Re: Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marty wrote: Scott Rebman wrote: Hi, I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian. We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home

how can i unintsll gcc-base

2005-11-07 Thread 张勇顺
hi now there are gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.0-base if i am unintsll anyone of them it will uninstall 100 packages at the fewest how can i do that give best advise thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail misbehaviour

2005-11-07 Thread Robert S
I have been fetchmail/cron to retrieve messages from my ISP'smailserver (POP). Messages are being left on the server. This systemhas been running for at least a year without a glitch. Last night I found over 2000 messages in my inbox - for some reason fetchmail hasstarted not recognising message

Numeric weirdness

2005-11-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I had a Duron 750 as a gateway/firewall/proxy at home, which I replaced, about two months ago, with a similar, but faster machine (AthlonXP 1700+) mostly because the Athlon PC in total is far more quiet and I have plans for a gaming server. As things happen, I need an extra desktop, s

Re: Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

2005-11-07 Thread Hugo Garza
I was trying to update from a 2.4.27 kernel to the new 2.6.14 kernel and kept getting the same error. I managed to fix it by running "apt-get install initramfs-tools". -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Marty
Scott Rebman wrote: Hi, I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian. We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home to develop a be

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/8/05, Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in > > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime > > > correspond to millions

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 19:30 -0800, Andy Streich wrote: > On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in > > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime > > > correspond to millio

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: >Thanks so much Kentthe numlock light is "on" and stays on...you cannot >turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything. >(All this in KDE.) > >I think it has to do with the "newer" KDE version 3.4.2 which, when I >dist-upgraded caused all the proble

Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Scott Rebman
Hi,     I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian.  We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home to develop a better understan

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 07 November 2005 08:52 pm, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now I have a good mouse, and the nvidia driver is working so X works > > fine. > > The problem is now, the keyboard doesn't work at all. > > It's getting so close, please help me fix the keyboard? > > Does the CAPS

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now I have a good mouse, and the nvidia driver is working so X works > fine. > The problem is now, the keyboard doesn't work at all. > It's getting so close, please help me fix the keyboard? Does the CAPSLOCK key activate the indicator LED? If you have a ?dm that allow

how to pango compile ?

2005-11-07 Thread salahuddin pasha
hello, i wanna compile pango (the latest one from from http://www.pango.org/) i gave dh_make and select library then it create pango-dev and pangoDamaged i just wanna know how can i compile pango like official === libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dbg libp

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread mailmanmike
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:53 AM Subject: Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to get into X by running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and cho

Re:

2005-11-07 Thread Stephanie da Silva
To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-07 Thread sqrt
Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:49:03PM -, Thrasher Remailer написал: I configured the URL's in ~/.premail/preferences, and it downloads the remailer stats, but I can't figure out how to get a nym to work. (using premail 0.46) $ premail -makenym Note: Assuming you don't want to use an address fil

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime > > correspond to millions of dollars lost.  It's not reasonable IMO to > > expect OSS

dpkg: error processing instaling MySQL 5.0

2005-11-07 Thread Tim Jordan
I'm not looking for someone to solve this for me but instead to point me in a direction so that I can learn how to fix such problems. Please advise if possible... Thank you, Tim Running Debian Testing I installed qmail and removed exim4 from my system. Then later I wanted to add MySQL server

Re: How to set default compiler to 4.0?

2005-11-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Or you could start running unstable where gcc-4.0 is the default I > believe. :) Same with testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strange Bind9 behavior.

2005-11-07 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I'm getting a strange behavior (for me anyway...) on Bind9. I just set up a new Debian Sarge server with bind9. Anyway, I can do a dig lookup on a domain name from this new server using 127.0.0.1 (# dig bozo.com 127.0.0.1) and it will not find the address. Then I can go to another server and direc

Re: klogctl: Invalid argument

2005-11-07 Thread Keith Edmunds
I get that error too. Preliminary investigations suggest that it may be related to the use of syslog-ng: do you use that? I've not yet found a fix for it, but I'd like to. Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Rob Colling
On Monday 07 November 2005 11:22 am, Bruno Buys wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: > >--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>John Hasler wrote: > >>>Bruno Buys writes: > (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they > debian friendly? > >>> > >>>Some winmodems can

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 16:31 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: > > %% Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I prefer the second version: Linux is a Research Product. You should said this the first time, and not go around in circles. You are as good as supporters

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Katipo
A bit expensive, but because we never look like getting anything except dial up through copper wire, I have had for the last 9 years, a Maestro Woomera external modem that does everything, including allowing me to monitor the speed of the connection constantly, except wash the car. Best i

Newbie wants to install xvidcap

2005-11-07 Thread Frances Fleming
all, this is my first technical question to any board other than my LUG mailing list. I used Suse Pro 10.0/10.2 (not connected to Internet) for a year, and have only been using Debian since about April and have only ever installed using apt-get or aptitude, apart from Flash, but that took me tw

Mail <> Fax gateway

2005-11-07 Thread David Nicholls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers. I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for email. I've seen: http://www.faximum.com/fms/ which is a Postf

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Albretch Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051107 03:10]: > Well, I noticed the site wasn't online to begin with ;-) > sh-3.00# ping http://non-us.debian.org > ping: unknown host http://non-us.debian.org > do they have such thing as mirrors? Please read http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:13:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:20 +, Cal Paterson wrote: > > You could try xfce4 or fluxbox (although fluxbox is slightly more > > non-intuitive for a novice). > > > > You might well need to cut down quite agressivly on unneeded daemons/

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:10:21PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > > > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > > someone out there has seen this

OT: Reminder - Trimming Replies

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
(Apologies for playing List-Cop.) Several threads lately have included replies following long quotes. Whereas the replies are in the "correct" location (yea!), leaving all of the previous material as a quotation is unnecessary and has several drawbacks (which have been discussed multiple times

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread loos
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 16:31 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: > %% Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ml> Is NIS reliable? > > Sure. Enterprises have been deploying it in huge environments for 10-15 > years or more. > > ml> It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to > look up compatibility under ndiswrapper > (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). if you're using, its NOT a compatible hw, since you're using the windoze drivers on

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:20 +, Cal Paterson wrote: > You could try xfce4 or fluxbox (although fluxbox is slightly more > non-intuitive for a novice). > > You might well need to cut down quite agressivly on unneeded daemons/X > programs, but I reckon its possible. My xfce4 desktop starts up wh

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > someone out there has seen this or has an idea. > > I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom Ne

Re: CHM to html ?

2005-11-07 Thread Gerhard Gaußling
Am Dienstag 08 November 2005 14:30 schrieb Armin ranjbar: > anyone known a way to convert CHM files into plain html or pdf files chmlib can handle chm files: ~$ apt-get install chmlib-bin ~$ man extract_chmLib extracts a chm file into a directory xchm uses chmlib, so try to print from xchm: xchm

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:42:07PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> > > > >What if you configure dhcpd to give it a fixed address? > > > > An interesting question. That works. But what does it mean? > It basically means that the DHCP server will a

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread M-L
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:26 am, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: ---> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] ---> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote: ---> > Bruno Buys writes: ---> >> I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new ---> >> address. So, what

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Dick Davies
On 07/11/05, Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the major advantages of Solaris is better support of obsolete > systems, which are only being used because Solaris does not support > the better, modern solutions? Have you been reading a different thread? Maybe people spend all day defend

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:10:16PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an idea. I have

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:54:49PM -0500, Antonio Paiva wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? I just got suspending

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ml> Is NIS reliable? Sure. Enterprises have been deploying it in huge environments for 10-15 years or more. ml> It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure ml> LDAP is much more secure. How stands Solaris when using a PAM/LDA

Re: lyx and k3b absent from testing: is this permanent?

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:10:37AM +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Alright, I have searched through and through the mailing lists and cannot > find > why lyx, k3b and opera are not in testing. > > It seems like this transition away from kdelibs4 to kdelibs4c2 was done about > two months ago. So

Re: Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-07 Thread gcrimp
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:27:27PM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:48 -0800, nuno romano wrote: > --snip-- > > -Java: I don´t know which Java Runtime Environment,SDK > > is the most effective,the blackdown.org or the > > Gnu classpath,gcj,or other.For example,I want to >

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-07 Thread Toens Bueker
Antonio Paiva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? I use http://www.suspend2.net/ for that. Doesn't requi

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:10:16PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > someone out there has seen this or has an idea. > > I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom

Bug in KDE clock applet

2005-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
On boot the KDE clock applet sets the system time to the hardware time. However, the hardware time is set either manually or by the applet rdate, run either on boot or automatically or manually while the box is operational. Rdate, when run, sets the hardware clock to UTC time. However, the

Suspend to disk

2005-11-07 Thread Antonio Paiva
Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? Thanks, -- António Rafael C. Paiva Graduate student Computational NeuroEngineering Laborat

ACL bug in debian sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Peter Pfannenschmid
Hello, I have seen a very strange thing when using ACLs (OS is debian sarge, FS is ext3): fenrir:/home/iso-img/DCMUPD# dir test -r--rw+ 1 Administrator users 0 2005-11-07 20:52 test Please note that the owner of the file "test", namely the user "Administrator", does not have write permiss

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-07 Thread Peter . Robinson
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:05:19AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > // __ > Your (Peter's) instructions broke at 4) 2.4 "apt-get update" and 5) because > of the previous problem I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but perhaps it would be possible to download the java package directly and

Re: CHM to html ?

2005-11-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 07 November 2005 13:30, Armin ranjbar wrote: > anyone known a way to convert CHM files into plain html or pdf files ? I don't know of any "ready-made" way to do it, but this might be useful if you know python. Package: python-chm State: not installed Version: 0.8.2-3 Priority: optional

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > > > hi folks, > > > > > > > > > just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy > > > hints as to

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread [KS]
Scott wrote: >> > I thought gnome-office was one of those packages who's only purpose was > to depend on the other packages. If you remove that package, the > packages it depended on remain. If however, you remove one of the > packages it depends on you'll also have to take gnome-office with it.

Bash: $LINENO can't be modified in bash 3.0, while it can be done in bash 2.05b

2005-11-07 Thread Ahmed Darwish
I've noticed that the $LINENO can't be modified in bash 3.0. I made a script (bash debugger) which modify LINENO to a specific value before using it, it worked in bash 2.05b. but in bash 3.0, even if i've changed it's value, it counts from "one" like nothing happened Ex: --

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote: > Bruno Buys writes: >> I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new >> address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? > > Hook up your modem, run

Re: Mail <> Fax gateway

2005-11-07 Thread Conall O'Brien
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:03:21PM GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> incoherently babbled: Hi, > I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just > wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers. > > I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for e

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-07 Thread Cloaked Hunter
Deleted, rebooted, and it worked! Thank you VERY much! I greatly appreciate your assistance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mail <> Fax gateway

2005-11-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers. I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for email. I've seen: http://www.faximum.com/fms/ which is a Postfix add-on, but just thought i'd ask if any

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 10:04 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: > %% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tl> Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and > tl> what a post. > > Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you > summed it up this

Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-07 Thread Thrasher Remailer
I configured the URL's in ~/.premail/preferences, and it downloads the remailer stats, but I can't figure out how to get a nym to work. (using premail 0.46) $ premail -makenym Note: Assuming you don't want to use an address file. Nym to create (example [EMAIL PROTECTED]): fb1282 Getting http://

Re: Re: kdeaddons install dependency problem (etch)

2005-11-07 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hmm, forget that message... Next time I must learn to check disk usage. Just noticed that my root fs was full. After an apt-get clean everything ran fine again.

Re: kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:29:58PM -0500, Mark Hansen wrote: > I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). > > I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I > think maybe it has something to

Re: kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/7/05, Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). > > I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I > think maybe it has something to do with the S

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

2005-11-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-07 12:30:16, Opus wrote: > I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org > and found that they are in RPMs. I managed to figure out that I > needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the > RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do with the DEB

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

2005-11-07 Thread steef
On Monday 07 November 2005 18:30, Opus wrote: > I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org > and found that they are in RPMs. I managed to figure out that I > needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the > RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do wi

kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread Mark Hansen
I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I think maybe it has something to do with the SATA drive?? Any help will be appreciated. Here is the e

OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

2005-11-07 Thread Opus
I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org and found that they are in RPMs. I managed to figure out that I needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do with the DEB files. I'm running Sarge with a 2.6 kerne

Re: ConsoleOne Install???

2005-11-07 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi, It's been a while since I fiddled with ConsoleOne, but I converted the necessary .rpms into .deb (with "alien -c") and after that it was as simple as dpkg -i *.deb from that directory. I can start ConsoleOne and it reacts when I click with my mouse. Unfortunately that's all it does. My Nov

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
You could try xfce4 or fluxbox (although fluxbox is slightly more non-intuitive for a novice). You might well need to cut down quite agressivly on unneeded daemons/X programs, but I reckon its possible. My xfce4 desktop starts up while using about ~86mb of volitile memory, and I've never bothered

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
On 11/7/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought gnome-office was one of those packages who's only purpose was > to depend on the other packages. If you remove that package, the > packages it depended on remain. If however, you remove one of the > packages it depends on you'll also have t

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to look up compatibility under ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). -- www.gnu.org

DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Don Hayward
This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an idea. I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up as a DHCP client. When I enable the LAN inte

Re: kdeaddons install dependency problem (etch)

2005-11-07 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi, I think we have the same problem. My "testing" installation has been running just fine for over half a year until I ran the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade today. I got a whole lot of KDE related updates and my problem seems to be there. KDM runs fine, so the problem's not in X. Bu

Re: how to regress to stable

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:45:49PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. > > > > > > I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to > > revert > > > back to stable. I've had a number of problems downgrading, and do

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John Hasler
John M. Gabriele writes: > Most internal PCI modems -- that aren't winmodems -- will work fine with > Sarge; whether they're U.S. Robotics or not. They will get by, but they will put your computer at increased risk of lightning damage. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > > > just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy > > hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next > > debugging step w

File server performance

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi, I've just finished building a new file server that has an Adaptec 2400a RAID controller card, to which 4x250GB IDE drives are connected. The card is right now running in hardware RAID-5 mode and I'm using the Linux I2O driver with kernel 2.6.14 (vanilla sources). The server is running debian s

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > in an effort to get acpi workingo n my laptop (THinkpad 600e) I've > upgraded to 2.6.14 kernel. Seemswo work fine! Except I'm having > trouble with my wireless card (D-Link DWL-650+). The third-party > driver compiled andi nstalled fin

Re: Icon zooming disappeared?

2005-11-07 Thread marc
Ryan Schultz said... > On Friday 04 November 2005 05:46 am, marc wrote: > > After applying the testing update to KDE 3.4, a large number of my > > settings have been trounced. Most I've been able to recover, but I > > cannot find the icon zooming feature when hovering over icons in the > > taskbar

Re: Strange problem that don't allow me to mount dvd units

2005-11-07 Thread dclemen
More info: dmesg Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty0 ) Linux version 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.1-9)) #1 Wed Sep 28 02:31:26 CEST 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) BIOS-e8

aptitude - held broken packages

2005-11-07 Thread marc
Hi, After an aptitude upgrade last week on an etch machine, which pulled in all the KDE 3.4 packages, I am having problems installing a few packages. For example # aptitude install kate-plugins returns E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to correct dependenci

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread [KS]
John M. Gabriele wrote: > Go to a used computer shop (if there are any around you); they'll > probably have a box of them stripped from old systems that they're > not doing anything with. > Yes, that is the way to go. A couple of weeks ago somone threw away an IBM PC in the basement of my buildi

dfsbuild/cdebootstrap can't cd to ...

2005-11-07 Thread Tullio Dovera
Hi all, I'm trying to build a Debian From Scratch live cd using dfsbuild/cdebootstrap. My platform is debian i386 sarge (stable). I have updated just cdebootstratp/dfsbuild and dependencies from sid. At this time I have cdebootstrap 0.3.9 dfsbuild 0.6.21 When I run "dfsbuild -c /etc/d

Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-07 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:03:28PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On søndag 06 november 2005, 10:54, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > Check your /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 (or /etc/logrotate.conf). > > I've investigated further, and it definitely has nothing to do with > logrotate or postrotate. This is cle

pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, in an effort to get acpi workingo n my laptop (THinkpad 600e) I've upgraded to 2.6.14 kernel. Seemswo work fine! Except I'm having trouble with my wireless card (D-Link DWL-650+). The third-party driver compiled andi nstalled fine, but when I insert the card I get the message: cs: pcm

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Bruno Buys
John M. Gabriele wrote: --- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Hasler wrote: Bruno Buys writes: (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian friendly? Some winmodems can be used with Linux but they are not at all friendly.

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread James Strandboge
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 13:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 11/4/05, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > I used Solaris for many years for serious embedded development work, > > > as well as an embedded operating s

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 07 Nov 2005 10:04:52 -0500, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > %% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tl> Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and > tl> what a post. > > Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you > summed

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tl> Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and tl> what a post. Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you summed it up this way makes me wonder if you're a troll. I _DID_ say that in a few sp

Re: How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
Thanks. I was also considering starting a second version of cyrus listening on different port (144) and giving it a config to point it to /mnt/var (old /var mounted on /mnt). There seem to be several utilities out there for synchronising mailboxes between two IMAP instances. Any suggestions as to w

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > >Bruno Buys writes: > > > > > >>(there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian > >>friendly? > >> > >> > > > >Some winmodems can be used with Linux but they are not at all friendly. > > > > > I

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:05:07AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > Hi Finnish friends! > > > > A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to > > connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit > > problem to de

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-07 Thread Derek Broughton
Derek Broughton wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > >> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I pretty much think it _must_ be a corrupted DB, but rescanning has no >>> effect. I really have to take the time to figure out how to put the DB >>> into MySQL, because I really do like Ama

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Bruno Buys
John Hasler wrote: Bruno Buys writes: I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? Hook up your modem, run pppconfig, and follow instructions. To the point. I like that. Thanks John. Gue

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Bruno Buys writes: > I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new > address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? Hook up your modem, run pppconfig, and follow instructions. > Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics or > similar.

e2fsprogs problem

2005-11-07 Thread kangja
i use 'testing' but occasionally installed packages fr sid or unstable. now when i do 'apt-get install, i have the following error : > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the > essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This > is often bad, but if you r

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread David Mummery
Scott - I'm not at all sure - I'll have to give it a go on non-production I suppose.. David Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > David Mummery wrote: > > >Hi all - > > > >Is there a way to remove Abiword from Debian Sarge without Synaptic insisting > >on removing all of Gnome-Office? > > > >I h

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 07 Nov 2005 08:47:12 -0500, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For desktops, and even smaller servers, I really prefer Linux. Sure, > 99% of the tools on Linux can also be compiled for Solaris. But it's > WORK to do that! Trust me, I maintained a repository of GNU and other > F/OSS tools

RE: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics indeed! What packages do I need? kppp or wvdial Cheers, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Scott
David Mummery wrote: Hi all - Is there a way to remove Abiword from Debian Sarge without Synaptic insisting on removing all of Gnome-Office? I have a real pain with it opening .doc files instead of OpenOffice under the Gnome environment. Alternatively, how can I force .doc files to be openned

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/7/05, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hello, > > My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- > > numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to > > approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono,

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