Re: unsubcribe hrozengarden@ebdeep.to

2003-01-19 Thread Alberto Lohmann
You are obviously in trouble. This is not the first help you ask for, regarding this topic. Why don't you email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Good Luck! Alberto Lohmann On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 14:59, H.J.C. Rozengarden wrote: > > please unsubcribe me > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > the RPM format itself seems to have all the features of deb, It has most of them, although it's missing one or two. I'm reliably (I think) informed that it doesn't have diversions, for instance. The missing features probably wouldn

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-19 11:48]: >I know 'date' gives me exactly what I want but I cant figure out how to get >tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ... Basically, tar czf myFiles.`date`.tar.gz myfiles though that gets you whitespaces in the file

Re: Mouse / X problems UPDATE

2003-01-19 Thread Chris Owen
Hey, thanks Kent that's great. (I have been following the list, honest! Guess I missed that post though...) :-) Chris Kent West wrote: Chris Owen wrote: I have now found a solution for this mouse problem in X: it seems gpm was the problem. After uninstalling gpm, the PS/2 mouse now works

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Johannes Zarl
> #! /bin/sh > > # Backup entire 'myfiles/' directory, name it with the date. > > cd /usr/local/ > tar -czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/date myfiles man bash(1): Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command name. There are two forms: $(command) or

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
ate's default output isn't very good as a filename you probably want to specify the output format. I would use something like this: tar czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/`date '+%Y%m%d'`.tar.gz myfiles which would give you a file named 20030119.tar.gz. The reason I use year-month-day format

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to sarge, this seems to be the way to go, but I don't know the exact configuration of t

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > When I modprobe NVdriver, I get the following message: > > Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will > taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA > See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about > ta

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Alaa The Great
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:18:35 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > > the RPM format itself seems to have all the features of deb, > > It has most of them, although it's missing one or two. I'm reliably > (I think) informe

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 05:00, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:44:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > In other words, KDE is like Windows, because KDE is imitating > > Windows, and not vice versa. > > No, KDE is like CDE, not like Windows if we're going to make an > accurate compari

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:37:30PM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:18:35 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > > > the RPM format itself seems to have all the features of deb, > > > > It has most

Unidentified subject!

2003-01-19 Thread Frédéric Poulet
Yi, I would like install the last version of debian under promise PDC20276 but i can't do it !! I need help ! ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > No, KDE is like CDE, not like Windows if we're going to make an > > accurate comparison. > > I always wondered if there was a linkage there. > However, if at one time it was like CDE, it's not anymore. It looks > a *lot* like Window

Re: problem with tv card

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:18, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:44:27AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On 8 Jan 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > You have a PC dedicated to displaying TV > > > > Actually, a lot of people do. > > > > They're called TiVo's and ReplayTv's and Dishplaye

Re: gnome2 in sid

2003-01-19 Thread Robin Putters
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:01, Clemens Resanka wrote: > Hi, > > I can't get gnome2 to work in sid. > > I say > aptitude update > aptitude install gnome > > aptitude complains about missing libgnomeprint2-0 and > libgnomeprintui-0. > Unfortunately these packages do not exist! > This is probably

debian-newbe problems w. ssh & .profile

2003-01-19 Thread Oliver
Hi folks, I just installed debian, and that´s why I installed debian, makes me trouble now;) ! I have to setup ssh, to use it with the windows TTSSH client. This only understands ssh < 1.5, so I decided to use protocol 1. Also I have an old server, which also understands P1. I changed Protocol

Re: debian-newbe problems w. ssh & .profile

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:50:52PM +0100, Oliver wrote: > I have to setup ssh, to use it with the windows TTSSH client. This only > understands > ssh < 1.5, so I decided to use protocol 1. Also I have an old server, which > also understands > P1. > I changed Protocol (etc/ssh/sshd_config) to 1,2

Re: dependency problems

2003-01-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:46:11AM +, Dave Selby wrote: | I run debian woody, This same driver works flawlessly on redhat 7.2, | If I do the following on debian, it actually works but I have persistent | dependency issues which I cannot solve ?? | | My debian is standard, I have upgraded the

Pump and Kernel-2.4.20?

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
My DSL connection with iface eth0 inet dhcp works fine but every time I reboot the system I have to run pump to set the gateway. Something I read seemed to indicate that pump was needed with kernel-2.2.? but not with kernel-2.4.18. My system is Woody with kernel-2.4.18 so perhaps there is stil

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-01-19 Thread Craig Genner
Thanks for telling us you can't install debian 'under promise PDC20276'. Prehaps you could tell us why you can't (error messages, when it fails etc). Only then can some one try and help you. Craig On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 12:06 pm, Frédéric Poulet wrote: > Yi, > > I would like install the last versi

Re: debian-newbe problems w. ssh & .profile

2003-01-19 Thread B.
Hej Oliver! I'm a newbie in Debian, too, not in LinuX in general... At 13:50 19.01.2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi folks, I just installed debian, and that´s why I installed debian, makes me trouble now;) ! I have to setup ssh, to use it with the windows TTSSH client. This only understands ssh < 1

KDE, CDE & MS Windows

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 06:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > No, KDE is like CDE, not like Windows if we're going to make an > > > accurate comparison. > > > > I always wondered if there was a linkage there. > > However, if at one time it wa

Drivers for SCSI, IEEE 1394 and RAID.

2003-01-19 Thread Göran Emilsson
Hi,   I am thinking of switching OS to Linux and Debian. The problem is that I have some Hardware that I don’t have drivers for.   For now I have this and need drivers for them:   Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W PCI SCSI Controller Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A PCI IDE Controller Fire

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Alaa The Great
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:55:49 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No (unless you count the maintainer scripts), but diversions require > support from the package manager. There's no point diverting a file > off somewhere else if the package manager is just going to stomp on > it at t

Problem: kde and the HP DeskJet 940c printer

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I just stared using kde and cannot set up my HP DeskJet 940c printer. I have tried to post a question to a kde mailing list but there is such a profusion of kde mailing lists I'm not sure where my message went and where to find the answer. For the record, the printer works fine from a console u

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 05:30, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What > script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read > in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to > sarge, this seems to be

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 22:46, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > If your /etc/apt/preferences has > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > > > and unstable with a priority lower than 1000, then you must not have any > > packages from unstable. > > Well then, I guess I must hav

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem is that > you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have nvidia listed as the > driver in the X config file. Maybe try changing the Driver in X to > NVdriver to s

anacron/run-parts failing with defunct processes

2003-01-19 Thread W Klink
Recently, anacron has been hanging on one of my systems. It first happened over a month ago and I didn't notice until 'locate' warned me the database was over 7 days old and I saw 'run-parts /etc/cron.daily' was hung. I killed anacron and ran reran by hand with no problems. The next day, anacron h

Re: Drivers for SCSI, IEEE 1394 and RAID.

2003-01-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Göran Emilsson [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 02:14:36PM]: > I am thinking of switching OS to Linux and Debian. The problem is that I > have some Hardware that I don’t have drivers for. Did you ever look on the sites of particular projects or Dejanews? Does not look so. > For now I have this and

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:12:30AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I always wondered if there was a linkage there. However, if at one > > time it was like CDE, it's not anymore. It looks a *lot* like > > Windows to me... > > Well,

AGAINdebian-newbe problems w. ssh

2003-01-19 Thread Oliver
At 19.01.2003 13:05, you wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:50:52PM +0100, Oliver wrote: > I have to setup ssh, to use it with the windows TTSSH client. This only > understands > ssh < 1.5, so I decided to use protocol 1. Also I have an old server, which > also understands > P1. > I changed Proto

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Cam Ellison
* Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just got a new motherboard and cpu: asus a7n266-vm with amd xp 1800. I > currently having about 128MiB of DDRAM. In the bios I have set the agp > ram to 32MiB. The machine is currently running sarge. > > I have the same board, and ran into problems wit

Re: AGAINdebian-newbe problems w. ssh

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:09:49PM +0100, Oliver wrote: > At 19.01.2003 13:05, you wrote: > >'ssh-keygen -t rsa1' > > Thanks, I got my key, but now sshd is nagging! > > When I try to load /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > a. if it is set to r-- --- --- Could not load .. host_key > b. if it is set to rw- -

Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers

2003-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
Here is what I did : # Local end : cd ~/.ssh # Enter an empty password when prompted by the following command ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa scp id_dsa.pub remote.end.net:~/.ssh # Repeat last command for all remote ends # Remote ends cd ~/.ssh touch authorized_keys2 cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys

kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Hugh Saunders
ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill 1609 ?S 0:01 xine /dev/hdc 1610 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc 1618 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc 1619 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc 1620 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc tried kill 16[1234567890]* which returne

silent Kismet

2003-01-19 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, have been having problems getting kismet to play audio -this would be usefull so can have laptop closed and listen with headphones for available networks [ie walking through town] in my kismet.conf i have the lines: sound=true # Path to sound player soundplay=/usr/bin/wavp # Optional param

Re: Ethernet Adapter Configuration

2003-01-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Kevin" == Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Anybody have an answer for this one? Sorry for being Kevin> persistence, just can't work it out. Did you miss http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg03055.html or did it just not work out? Cheers! S

Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote username differs

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:34:44PM +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > Here is what I did : > > # Local end : > cd ~/.ssh > # Enter an empty password when prompted by the following command > ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa > scp id_dsa.pub remote.end.net:~/.ssh > # Repeat last command for all remote

installazione debian

2003-01-19 Thread Errore69
Ciao! avrei bisogno di un'aiuto per l'installazione di debian. Sto installando la 3.0, e sono riuscito a scavalcare la prima parte dell'installazione ma quando riavvio e parte il sistema, mi chiede di mettere l'ora legale e la città, fin qui tutto bene!!! ma quando arrivo a immettere la

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-19 Thread Achton N. Netherclift
At 17:45 18-01-2003 -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: Are you, by any chance, running a mixture of testing and unstable? It seems like you have sources for one version, and another version installed. Explicitly tell apt which version you want to install (or download and dpkg -i the right version). m

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:40:29PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > > 1609 ?S 0:01 xine /dev/hdc > 1610 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1618 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1619 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1620 ?

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Philipp Gruemmer
Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > [...snip...] > 2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression? Couldn't you simply use 'killall xine'? I don't see any need of using wildards... HTH Greetings, Philipp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: AGAINdebian-newbe problems w. ssh

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
[I would prefer it if you kept the conversation on the list, so that other people can help. Thanks.] On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:10:33PM +0100, Oliver wrote: > At 19.01.2003 15:29, you wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:09:49PM +0100, Oliver wrote: > >> When I try to load /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key >

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Dave W
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:56, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > NVDriver is the linux kernel module. nvidia is the X display driver. > I might be wrong (sure wouldn't be the first time) but I believe that starting with 4191, the module is called nvidia. Prior to 4191 the module was called NVdriver. I ha

dependancy not found (apt-get)

2003-01-19 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I am trying to use my apt preferences setup to install "straw" from unstable onto my stable system. Here is what I get : trillian:/etc/apt# apt-get install -t unstable straw python-gnome2 python2.2-gnome2 libnautilus2-2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done So

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Philipp Gruemmer
Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill [...snip...] > 2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression? Is there any reason not to use 'killall xine'? That's how I do it ususally... HTH Greetings, Philipp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia [solved]

2003-01-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:56:18AM -0500, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem > > is that you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have > > nvidia listed as

kernel-package problems

2003-01-19 Thread A. Loonstra
Well this thing really blew my spare Sunday... :( I'm trying to create a debian kernel package using make-kpkg. I can compile the kernel without using the debian tool. But since I like the package system I wanted to create a package of my custom kernel. But I'm not able to do so. I constantly g

user group

2003-01-19 Thread Mike Thompson
I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user in /etc/group. Is this group used for this purpose? -- Mike Thompson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers

2003-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:34:44PM +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > Please show the output of 'ssh -vvv -l differentusername > other.remote.end.net'. It works for me ... Actually, only one remote host exhibits the behavior. Other hosts work

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 15:40 Uhr + 19.01.2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill Possibly those are threads, not distinct processes. If this is the case (in case of threads ps aux reports the same amount of memory for each; only looking at the xine docs or source can

no xserver

2003-01-19 Thread anthony baldwin
t; tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ... > > > #! /bin/sh > > # Backup entire 'myfiles/' directory, name it with the date. > > cd /usr/local/ > tar -czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/date myfiles > > > I put this in /etc/cron.week

Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote username differs

2003-01-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
Make sure that the user's home dir on the remote host is not group writeable (and the .ssh subdir as well). sshd does some checks before using some files. Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers

2003-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 18:02, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Make sure that the user's home dir on the remote host is not group > writeable (and the .ssh subdir as well). sshd does some checks before > using some files. Yes, that was it. 'chmod 700 ~/.ssh' on the remote host solved the problem. Thanks

Re: kernel-headers & compiling source

2003-01-19 Thread David Z Maze
Jeff Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read through the kernel-header docs, & am still not sure I > understand what they are for. I assumed that they enable source to be > compiled when using a kernel-image. > > If this is correct, what is the procedure for compiling i2c-source or > lm-

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7

2003-01-19 Thread David Z Maze
Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No need to wait. I'm running kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 on my Athlon. You'll > only need kernel-headers if you plan on compiling software. ...where "software" specifically means "kernel modules". I suspect most people will never have a reason to insta

Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers

2003-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 18:04, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 18:02, Christian Jaeger wrote: > > Make sure that the user's home dir on the remote host is not group > > writeable (and the .ssh subdir as well). sshd does some checks before > > using some files. > > Yes, that was

Huge Memory Usage in X

2003-01-19 Thread Hesham Hassan
Hi, This is a copy of a message I sent to the X list but got no response to: I'm not sure if this is X related or not, however this seems to affect only X applications (so nothing on the console is out of the ordinary). I noticed the problems about one week ago after doing a standard upgrad (a

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > [...snip...] > > 2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression? > > Is there any reason not to use 'killall xine'? > That's how I do it

Re: user group

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:39:52AM -0800, Mike Thompson wrote: > I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user > in /etc/group. Is this group used for this purpose? I guess you mean 'users'. No. /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html in unstable says: users

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Dave Selby
On Sunday 19 January 2003 10:48 am, Dave Selby wrote: > Hi all ... > > I am writting a weekly automated backup script, very simple .. tars a > directory called 'myfiles' to a second hard drive. > > Works AOK except I want the name of the file written by tar to be the time > and date. So I get a lis

RE: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
[jeremy@MERCURY:pts/1:~]$ crontab -l 0 8 * * * /home/jeremy/bin/backupmail.sh [jeremy@MERCURY:pts/1:~]$ cat ~jeremy/bin/backupmail.sh #!/bin/bash FILENAME=/home/jeremy/backups/mail/`date -I`.tar cd ~jeremy/ /bin/tar -chf $FILENAME mail/* HTH, j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROT

Re: no xserver

2003-01-19 Thread Kent West
anthony baldwin wrote: I installed woody for the first time yetserday on a frankenstein box I made outta spare parts (It has run redhat). I had several issues, starts and restarts, but I finally got through the entire install and rebooted...and the xserver wouldn't start... Lots of possibiliti

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE > disks. > > I get mesages like: > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func. only: 14 > hdc: status error: status=0x5

Re: using modeplot to find an Xwindow setup

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:44:14AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > my matrox millennium card is driving a memorex telex (mfg july > 1993) monitor, for which i can't find any specs, even thru > google. > > i've tried 'get-edid' and it borked my system beyond all hope -- > a hardware reset was the onl

Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
Hi, Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. I then used apt-cdrom to add them all to /etc/apt/sources.list, and ran apt-get update. It g

Re: Drive errors

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:06:01AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I > just got the following message: > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > hda: timeout waiti

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:52:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > [1] Bicycle with cargo trailers can move anything. I've moved a sofa > and a fridge with them myself, though had to rent larger trailers. I've moved a fridge by strapping it on the carrier. This made the bike possible to ride, but im

Re: Changeover of SCSI buses

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:40:23PM +, Phil Reynolds wrote: > I have been using Debian for some time now, and over that time have acquired > several new items of hardware. > > I have a CD writer, which is IDE, and therefore needs SCSI emulation. This > was always device 0,1,0 when specifed to c

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > > [...snip...] > > > 2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression? > > > > Is there any

amavis finds virus though there is none

2003-01-19 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, it seems that I've managed to successfully install amavis (amavisd-snapshot-20020300) on my mailserver, using f-prot as virus-scanner :) But in the first testmail with an attachment I've sent, amavis reported to have found a virus. The attachment was the file amavisd-new-20021227-p2.tar.gz, a

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How would you produce this list? Jor-el wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: Hugh Saunders wrote: ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill [...snip...] 2) how do i get kill

Re: no xserver

2003-01-19 Thread Seneca
[please don't quote the entire digest at the end of your message] On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:49:18AM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: > I installed woody for the first time yetserday on a frankenstein box I > made outta spare parts (It has run redhat). > I had several issues, starts and restarts, but

Re: dependancy not found (apt-get)

2003-01-19 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:18:53AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > I am trying to use my apt preferences setup to install "straw" > from unstable onto my stable system. Here is what I get : [...] > trillian:/etc/apt# apt-get install -t unstable straw python-gnome2 > python2.2-gnome2 libnautilus2-2 lib

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Jan Trippler
On Son, 19 Jan 2003 at 15:40 (+), Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > > 1609 ?S 0:01 xine /dev/hdc > 1610 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1618 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1619 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1620 ?

Re: dependancy not found (apt-get)

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:44:56PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > It's interesting... I run unstable, and apt can't find > libgnome-desktop-0, but its dependancies are listed at > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libgnome-desktop-0.html and > it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else... It looks like

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. > I then used apt-cdrom to add them all

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Al Davis
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for > > my IDE disks. On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: > If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset > support is included in the kernel

Re: installation date

2003-01-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Carlos Sousa wrote: > I don't know of any simple way to get that info from the package > management system, but, using an idea that came up on this list > a few months ago, I have made a little script run by cron every > day that generates a list of all installed packages, compares > with the list

source files

2003-01-19 Thread raymond
Hello I try to find the source code of the kernels, I need it do compile a driver I don't know where to find it Thanks for your help Raymond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation date

2003-01-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya carlos On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > I don't know of any simple way to get that info from the package > > management system, but, using an idea that came up on this list > > a few months ago, I have made a little script run by cron every > > da

RE: source files

2003-01-19 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
For 2.2 kernels: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ For 2.4 kernels: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday,

Detecting the fysical mouse URGENT

2003-01-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody, As some of you allready knows I've got many problems to get an USB mouse working (I only have that USB mouse) I allready posted this before but I got not even one reply on it so I think most of you must have missed it or something. I'm kind of sure The mouse is not at all found be

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-19 Thread Joris Huizer
> > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these > levels that all of

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:42, Al Davis wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay > wrote: > > > I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for > > > my IDE disks. > > On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: > > If you have a VIA chipset try making

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Donald Spoon
Al Davis wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset support is included in t

Re: user group

2003-01-19 Thread Michael J. Denton
> I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user > in /etc/group. Is this group used for this purpose? Yes and No :) By default users are created with shell access. I would suggest that when you create the new userid as a member of the user group you change the shell of

Re: source files

2003-01-19 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello > I try to find the source code of the kernels, I need it do compile a driver > I don't know where to find it > Thanks for your help either apt-cache search kernel-source then apt-get which one you want, or ftp..kernel.org wo

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Al Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay > wrote: > > > I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for > > > my IDE disks. > > On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: > > If you have a VIA chipse

Re: Drive errors

2003-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 23:42, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:06:01AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I > > just got the following message: > > > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > > hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { Dri

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote: > > > > the RPM format itself seems to have all the features of deb, > > It has most of them, although it's missing one or two. I'm reliably (I > think) informed that it doesn't have diversions, for instance. I

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, 1st, do you know which chipset the A7V266-D runs? > Btw, the ASUS web site only mentions the A7V266-C. > http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v266-c/overview.htm Try this url for the dual model. (D is for dual.) http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7m266-d/overview.htm Bob

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 23:31, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:52:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > [1] Bicycle with cargo trailers can move anything. I've moved a sofa > > and a fridge with them myself, though had to rent larger trailers. > > I've moved a fridge by strapping it on the

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Topa wrote: > Al Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > How do I find out? > > I am using the one on the woody bf2.4 cd. > > lspci will show if you have VIA and > > grep VIA /usr/src/linux/.config will show if you have enabled it. If you are using the bf24 kernel then the c

Re: AGAINdebian-newbe problems w. ssh

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Oliver wrote: > >> I got the message ...: sshd Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > >> Disabling protocol version1 > >> > >> Could anybody point me how to make a protocol 1 key ? > > > >'ssh-keygen -t rsa1' The error message sounds to me like either an 'rsa' or a 'dsa' key is in the fi

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How would you produce this list? > > Jor-el wrote: > > >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hugh Saunders wrote: > >>> > >>> > ps

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia [solved]

2003-01-19 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 19-01-2003, om 17:33 schreef Sridhar M.A.: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:56:18AM -0500, Ian D. Stewart wrote: >> On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem >> > is that you are loading a

Re: kernel-headers & compiling source

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:25:12PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Jeff Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have read through the kernel-header docs, & am still not sure I > > understand what they are for. I assumed that they enable source to be > > compiled when using a kernel-image. > > > > If

can´t install debian on power mac G4

2003-01-19 Thread SALEH ABUZID
when i start partition the hard disk i get a massage (no hard disk found) ,how should i solve this problem have been trying for many days and ican´t mange this ! Help please Thank u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

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