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2002-11-18 Thread Michael Hothorn
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Re: XFree 4.2.1 and Radeon 9000 hickups.

2002-11-18 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Russell, I went to the DRI project & added that to my apt list, grabed & installed them & have not looked back. Give it a try man! *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Support your local Search and Rescue unit -- get lost! Russell Neches wrote: Interesting. I'm able to start XFree86 this way,

Gnome freezes on initial splash screen

2002-11-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, I'm using unstable and did a fresh upgrade. Gnome2 won't work now. When I log in from gdm, the gnome splash screen opens, but nothing prints on the bottom of it, as it used to. It then stays frozen forever. I think this is related to gconf, but I'm not sure at all... Where should I look t

Re: Gnome freezes on initial splash screen

2002-11-18 Thread Cristi Banciu
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 10:11, franck routier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using unstable and did a fresh upgrade. > > Gnome2 won't work now. When I log in from gdm, the gnome splash screen > opens, but nothing prints on the bottom of it, as it used to. It then > stays frozen forever. > > I think this i

Re: Gnome freezes on initial splash screen

2002-11-18 Thread franck routier
Cristi Banciu wrote: Gnome2 in Sid is not starting anymore due to a bug in the latest bonobo packages. To fix, downgrade the following packages: bonobo-activation libbonobo-activation-dev libbonobo-activation4. The packages are in /var/cache/apt/archives/ or at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/m

Re: postgresql problem in woody and sid

2002-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 02:31, marco wrote: > I cannot get postgresql to install : > > Here is the error message: > > Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/lib/postgres/data > su - postgres -c cd /var/lib/postgres; . ./.bash_profile; LANG=C initdb > --encoding UNICODE --pgdata /var/

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-18 Thread Kai Großjohann
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a tool i can use as a DHCP client, which does everything > a regular DHCP client does, except for actual interface configuration? > In fact, I would love it to simply call a shell script whenever it > obtains a lease, or even better, whenever

apt-get dist-upgrade cron job

2002-11-18 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hello, how do I set up a cron job that runs "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade -yu" at 6 AM everyday and have all the upgraded result sent to me ? I already have exim setup to send mail , I just don't know how to write the cron job and use cron ... tia tvn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

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Re: Partition size mismatch

2002-11-18 Thread Q. Gong
It seems that your file system is smaller than the partition. You can enlarge or shrink the ext2 file system by resize2fs. Qian On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jason Bleazard wrote: > I'm trying to track down why my /var partition is only mounting as half > the size as reported by fdisk or parted. I'd app

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2002-11-18 Thread Vliet, Lourens van der
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CUPS broken (as in printing, not coffee !)

2002-11-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, Another problem after a Sid upgrade. CUPS dosn't print anymore. Symptoms are : - printing from OpenOffice on wakes up the printer (some noise) but nothing prints. Not job in CUPS web admin. - 'lp file.txt' from a terminal give a job, but is marked 'aborted' in CUPS console - printing from

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1001 +0100]: > The normal dhcp-client package includes a script /etc/dhclient-script > which is invoked to do all the work. It provides hooks. And also, > you can of course replace the file with your own. But dhcp-client requires an inte

Re: Status of XFS

2002-11-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
I don't know what's the status, but I'm working on it for 2 years now (including all my client's production servers) and I never had a problem with it. my woody is now installed from the xfs installation cd which uses that kernel patch. On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 03:14, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone u

Postfix + SASL2

2002-11-18 Thread Jan Tomasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm having troubles to upgrade from SASL1 to SASL2 on my unstable Debian box. After upgrade SASL authorization stoped working, it is more than month or so, now I really need it working again. main.cf: smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc

Solved (I think) : Resetting Cron

2002-11-18 Thread Tim Barker
Many, many, many thanks. One step further on the ladder of knowledge. I've reset crontab as you suggested and sure enough the /var/spool/cron/* file changed (and it did have the problem code in it). Hopefully it will now work but won't be too long before I found out. For some reason reload, stop a

Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi yall, sometimes I read the howto's & they make sense & sometimes they don't Well, I tried to change them in the KDE file manager & Midnight Commander (God I love MC!), as root & it said I could not; insufficient permission! Hmmm. So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with

Missing base-*.bin files ?

2002-11-18 Thread pd3
Hello everyone. Planning to install debian to a machine at work in a day or two. Downloaded debian-30r0-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso from ftp.fi.debian.org. Expected to find base-*.bin files in /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44. They were not. Just wondering whether this will

XFCE questions and some thoughts about window managers..

2002-11-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi first the questions... I've been using solaris on my desktop for the past year+ so, I don't know if the problems I'm having with xfce are common or are they just my problems: 1. windows without borders and titles (e.g. gqmpeg, xmms etc...) can't be moved while they are iconified.

using ssh to tunnel a ftp connection

2002-11-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i have a problem using ssh to tunnel ftp. I tried using it from a winbox to connect to a linux server running sshd en wu-ftpd. When i use the SSH Secure Shell Client program to connect to the server and setup a tunnel, i can then succesfully use smartftp to connect to localhost and have tha

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade cron job

2002-11-18 Thread pd3
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:11:42AM -0500, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > Hello, how do I set up a cron job that runs "apt-get update; apt-get > dist-upgrade -yu" at 6 AM everyday and have all the upgraded result sent > to me ? I already have exim setup to send mail , I just don't know how > to write the

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1110 +0100]: > So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with various > sub-directories & I wanna access then as a plain user. show me the `ls -ld ` on that directory. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Agh, I am going crazy here. Going very basic now and still can't seem to be able to use ldapadd like the documentation suggests. Here is what I have just tried. 1. Stopped slapd: /etc/init.d/slapd stop 2. Removed all files in /var/lib/ldap/ rm /var/lib/ldap/* 3. Created a /etc/ldap/sla

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade cron job

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:11:42AM -0500, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > Hello, how do I set up a cron job that runs "apt-get update; apt-get > dist-upgrade -yu" at 6 AM everyday and have all the upgraded result sent > to me ? I already have exim setup to send mail , I just don't know how > to write the

Re: Gnome freezes on initial splash screen

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:39:32AM +0100, franck routier wrote: > (I just had to reboot after downgrading those packages). I doubt that very much. If you have to reboot for a non-kernel and non-init program to work, it's a bug. Maybe you just needed to kill bonobo or gconf or something? -rob

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread pd3
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:10:36PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with various > sub-directories & I wanna access then as a plain user. > > Um, like what is the syntax dude/dudette? Hello I would first make some changes to /etc/fst

package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread Liudmila Yafremava
Hi! When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list of packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not install for one reason or another, is it possible to display that list of packages in t

Re: Debian3.0, Win2000 and LILO problem

2002-11-18 Thread Jan Krupa
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > Jan Krupa told: > > > > > Thanks for answer. > > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > Hi Jan, > > > > > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of > > > Jan Krupa told

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:51:09AM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list > of packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already > installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not > install for one

Re: german isp's

2002-11-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 09:02 2002-11-14 +0100 hat Jörg Johannes geschrieben: I use freenet in germany like you seee in my E-Mail... You can use the pop3 and smpt (asmtp) worldwide... Michelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

2002-11-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 17:44 2002-11-15 + hat Pigeon geschrieben: > >On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:05:11 +, Glyn Kennington ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >couldn't run tar & gzip, I had to unpack it with WinZip on my Windoze ^^

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup

2002-11-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 01:19 2002-11-17 +1100 hat Russell geschrieben: > >Thomas H. George,,, wrote: >> Would someone please point out what I have been too blind to see. > >I have an /etc/modules. It is meant to be hand-edited, and is loaded >at boot time. Type 'modconf' at the prompt... michelle -- To

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-18 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17-11-2002 15:20]: > I'm reading a bunch of records inot myy system using the great gramofile > package. I'm converting these .wav files to .mp3's (or maybe .ogg's) but I > wonder if it's possible to go the other way? You can create wavs to burn to cd from mp3 or ogg bu

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Martin, here is a wee screen dump haralambos:/Hellene# cd Stuff haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 38 root root24576 Aug 12 21:09 . haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# Must crash-it is late on this side of the planet. :-) *BFN* H :-) Seen in a watch shop: PL

locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
my laptop harddrive makes a sound similar to drive access without a lot of head movement every 5.5 seconds, lasting for 1.2 seconds each. this is independent of noflushd running or not. i would be interested to find out what's causing this. how to go about it? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMA

Removing kde packages

2002-11-18 Thread lostbear
Hi,da I tried removing some packages of kde that I don't want on my system.dalike kab and karm. However dpkg --purge tells me that there is daa dependency problem. apt-get remove kab shows that it is removing kde too.daapt-cache kde shows that it is a meta package containing dependencies.dada

Re: Packet Writing

2002-11-18 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:47, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:22:10AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Hi > > Anyone out there had experience doing packet writing on CD-R or CD-RW > > using cdrecord or udftools. > > > > Been reeading lots but need some pointers to start. > > Haven't done it m

Re: Postfix + SASL2

2002-11-18 Thread Jan Tomasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I will answer to myself :( It looks that postfix-tls (in unstable) is little bit fucked. Workarround is to use http://only.mawhrin.net/~mss/thingies/pam-realm/. /etc/pam.d/smtpd should be named /etc/pam.d/smtp and contain this: auth requisi

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade cron job

2002-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ThanhVu Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, how do I set up a cron job that runs "apt-get update; apt-get > dist-upgrade -yu" at 6 AM everyday and have all the upgraded result sent > to me ? I already have exim setup to send mail , I just don't know how > to write the cron job and use cro

Re: Callback ppp

2002-11-18 Thread Vittorio
Alexey Chetroi [debian-user] <17/11/02 12:02 +0200>: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:01:23AM +, Vittorio wrote: > > Alexey Chetroi [debian-user] <15/11/02 10:21 +0200>: > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:45:16PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > > > > > > > At work they've installed a callback RAS. > > >

Sorry

2002-11-18 Thread lostbear
Hi, I apologize for my ill formatted mail that I sent earlier. I don't know why it why it turned out like that when using lynx to logon on softhome. My post again I tried removing some packages of kde that I don't want on my system. like kab and karm. However dpkg --purge tells me that there

Apt-get Info meeded...

2002-11-18 Thread Larry Shields
I seem to be having a problem now with APT-GET!... When I now run apt-get update then upgrade, I get his: Dynamic MMap ran out of room... Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/stats The package list or status file could not be, parsed or open...??? Can anyone explain to me what is needed to c

Re: Removing kde packages

2002-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:37:02AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi,da I tried removing some packages of kde that I don't want on my > system.dalike kab and karm. However dpkg --purge tells me that there is daa > dependency problem. apt-get remove kab shows that it is removing kde > too.da

Re: ide-scsi emulation fails due to missing module sr_mod in kernel2.4.18-bf2.4

2002-11-18 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Rauch wrote: > hi, > > i recently replaced the SuSE installation on my desktop with > debian/woody. now i have some troubles getting my IDE cd-burner > (alias hdd) working. after reading the CD-WRITING-HOWTO and googling > around for some time i figured that the module sr_mod (afaik SCSI

fonts.alias file

2002-11-18 Thread Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva
Hi, I am using debian testing. I have installed msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfonts-conf file to use truetype fonts.I have noticed that the fonts.alias file in /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfonts-conf/dirs/TrueType is not being generated by x-ttcidfonts-conf package. Actually it ends up always empty. Therefor

Re: using ssh to tunnel a ftp connection

2002-11-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:20:01AM +, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have a problem using ssh to tunnel ftp. I tried using it from a > winbox to connect to a linux server running sshd en wu-ftpd. Wouldn't using lftp with the fish protocol eliminate the need of a ssh-tunnel? lftp fish:[

Re: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 November 2002 11:27, martin f krafft wrote: > my laptop harddrive makes a sound similar to drive access without > a lot of head movement every 5.5 seconds, lasting for 1.2 seconds > each. this is independent of noflushd running or not. i would be > interested to find out what's causing

HELP - upt-get dist-upgrade doen't work

2002-11-18 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Hi all, Just installed xfce and removed it. Installed kdm. Changed from gdm to kdm as default. Believed, I did nothing special. To my surprise I can not run my excecutable programs written with Qt! Is kdm the source of the problem? I did this: -apt-get update -apt-get -f install : this did not

HELP - upt-get dist-upgrade doen't work

2002-11-18 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Additional info: I cannot compile my progs written in Qt either. Help help Setyo Nugroho --- Hi all, Just installed xfce and removed it. Installed kdm. Changed from gdm to kdm as default. Believed, I did nothing special. To my surprise I can not run my excecutable programs wr

ld and g2c

2002-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi All, Whereas `g++' can find the library `g2c', ld cannot: why ? did I miss something ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1314 +0100]: > Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code > that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds. In fact, I am. Thanks. On another day I might have figured that out myself ;^> This is annoying... -- .

why does it look at xdm and kdm while shutting down?

2002-11-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all my inittab sets the runlevel to 2. in /etc/rc2.d, there were links referring to files in /etc/init.d directory. i did not want xdm, kdm, gdm to start. so i changed the link names from SnnProgram to KnnProgram for these links. however, while shutting down, it still looks for xdm, kdm,

xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Hello, I've just tried to view the PDF at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the rest. I left it running for a couple of minutes before ki

HELP - upt-get dist-upgrade doen't work

2002-11-18 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Additional info: I cannot compile my progs written in Qt either. Help help Setyo Nugroho --- Hi all, Just installed xfce and removed it. Installed kdm. Changed from gdm to kdm as default. Believed, I did nothing special. To my surprise I can not run my excecutable programs wr

Re: XFCE questions and some thoughts about window managers..

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
This might be better sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the XFce user list. Go to http://moongroup.com/mailman/listinfo/xfce for more info. On 18 Nov 2002 at 12:10pm, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: [...] :As for the thoughts... (not meaning to start a flame war) : :It seems that all the modern window managers

Re: using ssh to tunnel a ftp connection

2002-11-18 Thread ninewands
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 06:19, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:20:01AM +, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i have a problem using ssh to tunnel ftp. I tried using it from a > > winbox to connect to a linux server running sshd en wu-ftpd. > > Wouldn't using lftp with the

hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Sorry for starting a new thread, but I was getting lost in the other about hdparm since it started out as about KDE. On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:03:16PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > # hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount= 16 (on) > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq= 1 (o

Re: XFCE questions and some thoughts about window managers..

2002-11-18 Thread haim
> This might be better sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the XFce user list. Go > to I'm not trying to solve it yet... I was wondering if I was the only one with that problem (because it happened to me on 2 different machines - although both of them had exacly the same card). > > http://moongroup.com/ma

Re: SVG-based presentation program?

2002-11-18 Thread Jens Grivolla
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Jens" == Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens> Hi, I am looking for a good presentation program (something like > Jens> PowerPoint) for Linux. > > There are several packages for making nice slides with LaTeX. The best > one I've seen so

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Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1219 +0100]: > > haralambos:/Hellene# cd Stuff > haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# ls -ld > drwxr-xr-x 38 root root24576 Aug 12 21:09 . > haralambos:/Hellene/Stuff# > so /Hellene is a VFAT partition? can you give me *

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
[...] > Now the kernel I am using I compiled myself and I selected to use DMA > when available. Here is part of the kernel config: > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y > CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PC

Re: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 November 2002 12:49, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1314 +0100]: > > Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code > > that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds. > > In fact, I am. Thanks. On another day I

ftp through firewall

2002-11-18 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Woody last week and experience problems to ftp through our organization's firewall. Inside the firewall there is no problem at all. Is there anyone who can help? Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: HELP - apt-get - sorry

2002-11-18 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Hi, I apologize for sending you previously these mails *inadvertently*, i.e. two mails, each three times. I am really ashamed of it. Am still trying to fix the problem. the ~/.profile file has disappeared. How to obtain the old file showing path configuration etc? Any help would highly be

Re: XFCE questions and some thoughts about window managers..

2002-11-18 Thread Jörg Johannes
Haim Ashkenazi schrieb: >I ALWAYS remove the taskbar... but can you iconify windows to the >desktop? > Yes you can, but I'm not sure if you can move them to the place you want, they start somewhere top left and add up to a list. joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-18 Thread Stéphane
Le Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:06:28 -0900 Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > I didnt realise photopaint was open source, will have to have a > > look at that, how does it compare to gimp? > > It is not Open Source, hence the EULA, and it runs on a Corel > version of Wine. It is a bitmap editor

Re: ftp through firewall

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:01:51PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: > I installed Woody last week and experience problems to ftp through our > organization's firewall. Inside the firewall there is no problem at all. > > Is there anyone who can help? You need to tell your FTP client to use 'passi

Train simulator

2002-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I got really addicted to Microsoft Train Simulator on my roommate's box, and I'm wondering if anybody's had any success in either getting VMWare to use the full capabilities of my graphics adapter, or got it to run under Wine. If there's an open source equivi

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 14:46:27 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > [...] > > > Now the kernel I am using I compiled myself and I selected to use DMA > > when available. Here is part of the kernel config: > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y > > CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > >

Re: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Nov 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote: > Hello, > I've just tried to view the PDF at > http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) > with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. > top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the > rest.

CartoonOrbit Frequently Asked Questions

2002-11-18 Thread CartoonOrbit
Dear Orbiter, Thanks for writing us! We try to read every letter we receive, but unfortunately, we don't have enough time to respond to all of them. We appreciate any suggestions you have on how to improve Cartoon Orbit, so keep 'em coming. In the meantime, here are some answers to questions we

rebuild mozilla on debian woody

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I'd like to rebuild mozilla .deb package in debian woody. I tried to use apt-build as the following command: $apt-build --rebuild --build-only --reinstall install mozilla then I got the error msg: cd build-tree/mozilla && autoconf && \ OS_LIBS="-lc -lpthread" CC=gcc CXX=g++ \ ./conf

RE: ftp through firewall

2002-11-18 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
If your firewall runs linux 2.4, do # modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp on the firewall. Provided your ruleset includes to accept RELATED packets in the FORWARD chain, ftp will go through just fine. Vincent > -Original Message- > From: Johan van der Walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mond

Re: Various Questions

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:56:05PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > Just a few questions: > 1) Whenever I restart my system. My /tmp dir is cleared. Is there a way > to stop this from happening so that tmpreaper will deal with it. honestly i think the best course is to not leave anything impo

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup - THANKS

2002-11-18 Thread Stéphane
Le Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:36:31 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > After this insmod NVdrivers worked > but I had to run it after each bootup and then restart xdm. If I > missed something in this sequence I would appreciate knowing what I > should have done. I don't know if we m

RE: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Kahle
> Hello, > I've just tried to view the PDF at > http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) > with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. > top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the > rest. I left it running for a couple of minut

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, mdevin wrote: > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.46 seconds =278.26 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 16.12 seconds = 3.97 MB/sec > > Thus all the same as before whether turned on or off. I also tried > setting Mult

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:41:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >/dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 vfatdefaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 not to be picky, but just to point it out, having sub-directories in /mnt is non-standard (well, to most linuces/unices, redhat seems to have oth

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:11:56PM -0800, nate wrote: | mdevin said: | | > Can you spell that out even more for this ldap newbie? | > In my slapd.conf I do have the following: | > rootdn "cn=admin,dc=mycompany,dc=com" | > rootpw {SSHA}JuaWFhw+AXDgppTgOJPtpZARL1PpWRoj | | | you

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
hiya, dselect is the program you're probably thinking of. as a piece of advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds of wacky situations with your system. if you're looking for packages that do specific th

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
[...] > # hdparm /dev/hda > /dev/hda: > multcount= 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 0 (off) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead= 8 (on) > geometry = 77545/16/63, se

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, mdevin wrote: > So are the read times as expected for an IDE ATA133, 7200RPM, 40GB drive? > This is one of the faster IDE drives now isn't it? What does hdparm -i /dev/hda say? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Windows modem and Debian

2002-11-18 Thread Barry Cugley
I have just had Debian V3 installed as a dual boot system along with apre-existing Windows 98 OS. Both operating systems work fine. However,Debian is unable to do anything with the Windows modem on my system and so Icannot access the internet via Linux.Can anyone direct me to a software solu

Re: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Michael Kahle wrote: > I downloaded the file locally, opened it with xpdf. > On page 12 it did take longer to show up than other pages, however it > only took about 2.6sec to display. The other pages about .3sec. > I used a stopwatch, so results are not exact. > > My system is a Xeon 933, 758MB.

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | That's Phase-II of this project... ;) I think it would be good for him to | see that to burn his CD he can just move files via samba to the Linux | machine and run a single command or shell script. That's easy to do. Another altern

Re: realaudio on xmms

2002-11-18 Thread suresh kumar sharma
thanks Derrick and a little more clarification you mean I have to install realplayer. and how do I choose the right output method. "namely choosing the right output method" thanks --- Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:43:21AM -0800, suresh > kumar shar

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 15 November 2002 15:25, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms? > > If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywhere, > > if not, I think there is an even more severe bug out there. > > I

Re: why does it look at xdm and kdm while shutting down?

2002-11-18 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2002-11-18 um 13.52 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: > hello all > > my inittab sets the runlevel to 2. > > in /etc/rc2.d, there were links referring to files in /etc/init.d > directory. > > i did not want xdm, kdm, gdm to start. so i changed the link names from > SnnProgram to KnnProgram for

capturing X to video

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian

Re: SVG-based presentation program?

2002-11-18 Thread Mark Copper
Since you're already familiar w/ Latex, why not use latex2html or tex4ht to create hypertext presentations. So flexible and open. Easy to modify to slides doc class and at least w/ former program, the same doc can be latexed. MC On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking

Re: Directory permissions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
> of time, i'd put it somewhere like /windows or /usr/local/win or > something. /windows? that's a direct violation of the FHS. just being picky as you were. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have

Re: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1447 +0100]: > There is some work being done (by Andrew Morton I think) to get around > this problem, but generally using a journaling file system on a laptop > is a Bad Idea (TM). I think some of what he has been doing appears in > 2.4.

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:26:22 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:11:56PM -0800, nate wrote: > | mdevin said: > | > | > Can you spell that out even more for this ldap newbie? > | > In my slapd.conf I do have the following: > | > rootdn "cn=admin,dc=mycompan

pptpd and MPPE encrypt

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I installed pptpd 1.1.2-1.2 on Woody and patched the linux kernel as well as pptpd to support MPPE encryption. The following is my pptpd-options file: home:/home/pahud# grep -v ^# /etc/ppp/pptpd-options | grep -v ^$ debug name pptp domain ezplay.tv auth -chap -chapms +chapms-v2 mppe

Re: Various Questions

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1556 +0100]: > honestly i think the best course is to not leave anything important > in /tmp, because /tmp is for temporary files and really ought to > be cleaned every boot. however, if you want to override this, the > actual call to rm /tm

Re: package list screen at installation

2002-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1616 +0100]: > dselect is the program you're probably thinking of. as a piece of > advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real > easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds > of wacky situations

bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, Is there any reason to stick with bind8 other then convenience? I'm asking this because bind9 seems pretty mature, but the default bind is still bind8 I think... grts Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Ulla Russell
Hello Disaster has struck and I need some help. I was experimenting with hdparm for the first time and managed to freeze my system - I was in X at the time. I was unable to get back to the console - tried ^alt-backspace, and ^alt-f1... no joy. In the end I had to just switched off the machine.

traffic shaping scripts

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there any good traffic shaping scripts that control both inbound and outbound traffic? I tried "shaper" in debian, but it only support outbound traffic shaping. Any suggestion highly welcome. -- Patrick Hsieh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Pubilc Key at http://www.ezplay.tv/~pahud/pa

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