Re: How do you stop "auto-selection" in KDE?

2006-01-24 Thread Wulfy
Scott wrote: I'm running KDE 3.5 in Debian Sid. A few days ago I'd found a setting that read something like "Hovering over icons automatically selects them" and I checked it. A day later I realized this was very annoying and wanted to turn it off. Not only does it auto-select icons, it aut

software RAID on mixed drive types (SATA/IDE)

2006-01-24 Thread Cameron Dale
I was thinking of getting another disk and starting to use software RAID (levels 1 and 5). I have 2 IDE disks on my 2 IDE buses, but my motherboard also has 2 empty SATA connectors. I know putting more than 1 RAID drive on a single IDE bus is not recommended, so I was thinking of getting a SATA dri

How do you stop "auto-selection" in KDE?

2006-01-24 Thread Scott
I'm running KDE 3.5 in Debian Sid. A few days ago I'd found a setting that read something like "Hovering over icons automatically selects them" and I checked it. A day later I realized this was very annoying and wanted to turn it off. Not only does it auto-select icons, it auto-selects items

Xorg and Font problem after migration

2006-01-24 Thread Abhishek Sawant
I was having sarge  with xfree86 , i upgrade to testing release with Xorg. After this upgrade i started facing weired problem with few application ( like xmms , xchm ..) I partially could see fonts in those application. I googled for this problem , few one said that its becoz   BYTE_CODE_INTERPRET

Xorg and font problem

2006-01-24 Thread Abhishek Sawant
Hi, I was having sarge  with xfree86 , i upgrade to testing release withXorg.After this upgrade i started facing weired problem with few application( like xmms , xchm ..)I partially could see fonts in those application. I googled for this problem , few one said that its becoz   BYTE_CODE_INTERPRET

Re: xterm and mc shortcuts

2006-01-24 Thread Andras Lorincz
For root I get this: open("/root/.terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 open("/root/.terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/terminfo/x

[OT] debianhelp.co.uk steals my words?

2006-01-24 Thread David R. Litwin
In a bid to help a fellow Debian user, I wanted to link to a thread I had been involved in (concerning internet connexions). I googled some words in it and found the post in the Debian mailing list archives, which is normal. I also found a tiny piece of it at this site:http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/c

Re: kdm will not start

2006-01-24 Thread debian
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:23:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Surely you've tried purging/reinstalling? yup many times :-( when I try kdm start it tells me that kdm is already running and ps -ef confirms that. when I try kdm stop;kdm start the screen goes blank and the machine is completely unr

Re: problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.

2006-01-24 Thread David R. Litwin
On 24/01/06, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:> Hi,>> I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection.> the problem is though I answer "OK" to tell I want the connection to be> launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. > It only launches when

Re: mysql 5.0

2006-01-24 Thread Edward Shornock
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:44:24PM +0800, linux china wrote: > Hi, > Is Mysql 5.0 already in debian? I just found 4.1. It's in Etch and Sid: mysql-server-5.0: Installed: 5.0.18-7 Candidate: 5.0.18-7 Version table: *** 5.0.18-7 0 650 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages

Re: Installing Linux Kernel and RT Linux

2006-01-24 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Eduardo wrote: Hello I'm new to Linux and working and reading a lot to understand it. I have downloaded the Kernel but haven't got a clue how to install it in a computer that will use only the Kernel and the RT Linux... Any help please Eduardo I would begin by installing and learning a di

mysql 5.0

2006-01-24 Thread linux china
Hi, Is Mysql 5.0 already in debian? I just found 4.1.

Re: Debian-User in Digest form?

2006-01-24 Thread Edward Shornock
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:53:00PM -0700, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Is there any way to get the debian-user mailing list in digest form? You can subscribe to it at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe. Just CTRL+F in your browser and search for "digest". It'll be the first match that you find

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Chinook
Jacob S wrote: That's probably it! That ports.conf file appears to be the only place you tell it what ips/ports to listen on. Change the "Listen localhost:631" line in ports.conf to "Listen 631" - this will tell it to listen on port 631 on any ip addresses associated with that computer. You ca

RE: How do I automate this?

2006-01-24 Thread Tyson Varosyan
Joris, Thanks for the detailed explanation. Your steps were very clear and easy to follow. However, the script to start wvdial is not working for me. On bootup, almost at the very end before it gives me a login prompt, I get a message: /etc/init.d/rc: line 30: /etc/rc2.d/S20startwvdial: Permissi

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:47, Ken Bloom wrote: > >>Steve Witt wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: >>> Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling "localhost.local

Re:

2006-01-24 Thread rolle
Hello, just a guess: it may be you are using a filesystem that does not support access rights. E.g. all files and directories on FAT disks or partitions have fixed access rights that can be set during the mounting (same access schema for each fs element). On some SMB disk symlinks cannot be cr

Re: How should I configure my two lancards on my Debian system?

2006-01-24 Thread Marty
Sonixxfx wrote: Hi, I have a linux box connected directly to the internet that has two lan cards installed on it. I would like to connect two other computers to those cards so that they can make use of the internet connection. Can someone tell me how I should configure those cards to achive this

Installing Linux Kernel and RT Linux

2006-01-24 Thread Eduardo
Hello I'm new to Linux and working and reading a lot to understand it. I have downloaded the Kernel but haven't got a clue how to install it in a computer that will use only the Kernel and the RT Linux...   Any help please   Eduardo

gdm config

2006-01-24 Thread Keith Bates
Hi, since upgrading my "testing" systsm on Sunday, whenever I log in with gdm I get an error message saying there are errors in my config file and I need to correct it. Can anyone point me to the location of the file, and possible problems. Thanks -- God bless you, Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:47, Ken Bloom wrote: >Steve Witt wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: >>> Hello. >>> How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? >>> No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling >>> "localhost.localdomain", other >>> computers with

Debian-User in Digest form?

2006-01-24 Thread Joseph Smidt
Is there any way to get the debian-user mailing list in digest form? -   Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kde status in Etch

2006-01-24 Thread H.S.
I apologize if this is a vague query. I have been patiently waiting for more than a couple of months now (I believe) to update KDE in Etch. However, apt-get is still wanting to uninstall quite a bit of packages, almost whole of KDE. Dselect also wants to uninstall quite a few KDE packages. What is

VPN problem (client)

2006-01-24 Thread Deephay
Hi all, I successfully established a connection to a VPN server, but I cannot browse some of the websites on the internet, I think this problem is caused by the mtu configuration. Anyone could tell me how to get the suitable mtu size? The server is using PPTP protocol. ps: how to change the de

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:37:30 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:01:53 -0500 > > Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Jacob S wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09

Re: initial query

2006-01-24 Thread Lance Simmons
* cneufeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060124 20:36]: > I'm looking for a good, text reference for Debian. I've looked around > in a number of bookstores, but have not yet found a manual as > comprehensive as I'd like. I'd appreciate recommendations from anyone > on the list willing to share their opini

Re: Hotplugging more USB devices

2006-01-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:50:03PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > Ralph Kutschera wrote: > > Hi List! > > > > I have a 4-in-1-CardReader and an external hard disk connected to my > > PC via USB. Ok, hotplugging would work if I could trust that same card > > slots or disk would be mapped to the same s

[Sid-i386] gksu and kdesu aren't working w/sudo

2006-01-24 Thread Scott
Greetings, I'm trying to determine how I can get gksu and kdesu to work with sudo. I'd have sworn I'd done it in the past with Debian (and it's a default in Ubuntu , which is where I first used it). Right now, gksu and kdesu ask for the root password. sudo by itself, works fine. It asks f

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Chinook
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:01:53 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob S wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not having any problem "seeing" the Linux printer from my Mac. It shows up in the CUP

Re: Marvell SATA Driver

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:42:52 +1100 Vaibhav Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Doug Miller wrote: > > > On 1/24/06, Vaibhav Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> > >> > > but i can't create a initrd image using > > > >> mkinitrd /bo

initial query

2006-01-24 Thread cneufeld
I'm looking for a good, text reference for Debian. I've looked around in a number of bookstores, but have not yet found a manual as comprehensive as I'd like. I'd appreciate recommendations from anyone on the list willing to share their opinions. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Marvell SATA Driver

2006-01-24 Thread Vaibhav Agrawal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Miller wrote: > On 1/24/06, Vaibhav Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> > but i can't create a initrd image using > >> mkinitrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-ct-1 2.6.8-2-ct-1 >> >> if the image is not correct, it will not load the module an

multiple network ports

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Allison
ugh! I'm having a ton of inconsistencies with my network connections. I have one ethernet jack on my notebook and one wireless PCMCIA card. Getting the wireless PCMCIA card is turning into voodoo magic to get it working from time to time. Given an option of only using one, I would like to be a

Re: Marvell SATA Driver

2006-01-24 Thread Doug Miller
On 1/24/06, Vaibhav Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but i can't create a initrd image usingmkinitrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-ct-1 2.6.8-2-ct-1if the image is not correct, it will not load the module and failany other ideas??? To get this new module on your initrd image you need to have a look

Re: Marvell SATA Driver

2006-01-24 Thread Vaibhav Agrawal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:15:55 +1100 Vaibhav Agrawal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, I'm not able to install Debian Stable 3.1 r1 on Super Micro > Server 6014H-T, during installation when it reaches the partition

Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread Alain M. Lafon
Hey there, > i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the bios does > not support cdrom boot. > how can i install debian ? Just search for Debian "Potato". This revision of Debian was stable before Woody(the predecessor to Sarge) came out. IIRC it was available on 7 FDDs o

Re: How should I configure my two lancards on my Debian system?

2006-01-24 Thread Marty
Sonixxfx wrote: Hi, I have a linux box connected directly to the internet that has two lan cards installed on it. I would like to connect two other computers to those cards so that they can make use of the internet connection. Can someone tell me how I should configure those cards to achive this

Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread gcrimp
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:57:35PM +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote: > hi all, > > i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the bios does > not support cdrom boot. > how can i install debian ? Smart boot manager on a floppy. It's worked well for me on machines that won't

Re: Hotplugging more USB devices

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Ralph Kutschera wrote: > Hi List! > > I have a 4-in-1-CardReader and an external hard disk connected to my > PC via USB. Ok, hotplugging would work if I could trust that same card > slots or disk would be mapped to the same scsi devices always. However, > depending upon when i turn on/off the ex

Re: problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.

2006-01-24 Thread Marty
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection. the problem is though I answer "OK" to tell I want the connection to be launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. It only launches when I run pppoeconf. After running pppoeconf, "poff" a

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Witt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > >> Hello. >> How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? >> No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling >> "localhost.localdomain", other >> computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. >> Tha

Re: ssh keys

2006-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 08:36, Juraj Fedel wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 04:26:47PM -0300, Jos? Pablo Ezequiel Fern?ndez wrote: > > On Mon 23 Jan 2006 15:53, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > > Are root logins allowed on the server? What does the server's auth.log > > > say? > > > > That was it, th

Re: ssh keys

2006-01-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Juraj Fedel (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> [ssh server] > How do you enable root login if they are disallowed? > Juraj Change "PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin yes" in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config. However I recommend you don't log in as root directly, instead only allow logins for u

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Witt
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling "localhost.localdomain", other computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. Thank you. -- The hostname of the compu

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-24 Thread sebastien marbrier
Le Lundi 16 Janvier 2006 02:15, Sridhar M.A. a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:58:25PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote: >> My dmesg echoes >> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. >> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9 >> ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: I've been forced to because KDM has stopped working. For the life of me I cannot get it to load. In the /var/log/kdm files there are messages about being refused an X connection, yet I can start X and startx and run xfce fine. I've googled for solutions until I am dizzy. Su

Re: problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:01:11 +0100 Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection. > the problem is though I answer "OK" to tell I want the connection to be > launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. > It onl

Problem installing oracle 10g in debian unstable

2006-01-24 Thread Tito
Hello. I am trying to install oracle 10g in debian unstable. The process blocks while 'Linking ntcontab'. I am following the steps from http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Oracle_10g.shtml. Does anyone can help me solving this problem? Thank you very much. Regards.

Re: Howto package squirrelmail plugins the Debian way (Was Re: Sieve client)

2006-01-24 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 24-jan-2006, at 15:24, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hello Josep, To install any plugin you have to download the tarball and detar the package into your squirrelmail plugins directory. Eventually for each particular plugin some configuration file might be edited. I guess new updates of squir

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:01:53 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 > > Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> I'm not having any problem "seeing" the Linux printer from my Mac. > >> It shows up in the CUPS interface an

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:01:53 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 > > Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> I'm not having any problem "seeing" the Linux printer from my Mac. > >> It shows up in the CUPS interface an

Re: Appletalk Starting and Failing during Sarge Boot

2006-01-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Almut Behrens wrote: [snip] Thanks Mike, for your considerate response. I have to admit I'm a little surprised (positively :), and I guess I should add a word of apology, if you feel I extrapolated a bit too far beyond your original statement... As it looks, everything is at its best, with re

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Chinook
Jacob S wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not having any problem "seeing" the Linux printer from my Mac. It shows up in the CUPS interface and app print dialog on my Mac. In fact adding either or both of your suggestions prevents me from "see

Change fqdn

2006-01-24 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling "localhost.localdomain", other computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. Thank you. -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández pgpib1CDLZJ6J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Volcano heatsink+fan makes 10-20 degrees diff. with AMD

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, After installing an AMD XP 2700+ the CPU seemed too hot all the time. I bought the processor and the heatsink/fan as a packaged deal. Then I bought an Thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 80mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan. Turns out that makes a 10-20 degree difference! This shows it: http://img487.image

Re: ssh keys

2006-01-24 Thread Juraj Fedel
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 04:26:47PM -0300, Jos? Pablo Ezequiel Fern?ndez wrote: > On Mon 23 Jan 2006 15:53, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Are root logins allowed on the server? What does the server's auth.log > > say? > That was it, thank you! > -- > Jos? Pablo Ezequiel Fern?ndez How do you enable roo

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread debian
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:38:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:08:48PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > That's about the same as the so much advertised "Switch User" feature in > > windoze XP. > > The big difference is that Linux/X can do this for ages ;) > > I'

Re: Appletalk Starting and Failing during Sarge Boot

2006-01-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:15:11PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:21:57AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Thanks very much for the advice. I'll go to her machine and > >>try to figure out how to uninstall. > > > >or better even, let her do it herself.

Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread Alexander Bernauer
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:57:35PM +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote: > how can i install debian ? Depending on what is already installed on the system you might be able to debootstrap your new Debian. hth -- Alexander Bernauer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Hotplugging more USB devices

2006-01-24 Thread Ralph Kutschera
Hi List! I have a 4-in-1-CardReader and an external hard disk connected to my PC via USB. Ok, hotplugging would work if I could trust that same card slots or disk would be mapped to the same scsi devices always. However, depending upon when i turn on/off the external hard disk or inserting/eject

Re: gxine package removal

2006-01-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:05:49AM -0400, BTP wrote: > Hello, > > I have been running mostly stable versions of software on my Debian system, > and when I decided to do an > apt-get install gxine > I had to upgrade mozilla and install some other packages. > (apt-get output is included below.)

Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:30:10PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2006-24-01 at 18:57 +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote: > > hi all, > > > > i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the > > bios does not support cdrom boot. > > how can i install debian

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not having any problem "seeing" the Linux printer from my Mac. > It shows up in the CUPS interface and app print dialog on my Mac. In > fact adding either or both of your su

Re: chmod

2006-01-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 18:01 +0100, Igor Milovanovic wrote: > -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 > and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? > This hasn't happened to me... please, help. What is the full path ? What are the permissions in the parent folder? The permissio

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:08:48PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thierry wrote: > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > >> Hope this helps you understand things. > > > > > > Thank you for these explanations, I was using,

problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.

2006-01-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection. the problem is though I answer "OK" to tell I want the connection to be launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. It only launches when I run pppoeconf. After running pppoeconf, "poff" and "pon dsl-provider" are efficie

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Wackojacko
This despite including the Allow suggestion from Wackojacko. Lee I have just taken another look at my cupsd.conf file and I have the same stanzas in the section marked which are commented out in the standard file. Might be worth a try. Or just 'Allow from all' in both sections if you

Re: Can't chmod a file

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: Igor Milovanovic wrote: First, I suggest you put a reasonable subject on your messages. I have this file: -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? This hasn't happened to me... please, help. Are you gett

Re: Re: how to read a .msg file

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Holland
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did you ever figure out how to read a .msg file? A friend of mine sent > me a file that she says is 'music' but Outlook won't open it or anything > else I've tried. Any ideas? I am a little puzzled by the question on this list, as Outlook isn't ex

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > If I'm not mistaken, "Switch User" only works in XP Home, not in XP Pro. > Since 99% of my dealings are with Pro in the workplace, I'm constantly > frustrated by this limitation (as well as others) in XP Pro. last time I was in to see my physician (actually, she's a PA) I noticed th

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Ken Walker wrote: So from a basic net install boot disk, what is the minimum you would need to install to get icewm or blackbox running ? I'm not positive, but I'd probably do: aptitude install x-window-system-core icewm -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Can't chmod a file

2006-01-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Igor Milovanovic wrote: First, I suggest you put a reasonable subject on your messages. I have this file: -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? This hasn't happened to me... please, help. Are you getting an error message?

Re:

2006-01-24 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/24/06, Igor Milovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this file: > > -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 > > and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? > > This hasn't happened to me... please, help. What error do you get? Is there only one f13o userid in /etc/

Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Tue, 2006-24-01 at 18:57 +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote: > hi all, > > i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the > bios does not support cdrom boot. > how can i install debian ? There should still be support for floppy disk installation. The Net Install CD should h

Re: [user cannot chmod own file]

2006-01-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
Igor Milovanovic wrote: I have this file: -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? This hasn't happened to me... please, help. It might be that the "immutable" attribute is set for this file. You can check this with the "lsattr"

Re: Appletalk Starting and Failing during Sarge Boot

2006-01-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Almut Behrens wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:21:57AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Chinook wrote: [uninstall netatalk, possibly task-howl, howl-tools, and mdnsresponder] Thanks very much for the advice. I'll go to her machine and try to figure out how to uninstall. or better even, let her

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Chinook
Joseph Haig wrote: --- Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A recap and progress update so anyone interested can get a quicker picture: I'm coming into this discussion rather late, so apologies if my suggestion has been tried and/or rejected already. I found that putting the line: B

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Chinook
Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:39:06 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok you Debian experts, I think I'm on to something with this printer sharing thing. My last update is included at the end if you need to refresh your memory :

Re: network card problem

2006-01-24 Thread srg
probably mii-tool will tell you something about the card. ifconfig -a reports any nic errors? run tcpdump -n -i to see what hapens. Also, if you are using a hub try to "force" all things attached to the hub to "10mb half" (no autonegotiate). Jon Miller wrote: >Recently I had to replace a mother

problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.

2006-01-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection. the problem is though I answer "OK" to tell I want the connection to be launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. It only launches when I run pppoeconf. After running pppoeconf, "poff" and "pon dsl-provider" are efficie

Re: nVidia and the Black Screen Problem... Continued

2006-01-24 Thread sebastien marbrier
Le Mardi 24 Janvier 2006 16:27, darin strait a écrit : > [issues with nvidia hardware and black screens (rather than X windows) > deleted] > > I had similar problems. > > I'm running a Shuttle NForce2 (SN41G2, IIRC) machine with the DVI card, > sid, x.org, 2.6.14 (maybe 2.6.15?), kde, the nvidia cl

ReactOS (was windows desktop under linux)

2006-01-24 Thread David Baron
Qemu with ReactOS is either installing to/saving to its disk image file or simply to ram-disk like knoppix does. A second, empty disk image can be created as the "D" drive as well. I have had this work running Knoppix through qemu. As for the speed, even the mouse lagged way-way behind. Some m

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:55:01 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600 > >Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of > >>X, on the same box

Re: New problem with dvips and latex-beamer

2006-01-24 Thread Antonio Paiva
Andrew, have you tried to generate the pdf directly with pdflatex? If so what was the outcome? Antonio Andrew Perrin wrote: Help! This morning a new problem has emerged using the latex-beamer package and dvips. I have not changed my workflow, so I'm guessing it's the result of an update so

RE: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Ken Walker
So from a basic net install boot disk, what is the minimum you would need to install to get icewm or blackbox running ? Ken > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent West > Sent: 24 January 2006 5:55pm > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Su

Ram tweaking utility

2006-01-24 Thread Piero Piutti
Hi all. I am in the need of a tool that would allow me to fine tune settings for my RAM modules such as CAS, RAS and speed. My laptop bios unfortunately (and unlike desktop bioses do) do not allow me to make any modification to RAM settings. What happened to me is that I upgraded my laptop wit

Re: debian Gnu/Linux installation problem

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:50:59 -0800 kiran parmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My name is kiran j parmar from india. I m trying ro install debian > gnu/linux on my system.. > Its AMD XP 1700 PC with 128 MB RAM & 80 GB H.D.D. Can you tell me > > > when i m boot from cdrom upto some optio

Bug report - mga driver

2006-01-24 Thread Vit Pelcak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. It is the first time I'm reporting bug, so I'm not confortable with your system. I want to report bug in mga driver. I use Matrox G450 Dual Head. In desktop is everything OK, but in 3D are bad textures. For example ppracer is almost entirely orange

debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread Alessandro Pluchino
hi all,   i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the bios does not support cdrom boot. how can i install debian ?     bye

Re: (solved)Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-14 21:27:11, schrieb Serena Cantor: > Thank Brad Sawatzky, > Star King of the Grape Trees, > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does Linux have to be so hard to use?(The user has to What is Hard? - You get all tools for free and do what you want. On proprietary software you mustr work hard

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-14 20:55:34, schrieb Serena Cantor: > I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in > batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! apt-get install netpbm for X in *.bmp ; do bmptopnm $X |pnmtojpeg -quality 100 >`bas

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <> > > > Glad y'all got something out of it. I appreciate the comments. > > Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of > X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one for the kid

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one for the kid, etc)? That's about the same as the so much advertised "Switch User" feature in

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2006-01-24 Thread Igor Milovanovic
I have this file: -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? This hasn't happened to me... please, help. -- Igor Milovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NUBRS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Compiling OpenGL apps under Sid

2006-01-24 Thread Doogster
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:25:19PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:48:18 -0800 > Doogster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running Sid and I'm having trouble compiling OpenGL apps. > > > To take one typical case, I did "apt-get source > > planetpenguin-racer... > >

Pagode - Samba System Manager

2006-01-24 Thread Anahuac
Hi all, This is my first message to this list. My name is Anahuac and I live in Joao Pessoa - Paraiba - Brazil. I have this project named Pagode [1], developed in Shell Script with PHP interface [2]. I'm working on it for the last year and half and it's pretty mature now. In Brazil it's very

Re: No testing updates?

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:36:05 -0700 Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe it's one of those "critical bug for ' package here>' for Commodore 64" things. :-) > don't be bustin' on my C64 now. heh. how I wish I still had that old thing. A > -- > Scott > www.angrykeyboarder.com > © 2006

Re: New problem with dvips and latex-beamer

2006-01-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
Andrew Perrin wrote: Help! This morning a new problem has emerged using the latex-beamer package and dvips. I have not changed my workflow, so I'm guessing it's the result of an update somewhere along the way. The issue is, after I use latex to generate a dvi of a set of lecture slides, I then

network card problem

2006-01-24 Thread Jon Miller
Recently I had to replace a motherboard and 2 network card due to a static discharge in a rack. I've now have 2 networks cards in the server and they load ok, both can be seen with lspci. The interrupts are not being shared or anything of the sort. Yet one of the cards (Netgear FA311) will no

Permissions with rlogin

2006-01-24 Thread Claudio Plateroti
I need to give permissions to a machine to connect with rlogin . What i have to do ? 

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