Re: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Beard
> The /dev/hda7 has been utilized 100% so i would like to increase it to > 22GB and /work to 2.6GB > Is it possible? If so how do i do it without data loss or > undestructively? If you don't mind spending a bit of cash, have a look at 'Partition Commander' I got it fairly cheap on Amazon. Can mov

Re: recent Canon printers and Linux

2004-07-28 Thread Patrick Beard
> I don't want the ability to create Canon printer control language: it's > up to the Mac and Windows computers to do that. I do want to know > whether the USB componentry is likely to work. > I use the canon i850 using the turboprint driver mentioned earlier. Works a treat with cups. Its conne

Re: Boot partion too small

2004-06-02 Thread Patrick Beard
next partition, but another has / as the adjacent partion. > > Is there anyway I can grow these partions and shufle/shrink the others > with out loosing information? > Thanks all > Glenn > Glen, I had a similar problem. I looked at parted but on certain filesystems the start of the partition had

Re: usb cd-writer

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick Beard
"LeVA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi! > > I'm wondering, if anyone is using an usb cd-writer under debian. How it > is working (which kernel, which modules etc...). Yep. I'm using the Philips JackRabbit.. Works a treat. I'm now using it with kernel 2.64 (USB2),

Re: No sound with Flash

2004-04-09 Thread Patrick Beard
"Marc Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have had this problem for a while, but since I don't use a lot of > Flash sites, I haven't worried about it. A recent apt-gt upgrade > installed a new Flash, however, and I thought I would check out the > sound. Still

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-09 Thread Patrick Beard
>> I had something like that a while back. >> Using gnome-alsamixer solved my problem. >I don't run Gnome. However, I tried with alsamixergui, aumix, gamix, >and xamixer-0.4 without success, so I doubt gnome-alsamixer is going >to solve it... Fair enough. I just thought I'd mention it because whe

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-08 Thread Patrick Beard
>However, there is no sound. I have used alsamixer and pushed every >channel to 100% volume, but there is not a single tone that emerges >from the speakers, connected to Line Out. I had something like that a while back. Using gnome-alsamixer solved my problem. -- Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Debian Backup ?

2004-04-07 Thread Patrick Beard
"Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi! Debian Users > > > How to make a hole Debian O/S backup if I don't have any Backup Device..? > > > > Best Regards, > Support Have a look at mkCDrec. I've used it to make a recovery disk of one of our webservers. http://m

Re: Help! update - upgrade Problem

2004-04-05 Thread Patrick Beard
> Thanks, Paddy, that did it for me, too. Out of curiosity (as a Debian > newbie) what had gone wrong with the package upgrade? > > Ollie Glad to help. I still class myself as a newbie to. It would appear to be a simple bug with the way the libxft-dev was built. If you noticed the line in the erro

Re: Help! update - upgrade Problem

2004-04-02 Thread Patrick Beard
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' > with > different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed I had the exact problem with this upgrade upgrade. What I did was to move Xft.h out of the way. Try this; cd /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/ mv Xf

Re: Kernel 2.6.3 i810fb Block Cursor

2004-03-19 Thread Patrick Beard
> video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:55,vsync1 > :50,vsync2:85,accel,mtrr Hi, I removed the accel option and this resolved the issue. Not sure why it never happend with lilo. -- Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Kernel 2.6.3 i810fb Block Cursor

2004-03-18 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, I've been using the i810fb in kernel 2.6.x with no problems on sarge. Below is the append line I used in Lilo; video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:55,vsync1 :50,vsync2:85,accel,mtrr (note: The hsync and vsync are not the actual values. I'm not at my system and can't r

Re: Exim

2004-03-11 Thread Patrick Beard
> I have just setup my new debian server. I m new in Debian and Exim. > > > How to configure exim only allow server ip and 192.168.0.2 to relay ? > > Need HELP You need to read the exim manual - see www.exim.org Assuming your using debian woody then this link should answer your question. http://

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-02-26 Thread Patrick Beard
> I'd greatly appreciate hearing about people's experiences of success with > Debian on Dell, and related advice, suggestions, and working > configurations. Thanks in advance. I use Debian Woody on a Dell PowerEdge at work. It came with RH which I duly removed. The Server is not running X and so t

Firebird+Flash+Esound - Arrrg!

2003-12-16 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, First, I'm running Debian Sarge with a custom 2.60-test9 kernel. I'm having real problems getting Firebird+Flash to work with esound. I use ICEWM and was happily using no sound server as I have no need for bell and whistles on events, and call me primitive, but I can only listen to one song or

Re: problems installing java

2003-12-02 Thread Patrick Beard
"Kristian Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I get 'java is /usr/bin/java'. > Which I assume is as it's supposed to be. > > I believe it's a case of bug #225423, > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225423 > Which has been taken care of. It's just not imp

Re: problems installing java

2003-12-02 Thread Patrick Beard
"Kristian Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that didn't help. What do you get back from 'type java' (remove quotes) at the command line? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: problems installing java

2003-12-01 Thread Patrick Beard
> > Strange that it works, actually, because it *is* a bug. Firebird > > simply crashes; others have had the same problem. I believe they've > > worked out a fix for it, but ... > > > > So, wonder how come it works for you? > > ... or why it doesn't work for me... Firebird needs jre1.4.2 or later.

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

2003-12-01 Thread Patrick Beard
"Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi list! > > I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with > mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed > (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line. > However... > After the installation

Patching Debian Kernel Source

2003-11-13 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, I have compiled the Kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 from testing. All is working well with the exception of my smartmedia. This is giving me a 'wrong fs type' 99 time out of 100 mounts. From what I've managed to find out 2.6 does FAT checking that 2.4 (my previous kernel) didn't. There appears to be

Email size - spamassassin (was All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin)

2003-10-28 Thread Patrick Beard
>The PDF email comes through with no SA tags header > and the pdf > is now inline ASCII. Neither of these two emails were tagged as spam (which > is correct). > I have tried setting report_safe to zero but no change. > Also I turned on debug, and its as if spamassassin doesn't see it - it logs > n

Re: All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

2003-10-28 Thread Patrick Beard
>>The 'doc' and jpg emails come through with the > > header tags and a > > 'doc' and jpg attachment.The PDF email comes through with no SA tags header > > and the pdf > > is now inline ASCII. Neither of these two emails were tagged as spam (which > > is correct). > > I have tried setting report_saf

All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

2003-10-28 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi I'm using Spamassassin with Exim on a Debian stable system. The version of SA is a backport from Debian Sid. Everything is working fine except inbound PDFs attachments appear to be defanged. When this happens there is also no SA tags in the header even though it is being handled by the SA-Exim r

RE: How to unsubscribe? (long)

2003-06-05 Thread Patrick Beard
>Could you post the full headers of a sample message you're receiving and >the unsubscribe message you sent? > >-- >Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sample Header; Received: from teamcard.scotcomms.co.uk ([x.x.x.x]) by mercury.scotcomms with SMTP (Microsoft Exchang

RE: How to unsubscribe?

2003-06-05 Thread Patrick Beard
>> four times now but after replying to the confirm message I get no response >> but >> the messages keep coming. >What's the first line of the headers look like? For me, it says >- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep - same here; - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again apologies to the list for the disclaimer

How to unsubscribe?

2003-06-05 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, I'm trying to unsubscribe this email address from this list because of my mail server adding the disclaimer. However all attempts to be removed have failed. I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] four times now but after replying to the confirm message I get no response but the messages keep coming. I sent

Modprobe errors after second kernel compile.

2003-06-03 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, I upgraded to kernel 2.4.19 to allow me to add the i810 framebuffer patch. everything went fine except I had missed the generic-scsi support and so my cdrw didn't work. I turned this option on and recompiled. This time when I went to install the resulting .deb I received a warning about install