into both of them form the outside world. I have successfully set up "inadyn" to associate a stable URL (x.dyndns.org) with my dy

Re: debian way to memtest86?

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Is there any "debian way" to do memtest? On some distros, I saw a > memtest entry into the bootloader. I use lilo for the moment, anyway, I > dont have floppy drive, just CDRom. One entry in /etc/lilo.conf should look like this: image=/boot/memtest86+.bin

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:16:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen > (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? > Do you want a snapshot or a video? > I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that

Re: to not apt-get upgrade certain packages

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:14:26PM -0500, Ganeshram Iyer wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to ensure that certain packages that I have apt-get > installed are never upgraded (even security). specifically these are > libwine wine wine-utils. I have version 20041019 the version > recommended by winet

Re: debian way to memtest86?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:10:38AM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > My computer is seriously segfaulting during compilation (eg: kernel, > gnome, openoffice,... src.rpm) > I dont know what's going on, so I decided to test the RAM first. > Is there any "debian way" to do memtest? On som

Re: Problem building from package sources

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:04:23PM -0400, Roger Creasy wrote: > Hello: > > Any time that I try to install software from source files, I get the > foillowing error when I type ./configure: > > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C > com

Re: Any general way to disable a service

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 06:59:10PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any general way to disable a service along all updates? > I mean, I think I've stopped my rsync service, but noticed that it is now > starting again. I think having a new version of rsync installed will > default the rsync

to not apt-get upgrade certain packages

Hello all, I am trying to ensure that certain packages that I have apt-get installed are never upgraded (even security). specifically these are libwine wine wine-utils. I have version 20041019 the version recommended by winetools package (http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/) and I am more

Re: Installing mplayer

On 9/14/05, John Talbut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone give me or point me to precise instructions as to how to do > this? I use Aptitude to get packages. > > Or should I give up with Christian Marillat's package and go with the > precise instructions given at www.princessleia.com/MPlaye

FW: debian way to memtest86?

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > My computer is seriously segfaulting during compilation (eg: kernel, > gnome, openoffice,... src.rpm) I use memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/ You can create a bootable floppy or CD. You should also test your hard drive. Go to you hard drive manufacture

gnome 2.10 and gnome-cd

Hello List, I have just tried to ply my favorite CDROM with gnome-cd: I get the error message: OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program. My box is a daily update Etch box: CDROM can be plyed before Gnome 2.10 hit testing ? Any clue ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSC

Is there a screencapture utility?

I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) and of GIMP (which doesn't completely meet my needs either). What bothers m

Re: usb-thumb memorex? ???

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote: > >> media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev > >> sdb1. > > > vfat 13920 0 that's fat32 > fat53756 1 vfat that's fat16 > msdos 10400 0 that's definitely fat16 but ...

Re: debian way to memtest86?

Rakotomandimby Mihamina([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > My computer is seriously segfaulting during compilation (eg: kernel, > gnome, openoffice,... src.rpm) > I dont know what's going on, so I decided to test the RAM first. > Is there any "debian way" to do memtest? On some di

Re: usb-thumb memorex? ???

Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote: > >> is the memorex usb thumbdrive workable, able to mount? > > > yes .. most any usb will work under *nix > > you just need to have the usb drivers for the usb controller on > your mb lspci | grep usb > > - check the kernel options aga

Re: adventures with window managers

Adam Hardy wrote: Cybe R. Wizard on 14/09/05 13:38, wrote: I think you'd be happy with IceWM as it is configurable to do most of what you want so far. In addition you'll need Iceconf or Icepref for configuration. one major plus point for icewm - it starts all programs with a window the sa

Re: bootsplash

Le 14 Septembre 2005 10:07, mess-mate a écrit : > | The patch is intended to change the existing framebuffer module's > | behaviour, by changing method it uses to switch video modes. > | > | Nicolas > > Thanks, more clearely ?? The stock linux VESA VGA framebuffer module is limited in its ability

Any general way to disable a service

Hi, Is there any general way to disable a service along all updates? I mean, I think I've stopped my rsync service, but noticed that it is now starting again. I think having a new version of rsync installed will default the rsync service being runned on startup. Is that so? I know how to stop

Re: setting up environment variables

On 9/14/05, Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in> /etc/profile since all users' profile include that. Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or asimilar program?I tried

Re: usb-thumb memorex? ???

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote: > is the memorex usb thumbdrive workable, able to mount? yes .. most any usb will work under *nix you just need to have the usb drivers for the usb controller on your mb lspci | grep usb - check the kernel options against the lspci outp

Re: Re: KPM update failure

> > >Please tell me that you spent at least 5 seconds on Goole looking for >this. I am not taking this out on you personally, but at least once >month for the past couple of years someone has posted to this list with >the same error. Please just Google for "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" >and foll

usb-thumb memorex? ???

is the memorex usb thumbdrive workable, able to mount? checked mailing list to no avail. info: lsmod | grep usb usb_storage76384 0 usblp 12992 0 usbhid 36480 0 usbcore 122300 6 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,usblp,usbhid,uhci_hcd scsi_mod

debian way to memtest86?

Hi, My computer is seriously segfaulting during compilation (eg: kernel, gnome, openoffice,... src.rpm) I dont know what's going on, so I decided to test the RAM first. Is there any "debian way" to do memtest? On some distros, I saw a memtest entry into the bootloader. I use lilo for the moment, an

Problem building from package sources

Hello: Any time that I try to install software from source files, I get the foillowing error when I type ./configure: checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables I am a newbie and am only following instruction

Re: font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

On 9/14/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird > for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the > menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've > just installed Stacked Vi

Re: Making a live cd (initrd / kernel panic)

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Patterson, Richard A wrote: > On our target system, I boot to the cd, grub loads, and the kernel > appears to load, but then panics... Cannot mount root fs on > unknown-block(3,1) (3,1) is /dev/hda1 - you need to install the /boot/grub/dxxx_stage_1.5 for that

Re: webcam troubles

2005/9/14, Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > > i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work. I > > managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get > > no picture, and an error that say

Re: How do you "move to testing/etch"?

--- marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've scoured the archives and docs, and googled the globe, but I > cannot > find an explanation for safely moving - as safe as it can be - from > stable/sarge to testing/etch. > > The Debian Reference has chapter 5, 'Upgrading a distribution to > s

Making a live cd (initrd / kernel panic)

On one machine I created a chroot using debootstrap, and put grub (stage2_eltorito) into it, but I think I'm having trouble with my initrd. When I tried just installing the kernel, by default it automatically tried to run mkinitrd, but I think because I was in my chroot (and not a real device) it

Re: How do you "move to testing/etch"?

On 9/14/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My best guess is to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and apt-get update, apt- > get dist-upgrade, but can anyone point to a good description of the > process, please. ^^^ pointing to description of the process ^^^ This is out of date? http://www.debian.

clients not supporting proxy SOCKS

I would like to play chee onine, but i am behind a firewall... Now i have a nice program called "your freedom" that acts as SOCKS 4 proxy, but there are no chess clients (as long as i know) that support SOCKS. So is there an easy way to use SOCKS proxy anyway? In win there shoud be something like

Re: Login help

Evan Storer wrote: Helpful folks, I just got a computer from work that was used by someone a few years ago which runs Debian, and I can't do anything with it since I don't know any usernames or passwords or anything. Is there some kind of override to get past the login screen so I can set up

Re: Strange problems with permissions on fat32 partitions

Michelasso wrote: I have added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount at boot the windows partition of my hd and to give every user permission to write on it: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winvfat rw,users,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 But I have this problem: I don't have write a

Login help

Helpful folks, I just got a computer from work that was used by someone a few years ago which runs Debian, and I can't do anything with it since I don't know any usernames or passwords or anything. Is there some kind of override to get past the login screen so I can set up my own account? Any help

Strange problems with permissions on fat32 partitions

I have added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount at boot the windows partition of my hd and to give every user permission to write on it: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winvfat rw,users,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 But I have this problem: I don't have write access to some directo

How do you "move to testing/etch"?

Hi, I've scoured the archives and docs, and googled the globe, but I cannot find an explanation for safely moving - as safe as it can be - from stable/sarge to testing/etch. The Debian Reference has chapter 5, 'Upgrading a distribution to stable, testing, or unstable', but it is non-generic and

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:19:30AM +0200, Erdi Balint wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the > dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it works as it > should. However, how do you make a front-end (namely xcdroast) use this > setting?

no icons on kde 3.4.2 desktop after reboot

Hi, I wonder if anyone has seen this problem and knows how to solve it. After a reboot, my KDE desktop shows no icons and a pop-up window shows the message: Error - KDesktop The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly If I end the session and log in again, the icons appear. I'm runni

Re: KPM update failure

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:58:52PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I tried to update the KPM list [running woody] and got > the following error > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing xvfb (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /

Re: Freshness of packages

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:35:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? >> >> Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages >> need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those >> packages been in Debi

KPM update failure

I tried to update the KPM list [running woody] and got the following error Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing xvfb (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_b

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:20:09PM +0200, Marco wrote: > Simo Kauppi ha scritto: > > >On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Marco wrote: > > > > > >>I have test with your settings but I have still problems. This is the > >>configuration of 000-domain1.com > >> > >> > >>This is the configurat

Re: Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

Frank Gevaerts ha scritto: Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Thanks, Adam I don't understand exactly what you want to do... but have you tried simply with "top"?? Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Freshness of packages

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? > > Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages > need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those > packages been in Debian T

Re: Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome

FYI, I resolved this and the follow-on problems fully by:   1.  Upgrading all X components to version 6.8.2 (from etch repository)   2.  Upgrading my kernel to 2.6.13.1   3.  Upgrading to the latest nvidia driver (7676)   4.  Moving to the xorg xserver   5.  Reconfigure my virtual workspaces to

Re: Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:20:01PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" > and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Normally, /usr/bin/time -v, but apparently since 2.4 kernels a lot of information is not available. Fran

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Marco wrote: Hi, I have removed the Rewrite rule on my Virtual Host configuration file, I have added the rule ServerAlias domain1.com *.domain1.com, and I have restart apache2. Test: http://www.domain1.com --> OK http://domain1.com --> PAGE NOT FOUND ??? I have also an other question, using

Re: the netcard config is not there

Ok... Looking at my menu (i use gnome) in the applications->systemtools->network tools you can configure your devices... My menu is in spanish so some name couldn't match with yours... Hope to help you again! :) > Thanks, > Yes I know how to configure the netcard manually, > but for the newbie,

Re: Stop autoloading of prism54 module

Hi Chris, On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:15:25PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > Using a 3com wireless card. > > It doesn't work with the prism54 module (none of the firmwares from > prism54.org work with it) - and googling on it suggests that they > changed the chipset - but not the part number or other id

Re: ftp://ftp.nerim.net repository broken?

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 14:52 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:13:21AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > > Tong wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it is, but I'm sure they are aware of it, as I couldn't get a > > connection with aptitude. > > Server probably down for maint

Re: the netcard config is not there

Thanks, Yes I know how to configure the netcard manually, but for the newbie, it is important to have a button for that. look at the menu there are a lot of button for almost every thing less important that networking, but not for the network configuration. best regards bela --- "Juan Fco. Casa

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Simo Kauppi ha scritto: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Marco wrote: Simo Kauppi ha scritto: It seems to me that the conditions for the first domain say that any hostname which is not www.doamin1.com should go to www.domain1.com. I.e. Apache is doing exacly as asked (domain2

Re: the netcard config is not there

> Hi, > I installed sarge > want to configure the network card, but no tool there > for that !! > In previous debian I remember, threre was a > netcardconf or something like this , but nothing > here??!! > Of course I can use ifconfig but not for permanant > address, or must change manually the fil

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

On lørdag 10 september 2005, 23:02, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > >The first is a dirt cheap Sunsway Sil 3112-based card, i.e. > > fakeraid. > > How "old" is your PC? Pretty exactly 4 years old. It has the last generation of Athlon T-Bird CPUs. > On my 2ghz AthlonXP I have onbo

Re: lock ssh user in his home

Hi, Leonardo Marques wrote: Hey people, Someone know what can i do to lock ssh user in his home ? by setting proper permission ? hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

the netcard config is not there

Hi, I installed sarge want to configure the network card, but no tool there for that !! In previous debian I remember, threre was a netcardconf or something like this , but nothing here??!! Of course I can use ifconfig but not for permanant address, or must change manually the files. strange, norm

Re: screen resolution

Chris Parker wrote: <>>> Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" # VideoRam16384 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "MX70" HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 47-120

Re: screen resolution

On Tuesday 13 September 2005 03:17 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > Chris Parker wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:36 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > >>Chris Parker wrote: > >>>First off - kern = 2.6.8-2-i686 > >>>Package: xserver-xfree86 > >>>Status: install ok installed > >>>Priority: optional > >>>

Re: Man-DB is crazy

David E. Fox wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz >>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2005-09-09 10:05 >>>/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> >>>/etc/alternatives/x-term

Net install image

Hi, I tried today's net install iso file but it did not work. I downloaded it from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ I control checksum and it's ok. I burned it twice. I have an error while installing base system saying me some packages are missing. Seems file is

Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel version and gcc's

Hi, Do I have to install the gcc that corresponding to what was using when my kernel was compiled? Googling on the web tells me that it might not be necessary. But I get the following message when trying to compile modules for vmare: Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "3.4.3", while you

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

Erdi Balint wrote: Hi, Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it works as it should. However, how do you make a front-end (namely xcdroast) use this setting? I keep getting scanbus errors using xcdroast and unable

RTC driver failure

Hi, I think it began after my recent upgrade. My RTC driver fails during boot. I noticed that when gazing at the boot screen, but wasn't able to find it in syslog or dmesg. ls: /proc/sys/dev/rtc: No such file or directory Does it proove that I don't have RTC? How to solve it? Thanks tong

lock ssh user in his home

Hey people, Someone know what can i do to lock ssh user in his home ? Thanks for attention, []s -- -- Leonardo Marques http://www.analyx.org --

Re: Man-DB is crazy

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: > > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling > > symlink > > Th

Freshness of packages

Hi, Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those packages been in Debian Testing repository? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: how would remote user start X application on local monitor

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:44:56 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Problem: > > I log in from a remote location, but I need to start an aplication > (example: emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper & ) > so that the person at home can see it and work with it. Should be as simple as set your DISP

Solved: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:39:03 -0500, Kent West wrote: >>This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having >>upgraded from xsever to xorg. >> >> [...] >>that there is way to restore using xserver instead of >>xorg. I tried to follow it, but wasn't successful. >> >>I removed all xorg and xserv

Re: IMAP Bandwith

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Koybe wrote: > Can someone help me estimating the bandwith needed for a server > delivering mail trough IMAP using CYRUS. It's about 100 clietns in a > day to day use. Well, this question has no good answer because: 1. It depends on the average mail size, which depens on you

Re: SOLVED: Re: cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Erik Steffl wrote: > anyway, fam NEWS/Debian.gz mentions the problem and refers to bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277528 Hmm... some people are just too shortsighted when they design software. > random daemons... Also seems like it would be really

Re: adventures with window managers

Cybe R. Wizard on 14/09/05 13:38, wrote: I think you'd be happy with IceWM as it is configurable to do most of what you want so far. In addition you'll need Iceconf or Icepref for configuration. one major plus point for icewm - it starts all programs with a window the same size as the availab

Re: adventures with window managers

Cybe R. Wizard on 14/09/05 13:38, wrote: IceWM can do that. (but multiple desktops are /so/ cool!) I think you'd be happy with IceWM as it is configurable to do most of what you want so far. In addition you'll need Iceconf or Icepref for configuration. Thanks for those tips. Got most of it c

Re: Help with starting Totem

Seeker5528 wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:01:03 -0400 > "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>lsof doesn't give me anything :( >>~# lsof /dev/dsp >>~# >> >>Any other pointers? > > > Are you using totem-gstreamer or totem-xine > Are you using alsa drivers? > > If you don't know then open

Re: adventures with window managers

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:19:14PM +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > Hi, > > My two cents to the window manager monologue... :) > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see all > > apps in a list or a row with t

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