Resolved: How to install Debian 3.0 with an ServeRaid COntroller (ips) ???

2003-07-07 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, with the floppy disk image I could load the ips driver and the problem was solved : http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/2.4.18-bf2.4_scsi_and_bcm570 0_preload_floppy-1440.bin.gz thanks Murat -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: David Dumortier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ge

Problems with GNOME2 and Mozilla in Sid

2003-07-07 Thread Christopher L. Everett
OK, I have _almost_ everything working after a long grind. Here's what's left: 1. in GNOME2: * Important: I can't drag application windows from workspace to workspace. I normally run 8 workspaces, moving windows around to where they do me the most good as I go along. * Annoying: I

Compiling 2.4.20 for Woody

2003-07-07 Thread Christof Hurschler
Hello, I've got a small problem when compiling the 2.4.20 kernel for my woody machine. I've learned how to use make-kpkg which is quite nice, I've also learned how to deal with the .config files, but here is my problem. When I compile the kernel everything works fine, including the modules, excep

Re: Compiling 2.4.20 for Woody

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:31:26 +0200 (MEST) Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im using the original source for 2.4.20, i.e. not a deb package. Is there > anything Debian specific that I may be missing for the kernel to work with > apmd? BTW this isn't machine specific, it happens when

Re: Compiling 2.4.20 for Woody

2003-07-07 Thread Christof Hurschler
I actually did a similar thing except I used the .config file form Knoppix 3.2 and copied it to my /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/.config, renaming the old .config to .config.old. I then used make menuconfig and only chaged the config in that I took out ISDN and PCMCIA support, everything else I left the s

once again: font sizes

2003-07-07 Thread Erhard Schultchen
Hi folks, I know this is a very-FAQ, but I still can't get it working. Environment: Debian/Sid with gnome2. 14" TFT-Display at 1024x768 and X set to 100dpi res. Problem: font sizes in gtk1.2+ applications (sylpheed, openoffice, gimp) are ridicously large (measured about 6mm) Already tried: For

Mozilla bookmarks

2003-07-07 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Why do you need to exit from Mozilla first before the bookmarks get permanently stored on disk? I mean, when you have saved a bookmark and Moz crashes, the new bookmarks wouldn't get stored. Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:57, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 9:10 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On 06 Jul 2003 21:07:42 -0400 > > > > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > > > present time? > > > > > > Th

Re: Problem with X in unstable, screen resolution isn't set to the configured values

2003-07-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Mariano! Mariano Kamp wrote: > since a couple of weeks I have the above described problem. My > monitor shows > that I run with 1024x768. The funny thing is that this resolution is > nowhere to be found in my XF86Config-4 (see attached file). Your "Monitor" Section in the XF86Config-4 l

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm puzzled. A few days ago I installed a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB > hard drive on my system, replacing a fairly old 1 gig drive. I installed it > as slave to my existing 8 gig drive, which holds Debian. I intended to use > it for data (video fil

using numlock to generate numbers in X apps

2003-07-07 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i have an ~/Xmodmap with this content: keycode 79 = Home keycode 87 = End keycode 81 = Prior keycode 89 = Next keycode 83 = Left keycode 88 = Down keycode 85 = Right keycode 80 = Up I specified these keycodes to be able to navigate with the right keypad in apps like Evolution. I found the abo

Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. You might want to check out cron-apt, it's de

Re: once again: font sizes

2003-07-07 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>Hi folks, > >I know this is a very-FAQ, but I still can't get it working. > >Environment: Debian/Sid with gnome2. 14" TFT-Display at 1024x768 and >X set to 100dpi res. > >Problem: font sizes in gtk1.2+ applications (sylpheed, openoffice, gimp) >are ridicously large (measured about 6mm) > >Already

Re: using numlock to generate numbers in X apps

2003-07-07 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:59:10AM +, Benedict Verheyen wrote: } Hi, } } i have an ~/Xmodmap with this content: } keycode 79 = Home } keycode 87 = End } keycode 81 = Prior } keycode 89 = Next } keycode 83 = Left } keycode 88 = Down } keycode 85 = Right } keycode 80 = Up } } I specified these

CUPS in Woody, problem with command enable?

2003-07-07 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, I installed CUPS under woody. Configuration works well under Mozilla. But the command "enable" always fails, as shown below. enable fp bash: enable: fp: not a shell builtin Any idea? Thanks. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

How should I do if I want to install a non .deb or .rpm package and..?

2003-07-07 Thread Zhao YouBing
I know if I don't use dpkg, the depence may be broken, many programs such as j2sdk, u can't get the deb package( I want to use the latest and don't want to use blackdown's) How should I do?? But, maybe, I can just install it, just like what I've done on Redhat :) -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student S

Re: Suggestion for pop3

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander Meyer
On Mon, 7 Juli 2003 14:47:51 +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Hello, what can you suggest for a pop3server with ssl support? > Im using a default exim package, I was hoping it's a package too. i'm using courier, wich is quite nice. it also supports the maildir format, wich allows faster acc

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030706] Thomas Krennwallner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Take a look at The Software-RAID HOWTO: [1]. It briefly describes the > various RAID levels. > > So long > Thomas > >1. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Another great (& debian-specific) how-to is : http://www.mid

What directories can be shared between multiple distributions onthe same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Zhao YouBing
If I want to install multiple distributions on one machine, there should be some parts that can be shared, such as SWAP, /tmp(if u made it a separate partition), but can we share /usr, /var? What should be done carefully to share them? thanks -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030706] Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been successfully booting into Debian-3.0 using LILO. > > Having used GRUB for many years on other systems, I decided to go > ahead and install/configure it. Here (similar to what was suggested > by another poster) is what I did: > >

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Mon Jul 07, 2003 at 01:03:28PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > Another great (& debian-specific) how-to is : > http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index/en.html The above link didn't work, but here ist the html doc: http://www.midhgard.it/docs/lvm/html/index.html So long Thomas -- .''`. Ob

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-07 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030706] Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > present time? I use it in 10 workstations in a production environment without problems so far, however I wouldn't suggest to put in a production server, where high-availa

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Lukas Ruf
Hallo Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 12:31]: > If I want to install multiple distributions on one machine, there should > be some parts that can be shared, > such as SWAP, /tmp(if u made it a separate partition), but > can we share /usr, /var? What should be done carefully to share t

Re: CUPS in Woody, problem with command enable?

2003-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Qian Gong wrote: > I installed CUPS under woody. Configuration works well under Mozilla. > But the command "enable" always fails, as shown below. > > enable fp > bash: enable: fp: not a shell builtin enable is a built-in command in bash. CUPS' choice of c

Re: CUPS in Woody, problem with command enable?

2003-07-07 Thread Erhard Schultchen
Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > > I installed CUPS under woody. Configuration works well under Mozilla. > But the command "enable" always fails, as shown below. "enable" is a built-in command by the ba-shell. I do not know how someone came to the great idea to choose "enable" for

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-07 Thread cr
On Sunday 06 July 2003 21:49, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > cr wrote: > > Just continuing to get my setup sorted I need an overview of ATAPI > > cd-writer installation under Debian. > > > > I've read the HOWTOs but I tend to get bogged down and confused in all > > the details. And in t

Re: once again: font sizes

2003-07-07 Thread Erhard Schultchen
"Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >The default font specification should be outside of > any style blocks and should be specified with the gtk-font-name > keyword. For example: gtk-font-name = "Verdana 11" thanks a lot, this one did it! Regards, Erhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:37:18PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Hallo Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 12:31]: > > If I want to install multiple distributions on one machine, there should > > be some parts that can be shared, > > such as SWAP, /tmp(if u made it a separate partition), but

cd player sound

2003-07-07 Thread Peter Ross
For some reason my cd players (kde, gnome and xmms)on a woody machine look as if they are playing the cd but are not outputing to the sound card. I know the sound is working because the kde intro works and my 3d games have sound. Does anyone know what is misconfigured. I installed a package (xmcd

Re: cd player sound

2003-07-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Peter Ross wrote: > For some reason my cd players (kde, gnome and xmms)on a woody machine look as if > they are > playing the cd but are not outputing to the sound card. I know the sound is > working because the kde intro works and my 3d games have sound. Does > anyone know wh

Re: A bit OT: conversion mp3 to wav

2003-07-07 Thread Vittorio
Sebastian Kapfer [debian-user] <05/07/03 18:59 +0200>: > On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:50:08 +0200, vdemar wrote: > > > E.g., If I issue the basic command > > > > mpg123 -w weare.wav weare.mp3 > [...] > > Illegal instruction > > Did this break with a recent update? It sounds like mpg123 uses an > inst

Re: How should I do if I want to install a non .deb or .rpm package and..?

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Zhao YouBing wrote: > I know if I don't use dpkg, the depence may be broken, > many programs such as j2sdk, u can't get the deb package( I want to use > the latest and don't want to use blackdown's) > > How should I do?? > > But, maybe, I can just install it, just like what I've done on R

From mp3 to CD

2003-07-07 Thread Vittorio
I'm using xcdroast under debian testing to roast my CDs from wav files. Is there any plugin to roast mp3 files without converting into wav? OR Any other program (instead of xcdroast, I mean)? Ciao Vittorio pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

/usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread Zhao YouBing
for install programs? It think the FHS doesn't state it very clearly. There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access and /opt can be made globally sharable, but besides that are there any factors more important which can tell me which should be my dest dir when I instal

Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread Lukas Ruf
Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 13:37]: > There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access > and /opt can be made globally sharable, > but besides that are there any factors more important which can tell me > which should be my dest dir when I install some prog

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributionson the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Zhao YouBing
So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can unite into one, anyway, there is only one breed of kernel. When u use some distributions u lost the freedom of using others. Though they almost have almost same contents, tiny difference in /usr and other directories made

Silly questions (speed, fonts, kernel)

2003-07-07 Thread Tom
Hey all, My mother-in-law-to-become has won a laptop somewhere. It's a no name ECS A907 or something the like, which I managed to get to run X just fine (after three days of poking around, and with lots of help from dga.co.uk/howto and winischhofer.net). While the result is definitely, ehm, useful

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:36:24PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote: > So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can > unite into one, > anyway, there is only one breed of kernel. > > When u use some distributions u lost the freedom of using others. > > Though they almost hav

Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread Zhao YouBing
Lukas Ruf wrote: Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 13:37]: There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access and /opt can be made globally sharable, but besides that are there any factors more important which can tell me which should be my dest dir when I inst

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Am Montag, 7. Juli 2003 13:23 schrieb cr: > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod. Can they also be loaded > via modprobe? And - this is probably a stupid question but, where would > I find these modules - sg, sr_mod and ide-scsi? insmod can't find > them - > > insmod: sg: no

Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Lukas Ruf wrote: Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 13:37]: There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access and /opt can be made globally sharable, but besides that are there any factors more important which can tell me which should be my dest dir when I insta

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:47:45PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote: > So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can > unite into one, > anyway, there is only one breed of kernel. /me humms something about Debian GNU/hurd.. ;) -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: From mp3 to CD

2003-07-07 Thread Mark C
Once upon a time Vittorio was quoted as saying: > I'm using xcdroast under debian testing to roast my CDs from wav files. > OR > > Any other program (instead of xcdroast, I mean)? Yeah I tried k3b (being a gnome freak, I was hesitant to try a kde app, but..) and its been brilliant, just drag my

Re: Problems with GNOME2 and Mozilla in Sid

2003-07-07 Thread James Strandboge
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 03:03, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > * Minor Inconvenience: It takes 8 seconds from the time I click the > "Help" button in a GNOME2 configuration applet to the time I can > read the help. This is on an Athlon 1400+, not exactly a slow PC. > unfortunately th

Re: server version, stable or testing?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this > sort of application, even though thats what I ru

Getting original GLX back

2003-07-07 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Some time ago i changed in my XFree enviroment to the vendor driver "nvidia" (Xfree driver is "nv"). This driver installes its own GLX to gain access to hardware OGL functions. Now i switched back to "nv" wich has no hardware support. I had to disable GLX in the XFConfig because of binary i

Re: CUPS in Woody, problem with command enable? [Solved]

2003-07-07 Thread Qian Gong
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:44:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Qian Gong wrote: > > I installed CUPS under woody. Configuration works well under Mozilla. > > But the command "enable" always fails, as shown below. > > > > enable fp > > bash: enable: fp: no

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to 70 columns so people can more readily read and respond to what you're saying. On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:47:23PM +0800, jianan wrote: > 3. What is the reason? Is there a bug? After having found the MBR to > be bigger

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-07 Thread Jérôme Warnier
Le sam 05/07/2003 à 17:47, Andreas Wüst a écrit : > (please cc me since I am not subscribed to the -gtk-gnome list) > > (Please note that I've alredy asked this question on -user, but nobody > seemed to know the answer) > > Hi > > I've installed gnome2 from unstable and am running mozilla 1.0 f

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:34:35AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > you cannot mix different speed drives on the same ide cable ... > - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB buffer disks > ( the hw doesnt know what to do ) That's odd. Not to say "That's stupid." The whole poi

Re: kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x ?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:12:42PM +0100, Shango Oluwa wrote: > Why, if 2.4.x is more recent & secure, is my Debian 3 (woody) CD > distribution built with kernel 2.2.20 ? Cause 2.4 wasn't out long enough to be well tested before Woody came out. - --

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:07:42PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > present time? It's kind of like Soylent Cola: It varies from person to person. What, specifically, do you plan t

Re: once again: font sizes

2003-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 11:00:36 +0200 Erhard Schultchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > I know this is a very-FAQ, but I still can't get it working. > > Environment: Debian/Sid with gnome2. 14" TFT-Display at 1024x768 and > X set to 100dpi res. > > Problem: font sizes in gtk1.2+ app

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-07 Thread Bertrand PERRINE
just add these entries to your apt sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/mozilla-1.3/ deb-src http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/mozilla-1.3/ B.

Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Marc Trudeau
Title: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"? Dear List, I’m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had trouble using Glimpse to filter out “wheel mouse”. I hope I’m not belaboring a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administra

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote: > On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are > part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my > Debian system and lack the experi

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Adam Garside
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote: > Dear List, > > I?m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had > trouble using Glimpse to filter out ?wheel mouse?. I hope I?m not belaboring > a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. > > On my Mac (a flavo

Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:41, Zhao YouBing wrote: > for install programs? > > It think the FHS doesn't state it very clearly. > > There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access > and /opt can be made globally sharable, > but besides that are there any factors more important whi

Re: From mp3 to CD

2003-07-07 Thread Jörg Volkmann
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 13:40:14 +0200, Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--0F1p//8PRICkK4MW >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline > >I'm using xcdroast under debian testing to roast my CDs from wav files. > >Is there any plugin to roast mp3 files without conver

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:34:35AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > you cannot mix different speed drives on the same ide cable ... > > - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB buffer disks > > ( the hw doesnt know what to do ) > > That'

Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

2003-07-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 02:40:06 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> Creating this as a symlink is possible, though it breaks in edge cases. >> Most notably, loopback mounts aren't properly freed. > >Hmm. The "user" mount opti

USB mouse not recognized till after gpm starts

2003-07-07 Thread Kent West
I've got a Del Optiplex GX260 with a USB mouse. When I boot up, gpm starts before the USB mouse driver stuff kicks in, therefore gpm doesn't see the mouse. After I get logged in, I can then run "/etc/init.d/gpm restart" and the mouse works just fine. How do I go about getting the mouse driver w

RE: ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Kahle
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Try: > chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi > add yourself to the "audio" group under /etc/group -- mine looks like > this: audio:x:29:emmajane,root > instructions from: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3

Re: How should I do if I want to install a non .deb or .rpm packageand..?

2003-07-07 Thread David Z Maze
Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know if I don't use dpkg, the depence may be broken, > many programs such as j2sdk, u can't get the deb package( I want to > use the latest and don't want to use blackdown's) > > How should I do?? Install it under /usr/local; the packaging system won't

ACPI on Debian

2003-07-07 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Was someone here able to use ACPI on Debian or any other Linux flawlessly? My Win2k lets me set my PC to a compleet sleep/standby state... (S3). I wanted that too for my Debian here. I read some docs about ACPI on Linux and rebuilt my kernel where i enabled ACPI and disabled APM. My Chip su

Re: Wireless setup questions

2003-07-07 Thread David Z Maze
Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. I'm now getting a "choose networking interface" option at > bootup. How can I disable this? You must have installed a package that provides this; you might look through the list of installed packages in something like aptitude. Looking through the link

Re: Problems with GNOME2 and Mozilla in Sid

2003-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 02:03:19 -0500 "Christopher L. Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. in GNOME2: > > * Important: I can't drag application windows from workspace to > workspace. I normally run 8 workspaces, moving windows around > to where they do me the most good as I go alo

Root password 2 times and Tape problem

2003-07-07 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, if I want to login remotely I have to enter the root password 2 times.It asks the password again after the first time. Why does it accept the same password at the second time? Another problem with my new DLT VS80, it is connected to an Adaptec Controller : SCSI subsystem driver Revision:

Re: Getting original GLX back

2003-07-07 Thread Emilio J. Padrón
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:56:38PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > Some time ago i changed in my XFree enviroment to the vendor driver "nvidia" > (Xfree driver is "nv"). This driver installes its own GLX to gain access to > hardware OGL functions. Now i switched back to "nv" wich has no

Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread David Z Maze
Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for install programs? In Debian, I'd always use /usr/local and never /opt. > There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access > and /opt can be made globally sharable, ...huh? /usr/local is just as globally sharable as any other

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:20:25 +0200 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:37:18PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: >> >> I assume: >> swap -- without problems >> usr -- I wouldn't since all distros make use of slightly different >> configurations >> etc -- dito

Re: From mp3 to CD

2003-07-07 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> Any other program (instead of xcdroast, I mean)? I use mp3burn. It's command-line based, and uses other programs to do the actual work. You can apt-get it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group

2003-07-07 Thread Cristian Escalante
> De: Paul Johnson > Data: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 06:43:18 -0700 > Assunto: Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"? > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote: > > On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are > > part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find

SOLVED: OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

2003-07-07 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: However, apparently the most recent smbclient in Sid no longer shows the IP address. How can I determine the IP address of "somePC" ("smbclient -L" still finds the PC; it just doesn't report the IP address anymore). Todd Pytel wrote: Did you try plain old "nmblookup PCname" ?

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:26:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi > > > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs > > > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new > > > one-- so now I have 2 HDs,

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:17:41AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:20:25 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:37:18PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > >> > >> I assume: > >> swap -- without problems > >> usr -- I wouldn't since all distro

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:03:23PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi > > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs > > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new one-- so now > > I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:04:36AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I'd recommend not doing anything with the 40GB drive except running > badblocks -n on it for a few days, just to make sure it's OK. If it's > in any way dubious, using it for RAID is somewhat pointless, and using > it for backup purposes

Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

2003-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: | I'm in the process of setting up port forwarding to bypass my spam-crazy | ISP. I've got everything working, but I'd like to try putting the port | forwarding information into .fetchmailrc. | | Right now I run from the command lin

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:40:21AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:03:23PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > Will your Mom buy me a hard drive, too? How about Colin, and Jamin, > > and Martin, and Paul, and Pigeon, and Shri, and ... ;) > > LOL *blush* Nah, I don't think

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:23:25 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod. Can they also be loaded > via modprobe? And - this is probably a stupid question but, where would > I find these modules - sg, sr_mod and ide-scsi? insmod can't find > them - >

Re: ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers

2003-07-07 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:30:06AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: > This worked perfectly. Thanks. I did already have myself added to that > group, I did not know that you have to log in and then log out in order to > notify the OS that you are now part of a group. Great!! > I am not sure what you

Re: Wireless setup questions

2003-07-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 07 July 2003 11:02 am, David Z Maze wrote: >Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1. I'm now getting a "choose networking interface" option at >> bootup. How can I disable this? > >You must have installed a package that provides this; you might look >through the list of installed pac

Re: ACPI on Debian

2003-07-07 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:07:46PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I can echo to /proc/acpi/sleep anything i wont and get no or unusefull > results. > S1 -> noting happens > S3 -> nothing happens (ok not supportet by 2.4 kernel) > S4 -> noting happens > S5 -> my system looses all its power and r

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
km> I recommend making a boot floppy: km> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Well I was able to make the boot floppy ... But *now*, I can't even run "grub-install /dev/hda" without an error message: /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive Note that I can co

Re: Getting original GLX back

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:56:38 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i get my old GLX back? Of wichpacket is it part of? MESA? XFree? The files should still be there. Just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to load the old modules when starting X. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Andrés Roldán
You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) and rerun grub-install. Try the following: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition table. Then run: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=443 count=1 After the 443 byte it is th

Re: Wireless setup questions

2003-07-07 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:39:34 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'Choose current network environment' screen at boot. Grepping through /etc > didn't reveal any startup scripts with a similar message. I seem to recall > that being mentioned during sid's install, but I can't quite remember

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Andrés Roldán
Andrés Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) and rerun > grub-install. Try the following: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 > > this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition table. Then run: > > dd if=/dev/zer

Re: Wireless setup questions

2003-07-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 07 July 2003 12:58 pm, Kevin McKinley wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:39:34 -0400 > >Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 'Choose current network environment' screen at boot. Grepping through /etc >> didn't reveal any startup scripts with a similar message. I seem to recall >> that bei

ACPI HOWTO v1.1

2003-07-07 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
This is a public service announcement to let you know I've finally finished version 1.1 of ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI HOWTO for short). Version 1.1 acknowledges the 2.4.21 kernel. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/ As always, comments are welcome! Please note that t

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ar> You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) ar> and rerun grub-install. Try the following: ar> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 ar> this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition ar> table. Then run: ar> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=443

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Zhao YouBing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 04:49]: > So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can > unite into one, > anyway, there is only one breed of kernel. > > When u use some distributions u lost the freedom of using others. > > Though they almost have almost sa

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ar> Err, it is 446 :) Made no difference ... grub-install *still* gives the error message and exits ... -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 July 2003 02:37 am, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Hallo Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 12:31]: > > If I want to install multiple distributions on one machine, there > > should be some parts that can be shared, > > such as SWAP, /tmp(if

Re: ACPI on Debian

2003-07-07 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Monday 07 July 2003 18:43, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:07:46PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > I can echo to /proc/acpi/sleep anything i wont and get no or unusefull > > results. > > S1 -> noting happens > > S3 -> nothing happens (ok not supportet by 2.4 kernel) > >

"cold start" stability issues

2003-07-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been noticing some very strange problems with my primary desktop. I normally don't shut ever shut it off and everything works great. No crashes, no lockups, no instability. However, any time I shut it off for a while before turning it back on, it becomes extremely unstable. It will crash, lock

Re: Getting original GLX back

2003-07-07 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Monday 07 July 2003 18:49, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:56:38 +0200 > > Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can i get my old GLX back? Of wichpacket is it part of? MESA? XFree? > > The files should still be there. > > Just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to load the

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Danthevb6man
In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it might have been co-incidence that the harddrive burnt out same time you installed l

RE: "cold start" stability issues

2003-07-07 Thread C. R. Oldham
> Everything that attaches to a motherboard tends to do so > quite firmly, and for good reason. Any suggestions? I'd still crack your case and go inside, reseat all the chips (just push down on the socketed ones, take out & replace memory DIMMS, and make sure your processor is seated well). Migh

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