Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread David S
Scarletdown wrote: I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) Here is what the log file showed after the drivers failed to install... nvidia-installer log fi

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 08:49, Scarletdown wrote: > I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from > nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my > video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) > > Here is what the log file showed after the drivers failed

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-22 Thread Medi Esmail
Hi again I have tried the "G" option and its still got some packages which it stats will be removed etc.. is there any other way i can fix dselect ? --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi > Esmail wrote: > > HI all, I was wondering if i can re

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread Scarletdown
David S wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) Here is what the log file showed after the drivers failed to install... nvidia-i

antialised fonts in emacs

2003-12-22 Thread Paul William
Hi How can I use antialised fonts in emacs? I am using unstable. Regards Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

X and screen finding

2003-12-22 Thread r j
hi, i installed more or less a woody on a digital venturis fx 5133 ( year 1996), s3 trio graphics. when i launch X, i get this : (EE) no devices detected fatal server error

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread Scarletdown
I managed to manually compile the drivers. Now, when I go to set up my video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose from. Trouble is, none of them specifically say GeForce 5600 FX. So the question to anyone here who also uses this card... Which one do I select from the

Dialing and surfing

2003-12-22 Thread "Sébastien (Newsletters)"
Hi, I'm trying to connect the Internet via a dialup connection. I managed to make my connection work with kppp and I can now dial and open a session at my ISP's. I launched Mozilla and can't reach any website. Is it because of protection software (firewall, etc.) ? How can I know that and what

Re: question

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:05:30AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > >On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm still > >>running Linex? > >> > >> > > > >Alm

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

2003-12-22 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Rob, thanks for your reply. Am Son, 2003-12-21 um 09.41 schrieb 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 du

Re: kdm failed to preconfigure, with exit status 30

2003-12-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On December 22, 2003 12:26 am, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On the Unstable of today. > Am I the only one ? Does that matter ? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224567 Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

libapache-mod-jk with jetty/jboss

2003-12-22 Thread Chris Searle
Debian stable with all the relevant updates. We have a running jboss 3.0.8 using jetty. Jetty is configured and running an AJP13 connector on port 8009. We have a application running with root "/sesame". Now - we'd like to get apache working with this. apache is 1.3.26-0woody3 libapache-mod-jk

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On December 22, 2003 04:50 am, Scarletdown wrote: > David S wrote: > > Scarletdown wrote: > >> I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from > >> nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of > >> my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) > >> > >> Here

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

2003-12-22 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Son, 2003-12-21 um 14.45 schrieb 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

Perl Problem

2003-12-22 Thread shekar_300
Hello Everbody, I am getting the following problem when i execute Perl response1.txt Can't locate Time/HiRes.pm in @INC at line 7. line 7: use Time::HiRes I downloaded the proper module and installed it but still getting the same error. I am using Red Hat Linux 7.1 Can anybody help me out.

Re: Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java - SOLVED

2003-12-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've been using java (j2re1.4.2_01) for some time without problems on > mozilla-firebird 0.7. Today it crashed repeatedly when accessing a > particular site (the Telegraph newspaper web page) and finally it became > impossible to run firebird at all. I rei

Install woody with Adaptec i2o hardware raid card?

2003-12-22 Thread Sam Bashton
Does anyone have any hints on installing Woody onto a machine with the Adaptec SCSI i2o RAID controller? I've tried both the standard 2.2 kernel and the bf2.4 but neither seem to haev drivers for the controller. Is there an easy way I can get this working? I'm sure if I have to I can create a cu

X and screen finding

2003-12-22 Thread r j
hi, i installed more or less a woody on a digital venturis fx 5133 ( year 1996), s3 trio graphics. when i launch X, i get this : (EE) no devices detected fatal server error

Re: ipsec kernel patch 2.4.23

2003-12-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:27:44 - "Antony Gelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install freeswan on a woody box with 2.4.23 from > backports.org. I apt-got kernel-patch-freeswan, did an export > PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes, and a make-kpkg. > > But the patch fails, see below

Re: Install woody with Adaptec i2o hardware raid card?

2003-12-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:46:43 +, Sam Bashton wrote: > Does anyone have any hints on installing Woody onto a machine with the Adaptec > SCSI i2o RAID controller? > > I've tried both the standard 2.2 kernel and the bf2.4 but neither seem to haev > drivers for the controller. > > Is there an

Re: Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java

2003-12-22 Thread Kristian Niemi
There's been some writing about similar problems earlier in this newsgroup. Search it? In short; I had the same problem, caused by the same thing (libjavaplugin). I had downloaded the java from Sun's pages. Problem solved when I, instead, apt-got the java-package from the following source: # B

Re: Question about Jigdo

2003-12-22 Thread Kristian Niemi
Hi, Yes, I know I haven't wasted *the download*; the cd's, however, might be wasted. So, still wondering -- I /will/ test them eventually anyway ;) -- can cd's from 20031214 and 20031218 be used together to install a (working) Debian (Sid) install? h: Krisse bob parker wrote: You have never w

ethernet error?

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Storey
Just recently, I'm getting a most peculiar message popping up on my screen about once every 30 seconds or so: DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=129 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 LEN=109 I have three machines on my network, and only this machine (192

Re: kdm failed to preconfigure, with exit status 30

2003-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Uwe Dippel wrote: > On the Unstable of today. > Am I the only one ? Does that matter ? > > Hi Uwe, no - you're not the only one. I had it @ home yesterday and @ work today. It didn't break anything tho (I kept my old kdm config of course). BTW: what are you doing in .my? Mail me... Greetings

Re: software raid

2003-12-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andy On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote: > So when you bring up a new system, you mark all the partitions as FD? yes > I just tried it and the installer tells me "No Linux partitions were > detected. At least one Linux partition is required to hold the root > filesystem" you

woody upgrade/update path

2003-12-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi all, I have to install spamassassin (and likely some sort of virus filtreing - amavis or so) on a handful of debian woody mailservers. Also, I need to add hylafax server to them all. The servers can't go down, at least not longer than a restart if it really has to, so I have to find a way

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > I just said the hell with mkinitrd, as you know. yup.. i avoid initrd as much as possible to > If you have directions on using initrd to work with raid, LET ME KNOW. > If I don't have to recompile the kernel, then great! mkinitrd does no

Re: Web server Partitions - /tmp

2003-12-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > but ... if "/tmp" accidentally mounted under root fs instead of separate > > partition, than i consider the box as having gone bonkers and "not > > working right" > > There's "not working right" (in which case I agree), and there's "not > working

Re: X and screen finding

2003-12-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello r j (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > i installed more or less a woody on a digital venturis fx 5133 ( year > 1996), s3 trio graphics. > > when i launch X, i get this : (EE) no devices detected > fatal server error > no screens found > > i'm new to gnu/linux...i read as much as i can to unde

Re: Dialing and surfing

2003-12-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello "Sébastien (Newsletters)" (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying to connect the Internet via a dialup connection. I managed > to make my connection work with kppp and I can now dial and open a > session at my ISP's. > I launched Mozilla and can't reach any website. Is it because of > pro

Web "accelerator" (was Re: AT&T Internet Runner?)

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:58:57PM +, W. Citoan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 be

Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:25:13PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. > > > > I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then > > it hangs for 10 seconds wi

Checking File integrity

2003-12-22 Thread rajkumars
Hi, How can i check the md5 sum of an executable from debian? For example if i want to check the md5sum of /bin/ps of redhat 8, I would go to wwwlknowngoods.org and type the executable name and distro name and I will get the proper md5sum. Is their any thing similar I can do with debian? I have

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and > > KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac,

Re: woody upgrade/update path

2003-12-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have to install spamassassin (and likely some sort of virus filtreing - > amavis or so) on a handful of debian woody mailservers. Also, I need to add > hylafax server to them all. > > The servers can't go down, at l

Re: ethernet error?

2003-12-22 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 20:39, Robert Storey wrote: > > Just recently, I'm getting a most peculiar message popping up on my > screen about once every 30 seconds or so: > > DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=129 TOS=0x00 > PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 LEN=109 th

make-kpkg modules_iimage error

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
I'm having a problem (described in the original post, but I'll repeat it below) compiling the nvidia modules for kernel 2.6.0 using make-kpkg. I'm beginning to think the problem lies with make-kpkg. so here we go: -running sid on an amd athlon with a self-rolled 2.4.21 kernel. -official sourc

Re: X and screen finding

2003-12-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello r j (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [XFree problem] We /did/ read your message, there is no need to send it to the list over and over again. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

dependancy problems

2003-12-22 Thread Jens Röder
Hi, somehow I have broken my system on alpha, when trying updates. Hence I decided to deinstall as much as possible and build up again, but now I cannot install packages, like kdebase: alph:~ # apt-get install kdebase Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages

using old isa bus ethernet cards

2003-12-22 Thread Debian User
i have two isa ethernet cards that i have that i wish to use in a test machine here at work. i think one is an intel chip and the other ... who knows. one chip number is LG82000 ... the other is S82595FX L7093628. I searched Debian for a previous post and even googled but have not found any i

Working modem?

2003-12-22 Thread Bjorn Johansson
Hi! I have a Telix 56k modem which doesn't work with Debian. It works ok with win98. So, I guess I need to buy myself a better modem, are the ADSL ethernet modems from D-LINK supported in Debian? Björn Johansson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-22 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:11:37PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > From: Paul Johnson ... > > You want mc. > > > > I got mc :) > But I think xTree Gold was better :)) > > -- > Gruessle > searching http://de.vivisimo.com for Linux ytree: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/po

Re: Working modem?

2003-12-22 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 12:51 schrieb Bjorn Johansson: > Hi! > > I have a Telix 56k modem which doesn't work with Debian. > It works ok with win98. > > So, I guess I need to buy myself a better modem, > are the ADSL ethernet modems from D-LINK sup

router + laptop: naive question

2003-12-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List I am currently configuring my router which I plan to use exclusively with my laptop to connect to the internet through wire or/and wireless connections: now the IP of my router is in fact the former IP of my laptop, whereas my laptop has a local IP ( 192.168.2.NNN ): formely I could c

Re: ethernet error?

2003-12-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Robert Storey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Just recently, I'm getting a most peculiar message popping up on my > screen about once every 30 seconds or so: > > DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=129 > TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 LEN=109 > >

Re: ipsec kernel patch 2.4.23

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install freeswan on a woody box with 2.4.23 from > backports.org. I apt-got kernel-patch-freeswan, did an export > PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes, and a make-kpkg. > > But the patch fails, see below. [...] > ipsec_init.c:204: t

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:29:48AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:25:13PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > unable to make backup link of `./bin/login' before installing new version: > > Operation not

I can't install some programs ... ( New Debian User )

2003-12-22 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Eveybody , First debian package menagment like FreeBSD Port Collection . I want to ask Does asp-get understand dep. I mean if some dep. Need Does it install it itself or I have to it manuelly . Why some packages is not installable ?!! Why I can't install quota package ?! Why

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:46:56AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > My favourite file was the last one ... I mean, the crontab one. > Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

UI Test Automation tools

2003-12-22 Thread saroj.panda
Hello     I am a newcomer to the world of free software and GNU.   I need some information regarding open source test tools available for testing UI applications on Debian Linux and automating it.Through internet I could find a tool like XNEE which  does the recording, replay and distribu

Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?

2003-12-22 Thread M. Kirchhoff
A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment, but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x. My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports of Gnome2.4, Mozilla, Pan, and other of his assorted fav

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:26:15AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi D-U list folks, > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. > Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with > debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) > http://lwn.net/Articles/63

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:41:36AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:26:15AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi D-U list folks, > > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. > > Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded

Re: question

2003-12-22 Thread Kent West
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:05:30AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm still running Linex?

Fluxbox menus

2003-12-22 Thread Gonzalo Sainz-Trápaga
Hi, I am using one of the experimental fluxbox releases (0.9.6) which include some great new features. These are not available on sid's package, who is still providing the "stable" version 0.1.14. When i used the deb-packaged fluxbox my menus were nicely kept up to date with my package installatio

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday December 22 at 01:38am Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I managed to manually compile the drivers. Now, when I go to set up > my video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose > from. How did you end up like that? Nvidia's driver is what they call 'unified,

lkm trojan

2003-12-22 Thread user list
I just ran chkrootkit on one of my machines at it turned up the following: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed How do I diagnose this further, and if there is an LKM trojan, how do I remove it? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: lkm trojan

2003-12-22 Thread user list
Never mind. I just googled lkm and found that this is a false positive. Yes, I did check /proc. Art Edwards On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:38:59AM -0700, user list wrote: > I just ran chkrootkit on one of my machines at it turned up the > following: > > Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidd

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

2003-12-22 Thread Anita Lewis
Axel Burwitz wrote: 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 tr

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wilko Fokken wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:11:37PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: From: Paul Johnson ... You want mc. I got mc :) But I think xTree Gold was better :)) -- Gruessle searching http://de.vivisimo.com for Linux ytree: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/pool/mai

Re: xfree86 4.3 installing on unstable

2003-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Kalebaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze wrote: > >>You probably don't want a full XFree86 4.3 install, just the X server >>for hardware support. On my laptop, I downloaded the Xxserv.tgz and >>Xmod.tgz binary tarballs from xfree86.org, unpacked them in >>/usr/local, repointed /e

Re: Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 08:50, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I > suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment, > but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x. > > My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports

Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points

2003-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
"Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) Ctrl+Alt+Bksp will kill your X server; if you're running under a display manager [gdm, kdm, xdm, wdm], that will probably restart the server, so you'd need to log in on the console as root

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and > > KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assumin

Re: using old isa bus ethernet cards

2003-12-22 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote: > i have two isa ethernet cards that i have that i wish to use in a > test machine here at work. i think one is an intel chip and the > other ... who knows. > > one chip number is LG82000 ... the other is S82595FX L7093628. I > searched Debian for a previou

[OT] XTree

2003-12-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031217 19:55]: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:52:20AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) > > I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. > > Holy cow! Someone else has heard of tha

Re: floating screen

2003-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
"Gruessle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did goggle for floating screen and floating display I don't know > what else to look for you tell me what you would call this. > > If I change resolution with "Ctrl Alt + or -" to a smaller > resolution I do get bigger everything, but my display bust out

Re: ipsec kernel patch 2.4.23

2003-12-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:27:44AM -, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > I'm trying to install freeswan on a woody box with 2.4.23 from > backports.org. I apt-got kernel-patch-freeswan, did an export > PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes, and a make-kpkg. Try this: export PATCH_THE_KERNEL="YES" ### Note the case i

Re: I can't install some programs ... ( New Debian User )

2003-12-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Vahric MUHTARYAN: > > First debian package menagment like FreeBSD Port Collection . I want > to ask Does asp-get understand dep. I mean if some dep. Need Does it install > it itself or I have to it manuelly . You ask what you want, apt-get/aptitude/?? figures out what you nee

Re: router + laptop: naive question

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 08:55, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > formely I could connect from other computers to my laptop (scp), > now I cannot: is there a way to configure my stuff in such a way that > the other computers think that my router is in fact my laptop ? Yes, but it is completely dependent upon t

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in Debian Sarge

2003-12-22 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, at KDE start a "no /dev/dsp"-message appears and I cannot configure a "emu10k1" driver module via modconf ("installation failed") for my SB Audigy 2 in Debian Sarge ! Anyone a idea, or did it before ? rgds Axel BTW: it works in SuSE and Fedora... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

OT: Philosphical; Gnome 1.x ugly (was: Re: Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?)

2003-12-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from M. Kirchhoff: > > A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I > suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment, > but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x. We all generally agree with ideas like, "Beauty is only skin deep ..." and, "Don't jud

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: > > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWor

Re: using old isa bus ethernet cards

2003-12-22 Thread Debian User
>> one chip number is LG82000 ... the other is S82595FX L7093628. I >> searched Debian for a previous post and even googled but have not >> found any information on which modules to load when using antiques. >> >I had one of the latter (82595FX) but it was an Intel clone: yours may be >just a str

Re: Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?

2003-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/03 08:50), M. Kirchhoff wrote: > A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I > suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment, > but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x. > > My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports of > Gn

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
Scarletdown wrote: > I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) > -> Building kernel module: > executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make nvidia.o SYSINCLUDE=/lib/m

Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
For a few weeks, starting Gnome applications such as gimv had been very slow. For instance, starting gimv (with no options) on my 400MHz G4 PowerBook takes 25 seconds! A strace suggests that it takes all this time by loading fonts from /usr/share/texmf/fonts (I have this directory in /etc/fonts/loc

Challenge to the debian community: ethernet controller doesn't work in debian but in: SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo !!

2003-12-22 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, I don't believe it: my Dell onboard ethernet controller can't be configured in Debian Sarge but runs smoothly in Suse, Fedora an Gentoo-Live and Knoppix... and I cannot find or get help in Usenet and via google ?? Come on, debian community: take that chalenge ! installed , for my first Deb

Re: router + laptop: naive question

2003-12-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for the reply Mark Roach wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 08:55, Jerome BENOIT wrote: formely I could connect from other computers to my laptop (scp), now I cannot: is there a way to configure my stuff in such a way that the other computers think that my router is in fact my laptop ? Yes, b

Re: xfree86 4.3 installing on unstable

2003-12-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 17:57]: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:45:31AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > is there any way to install xfree 4.3 on my Debian unstable box > > without switching to experimental? > > Experimental is not a full distro, just a slice of packages, AFAIK, so > th

Re: xfree86 4.3 installing on unstable

2003-12-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nick Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 00:35]: > Hi, > > * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031219 16:46]: > > Dear all, > > > > is there any way to install xfree 4.3 on my Debian unstable box > > without switching to experimental? > > I think you may have a misunderstanding about the experim

Re: I can't install some programs ... ( New Debian User )

2003-12-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Vahric MUHTARYAN: > > From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Incoming from Vahric MUHTARYAN: > > > > First debian package menagment like FreeBSD Port Collection . I want > > to ask Does asp-get understand dep. I mean if some dep. Need Does it > > If you're new to Debi

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in Debian Sarge

2003-12-22 Thread Antonio Rodr!
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:42:18 +0100 Axel Burwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > at KDE start a "no /dev/dsp"-message appears and I cannot configure a > "emu10k1" driver module via modconf ("installation failed") for my SB > Audigy 2 in Debian Sarge ! > > Anyone a idea, or did it before ? I

flash memory drives cannot initially mount rw -- SOLVED ODDLY

2003-12-22 Thread Jameson C. Burt
I mount using mount LABEL=LEXAR-256MB-2 /mnt for my labeled (e2label /dev/sdb1 LEXAR-256MB-2) ext3 thumbsized Lexar JumpDrive Trio which has inside the SanDisk Ultra II SD (Secure Digital) 256MB flash memory switched to unlock, attached to USB. While this mounts /dev/sdb1 as ext3 READ

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Steven Yap
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 04:50, Matt Price wrote: > > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and > > > KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm a

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-22 Thread Julius Plenz
Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I did what you suggested, but I'm still having the same old and ugly > fonts, did you do something else in addition to defining GDK_USE_XFT? Did you do a Xserver-restart or a complete reboot? Additionally, I edited my ~/.gtkrc, now it looks like this: (

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-22 Thread Travis Crump
GCS wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I sure wish debian had a secure version of the kernel; a binary version of grsecurity would add a huge amount of security. Anyone know why Debian does not have this in the main archive? At least a grsecur

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
I managed to manually compile the drivers. Now, when I go to set up my video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose from. Trouble is, none of them specifically say GeForce 5600 FX. So the question to anyone here who also uses this card... Which one do I select from the

cdrdao not working with 2.6

2003-12-22 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm not using scsi emulation to record using my brand new 2.6 kernel, but kde complains about cdrdao v.1.1.7 not supporting atapi devices... Is that going to change or must I reboot using kernel 2.4 to be able to record a svcd ? Thanks ;)

Re: ethernet error?

2003-12-22 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 22 Dec 2003 at 19:39, Robert Storey wrote: > I'm beginning to suspect a hardware error. Some of you might recall > that last week I also asked about another message that was popping up > on my screen (but very infrequently): > > spurious 8529A interrupt: IRQ7 > > A couple of people wrote back

Re: I can't install some programs ... ( New Debian User )

2003-12-22 Thread David Z Maze
"Vahric MUHTARYAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First debian package menagment like FreeBSD Port Collection . I want > to ask Does asp-get understand dep. I mean if some dep. Need Does it > install it itself or I have to it manuelly . If you're installing packages using dselect or an APT-based t

Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Seg, 2003-12-22 Ãs 13:52, Vincent Lefevre escreveu: > For a few weeks, starting Gnome applications such as gimv had been > very slow. For instance, starting gimv (with no options) on my 400MHz > G4 PowerBook takes 25 seconds! A strace suggests that it takes all > this time by loading fonts from

floppy mount and msdos

2003-12-22 Thread Debian User
i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine to my non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is listed in fstab as: /dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto00 at the shell prompt, mount displays: /dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (rw) looks good, rig

Re: Challenge to the debian community: ethernet controller doesn't work in debian but in: SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo !!

2003-12-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Seg, 2003-12-22 Ãs 12:28, Axel Burwitz escreveu: > and I cannot find or get help in Usenet and via google ?? That's why this list exists. > Come on, debian community: take that chalenge ! Cut short the crap, please. > installed , for my first Debian try, Debian Sarge from t

Re: floppy mount and msdos

2003-12-22 Thread Debian User
At Monday, 22 December 2003, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine >to my non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is >listed in fstab as: > >/dev/fd0/floppy autouser,noauto00 > >at the shel

group- ?

2003-12-22 Thread Monique Y. Herman
So, in /etc, there are group and group-, which seem to be identical except that group- has much more restrictive permissions. What's group- for? What happens if I edit /etc/group directly and don't copy the changes over to group- right away? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread Raiz_mpx
> From: Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Today 03:38:30 > > I managed to manually compile the drivers.  Now, when I go to set up >my >video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose >from. >Trouble is, none of them specifically say GeForce 5600 FX.  So the >question t

Re: question

2003-12-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031222 07:58]: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:05:30AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>Bochs (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/), but last time I checked (about a > >>year ago), it wasn't anywhere near as mature as VMWare (which w

Re: nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-22 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hey Folks, > > now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers > (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) I used this method, but had to "export KERNDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.0" to successfully compile the nvidia k

Re: Challenge to the debian community: ethernet controller doesn't work in debian but in: SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo !!

2003-12-22 Thread Kent West
Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Seg, 2003-12-22 Ãs 12:28, Axel Burwitz escreveu: 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, (and following eth0 etc.) Which ker

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