What changed permissions of /tmp ?

2007-02-15 Thread Robert Epprecht
This morning I had a bad surprize on my sarge system: X did not start any more. After some time I've found the culprit: something had changed permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. I have no idea what could be the cause of this permission change. Has anybody ever seen this? Robert Epprecht -- To

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > > Looks promising, but the learning curve appears to be a right-angle. > From page 2 of the manual: >> If you are not familiar with TEX at all >> I would recommend to find another software >> package to do musical typesetting. >> Setting up TEX and MusiXTEX >> on your machine and mast

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-15 Thread Guillermo Garron
All my 3 current Debian installs were originally installed from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms, using the 2.4 bf kernel. Then installed the 2.4.27 kernel to try and get some sounds working. Sarge was still in testing at the time. I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Sarge. IIRC the first Woody upgr

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us > greybeards play "remember when"!!! > Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!) > Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM? > Remem

Re: Need Scanner Recommendation

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 20:27, Thomas H. George wrote: > My Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner has died and must be replaced. > The Epson 4990 is too rich for my budget and the Epson 4490 is not on > the Sane list of supported scanners? Has anyone had success with the > 4490? Are there better ch

Need Scanner Recommendation

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas H. George
My Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner has died and must be replaced. The Epson 4990 is too rich for my budget and the Epson 4490 is not on the Sane list of supported scanners? Has anyone had success with the 4490? Are there better choices in the $100-200 range? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: Eh? With MSDOS? No gooey stuff in there! Well, there was GEM, plus TUIs like DesqView. I wasn't claiming that no GUIs existed, just that I don't use any. I used DesqView briefly, just for fun. But never on that machine. But you can't be using it just for MS-DOS; what's

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-15 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, > On Thu February 15 2007 06:28, David Baron wrote: > > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! > > WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 > I'm pulling from volatile and got the message saying that my clamav-milter is out of date. Even I'd a similar problem ev

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-15 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, First I'd like to show a limitation in my case. The server is at a datacenter, so booting a new kernel is highly improbable, only in a emergency case. You say, booting a new kernel is highly improbable. But why are you recompiling the kernel I've downloaded kernel-source 2.4.27, and

qdvdauthor not executing commands to make dvd

2007-02-15 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am trying to put a few home movies onto a DVD. I have more or less made the menu and imported the videos in Qdvdauthor. However, when I try to create the DVD, qdvdauthor shows in a new windows the commands that it will execute. Upon pressing "OK", it gives a black "Executing Command

Re: about dns

2007-02-15 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, in my server 9.3.4 version of bind dns and one domain is working perfectly for exampe ns1.domain1.com and I will buy new domain like www.domain2.com . how do I add this domain to my dns server thank you Some resources here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ch-bind.h

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 21:19, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 20:31, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Remember when? I have a machine which I use on a regular >>> basis which runs MSDOS just fine. I use it on that same >>> 486 with 16MB of RAM,

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-15 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:23:23 -0800 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu February 15 2007 06:28, David Baron wrote: > > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! > > WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 > > Are you running sarge? > > > I found no conf file s

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 06:28, David Baron wrote: > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! > WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 Are you running sarge? > I found no conf file specitying anything but 12 anything but maximum > threads. > > Is a new upgrade in the rep

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/15/07 20:31, Mike McCarty wrote: Remember when? I have a machine which I use on a regular basis which runs MSDOS just fine. I use it on that same 486 with 16MB of RAM, of which MSDOS actually only uses 1MB. Who needs to remember when? I can remember now! So, what GUI

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 19:09, Alan Ianson wrote: > There are a few net install images for etch. Look here.. > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ Opps, those are full disc sets.. try here.. :) http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Debian on ancient machines

2007-02-15 Thread pinniped
Yes, it can be done, but not with the current default system. You now have to be an expert to get Debian to run on that class machine. For Debian I would recommend a minimum 32MB with no X, and minimum 64MB if you run X. However, there are alternatives (see www.distrowatch.org for too many a

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 18:25, rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to > make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion > loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. > Can any of you help me on t

version info

2007-02-15 Thread pinniped
Do NOT change the /lib/modules/(kernel-version) because that is begging for trouble. You need to maintain the naming conventions and should only break them if you really know what you're doing. (And most people who do know what they're doing don't have reason to break it.) The module update t

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Mike McCarty
rocky wrote: Hey all, I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. Can any of you help me on the following please? 1, How can I free

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 20:31, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Mirko Scurk wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferabl

Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread rocky
Hey all, I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. Can any of you help me on the following please? 1, How can I free some space for

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:14:07 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? > > Never ran Win95, but I remember when System III ran great in 1MB (and > ran ok in 256KB). Not to

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: Mirko Scurk wrote: [snip] Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB. I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a machine with 32MB, but it isn't nice. Even better,

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? Never ran Win95, but I remember when System III ran great in 1MB (and ran ok in 256KB). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:27 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > > 2007/2/15, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi, > > > > maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but > > it can help you :) > > I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. >

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mirko Scurk wrote: [snip] > Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB. > I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a > machine with 32MB, but it isn't nice. > > Even better, perhaps, would

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Mike McCarty
Mirko Scurk wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody on Digital Venturis 466 486DX66, 540MB HDD, 20MB RAM, CD-ROM, S3 Turbo VGA 1MB and EtherWorks III ISA network adapter. The first stage of install went fine but after installing lilo and rebooting I never got prompt. There are many errors: Read

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-15 Thread Mike McCarty
Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: 2007/2/15, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but it can help you :) I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes the entire file system de

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:04:16PM -0200, Fabio A Mazzarino wrote: > Hello Folks: > > First I'd like to show a limitation in my case. The server is at a > datacenter, so booting a new kernel is highly improbable, only in a > emergency case. > > Now the problem. > > I can't use neither iptables n

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-15 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:52:58PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > > > >>>HTML adapts to the user's browser pane width (well, if the author > >>>doesn't break HTML's ability to do that). > >>Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the > >>author simply provides multiple CSS, wh

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:28:15PM -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardar

backups

2007-02-15 Thread pinniped
For a genuine (full) backup, use 'tar' - that's what it was made for (and it acts properly on symlinks and preserves attributes etc). Just be aware that tar originally worked with tapes and just wrote all data into a single stream with a few markers. That behavior is preserved, so you need t

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:00:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder > > or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. > > does that mean I have a pro

Re: Dual head setup [solved]

2007-02-15 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:03 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > > It would be unstable because the radeon module has little more than basic > > support for the X600. Was this dual head in an extended desktop mode (as > > opposed to mirror)? Do you by any chance still have this config file > > around? >

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, havnt been following this thread, just jumping in. This link has some samples of musixtex that you could perhaps use to get yourself familiar with it. Else use something like noteedit to edit your music and if you want, then you can export your music to musixtex. HTH Oli Þann 2007-02-15, 18:

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: The material looks like standard guitar tabs you'd find on the web, like this, from http://www.guitaretab.com/a/adam-sandler/211.html: Package: musixtex Description: Typeset music scores wit

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Grok Mogger
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:15:25AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: Wait, so stable only gets security updates? What if there's a bug in a package, will it get a fix? And I guess just to finish off my questionnaire, do packages in stable ever get upgrades for additional fu

Re: latex (tetex) refuses to produce dvi

2007-02-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, have you tried out latex -output-format dvi .tex? That is skip the = sign. I guess you have pdfetex installed and /usr/bin/latex pointing to that (check by using which /usr/bin/latex) HTH Oli Þann 2007-02-15, 17:59:07 (+0200) skrifaði Micha Feigin: > Sorry, this was supposed to be sent to t

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 15, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Casey T. Deccio wrote: I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is unchanged

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:15 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > So, if you leave your sources.list with "testing" then after the > > release, you will continue to see package upgrades as things move from > > unstable to testing. If you use "etch" then when Etch becomes sta

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list lately, I got to wondering if it might be a better product.

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread charlie derr
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder or mailbox. I have

Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-15 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Hello Folks: First I'd like to show a limitation in my case. The server is at a datacenter, so booting a new kernel is highly improbable, only in a emergency case. Now the problem. I can't use neither iptables nor brctl. The problem is that the module doesn't exist. Some data: # uname -a Linu

try 'dist-upgrade'

2007-02-15 Thread pinniped
Even if you're only using 'etch', try an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Did you notice if you had a long list of 'packages held back' ? One reason for DCOP failing is permissions on the /tmp directory - just check that it is 'drwxrwxrwt'. Incorrect permissions will cause many necessary bits to fail

TeX variants

2007-02-15 Thread pinniped
There are a number of TeX variants and no doubt one would have been made for guitar tabs. Long long ago in a galaxy far far away I used 'musixtex' - but that it used for piano and orchestral arrangements - I can't recall if it did guitar tabs as well. It takes a few days of playing with befo

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder >>> or mailbox. I have seen such a

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:00, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder >> or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. > > does that me

re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Demou
2007/2/14, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:17:56PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: [...] I personally think that if you want the latest greatest stuff one should run sid instead of testing. If something breaks in sid, it tends to fix itself pretty quickly. som

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is u

Re: monodevelop in Etch - Success!

2007-02-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:53:21 +0100 csanyipal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can add only a note to this guide: the monodevelop depend of the > metacity package too: > > # LANG=C dpkg -i monodevelop_0.12+dfsg-1_all.deb > (Reading database ... 156253 files and directories currently > installed.)

backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread Casey T. Deccio
I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is unchanged). I wasn't sure if there was a way to do this with dd bec

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread charlie derr
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. does that mean I have a problem? A For whatever it's worth, I'm writing this messa

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:14:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > installation reports: > > > > reportbug installation > > > > upgrade reports: > > > > reportbug upgrade-reports > > Please don't file bug reports on "installation", "install", "installer", > or other n

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder > or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. does that mean I have a problem? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:15:25AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > If stable only gets security updates, then I find it rather > funny that I know someone running a Debian system with a custom > perl script designed to get only security updates via apt-get. > Was this script a total waste of his

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-15 Thread Inko IA
Hi! As far as I know, the official fglrx drivers doesn't allow composite. I have an Ati mobility radeon X700 and I didn't manage to activate composite with those drivers. BUT, on january, debian released new mesa glx and dri packages which supports 3D hardware acceleration for my card, and allow

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-15 Thread Andre Massing
Hi, Ivan Glushkov schrieb: [..] ===> kernel 2.6.19 (with both driver versions), 3D acceleration works if Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection But if I enable it I get: % fglrxinfo Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". display: :0.0 screen: 0 Open

Re: DCOP problem after Etch with Kde upgrade

2007-02-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 16:03:37 +, john gennard wrote: > About a week ago I obtained the latest Etch (Kde version) > from Debian.org and installed it without any problems. > > Yesterday I updated and upgraded the installation - took > many hours on a dialup connection (60 Mb, 58 packages, > m

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a > Debian question.) > I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs > written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this lis

Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 14:19, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above >>> 600GB? >>>

Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: >>> I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. >> Why? Sarge on that is definitely not supported. You should >> definitely go with Etch. >> > Why woul

Re: size related questions for file system types (was Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB))

2007-02-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: Hi, Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above 600GB? I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. Why? Sarge on that is definitely not supporte

Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > > 600GB? > > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. > > Why? Sarge on that is defini

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:21:38AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > 600GB? > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. > Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i > should be car

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread ciol
You seem right and I would really like to trust you, but why there are some developers demotivated ? Why there is this weird atmosphere ? > This whole discussion is somewhat exaggerated Yes I know I'm stupid, but I _needed_ to say that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > 600GB? > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. Why? Sarge on that is definitely not supported. You shoul

fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-15 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, I was running happily Debian Unstable for 3 years, when finally my hard drive died, and I had to install Debian from scratch. I want to install beryl http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install/Debian Very nice outlook which obviously requires 3D acceleration and (as outlined on the page

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Mirko Scurk
Mirko Scurk wrote: > > Bob McGowan wrote: >> Mirko Scurk wrote: >> >> I have installed a recent Debian (it's been a while, not sure if I used >> etch or not, maybe sarge, but definitely not woody), on an ALR 486 VEISA >> system and it ran fine. The biggest HW difference besides manufacturer >> an

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ciol wrote: > Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian. > I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100% > voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze > wants to be paid, if debian will not loose its identity. Isn't it > possible that release manager

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-15 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/2/15, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above 600GB? I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i should be careful in any area. Also if a be

Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-15 Thread Siju George
Hi, Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above 600GB? I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i should be careful in any area. Also if a better file system suits for such large partiti

RE: about dns

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Heal
I am not sure about v9.x but in v8.x you add the new domain to named.conf _ From: Mesut Şahin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: about dns Hello Friends in my server 9.3.4 version of bind dns and one

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:13:16 +, john gennard wrote: [...] > This morning, I reconfigured X using the 'vesa' driver and you > were perfectly right in your supposition. It now boots directly into > Gnome (some tweaking will be necessary - the display is not very good > due no doubt to some

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...] > I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things > working properly across the board. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&! > > Go figure. Using

about the size of koffice-doc binary deb

2007-02-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I recently noted that koffice-doc's deb is close to 100MB large (>600MB when unpacked), yet the source package deb, koffice, is about 60MB large, but builds this binary package and a number of others, including Krita, Kword. Kchart, ... How does this happen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-15 Thread Albert Dengg
andy wrote: Good day I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can exploit this arrangement to enable me to install onto the laptop

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:38:28PM +, andy wrote: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected > to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can > exploit this

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:38, andy wrote: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected > to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can > exploit this arrangement to

Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-15 Thread andy
Good day I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can exploit this arrangement to enable me to install onto the laptop? Thanks fo

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:12, ciol wrote: > Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian. > I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100% > voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze > wants to be paid, if debian will not loose its identity. Isn't it

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 11:12, ciol wrote: > Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian. > I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100% > voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze > wants to be paid, if debian wil

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:12, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the >Adobe Flash Player installer. There is no flash player for 64 bit anything, at least not yet. I read that the folks at macromedia/adobe were working on it but nothing ye

Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread ciol
Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian. I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100% voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze wants to be paid, if debian will not loose its identity. Isn't it possible that release managers give their money

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Mirko Scurk wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody on Digital Venturis 466 486DX66, 540MB HDD, 20MB RAM, CD-ROM, S3 Turbo VGA 1MB and EtherWorks III ISA network adapter. The first stage of install went fine but after installing lilo and rebooting I never got prompt. There are many errors: Read

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-15 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: >> I've got iceweasel installed and the installed files list shows a >> directory called 'plugins', located here: >> >> /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins >> >> This is where I'd look to put the Flash files, if I wanted them to be >> globally active (for all

Weird Screen-Saver/kscreensaver problem

2007-02-15 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Hi Distro: SID (Installed years ago, regularly updated) Desktop: KDE When i leave my home and/or work computer i lock the screen with CTRL+ALT+L. I use the "lines" screen-saver set up via kcontrol. The problem ist: After i log in to my computer again and don't do anything for 70 seconds i get a

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:58:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete > > *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already > > explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and tha

Re: latex (tetex) refuses to produce dvi

2007-02-15 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:59 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Sorry, this was supposed to be sent to the list > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:58:49 -0600 > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070214 20:43]: > > > I tried to produce dvi output from a

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:10:41 +0100 Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've had bad experiences with Kubuntu myself. I convinced my > > brother to try it, but it would freeze at loading KDE. He was > > pretty disappointed and gave up. Now I want to give it another try > > with etch as I am

DCOP problem after Etch with Kde upgrade

2007-02-15 Thread john gennard
About a week ago I obtained the latest Etch (Kde version) from Debian.org and installed it without any problems. Yesterday I updated and upgraded the installation - took many hours on a dialup connection (60 Mb, 58 packages, mainly Kde - no packages were deleted). There were no problems reported

Re: latex (tetex) refuses to produce dvi

2007-02-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry, this was supposed to be sent to the list On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:58:49 -0600 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070214 20:43]: > > I tried to produce dvi output from a tex file I have and latex just > > refuses to do it. I tried: > > la

about dns

2007-02-15 Thread Mesut Şahin
Hello Friends in my server 9.3.4 version of bind dns and one domain is working perfectly for exampe ns1.domain1.com and I will buy new domain like www.domain2.com. how do I add this domain to my dns server thank you

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:15:25AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > Wait, so stable only gets security updates? What if there's a > bug in a package, will it get a fix? And I guess just to finish > off my questionnaire, do packages in stable ever get upgrades > for additional functionality? > S

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-15 Thread Grok Mogger
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: So, if you leave your sources.list with "testing" then after the release, you will continue to see package upgrades as things move from unstable to testing. If you use "etch" then when Etch becomes stable, you will only see security updates. Regards, -Roberto Wait

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: > (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian > question.) > Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO. > I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written > for guitar, but with all the talk about

Clamav Warnings

2007-02-15 Thread David Baron
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 I found no conf file specitying anything but 12 anything but maximum threads. Is a new upgrade in the repository immiment or need I add some conf file entry? Or simply ignore? -- To UNSU

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Since you are using a self compiled kernel could it be you built the > radeon support into it? > Look for DRM_RADEON in your kernel config file. > Here is the relevant setting: CONFIG_DRM=y # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not s

Re: Can't get to a console from gdm screen

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem on a debian etch machine: When the gdm screen comes, > Ctrl-Alt-Fn doesn't take me to any console. I have to log in as user, then > it works. Is this some "special" kind of security setting ??? > > I have this problem since a long, long time and could l

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up >> with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will >> be necessary. > > <---LaTeX-File---> > \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} > > \newlength{\ch

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