Re: Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Shane
After a bit more digging, now that I can get online again (not yet with Debian), it seems that the problem may be in the modem. It will run on Linux - I even have directions for using it with Red Hat - but it may not be getting the proper setup. Unfortunately, or possibly fortunately, where I

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Shane
I have no idea what you are talking about. This has nothing to do with the problem I am having. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strange chars in GNOME help files Debian Etch / Gnome 2.12

2006-02-25 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, When I open my Gnome Help files I get these strange chars: squares with numbers like 20 (on the first line) and 02, 03,15 etc (on the second line) in them. I assume that these are Unicode chars, not being displayed properly. How do I get those characters diplayed properly? TIA -- Groete

Re: Re: Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Shane
Nope. Exactly the same. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dns?

2006-02-25 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Sunday, 26 February 2006 15:16, Rylan Vroom wrote: > How do you tell debian to use a local dns server before going > to the ones maintained by my ISP? Edit /etc/resolv.conf if you are not using DHCP or /etc/dhclient.conf if you are. See the man pages in section 5. -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3

Re: dns?

2006-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > Rylan Vroom wrote: > > Hello, How do you tell debian to use a local dns server before going to = > the ones maintained by my ISP? you can't ... vi /etc/resolv.conf localhost dns.isp.net dns2.isp2.net if localhost does not reply in time, it's bz ls -laR'ing, it

dns?

2006-02-25 Thread Rylan Vroom
Hello, How do you tell debian to use a local dns server before going to the ones maintained by my ISP?

Re: OfficeJet 4110 [Was: Why do I bother?]

2006-02-25 Thread Brett
jlquinn wrote: I posted several days ago about the lack of success I'm having with an HP 5440 (regular inkjet). I have hpijs installed (the debian package), but the HP tools can't find the printer and hence nothing works for me. I see the printer device show up in the kernel log when I plug i

Re: recipe program

2006-02-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rodney Richison wrote: > Is there not a recipe program in the debian repositories. Trying to get > wife "hooked". :) > Sean Finney and myself are working on packaging Gourmet [0]. Hopefully it will be packaged and ready to go soon. -Roberto [0] http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/ -- Ro

Re: networked music player that plays local AND remote files

2006-02-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/25/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im not sure that what I am looking for exists, but given the diversity > of programs out there, I feel like I must just be missing it. > > I have set up an old laptop as a stere component -- a kind of giant > clunky ipod. Unfortunately, the hard

Re: UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote: > http://home.no.net/david/i18n.php and locale -a says use LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf-8 > but /etc/locale.gen and /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED seem to say zh_TW.UTF-8. different distro seem to use differently named files .. i think the font files are case sensitive .

Re: UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
http://home.no.net/david/i18n.php and locale -a says use LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf-8 but /etc/locale.gen and /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED seem to say zh_TW.UTF-8. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg serious warning ? help please ...

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: hi all, i tried to install a deb package named 'lale', but installation process failed. then tried couple of times again. each time got same error and stopped installing that package. but since then, when i try to install another package or run apt-get, i get dpkg

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-25 Thread Scott
John Halton spake thusly on 02/24/2006 09:51 AM: On 2/24/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [1] Bounce as in mutt b. I don't know if and how this can be done in thunderbird Apparently the following extension allows bouncing using Thunderbird - http://mailredirect.mozdev.org/ Ha

Squirrelmail bug is actually (partly?) Apt bug

2006-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
Advice before I report this is requested. As mentioned in the previous thread I started, installing Squirrelmail on a Stable server I'm setting up for some reason resulted in Apt insisting on Apache2, even though apache-ssl was already installed. I'm running out of time on this server setup (the

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-25 Thread Scott
Alex Nordstrom spake thusly on 02/24/2006 10:06 AM: Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:38, Kevin Mark wrote: Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Presumably, KMail users should also be able to participate. And Thu

networked music player that plays local AND remote files

2006-02-25 Thread Matt Price
Im not sure that what I am looking for exists, but given the diversity of programs out there, I feel like I must just be missing it. I have set up an old laptop as a stere component -- a kind of giant clunky ipod. Unfortunately, the hard drive is small enough that only a small fraction of my c

Re: having problem with locales ?

2006-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: > hi all, which locales should i select to see characters like ý,þ,ç,ö,ð,ü correctly on konsole ? en_US UTF-8 doesnt show them right :'( an example output of a php code: [in english: file successfully opened and then closed.] >Dosya baþarý ile açýl

Re: Setup script for XDM login screen

2006-02-25 Thread Björn Lindström
"Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use gdm rather than xdm, but I was googling around a few weeks ago > about start-up stuff and I came away with the understanding that you > can always use ~/.xsession. IIRC, there was some helpful and > not-too-dated documentation at the Linux Documentation P

Re: squirrelmail (stable) insists on apache2 when apache is installed

2006-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:39PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:43:06PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > The docs for squirrelmail say it depends on either apache2 or httpd > > (virtual). The httpd docs say it is supplied by many web server packages > > including apache.

Re: How long must a bug report be ignored before I escalate?

2006-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:20:31PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Carl Fink writes: > > I know Debian now has a system to report non-responsive maintainers, but > > I hate to jump on someone. > > You are jumping on him. Thanks, that response was unhelpful, yet lacked any benefit. -- Carl Fink

Re: squirrelmail (stable) insists on apache2 when apache is installed

2006-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:43:06PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > The docs for squirrelmail say it depends on either apache2 or httpd > (virtual). The httpd docs say it is supplied by many web server packages > including apache. However, attempting to install squirrelmail on my server, > which runs ap

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * E: Unable to correct problems, you have held back broken packages. > * E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed > * E: Unable to resolve some dependencies > * > * Some packages had unmet dependencies.

Re: Re: bash history search key binding

2006-02-25 Thread Lei Kong
Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '"\M-[A":history-search-backward' bind '"\M-[B":history-search-forward' what does $ bind -P | grep history say? It

RE: OpenVPN makes system loose all network conectivity?

2006-02-25 Thread Jan Johansson
>Erm, your local network address wouldn't happen to be a 192.168.0.x >address, would it? NOO i copied the _wrong_ conf file from my backup! Thanks.. Talk about being blind. But I still get this: Feb 26 03:30:59 cookiemonster net.agent[780

having problem with locales ?

2006-02-25 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all,which locales should i select to see characters like ı,ş,ç,ö,ğ,ü correctly on konsole ?en_US UTF-8 doesnt show them right :'(an example output of a php code: [in english: file successfully opened and then closed.] >Dosya başarı ile açıldı ve kapatıldı. > which is what i want to see.>Dosya ba

Re: OpenVPN makes system loose all network conectivity?

2006-02-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:16:49 +0100, "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > cookiemonster:~# cat /etc/openvpn/scooter.conf ... > route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.4.1.2 ^^^ Erm, your local network address wouldn't happen to be a 192.168.0.x address, would it? -- Hubert Chan

Re: Setup script for XDM login screen

2006-02-25 Thread Michael M.
Björn Lindström wrote: Where is the right place to put stuff that you want to run when starting XDM now. I used to have this in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup: #!/bin/sh xsetroot -solid dimgrey but it's not working anymore with xdm-6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 I use gdm rather than xdm, but I was googling around a f

dpkg serious warning ? help please ...

2006-02-25 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all,i tried to install a deb package named 'lale', but installation process failed.then tried couple of times again. each time got same error and stopped installing that package.but since then, when i try to install another package or run apt-get, i get dpkg errors related to that package 'lale'

Re: Unreadable DVDs

2006-02-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 07:13 -0600, Paul Stolp wrote: > * Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-23 21:15]: > > Greetings, > > I am trying to write single session DVD+R discs under Debian Etch (and > > previously also in Sarge). I have tried Nautilus CD/DVD burner and K3b. > > Both programs appa

RE: where to find new laptops without operating system?

2006-02-25 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Here some other vendors with barebones laptops: http://www.laptops4me.com/ http://store.alphapcstore.com/ HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hosed installation - starting over

2006-02-25 Thread Peter Horst
Peter wrote: I've somehow completely hosed my Debian stable system, and I don't seem even to have a 'base-config' package any more. It boots, but no X server. Also, I don't have a working CD-ROM. Where do I go from here, presuming I want to install stable? Duh. Never mind. A few minutes' unp

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:01, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:02, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kul

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:02, Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> >Paul E Condon wrote: > >> >> Thanks. This re

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 06:02:13PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:06, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > [...] > > > >I too have purged xprint without ill effect, and firefox now lists > > only my CUPS printers, but in alphabetical order, ignoring my CUPS > > default. > > See m

Re: sound issue

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
I'm no sound guru, but there are a couple of things that may help you. 1) both gnome and kde use different sound daemons and they're probably conflicting with each other. There should be a way to set these things to just use alsa. 2) your alsa setup may need to be setup for software mixing. g

Re: Jabber translation [Was: gaim login to messenger (msn)]

2006-02-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:22:42PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >On 2/25/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:29:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: >> > >> >> Another solution is to use the Jabber netw

Re: How long must a bug report be ignored before I escalate?

2006-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: > I know Debian now has a system to report non-responsive maintainers, but > I hate to jump on someone. You are jumping on him. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache-ant deb package ?

2006-02-25 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all,is there an apache-ant deb package ? couldnt find with apt-cache search :'(does that have a different name or havent been prepared as a deb package yet ?if official repositories dont contain this package, please tell me one that include apache-ant [if you know of course] or a more detailed i

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:17:39PM +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > Saturday, 25 February 2006 17:38, Andrew Cady wrote: > > Did not. (No bother). > > From the headers of your messages: [...] Oops. Misconfiguration. > You are certainly not the only one to find the OP quite rude. I > believe, h

hosed installation - starting over

2006-02-25 Thread Peter
I've somehow completely hosed my Debian stable system, and I don't seem even to have a 'base-config' package any more. It boots, but no X server. Also, I don't have a working CD-ROM. Where do I go from here, presuming I want to install stable? Thanks much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

where to find new laptops without operating system?

2006-02-25 Thread David Christensen
hello, world! I'm looking for a source for new laptop computers with recent technology, but without an operating system. I've been able to find one vendor that carries one model that is somewhat dated: http://www.compuvest.com/Description.jsp?iid=45112 Does anybody know of any other sources? T

Re: bash history search key binding

2006-02-25 Thread cga
Lei Kong wrote: Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '"\M-[A":history-search-backward' bind '"\M-[B":history-search-forward' what does $ bind -P | grep history say? It

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:06, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [...] > >I too have purged xprint without ill effect, and firefox now lists > only my CUPS printers, but in alphabetical order, ignoring my CUPS > default. See my last reply that mentions the 'lpadmin' command that cups supplies. This ut

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:54, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Snip down to my part. [...] >> > >> > And I'll submit that if cups and gutenprint are properly installed >> > and configured it works, and does so without any interference from >> > xprint. I saw it in an htop report one day, got curi

How long must a bug report be ignored before I escalate?

2006-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
I know Debian now has a system to report non-responsive maintainers, but I hate to jump on someone. I submitted a bug (#354079) on Stable's Squirrelmail on Wednesday. So far the only response was the automated one from the bug tracking system. When is it apprioprate to e-mail the maintainer? To

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:02, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below. >> > >> >[...] >> > >>

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been reading your notes to debian-users with interest, and I'd like to put in .02 FRNs or so. I realize that people have suggested lots of "package management" tools, I would like to suggest "dselect". The granularity of control is greater, in

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how? [solved (maybe) ]

2006-02-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 2/25/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:02:09 -0700 > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On

migration postgresql

2006-02-25 Thread Tom Allison
Any lessons for migration from 7.4 to 8.1? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cleaning up audio recording

2006-02-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi everybody, On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:32:21PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:27:41 -0700 > John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The > > recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/25/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:02:09 -0700Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:> > On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >Paul E Condon wrote:> > >> Thanks.

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:02:09 -0700 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >Paul E Condon wrote: > > >> Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below

Re: etch vs sarge

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
I can't really comment on the specifics of mysql or php, but my trial of etch via an upgrade, and then via a fresh install, was disastrous. Besides a prettier gdm, I loathed everything about it, and am now happily back with Sarge. Etch is anally retentive with the repositories, it doesn't hav

Re: Jabber translation [Was: gaim login to messenger (msn)]

2006-02-25 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:09:16 + Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:29:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > > >> Another solution is to use the Jabber n

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:17, Chris Metzler wrote: ... > For years, the solution to serious misbehavior in Windows has been > to reboot or reinstall. In Linux, the solution has been to attack > the problem directly and solve it; rebooting or reinstalling won't > make the problem go away. Th

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have ne

bash history search key binding

2006-02-25 Thread Lei Kong
Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '"\M-[A":history-search-backward' bind '"\M-[B":history-search-forward' It worked well before, one day, after I did a routine upgrade, it stop

Re: Jabber translation [Was: gaim login to messenger (msn)]

2006-02-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/25/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:29:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > > >> Another solution is to use the Jabber network, which is also > >> supported by Gaim. Some servers on the Jabbe

Re: audio equalizer for debian?

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
Does anybody know of a good audio equalizer program for alsa? I'm apt-cache searching, but all I get are plugins for xmms (using sarge). I'd like a real time, generic graphic equalizer. Thanks! Perhaps ardour-gtk, along with the tap-plugins package, would suffice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:18:02 -800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: >> >> If reinstalling the OS is the only thing you ever try to fix a problem, >> then you should be using Windows. Unix is not for you. > > This begs the question, who is Unix f

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >Paul E Condon wrote: > >> Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below. > > > >[...] > > > >>>The mozilla-xprint behavior is mostly controlled by the setti

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-25 Thread dan-martins
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:42:30AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > > It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for > > me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word "Xeon" mentioned, > > so if I bought a Xeon com

GDM screen too big for display

2006-02-25 Thread nikias
hello, gdm starts default as my login manager. The problem is that it doesn't use the correct proportions of my screen. Although everything looks sharp, I have to scroll to see the whole screen. After I log in, Gnome starts and uses the correct size. Does anyone have an idea where I have to look

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: >Paul E Condon wrote: >> Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below. > >[...] > >>>The mozilla-xprint behavior is mostly controlled by the settings in >>>/etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters. >> >> On my machine the above named

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
Paul E Condon wrote: Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below. [...] The mozilla-xprint behavior is mostly controlled by the settings in /etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters. On my machine the above named file exists and contains the lines referred to below. But it also co

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread dg135
> > >On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > > >>> I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a >>> psychiatric facility. >> >> > >[...] > > > >>> After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't >>> installed it for over five years, I final

Re: Getting Ensoniq 5880 soundcard to work again after 2.4 to 2.6 kernel upgrade.

2006-02-25 Thread Adam Funk
Some more potential diagnostic information. While I was messing with modprobe, the following appeared in syslog: Feb 25 17:23:52 garcia kernel: usbaudio: dma timed out?? Feb 25 17:43:29 garcia kernel: unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0 Feb 25 17:43:29 garcia kernel: unable to register OSS PC

Re: samba/ldap/nss

2006-02-25 Thread debian
Jamie Thompson wrote: > Nope, the packages only change the /etc files. It's up to you to keep > the ldap in sync. In practice, these rarely change, but still, I'd > prefer if they added users/groups/etc via changeable scripts that could > modify ldap insteadbut, well, that itch doesn't warrant

Re: samba/ldap/nss

2006-02-25 Thread Jamie Thompson
Chris wrote: > OK - I've decided to look into using a debian box as a PDC using a > combination of samba and openldap (this is on sid). > Yeah, I did this as well, though I stick to testing. Works nicely. > 1) If users and groups are moved into ldap - what about aptitude > installation of packa

Re: Getting Ensoniq 5880 soundcard to work again after 2.4 to 2.6 kernel upgrade.

2006-02-25 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-24, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I haven't tampered with anything in /etc/modutils/ yet -- should I >> edit modutils/sndconfig and replace es1371 with snd_ens1371. > > Yes, do this Hang on. A few weeks ago when I was asking about preparations for switching from 2.4 to 2.6, you

OpenVPN makes system loose all network conectivity?

2006-02-25 Thread Jan Johansson
Title: OpenVPN makes system loose all network conectivity? I have a wierd phenomenon. I have a new box, that can't seem to run openvpn. Whenever i start Openvpn, the system looses all network connectivity. I have never seen anything like this before, and i am stumped. This is the first box i

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-25 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have a wide range of choices. You can go pure 32 bit and install the > standard i386 Debian, you can go mixed and have a 64 bit kernel an 32 bit > user space or you can go pure 64 bit. I've never tried a mixed system but > apparently

Jabber translation [Was: gaim login to messenger (msn)]

2006-02-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:29:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > >> Another solution is to use the Jabber network, which is also >> supported by Gaim. Some servers on the Jabber network provide gateway >> services to other networks so that,

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:20:59 + Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for > >> me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word "Xeon" mentioned, > >> so if I bo

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Paul E Condon
Thanks. This really a good lead, but its not working. See below. On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >I'm running cups under sarge. I can print from firefox, but > >the print window shows five printers, two are attached to a > >Mac in the next r

Re: scp problem

2006-02-25 Thread jlmb
> Thanks for the response. dest folder is /share. Is it possible to > transfer a file to that machine without having an account in that > machine ie without using password of user or root of that machine. > -- > L.V.Gandhi > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > linux user No.205042 No, you need to have

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:32, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Hold the package instead of forbidding it. > > Thanks. I'm familiar with how to hold packages. But I was hoping > that this forbid-version option in aptitude would be an improvement > since I could block a single version rather than h

Re: gaim login to messenger (msn)

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > Another solution is to use the Jabber network, which is also supported > by Gaim. Some servers on the Jabber network provide gateway services to > other networks so that, normally, clients do not need to update when > the proprietary half

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-25 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:40:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:08:17 -0600 > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:38:00 -0500

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:38:44 -0500 Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [...] > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:52:25PM +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > (CCing you because you request it.) > > Did not. (No bother). Um, yes, you did. Just lo

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-25 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/24/06, Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to login as the appropriate user on the other machine. For > example, if your login name on 192.168.1.103 is "lvg" then you want: > > scp /mnt/wind/Audio/file.mp3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/share/ > > In this case user "lvg" will need access

Re: How to move away gui buttons on emacs

2006-02-25 Thread s. keeling
Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Juraj Fedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want let that toolbar for mouse use go away. How to do that? > > Juraj > > I have this in my ~/.emacs > > ;; no menubar, scrollbar, toolbar or blinky-blinky > (tool-bar-mode nil) > (menu-bar-mode nil) >

solved - Re: Where has the plain acute character gone

2006-02-25 Thread Joerg M. Sigle
Hi, Jan! Thank you for your kind help. It pointed me into the right direction, and so I'm posting this as a follow up + solution for the list: When I press the number sign/apostrophe key, which on my German keyboard is left to Enter, has # and (with shift) ' printed on it, xev: keycode 51 "numb

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-25 Thread Pablasso
you could also try fuse with sshfs, is pretty straightforward like mounting a partitionOn 2/23/06, L. V. Gandhi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. Bothhave different single user

Re: Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers

2006-02-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/02/06 12:09), Robert Rothenberg wrote: > I've been having trouble printing to network printers from KDE and Gnome > applications lately, using CUPS or LP. No errors show up, and as far as the > applications are concerned, the documents printed. But the documents are > never actually sent t

Re: snd-azx.o was removed from the testing distro

2006-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
belahcene abdelkader wrote: hi, How to install a modules from 2.4 on 2.6 ? I want to install the module /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-azx.o which is in the sable (and not in the testing distro ?!) on my new kernel (2.6). I searched the packages there is not such module. Is it

samba/ldap/nss

2006-02-25 Thread Chris
OK - I've decided to look into using a debian box as a PDC using a combination of samba and openldap (this is on sid). I decided to start by getting users into ldap. So - slapd is running. The samba schema is available. nsswitch.conf has ldap for the passwd, group and shadow settings. pam has lda

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-25 Thread Tony Godshall
... > No matter what mechanism you use for copying, you will need to know the > IP of the box which you are not using to initiate the transfer. ... Actually, no. SMB works without IP addresses- it actually predates use of IP in PC LANs. Check out the Samba howto. Downsides are the usual one for

Re: no alsa-modules for 2.6

2006-02-25 Thread robin
belahcene abdelkader wrote: --- belahcene abdelkader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I upgraded the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 (sarge), the sound worked on 2.4 ( I ve used the alsaconf and alsa-modules...). I tried to do same but, no modules for alsa on 2.6. I searched in the debian packages, but

snd-azx.o was removed from the testing distro

2006-02-25 Thread belahcene abdelkader
hi, How to install a modules from 2.4 on 2.6 ? I want to install the module /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-azx.o which is in the sable (and not in the testing distro ?!) on my new kernel (2.6). I searched the packages there is not such module. Is it elswhere or have I to recompile

Re: scp problem

2006-02-25 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/25/06, jlmb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > On 2/24/06, Dan Sheffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Q1) Yes you run a program that scans the network range. Very usefull. Prob > >>even more ways. > >> Q2) You should never give full access to some random folder on a box

Re: What virtual package is "minimal system"?

2006-02-25 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:12:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way to get the system to be really minimal, is to mark *everything* as auto-installed (M in aptitude), and then to select those packages you need to be there as manually installed (m in aptitude)

RE: Re: no alsa-modules for 2.6

2006-02-25 Thread belahcene abdelkader
>>Did you try running "alsaconf" as root? Yes I 've done it, It searched for, but there is no driver?? it said No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips? While in 2.4 ( and another distro debian based, mepis, knoppix...) when I ran alsaconf it found

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-25 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:45, David Jarvie wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:29, David Jarvie wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 1:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +, David Jarvie wrote: > > > > I've got > > > > >> off lightly - it has ma

Re: synaptic starting in console not from menu

2006-02-25 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/24/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default it will try to use gksu (which is a "Recommends" of synaptic, > BTW). Do you have GNOME installed as well? If not, that would be why it's > missing, probably. You can use kdesu instead of gksu. Thanks. I found out about gksu and in

Acpi problems after upgrade to 2.6.15: computer doesn't poweroff anymore.

2006-02-25 Thread Michelasso
Hello everybody, I have recently updated my kernel building a 2.6.15 one from debian sources, and I ran into troubles. First problem I had was that battery was not anymore detected (/proc/acpi/battery was empty). I googled around and I found a solution adding "ec_burst=1" to boot parameters. The se

Re: Strange network things: eth1 (but no nic!!) and sit0

2006-02-25 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:56, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > After installing Etch on my AMD64 machine I suddenly have an extra eth1 > without actually having an NIC. I cannot activate it in the "Network > settings" applet but it is shown during boot and in the output of > ifconfig (with

Strange network things: eth1 (but no nic!!) and sit0

2006-02-25 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, After installing Etch on my AMD64 machine I suddenly have an extra eth1 without actually having an NIC. I cannot activate it in the "Network settings" applet but it is shown during boot and in the output of ifconfig (without ip address). Can anyone give me clue as to where this eth1 is commin

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running cups under sarge. I can print from firefox, but the print window shows five printers, two are attached to a Mac in the next room, two are figments of firefox's imagination. The firefox print window always comes up with one of the figments preselected (its designat

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