Re: help with playing a midi file

* Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030322 21:55 PST]: > JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > > >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:18:32 -0700 > > Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have > >>a number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarde

Re: help with playing a midi file

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 00:43, Paul Scott wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > >On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > >>My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a > >>number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like > >>they ar

ECS K7SEM(SIS7018/Trident/Realtek ALC101_AC97_Codec) Soundcard problems

I can not get the sound chip on my motherboard to work. I can modprobe ac_97codec and it will install the correct drivers(sound sound-core trident).  However, no sound comes out the speakers.  I have also tried using ALSA.  Still no sound.  Everytime I boot in to KDE, it says CPU overload Ar

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 00:35, Carl Fink wrote: > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum > Got a $1,000,000,000 do

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Hi, trying to add ldap support to php4, i installed php4-ldap via apt-get. However, starting apache gives me: Reloading apache modulesPHP Warning: ldap: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with module API=20010901, debug=0, thread-safety=0 PHPcompiled with module API=20020429, debug=0,

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How do I expunge OpenOffice.org totally from my system? I want to install Star Office 6, which I have on CD. I am using Libranet 2.7, which I believe is 100% compatible with Debian 3. Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

sshd: Did not receive identification string

Hello What does this log entry mean? Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11 Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11 That some *** tried to login twice and did not make it, or was it just a portsc

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Hello, I added a cdrom drive to my system today, and I think I might have started up with one of my ide cables loose, such that it fell out while the system was running. That ide cable went to the second hard disk in a linear raid array, and now whenever I start linux up I get: md: autorun ... md:

Re: help with playing a midi file

Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 00:43, Paul Scott wrote: Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like

Re: help with playing a midi file

Oops! I didn't send this to the list. Vineet Kumar wrote: * Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030322 21:55 PST]: I'm not finding a direct way to play a wav and I don't have any mp3's or /usr/bin/play, from the sox package, is a simple command-line audio (.au or .wav) player. From your soun

Re: sshd: Did not receive identification string

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, mike wrote: > Hello > > What does this log entry mean? > > Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from > 218.53.214.11 > Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from > 218.53.214.11 This is basically someone conne

Re: sshd: Did not receive identification string

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:11:52AM +0100, mike wrote: > Hello > > What does this log entry mean? > > Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from > 218.53.214.11 > Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from > 218.53.214.11 > > That

dnsmasq problems

Hi, Have set up my linux box to do ip masquerading for a few XP boxes on my network. I am using dhcp and dnsmasq to serve all the client machines. The problem I am having is the XP boxes can resolve external ips and hostnames from dhcp registerd clients but hosts listed in /etc/hosts on the namese

Expunge OpenOffice.org?

Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to make sure that all the bits and bobs from OpenOffice.org are removed, so that there i

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

> Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems > and Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based > systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian package > system, but want to make sure that all the bits and bobs from > OpenOffice.org are removed, so t

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

Brian, > removed, so that there is no hindrance to installing Star Office 6. I > don't know if it is enough to just remove the .deb package. A few commands that are helpful here: # dpkg -l | grep openoffice (will show you anything in the Debian database that has the name openoffice) # dpkg -L

Re: Official Exim 4 package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Just a quick interjection - the situation would appear comparable to > that of Bind (version 8) and Bind9 (not version 8) - a relatively clear > and apparently broadly accepted solution t

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:00:47AM -0700, Blake Covarrubias wrote: > When Sarge (Testing) becomes stable, then Sid (unstable) will move to > Testing, and a new unstable branch will emerge. I thought it forked the other way...a new testing branch goes

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? Fast or right: Pick one. If you don't like right, switch to fast by ad

Unknown ports?

Hey there all, I just scanned my system and found this: 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 32776/tcp opensometimes-rpc15 I was just wondering if someone could tell me what this is. I have never seen this before, and I have not installed any new services. thanks lucas - E

output of a2ps

sometimes, a2ps will output to stdout, other times it will send the output directly to the default printer (even without -d). how can i control this. i'd like to make a2ps send to stdout at all times, unless, of course, the -d option is given. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read

Re: Root login to Windows X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:33PM -0700, Francisco Castellon wrote: > I just finished installing my first Debian system and I seem to not be > able to log on to Windows X using the root account, I can easily log in > with any other account though. I h

Re: Unknown ports?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:46:49PM +1100, lucas wrote: > 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 > 32776/tcp opensometimes-rpc15 > > I was just wondering if someone could tell me what this is. I have never > seen this before, and I have not ins

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:15:45PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > --Hey guys, I'm writing this from within lynx because I tried > upgrading to sid via your suggestions, but I met dependency hell and > couldn't restart X. So I tried going back to wo

Transferring Digital Camera Images

I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so the images may be copied to the computer's hard drive. Naturally, I would prefer to do thi

incoming hangs?

Hi, just curious: is incoming.debian.org hanging since a few days? It's getting big and bigger and apt-get upgrade says I should relax a little ;-) Cheers, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and > Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. Actually, this isn't information we need. User

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

Hi Paul! On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? > > Fast or right: Pick one. If you don't like right, switc

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

Sharninder writes: > try dpkg -L .. this will give u a list of all the files > installed by the package. then remove the package using apt-get remove > package. Use 'apt-get purge ' to remove all files. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBS

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

#include * nate [Sat, Mar 22 2003, 09:06:57AM]: > probably one of the best measures of when it will become stable > is keep tabs on the status of the new debian installer and boot > floppies. That's traditionally been the holdup. And if you have > resources, help em test/file bugs that will get i

Log with iptables

I would like to make logs of my internet traffic I've a firewall with NetFilter in a Private Network Can someone help me? Thanks Paul Cazottes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is kmail (sid) already able to use the integrated GnuPG & OpenPGP support?

On Friday 21 March 2003 12:42, Gavrila wrote: > I'm not an expert and I have to learn a lot of things about gpg but it > seems to me that encryption and signing are ok. I correct my self: when it asks me for the passphrase it always tell me it's wrong. The same passphrase works fine with gpa

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

> "THG" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: THG> I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual THG> states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying THG> software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so

Re: Official Exim 4 package

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:15:23AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:47:58PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Just a quick interjection - the situation would appear comparable to > > that of Bind (version 8) and Bind9 (not version 8) - a relatively clear > > and apparently broa

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? Many vendors and distributors downstream of Debian, together with large sites, actually prefer our longer release cycle

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Sharninder writes: > > try dpkg -L .. this will give u a list of all the files > > installed by the package. then remove the package using apt-get remove > > package. > > Use 'apt-get purge ' to remove all files. That should be 'apt-

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:00:49AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > David Z Maze wrote: > >Syntactically, it's correct, sure; whether that particular resource > >happens to exist or not is outside of APT's control. > >/etc/apt/sources.list on my laptop has > > > >deb http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/deve

[OT] user psychology

I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of dealing with people. I'm interested in educating myself about the different approac

Re: help with playing a midi file

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 05:19, Paul Scott wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > >On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 00:43, Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > >>Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > My sound card works. I am using

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

Thomas H. George wrote: I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so the images may be copied to the computer's hard drive. I'm usin

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and > Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I > understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to > make sure that

timeout

is there a way to set the default timeout for connecting to a host? when my modem connects, it takes too long and I always get a "host not found" message and have to try again, by which time the modem has usualy connected. This happens with every program that trys to access the internet. Thanks

[OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

Hello, all: I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.e. it "speaks" what I type), but the only application I can find which uses

Re: Log with iptables

Hi, On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Paul Cazottes wrote: > I would like to make logs of my internet traffic > I've a firewall with NetFilter in a Private Network > > > Can someone help me? Thanks > Use LOG target. See 'man iptables'. And don't forget to compile it (CONFIG_IP

Re: [OT] user psychology

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:38, ktb wrote: > I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal > with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding > a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of > dealing with people. I'm interested

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

On Sunday 23 March 2003 10:48, Brian Durant wrote: > How do I expunge OpenOffice.org totally from my system? I want to > install Star Office 6, which I have on CD. I am using Libranet 2.7, > which I believe is 100% compatible with Debian 3. Normally, 'apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org' should

Re: /var Permissions

Barak Korren wrote: I've recently attempted to move my /var directory form the root filesystem to a new filesystem I created on my hardrive, unfortunately I neglected to command "cp" to preserve the files' ownerships while copying the files form the old /var directory. While most things seem to

dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

Hi, I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd like to reconfigure several things, but when I do dpkg-reconfigure, I get "dpkg-reconfigure: command not found". Is this still how I'm supposed to reconfigure packages? (I don't see a --reconfigure option for dpkg.) thanks Melissa __

Can't find NIC module

I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated March 22 and attempted an install with it. While setting up network hardware, it successfully detected my sis900 network card, but 'modprobe -v sis900' returned 'cannot find module sis900'. Is there a place where I can add a copy of sis900.o to t

Re: Unknown ports?

lucas said: > Hey there all, > I just scanned my system and found this: > > > 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 > 32776/tcp opensometimes-rpc15 as someone else pointed out you can use netstat. But a more precise way may be 'fuser'. fuser -n tcp 32771 will show the PID(s) of anything

Re: [OT] user psychology

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 10:38, ktb wrote: > I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal > with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding > a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of > dealing with people. I'm interested

Re: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

You can search for packages which contain specified files at "http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages";. In this case, it would have told you that dpkg-reconfigure is part of the debconf package. On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Debian User wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the vanilla

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

Thomas H. George said: > I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual > states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying > software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so > the images may be copied to the computer's hard drive. I do

libquicktime1, libvorbis0 and xawtv

For dependency reasons, i deinstalled xawtv and cannot reinstall the packages. Unfortunately the libquicktime depends on libvorbis0 and that package can not be installed. I looked at the bugs page of the package and find out, that a newer version of libquicktime1 will be available. Are there any pa

Re: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Debian User wrote: > I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd like to > reconfigure several things, but when I do dpkg-reconfigure, I get > "dpkg-reconfigure: command not found". Is this still how I'm supposed > to reconfigure packages? It is

Re: Can't find NIC module

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:21 am, Jason Kaza wrote: > I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated March 22 and attempted an > install with it. While setting up network hardware, it successfully > detected my sis900 network card, but 'modprobe -v sis9

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic > :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's > DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.

Re: help with playing a midi file

Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 05:19, Paul Scott wrote: My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Understood.

help: startx causes system crash

I can't start a GUI and am lost so any help would be appreciated. The problem: Installed fine, then came to the command line and typed startx - a few lines of information was printed to the screen before the screen went blank. I couldn't reboot by ctrl-alt-del/bkspace, I couldn't do anything but s

X

Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on my Dell Latitude Laptop. Now I need help getting it to stop. I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit ctl-alt-bs, I get the Creeping White Screen Of Death (CWSOD

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:36, nate wrote: > otherwise, your best option may be to get one of them USB > card readers that can read the media type that your camera uses, > hopefully it's not a memory stick camera, I have yet to see any > that support that tech myself(though I haven't looked). Be sur

Re: help: startx causes system crash

Charlie Taylor said: > I can't understand the first part of this problem, "X: cannot execute > binary file". sounds like X is not linked to the right file try: ls -l /etc/X11/X and ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X on my system: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jan 28 19:20 /etc/X11/X -> /usr

joysticks and xfree 4.x

I've got all of the linux drivers installed and everything works fine from the OS point of view (thanks to the joystick package). There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the joystick to work under X. Can anyone point me to some docs on how to do this or share their xfconfi

Re: X

Glenn English wrote: I've never seen the CWSOD anywhere but here on Debian. Anybody know what causes that? Why does the system come up with an X login? I never (Intentionally) asked it to. I'm sorry I can't help with your CWSOD, but as to the X login, this is happening because you're running a

Re: X

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:03:19PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X > login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit ctl-alt-bs, I get the > Creeping White Screen Of Death (CWSOD) and I have to reboot. After > login, selecting Wi

Logging from Shorewall to syslog-ng

Hi Could someone please help me clarify the logging mechanism between Shorewall and syslog-ng? Both are installed "out-of-the-box". In Shorewall, logging is set to: LOGFILE="/var/log/messages" Well, NO logging is done in that file by Shorewall. All logging is done on the console! I've trie

Re: X

On March 23, 2003 01:03 pm, Glenn English wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X > login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit

getting rid of flash

Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbish --- it only wastes bandwidth and supposedly provides no information at all ... Unfortun

Re: getting rid of flash

Hans Wilmer wrote: Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete It would suffice if I could tell Mozilla to just ignore 'flashes' instead of popping up a message, and not to download them. delete lib

Re: [OT] user psychology

* ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-23 13:43]: > I've been searching around the web for some documentation on how to deal > with users from the perspective of a systems administrator. I'm finding > a lot on account management and user policies but not much by way of > dealing with people. I'm inte

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 05:17:36 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:15:45PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: --Hey guys, I'm writing this from within lynx because I tried upgrading to sid via your suggestions, but I met

[OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

I am sick and god damned fucking TIRED of all the SHIT I have to put up with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A affect, but x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z WILL NOT BE INSTALLED NO MATTER WHAT THE GODDAMNED FUCK YOU DO!" You can take your peice

Re: getting rid of flash

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 16:52, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Hi! > > How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me > to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete > 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbish --- > it only wastes bandwidth

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:28:25PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 05:17:36 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Don't fear the penguin! Your best bet is to work out the > >dependancies going to sid. Figure out what the replacements for > >things are along the

Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell

JOSEPH A NAGY JR said: > This is why I HATE using binaries. Dependency hell. I've had much better > luck installing from source (at least on my RH system). First (and last) > time I tried installing from source on my deb system was a failure as > well. there is no dependency hell if the binar

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

> -Original Message- > From: JOSEPH A NAGY JR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:54 PM > To: LUNA Mailing List; Debian User > Subject: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > > I am sick and god damned fucking TIRED of all the SHIT I have to put > up with just to get a syst

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've got all of the linux drivers installed and everything works fine > from the OS point of view (thanks to the joystick package). > > There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the > joystick to work under X. > > Can anyone point me to some docs on

RE: PCI ATA card support

G'day Daniel/All, The HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html was very helpful. I can now see hde & hdg and format them as fd from the debian installer BUT (yes another one) How do I make a raid set of these and format/mount them? I just can't see how/where this is done. tia Li

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

JOSEPH A NAGY JR said: > I am sick and god damned fucking TIRED of all the SHIT I have to put up > with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A > affect, but x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z > WILL NOT BE INSTALLED NO MATTER WHAT THE GODDAMNED FUCK YOU

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

"B. L. Jilek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Paul! > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: >> > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for >> > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? >> >> Fas

Re: help with playing a midi file

On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: > My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a > number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like > they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Silly as this might sound, before you go any furt

RE: PCI ATA card support

hi lindsay On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day Daniel/All, > The HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html was very > helpful. I can now see hde & hdg and format them as fd from the debian > installer BUT (yes another one) How do I make a raid set of these and

Re: X

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does > this. You install xdm and the defualt is to boot straight into a > graphical login. Why?? At the very least it should ask you when > installing if you want to start up in

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

On Sunday 23 March 2003 17:56, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Is this so? If I type 'startx' as me (non-root) then X won't start > > unless I go change some permissions? (presumably, having opened a > > console window from the X login and gone su root to do so) > > If you're saying you can't start

Re: X

Glenn English said: > After spending the afternoon in the Debian /etc directory, I'm inclined to > agree with Evi Nemeth et al who claim Debian's init process leaves a > little something to be desired, readability-wise. It's such a mess that > I'd volunteer to fix it if I thought I knew enough. w

PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

Hi all. I'm using Sarge, and need to put together a presentation that will be burnt on a CD, and taken to a conference where it will be loaded in Acrobat and projected on a screen. The samples in TexPower (already PDFs) look pretty cool, but if I try running the sample tex file, and then viewing wi

Re: help with playing a midi file

Robert Storey wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Silly as this might sound,

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

--- Sharninder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to > Debian systems > > and Linux in general, but have some experience with > RPM based > > systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian > package > > system, but want to make sure that all

Re: X

Uninstall xdm, the x display manager which simply causes X to startup with a logon screen at boot. --- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on > my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

This is a really amusing thread. Try the following: Pop up the context menu of a drawing (or use the triangle upper-left). Now, pin it up by clicking on the dashed line. Now you have a "context" menu that is pinned. Close the image window it came from. Open up several others. Try using the pinned w

Re: X

nate said: > variants of linux and unix I find debian's init structure fine..the ones I > dislike the most are the *BSD variants, the (seemingly) inability to forgot about AIX .. earlier versions of AIX if you wanted something to start on boot you had to put it in /etc/inittab ! wtf is up with t

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

Joey Hess wrote: This is a really amusing thread. Try the following: Pop up the context menu of a drawing (or use the triangle upper-left). Now, pin it up by clicking on the dashed line. Now you have a "context" menu that is pinned. Close the image window it came from. Open up several others. Try

public_html permisions in /etc/skel

How can I create a public_html directory in /etc/skel that when created will have the proper permisions for users personel web sites? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] user psychology

At 2003-03-23T22:27:37Z, Raju Kurunkad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For laughs, you can read thru the "Bastard operator from hell" archives at > > http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html That was written as *humor*? I'd thought it was a training manual. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non e

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

At 2003-03-23T22:53:54Z, "JOSEPH A NAGY JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am sick and god d* f** TIRED of all the S*** I have to put up > with just to get a system up and working. "Install x to get A affect, but > x won't install unless you have w, y, and z, and w, y, and z WILL NOT BE >

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:53:54PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > I am sick and... ... > ... BYE! I think he showed up late last year, yes? Still one neuron short of a functional synapse... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the res

Re: public_html permisions in /etc/skel

Dwayne Hunter said: > How can I create a public_html directory in /etc/skel that when created > will have the proper permisions for users personel web sites? mkdir /etc/skel/public_html chmod 755 /etc/skel/public_html nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: joysticks and xfree 4.x

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:36:42PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There seems to be a total lack of information as to how to get the > joystick to work under X. X doesn't care about your joystick. If it works on the console, it works in X, too. -

Re: PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?) > supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS figures > and math formulas, and produce an electronic presentation that can run > on Acrobat Reader. I taught a short Jav

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