Re: bttv tuner card and tuner problems

On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:48, glenn mehesy wrote: > I have now been working on this for quite some time and cannot figure > this out. I am trying to get my leadtek tuner with a bttv chip working. > It is an NTSC tuner but debian etch insists on setting the tuner to type > 5 which is a PAL type

Fwd: Debian unstable: xorg mouse configuration under vmware

Has nobody any idea? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Debian unstable: xorg mouse configuration under vmware Date: Sunday 20 August 2006 20:06 From: Erich Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Does anybody know how to configure xorg from debian unstable u

bttv tuner card and tuner problems

I have now been working on this for quite some time and cannot figure this out. I am trying to get my leadtek tuner with a bttv chip working. It is an NTSC tuner but debian etch insists on setting the tuner to type 5 which is a PAL type. Needless to say it does not work. I have tried putting va

Re: Wierd script treatment of asterisk in a line

Ben Breslauer wrote: Quoting the echo should do it: --script.sh--- !/bin/bash while read LINE; do echo "$LINE" done -- --Ben That simple? Sorry I asked! :-) -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wierd script treatment of asterisk in a line

Quoting the echo should do it: --script.sh--- !/bin/bash while read LINE; do echo "$LINE" done -- --Ben José Alburquerque wrote: Hello list! I've got a simple shell question that I can't figure out. I wrote a simple 3 line bash script desi

Wierd script treatment of asterisk in a line

Hello list! I've got a simple shell question that I can't figure out. I wrote a simple 3 line bash script designed to read from stdin and output the lines to stdout that looks like the following: --script.sh #!/bin/bash while read LINE; do echo $LINE done --

Re: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive)

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:53:19 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > One suggestion in earlier threads was to use forcing options with the > package tools, but I'm reluctant to do so because I don't understand the > implications well. Go ahead and remove the problematic package via dpkg by force. That's exac

[OT] Win2k blocks ports to my ISP's pop3 & smtp

hi Please don't flame for this waaa~y OT question -- I'm still trying to solve my smarthost problem and was forced to use M$ outlook, I suspect is it my ISP's problem but have to prove it, anyway, long story short: - My Linux is able to telnet to my ISP's pop3 & smtp respective ports - My Win2k

Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive)

As several others have reported, the texlive system (which may have been installed from experimental in my case) has gotten into a bad state in which I can neither remove, install, nor reinstall it. The other reports focused on dvipdfmx. With some help from the texlive maintainers, I was able to

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Jerome BENOIT wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> Hello List, >>> >>> does

Dependencies with dh-make-perl for CPAN packages

Hi all! I have found it very useful to use dh-make-perl to install CPAN packages on Debian and derivatives, but there is one thing I can't get to work well: dependencies. Makefile.PL does contain (or should anyway) the distribution's dependencies, and I see that there is some code in the dh-ma

Re: Sid: Recorded audio CD is just an hour of nothing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 September 2006 12:33, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Can you play normal audio CD's now? Could you play before? > > There are 2 ways to play audio CD in computer: analog and digital. > - Analog requires s

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 18:02 +0200, T wrote: > Sorry I misunderstood, and sorry again for the venting. Actually I didn't > quite sure if all my previous steps are necessary. Just that 2 of my found > references both suggested so... No worries. I'm guessing english isn't you native language either.

Re: Ethernet detect

That worked great thanksColin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: List List wrote:> I have a asus P4S800 motherboard, it has an onboard> ethernet adapter. When I try and install Debian Sarge> 3.1 it will not detect the ethernet adapter.Have you tried the "linux26" install option? Maybe the 2.6 kernel would

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, does anyone know a simple (easy to install and to use) job scheduler Debain package for multi-core computers ? As opposed to a

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:40:33 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Again, you only mentioned making your MTA deliver mail to your ISP. The > steps you posted in reply to Steve Lamb's post, tells my yout tried to > setup Postfix not as a client talking to a remote server, but as a server > accepting connec

Re: linuxtv on debian

On Saturday 02 September 2006 07:12, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > One issue I have is that once the device is loaded /sys reports the vendor > id and product id as 14aa and 0225 respectively. These are close to the > vendor id's as mentioned on the linuxtv web site, but not the same. Although the c

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, does anyone know a simple (easy to install and to use) job scheduler Debain package for multi-core computers ? As opposed to a job scheduler for *single*

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 11:52 +0200, T wrote: > Start accusation without even trying to understand what others are trying > to do is not a good way to help. What you said you were trying to was fairly simple - have postfix forward mail to your ISP. You didn't mention authentication before. I simply

Re: Size difference between file systems

On 9/2/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My first thoughts are differences in page size, and (if you have lots of smaller files) whether tail compression was enabled with ReiserFS. The files vary greatly in size but most of them are around 1-5M in size, but some are also very small (em

Problems with Debian Etch on MS-6390/VIA KM266

Hallo, I am having a problem running Debian Etch (build 28.08.06) udev / linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7. Here is my hardware spec: Mother Board - MS-6390 Chipset VIA KM266 The system does not recognize any PCI devices. My hard drives have both no DMA enabled. does not produce any output. The

Re: Size difference between file systems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Roland wrote: > Hi > > I have been moving some data from a Reiserfs partition to a XFS volume > on LVM, during this process I discovered that 8.9GB of data on the > reiser partition turns into 12Gb of data on the XFS volume (I got > those numbers

Re: Ethernet detect

List List wrote: > I have a asus P4S800 motherboard, it has an onboard > ethernet adapter. When I try and install Debian Sarge > 3.1 it will not detect the ethernet adapter. Have you tried the "linux26" install option? Maybe the 2.6 kernel would have better luck detecting it. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Size difference between file systems

Hi I have been moving some data from a Reiserfs partition to a XFS volume on LVM, during this process I discovered that 8.9GB of data on the reiser partition turns into 12Gb of data on the XFS volume (I got those numbers using "df -h"). The XFS volume was created during the Debian Etch installati

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Saturday 02 September 2006 01:51, John Kelly wrote: > The OP asked for information without religious dogma. And since dogma > is all you have to offer, goodbye. You get what you give. Sorry you can't take what you dish. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Saturday 02 September 2006 02:29, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:36 +0200, T wrote: > > My suggestion, speaking from my heart breaking experiences, is that if > > you are a normal user, not a mail expert or system admin who need to play > > with mail configuration as you full ti

rtc not behaving in etch?

During boot on my Etch machine (Dell PowerEdge 830 with an Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz), during boot, there is a message about select() timing out on /dev/rtc. That message displays twice, a few more messages, then there is a message about "trying to set the system clock again." I've looked th

Re: fetchmail config question

On Saturday 02 September 2006 19:25, marc wrote: > Hi, > > I want to grab emails for a whole domain (fred.com) from a mailbox - > either POP3 or IMAP, either will do - and forward to Postfix on the > local domain (insidefirewall.blah) and have the emails distributed to > the appropriate local accou

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

You could install it yourself if you dont want to wait.On 9/1/06, Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I loveDebian and I don`t wanna switch to anoth

Re: cdrecord / ATAPI

On 8/31/06, Paul Dwerryhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:11:37PM +0200, ciol wrote:> # cdrecord -v dev=1,1,0 speed=10 dl/debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.isoI've found that it's possible to just use the device name; whether thisis good or bad, I don't know, but it works for me: c

Re: identd giving failures

On Saturday 02 September 2006 18:17, s. keeling wrote: > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am trying to set up postgres to dump across the network, using ident > > checking on the username of the caller. > > > > But it always failing. When I turn on logging of requests by identd, I > > f

fetchmail config question

Hi, I want to grab emails for a whole domain (fred.com) from a mailbox - either POP3 or IMAP, either will do - and forward to Postfix on the local domain (insidefirewall.blah) and have the emails distributed to the appropriate local accounts. Postfix is set-up with mostly with virtual accounts

Re: Ethernet detect

List List wrote: >I have a asus P4S800 motherboard, it has an onboard >ethernet adapter. When I try and install Debian Sarge >3.1 it will not detect the ethernet adapter. I tried >knoppix and it detects and uses the adapter just fine. > Is there any way to modify the hardware detect in >Sarge or

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

Steve Lamb wrote: > Then that is, by definition, not a smarthost, is it? Smarthost = > "handle all my mail, kkthxbye." No, that's nullmailer. Smarthost is "send all my Internet/external/non-local mail to one SMTP server". Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D9

Re: identd giving failures

Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to set up postgres to dump across the network, using ident > checking on the username of the caller. > > But it always failing. When I turn on logging of requests by identd, I find > the following in the log > > Aug 28 23:50:41 kanger ident

Re: mysqldump and special characters in the password [solved]

On 09/01/2006 12:30 PM, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 23:34 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:06 -0500, Mumia W. wrote: mysqldump -u root [EMAIL PROTECTED] web8_db1 /home/backup/web8_db1.sql This fails. But I can log in with mysql -u root -p and then type th

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:29:41 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > If you had tried google... > The second hit would have given you the answer... > Also, if you go to www.postfix.org, click on "Documentation" and then > ... > > And lets not forget that when you install postfix on debian it actually > a

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

Matej Cepl wrote: > One term -- internal messages. forwarding messages to some special users is > so fun (like mail2news gateway posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Then that is, by definition, not a smarthost, is it? Smarthost = "handle all my mail, kkthxbye." -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

T wrote: > Problem is, the above setting doesn't cover my case, in which the > smarthost server requires username and password for SMTP SSL > authentication. No, but it is also not everything nullmailer can do. I was just giving a simple example of a simple case, no more, no less. The point

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

Steve Lamb wrote: > Not sure why anyone who needs just a smarthost would use a > full-featured MTA. > Here's my entire configuration... > smtp.dmiyu.org smtp --port=25 One term -- internal messages. forwarding messages to some special users is so fun (like mail2news gateway posting to

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:28:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Interesting. I also mam a non-mailgeek, but got Postfix working as a > Smarhost within an hour. "dpkg-reconfigure postfix" plus a little > Googling and it worked. (Note, though, that my ISP's smtp server is > unauthenticated.) On Fri, 01

Webcams and communicating with a windows system

Hello all, I recently got a Webcam for my Debian system and I've gotten it all working and haven't had any problems with it on my side of things. However the main reason for getting this webcam was so that I could communicate with other people. Is there a good HowTo somewhere on what software is g

Re: Sid: Recorded audio CD is just an hour of nothing

> > > Unfortunately, the CD is dead air. When I listen to the mp3 > > > before it's burned, in K3b, it's fine. When I stick the resulting > > > audio CD into the drive, the auto-sense routings recognize it as > > > an audio CD, correctly identify the track/tracks, and then play > > > silence. > On

Ethernet detect

I have a asus P4S800 motherboard, it has an onboard ethernet adapter. When I try and install Debian Sarge 3.1 it will not detect the ethernet adapter. I tried knoppix and it detects and uses the adapter just fine. Is there any way to modify the hardware detect in Sarge or to have it try and dete

Re: editor to remove noise (wind and wave) from sound file

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm playing with the filters in audacity and rezound; they seem to help a bit, but I still haven't been able to make the voices understandable. If anyone is interested, I placed a 4 second sample of the voices at http://people.ucsc.edu/~otte/sound.test.aiff Thanks for

libstdc++.so.6 change breaks older applications (e.g. GNAT) ...

I have problems with version 4.1.1ds1-13 of package libstdc++6 as this breaks some older applications. If you have the sources, you can recompile, if not ... what is the suggested solution? What happens is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd foobar ./foobar: /usr/local/gnat/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GC

Re: Opteron or Athlon 64 FX?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi, > >> What has your experiences of either/both been? > at work we use dual core athlon64 machines for workstations (up to 4 gb > of ram). opteron clusters (dual core or dual dual core) are used for > scientific calculations - a

Re: X, dpi and fonts

T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:45:15 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? > > > > xdpyinfo > > thanks but, then what? > > Do you mean: > > screen #0: > print screen:no > dim

Re: X, dpi and fonts

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:45:15 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? > > xdpyinfo thanks but, then what? Do you mean: screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1152x864 pixels (293x219 millimeters) resoluti

Re: Fwd: debian 3.1 doesn't play sound on acer aspie 1640 series laptops

deekay gupta wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *deekay gupta* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: Sep 1, 2006 7:37 PM > Subject: debian 3.1 doesn't play sound on acer aspie 1640 series laptops > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hel

Re: dpkg segfaults installing locales: [SOLVED]?

Wulfy wrote: I have a problem. While updating, dpkg segfaults while configuring locales. The error message is: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 6634 Illegal instruction localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): subproces

Re: Opteron or Athlon 64 FX?

hi, What has your experiences of either/both been? at work we use dual core athlon64 machines for workstations (up to 4 gb of ram). opteron clusters (dual core or dual dual core) are used for scientific calculations - and contain much more memory (last ordered computers should have up to 64gb

Re: editor to remove noise (wind and wave) from sound file

Pure Data is great for stuff like this, but it is a lot to learn- you'd have to assemble the application yourself. If you expect your first time editing a sound file to be your last time, it's probably not what you want. A parametric equalizer would be an intuitive way that might help. I'm in W

Re: Problem booting RAID1/mdadm system when one disk is unplugged

Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, James Brown wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, James Brown wrote: All, I have already posted this question to gmane.linux.raid, but would really appreciate some help from a Debian perspective please... My System has 2x120GB IDE di

Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:48:56 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > apt-get remove --purge mozilla-thunderbird apt-get remove --purge mozilla-thunderbird cd /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/ rm -Rf * cd .. rmdir mozilla-thunderbird/ apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird (there was some dpkg - warning: whil

Re: linuxtv on debian

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 11:51:47AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 02 September 2006 11:05, Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:12:58AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > > device> > > > > > One issue I have is that once the device is loaded /sys reports the > > > vendor id and p

Re: linuxtv on debian

On Saturday 02 September 2006 11:05, Mark wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:12:58AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > device> > > > One issue I have is that once the device is loaded /sys reports the > > vendor id and product id as 14aa and 0225 respectively. These are close > > to the vendor id'

Re: pdftex on Debian...

Hello, you have to install tetex or texlive . hth, Jerome Redefined Horizons wrote: I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian have a package with a utility that will allow me to do this? Thanks, Sco

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:05:36 -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Generally anything that requires you to write a configuration file that >then writes another configuration file ... is over-engineered. Automake? Autoconf? M4? >anyone who doesn't know what they're doing can FUBAR any

Re: linuxtv on debian

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:12:58AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > One issue I have is that once the device is loaded /sys reports the vendor id > and product id as 14aa and 0225 respectively. These are close to the vendor > id's as mentioned on the linuxtv web site, but not the same. > I

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:36 +0200, T wrote: > My suggestion, speaking from my heart breaking experiences, is that if you > are a normal user, not a mail expert or system admin who need to play with > mail configuration as you full time job, stick with sendmail, and keep > away with postfix, exim, e

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:29:28 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 01 September 2006 19:48, John Kelly wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:33:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >I follow debian-security and I used to follow Bugtraq fairly closely. >> >> What's the ratio

Re: How do I configure acpid?

Hello What about thermal changes, which event must be cached in '/etc/acpid/events/thermal' when the temperature change and consequently, it is wrote in '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature' Thank you, Gustavo Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 20:06:41 -0600, Joseph

Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have > apt-get remove mozilla-thunderbird > apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird > and I see no changes > > Uwe That won't help, you need to purge the package in order to remove config files as well. Try aptitude purge mozilla-thunderbird or IIR

Re: X, dpi and fonts

T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? xdpyinfo HTH Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E