Re: What is this in my syslog????????

2006-11-05 Thread Nate Duehr
M-L wrote: I have this in my syslog while downloading the latest updates from Debian? My computer drops off the modem. the modem is still connected but ppp is not, the computer doesn't respond to being on the net/ I don't use chat and wonder if the machine is actually breached by intruders?

Re: Video in mozilla/firefox

2006-11-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mark Grieveson schreef: > Maybe some sites are using java is some way with their embedded > films. Do you have java runtime environment update nine > installed? > I've also been thinking in that direction, but it seems my java is the latest version: ii java-common 0.25 ii

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread steef
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:16PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. Ha

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:27:58AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Monday 06 November 2006 05:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:08:12AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:10:08AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > >

Re: cable modem connection slower then dial up

2006-11-05 Thread Zoran Kolic
> I have a cable modem connected to a router that connects to a Windows > XP machine and my Debian linux machine. Internet on the Windows XP > machine is extremely fast and the Debian machine is slower than dial up > (no joke! night and day difference!) What is wrong with the Debian > machine? I

What is this in my syslog????????

2006-11-05 Thread M-L
I have this in my syslog while downloading the latest updates from Debian? My computer drops off the modem. the modem is still connected but ppp is not, the computer doesn't respond to being on the net/ I don't use chat and wonder if the machine is actually breached by intruders? Charlie Nov

Re: C++ exception handling question

2006-11-05 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-11-05T21:02:33-0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > My code does not have the string 'Killed' in it anywhere, so I suppose > this comes from some place in the C/C++ libraries. The string "caught > ...!!!" never appears in the output, nor does the string " After > catch.". You program (probably) r

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Nate Duehr
Pollywog wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 03:47, Kent West wrote: ChadDavis wrote: But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. We're people; people are imperfect. It's nothing the Debian developers can't fix ;) ... In time for all us users to file many many bug reports ag

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-05 Thread KS
Rage Callao wrote (in an off-list message): > Is there a script, something like make-jpkg for Java, that can be used > to create a .deb from a FireFox binary tarball? > > thanks, > Rage I think the best that you can do at this point is use one of the redhat rpm for Firefox 2.0 (is it available ye

Working with xfig (was: Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file)

2006-11-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, all. On Oct 26 2006, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > Skencil's interface is still a little clunky but I found it worked > better than xfig when editing the converted files. I have been working with xfig a lot to be stubborn even if people tell me that there are other tools that are better. Once

Re: Delete Win 2K partition on Debian dual boot to re-use space.

2006-11-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Del. On Nov 04 2006, del wrote: > I have looked at the partitions with live cds (Knoppix and similar) > and have burned the few things that mattered from 2K. I have also a > qtparted live cd to hand. I don't know about the qtparted live CD that you have, but with a live gparted live CD

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-05 Thread Rage Callao
Is there a script, something like make-jpkg for Java, that can be used to create a .deb from a FireFox binary tarball? thanks, Rage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-05 Thread KS
Marc Shapiro wrote: > it at work and really liked it, I moved the firefox directory to > /usr/lib/ and changed usr/bin/firefox to point to > /usr/lib/firefox/firefox. Now it 'just works.' I can run the debian > version of firefox by invoking 'mozilla-firefox' and the new version > with 'fire

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 06 November 2006 02:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:10:08AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > > Or the whole thing could even be done with (I think!): > > > > #tr -d '\n' < IN | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -B1 Processor | grep -v > > 'Processor\|--' > > nice. > I just can

Re: Overlapping partitions

2006-11-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
David Baron wrote: Long time problem. My partitions used to be legal-steven but somehow got messed up. Main problem is that there is cylinder overlap (which defeats parted, partitionmagic, etc). The ordering problem is fixable but not really the problem (There was a primary Windows partition t

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 06 November 2006 03:47, Kent West wrote: > ChadDavis wrote: > > But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. > > We're people; people are imperfect. It's nothing the Debian developers can't fix ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Video in mozilla/firefox

2006-11-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson schreef: > Do you have mozplugger installed? That might help. Also, if your > machine is low on resources, using mplayer-nogui, instead of mplayer, > can help (it uses less resources, I think). > > Mark Mozplugger did not help. The machine is not low on resources. Wi

Re: crazy screen

2006-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, thanks for your answer: unfortunately I am now far away from the external screen (this happened during a workshop). I have indeed a switch button on my Dell Inspiron 8200 (fn + F8): I used it to get the image on the external screen, but I forget to switch back, hence the troubles I guess.

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:16PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've > recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the threads I read en

Re: Making an ext2 filesystem on a DVD+RW

2006-11-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:34:57PM -0500, Jack Dodds wrote: > I am using Sarge with the 2.6.17 kernel from backports.org. > > According to tidbits I have read on the Internet, DVD+RW > support was added to the kernel in 2.6.10, and I should be > able to make an file system on a DVD+RW with mke2fs.

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread cothrige
* ChadDavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've > recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty b

Re: cable modem connection slower than dial up

2006-11-05 Thread schmity
Here is what I get when I do the tests. It takes a long time to ping google and yahoo. Telnet didn't work with google or yahoo and it was extremely slow also. Don't know about the ipv6 packet or where to look. I'll check into it or if you have more info that you could give me it would be apprec

C++ exception handling question

2006-11-05 Thread Paul E Condon
I've written a program in C++ using STL for some fairly tricky simulation work. The program works, but fails during initialization for some choices of input parameters. I think the problem is not enough RAM, but I'd like to confirm that, so I tried enclosing the relevant parts of int main(...) in a

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Kent West
ChadDavis wrote: But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. We're people; people are imperfect. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to disable auto-shutdown screen?

2006-11-05 Thread gniuxiao
There is no /etc/init.d/console-tools on my os (debian 3.1r3). But after reboot, it works ;-) thanks~ On 11/3/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 03.11.06 17:21, gniuxiao wrote: > Thanks, I changed these variables to 0, but how to let the kernel know > these changes? Do I ha

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Rodrigo Paes
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:57:16 -0700 ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've > recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the thre

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Jason Morehouse
Welcome to Debian :/ Anytime I've asked similar questions I get told to 'install windows', or something along those lines. It's easy trade-off for such a great Distro. Plus there /are/ a lot of helpful Debian users out there. ChadDavis wrote: I've recently started using this list. You mi

Re: cable modem connection slower than dial up

2006-11-05 Thread Rodrigo Paes
On 5 Nov 2006 18:28:32 -0800 "schmity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a cable modem connected to a router that connects to a Windows > XP machine and my Debian linux machine. Internet on the Windows XP > machine is extremely fast and the Debian machine is slower than dial up > (no joke! nigh

what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread ChadDavis
I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty bickering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Making an ext2 filesystem on a DVD+RW

2006-11-05 Thread Jack Dodds
I am using Sarge with the 2.6.17 kernel from backports.org. According to tidbits I have read on the Internet, DVD+RW support was added to the kernel in 2.6.10, and I should be able to make an file system on a DVD+RW with mke2fs. However, it doesn't work: mke2fs /dev/hdd mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)

cable modem connection slower than dial up

2006-11-05 Thread schmity
I have a cable modem connected to a router that connects to a Windows XP machine and my Debian linux machine. Internet on the Windows XP machine is extremely fast and the Debian machine is slower than dial up (no joke! night and day difference!) What is wrong with the Debian machine? -- To UNS

Re: runlevels

2006-11-05 Thread Michael D. Norwick
ChadDavis wrote: > 'dude' ? is that me? I do know what runlevels, sudo and su are. As < snip > >> >> The first thing 'dude' needs to do is figure out what runlevels, >> single-user mode, and 'sudo' or 'su to root' are! >> >> Michael >> http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/runlevels.htm. runlevel 1 is sin

Re: Xen 3.0.3 and VLAN

2006-11-05 Thread Tim Post
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:21 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Tim, > > the missing comma after the bridge specification in the vif declaration of > the domU cfg's > seemed to have caused the problems I encountered. > Excellent. > Now I'm using the xen network-dummy script > and have succesf

keeps servers consistant (debs)

2006-11-05 Thread Jason Morehouse
Hello, Just wondering if there is an existing solution (or home-rolled script) to keep packages consistent across multiple servers. The standard repositories are fine, and caching isn't needed (ala apt-proxy), as they are on different networks. But if I install / remove packages on a server

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting

2006-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 D

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting

2006-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 Dam-Main kernel: pci_set_p

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:03:01PM +, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the reasons why there was not a modularized source tree in > > XFree86 was that it was not allowed to happen. No? So XFree86 never > > could have it, while Xorg now does. And this le

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:04:28PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Kevin. > > Kevin Mark, 05.11.2006 19:03: > >> That means: if you want a monolithic X-server, you can have one with Xorg > >> too. > > > > So its possible to have a monolithic Xorg X server. Debian does not package > > one.

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 06 November 2006 05:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:08:12AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:10:08AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > > >> Or the whole thing could even be done with (I think!): > > >> > >

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 06 November 2006 05:29, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > tr -d '\n' > > > > deletes the new lines > > Ahhh, ok. Was still going off of the previous Python examples which > didn't delete newlines, only replaced them with spaces. Mea Culpa. Oops again! What I mean

Re: dbus and the bus address

2006-11-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/5/06, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile |> (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ): |> |> if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then |> ## if not found, la

Support

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Re: xorg - nv driver

2006-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 23:40:01 +0100, Hans-Ulrich Klein wrote: > Hi all, > I have a supplement question to my problem described above. The problem > occured after updating my debian etch using dselect. A new version of > xorg was installed and conflicted with the nvidia-glx package. Before > t

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the reasons why there was not a modularized source tree in > XFree86 was that it was not allowed to happen. No? So XFree86 never > could have it, while Xorg now does. And this lead to XFree86 development > being harder than Xorg. To me this is a diffe

Re: dbus and the bus address

2006-11-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile |> (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ): |> |> if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then |> ## if not found, launch a new one |> eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)

Re: xorg - nv driver

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-Ulrich Klein
Hi all, I have a supplement question to my problem described above. The problem occured after updating my debian etch using dselect. A new version of xorg was installed and conflicted with the nvidia-glx package. Before the update I used the nvidia driver without problems. As I had no success

Re: crazy screen

2006-11-05 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Hello, On 05-11-2006, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > two days ago I plugged my daily updated Etch laptop to an external screen > (in practice a projector) and everything went fine until the shutdown. > But since then my screen is `crazy': at start up, I funny caracter a

Re: kernel 2.6 and amd K6-II

2006-11-05 Thread Bernard Adrian
celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I believe that the k6 is NOT a 686. I think you're right : someone on l.d.u.french has explained to me it's more than a 586 (586 + MMX if i did'nt misunderstand) but not a 686. I also was told it is possible to compile the kernel with : CONFIG_MK6

[Fwd: Re: [Alsa-user] snd-hda-intel /etc/modprobe textfile]

2006-11-05 Thread steef
Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:37:39PM +0100, steef wrote: some helpful soul on the alsa-userlist advised me to put a textfile with *options snd-hda-intel index=0 disable_msi=1* is some kind soul out there who can tell me the exact meaning of the phrase *--disable_msi=1*?

question is answered

2006-11-05 Thread steef
Original Message Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:23:40 +0100 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi list, some helpful soul on the alsa-userlist advised me to put a textfile with *options snd-hda-intel index=0 disable_msi=1* in /etc/modprobe.d, in order to get *snd-hda-intel* p

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/06 12:28, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> But because of their lock on the desktop, they also have incredible >> userland and developer mindshare. > > You sure? I had a rather interesting conversation at work the other day. >

Re: snd-hda-intel /etc/modprobe textfile

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:37:39PM +0100, steef wrote: > some helpful soul on the alsa-userlist advised me to put a textfile with > > *options snd-hda-intel index=0 disable_msi=1* > > is some kind soul out there who can tell me the exact meaning of the phrase > *--disable_msi=1*? These flags

Re: kernel source trees

2006-11-05 Thread Dougie Nisbet
ChadDavis wrote: Thanks man. I was trying to find "kernel-source", to no avail. That one has caught me out too. Somewhere along the way it changed from kernel-source-tumptytum to linux-source-tumptytum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

snd-hda-intel /etc/modprobe textfile

2006-11-05 Thread steef
hi list, some helpful soul on the alsa-userlist advised me to put a textfile with *options snd-hda-intel index=0 disable_msi=1* in /etc/modprobe.d, in order to get *snd-hda-intel* properly working: since yesterday- evening the driver works like a charm. is some kind soul out there who can tel

Re: Xen 3.0.3 and VLAN

2006-11-05 Thread Bruno . Voigt
Hi Tim, the missing comma after the bridge specification in the vif declaration of the domU cfg's seemed to have caused the problems I encountered. Now I'm using the xen network-dummy script and have succesfully in dom0 put up 3 bridges belonging to different VLAN's and can assign these bridges

Re: dbus and the bus address

2006-11-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile |> (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ): |> |> if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then |> ## if not found, launch a new one |> eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: 3, Install the package "nvidia-glx" 4. Remove /etc/init.d/kdm, /etc/init.d/gdm and/or /etc/init.d/xdm 5. reboot, it makes sure, TLS ist set correctly 6. Check it, with the command: "startx" at the p

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:59 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 20:27:14 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:20 schrieb Benjamí Villoslada: > > > El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: > > > > 3, Install the package "nvidi

Re: Issues with sound and accelerated graphics

2006-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 04:38:00 -0500, malachi wrote: > Recently I installed Debian and after the install I had some issues with > the sound. I had gotten it working after running alsaconf, alsamixer and > alsactl store but after I rebooted the sound was not working again. With > the help of lsmod

RE: timezone and clock error

2006-11-05 Thread Seth Goodman
Dean Allen Provins wrote on Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:20 PM -0500: > Hello: > > It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight > savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last > weekend. > > /etc/timezone contains: > > Canada/Mountain > > Anyone know h

Re: kernel 2.6 and amd K6-II

2006-11-05 Thread celejar
On 11/5/06, Bernard Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Second i said myself : "Dummy, amd k6-II is not a 486 processor but a 686". So i got linux-image-2.6-686. It's not written on it that it works on AMD K6-II. But i tried and ... nothing append. After loading I believe that the k6 is NOT a 68

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 20:27:14 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:20 schrieb Benjamí Villoslada: > > El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: > > > 3, Install the package "nvidia-glx" > > > > > > 4.  Remove /etc/init.d/kdm, /etc/init.d/gdm and/

Re: timezone and clock error

2006-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 2006-11-02, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > > > It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight > > > savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last > > > weekend. > > > > > > /etc/timezone contains: > >

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:20 schrieb Benjamí Villoslada: > El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: > > 3, Install the package "nvidia-glx" > > > > 4.  Remove /etc/init.d/kdm, /etc/init.d/gdm and/or /etc/init.d/xdm > > > > 5. reboot, it makes sure, TLS ist set correctl

SOLVED: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Thilo Six
Andrew Sackville-West wrote the following on 05.11.2006 19:26: Hello First thanks for the fast and helpful replies. >> Hello >> >> I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. >> Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen >> when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be lo

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: > 3, Install the package "nvidia-glx" > > 4.  Remove /etc/init.d/kdm, /etc/init.d/gdm and/or /etc/init.d/xdm > > 5. reboot, it makes sure, TLS ist set correctly > > 6. Check it, with the command: "startx" at the prompt. For wheat rea

Re: mutt, gnome terminal, xemacs, gnuserv, debian etch

2006-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:47:21PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > The package chain is as follows: > > > > INCOMING MAIL: pop3 server @ my ISP --> getmail4 --> maildrop --> > > [maildir] --> mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> fetchmail --> procmail -->

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:29:42AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > tr -d '\n' > > > > deletes the new lines > > Ahhh, ok. Was still going off of the previous Python examples which > didn't delete newlines, only replaced them with spaces. Mea Culpa. > I have to

Re: runlevels

2006-11-05 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Kees de Koster wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ChadDavis wrote: > >> Yo. I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must >> turn off the xserver. In order to this, since I didn't know how, I >> rebooted into runlevel one. Then the script complains about runlevel >> one

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 19:17 schrieb Thilo Six: > Hello > > I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. > Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen > when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded. > > With linux-image-486 no problems. > > Is this a bug and shou

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:17:49PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > Hello > > I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. > Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen > when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded. it might help if you provided the error messages you mig

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > tr -d '\n' > > deletes the new lines Ahhh, ok. Was still going off of the previous Python examples which didn't delete newlines, only replaced them with spaces. Mea Culpa. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key:

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Roman Busyguin
В Вск, 05/11/2006 в 19:17 +0100, Thilo Six пишет: > Hello > > I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. > Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen > when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded. Rebuild nvidia module for your kernel. Use module-assistant. > >

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > But because of their lock on the desktop, they also have incredible > userland and developer mindshare. You sure? I had a rather interesting conversation at work the other day. I work at a casino outside of Vegas and the guy in charge of what technology we use for our pr

Re: kernel source trees

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:07:55AM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > Thanks man. I was trying to find "kernel-source", to no avail. at some point in the past few months, the renamed the kernels as there is now a BSD version of Debian. all linux kernel stuff is now linux-[image|source|headers|tree] A >

linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Thilo Six
Hello I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded. With linux-image-486 no problems. Is this a bug and should it be reported? bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some frien

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:08:12AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:10:08AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > >> Or the whole thing could even be done with (I think!): > > >> #tr -d '\n' < IN | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -B1 Processor | grep -v > >> 'Proce

Re: Prompt

2006-11-05 Thread Thilo Six
José Pablo Fernández wrote the following on 03.11.2006 21:43: Hello > I've connected thru SSH and it seems that file is not loaded. I've set a > prompt there and it is not used. Sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc made the prompt > look like I wanted, so the code on the file is right. Once i had the s

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:10:08AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: >> Or the whole thing could even be done with (I think!): >> #tr -d '\n' < IN | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -B1 Processor | grep -v 'Processor\|--' > nice. Except for one problem. Look at the OP's post and y

Re: kernel source trees

2006-11-05 Thread ChadDavis
Thanks man. I was trying to find "kernel-source", to no avail. On 11/5/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:54:31AM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > Where's my source tree? How do I get one if I don't have one? > [apt-get|aptitude|whatever] install linux-so

Re: runlevels

2006-11-05 Thread Kees de Koster
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ChadDavis wrote: > Yo. I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must > turn off the xserver. In order to this, since I didn't know how, I > rebooted into runlevel one. Then the script complains about runlevel > one not being enough. Is runlevel on

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Kevin. Kevin Mark, 05.11.2006 19:03: >> That means: if you want a monolithic X-server, you can have one with Xorg >> too. > > So its possible to have a monolithic Xorg X server. Debian does not package > one. Who does? How about Debian[0]? (I would have accepted your statement if was th

Re: kernel source trees

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:54:31AM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > Where's my source tree? How do I get one if I don't have one? > [apt-get|aptitude|whatever] install linux-source- A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Exim4 and clamav not working

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:35:27AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > It finally came to life. May have been something else, however this was > > my last change. The directory /var/spool/exim4/scan/ had permissions > > set to 770 however /var/spool/exim4 had permissions of 750. I did

Re: Video in mozilla/firefox

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:18:05PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Mark Grieveson schreef: > > > Do you have mozplugger installed? That might help. Also, if your > > machine is low on resources, using mplayer-nogui, instead of mplayer, > > can help (it uses less resources, I think). > > > >

kernel source trees

2006-11-05 Thread ChadDavis
Where's my source tree? How do I get one if I don't have one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:13:59AM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Kevin. > > Kevin Mark, 05.11.2006 03:08: > > One of the major differences between XFree86 and Xorg is the use of > > modularized source. > > Nope. Huh? > That???s the difference between Release 6.9 and 7.0 and has nothin

Re: Video in mozilla/firefox

2006-11-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mark Grieveson schreef: > Do you have mozplugger installed? That might help. Also, if your > machine is low on resources, using mplayer-nogui, instead of mplayer, > can help (it uses less resources, I think). > > Mark Mozplugger did not help. The machine is not low on resources. With some site

Re: runlevels

2006-11-05 Thread Rodrigo Paes
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 10:21:29 -0700 ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yo. I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must > turn off the xserver. In order to this, since I didn't know how, I > rebooted into runlevel one. Then the script complains about runlevel > one not being

runlevels

2006-11-05 Thread ChadDavis
Yo. I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must turn off the xserver. In order to this, since I didn't know how, I rebooted into runlevel one. Then the script complains about runlevel one not being enough. Is runlevel one more of a rescure mode than just a non-graphical mode?

crazy screen

2006-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, two days ago I plugged my daily updated Etch laptop to an external screen (in practice a projector) and everything went fine until the shutdown. But since then my screen is `crazy': at start up, I funny caracter appear everywhere; in console mode the size of the caractere are no more

Re: Exim4 and clamav not working

2006-11-05 Thread Jim Seymour
> > Hi, > > It finally came to life. May have been something else, however this was > my last change. The directory /var/spool/exim4/scan/ had permissions > set to 770 however /var/spool/exim4 had permissions of 750. I did a > chmod 770 on /var/spool/exim4 and another test sending from my yaho

Re: how can a kernel module unload itself?

2006-11-05 Thread Zoran Kolic
> How can a kernel module unload itself? When things go wrong, you > know... > I tried to call release module but it didn't work. Isn't there any exit > function? Module unloads itself if things go wright. This should be compiled into kernel and module loaded when needed. Dynamic load is cool an

Re: Exim4 and clamav not working

2006-11-05 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:47:08AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:22:13AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:39:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > FTR, this is what I did for testing and have never bothered to change: > > >

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:10:08AM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > Or the whole thing could even be done with (I think!): > > #tr -d '\n' < IN | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -B1 Processor | grep -v 'Processor\|--' > nice. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Exim4 and clamav not working

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:22:13AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:39:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > FTR, this is what I did for testing and have never bothered to change: > > > > warn malware = * > > message = WARNING! Virus! ($malware_name) > > > I

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:17:43PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sure there is a simple solution to this problem but I'm not quite > sure how to fix it. Bascially, I can't play DVD's unless I'm running as > root - i.e. mplayer only plays if I'm root, but xine refuses to play a

Re: Documentation wrapper

2006-11-05 Thread Dani
Thank you all for your help. The combination doc-base + dwww (or dhelp) is exactly what I was looking for. How come there is no mention to 'doc-base' in the Debian reference or the Debian FAQ? It seems a pretty useful tool :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

xorg - nv driver

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-Ulrich Klein
Hi, I have problems running xorg's nv driver with my nvidia card. The xserver displays colored scrumbled pixels and crashes after some keyboard input (e.g. after pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1). Currently, I am using the vesa driver, which is quite uncomfortable. What am I doing wrong? I would be g

ide (hd) vs. scsi (sd) sata drive detection on generic install (libata ?)

2006-11-05 Thread Marc D Ronell
Hi, I did a generic Debian Sarge installation on a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop which uses a Serial ATA Hitachi HTS541080G9SA disk drive. The installation works, but I wanted to upgrade the X driver to fglrx. So I downloaded that driver from ATI and downloaded a fresh kernel image 2.6.19-xx

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