Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:54, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500 > > Bob Smither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > [...] > > > > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from > > > the server (also for

Re: Package mozilla & Two Versions ??

2006-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > Why when I search in the current version for Mozilla in Debian > (http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages) I receive two > possible versions, one is 2:1.7.8-1sarge3 and the other is > 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1 ?? > > Thank you, > Gustavo > >

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-07-30 Thread Heimdall Midgard
2006/7/30, Jan C. Nordholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would like to know what is the magic key I need > > to press to compose a *really* new message (i.e. to bypass or get > > rid of the postponed message menu)? > > Go to /home/you/.muttrc and check for this config option: > > set postpone = ask-

Package mozilla & Two Versions ??

2006-07-30 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello Why when I search in the current version for Mozilla in Debian (http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages) I receive two possible versions, one is 2:1.7.8-1sarge3 and the other is 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1 ?? Thank you, Gustavo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Volatile vs backports

2006-07-30 Thread Raquel Rice
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:10:51 +0300 gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why we, I mean Linux Users, need AntiVirus. I'm using linux Debian > for around 6 years and never I feel problems that sounds like > virus. Which virus exist against Linux ? > By the way I didn't find in the Clan

Re: Volatile vs backports

2006-07-30 Thread gustavo halperin
Why we, I mean Linux Users, need AntiVirus. I'm using linux Debian for around 6 years and never I feel problems that sounds like virus. Which virus exist against Linux ? By the way I didn't find in the Clanav homepage any information about virus on Linux, just on MacOS and Win32 files. Thank

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-30 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does > not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot > off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. > the machine is unable to > recognize the eth

how to set firefox default browser in gnome

2006-07-30 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all,What's the correct way to set firefox default browser in gnome? There're several places you can click a link:1. in Emacs wiki mode.  I add these these lines in ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote:[Mozilla] filename=firefoxNEEDS_TERM=falseNREMOTE=tureso the default browser is firefox.2. in thunderbir

wengophone classic on sid

2006-07-30 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Has anyone got this voip provider to work on sid? I have Alsa sound stuff loaded and my sound blaster awe64 is configured by Alsa ok and wengophone plugs into this configuration too so no problem there. wengophone dials out and I get a ring (calling myself) but alas no sound comes through the head

konqueror's sftp slower than scp?

2006-07-30 Thread Bruno Buys
Why is it that konqueror transfers files at 2.2mb/s maximum in a sftp connection between two sarge machines, while scp in the terminal transfers at 10mb/s in the same machines? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsalib

2006-07-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > This should works for any program using OSS (this covers most unfriendly > ones, like Mozilla plugin, OpenOffice or vmware, ...), or ALSA in > emulation mode (for native mode, alsalib is our friend :-). Meaning that solution provided by native ALSA is better than the one p

SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
DUH -- question is about smbfs package not smbclient... Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org (using make-kp

Re: VPN MS-CHAPv2 MPPE

2006-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:10AM +0800, Lars Boegild Thomsen wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> Can you know how to be connected Debian to to the internet for to > >> protocols: > >> MS-CHAPv2 - protocol of authentification (widely utillized in products > >> from Microsoft), > > This requ

SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org (using make-kpkg). I plan shortly to buy myself some NAS and use it wit

Re: VPN MS-CHAPv2 MPPE

2006-07-30 Thread Lars Boegild Thomsen
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Can you know how to be connected Debian to to the internet for to >> protocols: >> MS-CHAPv2 - protocol of authentification (widely utillized in products >> from Microsoft), > This requires a patched kernel. Not any longer. I'm not absolutely certain when it got incl

Re: Stuck getting my xserver up

2006-07-30 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/30/2006 02:41 PM, Bill Moseley wrote: Argh, I got through updating this Sid machine, but when I run startx I just get a gray screen and no X cursor. I have a Matrox G550 and was running Xinerama before. I'll post links to my logs below. A number of packages were "held back" when I finish

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-07-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:56:47PM -0700, Heimdall Midgard wrote: > The problem: how do I write a message in Mutt *without* invoking the > postponed message menu first? Tell it not to ask you, then. Seems rather pointless to support postponed messages and not use them, though. Read the descripti

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:56:47PM -0700, Heimdall Midgard wrote: > I've been banging my head for the past six hours trying to figure out > how to write a message in Mutt. (So I've given up and used GMail > instead.) > > The problem: how do I write a message in Mutt *without* invoking the > postpo

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-07-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> > Now deleting 1000 messages, which may or may not contain important > > or confidential data, is to me a less than optimal way to write a > > new message. So I would like to know what is the magic key I need > > to press to compose a *really* new message (i.e. to bypass or get > > rid of the pos

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-07-30 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:56:47PM -0700, Heimdall Midgard wrote.. > Now deleting 1000 messages, which may or may not contain important > or confidential data, is to me a less than optimal way to write a > new message. So I would like to know what is the magic key I need > to press to compos

Really stupid mutt question

2006-07-30 Thread Heimdall Midgard
I've been banging my head for the past six hours trying to figure out how to write a message in Mutt. (So I've given up and used GMail instead.) The problem: how do I write a message in Mutt *without* invoking the postponed message menu first? It seems that every time I press "m" for "compose a

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-30 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems. The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. I burned boot.img root.img net-drivers.img and

Re: alsalib

2006-07-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
LeVA wrote: 2006. July 30. 22:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hi, Where can I find info on alsalib? Is it part of any package? Yes, it is part of the libasound2 package, see: $ apt-cache search alsa lib [...] libasound2 - ALSA library [...] It's strange I know... Daniel No, not alsa lib but alsali

Re: Install firefox extensions globally

2006-07-30 Thread T
Thanks for reply. several questions: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:21:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Has anyone successfully installed firefox extensions globally? I don't >> ... >> >> FYI, for a list of problems trying to do so, please refer to: >> >> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread M-L
On Sunday 30 July 2006 14:25, Bruno Costacurta shared this with us all: >--> Hello, >--> >--> my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' >--> or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. >--> >--> Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer >--> i

trn and leafnode

2006-07-30 Thread Kirk Fort
I have installed leafnode to act as a proxy to my ISP's nntp server. When attempting to start the newsreader trn it pauses for several moments and then exits with the error, "Unexpected close of server socket." If I telnet to localhost nttp I get 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.5 running

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Bruno Costacurta wrote: On Sunday 30 July 2006 16:53, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer i

Re: alsalib

2006-07-30 Thread LeVA
2006. July 30. 22:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > Where can I find info on alsalib? > Is it part of any package? > Yes, it is part of the libasound2 package, see: $ apt-cache search alsa lib [...] libasound2 - ALSA library [...] It's strange I know... Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

alsalib

2006-07-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Where can I find info on alsalib? Is it part of any package? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xinerama (was Re: Stuck getting my xserver up)

2006-07-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:41:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Argh, I got through updating this Sid machine, but when I run startx > I just get a gray screen and no X cursor. I have a Matrox G550 and > was running Xinerama before. Well, seems the the xinerama settings were confusing things.

Stuck getting my xserver up

2006-07-30 Thread Bill Moseley
Argh, I got through updating this Sid machine, but when I run startx I just get a gray screen and no X cursor. I have a Matrox G550 and was running Xinerama before. I'll post links to my logs below. A number of packages were "held back" when I finished the update, although I doubt this would be

Re: ati rage 2.0 startx failure

2006-07-30 Thread Kent West
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Several times I've tried to configure X and failed. The complaints > now are that a device is missing from the /etc/x11.xorg.conf file at > least one must be present and another part of the error message says > no screens can be found. It makes no difference whether I use t

Re: Block read "resulted in short read" when dumping root fs, but all else is well

2006-07-30 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > I get the following > error when dumping the root partition: > > [...] >| DUMP: Dumping volume 1 on /srv/backup/2006-07-26_Wed_level_3/_001 >| DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 a

Re: thunderbird upgrade problem

2006-07-30 Thread gustavo halperin
OK, thank to Alexander Sack I see the problem. First I was a bad used of the file /etc/apt/preferences, I used the "Pin: release" instead the "Pin: origin". Therefore I fix the /etc/apt/preferences file and write it using "Pin: origin" and then gave to the official source Priority equal to 990

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 30 July 2006 17:30, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (30/07/06 16:25), Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' > > or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. > > > > Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 30 July 2006 16:53, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' > > or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. > > > > Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer > > i

ati rage 2.0 startx failure

2006-07-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Several times I've tried to configure X and failed. The complaints now are that a device is missing from the /etc/x11.xorg.conf file at least one must be present and another part of the error message says no screens can be found. It makes no difference whether I use the frame buffer or monito

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Wackojacko wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 Minor point but this can be done in one step with tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 or tar -xvzf filename

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/07/06 16:25), Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' > or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. > > Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer > is still on (ie. fan is running..etc..) and I

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Wackojacko
Arthur Marsh wrote: bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 Minor point but this can be done in one step with tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 or tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz see man ta

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer is still on (ie. fan is running..etc..) and I have to remove alimentation (s

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:46:53 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Thank you so much. But... > > On 7/30/06, Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At the end, assuming that you had all the required disk space and > >packages, you have a package created: > > > >/usr/src/linux-image-2.6.17_2.6.17

Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer is still on (ie. fan is running..etc..) and I have to remove alimentation (sector+battery) to switch it

Re: Thunderbird mail opens links in email in a new mozilla window

2006-07-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
J F wrote: Thunderbird mail opens links in email in a new mozilla window everytime I click on a link in an email. My old netscape allowed me to open emailed links in the same browser window every time. Does anyone know where the file or menu to fix this is? http://lists.debian.org/debian-use

Re: Sound specialists,help appreciated.

2006-07-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Anthony Renaud wrote: > 3.1 PPC).When I open Audacity,I receive the > following warning: > "There was an error initializing the Audio > I/O layer.You will not be able to record or > play any sound.". Just to be eliminate one simple and obvious potential source of problems -- aren't you by a chance

Re: unble to download iso images for netinst testing

2006-07-30 Thread Felipe Tornvall
On Sunday 30 July 2006 06:10, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Trying to download netinst CD image for testing, from this page > http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html I get or > empty document error, or an empty page (that probably is an empty > document too). Moreover the cdimage.de

Block read "resulted in short read" when dumping root fs, but all else is well

2006-07-30 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi all, The box is a debian sarge, standard Debian kernel. Every morning I run dump on all filesystems, level 0 on Sundays, 1 on Mon and Thu, 2 on Tue and Fri, and 3 on Wed and Sat. I do this on live filesystems, mounted rw. All is well except occasionally (two times over the last four weeks - onc

Re: Can't access usb

2006-07-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:29:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > OK, I tried this, and got a startup error saying udev requires a > > kernel > 2.6.15. Yeah. Different versions of udev seem to need different kernels. In my opinion, udev's demanding different kernels should be different pa

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-30 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:30:08AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > I note, from a cursory read, that the dist-upgrade should be run from a > console (and not from XWindows). Not as straightforward as it once > was, since the system currently defaults to "gdm". Yes. since the upgrade will probab

Re: Security problem: who is responsible?

2006-07-30 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Marc Wilson schreef: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:24:29AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >>At 2006/06/10 a security-update of libfreetype6 was publiced what >>generates a big problem in OpenOffice. See: >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372719 > > Yep, lots of discussion there

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Thank you so much. But... On 7/30/06, Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At the end, assuming that you had all the required disk space and packages, you have a package created: /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.17_2.6.17-10.00.Custom_i386.deb This can be installed using: dpkg -i /usr/src/linux-i

Re: Sound specialists,help appreciated.

2006-07-30 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/7/30, Anthony Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Audacity does not record anything in my computer(iMac first generation 1998, built-in microphone,running Debian Linux 3.1 PPC).When I open Audacity,I receive the following warning: "There was an error initializing the Audio I/O layer.You will not be

unble to download iso images for netinst testing

2006-07-30 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Trying to download netinst CD image for testing, from this page http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html I get or empty document error, or an empty page (that probably is an empty document too). Moreover the cdimage.debian.org server doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 20:17:53 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > > > >>dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > >>dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > >> > > >

Re: How to setup ADSL broadband connection

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:36:31 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi George, > > Tks for your advice. > > My problem is the PC is completely cut out of connection to Internet. > > # aptitude install pciutils > had no effect. > > I found; > > /media/cdrom0/pool/main/p/pciutils/pciutils-udeb_2.2.1-2_

Re: incompatibility betwen libc6 and initrd-tools

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:39:02 -0300, Ricardo Buzzo wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install the subtitle editor gaupol, that depends of > python-gth2, that depends therefore the package libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1). The > problem is that when I try to install libc6 (# dpkg --install > libc6_2.3.6-16_i3

Re: firefox problem

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 00:39:31 +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello, > > I am encountering a serious problem with firefox under > debian etch. The text doesn t appear as it should be > in my navigator. Links are underlined, and a lot of > words are hidden until I move the cursor on it. > I hav

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:30:08 +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: [...] > I note, from a cursory read, that the dist-upgrade should be run from a > console (and not from XWindows). Not as straightforward as it once > was, since the system currently defaults to "gdm". You can press CTRL + ALT + F1 (o

debconf makes dpkg-divert errors.

2006-07-30 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy,... in the next scrinario apt-get will make dpkg diverisons and will mass up your system . { debconf is on kde. the X is not allwaing root to connect /the X is off. } if you try installing some packages that have to be configure debconf will faill to configure and apt-get will not insta

Re: Sound specialists,help appreciated.

2006-07-30 Thread David Baron
Cannot say much, but ... is jack indeed started before you try ardour? An item can be placed in env to do this automatically if you so choose. Audacity does NOT require jack, however. Plays just fine for me. So ... check your alsa configuration. Typing cat /proc/asound/cards should yield a list

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500 Bob Smither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] > > > > I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from > > the server (also forwarding X) to run individual X based > > applications so tha

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On 7/24/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My suggestion would be to google for some recent and more Debian-specific kernel-compile how-to's; for example, using make-kpkg makes it a lot simpler by making a .deb kernel package you can then install just like a reg

Sound specialists,help appreciated.

2006-07-30 Thread Anthony Renaud
Audacity does not record anything in my computer(iMac first generation 1998, built-in microphone,running Debian Linux 3.1 PPC).When I open Audacity,I receive the following warning: "There was an error initializing the Audio I/O layer.You will not be able to record or play any sound.". The pop-up m

incompatibility betwen libc6 and initrd-tools

2006-07-30 Thread Ricardo Buzzo
Hello, I am trying to install the subtitle editor gaupol, that depends of python-gth2, that depends therefore the package libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1). The problem is that when I try to install libc6 (# dpkg --install libc6_2.3.6-16_i386.deb) the console returns:    libc6 conflicts with initrd-tools (<<

Re: Volatile vs backports

2006-07-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:20:13PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > Obvious noob question - What is the difference for a Sarge user, between > Debian volatile vs backports for things like clamav and spamassassin? Volatile is for packages which have a constant flow of changes like clamav for example. T