Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:35:51PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: No. But using ssh -v might give some clues. One extra potential reason: the target box does not have (the utility) xauth on it. >>> >>> >>> That was it. I did >>> aptitude install xauth >>> and everything was fine. >>

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #452

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:23:39AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 28 February 2008, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > The Debian Swirl, as relaxing as a whirlpool. > > > > I love the cream swirling int

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I > can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows > box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is > a client. Can an

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:06:56PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >[snip] > > In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian > > Stable? Because Debian stable is ver

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:14:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) > ... > > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar t

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:26:26AM +, Peter Tynan wrote: > On 28/02/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) > > > > ... > > > > > > >

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:55:08AM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > "I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a > bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure > captures my image of debian." > > If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that.

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? So you i

Re: Open HTML file with OpenOffice in Gnome

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:56:54AM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I just completed installing installing Debian Etch I386 on an AMD64 > computer. A Gnome user needs to edit HTML with OpenOffice, so I > right-clicked on one HTML file, and set it to open with OpenOffice. But Where did you get t

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:09:34PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220246 > ASUS Eee PC 4G – Galaxy Black Eee PC Intel processor 7" Wide VGA 512MB > 4GB Integrated Graphics - Re

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't hijack threads] On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu wrote: > Hi all, > > I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. > Writing extended state information... Error! > E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package > lib

irw shows repeated previous keypress from remote

2008-03-01 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi, I've got lirc configured and irw shows keypresses coming through, so that's good. But I've noticed that when I press a button the first time, the last pressed button is sent from the remote before the button I'm actually pressing is sent! See the following example: Button pressed | cod

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread hce
On 3/2/08, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I expected the "use as" can be selected as a root partition, but > > that page only display following menu: > > use as: > > > > EXT 3 > > EXT2 > > Reiser FS > > JFS > > XFS >

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread David Fox
On 2/29/08, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I am trying to push Linux in a local community center (also trying > to convince them that the MS Windows they keep on install on all Go for it! I just came back from such an event - here in California there was a rather large, distributed insta

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread David Fox
On 2/29/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like a cookiesheet in the oven: crack! It was replaced with the 486 in > 1994 (in the middle of exams at UofT). Lucky you. I waited until 1996 (basically until I could afford it and there was a good special) to get a pentium 100 with 16 me

Re: command line version of startupmanager needed I think

2008-03-01 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:09:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/08 16:48, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > what else can I run dpkg-reconfigure against in addition to xserver-xorg > > in order to answer questions using a command line environment to get > > gnome up and running? > What do you mean?

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
hce wrote: On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:19:52PM +1100, hce wrote: > The hda5 is the one I want to install the Debian to it. > > Now I selected Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk, it came > following an error: > > [!!] Partition

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

2008-03-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:40:56PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: xterm On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:00:13AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I just installed Lenny on a G4 Mac. I installed the

Re: dircmp in debian

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
On 01/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:52:58PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something > > that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in 2 > > directory structures but

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I expected the "use as" can be selected as a root partition, but > that page only display following menu: > use as: > > EXT 3 > EXT2 > Reiser FS > JFS > XFS > FAT16 > FAT32 > Swap area > Physical volume for encryption > Physical volu

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread hce
On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:19:52PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > The hda5 is the one I want to install the Debian to it. > > > > Now I selected Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk, it came > > following an error: > > > > [!!] Partitio

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:19:52PM +1100, hce wrote: > The hda5 is the one I want to install the Debian to it. > > Now I selected Finish Partitioning and write changes to disk, it came > following an error: > > [!!] Partition disks > > No root file system. > > No Root system is defined. > >

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option for 4:3 or 16:9 I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for watching video's, but when i do this. my aspect ration seems to g

Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-01 Thread hce
Hi, I am installing Debian 4.0 to a PC which was previously installed FC5 and has difficult to play mplayer. The first issue during my installation is the pattitiion. The Patition page displays: [!!] Partition disks : : IDE 1 Master (hda) - 20.5 GB #1 primary 3.1 GB ext3 (I want t

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, thanks for your reply. The idea is to have a second passwd file. I set it to mimic LDAP. Jerome Jamin Davis wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: As the below hints gives no results, I understood that the messages may come from elsewhere. By commented, I found that it is pam_pwdfile.so pwdfi

Re: command line version of startupmanager needed I think

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 16:48, Jude DaShiell wrote: > what else can I run dpkg-reconfigure against in addition to xserver-xorg > in order to answer questions using a command line environment to get > gnome up and running? What do you mean? (I'm so used to runnin

xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-01 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option for 4:3 or 16:9 I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for watching video's, but when i do this. my aspect ration seems to go askew. I have tes

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 01 March 2008 20:33:05 andy, vous avez écrit : > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > andy: > >> I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: > >> > >># kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M > >> > >> And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. > >> > >> It still took just un

Re: kadmin ktadd and F_WRLCK

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
Monika Strack wrote: I have a big problem with kerberos5 ktadd. I create a new principal host/myhost.mydomain. This works ok. Then I want add it to the krb5.keytab, but ktadd hang. I have make a strace of kadmin and found that fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0

Re: vertical scroll on my touchpad not working

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
Manu Hack wrote: I've installed debian amd64 on a Toshiba laptop A215-S7413. I failed to get the touchpad vertical scrolling to work (basic functions work fine). Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Module" Load"synaptics" EndSection I recently installed a laptop with MEPIS (deb

Re: Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:21:43PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think the problem is that "startx" by default only starts a bare X > server without any window manager or client applications running. In > other words, you get an empty gray screen that is useless to you. In my experience start

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:33:05PM +, andy wrote: > both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now. Despite > spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on google > and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is remotely > useful. My board is set

command line version of startupmanager needed I think

2008-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
what else can I run dpkg-reconfigure against in addition to xserver-xorg in order to answer questions using a command line environment to get gnome up and running? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
stephane lepain wrote: For your problem you could try placing 8139too into /etc/modules That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first. Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across. HTH Adrian After one day of trying to dig up a solution for my problem. I h

Re: Usermount

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's the conclusion I came to. The maintainer is no where around as far as I can see. Anybody know of other graphical front ends to mount ?? Krusader for KDE will allow you to mount / umount (as root if necessary). Great two-pane filemanager (like a graphica

Re: usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
diane mittnik wrote: The relevant info: # modinfo ndiswrapper modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper # modprobe usbcore FATAL: Module usbcore not found # modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found Try a 'depmod -a' as root. Then try the modprobe's again. Just a thought... -

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 14:27, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ron Johnson: >> On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Ron Johnson: Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on node_a, and display it on current_node? >>> *Offline* reading. >

Re: Usermount

2008-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:07:46 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank wrote: > > Anybody know of other graphical front ends to mount ?? > > Well, using Synaptic to look for packages that have 'mount' in their > names or descriptions,

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: As the below hints gives no results, I understood that the messages may come from elsewhere. By commented, I found that it is pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile=/etc/bunch/passwd was the one which outputs the messages. Is there any alternative ? pam_unix.so? I haven't a clue where pa

latest debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, I got /usr/bin/gnome-session in an .xinitrc file and that hasn't helped. I got what may be a login beep back and get thrown out trying to log into gnome. So I log into text terminal and start up orca with orca --setup and answer the questions. At the end I get told cannot restart orca

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:52:50 +0100, stephane lepain wrote: > Hi, > > I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where > it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it > takes a while at start time for my box to switch from "8139cp" to > "8139too

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Ron Johnson: >>> >>> Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on >>> node_a, and display it on current_node? >> >> *Offline* reading. > > Irrelevant to the point at hand. No. Offline like "using my laptop while commutin

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 13:51, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: >> Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on >> node_a, and display it on current_node? > > Jochen Schulz writes: >> *Offline* reading. > > Yes, "offline". Run Leafnode

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on > node_a, and display it on current_node? Jochen Schulz writes: > *Offline* reading. Yes, "offline". Run Leafnode on one machine on your local network and read news from any other using the newsreader of your ch

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm screen, so I am at a complete loss now.

Re: failing usb drive

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 13:00, Andrew Henry wrote: > I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. > Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt & > Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ron Johnson: >> On 02/29/08 14:43, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Which still leaves the question how to synchronize messages status >>> (read/unread) across multiple computers. Some time ago I used slrnpull >>> for

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-03-01 Thread Brad Brock
--- Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Doug MacFarlane > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4. I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server > - I use Dragon Naturally > > Speaking to do speech to text conversion of > meetings that I record on my Olympus >

failing usb drive

2008-03-01 Thread Andrew Henry
I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt & Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than once a day. Now it

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeff D: > > You really shouldn't have to add anything to see 2G of ram. If you > aren't I suspect that there is something else going on with your system. It's a hardware and/or Linux bug. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble comprehending a nuclear apocalypse. [Ag

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kevin Coyner: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote.. > >>> And I am still searching for a decent console newsreader that >>> supports UTF-8, so if anybody can recommend one... > > Not sure if it supports UTF-8 or not, but have a look at newsbeuter. Newsbeuter is an R

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > On 02/29/08 14:43, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Which still leaves the question how to synchronize messages status >> (read/unread) across multiple computers. Some time ago I used slrnpull >> for offline reading and copied my .newsrc back and forth, but that was a >> real pain. > > W

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread stephane lepain
Adrian Levi a écrit : On 01/03/2008, stephane lepain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it takes a while at start time for my box to switch from "8139cp" t

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > > I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M > > And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. > > It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm > screen, so I am at a complete loss now. Try a fe

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/29/08 05:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 14:47, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: I've looked through the d

Re: latest on debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi Jude. It looks like Florian's got you going the right direction on the Xorg logs... On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:08:25AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What I wrote earlier turns out to have been incorrect so I've copied the > error message gdm throws when the system tries to set it up. It loo

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-03-01 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:16:49 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW? . . . >> >> I generally found proftpd more intuitive than vsftpd to configure. > > IMHO vsftpd works more smoothly with more clients No special reason, just I used wu-ftpd since RedHat 6.

Can't save file in ooffice Impress?

2008-03-01 Thread Michael Yang
lenny/sid, 2.6.24-1 When saving a file in office impress 2.3.1, the Impress crashes. Anyone met this? Thanks. M.

latest on debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I wrote earlier turns out to have been incorrect so I've copied the error message gdm throws when the system tries to set it up. It looks as if /etc/init.d/rc has a problem with a package priority but I can't be sure. /etc/init.d/rc: line 208: /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm: Permission denied -- To

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chuck Rhode
Andrew Henry wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:00:15PM +0100. My reply is below. > I've always thought it was quite a fitting icon for a free software > distro, but I suppose it means different things to different people. The light blue on blue background splash reminds me of a Tidybowl comm

Re: dircmp in debian

2008-03-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:52:58PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something > that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in 2 > directory structures but not change them - yet. rsync I'm fairly > confident will fix the 2

Re: Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 19:31:07 -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The most noticeable thing that happens with gdm running is I get to what > sounds like a login screen and key in my user id then I've tried both > with return and tab after that and key in my password and all gdm returns > is an err

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread andy
andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: [...] with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the mem=xxx option passed to the k

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote.. > > And I am still searching for a decent console newsreader that > > supports UTF-8, so if anybody can recommend one... Not sure if it supports UTF-8 or not, but have a look at newsbeuter. Homepage: http://synflood.at/news

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-01 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, and the installer is also working correctly. Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer & Co. :-) Regards, Santanu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
On 01/03/2008, stephane lepain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where > it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it > takes a while at start time for my box to switch from "8139cp" to "8139too" > Is t

dircmp in debian

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
I have searched high and low but can't find this utility or something that provides it's functionality, I want to know the differences in 2 directory structures but not change them - yet. rsync I'm fairly confident will fix the 2 directories to make them the same but for the moment I want to know j

8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread stephane lepain
Hi, I have had this error message coming up every time I start my PC where it seems to be searching for the right driver. The problem is that it takes a while at start time for my box to switch from "8139cp" to "8139too" Is there a way I could tell my box to use the driver 8139too instead of i

Re: Changing ownership & permissions of Free Agent USB drive

2008-03-01 Thread andy
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: Hello I am attempting to change the ownership of and permissions for the contents of a USB Seagate Free Agent drive. At present, root has ownership, although everybody and their dog can rwx files: $ ls -l /media/FreeAgent\ Drive/ total 24 drwxrwx

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: [...] with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I u

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-03-01 Thread Adrian Levi
Grrr Gmail - For the list... On 01/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW? > > A quick apt-cache search brings out 11 ftpd-s or so. But amon them I > think that proftpd and vsftpd are the most commonly deployed and hence > well-docum

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:01:29PM +, andy wrote: >## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z >## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro >## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro >## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro ># kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet > > It is

Re: Daemon Creation

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:08:15PM +, Robert Rawlins wrote: > Is that correct? Presumably I need to remove one of those start commands? > Right? The same rule applied to the do_stop() method which currently contains > a start-stop-daemon request, do I need to replace that with a standard k

Re: miniscule text on icons in Xfce

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:40:23AM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > Since a recent update of a Lenny system here, > the text on the icons in Xfce4 appears to be > about 4 point. Barely legible with effort. There were changes in xorg regarding dpi. Check you have the correct dpi for you

Re: My own emails

2008-03-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:46:06 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Tzafrir, > It seems that gmail does not like duplicates. e.g: if someone sent > you a second "copy" of the message (one with the same message ID) > you'll probably recieve only the first. e.g: if someone sends you t

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +, andy wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:18:41AM +, andy wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >>> with a fix from the manufacturers. The other alternative seems to be the >>> mem=xxx option passed to the kernel. If I use the latter appr

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:40:56PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Package: xterm > > On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:00:13AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> I just installed Lenny on a G4 Mac. I installed the "ssh" package on >>> it. I can "ssh" to it

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:06:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thx Ron, now if only I could get stupid OpenOffice to print... Hmm... > > - Steve Ballmer > Too early for school holidays isn't it? -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: boinc-app-seti -- |Message from server: platform '' not found

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:28:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:33:52AM +0200, Vasichkin wrote: > > I've got problems running boinc client. here logs from boinc manager: > > > > > > 24.02.2008 1:14:33||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Re: how to switch gcc between diffrent versions in debian way?

2008-03-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
hhding wrote: > It seems ln /usr/bin/gcc is not a clean way. You can just use gcc- where ever you are using gcc before. If you are configuring source, you can do something like ./configure CC=gcc- hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaaruth

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-03-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:51:23PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions regarding Debian FTP server setup. > > 1) Having installed wu-ftpd, ps shows: Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW? A quick apt-cache search brings out 11 ftpd-s or so. But amon them I think t