Re: External DVD-burner

2004-03-05 Thread Hamid Gh
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi assuming, You have no other SCSI Hostadapter in Your system. Thanks Jonathan It worked and I could mount the drive (obviously I had to install two packages: scsiadd scsitools). And also I had to say: echo "scsi add-single-device 1 0 0 0" >

XFree86 4.3, DRI, and ATI Rage 128 Pro freeze

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Bloom
I recently (last week) figured out how to configure my computer's ATI Rage 128 card to work with DRI and use 3D acceleration. I have a problem now that if I let xscreensaver launch and start doing screen savers, eventually one of the OpenGL screensavers will completely lock up my screen (I can't Ct

Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Bloom
I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init reports the getty as

Re:kernel source tree

2004-03-05 Thread David Baron
On Friday 05 March 2004 03:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding.  You do: > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 > make-kpkg modules-image > > and you get the error: > And yet /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 contains your kernel source? > Is this correct? Before making, be sure th

Another harmless error on bootup

2004-03-05 Thread David Baron
Booting 2.6.3 with initrd for ext3. Get "no such file or directory . /ext2/ext2.ko" or something like that. Everything works just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel panic

2004-03-05 Thread David Baron
When installing kernel images, the installer first give a lengthy warning about initrds. If one continues, it offers to wipe out your old lilo, etc. Word to the wize: DON'T. After installation is done, leaving lilo alone: Edit lilo.conf and add the new kernel image and its initrd to the bootup

Re: Sound trouble

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
You're right, DMA is not activated... thanks! On Friday 05 March 2004 05:21, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:43:01PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I do get some sounds, however it sounds horrible. The sound is skipping > > all the time (whether I have a high load or almost noth

Re: kernel source tree

2004-03-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 05 March 2004 01:39, CW Harris wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:34:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 19:40, CW Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:47:38AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > On 2004-03-04, Richard Lyons penned: [...] > > > >

Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Pål Dahle
Hi all, I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics card. I started out in october last year installing Knoppix 3.1 and later 3.3 on it. At that time Knoppix was an appealing distribution, since it came with XFree 4.3.0. It wasn't what I eventually wanted, however, an

Re: kernel source tree

2004-03-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 05 March 2004 10:20, David Baron wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2004 03:52, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding.  You do: > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 > > make-kpkg modules-image > > > > and you get the error: > > > > And yet /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 co

Re: Sound trouble

2004-03-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
I compiled a new kernel: hdparm -d /dev/hd? /dev/hda: using_dma= 1 (on) /dev/hdb: using_dma= 1 (on) /dev/hdc: using_dma= 1 (on) However the problem persists... On Friday 05 March 2004 05:21, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:43:01PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote

Re: apache cannot load libphp4.so

2004-03-05 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 at 16:20:03 +, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > Hi, > what version of Apache are u using? > 1.3.26 used by debian woody package. Php4 is also stable debian woody package...I repeat, no problem on my laptop: this is _very_ weird. Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows sy

Transpaso de ficheros con VLAN

2004-03-05 Thread Valvanuz Fernandez
Hola: Acabo de meter un ordenador en varias VLANs. Aparentemente funciona todo, pero cuando quiero traer ficheros de un ordenador a través de cualquiera de las VLANs la operación se queda colgada. El traspaso de ficheros no funciona por scp ni por ftp ni por http, aunque sí que puedo navegar por pá

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Pål Dahle wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics > card. Different laptop, but same graphics card here. > Now, I am somewhat frustrated about the fact that Knoppix beats the shit > out of sid when it

convert: ps -> png

2004-03-05 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hello I've run into problems converting a ps file to png. I do: convert ergom2.eps ergom2.png and get: convert: DPS library is not available (ergom2.eps). imagemagick: Version: 5:5.5.7.9-1.1 libdps1: 4.3.0-2 I also have installed gs, gs-common and gs-esp By the way ldd /usr/bin/convert does n

Has anyone successfully used j2se-package

2004-03-05 Thread Hamid Gh
Hi I used j2se-package to convert downloaded binary file from Sun to a debian package. After installing the created deb file, I am having difficulty to use java or javac. It seems that I have to configure javaselect somehow to make it work. Does anybody know how to use javaselect ? My java inst

Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

2004-03-05 Thread Jens Benecke
Hi, I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming from STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgrep" don't work, they need files to work on, but the mail comes via STDIN. So I need to write something like | condredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrep "^X-Spam-Flag: YES" BUT where grep wou

Re: Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

2004-03-05 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 05 March 2004 10:37, Jens Benecke shoved this in my mailbox: > I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming from > STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgrep" don't work, they need files to work on, > but the mail comes via STDIN. I'm not saying this can't be done from a s

Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-05 Thread Adam Funk
I know that a lot of people here recommend "The Debian GNU/Linux Bible" by Steve Hunger, which my library is getting. But I've also seen in secondhand catalogues the following books (some of which I think are out of print) and I'd appreciate any comments about them. Bill McCarty: Learning Debian

gdm restarts every 20 minutes: why?

2004-03-05 Thread Nick Jacobs
If there is no user activity, gdm restarts every 20 minutes, killing the current local session. Here's a sample from /var/log/syslog. Mar 5 07:05:27 leo gdm[8899]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Mar 5 07:25:29 leo gdm[8912]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error -

kernel 2.6.3, alsa, debian testing

2004-03-05 Thread ken
Hi all. I have problems loading the Alsa drivers in kernel 2.6.3 on my debian testing box. I get the following error: Starting ALSA (unknown version): failed - ALSA modules not installed I know i compiled them as modules. When I try modprobe snd I get: pingu:~# modprobe snd -v insmod /lib/modules/2

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/03/04 10:09), Adam Funk wrote: > I know that a lot of people here recommend "The Debian GNU/Linux Bible" > by Steve Hunger, which my library is getting. But I've also seen in > secondhand catalogues the following books (some of which I think are > out of print) and I'd appreciate any commen

How to build file srver with Win-based clients ?

2004-03-05 Thread welly hartanto
Hi, guys... Thank you for answering my earlier questions. Now, I have some more questions ( ..again :D ): Call me a nutty newbie, but I want to build a file server with my debian. So : 1. Is there any tool for the users ( Win-based ) to loginto my file server ( similiar to Novellclient ) 2. Co

gnome-panel woes (clock not available)

2004-03-05 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, I already posted this a few days ago, and just try again. Without apparent reason, the clock applet has vanished from my panel. All attempts to add it were in vain. The fun part: if I run the panel from xterm (killall gnome-panel && gnome-panel) the clock is back. Actually, several clocks.

How to get X error messages

2004-03-05 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, when I've seen Linux for the very first time, it was on a friends' machine. IIRC he was running fvwm, and had a console-like window ( I think it was even named "Console") where all the error messages of his X apps would scroll by (if any, ofc). >From my current understanding, it would catc

Re: How to get X error messages

2004-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:34:24PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > when I've seen Linux for the very first time, it was on a friends' > machine. IIRC he was running fvwm, and had a console-like window ( I > think it was even named "Console") where all the error messages of his X >

Re: gnome-panel woes (clock not available)

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Graham
Christian wrote: > Without apparent reason, the clock applet has vanished from my panel. > All attempts to add it were in vain. > The fun part: if I run the panel from xterm (killall gnome-panel && > gnome-panel) the clock is back. Actually, several clocks... presumably > these are the result of me

Re: How to build file srver with Win-based clients ?

2004-03-05 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 05 March 2004 12:20, welly hartanto shoved this in my mailbox: > Hi, guys... Thank you for answering my earlier questions. Now, I have > some more questions ( ..again :D ): Call me a nutty newbie, but I want > to build a file server with my debian. So : 1. Is there any tool for the > user

Re:(transl: file transfer within VLAN)

2004-03-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:17:32AM +0100, Valvanuz Fernandez wrote: > Hola: > Acabo de meter un ordenador en varias VLANs. Aparentemente funciona todo, > pero cuando quiero traer ficheros de un ordenador a través de cualquiera de ### #Fast Translation:# ### I have a

floppy based Debian linux

2004-03-05 Thread aravind ghosh
hai everybody, please help me in getting floppy based debian linux Operating system. i wanted to run an industrial PC, which only supports floppy disk.i needed networking support also for it. Is it possible to get it. if yes please give me the way to g

floppy based Debian linux

2004-03-05 Thread aravind ghosh
hai everybody, please help me in getting floppy based debian linux Operating system. i wanted to run an industrial PC, which only supports floppy disk.i needed networking support also for it. Is it possible to get it. if yes please give me the way to g

Re: (transl: file transfer within VLAN)

2004-03-05 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 05 March 2004 13:10, Antonio Rodriguez shoved this in my mailbox: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:17:32AM +0100, Valvanuz Fernandez wrote: > > Hola: > > Acabo de meter un ordenador en varias VLANs. Aparentemente funciona todo, > > pero cuando quiero traer ficheros de un ordenador a través de

Re: gdm restarts every 20 minutes: why?

2004-03-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:48:11 -0800, Nick Jacobs wrote: > If there is no user activity, gdm restarts every 20 minutes, killing the > current local session. > I'm not running a screensaver. Sounds like your X server has DPMS (Energy Star) enabled but crashes on it. Check with "xset q" and try i

Re: XFree86 4.3, DRI, and ATI Rage 128 Pro freeze

2004-03-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:39PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > I recently (last week) figured out how to configure my computer's ATI > Rage 128 card to work with DRI and use 3D acceleration. I have a > problem now that if I let xscreensaver launch and start doing > screen savers, eventually one of th

Re: Debian Drivers -- Dell 2350

2004-03-05 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 19:09, Kent West wrote: > David Clymer wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:18, Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I plan on moving my Debian installation from my 600MHz machine to my Dell 2.1GHz > >>>box. > >>> > >>>Drivers exist

Using dvgrab to make single shots

2004-03-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi all. I am trying to use dvgrab to make single shots, but I am not getting anywhere. Would anyone know how to do it? So far I have tried the following: dvgrab -i --autosplit --format jpg --jpeg-quality 75 --frames 1 --jpeg-width 640 --jpeg-height 480 figure- and dvgrab -i --format jpg --jpeg-

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-05 Thread Karol Czachorowski
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:33:36 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you're doing something CPU intensive that can take advantage of > special CPU instructions, you will waste hours upon hours recompiling > the world to save milliseconds here and there. The packages that > benefit f

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-05 Thread Karol Czachorowski
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization > actually makes. Gentoo is much faster than debian. Generally every new distro is faster, cause other distros has i586 or higher optimalization (while debian has

webmin access?

2004-03-05 Thread stan
I'm setting up a KnoppMYTH machine, and it seesm to install webmin by default. I;m able to get my browser to atach to port 1000 on that machine, but I can't get loged in. Does webmin use the /etc/password passwords? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neith

Using dvgrab to make single shots

2004-03-05 Thread DGLU TR
Hi all. I am trying to use dvgrab to make single shots, but I am not getting anywhere. Would anyone know how to do it? So far I have tried the following: dvgrab -i --autosplit --format jpg --jpeg-quality 75 --frames 1 --jpeg-width 640 --jpeg-height 480 figure- and dvgrab -i --format jpg --jpeg-

Re: Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

2004-03-05 Thread Jens Benecke
Joost De Cock wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2004 10:37, Jens Benecke shoved this in my mailbox: >> I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming >> from STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgrep" don't work, they need files to work >> on, but the mail comes via STDIN. > > I'm not say

phpmyadmin X mysql-navigator

2004-03-05 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am looking for a GUI for MySQL. The options are: a) phpmyadmin or b) mysql-navigator. What is the better? It seems that nobody is working on mysql-navigator from march 2003... thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Howto use a DOS compiler in linux?

2004-03-05 Thread Paladin
Hello everyone, I need to use a compiler in linux that only runs in a DOS environment (I only tested it in a command terminal in windows though). I was thinking about some kind of wrapper that would allow me to run it as if it was a linux command to use it, for example, within Eclipse. Does dose

Re: strange problem

2004-03-05 Thread Adam Aube
"T. Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i got a debian machine (let's it's D) it's running on 2.4.24 SMP. > and a my own machine which is Windows XP (let's name it X) and a > redhat machine (the name is R) using default kernel. > ok the problem is, from my X machine, i can ping b

gnulpr looping bug

2004-03-05 Thread James MS Anderson
Hi all, I've recenly installed gnulpr, but now when a user tries to print something from openoffice or a pdf viewer {gimp 2.0 pre 3 seems ok} glpr runs, and then whatever the settings are, when Print is clicked, it launches glpr again. As a result, it's not possible for users to p

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Pål Dahle wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics P4 2.53, Geforce4 MX 440(hey, i didn't want it, it was given to me at work) With DRI on Sid, i get around 175 fps. Without DRI on Knoppix, i get around 350. Bo

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Pål Dahle wrote: > > DRI | Knoppix Sid > yes |1330 800 > no | 380 320 Sorry for showing my ignorance, but how do you measure this? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit

Re: gnome-panel woes (clock not available)

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:26:18 +0100 Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This behaviour seems very strange to me. Any ideas apart from burning > incense sticks and singing mantras? I don't have a direct answer for you -- I use GNOME, but I've never run into something like that. But

Re: gnome-panel woes (clock not available)

2004-03-05 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Fre, 2004-03-05 at 12:46, Michael Graham wrote: > Christian wrote: > > Without apparent reason, the clock applet has vanished from my panel. > > All attempts to add it were in vain. > > The fun part: if I run the panel from xterm (killall gnome-panel && > > gnome-panel) the clock is back. > Hav

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Mike Dresser wrote: > I'm sure I've done something wrong on both problems :) Well, found the first problem. Don't run setiathome while glxgears is running. 1800 fps now. Much more respectable. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the network off in order to use my dialup connection. Thanks for any ideas. Can't use ethernet and modem at same time

2004-03-05 Thread Ken Januski
Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the network off in order to use my dialup connection. Thanks for any ideas. Ken -- To UNSUBSCRI

Ring buffer size [Was: Re: What is "Kernel OOPs"?]

2004-03-05 Thread David
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:44:46PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040304 09:19]: > > dmesg just displays what the kernel outputs during boot. Usually you > > want to type "dmesg | less" so that you can scroll through all the > > messages. > > More precisely, kernel messages a

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:11PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Pål Dahle wrote: > > > > DRI | Knoppix Sid > > yes |1330 800 > > no | 380 320 > > Sorry for showing my ignorance, but how do you measure this?

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:11PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Pål Dahle wrote: > > > > DRI | Knoppix Sid > > yes |1330 800 > > no | 380 320 > > Sorry for showing my ignorance, but how do you measure this? You're not ignorant in

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 March 2004 22:38, Greg Madden wrote: > > I am not sure if Woody has any of these packages. Sarge is pretty stable > right now so I have switched over to it. Sarge has HW detection, > installs a USB mouse with no problem. One of packages

Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
Ken Bloom wrote: I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init rep

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
Johann Spies wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Pål Dahle wrote: DRI | Knoppix Sid yes |1330 800 no | 380 320 Sorry for showing my ignorance, but how do you measure this? Regards Johann "glxinfo | more" and then about the fourth line down to see i

Re: floppy based Debian linux

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
aravind ghosh wrote: hai everybody, please help me in getting floppy based debian linux Operating system. i wanted to run an industrial PC, which only supports floppy disk.i needed networking support also for it. Is it possible to get it. if yes please give

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
Michael Satterwhite wrote: Actually, I am running Sarge ... and I'm without the mouse. The installer can't protect us from the Dumb User Complex. I tried running discover - nothing happened. It looks like it's going to take less time to reload everything than to figure out how to reconfigure t

Please HELP ME

2004-03-05 Thread Akkermans
Hi all, I have installed my Debian on a p2 system. But I am having trouble connecting my debian system to the internet. Is it possible to fill in (and try) new values of my proxyserver without installing my Debian system all over again? If so in which files on my Debian system are the proxyser

Re: floppy based Debian linux

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: aravind ghosh wrote: hai everybody, please help me in getting floppy based debian linux Operating system. i wanted to run an industrial PC, which only supports floppy disk.i needed networking support also for it. Is it possible to get it.

Re: Please HELP ME

2004-03-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:23 AM 3/5/2004, Akkermans wrote: I have installed my Debian on a p2 system. But I am having trouble connecting my debian system to the internet. I'm kind of new to this myself but will give it a shot. Can you ping localhost? Can you ping anything else on your lan? What is your gateway comp

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > | to prevent some embarrassingly old stuff getting out. > > Deleting the information cache like that doesn't delete any messages > from the q

configuring eht0 after bootstrap

2004-03-05 Thread Joseph
My network card wasn't recognized after initial bootstrap (base installation from floppies). How to configure network card at this point? I know the network card (eth0) works as it was recognized when I tried to boot and install unstable system from floppies. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:50:44PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: ... > I'm running in KDE. > I'm using a Logitech optical wheel mouse connected through the USB port > I'm referring to the X Mouse. ... I have one of these mice ($15 variety?) with a usb-ps2 adapter on it. Given the problems I'v

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > > > | to prevent some embarrassingly old stuff getting out. > > > > Deleting

static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hos

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:56:46AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > >

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-05 Thread Lou Losee
* Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-05 10:49]: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:50:44PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > ... > > I'm running in KDE. > > I'm using a Logitech optical wheel mouse connected through the USB port > > I'm referring to the X Mouse. > ... I did not catch the star

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via >dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these >addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It >seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hos

base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-05 Thread ts
debian-userHi! At first I ventured into debian installation ( via networking)again, the embeded LAN chips(RTL8201BL , RTL8101L) of current EPOX-8RDA3G motherboard (nforce2 Ultra 400 +MCP chipsets) can't be detected whatever kernel driver modules I set on. later on I nearly fulfilled de

how to stop exim running the queue automatically

2004-03-05 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
Hi, I am using debian testing/unstable with exim 3.x. I have started using debian just a few days ago, I formerly used RedHat.Now I have configiured it to queue outbound mails and send them thru my smarthost. My webhost supports pop-before-smtp hence I need to check my mail before I can send. I h

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:56:46AM -0500 or thereabouts, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > Dman -- Is there a way to do this with all the que'ed messages at once? > > > > I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time > > consum

dpkg error

2004-03-05 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am getting this error when trying to install k3b on debian testing/unstable after apt-get update and apt-get upgrade: - debian:/home/spavri# apt-get install k3b Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: k3b-i18n Recommended packages: vcdi

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 the mental interface of Sridhar M.A. told: [...] > Still too much work. > > Would not as root, rm /var/spool/exim/input/* do the job more quickly? Don't forget rm /var/spool/exim/msglog Ciao Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're

Re: must run "ifconfig xxx down" to use ppp connection (was: longest topic ever)

2004-03-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello (please use a shorter subject nex time) Ken Januski (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx > down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until > recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the >

Long shot -- MLB Gameday audio / streaming MS ASF files

2004-03-05 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I know this is a long shot, but if there are any baseball fans out there who have subscribed to MLB's Gameday audio in the past, I have some bad news -- they've abandoned Real Audio and are now providing "MS ASF Video". Mplayer opens as the default application, but nothing happens

Re: aptitude stopped automatically upgrading packages

2004-03-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:49:10PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | Usually when I used aptitude in the curses interfaces pressing u to | update and then g to install would mark all upgradable packages for | upgrade. Now it doesn't work any more. | Doing on the command line aptitude dist-upgrade or fro

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adam Funk: > > Aaron Van Couwenberghe: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, Sams, 1999. Unless this one's been updated recently, I'd advise against it. It's way out of date, and what's there is better covered elsewhere. Except if you're a raw newbie and buying a second-hand copy, I'd try

Re: aptitude stopped automatically upgrading packages

2004-03-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:27:16AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:49:10PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | | Usually when I used aptitude in the curses interfaces pressing u to | | update and then g to install would mark all upgradable packages for | | upgrade. Now it

Re: kernel source tree

2004-03-05 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:56:33AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2004 01:39, CW Harris wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:34:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding. You do: > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 > > make-kpkg modules-image > > > > and

R: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread Vicardi Carlo
If you want to delete all frozen message in queue use this script: #!/bin/sh for i in `exim -bp | grep frozen | awk '{print $3}'` ; do exim -Mrm $i done exit 0 Carlo > -Messaggio originale- > Da: S.D.A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: venerdì 5 marzo 2004 17.08 > A: Debian User

Re: How to get X error messages

2004-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Colin Watson: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:34:24PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > > > when I've seen Linux for the very first time, it was on a friends' > > machine. IIRC he was running fvwm, and had a console-like window ( I > > think it was even named "Console") where all t

Re: dpkg error

2004-03-05 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Sharukh! On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:37:51PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am getting this error when trying to install k3b on debian > testing/unstable after apt-get update and apt-get upgrade: > [...] > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/k3b_0.11.6-1_i386.deb (--unp

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: | On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: | | | | > | to prevent some embarrassingly old stuff getting out. | > | > Deleting

Re: Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx down" in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until recently but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the network off in order to use my dialup connection. Thanks for any ideas. Can't use ethernet and modem at same time

2004-03-05 Thread John Hasler
Ken writes: > Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx down" > in order to use pon and modem? You have probably made your network your default gateway. You don't want to do that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
John Schmidt wrote: Hi, My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It seems that the current mechanism within Debia

Re: errors during make xconfig

2004-03-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Brian Nelson wrote: Thanks for the replies. The following are the (un)installed packages on this system. Can you please tell me what packages I need to install/uninstall. There are so many of them qt, qt2, qt3 and libraries corresponding to them. Cant figure out which one goes with what. I am

Re: aptitude stopped automatically upgrading packages

2004-03-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/03/04 11:32), Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:27:16AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:49:10PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > | | Usually when I used aptitude in the curses interfaces pressing u to > | | update and then g to install w

Re: dpkg error

2004-03-05 Thread Florian Ernst
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > dpkg --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/k3b_0.11.6-1_i386.deb Err, some --install might be advisable, too. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

sorry this is a test

2004-03-05 Thread ray
sorry this is a test as my messages don't show up -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-05 Thread Kent West
ts wrote: >At first I ventured into debian installation ( via networking)again, >the embeded LAN chips(RTL8201BL , RTL8101L) of current EPOX-8RDA3G motherboard >(nforce2 Ultra 400 +MCP chipsets) can't be detected whatever kernel driver modules >I set on. > >later on I nearly fulfilled deb

Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello ts (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > At first I ventured into debian installation ( via networking)again, > the embeded LAN chips(RTL8201BL , RTL8101L) of current EPOX-8RDA3G > motherboard (nforce2 Ultra 400 +MCP chipsets) can't be detected > whatever kernel driver modules I set on. > >

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:44:30AM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > | Dman -- Is there a way to do this with all the que'ed messages at once? > | > | I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time >

Re: configuring eht0 after bootstrap

2004-03-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joseph (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My network card wasn't recognized after initial bootstrap (base > installation from floppies). > > How to configure network card at this point? Find out which driver you need and load it. The discover and etherconf packages can help you to find the ri

Kernel patching + compilation for Cobalt RAQ 500....

2004-03-05 Thread Max Lock
Hi Folks, Has anyone recently built a kernel for the i386 based Cobalt RAQ500? I'm trying to get debian up and running on two of these units, and I really want to use a 'proper' debian package to install the kernel from. I've installed the 2.4.23 kernel source (no package available for this)

Re: R: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:34:59PM +0100 or thereabouts, Vicardi Carlo wrote: > If you want to delete all frozen message in queue use this script: > > #!/bin/sh > for i in `exim -bp | grep frozen | awk '{print $3}'` ; do > exim -Mrm $i My goodness, lots of help -- thanks Carlo. -- Steve +

Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >At first I ventured into debian installation ( via networking)again, >the embeded LAN chips(RTL8201BL , RTL8101L) of current EPOX-8RDA3G > motherboard (nforce2 Ultra 400 +MCP chipsets) can't be detected whatever > kernel driver modules I set on. There is one driver in the current

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time > consuming to do each one by one. Yeah. It would be nice if eximon was a more modern GUI. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[

3D broken in unstable ?

2004-03-05 Thread Kevin Bailey
I recently upgraded a couple machines running unstable, which I guess picked up X 4.3.0. Now, neither can do hardware 3D rendering. (Yes, they could before the upgrade.) One has an old 3dfx using DRI, one a new Nvidia using ... whatever Nvidia uses. I noticed a migration from xlibmesa3 to xlibmesa

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