Crashing hard drive

2003-12-21 Thread Susie
Hi all,     I hought maybe you could help me ouy. My d drive crashed the other day. I was wondering if it could be either a virus or a overloaded drive since the main board doesnt read the free memory accurately. My c drive is working fine thoughCould you please help me out and email me

Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Can anyone here direct me to a tutorial for setting up Squid to serve as a router? I found one user guide here... http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/c458.html But after wading through it, it seems to be written for people who already know how to set up a proxy. All I want to do so

Re: Need to know how to connect New Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share Dock

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:47:30PM -0600, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know how to connect new Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share > Dock. Just do it. I have the Easy Share dock as well, but with Kodak DX4530 camera. It just works with Debian Sarge and 2.6.0 kernel. You need t

Re: Crashing hard drive

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:59:16PM +0900, Susie wrote: > I hought maybe you could help me ouy. My d drive crashed the other > day. I was wondering if it could be either a virus or a overloaded > drive since the main board doesnt read the free memory >

need deb for msyslog ..

2003-12-21 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi all. Has anyone got a deb for woody for msyslog . I have looked on www.apt-get.org but didn't come up with anything ..   Or if anyone could sugest an opensource replacement for syslogd that logs to mysql that is better then that would be grate ..     Many thanksGregory Machin072 5248 096

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:28:08PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Can anyone here direct me to a tutorial for setting up Squid to serve as > a router? That's not what squid (or any other proxy) does. This might be something closer to what you're looki

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello world, Sorry, the world is out of the office for a moment, can you take a message? > After running for a couple of days, I get: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Maximum number o

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:14:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello world, > > Sorry, the world is out of the office for a moment, can you take a > message? > > > After running for a

Re: Restarting daemons

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:30:20AM -0800, Doug Hunting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was hoping there would be a simple command to restart a daemon. Namely > lprng. I know about killall killall isn't the recommended way to kill a specific daemon. Instead, you want: /etc/init.d/ stop > bu

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I > am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and > am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks liek 3ware > is the

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: >> I like this idea but I need help. >> A server of mine has just one 20GB drive. >> >> I have 2 spare 40GB drives. How would I make my current install on the >> 20GB work on the 40GB drives that I want to setup RAID1 on? > You can do it without risk of losing data using just debi

Re: Start Xserver problem (Solved)

2003-12-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi David, Doug, and folks, Thanks for your advice. Problem solved #cat /etc/X11/XF86config-4 . Monitor "AcerView 34T" VideoRam "32768" driver "nv" . xserver now starts running on 1024x768/800x600 resolution with colour depth=24(32)bits. KDE-3.1.1 is now displayed. The only mistakes I

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Karsten M. Self said: > I've had mixed results with 3Ware, though it's arguably among the better > ATA/IDE RAID cards. Software RAID is strongly recommended by several > people I know, who have experience, though I haven't tried it myself. I've had good results with 3ware on the 2.4.22 or later k

Re: apache::mp3 questions

2003-12-21 Thread CiAsA S'Nuey Boark
On Friday December 19 2003 10:24 am, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > Reloading apache modulesSyntax error on line 271 of > /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Invalid command 'PerlHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a > module not included in the server configuration > failed Well, you did go back into http

compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
I've read different opinions on what gcc version to use when compiling a kernel? Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work correctly. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UN

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Johnson wrote: That's not what squid (or any other proxy) does. This might be something closer to what you're looking for: http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=html&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Firewall-HOWTO.html http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=html&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en

mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread Rob van den Berg
My mouse is not working in KDE It's a PS/2 trackball from Primax. In KDE the pointer (Arrow) goes to the right top corner. When I'm lucky I can drag it to the "K" in the left down corner. I had the advise to stop /etc/init.d/gpm , but then nothing worked anymore. Starting that PC with "Knoppix-CD"

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > > > yup.. i know the feeling so my standard answer is its 10x -100x > faster ( cheaper for the customer too ) to just buy 2 new disks > and than no data is lost either :-) > if they rather pay for day or dayz or weeks instead of buy 2 new > disks at $60ea .. it

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > I used raid1, lilo, a recompiled debian kernel with raid support, and > mdadm tools to perform it. > > It was a nightmare trying to get mkinitrd to make the initrd image with > raid modules in it, I screwed around trying to get it to work f

Re: question

2003-12-21 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:02:22 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm > still running Linex? Thanks Rob You can download wine which will allow you to run windows programs. use the following command: apt-get install wine -- To UNSUB

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I > am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and > am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks liek 3ware

Re: mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:20:35AM +0100, Rob van den Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My mouse is not working in KDE > It's a PS/2 trackball from Primax. > In KDE the pointer (Arrow) goes to the right top corner. > When I'm lucky I can drag it to the "K" in the left down corner. This generally i

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:57:38AM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? ? There's no such relationship. > I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work > correctly. 3.2.3 is _not_ a test version

Re: mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:20:35AM +0100, Rob van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mouse is not working in KDE > It's a PS/2 trackball from Primax. > In KDE the pointer (Arrow) goes to the right top corner. > When I'm lucky I can drag it to the "K" in the left down corner. > > I had the ad

Re: Problem with swiss-german on testing / unstable

2003-12-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:38:19 +0100, Urs Schroffenegger wrote: > What are you using to configure the keyboard under X ? I encountered > your problem once, I'm using testing / unstable with a swiss-french > layout, configuring through "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" with XKB > rule set to XF

Re: mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:20:35AM +0100, Rob van den Berg wrote: > My mouse is not working in KDE > It's a PS/2 trackball from Primax. > In KDE the pointer (Arrow) goes to the right top corner. > When I'm lucky I can drag it to the "K" in the left down corner. > > I had the advise to stop /etc/in

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:15:33AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That worked quite well. Have not looked into the links, but Squid is capable what you tried to do. I think others may misunderstood your question, maybe me. So you want a machine, which can act as a proxy, fetch web

Re: Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

2003-12-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Antonio Rodr wrote: > I have a hp dj 5550, connected via parallel port, but can be connected > via usb too. Works great, except printing pictures from gimp, I tried > once 2 or 3 months ago, didn't work great, and since I print mostly > documents I forgot about it until now try

Re: silly gcc problem -- lost my libraries

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:39:42AM -0500, michelle wrote: > I can still compile "hello world", but I'm getting link errors if I call > math or file functions (basic stuff like sqrt, fprintf). They've been > available so long through the default library path that I don't know where > to find them

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:45:04PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: > I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error just > says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This message is > very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. That error is from debconf. Run with

Re: Where can I get a certain version of a package?

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Stefan Bellon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I need an older version of a package. I read the man page of apt-get > > and it tells you that you can do > > > > # apt-get install package=vers

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Sa, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Vineet Kumar um 02:39: > There's also mcvert, if macutils is no good. I had to do this once upon > a time, and I don't remember which actually ended up working. But let > this at least be a message of hope; I did eventually succeed =) IIRC there are also some tools

gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
Hi, I was recommended various peer networking software for debian. I have installed gnutella. Will someone give me instructions on setting it up and use pls. A brief note is great, eg. do I need to input connection urls and a dir on my machibne? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uni

Re: Removing package without removing files

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:50:10AM -0600, John Hasler said > Charlie writes: > > I wish to remove a package from the dpkg install list but not to remove > > any of the files the package has put in place. How would I go about doing > > this? > > Edit the database. Ew. Or remove it and extract the

Re: Start Xserver problem

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:48:12AM -0800, Doug Hunting said > I would suggest trying to download some specific nVidia drivers for your > card. I have a GeForce4 and it would not work with the pre-compiled 'nv' > driver. This is a geforce4-specific problem, the geforce2 works great with the nv d

Re: apt-mir script.

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:13:45PM -0700, Lucas Albers said > I want to install a testing kernel on a stable i386 system, that does not > have network yet. I can copy the debs to a cd, create a file apt > repository, and just use apt-get to install the additional packages, like > such. Why not jus

Re: Start Xserver problem

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:43:43PM +0800, Stephen Liu said > Hi Mark, > > I re-ran > > #dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > There was a notice at start > "This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any > way.." > > This time I configure PS/2 wheel mouse which was

Re: save user profile

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:48:05PM -0500, Daniel Gall said [snip question about Knoppix] > Is there an easy way to achieve this? Perhaps try a Knoppix mailing list (no doubt linked from http://www.knoppix.com) or the knoppix IRC channel, #knoppix on irc.freenode.net. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: silly gcc problem -- lost my libraries

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:39:42AM -0500, michelle said > and my marbles, I think. > > I can still compile "hello world", but I'm getting link errors if I call > math or file functions (basic stuff like sqrt, fprintf). They've been > available so long through the default library path that I don'

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:26:38PM -0500, Lou Losee said > * Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-20 16:26]: > > > > > >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the > > > > > > error just says that the postinstallation script return an error > > > > > > (30). This message is v

Re: Where can I get a certain version of a package?

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self said > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Stefan Bellon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I need an older version of a package. I read the man page of apt-get > > and it tells you that you can do > > > > # apt-get install package=versio

Re: xfree86 4.3 installing on unstable

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:59:54PM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh said > David Z Maze wrote: > > >Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >>is there any way to install xfree 4.3 on my Debian unstable box > >>without switching to experimental? > >> > >>Thanks for any explanation on how I could

Re: chmod, apache and php

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:55:21PM +0100, Stephen Turner said > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:48, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:00:27PM +0100, Stephen Turner said > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > Thanks for all the help so far. > > > > > > Ok, i have changed all my php files. To 775. Using

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

2003-12-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges said > Hello list! > > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > Since upgrading to 2.4.23 would be a lot of work due to all the patches > required to get my hardware working, i thought i would give 2.6.0-fin

Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Fr, den 19.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 09:02: > On Thursday 18 December 2003 21:40, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > You share a network neighbourhood with _others_. Your machine start > > connections to my machine, and when my machine want's to answer your > > machine half an hour later, _you

Re: Monitor has shadows

2003-12-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:22:36 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the one card: RIVA TNT2 Model 64 I have a Samsung SyncMaster 750S. > On the other one: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X I have a Samsung > Syncmaster 753DFX. > > The latter clearly the high-priced spread, but... > on th

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hmmm... Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 15:14: > try checking host and dig -x > check in your mail headers exactly what hostname is used. If you set > it using /etc/hostname then it won't match the one given by the isp and > thus the two checks would differ and that could be why th

Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
Has anyone got 2.6.0 working on Debian Woody? Running a mix of stable and unstable updated to the latest release. I can get the kernel to load but none of the modules are loaded or even seen at all. I have tried compiling with and without using make-kpkg and the same thing results. I have up

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Fr, den 19.12.2003 schrieb Adam um 20:30: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:20, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > The solution is > > - lots of exceptions in exim.conf (bad) > > - using the proviers smarthost (good) > > My parents' ISP is now blocking my ISP's SMTP servers but not their who

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > no, you don't have to lose data, I've done remote upgrades switching from > non-raid to raid. yes... as long as one is "careful" > Your way has more guarantee you won't lose data, and they can have a > backup disk on their system, which i

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-12-21 Thread Remo Inverardi
Paul, > (...) that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU > resources. I've tried recompiling the kernel to make it more > efficient and I've tried using the latest drivers from Creative. Mmh, it's probably just your IDE drive which is *not* accessed in DMA mode. At least, that's what

Re: can't get screen to work for XFree86 in Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
Hello Ashley Hinton (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I'm installing Debian 3.0 r.2 from CD, but am unable to get XFree86 to work. When I try to run X it says the computer can't find any screens. I'm using an NVIDIA GeFORCE 4MX video card into a 17" monitor. What should I do? Look at the archive of t

dc gui

2003-12-21 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
Hello, I was recomended dc alond with gnutella. I cannot register with gnutella.com, so will dc allow use without registering? Also, how do I use dc-gui? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'

2003-12-21 Thread Jeff Penn
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> The reason for this can be that you have devfs enabled in your > >> kernel, but are not using it. > > That makes sense. I noticed a rant about the need for devfs in > > CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html at linux.org. Perhaps I should be

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Debian User
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and am glad that it can be done w/ modules in

Re: persistent www connection to aol adserver

2003-12-21 Thread Debian User
Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 13:37, Debian User wrote: group, i happened to be running tcpdup -i eth0 this a.m. just to see what is going on outside of my firewall. i noticed my firewall accessing an adserver in the aol.com domain. i cannot figure out what process

problems recognising gpg public keys

2003-12-21 Thread Josh Robinson
i'm running Evolution 1.45 on KDE 3.1.4, with a recent (i think: i downloaded it a couple of weeks ago) version of GnuPG. although i have no problem signing messages, whenever i click on anyone else's signature, i get the following error message : > This message is digitally signed but can

Popup suppression, et. al.

2003-12-21 Thread David Baron
Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with "Konquerer". (Anything short of hand entering all the ISPs into shorewall's files which might not be so effective since these guys no how to always fake and change them.) Also, I have both Shorewall and Webmin-shorewall running. What does t

Re: Where can I get a certain version of a package?

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:33:02AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Stefan Bellon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I need an older version of a package. I read the man page

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > Since upgrading to 2.4.23 would be a lot of work due to all the patches > required to get my hardware working, i thought i would give 2.6.

Run levels and "transportation"

2003-12-21 Thread David Baron
Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics interface? I only know how to reboot at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: problems recognising gpg public keys

2003-12-21 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Josh, Am Son, 2003-12-21 um 13.45 schrieb Josh Robinson: [...] > any advice: are there any servers i should be using? and how do i > configure GnuPG to look for public keyrings on different servers? edit ~/.gnupg/options and insert the following line: keyserver blackhole.pca.dfn.de Repl

Re: Run levels and "transportation"

2003-12-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:13:21PM +0100, David Baron wrote: | Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the | Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics | interface? Ctl-Alt-F7 Usually the X server is on VC 7. If you run two X di

Re: Popup suppression, et. al.

2003-12-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 06:45 am, David Baron wrote: > Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with "Konquerer". > > (Anything short of hand entering all the ISPs into shorewall's files > which might not be so effective since these guys

Re: silly gcc problem -- lost my libraries

2003-12-21 Thread michelle
Colin Watson wrote: > > Remember that you need to link with -lm in order to call mathematical > functions like sqrt(). > Thanks, that's it. After re-running, the fprintf went away as well. (That must have been linker garbage due to 100 previous errors.) I'm down to one error now. The linker c

Re: mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread Kent West
Rob van den Berg wrote: My mouse is not working in KDE It's a PS/2 trackball from Primax. In KDE the pointer (Arrow) goes to the right top corner. When I'm lucky I can drag it to the "K" in the left down corner. I had the advise to stop /etc/init.d/gpm , but then nothing worked anymore. With gp

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:14:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> |> > Hello world, |> |> Sorry, the world is out of the office fo

Re: Start Xserver problem

2003-12-21 Thread Kent West
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:43:43PM +0800, Stephen Liu said I re-ran #dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 2) Please select you keyboard variant That's silly, give it a correct value. 3) Please select your keyboard options That's silly, give it a correct value.

Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) and make temp folders and start moving stuff around, can I just rearrange everything (while making the appropriate changes in FSTAB)? Or can I just change FSTAB and reboot and everything is mi

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:16:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya andy > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) > > > - make sure the partition type is FD(raid) not 82(linux) > > > > Can one simply change the partition type via fdisk

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:16:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya andy > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote: > > > > for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) > > > - make sure the partition type is FD(raid) not 82(linux) > > > > Can one simply change the partition type via fdisk

Re: Popup suppression, et. al.

2003-12-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Baron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with "Konquerer". > > (Anything short of hand entering all the ISPs into shorewall's files > which might not be so effective since these guys no how to always fake > and change them.) What versi

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:53:32AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: >>> There are some tools to view and list clients, though they >>> don't come to me off the top of my head. >> >> 'xlsclients' is one. > > I find that xlsclients only shows a normal-looking list of about 20 > clients when the error oc

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Hmmm... > > Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 15:14: > > try checking host and dig -x > > check in your mail headers exactly what hostname is used. If you set > > it using /etc/hostname then it won't match the one

Re: gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 6:39 am, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I was recommended various peer networking software for debian. I > have installed gnutella. Will someone give me instructions on > setting it up and use pls. A brief note is great, e

Re: silly gcc problem -- lost my libraries

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 09:19:19AM -0500, michelle wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Remember that you need to link with -lm in order to call mathematical > > functions like sqrt(). > > Thanks, that's it. > After re-running, the fprintf went away as well. (That must have been > linker garbage due

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-21 Thread csj
On 20. December 2003 at 12:56AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Thanks. MPlayer installed fine. Now I need to figure out how > to install additional codecs for it. > > Also, for some odd reason, the only way I can seem to run > mplayer is by clicking on the KDE "Start Butt

Re: Run levels and "transportation"

2003-12-21 Thread Lou Losee
* David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-21 09:03]: > Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the > Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics > interface? > > I only know how to reboot at this point. > Alt-F7 Lou -- To UNS

AT&T Internet Runner?

2003-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi World! Having recently switched to Mexican AT&T ISP, they sent me a CD with something called Internet Runner on it. I did not open it because I threw out my XP Professional. It claims "speeds up to 4 times faster". Faster than what? Anybody have a clue what that that thing might actually do

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Micha Feigin said: > Read the man page for cp, you'll need the options for preserving file > attributes, symbolic links and remaining on the same file system. > I believe tar is more appropriate then cp I think there is some way to > get it to pipe to the new disk somehow instead of actually tari

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > > that's the 1st of the dozen magic test... > - power off and disconnect a disks and try for hands off reboot > after having written a 2-4GB file is my test for resyncing > >> Even if you completelly clear a partition but don't format it you can >> still boot from hda

which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, I installed , for my first Debian try, Debian Sarge from the "LinuxUser" magazine's DVD. After some hurldles it worked but: did'nt configure any network card, eth0 etc. When I try to configure with modconf from the debian KDE set, I don't know which driver to choose, and try-and-error with thi

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
If you go raid software or hardware, compile support directly into the kernel. I also had to have enother disk to boot of my 3ware system. With two disks, as alvin says, go with software raid. Use hardware raid for a monster set. I've not found much appreciable difference in performance between my

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-21 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 16:02: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:00:12PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Micha Feigin um 15:14: > > > try checking host and dig -x > > > check in your mail headers exactly what hostname is used. If you set > > >

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
GCS said: >> Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? > ? There's no such relationship. > >> I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work >> correctly. > 3.2.3 is _not_ a test version of gcc. There's a newer one, fe I have > 3.3.3 installed. Ple

Re: apt-mir script.

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Rob Weir said: > Why not just use "dpkg -i foo.deb" to install them directly off the CD? Then I have to resolve dependencies, by typing in all the package names. Me real lazy. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: AT&T Internet Runner?

2003-12-21 Thread W. Citoan
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:34:12 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi World! > > Having recently switched to Mexican AT&T ISP, they sent me a CD with > something called Internet Runner on it. I did not open it because I > threw out my XP Professional. > > It claims "speeds up to 4 times faster". F

Re: wireless network problems

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: > I'm relatively new to Linux, and have installed debian woody with the > bf2.4 kernel. I'm having trouble getting my orinoco wireless card to > work. The card beeps during startup, and its green light flickers, but > doesn't stay on. W

Re: which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, have a look to www.tuxmobil.org : you may find web page of people which had tried to install Linux on their Dell: they may give the informationyou want on their web page. Otherwhise try google: Dell Inspiron 8300 Linux Debian Hope that helps, Jerome Axel Burwitz wrote: Hi, I installed , f

USB / Gnome 2.2 / Tungsten T2

2003-12-21 Thread Dirk Aubrey
There's piles of traffic concerning USB palms out there. A lot of it has helped. Still, I'm stalemated. Hopefully someone can help me see through this last piece of . Status : Kernel 2.4.22. Has usb-uhci, usbserial, usbcore, visor modules support and active. Pilot-link 0.11.8. I'm on gnom

Re: Popup suppression, et. al.

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:45:32PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with "Konquerer". Settings > Configure Konqueror Click on "Java & Java Script" Click on the "Java Script" tab. Then you will see at the bottom "JavaScript web popups policy" Make

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
* Martin J Hooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > stable and unstable updated to the latest release. > > I can get the kernel to load but none of the modules are loaded or > even seen at all. > > I have tried compiling with and without using make-kpkg and the same > thing results. > > I have upda

PADO timeout w/ pppoe

2003-12-21 Thread Ivan Fern?ndez
After some problems, I set up my DSL connection with the kernel pppoe driver through a Westell WireSpeed modem. This works with my 2.4.22 kernel (well, sometimes I have to power-cycle the modem and restart the ppp connection). I've been trying to update to 2.4.23 and I just tried 2.6.0, but I'm get

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 16:20, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > Try apt-get install module-init-tools . That actually works! But when I actually try and install it all it pops up a message saying that the licence of the module will taint the kernel aborting installation. Am I better off installing

Re: apache::mp3 questions

2003-12-21 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:51:59AM -0500, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark insinuated: > On Friday December 19 2003 10:24 am, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > Reloading apache modulesSyntax error on line 271 of > > /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > > Invalid command 'PerlHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a > > module not

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:15:33AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ /etc/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 /etc/rc2.d/ Maybe wrong, I do not know /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. This is what I am trying to accomplish... 2. Slackware: * There are two ways to

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 9:16, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started X by the startx command. If you logged in via kdm/gdm/xdm then goto another console, login as root and do /etc/init

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:53AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two ways to load things in Slackware: > /etc/rc.d/rc.local or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file. The first > method is the easiest. All you have to do is add the line: [...] > I tried the first te

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:44:55PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when I actually try and install it all it pops up a message > saying that the licence of the module will taint the kernel aborting > installation. It's the driver installation, and not module-init-tools in

Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed

2003-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:53AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are two ways to load things in Slackware: /etc/rc.d/rc.local or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file. The first method is the easiest. All you have to do is add the line: [...] I tried the firs

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