RE: Change font?

2003-07-13 Thread The Nyc0n
Here is the only thing I have found in my XF86Config-4 file that references fonts, is this what I am suppose to have by default? I don't know why it would change on an upgrade, its very hard to read it I don't think it was a wise choice if it was suppose to be like that Here it is: Section "Fil

Re: bash: let exp ? exp : exp problem

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:20:08 +0200, David selby wrote: Hello, I am trying to get a bash script to work which will hibernate till 1:00 am, it appears to work OK Ahh, the bash :-) let $_mintoone -gt 1440:_mintoone=$_mintoone-1440 let 'toone = toone > 1440 ?

NVIDIA - shared memory identifier

2003-07-13 Thread Alexandru Savescu
hi, i'm having a quite curious problem: my debian box running kernel 2.4.21 with a NVIDIA GeForece2MX TwinView card and XFree86 4.3.0 won't start X after the installation of the nvidia driver and returns a FreeBSD specific error message. the following are the few lines provided in a nvidia fere

Re: Gnome2.2, Sawfish, window dramas

2003-07-13 Thread Menaka Lashitha Bandara
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 16:38, SYNeR wrote: > Have you tried changing the panel type? IIRC, you need to use an edge panel > so windows don't "overlap" the panel. If you use a floating panel, which I > assume > you're using, windows will overlap the panel. It's an edge panel. By default the panel at

Re: Question about kernel upgrade

2003-07-13 Thread Joachim Smit
Hi ! I marked the Realtek 8139 and the VIA Rhine in menuconfig and everything works fine now. eth0 became eth1 and vice versa but that's not a problem. Thank you all. Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:16:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo) > which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process > this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25. > > This start happening a while back. i guess

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello >> If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely >> that you >> have an unstable source in you apt list. But to answer your question: > > I don't believe this is correct. > > I recall there was (is?) a bug in the official distribution which caused > woody CDs to repor

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:15:08AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > If I apt-get install kde or kde-core or kdebase, it eventually states I > need kdelibs, kdelibs-data kdelibs4, all of which I've tried to install. > In short, I'm kinda in a dependancy h

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:29:05PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:06, Colin Watson wrote: > > murphy, a.k.a. lists.debian.org, has been having some major problems > > over the last day or two. Just wait a while for things to clear. > > I am curious, what sort of problems ?

bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Hello, I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do . done works just file with _scantox holding the file name, However some of the file names are in the form of 342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update ie they have escaped spaces in the name. I

Re: Settings for Konsole? Where are they? (KDE3.1.2 Debian sid)

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:06:14PM +0200, Kay Obermueller wrote: > Hello all, > where are the settings for the Konsole stored? The display of midnight > commander in Konsole is terrible. Where there should be a frame line there > are lines of 0's. I th

Error compiling XFree86 4.3

2003-07-13 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, It fails when it can't find zlib.h. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm usually ok at building, having been a sw engineer(!), but this build system is like Greek to me (i.e. I don't have a clue!). Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

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Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, July 13 at 11:05 AM EDT David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. > >for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do >. >done > >works just file with _scantox holding the file name, However some of the >file names are in the form of >342345

mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have outgoing messages saved to a gzipped mbox? If so, how does one accomplish this? I've googled for a solution, but I just keep getting gobs and gobs of other people's muttrcs, none of them have the answer. - -- .''`. Paul

Re: Error compiling XFree86 4.3

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello > It fails when it can't find zlib.h. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm > usually ok at building, having been a sw engineer(!), but this build > system is like Greek to me (i.e. I don't have a clue!). You need the header files for zlib. Install zlib1g-dev if you use Woody. If you use testi

Package installation for users?

2003-07-13 Thread omeyerICQ
Hi, can a non root user 'install' a debian package in his home directory (or somewhere else, locally)? Is there a default place (in a package / on the web) to look for relocation information? I'm not on the mailing-list myself, so please reply not (only) to the list, but (also) to my personal em

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:06:44 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have outgoing messages saved to a gzipped mbox? If > so, how does one accomplish this? I've googled for a solution, but I > just keep getting gobs and gobs of other people's muttrcs, none of > them have

PCMCIA Modem, devfs

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, I'm trying to use a new Xircom Ethernet/Modem PC-Card with my Debian/unstable notebook. The problem I see, as far as I could get, is that the card is initialized OK, but the /dev/ttySxx -link is not created. I tryed the card booting the KNOPPIX-liveCD which recognized it all fine, and afte

Where to put unicode_start

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, after a system update of my debian/testing some months ago I had a problem with the console-fonts displaying garbage. After some long time looking for what was making the problems I found out that I needed to start /usr/bin/unicode_start. Now my problem is where should it be called. I put

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 13 July 2003 00:15, Rus Hughes wrote: > Thanks, I just tried this and it works, which is great! \o/ The > performance is utterly lousy though, moving windows about and scrolling > in epiphany etc but I assume the DRI thing will sort that out if I get > it sussed. Did you leave "no_accel"

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread Jeff Schaller
> David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. > >However some of the file names are in the form of > >342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update > > > >ie they have escaped spaces in the name. > >Without resorting to complex string manipulati

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:14:53AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Well, I googled on "mutt mboz gzip" and came up with the muttrc here: > http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:N_HY6Wb7CTAJ:muttfr.org/mutt/perso/vv/muttrc.html+mutt+gzip+mbox&hl=en&ie=UTF

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:55:02 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right, yes, that is in the Debian version of mutt by default and it > works like a charm for everything else, I just can't figure out how to > use it for a gzipped folder as the record... Wherps, sorry. Erm, ok, dumb

OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread martin f krafft
Folks, Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive faults. I know about IDE and that it's "consumer quality" and no more, but it can't be the case that the failure rate is that high. The drives are mostly made by

Re: Pixels get messed up in X

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Rosenbauer
Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2003 00:58 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I installed Debian for the 1st time last night but I am having trouble > with X. Where I click buttons or drag windows the pixels get messed > up.This is only around the area where I have clicked and moved the > mouse. > Assuming

Re: Installing Intel Fortran on debian - db3 errors ?

2003-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:37:13PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: > I am trying to install intel fortran 90 compiler on debian unstable. > I get the following error : > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > In

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread martin f krafft
What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives. I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce any error information. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian develo

Changing from Woody to sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Kay-Michael Voit
Hi, I'm running a Woody system. Now I would liken to change to Sarge, but I don't get along with the Sarge installer. It fails to load libcudeb an (Inofficial DVD Image/Network install/...) Can I just update my old Woody installation to Sarge completely? What doo I have to do with apt-get? -

Re: mutt: record to gzipped mbox?

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:59:36AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wherps, sorry. Erm, ok, dumb question, do the docs ever mention > that it would work as the default for sent mail? From what I > gathered from the muttrc examples it would work for ho

what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-13 Thread martin f krafft
Rene isn't answering my mails. What happened to the FreeS/WAN kernel patches? kernel-patch-freeswan-ext is gone, and kernel-patch-freeswan is back to 1.96 (with 1.99 being the current version). Moreover, freeswan-modules-source seems to be new. I hope that Debian doesn't expect people to run FreeS

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread Brian Gonzales
> > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > Yeah, that can work. > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to completely remove *only* KDE, then, do a fresh KDE install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Changing from Woody to sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:40:16 +0200, Kay-Michael Voit wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a Woody system. > Now I would liken to change to Sarge, but I don't get along with the > Sarge installer. It fails to load libcudeb an (Inofficial DVD > Image/Network install/...) > Can I just update my old Woody

Re: X's "default console input source" = /dev/what? [Solved]

2003-07-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:32, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:23:15PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > My own > > > suspicion is that it *could* be looking for the virtual console on which > > > X11 is running, particularly if t

Re: Kernel compile error with make-kpkg

2003-07-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:15:13 +0200 "Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ past traffic trimmed ] > > The funny part is that if I do a "make dep && make && make modules" > there is no error message and it compile correct. why is that? Read your original error messages again. You'r

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 07:20:09AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > > > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > > > Yeah, that can work. > > > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to > completely

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-13 Thread Adam Garside
Another approach, and the suggested one is to check www.apt-get.org for a backport of the sid packages you require. You might also attempt to backport a package yourself, though kde is quite non-trivial. asg On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:50:26PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 a

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:45:21AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Maybe not. The site is NLA. I've emailed Daniel Stone to see where > > his Woody backports live these days, meanwhile if anyone knows where > > they are, please feel free to share! > > > > Antony > > Righ

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-13 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Henning Moll wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:28, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eject /dev/hdc < eject returns an error eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument I got the same problem here. But then i realised, that the command works for root. So i think it

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-13 Thread Paladin
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:36:27 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may seem obvious but which fonts have you installed in X. Is this what you're asking: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base xfonts-base-transcoded xfonts-scalabl

Re: Line drawing character missing?

2003-07-13 Thread Paladin
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:55:16 -0400 Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't a font problem, it's a language/encoding problem. > > Run "dpkg-reconfigure locales". > > From the list choose one of the options beginning with "pt" (I > suspect you want "pt_PT ISO 8859-1"). I've that se

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody. > >> > > > > There is your problem. The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that > >

Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE

2003-07-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 13 July 2003 14:20, Brian Gonzales wrote: > > > Can I just shitcan all of KDE and start with a fresh install? > > > > Yeah, that can work. > > Well, my question didn't come out as I expected. Is there a command to > completely remove *only* KDE, then, do a fresh KDE install. It depends o

Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo) > which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process > this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25. > > This start happening a while back. > > Anyone know why this might be happ

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:05:41 +0100 David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do . done Why use ls? Use the shell's globbing. IE, poor man's ls: bash-2.05b$ echo * De

Re: Changing from Woody to sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:20:22 +0200 Kay-Michael Voit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a Woody system. > Now I would liken to change to Sarge, but I don't get along with the > Sarge installer. It fails to load libcudeb an (Inofficial DVD > Image/Network install/...) > Can I just u

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Jeff Schaller wrote: David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it. However some of the file names are in the form of 342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update ie they have escaped spaces in the name. Without resorting to c

bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ... in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" Below is the portion of code that is causing problems for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do _scantox=${_scantox// /\\ } echo $_scantox cat "$_scantox" | xmessage -fn 9x15 -center -buttons OK,Print,

Apache fails to start after dist upgrade 2.2 to 3

2003-07-13 Thread Gordon Chapman
Just upgraded from Debian 2.2 to 3.0, fortunately on a test machine, but now Apache won't start. Problem I presume is related to Tomcat. Error given is Syntax error on line 69 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'JkWorkersFile', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the

Re: bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?

2003-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:47:39PM +0100, David selby wrote: > Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ... > in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" > Below is the portion of code that is causing problems > > for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do > _scantox=${_scantox// /\\ } Per

What do you suggest ?

2003-07-13 Thread Joachim Smit
I am configuring a router for a friend of mine. The last few weeks I've been trying to make it work with Redhat 9, but although I've quite some experience with iptables, I couldn't make it work. I think the reason is that he has a PPTP-connection to his ISP, and the combination Redhat 9 - PPT

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 06:51, martin f krafft wrote: > Folks, > > Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE > Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive > faults. I know about IDE and that it's "consumer quality" and no > more, but it can't be the case tha

PS1 in .bashrc

2003-07-13 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I encountered a trifling problem in my .bashrc: . . # Define some colors: RED='\e[1;31m' cyan='\e[0;36m' CYAN='\e[1;36m' YELLOW='\e[1;33m' NC='\e[0m' # No Color ...

crash on shutdown

2003-07-13 Thread Jaque Moreau
My freshly installed debian often crashes on shutdown when calling the umountfs script and my /usr partition is not unmounted. I use kernel-image-2.4.18-686 with ext2 on woody. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:59:04PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Rene isn't answering my mails. What happened to the FreeS/WAN kernel > patches? kernel-patch-freeswan-ext is gone, and > kernel-patch-freeswan is back to 1.96 (with 1.99 being the current > version). Moreover, freeswan-modules-sourc

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:18, martin f krafft wrote: > What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives. > I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce > any error information. Martin, Try checking the drives on yet another machine; How old are these machines

OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, This is fairly OT but I'd be interested to hear your ideas on this subject. First a little background information. I may have the opportunity to develop an application that will enable quadriplegics and other severely disabled persons to communicate by selecting common phrases from a set

Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:47:47 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have framebuffer support enabled in the kernel (and it works with > your card) you can try vga=791. That will give you 1024x768 (128 columns > x 48 rows) at 16 bpp. It's what I use on my laptop to avoid

Re: OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "LS" == Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LS> Hi, This is fairly OT but I'd be interested to hear your ideas LS> on this subject. First a little background information. I LS> may have the opportunity to develop an application that will LS> enable quadriplegics and

2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a good time to get a head start. Any particular things I should watch out for? I'm going

Re: bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?

2003-07-13 Thread David selby
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:47:39PM +0100, David selby wrote: Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ... in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" Below is the portion of code that is causing problems for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do _scantox=${_scantox//

IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 connection and am wondering how to proceed. I'm assuming (hoping) that it's not much more difficult than USB storage devices. i.e. Load a low-level 1394 dr

X 4.3 equivs

2003-07-13 Thread Piero
I compiled, just for th fun of doing it once, X 4.3. Now I shoud build the equivs files for apt. I suppose I have to download the equivs package. And then: which equivs should I build? Please: do not bother to tell me a detaild list. Just tell me: how can I know which equvs should be builded? --

Re: IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just > ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 > connection and am wondering how to proceed. I'm assuming (hoping) that > it's not mu

Re: PS1 in .bashrc

2003-07-13 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:30:10 +0200, Robin Gerard wrote: > with this PS1 I get: > > [18:31 : 0.16] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1] ~$ > > but if I write a very long command the cursor remains on the same line and > overlaps the prompt. >From "man bash": > \[ begin a sequence of non‐printing chara

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-13 Thread Ahmed Charles
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. Thanks Ahmed Charles _ Ad

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-13 Thread Ahmed Charles
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. Thanks Ahmed Charles _ Ti

USB CD-RW for linux

2003-07-13 Thread Ahmed Charles
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. Thanks Ahmed Charles _ MS

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread aradorlinux
El 13 Jul 2003 13:25:10 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > for? I'm going to be using make-kpkg and friends to do all the work. Any > issues with that? Also, how about .config? Can I just copy over my > 2.4.21 .config and add new selections as necessary? Well, currently we've k

Re: USB CD-RW for linux

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:59, Ahmed Charles wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB > CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I > don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows. > > Thanks > > Ahmed Charles

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-13 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Brian McGroarty wrote: sid is pretty stable for most people. It is pretty usable, however take care of problematic combinations of platform/day of week when upgrading from a fresh woody install. Avoid PPC/Saturday, if posible. :P Regards, Ismael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Sunday 13 July 2003 20:25, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm > looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus > has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a > good time to get a head st

Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
Okay I only used the exclamation marks to get your attention. My problem is that I had to change my IP address from dhcp to static to setup my dlink broadband router then I changed eth0 back to dhcp. Now upon rebooting my laptop if I don't have my cable plugged in it takes along time for it to ge

Re: Change font?

2003-07-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:02:05AM -0400, The Nyc0n wrote: > Here is the only thing I have found in my XF86Config-4 file that > references fonts, is this what I am suppose to have by default? I don't A couple months or so ago, an update to XFree86 changed the default order of fonts. If you are us

I need a really good radius server...

2003-07-13 Thread James Myers
I need some suggestions for a good radius server. Thanks James <>

Re: Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Bruce Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I only used the exclamation marks to get your > attention. My problem is that I had to change my IP > address from dhcp to static to setup my dlink > broadband router then I changed eth0 back to dhcp. > Now u

Re: Mozilla Very Very slow in rendering

2003-07-13 Thread Mark C
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 00:48, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Is the redhat mozilla using XFT? I'd guess offhand no... I'm pretty sure it it, as its anti aliased > Out of curiosity, are you running an NVidia card? If so, you can use: > >Option "RenderAccel" "on" Yes I am, I'll give that a go

Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Dan Hunt
I want to optical character recgonize some typewritten pages. The documents were done on an old manual typewriter and is a family history of sorts, going back six generations and by now one more generation has to be added. I could scan them into tif or jpg images, and them transfer then onto

Re: Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
I fingered it out. In /var/lib/dhcp/dhcp.leases the dlink put in a very long lease(about 3 months) I deleted the entry now my machine knows nothing about 192.168.0.1. Kevin if you don't want to wait you can shorten the amount of time it looks for a dhcp server in /etc/dhclient.conf timeout I set

changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi ! I've come to Debian after using Suse for a while. Please excuse any expectations, though mine are not big. I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working. /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and I wouldn't know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse. Any ide

Re: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jochen Daum wrote: > I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working. > /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and I wouldn't > know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse. Try "/etc/init.d/cron reload" or "/etc/init.d/cron restart". best regards Andr

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "DH" == Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DH> I want to optical character recgonize some typewritten pages. DH> The documents were done on an old manual typewriter and is a DH> family history of sorts, going back six generations and by now DH> one more generation has to be

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm > looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus > has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a > good time to get a head start. Any

amd pentium chips comparison

2003-07-13 Thread Antonio RodrH
Could anyone give a comparison (raw, doesn't have to be detailed) between amd and pentium chips now being sold? How they perform with debian, etc. How they compare to each other. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

question about ftpd and ftpchroot

2003-07-13 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, Quick question: I've added myself to /etc/ftpchroot and after login I could upload but was unable to see the content of directory. Is there a way to see it? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Searching for ocr at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages gives a few interesting hits: gocr gocr-gtk gocr-tk gocr-doc clara Don't know how good are, though. You can use xsane for scanning -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi Andreas! > Hello > > Jochen Daum wrote: > > > I've made changes to crontab, of which only one is working. > > /etc/crontab says, cron doesn't have to be restarted, and > I wouldn't > > know how, cause there is no rccron like in Suse. > > Try "/etc/init.d/cron reload" or "/etc/init.d/cron re

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > The following page is my "help>about plugins". > rpnp.so > > File name: rpnp.so > > MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled > audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes [more plugins] > The required plugin is pr

Re: OT: IDE/Bad Blocks: Call for mental assistance

2003-07-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:51:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Folks, > > Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE > Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive > faults. I know about IDE and that it's "consumer quality" and no > more, but it can't be

Re: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday July 14, 2003 at 00:00 "Jochen Daum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 0 5 * * * root rm /root/index.ph* > # > 0 12 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh > 0 17 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh I don't know about the first one, but scripts in /etc/init.d usually require an argument, such as

Re: LCDproc client problem!

2003-07-13 Thread Todd Pytel
Perhaps you need to specify a backlight value for the client? That is, it may be that the client is displaying perfectly well, but with no backlight so that you can't see it. Also, note that the lcdproc client has problems with CrystalFontz displays - something having to do with character encod

FW: changes to crontab not effective

2003-07-13 Thread Jochen Daum
> Hi Johann! > > > > 0 5 * * * root rm /root/index.ph* > > > # > > > 0 12 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh > > > 0 17 * * * root sh /etc/init.d/backup.sh > > > > I don't know about the first one, but scripts in > /etc/init.d usually > > require an argument, such as start,stop,restart,etc. I

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-13 Thread Marino Fernandez
Zip zip... shoot I dont know the proper way... let me see > > Oh, and please take a look at > http://learn.to/quote > especially part 2.1 "How much should I quote?". uhm!, I do not speak german. Damn! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

OT: How to recursively call a script?

2003-07-13 Thread westk
OT: How to recursively call a script? I've got a Solaris box, and I need to remotely restart the ssh daemon. On Debian, most init scripts have a "restart" option. Solaris apparently doesn't (what's with that?!). The script looks roughly like this: #!/bin/sh case $1 in 'start') Ê /usr/local

RE: sources.list

2003-07-13 Thread Louie Miranda
Thank you for all the help! -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sources.list Hello Louie Miranda wrote: > Am I miss

Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads?

2003-07-13 Thread J F
Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads? Thanks JF ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

sarge dependancy problems with dhcp3-client/samba/samba-common

2003-07-13 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Just did an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade dhcp3-client seems to be mutaully exclusive with samba/samba-common. Installing one takes out the other. -- = = Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the = =

Re: IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Bill Morgan
On 7/13/03 1:31 PM, "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: >> Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just >> ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 >> connectio

Re: Need help getting sound working

2003-07-13 Thread Marc Hinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 17:12 schrieb Chris Metzler: > BTW, ESD is the sound-mixer-of-choice for Gnome. If you run Gnome, you > almost certainly have ESD running. KDE uses its own sound mixer daemon, > called "arts". Programs that are part of Gnome will want to send their > sound output to ES

Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hello, Anyone have an idea why I'm a portscanner? I'm running unstable, dsl thru a router. Some sample snort output: [**] [117:1:1] (spp_portscan2) Portscan detected from 192.168.1.1: 6 targets 6 ports in 19 seconds [**] 07/13-15:11:32.418841 192.168.1.1:32769 -> 198.32.64.12:53 UDP TTL:64 TOS:0

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