Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:43, Tom Allison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As glenn posted, it seems like you need to setup the > > /etc/postresql/pg_hba.conf file. > > > > Oliver, I CC'ed you on this because I don't have a formal bugreport > utility working yet and thought it would helpf

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:20:07 +0100, uzoma nwosu wrote: > /etc/network/interface file snippets. ANY help would be greatly > appreciated. Can you also post the results of ifconfig, 'route -n' and the /etc/resolv.conf file from the laptop. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
> #this is for ppp0 configuration > auto ppp0 > iface ppp0 inet ppp > up /etc/iptables/iptables.sh start > provider dsl-provider > down poff -a > post-down /etc/iptables/iptables.sh stop 1. You don't need the "down" line. ifdown runs pon and poff for you.

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread Andy Ruddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 uzoma nwosu wrote: | I'm trying to turn my debian box into nat server. So far, I've got the | kernel configured with all the netfilter stuff that the IP | Masquerade-howto on tldp.org said (I'm running 2.4.24, with sarge/sid). | I've installed dhcpd an

procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting: -- (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace procps 1:3.1.14-1 (using .../procps_1%3a3.2.0-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement procps ...

Installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)

2004-03-21 Thread Roland Dunn
Hi, Anyone had any experience of installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)? I have read that it requires a kernel recompile but wondered whether this is truly the case? Is it not possibly as simple as apt-get netatalk? I've installed the idepci version of DEBIAN (Woody) - anyone know if netatalk in

[Solved] Re: [Sid] gnucash 1.8.8-5

2004-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi Chris & Sudarshan, thx for the tips - it worked well :-) kind regards, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-21 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:00, David wrote: > > Rather than treat them as ISO images, if you're going to have the images > permanently stored on the HD, why not just copy the contents of the > CDROMS into directories on an ext{2,3}, reiserfs - or whatever your > poison - filesystem and then in your s

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-21 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:27, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:59PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > > > If you've got them mounted all the time, you can stick deb file: > > > statements in /etc/apt/sources.list pointed at the mounted images. > > > (

[Solved} Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting: > -- > (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace procps 1:3.1.14-1 (using .../procps_1%3a3.2.0-1

Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting: > -- > (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace procps 1:3.1.14-1 (using .../procps_1%3a3.2.0-1

fonts, locales, charsets

2004-03-21 Thread Gabriele Persia
Hi all, I need some info (manual/guide/tutorial...) about locales and fonts. I would like to understand font in gtk (vs kde) apps. 1) fonts missing in kde "fonts settings" are available in gtk apps (e.g. XMMS) and viceversa. 2) if I mount a vfat (win98) partition with iocharset=iso8859-15 konq

Re: ipopd and "unknown authorization state command"

2004-03-21 Thread Matthijs
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:00:10 +0100, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Matthijs wrote: > > > - Then, using squirrelmail, I accessed my Inbox (which under the hood > > uses IMAP. Logged in without problems, no mail in my Inbox > > - A few seconds later, I tried to

Setup of linux-wlan-ng

2004-03-21 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I have an elitegroup A530+ with a builtin usb-wlan module running with the newest linux-wlan-ng driver module prism2_usb. I _can_ use wlan by configuring the card after bootup like this: , | modprobe prism2_usb prism2_doreset=1 | | wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable | | wla

Ny e-post adresse

2004-03-21 Thread inge . osdalen
Jeg vil ikke være på kontoret fra og med 01.01.2004 og vil ikke være tilbake før 18.08.2004. Min nye adresse er: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Yesterday I installed Debian Unstable (hoping to become a very happy Debian user) by running the netinstaller and then selecting "desktop" in tasksel. I had the problem that sound and volume control weren't working. When I wanted to play an audio file it was complaining taht it cannot ope

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 04:13, uzoma nwosu wrote: > I'm trying to turn my debian box into nat server. So far, I've got the > kernel configured with all the netfilter stuff that the IP > Masquerade-howto on tldp.org said (I'm running 2.4.24, with sarge/sid). > I've installed dhcpd and it seems to

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, Yesterday I installed Debian Unstable (hoping to become a very happy Debian user) by running the netinstaller and then selecting "desktop" in tasksel. I had the problem that sound and volume control weren't working. When I wanted to play an audio file it was complaining

Severe network slowdown

2004-03-21 Thread F.L. Tak
Hi, I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly random amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it happen after a few days, but also after a few hours), all network traffic slows to almost a halt. If I then reboot, everything is back to normal, so I guess it't

Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Robert Packer
I am a complete newbie to this and don't have a clue how to compile a kernel(I'm reading up, but still...), so is it possible to make the 2.4 kernel work with a nic card that needs a tulip driver? It works fine with the 2.2.20 kernel but if possible I'd like to use the latest kernel. Or is it the w

pppoe speed problem

2004-03-21 Thread Hector Scaramelli
Hi, I am doing nat with a i486/16MB behind a 256/64Kb adsl dynamic ip. I cannot seem to be able to download at more than 10Kb/s. However the same box was giving me 26KB/s when I had a router between the adsl modem and the i486's eth0. That router provided a static ip. I run pppoeconf and changed as

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Robert Packer wrote: I am a complete newbie to this and don't have a clue how to compile a kernel(I'm reading up, but still...), so is it possible to make the 2.4 kernel work with a nic card that needs a tulip driver? It works fine with the 2.2.20 kernel but if possible I'd like to use the latest

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, Yesterday I installed Debian Unstable (hoping to become a very happy Debian user) by running the netinstaller and then selecting "desktop" in tasksel. I had the problem that sound and volume control weren't working. When I wanted to play an audio file it was complainin

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 21 March 2004 02:39, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>It's perfectly possible to > >>install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports > > > > of > > > >>things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs > > > > I am too much of a newbie to attempt such a

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:13, uzoma nwosu wrote: > I'm trying to turn my debian box into nat server. So far, I've got the > kernel configured with all the netfilter stuff that the IP > Masquerade-howto on tldp.org said (I'm running 2.4.24, with sarge/sid). > I've installed dhcpd and it seems to r

apt questions

2004-03-21 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking at the "Apt How-To" documentation on the Debian site. Under "How to Keep a Mixed System", it makes a reference to editing the file apt.conf file in /etc/apt. The problem is that there is no file by that name in /etc/apt. There is a direc

re:Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread users
> I just apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.x-k7-1 (were x is currently at 4 > reflecting the latest kernel release, and k7 is because I have an athlon xp) > and the latest kernel is all set up for me. If it is that easy, then life has taken a weird turn. But it's done that before, so I guess i

Keyboard weirdness (again)

2004-03-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
I had problems with my keyboard before, and I'm more and more convinced that there's a bug *somewhere*. This is from xev, one press of the PrintScreen key and one of the backslash key ('#' sign, German layout). >KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x281, >root 0x76, subw 0x0, t

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Walker
Kent West wrote: Robert Packer wrote: I am a complete newbie to this and don't have a clue how to compile a kernel(I'm reading up, but still...), so is it possible to make the 2.4 kernel work with a nic card that needs a tulip driver? It works fine with the 2.2.20 kernel but if possible I'd like t

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:39:30PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>It's perfectly possible to > >>install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports > > > >of > > > >>things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs > > > > > >I am too much of a newbie to at

Re: pppoe speed problem

2004-03-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:34 am, Hector Scaramelli wrote: >Hi, >I am doing nat with a i486/16MB behind a 256/64Kb adsl dynamic ip. I >cannot seem to be able to download at more than 10Kb/s. However the same >box was giving me 26KB/s when I had a router between the adsl modem and >the i486's eth0.

Re: CUPS

2004-03-21 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:50, Alan Shutko wrote: > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What's the difference between lp and lpr (other than the option >> syntax)? I think I had a bad /etc/printcap until I ran >> magicfilterconfig, so I don't think lp would have worked. > > If you have on

Re: apt questions

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:48:36 -0600 Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking at the "Apt How-To" documentation on the Debian site. Under > "How to Keep a Mixed System", it makes a reference to editing the file > apt.conf file

Lingering 2.6 problems, now 2.6.4

2004-03-21 Thread David Baron
1. The module uhci-hcd does not "unload" correctly. I can blacklist it now, defeating my MIDI interface but enabling an orderly shutdown. What happens is that if this module is loaded, shutdown will show URB Status -108 (or some other number like this) Usb request -32. and then hang up. This MAY

Re: Severe network slowdown

2004-03-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, F.L. Tak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly random >amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it happen after a >few days, but also after a few hours), all network traffic slows to >almost a hal

Re: pppoe speed problem

2004-03-21 Thread Hector Scaramelli
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:03, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:34 am, Hector Scaramelli wrote: > >Hi, > >I am doing nat with a i486/16MB behind a 256/64Kb adsl dynamic ip. I > >cannot seem to be able to download at more than 10Kb/s. However the same > >box was giving me 26KB/s when I

Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Hansen
I work in a call center, and support about 350 workstations, all running various versions of Windows. We are using a file server that has Win98. I am working on a proposal to change to a Linux file server. At this point, the company standard is Windows. We have one Red Hat print server, and

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:02:46 +0200, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 02:35:22PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I don't >> like the mouse behavior at all. It's *to* fast compared to 2.4. How

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Gilmour
Hi (other) Ken On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 16:37, Ken Hansen wrote: > I'm new to Linux, and don't know that I would be able to administer > this system from the command line at this point. My hope is to get a > Linux file server running to show it's stability and reliability, and > move toward more Lin

Re: dual-boot after crash

2004-03-21 Thread Luis Finotti
Thanks guys! It worked great. All though the hard drive did pass the fcsk.ext2, I am having some problems --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi too! > > 1. boot from debian-floppybootdisk > 2. (if you have EXT3 on your partition and if you > have a FSCK.EXT3 prog > on FL

Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6 Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to work? I tried something with libusb but it won't work; I followed http://lists.debian.org/debian-

Re: dual-boot after crash

2004-03-21 Thread Luis Finotti
Sorry about the last message sent incorrectly... As I was saying, I still have some problems. X (running gnome) froze. For a while the virtual consoles were working, but then I started getting error messages and they froze too. I posted the error messages (from var/log/) at http://www.math.ucs

Re: CUPS

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:50, Alan Shutko wrote: >> If you have only the CUPS lp and lpr clients, the only difference is >> the option syntax. > > I thought CUPS itself didn't provide those commands, which you get by > installing lpr|lprng|cupsys-bsd? Sor

Re: Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

2004-03-21 Thread James Tappin
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:22:55 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work > fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6 > > Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to work? I tri

Aptitude Wants to Delete/Remove Way Too Much

2004-03-21 Thread David Crane
I did an update in aptitude last night, and it now wants to remove most of my system "because they are no longer used" or "due to unsatisfied dependencies." Since some of those packages are used every day, I must have broken something. I have not let aptitude actually upgrade/uninstall anythi

RE: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Hansen
I won't need to run any Windows programs on it. I've tried Lindows 4.5 Developer Edition (I signed up and got a free copy), and it seems to work fine. I haven't tried it under full production, but am using it for the IT files, and have set up folders to house programs to be installed over the netwo

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-21 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Christophe Combelles wrote: [] For gnome you have capplets, which features the gnome-display-properties that does exactly what you want and very easily. (it is an GUI for randr) apt-get install capplets capplets-data then go to the desktop properties menu -> screen resolution But as I found xrand

Re: [Solved} Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Bloom
On 2004-03-21, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting: >> -- >> (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.) >> Pre

Re: usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-21 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Thomas Hood_, on 03/21/04 04:09,typed: 1. You don't need the "down" line. ifdown runs pon and poff for you. OK. 2. The up and post-down commands don't work properly with ppp ifaces. See bug #127786. The problem is that ifup simply runs pon and then the "up" commands; pon r

Re: [Solved} Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.

2004-03-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Mar 2004, Ken Bloom wrote: > On 2004-03-21, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm > >> getting: > >> -- > >> (Reading database ... 82789 f

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
> Nope; not what you want to do. Instead, add your user to the audio > group, like so: >adduser jaap audio >> >> What I first tried is adding the audio group to my group but that >> didn't work. > > After adding your user to the audio group, you'll need to logout and > back in. Thanks, forgot t

Re: Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
James Tappin wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:22:55 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6 Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to wor

dselect issues with woody update

2004-03-21 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
I downloaded the woody update image and wrote to a cd. I tried to use dselect to install from it. I tried using CD-ROM but it didn't work. It had setup apt as the method so I tried it and tried to point it to the right places on the CD-ROM. I got that far and selected modules and went to inst

Sound problem when two sound devices

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a motherboard which has an intel810 audio chipset on it AND an Soundblaster Live card. My loadspeakers are connected to the Soundblaster (emu10k1) When I boot up, something is loading the sound modules for both chipsets, which seems to mean I get no sound. If I rmmod the i810_audio mod

Re: pppoe speed problem

2004-03-21 Thread forum
> I am doing nat with a i486/16MB behind a 256/64Kb adsl dynamic ip. I > cannot seem to be able to download at more than 10Kb/s. However the same > box was giving me 26KB/s when I had a router between the adsl modem and > the i486's eth0. That router provided a static ip. > I run pppoeconf and chan

test msg

2004-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf Email: rrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] researchut.com Web: http://www.researchut.com Phone: +91-9899655651 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread uzoma nwosu
Stephen Patterson wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:20:07 +0100, uzoma nwosu wrote: /etc/network/interface file snippets. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Can you also post the results of ifconfig, 'route -n' and the /etc/resolv.conf file from the laptop. sure, all from the laptop. from /e

Dns Port Problems

2004-03-21 Thread George Roman
Hi I'm using Debian Woody, and i configured a master DNS server on my network. It suposed to transfer the master zone to my ISP but it doesn't. i've tried to investigate my problem from a station situated on the internet to see what happends. i mention that tried to configure a slave DNS server

Re: postgresql configuration and set-up

2004-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:43, Tom Allison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As glenn posted, it seems like you need to setup the > > /etc/postresql/pg_hba.conf file. > > > > Oliver, I CC'ed you on this because I don't have a formal bugreport > utility working yet and thought it would helpf

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Jaap Haitsma wrote: I now listed my soundcard driver (maestro3) in /etc/modules Strange thing is that previously I'm pretty sure that it got loaded automatically by the Debian boot process. Does debian have something like redhat's kudzu that recognizes hardware changes or do I always need to li

Thank you for contacting Nightingale-Conant

2004-03-21 Thread support
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Re: nat and dhcp

2004-03-21 Thread uzoma nwosu
Alan Chandler wrote: I am not sure I understood all your snippets, but some things that didn't see correct. Alan, you have giving me a ton of info to process. I'm going sit back and go through it step by step. I definitely appreciate all the suggestions. I'll post what happened when I'm done

Re: Sound problem when two sound devices

2004-03-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:25:41PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a motherboard which has an intel810 audio chipset on it AND an > Soundblaster Live card. My loadspeakers are connected to the Soundblaster > (emu10k1) > > When I boot up, something is loading the sound modules for both chi

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Ken Hansen wrote: I work in a call center, and support about 350 workstations, all running various versions of Windows. We are using a file server that has Win98. I am working on a proposal to change to a Linux file server. At this point, the company standard is Windows. We have one Red Hat pri

Re: /boot is readonly file system -why?

2004-03-21 Thread glenn
Bingo - thanks Glenn > First of all, you are correct that /boot is mounted read-only in > accordance with /etc/fstab's settings. This is done because it contains > data that is very important to the function of the system, and being > read-only makes it very hard to accidentally damage it. > > Tha

Re: Another question regarding tulip driver with 2.4 kernel

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Brian Walker wrote: Kent West wrote: Compiling a kernel is a great thing to do if you want the education, or if you have some esoteric need to do so, but for 90%+ of the population out there, the standard Debian kernels will do just fine. That should be the case here; support for the tulip dri

Re: Building kernel for another computer

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Gary wrote: I need to build a newer kernel for my laptop in order that it will support a parallel network interface I have for it. Since my only way of getting anything onto the laptop is via floppy, what I did was build a suitable kernel on my potato box (yes, I know, that's old as well! it is not

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the feeling that what I did is not the official way to set > things up. For example in Fedora both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer have as > permission crw--- and are owned by root:root So far, so good, except for the permissions. Permissions on audi

Re: Building kernel for another computer

2004-03-21 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:55 +, Gary wrote: > I need to build a newer kernel for my laptop in order that it will support a > parallel network interface I have for it. Since my only way of getting > anything onto the laptop is via floppy, what I did was build a suitable > kernel on my potato box

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK my way is definetly not the right way. If I enable the gnome sound > server I get sounds when I open a window or such but then players like > rhytmbox complain that /dev/dsp is temporarily unavailable :( That's normal. You need to set other players t

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread glenn
Sounds like you won't be using the server for much more than samba, which once configured should run solid ad infinitum. I think gnome-setup-tools has simple interface to samba. However (almost) everything is controlled by one file in practicse, (/etc/samba/smb.conf) and configurations can be made

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My reccomendation is to download the kernel-source-* package >> that corresponds to the kernel you run now. Use the configuration >> for your currently running kernel (since you know it works). >> After going through the process a few times, you will b

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Currently it's still microsoft, mainly because of games, Non-issue. http://www.transgaming.com/ I'm a *serious* Vice City junkie, and I don't have any consoles and I don't do Windows. > but I am sure this will change sometime in the future when Linux > gets a little

Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I am having a problem printing from mozilla. This is what I am doing: File -> Print I then select postscript-default for printer. Under properties I am using lpr as the print command. I then click the print button. My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should be.

Re: Building kernel for another computer

2004-03-21 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:55:17PM +, Gary wrote: > the result onto a floppy. I then try and boot the laptop from the floppy (I > want to be sure the kernel works okay before I replace the one on the hd). > Everything goes well until it reports a kernel panic because it is "unable > to mount ro

Re: apt questions

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) Is there an update to this documentation somewhere that would > give me more> information? (I'm running sarge) Just move up to sid instead of you want newer stuff. There's really not a lot of reason for people to use apt-pinning as often as t

Re: xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-21 Thread Jameson C. Burt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:53:30PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Some of us prefer this behavior, but it is configurable. You need to get > the following X resource to be noticed by xterm: > > XTerm*charClass: 0-32:1,33-126:2,127-160:3,161-255:2 > > There are many ways of going about it, but th

Re: Howto get an usb scanner working under linux 2.6.3

2004-03-21 Thread Joris Huizer
James Tappin wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:22:55 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my scanner to work under linux 2.6.3; It used to work fine under 2.4.24 but it turns out the scanner module was remove in 2.6 Can anybody tell me how to get the scanner to wor

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
"Ken Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many concurrent connections would be possible on a file server running > Debian? Is it a limited number? Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 concurrent connections... > Als

Re: Installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)

2004-03-21 Thread mike
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:23:02 -, Roland Dunn wrote > Hi, > > Anyone had any experience of installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)? > I have read that it requires a kernel recompile but wondered > whether this is truly the case? Is it not possibly as simple as apt- > get netatalk? Its as simpl

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Simnett
On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote: > My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should > be. > How can I rectify this problem? have a look at this: "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Using KPrinter in any app" Should help you out. TS -- To UNSUB

Re: Severe network slowdown

2004-03-21 Thread mike
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:16:16 +0100, F.L. Tak wrote > Hi, > > I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly > random amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it > happen after a few days, but also after a few hours), all network > traffic slows to almost a halt. I

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:48, Tom Simnett wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should > > be. > > > How can I rectify this problem? > > have a look at this: > "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Usi

powermgmt-base error ...

2004-03-21 Thread Josh
hi when i try to reinstall the pkg powermgmt-base using apt-get or dpkg, i have the following error : host:/var/cache/apt/archives$apt-get --reinstall install powermgmt-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: powermgmt-base

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Your sound chip is not properly supported by whatever kernel > you're using, >or > 2) You don't have the correct modules installed >or > 3) You're running a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome which > expects a sound daemon like artsd or esd,

mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Joseph
Is anybody using mondo with Debian? I'm trying to test "mindi" (ver. 0.86) and I get an error message "Where is liblvm?" Could it be because I'm using Knoppix Debian installation? -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Fwd: SAMBA 3.0.2a-Debian INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11

2004-03-21 Thread Roman Gischig
Hi Guys, I have upgraded to samba 3 a while ago and since then I have troubles when I'm trying to overwrite files. Connecting from a win2k SP4 to the sambe server, open a MS word document (existing one), modifying it, and then trying to save it, I'm getting an error that I can not save the file

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound Server to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to play because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome Sound server, Rhythmbox plays fine. However if I start up xmms and also play a file there it doesn't work

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:31:49PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > I've been having the same problem, with a PS/2 and USB mouse installed > in tandem. Looks from this info like I need to choose between running > 2.4 and 2.6. Any suggestions about how I could dualboot between both? > > Please CC me, I

restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread ernst
Hi I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on hda6. I have tryed to boot with "toms root boot" and some other boot disks, but no luck so far

Re: Re: aol art files:

2004-03-21 Thread Gmpy57
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Re: YaST

2004-03-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040319 22:49]: > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > About the only thing I've ever found in the FHS or SuSE that I really > > liked was the concept of /srv directory for holding file providing > > services. > > > > Is there any discussion on Debian an

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
ernst wrote: Hi I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on hda6. I have tryed to boot with "toms root boot" and some other boot disks, but n

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Glenn Meehan wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:48, Tom Simnett wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote: My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should be. How can I rectify this problem? have a look at this: "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk

Re: Installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)

2004-03-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:30:41PM -0800, mike wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:23:02 -, Roland Dunn wrote > > Hi, > > > > Anyone had any experience of installing netatalk on Debian (Woody)? > > I have read that it requires a kernel recompile but wondered > > whether this is truly the case?

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze > installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. > The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on > hda6. > I

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph wrote: Is anybody using mondo with Debian? I'm trying to test "mindi" (ver. 0.86) and I get an error message "Where is liblvm?" Could it be because I'm using Knoppix Debian installation? -- Joseph I do not know what that means. But this what I do: I am using mondo with Debian but I don't

Re: YaST

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040319 22:49]: >> Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > About the only thing I've ever found in the FHS or SuSE that I really >> > liked was the concept of /srv directory for holding file providing >> > servi

Re: restore lilo as boot manager

2004-03-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:32:24PM +0100, ernst wrote: } I have a problem restoring lilo as my boot manager from a debian/windoze } installation. It is a laptop only with usb floppy/cdrom. } The windows installation is on hda1 and the debian installation is on } hda6. } I have tryed to boot with "t

Sitecom networkcard not working after kernel upgrade

2004-03-21 Thread Matthijs
Today, I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4.25 (Debian system). I didn't compile it, just installed using apt-get. Reason for upgrade: I wanted USB support. Booting is fine, but my network connection is gone. During boot, I see eth0 related error messages (beginning of a line, something

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