Re: Is my hard drive dying?

Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232 Mar 24 17

Re: my helvetica looks ugly

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:01:06AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 19.28 schrieb Roman Joost: > > I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. > I had the same problem after some apt-get upgrade'ing. > A reboot fixed it for me. Hm.. no.. a reboot don't fixed i

Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

Shawn Lamson wrote: Hi - I have a 1.5 Gig video that I want to put on CD's (700 Mb). What is the best way to do this? I searched briefly on the internet but I think I can save a lot of time with experimenting by asking the list. What I already tried: 1) mencoder to copy the file to different siz

Re: X

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 07:35, Pigeon wrote: (random snips for bandwidth) > > > Debian assumes you wouldn't have installed X if you didn't want it > > starting automatically. > > Why? It's reasonable for Windoze to be installed with "BootGUI=1" > because you can do naff-all in DOS mode. But with

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

> > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > > a lot of these types of messages: > > > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > > SeekComplete Error } > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > > Uncorrectabl

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 13:03, nate wrote: > Alfredo J. Cole said: > > > (Putting on my anti-flame suit) > > > > Mandrake copied the RH installer at the early stages. Even the RH 5 > > installer would be a big advancement. How hard would it be to "debianize" > > that installer? > > the big issue

Re: Apache problem:mod_unique_id

Terry Milnes wrote: Apache no longer starts after apt-getting some files. I now have the following error in my error.log: mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("ATHEOS") Any help would be appreciated. TIA! NeoFax Hi, I am not familiar wit mod_unique_id but this seems more like an error with

setting up RAID

G'day all, I'm setting up a RAID1 set in debian 3r0. I checked /proc/mdstat & got the following: Personalities: [raid1] read_ahead not set unused devices: hmmm, I got RAID support, woopeee I setup a /etc/raidtab file like this: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks

Re: Error message from install of python packages

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:35:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | What do these messages mean...?? > | > | Setting up python-gtk (0.6.11-7) ... > | 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > | 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > > When the python interpreter starts up it imports t

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 05.58 schrieb Nathan E Norman: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:30:10PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > | Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not > > | being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it > > | will do no go

Applying own set of changes to source -- howto create a deb-file

Dear all, administering several Debian boxes, I make use of some patches created for particular codes my users got used to it. Since I am fascinated of the Debian package system an dwould like to make use of the system for easy package distribution, I would like to integrate these patches into th

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

> Of course, when the shiny happy install doesn't work on some esoteric > hardware you're screwed, but nobody runs _that_ stuff. (or do > they??) > > *sigh* About 2 1/2 years ago, I installed Suse on a 1997 Mac clone with a Formac graphics card. Their acclaimed graphical installer (not X though)

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testing/squirrelmail

I just pulled this upgrade and noticed that there are no longer any "threaded views". Is this disabled upstream? -- I know you're in search of yourself, I just haven't seen you anywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: setting up RAID

> G'day all, > I'm setting up a RAID1 set in debian 3r0. > I checked /proc/mdstat & got the following: > Personalities: [raid1] > read_ahead not set > unused devices: > > hmmm, I got RAID support, woopeee > I setup a /etc/raidtab file like this: > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level0 > nr-raid-dis

Re: setting up RAID

Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Tue, Mar 25, 2003: > BUT when I run "mkraid /dev/md0" I get command not found (sob sob sob, I > tried s hard). OK what didn't I install? apt-cache search raid apt-show

Re: setting up RAID

Lindsay Yardley wrote: BUT when I run "mkraid /dev/md0" I get command not found (sob sob sob, I tried s hard). OK what didn't I install? tia Lindsay Hi, you probably missed the raidtools or raidtools2 package. That should set you up alright. Andre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Getting .deb files & Using Apt

The debian tutorial has some omissions. i.e 16.3 Getting the files 16.4 Using Apt Help! I don't know how to use apt, so someone else has to write this. some URL's for these would be great tia Lindsay btw, yes I

Re: setting up RAID

apt-cache search raid apt-show raidtools2 Should be enough. You can look also at: http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/lvmraid.html http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.html Best regards Massimiliano -

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine > till now. If you don't have hdparm spinning down your drives, odds are you are looking at the early stag

no audio cds

Hello: Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is not needed), but rather, when I put an audio cd in the drive, and do 'cd /cdr

Re: Gnome 2 user guide--how do I read it.

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 00:35, James D Strandboge wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:09, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: > > Also, most of the files in /usr/share/omf/gnome-applet contain > > hardcoded references to /home/james: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/omf/gnome-applets$ grep home * > > battst

php4, testing and php4-pgsql

Hi Adam I'm having trouble with debian testing following the upgrade to the new libc6. I've installed php4 from testing, but I cannot get pgsql to work; it used to, prior to the upgrade. I'd be grateful to know the status of the php4-pgsql package. Cheers Rory Versions: php4 4.2.3-12

Re: Installer - Was: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:06, Alfredo J. Cole wrote: > El Lun 24 Mar 2003 12:03, nate escribió: > (...) > > hopefully this time around there's enough time for them to get it > > working, though I don't know if we'll see an official X11-based installer > > for the next revision, I hope that they have

Re: please help - can't get Open Inventor demos to build - missing /make/ivcommondefs

Hi list, Well, I guess running Open Inventor is sort of uncommon here.. I got the missing files from SGI, meanwhile. ..Put them where they appeared to be needed, and now the stuff builds. I guess that means the files simply ARE missing from the .deb ,and actually should be in there. To be elabora

Re: Status of Testing

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:17, Bill Moseley wrote: > Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my > Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). > > On my desktop and development machines I have a mix of testing and > unstable packages. I've needed the

xdm but not startx crashes on ATI Sapphire Rage 128 Pro

Hello, I put Debian testing/sarge on a desktop PC with ATI Sapphire Rage 128 Pro and ran xf86config to get XF86 4.2.1 up, which correctly recognized the card and monitor and set the Device Driver to "ati". I'm using icewm-gnome on top of X. I now have X running with startx but not with xdm - xdm c

Alpha setup

I installed a perfectly working debian 3.0 on a EV5 Compaq Alpha WS, running the 2.2.20 boxed kernel image. Now I've been trying to install the 2.4.18 (or better the new 2.4.20) kernel image but I've been invariably ending up in a kernel panic. I think that the problem is that I was unable to say

Re: no audio cds

Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 12.59 schrieb Joe Paxton: > Hello: > > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is > not needed) Corr

Re: Official Exim 4 package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > No it's not. Version number indicate a progression of an application, > they have no indication of "major differences between two releases". If version numbers don't describe precisely

Re: [OT] boot CD from grub?

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 00:11, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 00:17, Jens Grivolla wrote: > >> So I guess I'll just have to work around it (which can be a pain), > >> apparently booting from a CD without BIOS-support is not possible. > >

Re: no audio cds

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 12:59, Joe Paxton wrote: > Hello: > > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is > not needed), but

KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi I'm not sure whether this has been brought up before, but I searched the mailing list archives and couldn't quite find anything that seemed relevant to my situation. I gave Debian (Woody) a try a few days ago -- installed it from scratch, and then grab

Re: no audio cds

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Joe Paxton wrote: > Hello: > > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is > not needed), but rather, w

Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 05:07:37 + Klaus Imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Lamson wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I have a 1.5 Gig video that I want to put on CD's (700 Mb). What is > > the best way to do this? I searched briefly on the internet but I > > think I can save a lot of time with ex

Re: php4, testing and php4-pgsql

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:29:46AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'm having trouble with debian testing following the upgrade to the new > libc6. Check the debian-devel-announce archives for this month, specifically "Warning: glibc 2.3.1 entering testing soon". -- Colin Watson

Re: Installer - Was: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:29:43PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:06, Alfredo J. Cole wrote: > > El Lun 24 Mar 2003 12:03, nate escribi?: > > (...) > > > hopefully this time around there's enough time for them to get it > > > working, though I don't know if we'll see an off

Re: no audio cds

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 06:59:35 -0500 Joe Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that th

Re: i can not start x from screen session

Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: i am unable to start x from a screen session. it exits with a message 'user not authorized to run x server'. how can i remedy it? will i be opening a security hole if i overcome this problem? Look at the "allowed users=" line in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. You probably

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:28:03AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been > Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies installation for > the first time in 2 1/2 years. Even after using Debian for 5 years, > and knowing how I

Re: X Window : Newbie

Van Wyk Leroux, Mr wrote: Hi there I'm trying to run startx from the console after I logged in as a normal user.This doesn't seem to work.I have already run XF86Config as root, and if I do startx from root, X Windows starts up fine.Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Does a normal user use the same

Re: Making PDF document in KWord

Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi There: When I want to make a PDF document with KWord (Using print menu), KWord is able to make a pdf file, but the result is crappy, many words are not in their original position, and all in all, it is unreadable. However, making PostScript files works fine, but anyway, w

Re: no audio cds

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:59:35AM -0500, Joe Paxton wrote: > Hello: > > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is > not n

Re: Some bug with x-server ?

Ondřej Kužel wrote: I cant start X-server. When i try it say somethig about wrong cofiguration. I tried set configuration manualy, but it had not helped me. In attachment i send log file. Configuration of my computer is: CPU : AMD Duron 950 Motherboard : MICROSTAR K7T Turbo2 Lite Grafic card : NVI

Re: Official Exim 4 package

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:40:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > > No it's not. Version number indicate a progression of an > > application, they have no indication of "major differences between > > two releases". > > If version numb

Re: xdm but not startx crashes on ATI Sapphire Rage 128 Pro

Petr Hlustik wrote: Hello, I put Debian testing/sarge on a desktop PC with ATI Sapphire Rage 128 Pro and ran xf86config to get XF86 4.2.1 up, which correctly recognized the card and monitor and set the Device Driver to "ati". I'm using icewm-gnome on top of X. I now have X running with startx but

Re: please help - can't get Open Inventor demos to build - missing /make/ivcommondefs

In that case I guess you should submit a bugreport against the inventor-demo package. On Tuesday 25 March 2003 13:27, Lukas Latz wrote: > Hi list, > > Well, I guess running Open Inventor is sort of uncommon here.. > I got the missing files from SGI, meanwhile. > ..Put them where they appeared to

Re: Installer - Was: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

Does anybody if the installer that is used for the 'testing netinstall' images is a sign of things to come.If so I would like to know where I can go and whine about it. Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

> re-encoding may not work for the same reasons "copying" with mencoder didnt. Plus the reason I want to do it is to prevent reencoding, I mean I could reencode with mencode as well to a smaller screen or lower resolution and get a smaller file. Any other ideas? Shawn Lamson That's the reason I

Woody+KDE3.1

hi, My apologies for asking this oft repeated question again, but i could'nt find anything on the archives which could solve my problem.Firstly I am a Debian newbie (kind of). I have the seven CDs of woody r0 with me and during installation only gave the option c/c++ developement unix tools or som

Re: no audio cds (fixed)

Thanks to everyone who answered. The problem was, in fact, a combination of insufficiennt permissions and my flawed reasoning -- as was suggested by many of the replies. Joe On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:37:45PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 12.59 schrieb Joe Paxton: > > Hel

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:05:16AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > > Of course, when the shiny happy install doesn't work on some esoteric > > hardware you're screwed, but nobody runs _that_ stuff. (or do > > they??) > > > > *sigh* > > About 2 1/2 years ago, I installed Suse on a 1997 Mac clone with

Re: no audio cds

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device (that is, > /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give empty anyway, but xmms will be able to load > audio tracks. > Easier way is to add yourself to group "disk", if I can remember.

Re: setting up RAID

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:20:55PM +0200, Konstantin Kostadinov wrote: > > > G'day all, > > I'm setting up a RAID1 set in debian 3r0. > > I checked /proc/mdstat & got the following: > > Personalities: [raid1] > > read_ahead not set > > unused devices: > > > > hmmm, I got RAID support, woopeee >

Re: Official Exim 4 package

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:26:50AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:40:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > > > No it's not. Version number indicate a progression of an > > > application, they have no indica

Re: Making PDF document in KWord

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 15:21, Kent West wrote: > Aryan Ameri wrote: > >When I want to make a PDF document with KWord (Using print menu), KWord is > >able to make a pdf file, but the result is crappy, many words are not in > >their original position, and all in all, it is unreadable. However, mak

python-ldap on woody

Anyone successfully using python-ldap on woody? I can't get the example to work - it infinite loops for me. Here's the example code (comments removed - and some small changes made to match the fields on the ldap server - the original example is at http://homepage.mac.com/mengelhart/python-ldap-sa

Multiple network interfaces

Hello everybody I have installed debian 3.0 in my PC. After that I recompiled the kernel (version 2.4.4). The network interface module is part of the kernel. I have a network interface working successfull, but I want to install another one. I edited the /etc/network/interface file and add the e

Re: no audio cds

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > > You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device (that is, > > /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give empty anyway, but xmms will be able to load > > audio tra

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:13:41AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > I run debian on sparc hardware as well as i386. I've been using i386 > since I was in middle school so being expected to know things like how > many keys are on the keyboard and what kind of video chipset I have is > not a big s

Re: Official Exim 4 package

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:21:09AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:26:50AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:40:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > If version numbers don't describe precisely that, what does? > > [ snip, etc. ] > > I have n

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

Nathan E Norman said: > Sorry for yelling, but this whole "debian is hard to install" thing drives > me crazy. Call me an elite bastard, but I still feel if debian is too > hard to install, you shouldn't be installing it. Mandrake et al exist for > a reason. well of course there are always exce

Re: Official Exim 4 package

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:30:09PM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Nevermind that my "change X" or "rework X" is at the exact same level > > of the explanation you've given your solution. Difference is, it is > > already coded. I've

Re: Disable mozilla plugins selectively

Hi, http://www.privoxy.org/ is a good solution. It's the following of junkbuster. You can disable a plugin by default, and you can re-enable them site by site. Since it will change the HTML code embedding the flash file, so more messages about a missing plugin. Also, I think more recent versions o

Re: [OT] user psychology

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:51:35PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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 thoug

Re: X

> > > > 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 into X. > > Well said. > >

Re: please help - can't get Open Inventor demos to build - missing /make/ivcommondefs

Done. (Wow, my first bug report. Hope I did it right) --- Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In that case I guess you should submit a bugreport against the > inventor-demo > package. > > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 13:27, Lukas Latz wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Well, I guess running Open Invent

Bug: install /etc/fstab order

I would like to report a bug and need help in determining how to format it and where to send it. The website is helpful but I don't know the right package and am following the recommended procedure. I did an install and mounted /var/lib before mounting /var. I mounted "/" first and then mount

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

At 2003-03-25T15:05:08Z, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically, if someone doesn't know how many keys ones keyboard has, _and_ > he doesn't know how to count them, then I doubt he should be using a > computer at all. Devil's advocate: A new user may not know whether to count eve

Newbee-ish X and root question

Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root, which I found especially useful in the beginning when I was setting up lots of stuff. Normally I log in as a normal user but sometimes I need to su to root and would like to start for instance an editor, or something li

Re: no audio cds

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:57:49AM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > > > You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device > > > (that is, /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will g

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:15, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:28:03AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been > > Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies installation for > > the first time in 2 1/2

RE: Multiple network interfaces

Hello, Try ifconfig -a Do you see both nics? If not, do modconf and install the second nic Willem-Jan Meijer Netherlands -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Juan dominguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 25 maart 2003 15:59 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Multiple network inte

Re: Multiple network interfaces

Hi Are you wanting to add another IP to your existing network card? or are you trying to install another network card to use another IP? if your wanting to add another IP to an existing network card the eth1 should be eth0:1 otherwise you'll need to load the module for the new card using modcon

Re: Alpha setup

Vittorio wrote: I installed a perfectly working debian 3.0 on a EV5 Compaq Alpha WS, running the 2.2.20 boxed kernel image. Now I've been trying to install the 2.4.18 (or better the new 2.4.20) kernel image but I've been invariably ending up in a kernel panic. I think that the problem is that I was

Re: my helvetica looks ugly

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:59, Roman Joost wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:01:06AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 19.28 schrieb Roman Joost: > > > I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. > > > > I had the same problem after some apt-get upgrade'ing

updating KDE menus

First, even though I'm using KDE, I do think this is a debian question. Whenever I install a new app, the KDE menus get updated. Cool. Better than I've seen in other distros. However, some apps I install aren't debian packages. How do I update the KDE menus to see my new apps? I've been able to

RE: Multiple network interfaces

> -Original Message- > From: Juan dominguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Multiple network interfaces > > > Hello everybody > > I have installed debian 3.0 in my PC. After that I > recompiled the kernel (version 2.4.4

Re: Official Exim 4 package

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Just because a package moves from 1.x to 2.x or 3.x gives no indication > > of any major changes. They are just version numbers. > > Actually, when the major number changes, that's generally an > indication that something big has changed. > I

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

> -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > > EXACTLY!!! > > Sorry for yelling, but this whole "debian is hard to install" thing > drives me crazy. Call

Problems. May be xterm from XFree86 4.3 ?

Hi folk. I install XFree86 4.3 version from http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386 and now I have problems - X resetup when I try load xterm. What I have in log: (I do not know who is culprit: kernel or XFree) Mar 23 08:13:34 pupkin kernel: printing eip:

Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

>From Robert Bj=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F6rn ?= on Tuesday, 2003-03-25 at 13:41:49 +0100: > KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi > > I'm not sure whether this has been brought up before, but I searched > the mailing list archives and couldn't quite find anything that seemed > relevant to my situation

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

> -Original Message- > From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Newbee-ish X and root question > > > Hi List, > > I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root, > which I found especially u

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

> -Original Message- > From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:28 AM > To: debuser > Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been > Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-flopp

Did the exim upgrade break my outgoing email?

I saw a exim upgrade come by in the last couple of days on my testing machine, and now my outgoing email is broken. I run a "internal DNS domain for my home network, and my mail is getting rejected by my upstream realy, because it's showing up as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Is this caused by the upg

kudos - Re: help with playing a midi file

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:03:40AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: [ snipped extensive AWE discussion ] Many thanks, that was the spark I needed to get MIDI on my AWE32 working again. Getting hold of synthgm.sbk was the most time consuming part. I recommend www.filesearching.com, which gave me a work

web preferred to attachments (was Re: my helvetica looks ugly)

* Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030325 00:17 PST]: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:01:06AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 19.28 schrieb Roman Joost: > > > I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. > > I had the s

Re: Bug: install /etc/fstab order

At 10:11 AM 3/25/2003 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote: I would like to report a bug and need help in determining how to format it and where to send it. The website is helpful but I don't know the right package and am following the recommended procedure. How to report a bug in Debian http://www.debi

Re: setting up RAID

hi ya lindsay i seen you been doing some homework On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day all, > I'm setting up a RAID1 set in debian 3r0. > I checked /proc/mdstat & got the following: > Personalities: [raid1] notice ... [raid1] > read_ahead not set > unused devices: > > hm

FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?

Is there any way to retrieve mail from a web based mail service, and feed it to. let's say procmail? Here's the scenario. My companby has recently changed from providing POP2 based mail acces to a web browser based solution. I was using fetchmail to retireve tha mail and pass it on to sendmail

Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new functionality. Thanks Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smbmount

Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do "uname -a". My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: "ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255"

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

Kirk Strauser said: > Frankly, *I* have to look up my keyboard specs when I install X (which > happens, maybe, once every 1.5 years or so), because the answer isn't > nearly as straightforward as just counting the physical buttons. Frankly, *I* am a lazy son of a bitch so I don't look up the key

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:02 am, Sharninder wrote: > hi, > My apologies for asking this oft repeated question again, but i > could'nt find anything on the archives which could solve my > problem.Firstly I am a Debian newbie (kind of). I have the seve

Re: Status of Testing

Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably upgrade

Good open source primer?

I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was about how we had time synched all the *NIX boxes. Somewhere in the middle of the discussion, it became quite clear that he simply _did not understand_ the concept of obtaining a peice of software that he did not have to pay fo

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 01:23:44 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2. Nope. metalab.unc.edu is now ibiblio.org (but requests are > >forwarded) and the debian directories aren't there. > > > I changed that and I still get: > Err ftp://ibiblio.org unstable/main Packages > Unable to fetch

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 selfmade stops at make modules_install on debian3.0

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:12:51 +0100 "Alexander Bruns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > on my debian box the debian-kernel 2.4.18-686 by woody is installed. I > tried to kompile a 2.4.20 kernel, but it fails. Then I tried to > kompile a 2.4.18 myseld, but it fails too. > > why does make_module

Re: SOLVED: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:30:10 -0500 John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Tillman suggested... > > >Check out people.debian.org/~blade, > >I think there is a later & greater bf24 version there. > > And it worked perfectly! Well, still didn't recognize the D-Link that > it should have,

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

> Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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