kernel-source-2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody know what the holdup is for 2.4.21 hitting Debian? - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: you guys are great!

2003-06-22 Thread cr
On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:19, Aaron wrote: > > I can only echo this ... You guys have helped me so many times I cant > > even count and I realy appreciate it. You are a mine of information on > > just about any topic. > > Makes the whole RedHat pay-for-support scheme seem kind of misguided > huh?!

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread cr
On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest > > > here, if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be able to > > > pick it from a list he shouldn't be instal

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread cr
On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:30, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote: > > On Saturday 21 June 2003 21:55, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest > > > here, if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be abl

Re: Large X Fonts after switching to font server

2003-06-22 Thread Karol Czachorowski
On 21 Jun 2003 23:42:03 -0500 Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > >I switched from using font files to using a font server and now the > standard font size is larger, especially on Mozilla. For example, > Mozilla's 'Preference' page takes up practically 90% of the scr

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:23:45AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already > running Debian install on the same partition. > > - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian > install? or

Galeon aborts after running Mozilla

2003-06-22 Thread mso
I've been a happy user of Galeon 1.2.5 on Debian Testing until today when I ran Mozilla 1.0.0. I later quit Galeon, and now when I restart it, it aborts (zsh says "zsh: abort", and no window ever appears). However, when I su to another user that has never used Galeon or Mozilla, Galeon works. I t

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread cr
On Sunday 22 June 2003 16:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Saturday 21 June 2003 21:55, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > Well, I have no conscience whatever about stealing Micro$oft software. > > The way I look at it, if I'm f

Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hello, I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-m68k/3.0.23-2002-05-21, and nothing useful in /debian/dists/woody

syntax [grep/tee]

2003-06-22 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, a couple of fairly simple bashish questions: 1. whats the advantage of using |tee -a rather than >> ? 2. how can i consolidate |grep -v from |grep -v archive? - i think it should be something like |grep -v \(archive|from\) but that doesnt seem to work.. thanks :) -- hugh -- To UNSU

Re: kernel-source-2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:50:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Anybody know what the holdup is for 2.4.21 hitting Debian? It's been in the incoming queue waiting for ftpmaster approval for five days. A week is usually nothing to worry about in that queue. -- Colin Watson

how to log "init" output?

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Williams
I'd like to get more visibility of what's happening when my Debian system boots, but the output of the /etc/init.d/* scripts scroll by so fast that I can't read it. Is there some way I can either make the console buffer larger (so I can scroll all the way back), or log the boot-script output for l

Re: syntax [grep/tee]

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:54:33AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > hello, a couple of fairly simple bashish questions: > > 1. whats the advantage of using |tee -a rather than >> ? tee displays its input on standard output as well as writing it to the file. > 2. how can i consolidate |grep -v from

DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread JZidar
I'm building a small system for working at home. I would be like to watch some movies sometimes but I don't know if that's enough: - Pentium II 266 MHz - 196 Megs of ram - graphic card Geforce2 MX Thank you guys. jernej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread JZidar
I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail client. Thank you again. jernej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:30, John Klos wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/D

Re: Sound card AC 97 Integrated problem. Programs for listening music,watching videos.

2003-06-22 Thread Eamon Ansel Roque
Hi, Am Sam, 2003-06-21 um 13.22 schrieb Jan Andrzej: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:38:56PM +0100, Jan > > Andrzej wrote: > > snip [...] > > > > you need these modules: ac97_codec, i810_audio, > > > > soundcore, sound; then add yourself to the [..

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:30, John Klos wrote: [looking for tarballs of debian base files] Erm... make that the following file on your favorite debian mirror. The one I mentioned in my last mail is only a tarball containing deb packages you require during installation. This one contains the base f

Re: syntax [grep/tee]

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 02:16]: > hello, a couple of fairly simple bashish questions: > > 1. whats the advantage of using |tee -a rather than >> ? tee sends its input to a file and also to standard out. That's where it gets its name. Imagine the input as the bottom part of a

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0200, JZidar waxed eloquent and said: > I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I > would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook > mail to the format used b

Re: how to log "init" output?

2003-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/03 19:09), Mike Williams wrote: > > I'd like to get more visibility of what's happening when my Debian system > boots, but the output of the /etc/init.d/* scripts scroll by so fast that I > can't read it. > > Is there some way I can either make the console buffer larger (so I can > scro

Re: Large X Fonts after switching to font server

2003-06-22 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Karol writes: > >I switched from using font files to using a font server and now the > > standard font size is larger, especially on Mozilla. For example, > > Mozilla's 'Preference' page takes up practically 90% of the screen > > vertically as before it was more of a normal window. Plus, the l

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:56, JZidar wrote: > I'm building a small system for working at home. I would be like to watch > some movies sometimes but I don't know if that's enough: > - Pentium II 266 MHz > - 196 Megs of ram > - graphic card Geforce2 MX From my experience, you could run into problems

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I > would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook > mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail client. > > Thank you again. > > jernej > Your subj

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:11:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Thanks, but this installs Knoppix. I want to install Debian. Is > Knoppix a clone of one of the Debian distributions? Do I just use > apt-get dist-upgrade? Or what? And which distribution

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Gabriel Meier
Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Sebastian Kapfer: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:20:11 +0200, Josh Metzler wrote: > > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > > working on my new box. > > What about loading a sound driver? The module is called snd-via82xx or > sim

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread SYNeR
Your CPU really won't have an affect on your ability to play movies provided you have a semi-decent video card. Because nvidia's video drivers for linux are decent, (at least for the GeForce4), you should be fine as your video card's GPU will handle the load. Here at the moment when I play a movie

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:34:58PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I wish this could be automatically detected :) Try X 4.3 -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with setuid script starting pppd

2003-06-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 15:27:16 +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > I too do not immediately understand that. It looks like the 'and die' part > of the statement > system '/usr/sbin/pppd', 'call', $isp and die; > is executed regardless of the real success or failure of the pppd call > when the script runs t

How to switch from KDE to GNOME after startx

2003-06-22 Thread Terence Ng
Hi! Newbie question: When I type in "startx", Kde is displayed. How do I switch from Kde to Gnome? Best regards, Terence ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk -- To UNSUB

Re: XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bijan> Hi, I have a small problem that I'd like to solve. X Bijan> automatically blanks the screen after a while. It unblanks Bijan> it if you use the keyboard or the mouse. However it only Bijan> works with serial or ps2 m

dma fails with kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I had dma running with kernel 2.4.20. On 2.4.21 hdparm gives an error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed Anyone know why this is or what has changed between the two kernels? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-f

Multipule MSN downloading

2003-06-22 Thread ibrahim obeid
Dear Sir/Madam, I need some help to hou to down load Multipule MSN on my computer thanks for your help in advance Nassim I. Yassin  

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:50:11 +0200, Gabriel Meier wrote: > Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Sebastian Kapfer: >> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:20:11 +0200, Josh Metzler wrote: >> > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get >> > sound working on my new box. >> >> What about

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:10:04 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The primary issue is performance. Bochs is a hardware-in-software > emulator. The useful feature is that you can run a virtual x86 box on > any platform -- x86, MIPS, zSeries, whatever. The downside is it's > slow. Really, really slow

Re: konsole font (SOLVED)

2003-06-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
Here's how I got nice antialiased fonts in KDE (and in the konsole): The first step was that someone suggested disabling Xft in QT (done by editing ~/.qt/qtrc). This fixes the problem as long as you don't try turning font antialiasing on via the KDE control center. After you do this, it's all ba

nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Roman Joost
I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start my x server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system locks up. Is there someone outthere, who have the same graficcard and maybe the same problem (solved) ?? Thanks for the ideas! Greetings, -- Roman Joost www: h

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Care to enlighten us? I didn't see anything outside POSIX sh other than > the use of echo escape sequences. The redirection " 2>&1" isn't portable - it doesn't work with /bin/dash. I have the impression the back-quotes for command redirection aren'

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - UML: patch for kernel? I don't want to recompile my kernel > > You don't have to, it's a ready-made Debian package, as previously > described. user mode linux works without the patch. But it works better when a UML patch is applied to the kerne

Re: How to switch from KDE to GNOME after startx

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Terence Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Newbie question: > > When I type in "startx", Kde is displayed. How do I > switch from Kde to Gnome? You can put /usr/bin/gnome-session in your ~/.xsession file. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If not, try removing the 'Option "DPMS"' line (or use xset) to disable > the X servers blanking and see if it still happens. Turning off DPMS gets rid of blanking completely. I'd like it to blank my screen if I really am away. > It could be your kernel

XFree86 ctrl:swapcaps

2003-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I upgraded from testing to unstable and I can't get my keyboard to swap the control and capslock keys. The option was ctrl:swapcaps, and according to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86, xkb should still be able to recognize it. Thoughts, anyone? TIA, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

LAN Saturated by Unwanted Transmission

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas H. George
I have three debian boxes on a wireless LAN. Wnen my grandson's Windows XP is included on the LAN it saturates the system with transmissions. I installed tcpdump which shows repeated lines of transmissions to 172.179.211.254.1781 I set up the LAN with no difficulty but I have zero experience

Re: Multipule MSN downloading

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"ibrahim obeid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I need some help to hou to down load Multipule MSN on my computer What do you mean exactly? Can you be a little more specific? Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I > > would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook > > mail to the format used by kmail or some other linu

Re: /etc/profile and X

2003-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:31:36AM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and what file I need to edit to have a _system-wide_ variable > > declaration. > > /etc/profile, IMO. Just make sure it is also read at the start of each X > session by inser

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: > The redirection " 2>&1" isn't portable - it doesn't work with > /bin/dash. Yes it is, and yes it does. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dash $ perl -e 'print STDERR "foo\n"' >/dev/null foo $ perl -e 'print STDERR "foo\n"' >/dev/null 2>&1 $ > I have the impression the back-quotes

Re: LAN Saturated by Unwanted Transmission

2003-06-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 22 June 2003 18:29, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have three debian boxes on a wireless LAN. Wnen my grandson's Windows > XP is included on the LAN it saturates the system with transmissions. I > installed tcpdump which shows repeated lines of transmissions to > 172.179.211.254.1781 > >

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start my x > server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system locks up. > > Is there someone outthere, who have the same graficcard and maybe the > same problem (solved) ?? I had

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Having worked in several ISPs it's not that the tech support staff is not being honest... It is that most of them are considered "tier 1" and all they go by is a series of questions & answers in a book to solve problems... If they get through the book and haven't solved the problem then the

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Karsten M. Self wrote: ...and you want to do...? I want to test debian-installer. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:07:20PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start > > my x server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system > > locks up. > > > > Is there someone outthe

Re: XFree86 ctrl:swapcaps

2003-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
David Fokkema wrote: > I upgraded from testing to unstable and I can't get my keyboard to swap > the control and capslock keys. The option was ctrl:swapcaps, and > according to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86, xkb should still be able to > recognize it. Thoughts, anyone? Hmm... That seems like it shou

OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the first time. You can download it here: ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/icculus.org/armyops-lnx-170.sh.bin http://ftp.

quota

2003-06-22 Thread Kiryanov Vasiliy
Hello. Many time I try find how to work with quota version2 and nothing! Note: I know how to make aquota. file and what need to append to fstab and read quota-howto and ... Now I think: If the kernel is build only with 'quota support', quota version2 CAN'T work. There is patch from SGI fo

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the > first time. > > You can download it here: > ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/icculus.org/armyops-lnx-170.sh.bin > ht

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +1000, SYNeR wrote: > Your CPU really won't have an affect on your ability to play movies provided > you have a semi-decent video card. Because nvidia's video drivers for linux > are decent, > (at least for the GeForce4), you should be fine as your video card's GP

Re: XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bijan" == Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bijan> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If not, try removing the 'Option "DPMS"' line (or use xset) to Bijan> Turning off DPMS gets rid of blanking completely. I'd like Bijan> it to blank my screen if I really

Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity

2003-06-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Hilliard wrote: >> The redirection " 2>&1" isn't portable - it doesn't work with >> /bin/dash. > > Yes it is, and yes it does. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dash > $ perl -e 'print STDERR "foo\n"' >/dev/null > foo > $ perl -e 'print STDERR "foo\n"' >/dev

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 10:46]: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the > > first time. > > Is this Free Software? It doesn't

Re: XFree86 ctrl:swapcaps

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 08:47]: > Hi group, > > I upgraded from testing to unstable and I can't get my keyboard to swap > the control and capslock keys. The option was ctrl:swapcaps, and > according to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86, xkb should still be able to > recognize it. Thou

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: > Still looking for a Linux-compatible 30-80 GB tape drive that is most > likely going to be USB. > > Has anyone used the Seagate Travan TapeStor 40 (STT6401U2-R) or the > OnStream USB 30 or ADR2.60usb? I haven't heard anything Linux about > the former, but

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > > support for the first time. > > > > You can download it here: > > ftp://ft

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 09:46 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > support for the first time. > > You can download it here: > ftp://ftp.sten

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread john gennard
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > * john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-06-2003 19:46]: > > I burned the .iso image to a CD, but to make it bootable, I was > > asked to add the contents of a floppy - presumably containing > > drivers to activate a CD-ROM drive. > > > 1. How to I get

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Josh Metzler wrote: > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > working on my new box. > > The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 > sound. > > I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /d

Re: LAN Saturated by Unwanted Transmission

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hi, > I have three debian boxes on a wireless LAN. Wnen my grandson's Windows > XP is included on the LAN it saturates the system with transmissions. I > installed tcpdump which shows repeated lines of transmissions to > 172.179.211.254.1781 > > I set up the LAN with no difficulty but I have z

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 10:46]: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > > > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Nick Apostolakis
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, SYNeR wrote: > Your CPU really won't have an affect on your ability to play movies provided > you have a semi-decent video card. Because nvidia's video drivers for linux > are decent, > (at least for the GeForce4), you should be fine as your video card's GPU > will handle > th

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hi, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on > > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r1a/main/disks-m68k/base-images-curr

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > So anyone thinking about pirating this, please don't. =) It's produced by the United States Army. Your American tax dollars at work, you get the full version, it's paid for. - -- .''`

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:06:09PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Cool. Thanks for the tip. I couldn't find any mention of this on the > america's army website. Nothing in the news and nothing in the > downloads section yet. > Which means the servers are still going fast :) You said it, gett

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 10:10]: > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced > Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the > first time. > > You can download it here: > ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/icculus.org/armyops-lnx-170.sh

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. Especially since the Army is trying to do something *nice* f

Apache broke on me (unstable)

2003-06-22 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi all, I have apache running fine on my unstable box for months now. I am hosting some test websites (which are important for my business and for my friends business, so I am f*cked...see below ;)) for myself and for a friend. I do this in $HOME/public_html directories. Since this afternoon I ca

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-22 Thread Piero
I receaved this useful answer to my joined question. Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:20:12 +0200, Piero wrote: I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section "InputDe

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 08:27:42PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I do most of my burning with K3b (which I find easy and effective) > and a little with Xcdroast which I find often fails (I've noticed > others on the list complain of problems with this prgram). I'll > have to try getting to grips w

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 12:50]: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > This is good for everybody. It is in our best interests that the > > Linux version of this and other games be successful. So anyone > > thinking about pirating this, please d

[SOLVED] Re: XFree86 ctrl:swapcaps

2003-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:46PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 08:47]: > > Hi group, > > > > I upgraded from testing to unstable and I can't get my keyboard to swap > > the control and capslock keys. The option was ctrl:swapcaps, and > > according to /e

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Klos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 12:56]: > I can do this with base2_2.tgz, but I'm surprised that such a file isn't > available for the latest stable release. Is there a reason for this that > anyone knows of? Yes, the latest release doesn't use a base tarball. Instead, a script called deb

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 21:33, John Klos wrote: > But I am not looking for installation files. I'd like to get an m68k > Debian tree into a directory on an m68k NetBSD system so I can test > NetBSD's Linux ABI emulation. > > I did find the base2_2.tgz file, but is there anything newer? Nope 2.2

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:20:13 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote: > It is in our best interests that the Linux > version of this and other games be successful. So anyone thinking about > pirating this, please don't. =) Eh? I though AA was free (as in beer)? How should I pirate it? -- Best Regards, |

Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-06-22 Thread Charles Cates
Hello, I am trying to install Woody on a HP pavilion 524c. The problem I am having is getting the Xserver running. My HP has a S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266 intergraded chip with 32 megs of shared memory. Question? Does Woody support this chip? Maybe there is a suitable work around? Has any one else re

Re: dma fails with kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Kristian Peters
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I had dma running with kernel 2.4.20. On 2.4.21 hdparm gives an error: > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed > > Anyone know why this is or what has changed between the two kernels? Do you have CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO or CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK enabled ? Try to

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > > > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > > > support for the firs

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The real problem is that I cannot 'visualise' what has to be done > to make an .iso image bootable. It's simple the ".iso" file has to be burned directly onto CD as a series of ones and zeros. Then you end up with a standard Debian CD with all the files

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread John Sunderhaus
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 15:30, cr wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest > > > > here, if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be able to

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. > > Especially since the Army is trying to do something *ni

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Sunderhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just don't see how its physically possible to install Linux on a > machine with less than 256MB and a nameless monitor and find happiness - > unless you like working at the command prompt. I run gnome2 at work. Machine is a celeron 466 with 64 meg

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start my x > server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system locks up. > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you can. Try each, working backwards and

net-snmp trouble

2003-06-22 Thread Tsuyoshi Takada
Hi, I downloaded net-snmp-5.0.8.tar.gz and executed the following. %tar zxfv net-snmp*.tar.gz %./configure %make %su #make test but many tests fail. 1:testing SNMPv1 support...FAIL 2:testing SNMPv2c get of system.sysUpTime.0...FAIL 3:testing SNMPv2c getnext of system.sysUpTime...FAIL 4:testing

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Be wary of the Onstream units, at least the 30 gig unit, I had one years > ago, and Onstream was not interested in fixing the lockups. As well, > some google searching will show you just what people think of their > stuff. > The early 30GB Onstr

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Marcin M. Bis
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:56:23 +0200 "JZidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building a small system for working at home. I would be like to watch > some movies sometimes but I don't know if that's enough: > - Pentium II 266 MHz > - 196 Megs of ram > - graphic card Geforce2 MX Should be sufficien

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:44:34PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Proprietary software won't die in a day, it'll take time for the > > industry to reacquaint itself with it's formerly open past. > > When was this? It's pretty much been this way sinc

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:39:24PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in Debian. > Success and failure is very version, software, and hardware dependent. Glad this has *

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:35:55PM -0700, John Sunderhaus wrote: > > In order to graphically see that Linux *looks better* and *performs > better* than Windoze, you *must* have the following: > > Tons of memory - I'd say at the very minimum, 256MB. > A graphics card that can do a colo

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:39:24 -0500 "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in > Debian. Success and failure is very version, software, and hardware > dependent

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2003-06-22 Thread gabe
Hello, My name is Gabe Lazdins I have been using debian linux for a while now, and i have been using linux (and unix) for about 4 years, I recently got linux on my home computer and i want to connect it to the net but i don't get highspeed internet, No one has been able to tell me how to conn

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and > surely since the 80s. Unix was never free at first. Not until Linux > came around and the BSD's became free. Au contraire! When UNIX was first re

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:02:20 -0700 Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. Well, people who damn "free software holier than thou zealots" certainly don't sound either f

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