Re: restrict x server access with xhost

2003-06-25 Thread David selby
David Z Maze wrote: David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can enable other users to log into my x server with xhost +, I need to do this because I want ro run a program via user web crontab which uses xmessage. Uh, there's no better solution at all? With the default Debian settings,

Re: mboxen

2003-06-25 Thread Oki DZ
Just in case somebody need the same thing... You can create links under ~/evolution/local/ for accessing the mbox files in ~/Mail (or ~/mail). 1. Create a directory under ~/evolution/local; name it as someting to refer to your mbox file, eg: DebianUser. 2. Create a link in ~/evolution/local/De

Re: .Xclients, .xinitrc, .xsessions not read by sys what to use?

2003-06-25 Thread David selby
David Z Maze wrote: David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I run fluxbox and KDE. where can I put setup files ie xhost setup, Most google searches suggest .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessions, ITYM .xsession (singular). On debian, when booting via a graphical login manager (I use KDM)

CD-burning

2003-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I waded through the how-to-burn-knoppix-iso-700Mb-etc thread from a while back, but could not find anything solid to help me... I burned a Knoppix iso on a 700Mb CD-RW on my HP CD-Writer 8100 running Debian Woody using cdrecord. No problems there... However, when I try to burn a CD-R, I

Re: debian

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Johnson wrote: And everybody else has pointed out that Debian doesn't *just* support i386. Knoppix supports only i386, which is why autodetection is worked out there. Debian needs to work out autodetection for fourteen architectures across four kernels. I don't see Knoppix doing that. K

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been attempting to estimate how many Linux users there are and I've > come accross too many differing statistics. > > I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known > u

Re: How many users?

2003-06-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:26:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 00:31:46 +0100, Hugh wrote: > > >you can say number of users >= 31880 unless people subscribe to > >debian-announce twice. > > > >not sure how you would calculate the actual number of un

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 21:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > > For some reason GRUB can't see the files. > > find "/boot/grub/stage1" (or any other file) brings up a 'File > > not found' > > you could try copying the whole of /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to your > /boot/boot Thats what i tend to do [i

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:05, David Z Maze wrote: > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 > > > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> setup (hd0) > >> Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > >> Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > >> Err

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 00:08, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Tue, June 24 at 7:21 PM EDT > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried it on this setup and got: > > > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > > > setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exi

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 09:02, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 > > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your files are in /boot/boot/grub, and they should be in /boot/grub. > > > > > > To solve your problem, do "cp -a /boot/boot/grub /boot". > > > > That's not

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread cr
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03:26, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > > > setup (hd0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > > Checking if "/grub/Stage1"

Re: How many users?

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:26:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm also wondering how this number compares with the number of unique IP > addresses that have downloaded the install CDs. the thing with that is that, of the people who've downloaded cds, many will have copied for their friends =

Re: How to shutup syslog

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:47:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > What do I need to do to stop syslog from sending messages to the virtual > consoles? > > I am operating in a new Debain testing (aka sarge?) system with a 2.4.18 > stock kernel. It's non-graphical, so I'm using different virtual > ter

Re: Going Unstable

2003-06-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:28, Bill Morgan wrote: > A few days ago, Colin Watson referred to > > "...perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6 > version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl > 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's > dependencies, which

Re: Going Unstable

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:01:04PM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 04:28 am, Bill Morgan wrote: > > > Is this a good time to move to unstable, or is there breakage right now? > > > > Should I watch the mailing lists for 12-18 hours after the mirrors update > > to see if

Re: mpeg/mov-->jpg converter

2003-06-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:43, Tim wrote: > Could someone recommend any software that can create .jpg format > still picture from frame of .mpeg or .mov video file? If you want a single picture: xine can make snapshots; you just have to click on this little camera-shaped icon in the GUI. The im

Re: loging iptables to a separate file?

2003-06-25 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Looking at the docs for iptables you can specify log Level (auth, > crit, etc) but I don't see a way of specifying a "facility" such as > local1. I'd like to put all my iptables output logs into a specific > file I can dig through easier than my mes

Re: Howto share package database via nfs & offline ?

2003-06-25 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > Hello, > I want to install debian on all my boxes at work (~20) and have > the package database shared via nfs so that I'd run 'apt-get > update' only once on the 'server' box & have them all updated. > All boxes will use the same apt sources of cou

viewcvs and subversion?

2003-06-25 Thread Magnus Therning
I have managed to get apache2 up and running with viewcvs to share my CVS repositories. Now, I wanted to share my subversion repositories as well, but I run into the following: An Exception Has Occurred Python Traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/viewcvs/viewcvs

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-25 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5 > > (At first, LILO was just hanging with 'LI 99 99 99' and GRub, when I > installed it gave an Error 5 - 'partition table bad'.Eventually

WMaker amd mouse problem

2003-06-25 Thread Christian Langner
Hi, for several days, I have a strange problem concerning WMaker and his windows like KMail, Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla, etc. After a few minutes, I can't click anymore in the Browser or Kmail, but I can move, resize and close the window. I have got to logout, login, and then it works again. Has

unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Jeff Gratton
Hi, I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and can't get it to install properly. I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dist-upgrade it (using "unstable"), I get the following while trying to install libpam0g : E: Internal Error, Could not perform i

viewcvs + svn for Debian unstable

2003-06-25 Thread Magnus Therning
Hi, I had some problems getting the version of viewcvs that is available in Debian unstable with the python2.2-subversion package that is in there too... The attachment contains a diff of the changes that I made... It seems to work except for the fs.FileDiff on line 116 in vclib/svn/__init.py__, I

Re: Going Unstable

2003-06-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Bill Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > Is this a good time to move to unstable, or is there breakage right now? > > Should I watch the mailing lists for 12-18 hours after the mirrors update > to see if there are problems? (And what time is that, again?) > > Or am I just being paran

What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Andrew Ingram
I'm sure I saw glimpse in the apt repository at some point. I'd like to start using it now but when I do apt-get install glimpse, I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package glimpse has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that th

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-25 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On 24 Jun 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: >On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 06:28, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >> Dear all, >--snip-- >> So, it seems if I have the whole boot sequence, it first tries to boot >> from floppy, decides it is nothing in there (though it is), then tries to >> boot from CD, decides it is n

Where is python2.2-doc located?

2003-06-25 Thread Terence Ng
Hi! After I installed python2.2-doc, where can I find it and read the documents? Best regards, Terence ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Where is python2.2-doc located?

2003-06-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:13, Terence Ng wrote: > After I installed python2.2-doc, where can I find it > and read the documents? Tried looking in /usr/share/doc/python2.2-doc/? Also, running "dpkg -L python2.2-doc" will show you what files the package installed. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:37:29AM +, Jeff Gratton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and > can't get it to install properly. > > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dist-upgrade it > (using "unstable"), I get the followin

Re: Found something, but...

2003-06-25 Thread Juergen Stuber
Guldo K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:30:13 +0200 > Juergen Stuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to make me sure I understood, here's what I did: > 1) editing the config file (with vi) > 2) run as root: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5" No need to run as root

Re: Where is python2.2-doc located?

2003-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:13:24PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > After I installed python2.2-doc, where can I find it and read the > documents? 'dpkg -L python2.2-doc' will tell you. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: loging iptables to a separate file?

2003-06-25 Thread Mark Devin
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 19:09, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Looking at the docs for iptables you can specify log Level (auth, > > crit, etc) but I don't see a way of specifying a "facility" such as > > local1. I'd like to put all my iptables output logs int

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > I'm sure I saw glimpse in the apt repository at some point. I'd like to > start using it now but when I do apt-get install glimpse, I get: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package glimpse has no

apt-build problem

2003-06-25 Thread Joel Alexandre
hi, i've just discovere apt-build. it works with some packages and with other it doesn't. example. xine-ui worked fine. gaim and mozilla i just get this error: apt-build --reinstall install mozilla -> Installing build dependencies (for mozilla) <- Reading Package Lists... Done Building D

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Jeff Gratton
Hi Howell, Thank God, I'm not the only one cursed with weird problems :) The PC I'm trying to install is a small P2-350 that simply acts as a firewall / accounts holder. A P2-350MHz with 192MB RAM, 8GB+4GB Hard drives, nothing really esoteric in there. Like you, I wouldn't be inclined to thin

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2003-06-25 Thread Elliott Smith
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Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
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Re: Where is python2.2-doc located?

2003-06-25 Thread Igor Stroh
On Mit, 2003-06-25 at 14:13, Terence Ng wrote: > After I installed python2.2-doc, where can I find it > and read the documents? All docs are usually located at /usr/share/doc/. If you'd like to know where a certain package stores it's files and directories use `dpkg -L ` HTH, Igor -- To UNSUB

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:37:29AM +, Jeff Gratton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and > can't get it to install properly. > > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dist-upgrade it > (using "unstable"), I get the followin

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:16:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > E: Package glimpse has no installation candidate > > > > Has it been obsoleted or removed for some reason? > > Yes, it was removed a long time ago: > > =

USB Floppy drive compatibility?

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm considering replacing the broken floppy drive on my Toshiba Satellite 4000 with a USB FDD. USB is working on this machine for scanner and downloading camera pictures. Can I assume it will also work for the drive? Experience, anyone? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.u

Woody kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 update questions

2003-06-25 Thread Duane Winner
Could somebody please provide a simple breakdown of what I need to do update my kernel? I started installed Debian(Woody) with kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 on some machines few months ago. I was (and still am) new to Debian, and don't understand all of it's nuances yet. I saw the Debian Security Advisory

Re: CD-burning

2003-06-25 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:18, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > I waded through the how-to-burn-knoppix-iso-700Mb-etc thread from a > while back, but could not find anything solid to help me... > > I burned a Knoppix iso on a 700Mb CD-RW on my HP CD-Writer 8100 running > Debian Woody using cdre

Troubles with Gnome2

2003-06-25 Thread strigin
Hi, Vittorio I had the same problem yesterday. Bad date? And I do not know what to do, either. The only difference is I used dselect. Probably it has something to do with the settings in /etc/gconf/2/path. My path is the old one from Gnome 1.4, because without it Gnome2 would not start at all

Correct Java for the Firebird package?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd Pytel
I grabbed the nifty xft-enabled Moz-Firebird package for testing last week, but can't seem to get Java working on it. I was previously using Sun's 1.4.1_02 package along with the compatibility deb for the old C++ library - that worked fine on Debian's Mozilla and on mozilla.org's Phoenix/Firebird.

Re: apt-build problem

2003-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:29, Joel Alexandre wrote: > hi, > i've just discovere apt-build. > > it works with some packages and with other it doesn't. > > example. xine-ui worked fine. > gaim and mozilla i just get this error: Not sure but I think that the mozilla package is empty and depends on o

Re: USB Floppy drive compatibility?

2003-06-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:35:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm considering replacing the broken floppy drive on my Toshiba > Satellite 4000 with a USB FDD. USB is working on this machine for > scanner and downloading camera pictures. Can I assume it will also > work for the drive? Experie

Re: apt-build problem

2003-06-25 Thread Joel Alexandre
mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews give the same erros. i've been looking in the mirror directory (ftp://ftp.linux.pt/pub/mirrors/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla) and there is a tar.gz file for mozilla 1.3.1 in the main/Sources.gz there is a reference to that file. i've tried with fluxbox, xmms, gkr

Re: USB Floppy drive compatibility?

2003-06-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
The USB floppy drive on my Vaio (PCG-Z505HS) works fine, and it appears pretty generic. I can get you particulars if you want - email me offlist. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociolog

nfs problems

2003-06-25 Thread Axel Schlicht
Hi everyone So far I used a nec2000 compatible network card to connect a desktop PC (DT) and a laptop (LT). That card only supported 10 Mbip/sec resulting in an effictive transfer rate of 300 - 400 KB / sec (abysmally slow). So I changed it for a Realtec 8139 based one capable of doing 10 / 100 Mb

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:33, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:16:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > > E: Package glimpse has no installation candidate > > > > > > Has it been obsoleted or removed for some reason? >

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:33:44AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:16:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Maybe htdig or mnogosearch is what you're looking for? > > Those two seem to be for web sites. What about for indexing an > arbitrary collection of text files? This is

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jeff Gratton wrote: > Hi Howell, > > Thank God, I'm not the only one cursed with weird problems :) > > The PC I'm trying to install is a small P2-350 that simply acts as a > firewall / accounts holder. > > A P2-350MHz with 192MB RAM, 8GB+4GB Hard drives, nothing really esoteri

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Fokkema wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:37:29AM +, Jeff Gratton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and > > can't get it to install properly. > > > > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to di

Re: Compiling 2.4.20

2003-06-25 Thread Graeme Tank
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:39:08PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > > I had problems trying to compile the debian kernel-source-2.4.20 using > gcc-3.3 (aparently gcc-3.2 works though) on woody/sarge mix > > In the end I installed gcc-2.95 and then created a symlink from > /usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-2.95

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jeff Gratton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and > can't get it to install properly. > > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dist-upgrade it > (using "unstable"), I get the following while trying to insta

can't upgrade libpam-modules

2003-06-25 Thread John Hawley,,,
Hello, I've got a system running unstable and got this problem when trying to update the packages today. Is there a fix, or is it a problem with the package that will get fixed in the course of things? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:txt# apt-get install libpam-modules Reading Package Lists... Done

i2c and kernel modules

2003-06-25 Thread Danilo Raineri
Hello, I am trying to get to work i2c and lm-sensors on my Debian testing/unstable. I downloaded and installed i2c-source and lm-sensors-source; then extracted them, and proceeded to build the modules like I did with ALSA and nvidia, with a line like this: sudo make-kpkg --append-to-version=-k7-

Re: "DriveReady SeekComplete" errors with new hard drive

2003-06-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:25:20AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I just recently added a new hard drive to my firewall machine and I'm > seeing the following errors: > > Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother

Installing libpam0g : SOLVED

2003-06-25 Thread Jeff Gratton
Hey again :) I followed David Fokkema's idea of upgrading to "testing", then to "unstable" and it worked. I've taken notes of all your suggestions of dpkg -i libpam-modules and libpam0g . I have another machine to set up in a very near future (as if I do nothing else !), this sounds quite effi

Re: dselect issue

2003-06-25 Thread Graeme Tank
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:09:23PM -0400, Howell Evans wrote: > problem that i have no idea how to beat. When i try and do an upgrade i > get these issues > > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on > libpam0g > Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to confi

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:33:44AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > Maybe htdig or mnogosearch is what you're looking for? > > Those two seem to be for web sites. What about for indexing an arbitrary > collection of text files? http://swish-e.org -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBS

Re: HELP : X11 desktop too big

2003-06-25 Thread J F
Hold down keys and Press the keys + or - several times near the NUM-LOCK key until you get a size you like. SamB wrote: Hello ! Thank you for reading this message ! I have a problem with Xwindow : the desktop is too big ! It is bigger than the screen and I just can see a small part of it. Thi

Re: Please help with Sarge and my network card

2003-06-25 Thread J F
You can try booting from knoppix live CD and if it works at that point, copy from ram disk in knoppix to hard disk. Bob Alexander wrote: Dear Friends, I am trying to get Sarge installed on my brand new Thinkpad T40. This little gem has an "Intel(r) Pro/1000 MT Mobile Connection" Gigabit Ethernet ca

Re: dselect issue

2003-06-25 Thread Graeme Tank
See the "unable to install libpam0g ?" thread of 6/25. Graeme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: htmlview hanging in mutt

2003-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030623 07:57]: > i can't read the email of two of my new co-workers. it appears to be > just normal html-formatted email (does anyone have a procmail script > to neatly delete those attachments of html-formatted messages, btw?), > and i can view the message *a

Re: Found something, but...

2003-06-25 Thread Guldo K
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:50:13 +0200 Juergen Stuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No need to run as root, it only changes it for the currently running X. > > > And there's one more odd thing: this works fine, > > but as I reboot, the functions of the wheel have been passed > > to the two left button

Re: i2c and kernel modules

2003-06-25 Thread David Z Maze
Danilo Raineri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get to work i2c and lm-sensors on my Debian testing/unstable. > > I downloaded and installed i2c-source and lm-sensors-source; then extracted > them, and proceeded to build the modules like I did with ALSA and nvidia, > with a line like t

can't get a cdrom "configured" with apt-cdrom

2003-06-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've attempted to create an "update" cdrom, by using; dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages which created a "Packages" file. With this method, the cd I created has everything in the "root" directory. I've been trying to get "apt-cdrom" to add the contents to the listing, so I don't have to r

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030625] Jeff Gratton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dist-upgrade it > (using "unstable"), I get the following while trying to install libpam0g : > > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 07:11, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On 24 Jun 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > The 01's that are being printed to the screen > >are coming from lilo, so the HD is actually booting. > > That's very interesting. --snip-- > I went over the HD, and it seems nothing is lost

boot problem with new kernel-any idas?

2003-06-25 Thread John Foster
I recently downloaded, and using "make-kpkg buildpackage", built a complete new kernel headers...etc. from a tarball( linux-2.4.21) downloaded from www.kernel.org. It installed with no problems, including running lilo. I rebooted and crapped out at the line "freeing unused kernel memory". I ha

Re: .Xclients, .xinitrc, .xsessions not read by sys what to use?

2003-06-25 Thread David Z Maze
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze wrote: > >>Both KDM and GDM offer the concept of "sessions"; you want to make >>sure that you're using the "Debian" session, not one that goes >>straight into GNOME or KDE without reading other dotfiles. >> >> > When you say "Debian session" d

Re: Correct Java for the Firebird package?

2003-06-25 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Todd Pytel: > I grabbed the nifty xft-enabled Moz-Firebird package for testing last > week, but can't seem to get Java working on it. I was previously using > Sun's 1.4.1_02 package along with the compatibility deb for the old C++ > library - that worked fine on Debian's Mozilla and on m

Re: automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:09:51PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:36:18PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in | > 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. | > Is there some way for th

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-25 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On June 22, 2003 04:00 pm, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > vrms (99.5%) keeps me warm at night. :-( > > Root mean square voltage? > damn I've been doing too many engr labs.. :P > > ~leo vrms = Virtual Richard M. Stallman -- it's a package that checks t

Exim log rotation

2003-06-25 Thread Bill Moseley
I'd like to rotate my exim logs weekly instead of daily. In /etc/cron.daily/exim there's: # Cycle logs if [ -x /usr/bin/savelog ]; then for i in mainlog rejectlog paniclog; do if [ -s /var/log/exim/$i ]; then savelog -p -c 10 /var/log/exim/$i >/dev/null fi done fi I could move

Re: Correct Java for the Firebird package?

2003-06-25 Thread LeVA
Hi! I am using the Blackdown java client, but I tried the Sun's java client too with moz firebird. (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html) You must link the javaplugin_oji.so file to ~/.mozilla/plugins dir instead of the ~/.phoenix/plugins dir. If this is not working, try to link tha

Re: Howto share package database via nfs & offline ?

2003-06-25 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030625] Jesse Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why bother with NFS when you can use apt-proxy (apt-cache show > apt-proxy). This seems to be the more robust solution, since as soon > as you install nifty_package_1.0 on 2 of the machines, your nfs-update > solution might suff

Re: Correct Java for the Firebird package?

2003-06-25 Thread Todd Pytel
Thank you, but the directory location is not the problem. My /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins dir is a link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Firebird sees my Flash plugin located there just fine, so I don't think the location is the problem. --Todd On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:19:39 +0200 LeVA <[EMAIL PR

You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread breno . moiana
Greetings! I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got into a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what happens: --- hermes:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]:

Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:47:46PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Fokkema wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:37:29AM +, Jeff Gratton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and > > > can't get it

sql-ledger shows ugly pdf after tetex upgrade in sarge

2003-06-25 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
Hi all, i have installed from source sql-ledger - http://www.sql-ledger.org It has a feature exporting to PDF. All worked fine, exports looked very nice. But after upgrade my Debian Sarge (few days ago) PDF exports looks ugly. I think that the problem is with upgrade tetex to 2.0.2 version which i

Welcome to my hometown

2003-06-25 Thread stecnico
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Re: unable to install libpam0g ?

2003-06-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Adam Garside wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:37:29AM +, Jeff Gratton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install a new Debian system on a replacement machine, and > > can't get it to install properly. > > > > I boot, setup the base system, and as soon as I try to dis

screenshot of mplayer-movie?

2003-06-25 Thread Matthias Leopold
hi although this isn't debian-specific, i hope someone can help me (i AM using debian). how can i make screenshots of playing videos(maybe fullscreen)? i've tried to do this using the import program from ImageMagick, but it obviously doesn't work. somewhere i read that i should disable the xvid

Problem.

2003-06-25 Thread Juani Dios.
Hello I hope that this mail llege to a good place because averigue hisdireccion by Internet. I am of Argentina. I have a problem with myNotebook Toshiba Libretto 70 ct. It does not walk, it needs driver tome and it I cannot find by any side. I have the CD of mà Peruvianbark but not this. And

smbumount: You are not allowed to umount

2003-06-25 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
I am using smbmount to mount a share: $ smbmount //samba/share share -o username=user 679: session request to SAMBA failed (Called name not present) Password: This works, despite whatever that error message is: $ mount ... //samba/share on /home/user

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If it's not the ncurses-devel package that is missing, what could it be? > > Regards, apt-get install libncurses5-dev Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other packages > which matched a search for ncurses on my dselect. My sources for apt are set as libncurses5-dev -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be consistent. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page

Re: boot problem with new kernel-any idas?

2003-06-25 Thread David Z Maze
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently downloaded, and using "make-kpkg buildpackage", built a > complete new kernel headers...etc. from a tarball( linux-2.4.21) > downloaded from www.kernel.org. It installed with no problems, > including running lilo. I rebooted and crapped out at

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got into > a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what happens: > > --- > hermes:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f inclu

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030625 13:06]: > Greetings! > I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got into > a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what happens: > > --- > hermes:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > (

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' > Even then, I cannot find the ncurses-devel package in dselect, nor on debian's > FTP site. > If it's not

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'makemenuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Breno, > I've googled for it, and searched the debian-user lists' archive, and > found nothing useful there, except for one page which refers to SUSE, > and said: That's weird, the solution should have been in the archives. I'll go check.. > Even then, I cannot find the ncurses-devel package

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Wed Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' [...] > However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other packages [...] > Even then, I

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'makemenuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:49:12 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got > into a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what > happens: > > --- > hermes:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/a

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread nori heikkinen
on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] insinuated: > Greetings! > I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got into > a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what happens: > > --- > hermes:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f incl

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