files corrupt (?) -- ldconfig problems

2004-03-06 Thread Michael Bonert
At what point is a system beyond repair... or not worth repairing? PROLOG --- I had some problems installing debhelper and the result is I had disk errors--which I managed to fix with "fsck.reiserfs" I then managed to regenerate "/var/lib/dpkg/available" (which fixed an earlier problem -- http://

installation question?

2004-03-06 Thread users
We are using Debian for a linux installation, .. yet there is NO need to setup a Server and all that jazz. The only instructions or "How to" guides we have instruct building a server, networking, etc. [b:47e5d03b6f]All we want is a Regular WORKSTATION setup.[/b:47e5d03b6f] word processing, grap

trouble with cfs

2004-03-06 Thread Toby Batch
I'm new to this list (and to debian) so please forgive me if this is not the correct place for this question. I'm trying to apt-get install cfs on a server i rent from uk2net. the apt get fails when i'm installing it with the following error: # apt-get install cfs Reading Package Lists... Don

Re: Configuring X server

2004-03-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello (please don't top post) Joseph (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> I must have don't some configuration incorrectly as I can not read >>> any fonts on the screen. >>> Ctrl+Alt+1 is showing the same unreadable fonts. >> >> F1 gets you from X Window to the console. F7 >> gets you back to X. >

Re: what are all the bytes streaming into my modem all about?

2004-03-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
I was unable to figure out the right combination from the ippl.conf man page to show me just what all the bytes streaming into my modem were from, and nothing else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation question?

2004-03-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/03/04 08:29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are using Debian for a linux installation, .. yet there is > NO need to setup a Server and all that > jazz. The only instructions or "How to" guides we have instruct > building a server, networking, etc. [b:47e5d03b6f]All we want is a > Regular WOR

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-06 Thread Katipo
Nick Jacobs wrote: --- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Look at http://www.debian.org/doc/ 2) The competition at debian.org pretty much kills the dead tree book market, IMHO. I agree with (1) but not with (2). Firstly, I'd pay to get some of the material on http://www.debian.org/doc/

Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Pedro M.
I suggest create the module kernel-image.last To upgrade the kernel to the last version. In apt-get install -kernel last the apt-get would install the last kernel image for the default system architecture (i.e. I would detect if it's a i386X architecture and would download the last kernel modu

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Pedro! On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:04:34PM +, Pedro M. wrote: > I suggest create the module kernel-image.last > > To upgrade the kernel to the last version. > > In apt-get install -kernel last |$ apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4-386 |[...] |Description: Linux kernel image for version 2.

usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to recompile the image 2.6.3 to add scanner support but I can find only for microtek, and no generic as

Re: 3D broken in unstable ?

2004-03-06 Thread John Stevenson
I have had problems using the NVidia Install ever since XFree upgraded to v4.3.x in unstable. I have tried every combination of tips I have googled to get the NVidia Installer to work with no success. Now I have a working system using the debian packages of the nvidia install. I am using debi

Re: installation question?

2004-03-06 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Debian for a linux installation, .. yet there is NO need to setup a Server and all that jazz. The only instructions or "How to" guides we have instruct building a server, networking, etc. [b:47e5d03b6f]All we want is a Regular WORKSTATION setup.[/b:47e5d03

xserver-sis

2004-03-06 Thread Chris Mueller
Hello Debian folks Installing Debian 3.0r2 I get stuck in xf86config specifying the videoCard. mainboard ASUS CUSI-FX SiS 630E AGPset SiS300 AGP graphics controller As I read in postings I should choose xserver-sis, but can't find the right place for doing so. Both files are present: /usr/X11R6

Re: should I install nvidia driver at first?re:Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-06 Thread Kent West
ts wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >> 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

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-06 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:28:37PM -0800 or thereabouts, Nick Jacobs wrote: > > --- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) Look at http://www.debian.org/doc/ > > 2) The competition at debian.org pretty much kills > > the dead tree book market, IMHO. > > I agree with (1) but not with (

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg
You are right on. Once I used MAKEDEV I created the three device files for my RAID array. However I cannot create the /dev/hdm and /dev/hdm device files. I know I need to use mknod, but I cannot find the major and minor numbers I need. The whacky version of Debian I used was called Libranet and

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg
You are correct. Thanks. However I am now working on creating /dev/hd0 and /dev/hdm (MAKEDEV only goes so far up the alphabet). I think mknod is the answer. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Jamin W. Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:43 AM > To: [EMAI

SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Paulo Silva
Hi all, I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Anyone has experience with this kind of hardware? Does the SATA technology really tur

Graphical, functional, up-to-date MUA?

2004-03-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
I'm still looking for a MUA that I really like. So far, I've tried KMail, Mozilla Mail and sylpheed-claws. KMail is right out because it is a pain to get proper GPG handling with the Aegypten plugins which don't seem to be in debian. sylpheed-claws is much better but the debian packages are sever

Centre de configuration de KDE

2004-03-06 Thread Bruno Bieth
Bonjour, Lorsque je vais dans le centre de configuration de KDE : Son & Multimedia -> Notifications du systeme J'ai un crash de l'appli. Au lancement du centre de conf., j'ai ce message : KThemeStyle cache seems corrupt! Quand je vais dans Notification du systeme la j'ai :

(no subject)

2004-03-06 Thread Tnedition
could you tell me how to get my computer off of safe mode you see how little everything is

Re: Graphical, functional, up-to-date MUA?

2004-03-06 Thread S.D.A.
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:35:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Nicos Gollan wrote: > I don't like Mozilla mail for *some* reason, it's personal ;-) Sorry, can't help with your Evolution problem, but have you tried out Thunderbird? It's based on the Mozilla client, (it only contains the capbility for

[HELP] Machine "sleeps" so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I have a problem with my machine. If I leave it for some time it seems that it starts "sleeping" so that neither cron-jobs work nor shutdown -h Example: I sat today up a cronjob to start at 15:00. I went at 14:20 and I came back at 16:12. The machine was locked with xscreensaver. When I got ba

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly it

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Pedro M.
Florian Ernst escribió: Hello Pedro! On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:04:34PM +, Pedro M. wrote: I suggest create the module kernel-image.last To upgrade the kernel to the last version. In apt-get install -kernel last |$ apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4-386 |[...] |Description: Linux kerne

Alsa with 2.4.24

2004-03-06 Thread Tony Middleton
I run a sarge system using standard kernel-image-k7 and alsa modules. I have an Audigy sound card which uses the emu10k1 driver. Since moving to 2.4.24 i get no sound but can't find any error messages anywhere. If I revert to 2.4.22 everything works OK. Haven't been able to find anything on

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

2004-03-06 Thread ts
>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:55:59 -0600 >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW? >Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-type: text/plain; charset=us

rip VCD audio

2004-03-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Bought a VCD, where I am only interested in the sound. I can play it (xine), but have no good clue how to rip the audio only; to MP3 on debian. I tried google, without much success. Also apt-cache search didn't come up with a convincing entry. Any idea appreciated ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Email undelivered

2004-03-06 Thread MailManager
Your email was not delivered because The attachment(s) your_document.pif sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was of a type that could not be verified as being safe. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to arrange for delivery of this attachment type.

Re: Configuring X server

2004-03-06 Thread steef
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Joseph: How to configure X in Debian. lists.debian.org is your friend. I _think_ the answer is "dpkg-reconfigure xfree86", but check that. I must have don't some configuration incorrectly as I can not read any fonts on the screen. Ctrl+Alt+1 is showing

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Hamid
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly it s

[Fwd: Re: rip VCD audio]

2004-03-06 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: rip VCD audio Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:33:39 +0100 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: zeta To: Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uwe Dippel wrote: Bou

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 09:51, Greg wrote: > You are right on. Once I used MAKEDEV I created the three device files for > my RAID array. However I cannot create the /dev/hdm and /dev/hdm device > files. I know I need to use mknod, but I cannot find the major and minor > numbers I need. The whacky

Re: kernel 2.6.3, alsa, debian testing

2004-03-06 Thread Nathan Malmberg
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:00:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.

Re: Re: should I install nvidia driver at first?re:Re: base system, nox windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-06 Thread ts
Dear Mr.Kent West, >ts wrote: > >>> Kent West wrote: >>> >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 det

Re: Alsa with 2.4.24

2004-03-06 Thread Tony Middleton
Should also have said that this applies both in KDE and using mpg123. Tony Middleton wrote: I run a sarge system using standard kernel-image-k7 and alsa modules. I have an Audigy sound card which uses the emu10k1 driver. Since moving to 2.4.24 i get no sound but can't find any error messages a

Re: Graphical, functional, up-to-date MUA?

2004-03-06 Thread Tony Middleton
Try Thunderbird. If you add the enigmail plugin you get good gpg support and can have s/mime as well. Regards Tony Middleton Nicos Gollan wrote: I'm still looking for a MUA that I really like. So far, I've tried KMail, Mozilla Mail and sylpheed-claws. KMail is right out because it is a pain to

Modifying pdf documents under woody [was Creating pdf...]

2004-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
A. F. Cano wrote: Hello all, The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under woody (3.0 r2)? But how do you modify pdf documents under woody, specifically the IRS pdf documents? What I do now is: pstoedit -f fig: %d.fig Edit with xfig. Then export with border margin = 2

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:19:19PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Nick Jacobs wrote: > >--- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>1) Look at http://www.debian.org/doc/ > >>2) The competition at debian.org pretty much kills > >>the dead tree book market, IMHO. > > > > > >I agree with (1) but

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Pedro! On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:32:44PM +, Pedro M. wrote: > Florian Ernst escribió: > >On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:04:34PM +, Pedro M. wrote: > >>I suggest create the module kernel-image.last > >> > >>To upgrade the kernel to the last version. > >> > >>In apt-get install -kernel la

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

2004-03-06 Thread Richard Hoskins
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 g

Re: Question about hardware

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hello, > * Is there some way I can access the laptop HD (2.5" I think, > don't remember exact specs) ... I need is some hardware so > that I can mount the HD under linux, and I can take care of > the rest. (Perferably USB, I'm not familiar with firewire; though > if I have to

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > so I could've just done > > %ifdown -a && ifup -a Yes, that would work. In fact, "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" would just restart the specific interface. The "-a" flag just means all interfaces flagged with "auto" in "/etc/network/interfaces". > A fast

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Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > woody:~# more /var/log/kern.log | grep eth0 > Mar 4 09:11:41 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at > 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11. [ . . . ] Oh, I see you found the logs. Well, obviously the driver didn't write anything relevant to

Re: usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-06 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It > seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the > scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to > recompile the image 2.6.3

Re: Graphical, functional, up-to-date MUA?

2004-03-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 06 March 2004 9:35 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > I'm still looking for a MUA that I really like. So far, I've tried > KMail, Mozilla Mail and sylpheed-claws. > > KMail is right out because it is a pain to get proper GPG handling with > the Aegypten plugins which don't seem to be in debian.

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 06 March 2004 1:28 am, Nick Jacobs wrote: > Firstly, I'd pay to get some of the material on > http://www.debian.org/doc/ in the form of a printed, > bound book; a book is more convenient to read and > tires the eyes less. Hehe, thats one reason why I have a laserprinter and a three-hol

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg
I cannot MAKEDEV hmo. I get a "/sbin/MAKEDEV:don't know how to make device "hmo" Would mknod help here ? I am at the fringes of my Linux knowledge, so I am learning as I go along. On my Sunblade 100 running Debian Woody as well as another box running Debian I get the same message. Is there a l

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:11 PM 3/6/2004, Kevin Buhr wrote: Oh, I see you found the logs. Yes, except your explanation of the relationship between kernel and syslog is most welcome and educational so thanks, just finished reading it. BTW am I left to writing my own script if I wanted to grep the syslog for a certa

Re: rip VCD audio

2004-03-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:59:48AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Bought a VCD, where I am only interested in the sound. > I can play it (xine), but have no good clue how to rip the audio only; to > MP3 on debian. If you can't find a better alternative, vsound would work. -- Carl Fink [E

alsa and ecasound2.2

2004-03-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, I am using a mixture of Stable/Unstable with kernel 2.6.2 and ALSA support enabled. Two soundcards SBLive and Delta M-66 The SBLive plays fine. I can use Envy24control and get sound from the Delta M-66. So, both soundcards work with ALSA. When I try to use ecasound2.2 I get the followi

ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I am running 'woody' with the 4.1.0-16woody1 version of XFree86 on a fairly new Dell with a "ATI Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]" video controller. For some reason, the board isn't being recognized when I 'startx'. In particular, this: (II) ATI unknown chipset (0x5157) and this: (WW) ATI

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >For some reason, the board isn't being recognized when I 'startx'. >In particular, this: > >(II) ATI unknown chipset (0x5157) > >and this: > >(WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected You could ease up error detection by providing the complete /var/log/ XFree86.

Re: usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Philippe Marzouk wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to recomp

hard drive partitions post install set up

2004-03-06 Thread Marty Landman
Here's what I show now, with a 6GB hd on my Woody box: woody:~# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1035660327876655176 34% / woody:~# more /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hd

Re: Alsa with 2.4.24

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Tony Middleton wrote: I run a sarge system using standard kernel-image-k7 and alsa modules. I have an Audigy sound card which uses the emu10k1 driver. Since moving to 2.4.24 i get no sound but can't find any error messages anywhere. If I revert to 2.4.22 everything works OK. Haven't been a

Re: Graphical, functional, up-to-date MUA?

2004-03-06 Thread Katipo
Nicos Gollan wrote: I'm still looking for a MUA that I really like. So far, I've tried KMail, Mozilla Mail and sylpheed-claws. apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird. I just switched from sylpheed-claws, which I really liked, but you're right, - too buggy. Past versions have actually been better. I d

Re: Opinions on some Debian books?

2004-03-06 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:28:37PM -0800, Nick Jacobs wrote: > --- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) Look at http://www.debian.org/doc/ > > 2) The competition at debian.org pretty much kills > > the dead tree book market, IMHO. > > I agree with (1) but not with (2). > Firstly, I'd

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
js> You could ease up error detection by providing the complete /var/log/ js> XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). Good idea! The files are attached below. I manually edited XF86Config-4 some, so I hope it isn't in too bad of shape! ;-) > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers

Re: rip VCD audio

2004-03-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:59 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Bought a VCD, where I am only interested in the sound. > I can play it (xine), but have no good clue how to rip the audio only; to > MP3 on debian. > I tried google, without much success. Also apt-cache search didn't come up > with a convincing

Re: hard drive partitions post install set up

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >So this looks like other than the first GB on my hard drive I've screwed up >the rest of it. What should I do at this point to get use of the rest of >the space on my hd? I don't care about any data anywhere except for /dev/ hda1. different options: 1) mount the other filesystems somwhe

Re: usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-06 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:32:48PM +0100, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Philippe Marzouk wrote: > > >On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > >>Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It > >>seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, > js> You could ease up error detection by providing the complete /var/log/ > js> XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). > >Good idea! > >The files are attached below. I manually edited XF86Config-4 some, so >I hope it isn't in too bad of shape! ;-) I'm not a XFree professional, but

Re: Mysterious Connectivity Problem

2004-03-06 Thread Brad Stockdale
Hello all, I'm having a very mysterious connectivity issue with one of my new debian boxes, and was wondering if anyone has see this sort of problem before... The long and the short of the problem is that this machine goes 'dead to the world' randomly... Can't SSH to it, can't POP, can't

Re: Configuring X server

2004-03-06 Thread Joseph
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 01:48, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > (please don't top post) I hope I didn't top post this time. [snip] > Kind of dificult to edit the file if you can't read the letters on the > screen. It is somehow possible to make lilo ask you (I think some key > combination was n

mounting and accessing floppy

2004-03-06 Thread Joseph
I'm trying to mount and access floppy, it would seem so simple (as instructions are everywhere) but I still have a problem and the worse is I don't know why it is not working. My /etc/fstab has entry: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos defaults 1 2 I've tried as well: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noaut

Re: mounting and accessing floppy

2004-03-06 Thread Carl Fink
There's never a good reason to mount a floppy IMO. Just use the mtools. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Decrypting Encrypted Email in Sylpheed

2004-03-06 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm using Sylpheed-0.9.7 on Sarge. Before posting I did do some googling, but of no luck. How do we decrypt an encrypted email message in Sylpheed. I mean, there's no option I see that asks for "Enter your passphrase". rrs - --

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 11:47 am, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > js> You could ease up error detection by providing the complete > /var/log/ js> XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). > > Good idea! > > The files are attached below. I manually edited

Re: kernel 2.6.3, alsa, debian testing

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Nathan Malmberg wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:00:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols on install new kernel modules: Good News

2004-03-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:37:28PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I just built a custom kernel and modules, and got a bunch of errors > about unresolved symbols errors from depmod: > > # dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.24advncdfs_1.0.2c-2+rb.2_i386.deb > i2c-2.4.24advncdfs_2.8.1-1+rb.2_i386.deb > lm-senso

email problem with debian-users and my isp

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
I have no problem recieving debian-user. As of 2 months ago, I have been unable to send email to debian-user. I am using an alternate account to see if this account works. my friend said that mail.pipeline.com may be the problem. It may be on an RBL. It may be because it uses round-robin. Any info

Re: email problem with debian-users and my isp

2004-03-06 Thread Katipo
Kevin Mark wrote: I have no problem recieving debian-user. As of 2 months ago, I have been unable to send email to debian-user. I am using an alternate account to see if this account works. my friend said that mail.pipeline.com may be the problem. It may be on an RBL. It may be because it uses roun

Re: alsa and ecasound2.2 SOLVED

2004-03-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Changed command to ecasound -i alsa,default -o test.mp3 and now I can record and playback. Lance > > Hello, > > I am using a mixture of Stable/Unstable > with kernel 2.6.2 and ALSA support enabled. > > Two soundcards SBLive and Delta M-66 > > The SBLive plays fine. I can use Envy24co

ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Number Six
What am I not getting? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/06/1436223&mode=nested http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html The release date for 3.7.0 on the ATI site is 3/2/04. But the fglrx-4.3.0-*_3.7.0-3_i386.deb .debs I downloaded from: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavi

Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:21:32PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > Why does ATI claim they are just now released, and what does Slashdot > think so as well? Oh, and the upshot of the Slashdot post is these are the first OFFICIAL ATI drivers for XFree 4.3.0 --- but that's not true. I swear my memory

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Pedro M.
Florian Ernst escribió: Hello Pedro! On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:32:44PM +, Pedro M. wrote: Florian Ernst escribió: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:04:34PM +, Pedro M. wrote: I suggest create the module kernel-image.last To upgrade the kernel to the last version. In apt-get ins

Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:38:52PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Number Six wrote: > >Why does ATI claim they are just now released, and what does Slashdot > >think so as well? > > Thanks for the excellent information, adding the list back in as they would also like to know. One thing I just not

Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:58PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > I'm pretty sure "xv" used to work on my 9700 but now I've switched to a > 9800XT. I'll probably have to search the forums for spomething this > specific but do you have any insight about xv support? in 9800? in the > latest drivers

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-03-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > I just started a job at Duke. I've been told to put together a machine > quote for my office. I want to run Debian on it. I tried to persuade my > employer to use Monarch, but was told I have to use Dell. > > I'm not sure of the best

[Fwd: Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?]

2004-03-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
--- Begin Message --- Number Six wrote: What am I not getting? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/06/1436223&mode=nested http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html The release date for 3.7.0 on the ATI site is 3/2/04. But the fglrx-4.3.0-*_3.7.0-3_i386.deb .debs I download

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Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Number Six wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:38:52PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Thanks for the excellent information, adding the list back in as they would also like to know. One thing I just noticed is mplayer is using the "x11" -vo device even though in debconf I specified "xv". My Mpl

Big menu fonts in gtk2 apps from KDE 3.2

2004-03-06 Thread Toshiro
I've recently upgraded to KDE 3.2 (I'm running sid); after applications like mozilla-firefox have huge menu fonts if I run them from KDE. If I run from KDE gnome-font-properties, then all the gtk2 apps get the right font size for the menus. Anybody got the same problem? Regards, Toshiro. Nue

Syntax highlighting in Xemacs: What did I do right?

2004-03-06 Thread user list
It seems that since the beginning of time, Xemacs never performed syntax highlightin automatically when a file is loaded. On one of my machines, however, it is now doing just that. I have always had syntax highlighting in my initialization file. Does anyone know what I did right on that machine?

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 14:24, Greg wrote: > I cannot MAKEDEV hmo. I get a "/sbin/MAKEDEV:don't know how to make device > "hmo" Would mknod help here ? I am at the fringes of my Linux knowledge, > so I am learning as I go along. On my Sunblade 100 running Debian Woody as > well as another box run

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Pedro! On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:49:47PM +, Pedro M. wrote: > Florian Ernst escribió: > >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4- | wc -l > >|7 > > > >Not that much, at least in my eyes. YMMV. > > > try apt-cache search kernel-image* ;) Yes, certainly, but that's someth

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Pedro M.
Florian Ernst escribió: Hello Pedro! On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:49:47PM +, Pedro M. wrote: Florian Ernst escribió: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4- | wc -l |7 Not that much, at least in my eyes. YMMV. try apt-cache search kernel-image* ;) Yes, cert

Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread hanasaki
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:21:32PM -0800, Number Six wrote: >> Why does ATI claim they are just now released, and what does Slashdot >> think so as well? Oh, and the upshot of the Slashdot post is these are the first OFFICIAL ATI drivers for XFree 4.3.0 --- but that's not true. I swear my memory

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg
Good catch, but the mistake was in the email. I did type MAKEDEV hdo and MAKEDEV hdm on my pc and still no joy .. I really *wish* I had just typed a typo ... I *think* that linux has a limit of 255 devices and perhaps I have reached my limit. I will try deleting some of them and see. Greg > --

Re: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:22:14PM -0500, Greg wrote: > Good catch, but the mistake was in the email. I did type MAKEDEV hdo and > MAKEDEV hdm on my pc and still no joy .. I really *wish* I had just typed a > typo ... > > I *think* that linux has a limit of 255 devices and perhaps I have reached

Re: Kernel image

2004-03-06 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Pedro! On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:12:36AM +, Pedro M. wrote: > Florian Ernst escribió: > >This exists already for kernel patchlevels, just as mentioned above. > > > >You want to extend this to minor and major kernel versions, which I > >think is risky and a misfeature. > > > minor+minor+

Re: mounting and accessing floppy

2004-03-06 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:25:23PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > I'm trying to mount and access floppy, it would seem so simple (as > instructions are everywhere) but I still have a problem and the worse is > I don't know why it is not working. > > My /etc/fstab has entry: > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos de

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 08:10, Karol Czachorowski wrote: > 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

Unidentified subject!

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
> I get a mess a message: > mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 Three options spring to my mind, 1) You've problems with autoloading the vfat/fat driver module or not compiled it at all. Try loading vfat prior to mounting the floppy. 2) Your disk is not vfat (or regular

Question about hardware

2004-03-06 Thread TongKe Xue
Hello, Apologies if not closely related to mailing list; not sure where else to ask for help -- need some help w/ Hardware I've used both Gentoo (yay emerge!) & Debian (yay apt-get!) at one time or another; I hope you'll not flame me for my somewhat offtopic post on account of that. If you respo

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about hardware

2004-03-06 Thread Juergen Stuber
TongKe Xue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Is there some way I can access the laptop HD (2.5" I think, > don't remember exact specs) ... I need is some hardware so > that I can mount the HD under linux, and I can take care of > the rest. (Perferably USB, I'm not familiar with

RE: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working

2004-03-06 Thread Greg
Thanks ! I had just looked at man MAKEDEV (if all else fails look at the instructions !) and noticed that MAKEDEV will only make devices from hda to hdl - which would put a serious dent in my fileserver building efforts. Once again, thanks. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Colin Watson

Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome

2004-03-06 Thread Number Six
http://www.sunbeamtech.com/new/products/el/el%20series-el%20badge.htm Frys carries the Sunbeam tech "EL-Case badge" case light products. They do not carry the Osama Bin Laden logo, but you can see it on the back of the "ordinary" images as a choice. I compained to Frys to at least modify the pac

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