Re: Why do xorg developers hate gamers and use that stupid mouse acceleration to anger them?

Dirk wrote: I have to run "xset m 0 0" everytime i start a game that uses mouse and in between... Why does that useless/stupid mouse acceleration enable itself again and interfere? It renders having a expensive mouse pretty much worthless. How can i disable it permanently? Right now I have

Re: finally got lenny installed

Robin wrote: On 27/02/2008, *Daniel Burrows* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > was heard to say: > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep

Re: building custom package

Christian wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a custom zenoss package (http://www.zenoss.com/). I made a DEBIAN directory which contains control file and pre / post scripts, and the directory /usr/local/zenoss with all the files. However when trying to install get the following error : package c

Re: apt is killing my machine

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote: On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: [snip] My machine is a P3/700MHz. Zach Hey, This doesn't sound normal at all, for compariso

Re: New User

Byron Watkins wrote: Hi, I am trying to ween myself from Windows. A couple of months ago I installed Debian on my new amd64 box and I am generally quite impressed by the amalgam. There are a few items that I have been unable to address satisfactorily, however. First, I am a pr

Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(

Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:29:30 -0900 Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16 Feb 2008, at 05:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If your Dell has a unix-type OS on it, you could use the debootstrap install method from the installation manual. It currently

Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:24:36PM -0900, Siraaj Khandkar wrote: I wanted to install a minimum Debian system on an old Dell PowerEdge 350 server, but the NETINST CD is just ignored by the system (yes, the boot order is correct :-) ), so I tried floppies, but those t

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:49:42PM +, Michael D. Norwick wrote: ... Please forgive my boldness and ignorance, but after watching this thread for days now, I fail to get a sense of how it has anything to do with Debian. Doug is a regular contributor

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In perusing non-propriatary (not IBM, HP, Dell, etc) high quality cases, the SuperMicro brand has come up a lot. Based on what I've been learning about EMF shielding, the case in which my Athlon64 is house is inadequate (too many grills insolated with bits of plastic from

Re: Grub Boot Error on Lenny

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Schiz0 wrote: I have Lenny running on a laptop. I selected to use grub version 2 when it prompted me (back when I first installed grub). I just now updated my apt sources and ran a upgrade. It upgraded the grub package, and I rebooted. Now, after the bios tests, the te

Re: SUCCESS: Grub2 on Dell Optiplex GX270

Michael D. Norwick wrote: To whom it may concern; Machine :Dell Optiplex 270 server Intel P4 2.8GHz (non HT) 1G PC2700 Memory Onboard Intel Gb ethernet adapter Onboard Intel Extreme 8x AGP graphics controller

SUCESS: Grub2 on Dell Opteron GX270

To whom it may concern; Machine :Dell Optiplex 270 server Intel P4 2.8GHz (non HT) 1G PC2700 Memory Onboard Intel Gb ethernet adapter Onboard Intel Extreme 8x AGP graphics controller 40 G Western Di

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

Michael D. Norwick wrote: Michael D. Norwick wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Still trying to build a Xen kernel with or without the dfsg. Found this though; http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/build-XEN-make-kpkg-ftopict384180.html Michael Still tryi

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

Michael D. Norwick wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Thanks! Rick I don't know if you've been here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian, but, I too am trying to build a XEN enabled kernel using linux 2.6.23.9. This link looked

Re: Symple method to transfer some packages from Desktop system to laptop Debian Etch system?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/27/08 15:48, Csányi Pál wrote: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:45:54 -0500 keltezéssel Douglas A. Tutty azt írta: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:10:23AM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:29:00 -0600 Ron Johnson

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Thanks! Rick I don't know if you've been here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian, but, I too am trying to build a XEN enabled kernel using linux 2.6.23.9. This link looked straightforward and possible. I have not g

Re: wlan in etch

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 21:17 +, Kalessin wrote: Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi, thank you very much for your advice. After running "dmesg |grep 2200" I got the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg |grep 2200 ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 N

Re: How to use Mutt?

Steve Kemp wrote: On Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 15:32:21 +, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Sometimes some things are just too hard to explain. Such as the correct way to trim extraneous content from mails before replying? Yes I agree. Steve Ouch! Wasn't there just some long

Re: How to use Mutt?

Pantor wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/08 13:04, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:47:49PM +, Pantor wrote: [snip] Maybe Mutt does'nt worth to use at all? I hope not ... Especially for those times when you are rudely reminded

Re: POLL: tape backup format and software

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Could those of you who use tape (DDS, DLT, Ultrium) for backup or archive tell me what format and software you have found most helpful? I only have a couple of boxes to backup. Right now, they each run their own script and create a tarball that then the main box rsyncs t

Re: Errors from repositories

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-9944.html http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt I get this error quite a lot with http://cs.wisc.edu. Waiting, or doing apt-get update several times seems to straighten it out. I also, out of habit only use the mirrors on the official debian download lis

Re: dhelp issue

> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 19:08:03 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: >> >> and >>> >>> >>> >>> 'Ignoring nonregistered document qt3-doc' > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 florian kulzer wrote: > > >> >> I

Re: dhelp issue

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 19:08:03 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: and 'Ignoring nonregistered document qt3-doc' On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 florian kulzer wrote: I am not 100% sure about this one, but it seems harmless to me. Which package is being configured when that message comes

dhelp issue

Good Day; During recent apt-get upgrades on etch testing, I have been receiving the following warnings(errors?). Can someone please advise me as to what to configure to fix this? '/usr/sbin/dhelp_parse: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/dhelp_par

Re: local network with twisted rj45

christop wrote: > I would need information on how to configure > a local network between two computers > with only a twested rj45. > > I have two ethernet cards on each of the two computers > I aim to put together. > > > > > < snip > http://www.aboutdebian.com/network.htm michael -- To UNS

Re: runlevels

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: runlevels

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: sareg to etch question

Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:16:28PM -0400, John Graves wrote: > >> With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to >> do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I >> understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would i

Re: Broken 'KDE su' ?

Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 00:52:47 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I cannot validate root password when using a 'KDE su' (meaning ie. cannot >> start synaptic from the KDE menu under a non-root account) >> >> However the same root password is accepted via

Re: Compiling a kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You have gotten a couple DIFFERENT approaches to installing a kernel on Debian. >At least one comment should send up a warning: Yes, a level-minded user. >On compiling with --initrd, I finally drank the coolade last year. Before I tried to have no >modules, compiling n