Gnome 2.4 to be in Sarge? (was Re: Gnome 2.4)

2003-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:49, karrottop wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a apt-get source for Gnome 2.4 yet > anywhere...I am running unstable and i don't see it yet...although I may > just be jumping the gun with my anxiousness Have you tried apt-get.org? Does anyone know if v2.4 will make i

Re: SCO invites open source people to 'monetize' Linux

2003-09-11 Thread David Palmer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 13:55, Sourian wrote: > Here we go again... > > http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=47107 > > > This is like a bad ongoing dream... > > Best regards, > Sourian Hello, No, it's not just a bad dream, this is the strategy becoming apparent. SCO are not alone

[gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi All, I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the VESA driver (couldn't get the radeon support to work properly :( ) in a resolution of 1280x1024 (max of my LCD monitor). Now I have the following

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-11 Thread David selby
Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:04:19AM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: I think k3b is the best, it works fine on my laptop (1024x768), don't know how small your screen is, but it can be resized to about 600x480, And gee, it requires all of KDE, just to have a front-end

exim4 keeps mail

2003-09-11 Thread François Chenais
Hello, Every morning, I retrieve about 200/300 mails using fetchmail-ssl. Only 20 mails are delivered; the others are kept back into the mail queue. I have to run exim4 -q manually. If fetchmail retrieve another mails, they are delivered before the ones queued :-| Then, the delivery process (e

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzies wrote: [ re Network Rail tender request ] > I'm London (UK) based and have a business background. I lack the > technical skills and knowledge to approach this but I'd be happy to > contribute. I'm an accountant by training, but technical by long-settled

Re: XF86 mode question ?

2003-09-11 Thread David selby
Oki DZ wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0100, David selby wrote: I setup my modes in subsection "display" as "800x600" "1024x768" and restarted X. Do you happen to have the word "Virtual" on the Display subsection? Oki I have tryed Virtual, if I add I added Mode "800x600" "1

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Willem . Smit
Pim wrote: >I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro >on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the VESA >driver (couldn't get the radeon support to work properly :( ) in a >resolution of 1280x1024 (max of my LCD monitor). Have you downloade

Re: exim4 keeps mail

2003-09-11 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Francois posts: >> don't have tuned the configuration file myself. > >> Any idea ? Inside your /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options, please add the given below line and restart the exim4 daemon smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 # This sets the maximum number of messages that will

Upgrading kernel for netinst cd

2003-09-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm trying to install a system with a Intel 82547 LAN controller using network install, however the e1000 driver doesn't support the 82547 until 2.4.22pre2, are there any netinst cd's that use the 2.4.22 kernel (or later)? Or is there any way I can create such a cd? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/03 08:09), Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzies wrote: > [ re Network Rail tender request ] > > I'm London (UK) based and have a business background. I lack the > > technical skills and knowledge to approach this but I'd be happy to > > contribute. > > I'm

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread David Palmer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 15:09, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I'm an accountant by training, but technical by long-settled choice. > > Making a tender is very much a business and marketing exercise.  We > would need to convince the customer not only of the technical merits of > our proposal but also

Re: Traffic Shaping -- I Need a Push in the Right Direction

2003-09-11 Thread Steve Lamb
On 10 Sep 2003 14:58:23 -0700 Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the "iproute" package and take a look at: > > /usr/share/doc/iproute/README.iproute2+tc.gz Oo one could go the cheap route and use some prefab script: http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Sep 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > csj wrote: > > > From what I've read in the MPlayer and Xine mailing lists, I > > think the Matrox is an excellent choice for watching videos > > (e.g. VCDs, DVDs). > > > It's the 3D that's not well supported or > > nonexistent. > > Not true. The

Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:42:28 +0200: > Hi, > > when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same controller > the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on unstable. Wow. I have the same situation, (can't give you the specs, other than to

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:22:20 -0400: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:42:28PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: > > | when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same > | controller the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on > | unstable. >

glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100: > I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. > > Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in > /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4. > > Two questions: > > 1. What exactly does this module do? > >

Re: exim4 keeps mail

2003-09-11 Thread François Chenais
I've updated my configuration file, but I have to wait tomorrow morning to test the changes :-) You said restart exim4 but my exim4 is managed by inetd (default installation) : this is perhaps the error ? Is the daemon mode faster ? François On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:09:59 +0530 Raghav

SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Thought this may be of interest to the list - worth a read, if you haven't seen it: http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003091001926OSCDCY Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread David Palmer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 17:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > Thought this may be of interest to the list - worth a read, if you > haven't seen it: > > http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003091001926OSCDCY > > Regards > > Clive Hello Clive. Yes it was a powerful answer, but now I believe two day

Re: Windoze multiboot etc.

2003-09-11 Thread cr
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:32, David Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:07:08AM +1200, cr wrote: > > This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on > > this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than > > Windoze users do   ;) > > Sometim

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread cr
On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:27, Kent West wrote: > >There are plenty of multiboot HOWTOs, but they all seem to be WinNT + > >something.I can't find a W95 + W98.Before I start trying to figure > >out the details, I'd just like to know if I'm chasing an impossibility. > >Incidentally, I

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread cr
On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:15, John covici wrote: > I am pretty sure windows in general always wants to be the first > partition on a given drive and even if I am wrong about that you > can't have more than one boot partition per drive -- also make sure > your machine will boot from the third

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread cr
On Thursday 11 September 2003 09:38, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:27:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > cr wrote: > > >This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks > > > on this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than > > > Windoze users

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread cr
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:30, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:07:08AM +1200, cr wrote: > > This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on > > this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than > > Windoze users do ;) > > I kn

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:33:32 +0300: > Actually those are all the things that converted me to linux. Windows > kept failing on me in all those respect every monday and thursday. > I don't know what I am doing wrong, but the only thing that I had a > problem sett

Re: SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/03 18:31), David Palmer wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 17:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Thought this may be of interest to the list - worth a read, if you > > haven't seen it: > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003091001926OSCDCY > > > > Regards > > > > Clive > > > Hel

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Sep 2003, Tim Connors wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100: > > I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. > > > > Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in > > /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4. > > > > Two questions: > >

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi All, > > I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro > on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the VESA > driver (couldn't get the radeon support to work properly :( ) in a >

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:38:02PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro > > on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:01:26AM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Also another question: has someone been able to run the accelerated Ati > Radeon drivers? HOW??? It is an R250 chip, and uses two PCI ID's. Any > suggestions on running it in accel mode would be great! I also tried Xfree >

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
> I run XF4.3 on an Athlon 2600, with a Radeon 9000, and the X CPU usage > is no different to any other release. You have a configuration problem > somewhere. Could you please post your XF86config? Also i'd like to know from which source you got the XF4.3 packages. Thanx! Pim -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Openoffice: where are templates?

2003-09-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Joan Tur([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I was wondering where the templates were in Openoffice... or maybe only > Staroffice has got templates?? 8-? I am running OO 1.1 and some are at /usr/lib/openoffice/share/temp

Re: SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread David Palmer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 19:09, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/09/03 18:31), David Palmer wrote: > > On Thursday 11 September 2003 17:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Thought this may be of interest to the list - worth a read, if you > > > haven't seen it: > > > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/infras

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:01:32PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > > I run XF4.3 on an Athlon 2600, with a Radeon 9000, and the X CPU usage > > is no different to any other release. You have a configuration problem > > somewhere. > > Could you please post your XF86config? Also i'd like t

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-11 Thread Kent West
Erik Steffl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have spent several hours studying various Linux webpage and trying to install the OS, but have not had any successes. There is lots of good information and software, but I do not know where to begin. Can you help me install the Linux OS? If

Re: SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday September 11 at 12:09pm Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://promote_opensource.org/modules/news/ > Couldn't open this link? He probably meant http://promote-opensource.org/modules/news/ I don't believe underscores are legal in a domain name. -- -johann koenig Now Pla

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Kent West
cr wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:15, John covici wrote: You might consider vmware -- seems much safer to me for what you want. Isn't that commercial? Yes, it is, but it works very well. You could try bochs (or is it plex this week? I forget). But last time I tried it, it

Mounting Windows C: drive.

2003-09-11 Thread William Bradley
Not having much luck mounting the Windows C: drive. I made the following directory: /mnt/windows and then in fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfatdefaults 00 The ext2 drive is listed as /dev/hda2 and the swap is /dev/hda3 in the current /etc/fstab file. Thank you, Bill. -- Will

Re: Mounting Windows C: drive.

2003-09-11 Thread daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Bradley wrote: | Not having much luck mounting the Windows C: drive. I made the following | directory: /mnt/windows and then in fstab: | | /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfatdefaults 00 | | The ext2 drive is listed as /dev/hda2 | and the

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antony Gelberg wrote: | On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:01:32PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: | |>>I run XF4.3 on an Athlon 2600, with a Radeon 9000, and the X CPU usage |>>is no different to any other release. You have a configuration problem |>>s

Re: Need help watching TV in Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Ronald Castillo wrote: > [TV tuner card] Hi Ronald, did you try tvtime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/)? Have a list at their compatibility site tho... Regards, wjl -- NTV '94 RedSue 24-42Mm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

2003-09-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Got virus attacked on the Windows section of a dual boot machine that runs > Debian (latest Woody) and Windows 98. Windows got into such a state between > the virus and me messing with it that I ended up reformatting the C: drive > and reinstalling

Re: exim4 keeps mail

2003-09-11 Thread Jerome Lacoste
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:48, François Chenais wrote: > I've updated my configuration file, but I have to wait tomorrow morning to test the > changes :-) > > You said restart exim4 but my exim4 is managed by inetd (default installation) : > this is perhaps the error ? > > Is the daemon mode fas

Re: Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

2003-09-11 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
> the unit boots straight into Windows. Is there a way that I can get back > to > dual booting that machine. I'd hate to have to reinstall Debian and go > through getting KDE 3.0 again. Boot from the install CD, and choose the 'rescue option'. Maybe you have to download / create a rescue floppy, n

Re: Need help watching TV in Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:26, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > Ronald Castillo wrote: > > > [TV tuner card] > did you try tvtime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/)? Have a list at their > compatibility site tho... > That looks like a nice bit of software. I might try that. Also, you might want to take a l

inetd[524]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Moseley
In the last day I've been seeing a few of these: inetd[524]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated every hour. The only think I've read that maybe exim is running too fast and inetd thinks it's broken and the solution is to not run exim from inetd. Is that the correct soluti

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Kent West
Someone (I no longer have the original) wrote: I played with gdm the other day, and found that if the standard greeter is used, gdm worked fine, but if I used the graphical greeter, I saw the same behavoiur of gdm trying to start 3 or 4 times and then eventually giving up. I no longer have

How do I disable "Chipaway Virus is resident"?

2003-09-11 Thread Marlize Cloete
Please help (in plain English please) as I am not a "rocket scientist" when it comes to PC's   Tks Marlize  (Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Mounting encrypted / partition

2003-09-11 Thread Tommy Moore
Hi guys. I'm wondering if there's a way I can encrypt my / partition as a loopback encrypted filesystem and somehow use a ramdisk iamge to ask me for the password. What would I need to do this? Thanks. Tommy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Hunt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-10 23:17]: > Linux OS? If so what information is needed? snip > Thanks, > Darren Johnson > St. Louis, MO, USA Hello Darren, perhaps the best install advice is to start with something less technical than Debian as your first *nix. I started with Deb

problem with shout og icecast, maby makepasswd.

2003-09-11 Thread ingirafn
Hello, I have a problem with icecast , shout or makepasswd There is a password I need to put in icecast.conf and in shout.conf This is what comes up when I try to start shout: shout 1.4.0 - www.icecast.org Connected: [blabla.blabla.is:8000\default] Bitrate autodetection failed, using default!

Re: How do I disable "Chipaway Virus is resident"?

2003-09-11 Thread Kent West
Marlize Cloete wrote: Please help (in plain English please) as I am not a "rocket scientist" when it comes to PC's When you first turn on your computer, you'll probably see a message saying something like "F1 Setup" or "Press F12 to enter BIOS" or "F2 for CMOS Setup". This depends on your m

Re: Gnome 2.4

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:49, karrottop wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a apt-get source for Gnome 2.4 yet > anywhere...I am running unstable and i don't see it yet...although I may > just be jumping the gun with my anxiousness Everyone back to the starting blocks... especially you Jason one m

kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Any word on when 2.4.22 might make it into sid? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Me

FIX for strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:01, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro > on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the VESA > driver (couldn't get the radeon support to work properly :( ) in a > r

mozilla & mozilla-firebird won't start separately

2003-09-11 Thread Matt Price
after recent upgrades mozilla and mozilla-firebird seem unable to start up separately -- if one is already running, invoking the other just opens a new window in the existing session of the first. I seem to recall that this didn't happen with earlier versions. Anyone know what's changed? matt

Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Pim Bliek
> I played with gdm the other day, and found that if the standard greeter > is used, gdm worked fine, but if I used the graphical greeter, I saw the > same behavoiur of gdm trying to start 3 or 4 times and then eventually > giving up. Thanx, that solved my issue! Pity though, I like the graphi

Fw: Re: SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread David Palmer .
Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:46:27 -0400 From: Glanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SCO v open-source community > If they own your freedom they possess your independent individuality. > If you are interested in this situation, Ralph

Re: Gnome 2.4 to be in Sarge? (was Re: Gnome 2.4)

2003-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:54:54AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:49, karrottop wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a apt-get source for Gnome 2.4 yet > > anywhere...I am running unstable and i don't see it yet...although I > > may just be jumping the gun with my anxiousne

Re: FIX for strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fixed it for me and other I know of. I could not find any REAL problem > with /etc/X11/gdm.conf (but if I had put a known good config... it may > have started. Yep... I tossed /etc/gdm/gdm.conf.dpkg-dist in there and it started. There weren't many chang

DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, I've set the following in my kernel-config (2.4.21): CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0 motherboard. When I run hdparm -d1 /dev/hda I get the following error: # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to

Re: Mousey broken

2003-09-11 Thread Mental Patient
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only one question - why the hell does my mouse work through /dev/input/mice on 2.6.0 ??? Because perhaps the kernel has static support for USB? Different modules compiled into kernel instead? Another thing - I installed gpm last night and ran gpmconfig - it found nada o

Re: /var/backups What script populates this

2003-09-11 Thread Sonny Kupka
At 10:14 AM 9/10/2003 -0500, you wrote: I noticed a nice little backup action occuring in /var/backups. What script does this? and is it configurable? If not does anybody have a recomendation for a good free automated backup schema/script? Thanks in advance -Will In /etc/cron.daily you will find a

Re: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:38:33PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi, > > I've set the following in my kernel-config (2.4.21): > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y > > I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0 motherboard. > > When I run hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Harry Brueckner wrote: > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs > support turned on and devfsd is running nicely. Now when I boot into > the new 2.6 kernel it starts up but throws tons of messages like > FATAL: Module /dev/ttyx0

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-11 Thread csj
At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:13:34 +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > > csj wrote: > > > From what I've read in the MPlayer and Xine mailing lists, I > > think the Matrox is an excellent choice for watching videos > > (e.g. VCDs, DVDs). > > > It's the 3D that's not well supported or nonexisten

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-11 Thread csj
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:35:05 +0100, David selby wrote: > > I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the > config > > I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen > which is a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor. I believe this has been fixed in Debian Sid/Un

Re: East Asian O/S

2003-09-11 Thread csj
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:49:50 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:38 +1200, > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:23, csj wrote: > > > At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +0800, > > > > > > Katipo wrote: > > > > On Tue

Re: Xine and Avseq* files

2003-09-11 Thread csj
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:28:18 +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > I've tried a couple times, Even have installed w32codecs > package from Christian Marillat deb-src site. > > But I still can get it, Why can't Xine plays avseq*.dat file? > It keep telling me no plugin found. Xine *can* play them. > While

Re: East Asian O/S

2003-09-11 Thread csj
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:38 +1200, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:23, csj wrote: > > At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +0800, > > > > Katipo wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:03, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > An article from the BBC Online of relative interest - Asian > > > > c

Is there a problem with kernel 2.4.20 and internet connections?

2003-09-11 Thread B. L. Jilek
I'm asking because my system was running fine before. The one in question is running Testing with 2.4.20. It was sitting behind a Woody box running ipchains and squid and everything worked fine. I bought a Netgear router and changed everything to use DHCP and connect through the router instead o

Re: fetchmail q

2003-09-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:46:11AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Jason Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.09.2301 +0200]: | > Doesn't the localdomains example.com mean that those addresses are | > passed onto the smtphost unaltered - as they are supposedly already | > valid address

Could not load default TOC page

2003-09-11 Thread .- raroh -.
Hi, Help problem : "Could not load default TOC page" How can I search this string in archives ? I found twice by Google - but questions without responses. Thanx for your attention. raroh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread coco the talking chimp
ipchains not installed by default?  I thought Linux was made for networking.  Anyway, I'm not too familiar with this but here is my problem.  When I run ipchains it says incompatible with this kernel. I'm on compact debian 3.0 so kernel must be 2.2.2.0.  Modprobe ipchains says no such modul

RE: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
> You may also need to enable support for the specific chipset > on that motherboard in your kernel config. See > ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> > IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> IDE chipset support/bugfixes. I didn't see any support for Nforce2 in there Also, this setup worked wit

need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread John covici
If you have a 2.4 kernel, ipchains is obsolete -- iptables is much easier to understand in my opinion, anyway. on Thursday 09/11/2003 coco the talking chimp([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > ipchains not installed by default? I thought Linux was made for networking. > Anyway, I'm not too familiar wi

Re: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread David Morse
Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: You may also need to enable support for the specific chipset on that motherboard in your kernel config. See ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> IDE chipset support/bugfixes. I didn't see any support for Nforce

Re: mozilla & mozilla-firebird won't start separately

2003-09-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > after recent upgrades mozilla and mozilla-firebird seem unable to > start up separately -- if one is already running, invoking the other > just opens a new window in the existing session of the first. I seem > to recall that this didn't

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello coco the talking chimp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > ipchains not installed by default? I thought Linux was made for > networking. Anyway, I'm not too familiar with this but here is my > problem. When I run ipchains it says incompatible with this kernel. > I'm on compact debian 3.0 so k

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread coco the talking chimp
ok so I just found the /boot/config-2.2.20-compaq.  This, i figure, is where the options CONFIG_FIREWALL=y and CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y should be.  Of course they are not there.  Should I just type them in or what?  Plus the  /proc/net/ip_fwchains/ file isn't there but I think that's for older

Re: Openoffice: where are templates?

2003-09-11 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres 10 Setembre 2003 19:54, en Joan Tur va escriure: > Hallo! > > I was wondering where the templates were in Openoffice... or maybe only > Staroffice has got templates?? 8-? Solved. I've used the templates from Staroffice 5... because they'r

Re: Is there a problem with kernel 2.4.20 and internet connections?

2003-09-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
B. L. Jilek wrote: works. Dig works. Internal connections (HTTP, FTP, SSH) work. Outside connections using Browsers, ftp or anything else like AIM will not connect. I booted into 2.4.19 temporarily and I could connect. 2.4.20 will Right now I'm recompiling the kernel and have changed a few set

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
coco the talking chimp wrote: ok so I just found the /boot/config-2.2.20-compaq. It´s much easier to get a recent kernel (like 2.4.21), configure, compile and install it to set up a firewall. The options needed for that can be specified when setting up the new kernel (with make menuconfig). The

Mozilla 1.4 and Java and Woody

2003-09-11 Thread LeVA
Hello! I read the other mails about this issue, but those instructions did not help me. So I write my specific problem, and I can only hope, that someone will help me. I installed mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4-huHU.tar.gz. Then after I installed sun's j2sdk-1_4_2_01-linux-i586.bin. Mozilla.org s

what is testing unstable and stable ?

2003-09-11 Thread ingirafn
Hello, im not sure about this. Potato is stable woody is unstable sid is testing sarge is ? I tried to download woody , but my laptop does not even boot form it. I have a pc which wast installed with "stable" and the downgraded to "unstable". If anyone wants to take time to answer this sill

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-11 Thread Russ Cook
Russell, I'd like to thank you again for all your help. This is what makes Debian great (IMO). Now that Zope is upgraded, dselect and apt-get were able to finish installing my XWindows system and other programs. I am now fully up and functioning again. Thanks again! Regards, Russ On Wed,

hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-11 Thread Antonio RodrX
Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would like to understand a little better this part of the hardware before playing with hdparm. Some hdparm bash script examples would be also welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Cake Walk replacement

2003-09-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I have a friend that want to ditch windos, worm/virus/daily reboot routine. He's a musician, and relies heavily on Cake Walk. I need to find him a replacement so I can get him, his wife, and daughter switched over to the debian way. Thanks. -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered

RE: Mozilla 1.4 and Java and Woody

2003-09-11 Thread Nicholas Vettese
I have a problem when I do apt-get install eclipse-sdk. When it gets to the j2re1.4 deb, I get errors. I apologize for not having them on hand, but I was wondering if I should do an apt-get testing install eclipse-sdk? Thanks in advance, Nick > > >-Original Message- > > >From: LeVA [mai

modem @ COM4; howto install driver

2003-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
I just installed debian 3.0; however, I can't get ppp to dial out. plog output shows: chat[263]:Can't get terminal parameters: Input/Output error setserial -g /dev/ttyS3 shows: UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1400, IRQ: 18 the Port and IRQ I got from winxp device manager. I've also got an ethnet card which

Using Gshutdown with normal user

2003-09-11 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Hi   I would like to use the gshutdown utility from the system menu ondebian woody but when i press it he says that only the root user can use it   How can i use the gshutdown utility with a normal user? without having to change to root user?   Thank´s in advance   Ângelo Rigo [EMAIL PROT

'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been MEANING to look into getting some sort of spam filter set up on my mail server for quite a while now, but I've never quite gotten around to it. Now I'm getting around to it. :) I've heard of filters that can "learn" what is and isn't spam by having you feed it anything you consider spam.

Re: what is testing unstable and stable ?

2003-09-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Potato is stable > woody is unstable > sid is testing > sarge is ? wrong. potato = old stable woody = stable sarge = testing sid = unstable Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people

Re: modem @ COM4; howto install driver

2003-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
Larry Evans wrote: Would someone suggest how I should solve this problem? I'm guessing I should just `dpkg -i` the .deb containing the dpkg-scanpackages program. If that's wrong, pls let me know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Modem sm56

2003-09-11 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Hi I would like to configure properly the sm56 modem from motorola with my debian woody any sugestion will be apreciated Ângelo Marcos Rigo http://amr.freezope.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:18:51 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (11/09/03 08:09), Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzies wrote: > > [ re Network Rail tender request ] > > > I'm London (UK) based and have a business ba

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread -:-
Hans Wilmer wrote: There´s a very nice tutorial describing how things work, which kernel options you need, including samples that make a very good point to begin with. The tutorial is called ´Iptables Tutorial 1.1.16´ (maybe a newer version is available) and was written by Oskar Andreasson ---

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-11 Thread David selby
csj wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:35:05 +0100, David selby wrote: I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the config I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen which is a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor. I believe this has been fixed in Debian S

apt-get trying to downgrade a package version?

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Silvester
Hi all, I am running Woody with a 2.4.20 kernel and acpi installed. When I try to install kppp or am-utils (for example) using Package Manager or apt-get, I get the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: acpi: Depends: libc6 (>=2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to

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