RE: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Mark McRitchie
> -Original Message- > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 March 2004 20:07 > > I can't find anything else, so far, that's unusual apart from this, so > I'm rather reluctant to go to radical steps like reinstalling > everything. I compared /bin/ps on another machi

Driver needed for dial-up?

2004-03-23 Thread David
Does anyone have a driver that I can use for my 3com Noteworthy PC Card Modem (3CXM056-BNW) on my Toshiba laptop?  I had it working in RH6.2 but since upgrading to Debian 3.0r1 I can't seem to get dial up working.  I have a post here stating what I have tried and some log files. http://groups.googl

Re: kde 3.2

2004-03-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Debian STX (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> Wenn I installed KDE 3, I removed the existing KDE installation: >> >> apt-get --purge remove kde.* >> >> and installed KDE using the group packages: >> >> apt-get install kdebase kdenetwork kdegames kdeadmin... >> > Tri

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Mar 2004, Mark McRitchie wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 22 March 2004 20:07 > > > > I can't find anything else, so far, that's unusual apart from this, so > > I'm rather reluctant to go to radical steps like reinstall

RE: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Mark McRitchie
> -Original Message- > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 March 2004 08:53 > > > Download a known good (recent) copy of chkrootkit to the > box, run it and see > > if it gives you anything. > > > > I'd strongly recommend isolating the box from the net until > yo

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:52:35AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 Mar 2004, Mark McRitchie wrote: > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 22 March 2004 20:07 > > > > because a routine upgrade of procps failed because it

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Mar 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:52:35AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 23 Mar 2004, Mark McRitchie wrote: > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: 22 March 2004 20:07 > > > > > > >

RE: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Gabriella Teruggi
Sorry but I don't understand your answer. What do you mean with "CompuTron SpeedWidget 5000"??? I was looking for someone who has already tried to install Debian on a server based on the Intel Motherboard SE7501CW2. By the way, yesterday, while I was making some reasearch by myself I found this dis

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 Mar 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:52:35AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 23 Mar 2004, Mark McRitchie wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/03/04 10:44), Gabriella Teruggi wrote: > Sorry but I don't understand your answer. > What do you mean with "CompuTron SpeedWidget 5000"??? > I was looking for someone who has already tried to install Debian on a > server based on the Intel Motherboard SE7501CW2. > By the way, yesterday, whil

Nessus & Webmin Security Questions

2004-03-23 Thread Simmel
Hi guys, @ the moment I'm working on securing a web-server. I installed Nessus to know where to start from with the big problems. Seems like Nessus thinks that one of the biggest problem is webmin? Can anybody tell me some experiences? Is there a possibility to further restrict, or replace some pa

Re: WIRELESS supported NIC's? was Re: supported nics

2004-03-23 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Monday 22 March 2004 23.20, Carl Fink wrote: > Anyone care to recommend a PCI 802.11 NIC? G is ideal, but since I'm > basically sharing a 4 megabit cable modem connection, B is also fine. Speaking of wireless: I'm looking for 54Mbps adaptors that work with hostap - I have a dedicated router,

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Things seem to be getting worse. I originally discovered the problem > because a routine upgrade of procps failed because it could not make a > link to /bin/ps. I eventually found that it was due to the "i" flag on > that file. I removed the flag and it then worked. However, last night I > found

RE: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Gabriella Teruggi
Thanks a lot Clive! As soon as I receive the box and install I'll let you know how it is. Bye Gabri -Original Message- From: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martedì 23 marzo 2004 11.15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2 On (23/03/04 10:44), Gabriella Te

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (23/03/04 10:44), Gabriella Teruggi wrote: > > I was looking for someone who has already tried to install Debian on a > > server based on the Intel Motherboard SE7501CW2. I have Debian running on several SE7501CW2, but I used a custom kernel. I am no

AW: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Simmel

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing "Woody"

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:44:03AM -0800, Renhao Zhang wrote: > > --- Darik Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In addition to Windows, KNOPPIX networks just fine > > > with no problems. > > > > If your computer runs Windows 98 and Knoppix properly, then your > > Debian > > installation isn'

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-23 Thread Katipo
Paul Galbraith wrote: I have a soundblaster audigy gamer, and am running sarge with a 2.4.24 kernel. Has anyone gotten this card to work under OSS? I tried installing the emu10k1 driver module and it wouldn't install, complaining that there is "no such device". I was able to install the ac97

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:06:49PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Recently I found that the "i" flag had been set on /bin/ps. I removed it > > > with chattr -i. Now the flag has reappea

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:22:12PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:36:33PM -0500, Paul Galbraith wrote: > > I have a soundblaster audigy gamer, and am running sarge with a 2.4.24 > > kernel. Has anyone gotten this card to work under OSS? > > Define "OSS". The Audigy is no

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Simmel wrote: > > Really, and how did you install the SCSI320 host RAID??? There were no Remote PXE boot with a custom kernel, and we used debootstrap on the NFS root partition for the machines, chroot()'ed there, installed and configured everything. But on another serve

nfs: server odin not responding, still trying

2004-03-23 Thread Toby Batch
I've just moved to the 2.6.3 kernel and now my nfs has stopped working. I mount my home space from a 2.4.25 nfs server and as soon as i make any large reads (start an app) i get the following: Mar 23 08:52:17 [kernel] nfs: server odin not responding, still trying Mar 23 08:52:18 [kernel] nfs: serv

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: > [snip] > I said md5sum for a reason. Even a checksum would be nice. See > RFC1680(?) - MD5, RFC1750 - Randomness recomendations for security. > Essentially date(touch) and file size(echo >>) are easy to modify. > With a one way hashing algorithm though its

Re: illegal...

2004-03-23 Thread lm
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AW: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-23 Thread Simmel
http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/kernel.html http://www.e-aiyama.com/~toshi/Computer/Linux/KernelCompile.html http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/debian.html http://devolish.no/docs/debian-kernel-initrd.htm But the best one is this link, configure ur kernel under X. If you follow the steps yo

IBM db2 V8.1 on unstable

2004-03-23 Thread Borislav Petkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there smart list, i've been trying to install IBM's db2 v8.1 on unstable for a week now but to no avail, i did everything needed to be done according to http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/sqlrelay/gettingstarted/db2/81.html and additionally creating

RE: Firewall Recommendations

2004-03-23 Thread Simmel
>>Hi, >>We are thinking about replacing our current small office firewall >>with something more substantial and reliable. What are the current >>debian/iptables based favourites? I'd like to get a good idea of >>where to start reading. All suggestions welcome. >> >> bill Try this page www.ip

partitions don''t mount at boot

2004-03-23 Thread jack renders
I made a change in fstab and changed it back (99% sure it's same as before) and now when I start pc , only / is mounted at boot , so I can't get X running i have also /usr , /home /MP3 , as seperate partitions. Usb system also not working anymore. Here is output of mount: when pc is started /dev

Re: partitions don''t mount at boot

2004-03-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, > I made a change in fstab and changed it back (99% sure it's same as before) Did you make any other changes? > and now when I start pc , only / is mounted at boot , so I can't get X > running > /dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > /dev/hda8 /usr xfs auto,users,exec 0 0 > Can anybody

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and it > looks the same as my printout. > > I am using debian mozilla. > gm:~>apt-show-versions mozilla-browser > mo

Re: x server not installed

2004-03-23 Thread Kent West
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alright i installed debian about a half hour ago everything went smoothly...i didnt get any errors or anything and i rebooted the second time. type startx and it says /usr/x11R6/lib/X11

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:49, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Hi, we have a dozen SE7501CW2 running here with debian woody. They are installed with FAI and a custom kernel. Don't know whether the will work with the default installer. I even got Serial over LAN (including BIOS redirection) r

RE: partitions don''t mount at boot

2004-03-23 Thread Martinez Gonzalez, Francisco
Look at the boot logs, but I think that the xfs module loads after the mount script on your system. regards. -Mensaje original- De: jack renders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes, 23 de marzo de 2004 13:49 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: partitions don''t mount at boot I m

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/03/04 07:52), Andy Firman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > > > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and it > > looks the same as my printout. > > > > I am using debian

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Kent West
From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gabriella Teruggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Does anyone know if the Intel MotherBoard SE7501CW2 with 2 processor Xeon 2,8 GHz will work with current tools under debian? Do you have any reference of similar installations?? No, we don't k

problems with automount

2004-03-23 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hello I'm having som problems with the automounter... /etc/auto.master: - /mnt/debian /etc/auto.debian /etc/auto.debian: - debian -ro gate:/public/ftp/debian orca:/etc# /etc/init.d/autofs status Configured Mount Points: --

AW: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Simmel

03/20/04 version of new installer with Lilo?

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I tried sarge's #1 CD with the new installer, version of 03/20/2004. With bootparm "linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" you can select which bootloader you want, but... selecting "lilo" results in him still insisting to install grub. For which I filed bug #239494. When you use the insta

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Gebhardt! On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > we have a dozen SE7501CW2 running here with debian woody. > They are installed with FAI and a custom kernel. Don't know > whether the will work with the default installer. > > I even got Serial over LAN (including BIOS redirection) runnin

Re: Network stopped coming up on boot

2004-03-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you're talking about having a ppp network interface started > > automatically and unconditionally at boot time, then there is a file > > "/etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot", that, if present, causes this to happen. The > > logic for this is in "/e

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2004-03-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
I believe Richard and myself have been rooted; I returned from spring break to find my machine's inetd set to listen on tcp:21 and to fork a wu-ftpd, which does not exist. Of interest: root 6472 1 0 Mar10 ?00:00:00 /bin/bash /etc/init.d/xprint posix_sh_forced res

script to change background in X windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
I'd like to have a script/program that changes the background between a set of images (jpgs, pngs, etc) at either a set interval or login. Is there anything like this already? I did a quick google, but found nothing. I'm sure I could bash a script out to do this, but would rather not if there i

Re: Driver needed for dial-up?

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David wrote: Does anyone have a driver that I can use for my 3com Noteworthy PC Card Modem (3CXM056-BNW) on my Toshiba laptop? I had it working in RH6.2 but since upgrading to Debian 3.0r1 I can't seem to get dial up working. I have a post here stating what I have tried and some log files. ht

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Galbraith
Katipo wrote: You'll have more success with the soundblaster range if you install and run the alsa packages. Alsaconf will install the snd-emu10k1 driver for you, it is the right one, and then test it for you. I'll give alsa a try. Can anyone confirm for me, though, whether the kernel/drivers/s

Thank you for your application.

2004-03-23 Thread employoppty
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Re: tee -a /dev/null

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:27:57 -0500 Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe Richard and myself have been rooted; I returned from spring > break to find my machine's inetd set to listen on tcp:21 and to fork a > wu-ftpd, which does not exist. Does anything else exist at the path invok

Re: problems with automount

2004-03-23 Thread Joost Witteveen
On 2004-03-23, Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm having som problems with the automounter... > > /etc/auto.master: > - > /mnt/debian /etc/auto.debian > > /etc/auto.debian: > - > debian -ro gate:/public

re:x server not installed

2004-03-23 Thread users
ok thanks i actualy used apt-get before and installed kde and gnome and they are definetly installed...now that i think about it i may not have selected x server. ill try what kent said altho i did these commands before x -configure (it said "x" was unknown term or whatever) and i was able to do

[OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-23 Thread Number Six
Even though I still have a bunch of stock, and I'm a linux lover now, so I cheer if it goes up and I cheer if it goes down, I was expecting Europe to really nail Microsoft to the wall. I dunno, I expected some surrogate America-bashing, or just a really f-you to an American company. Even thou

Network Card Support

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Gilberto
Hi, I've just found that if I install Debian (Woody) and use the default install flavour (idepci - I think) - the one you get if you just hit return at the boot prompt - I do get support for my network card, all works fine. If I use vanilla, I don't. I have an old network card. So, I've got a few

re:script to change background in X windows?

2004-03-23 Thread users
i always used DesktopBackgroundImage=[whatever] or DesktopBackgroundColor=[whatever] Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netatalk

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Gilberto
Hello, I'm trying to setup a new machine with netatalk support. I've installed the idepci flavour of Debian (or whichever the default is when you hit return at the boot prompt on installation), and it doesn't seem to have netatalk built in. I've looked in: /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/ and in .

re:OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-23 Thread users
just a question why would you prefer lilo over grub? Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re:[OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-23 Thread users
i dont really know but while we are on the topic of microsoft vs linux i heard that lots of computers are being sold in asia with linux installed on them instead of winblows Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: mkraid could not lock sda1

2004-03-23 Thread Justin Guerin
Please post in plain text. On Monday 22 March 2004 22:12, Michael Webber wrote: > hi,   I have to scsi disks that are the same size and have the same > parititon sizes.  when I go   mkraid /dev/md0 > > handeling MD device /dev/md0 > > analyzin super-block > > disk0: /dev/sda1, 979933kb, raid super

Re: problems with automount

2004-03-23 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hello Joost On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:57:03PM +, Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 2004-03-23, Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm having som problems with the automounter... > > > > /etc/auto.master: > > - > > /mnt/debian /etc/auto.debian > > > > /e

Re: script to change background in X windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i always used DesktopBackgroundImage=[whatever] or DesktopBackgroundColor=[whatever] Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . I was wondering if there were any apps that did this automagically, changing images amongst a chosen set (or from a specific directory) at

Re: mkraid could not lock sda1

2004-03-23 Thread Michael Webber
On Monday 22 March 2004 22:12, Michael Webber wrote: > hi,   I have to scsi disks that are the same size and have the same > parititon sizes.  when I go   mkraid /dev/md0 > > handeling MD device /dev/md0 > > analyzin super-block > > disk0: /dev/sda1, 979933kb, raid superblock at 9

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:21:38PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (23/03/04 07:52), Andy Firman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > > > > > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostv

Re: Netatalk

2004-03-23 Thread Darik Horn
Install a recent complete kernel package: # apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 This kernel package has netatalk support. The netatalk deamons should start without problems if you are running this kernel. The BF kernels do not always have everything that you might need. Andrew Gilberto

HP 6400 Smart Array Controller

2004-03-23 Thread Petter Ramme
Does anyone know if there is a way to use a HP/Compaq 6400 Smart Array controller? Mvh / Best regards Petter --- This message has been scanned for viruses by McAfee GroupShield 6.0 for the presence of computer viruses.

Re: Network Card Support

2004-03-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andrew Gilberto (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've just found that if I install Debian (Woody) and use the default > install flavour (idepci - I think) - the one you get if you just hit > return at the boot prompt - I do get support for my network card, all > works fine. If I use vanilla,

Re: Netatalk

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Gilberto
Hi Darik, Many thanks for the reply. How though do I find out what's going to be installed in say vanilla, or bf24 before doing it? And - if I do do that - I kind of need to know whether it'll support my old network card - see my other email (attached) Thanks, Andrew. - Original Message

default icons lost in gnome on desktop

2004-03-23 Thread H. S.
Hi, For some reason, I seemed to have lost the icons that come with gnome. I get the "user's home" icone, and two others "Home" and "No Name". The icons for the last two are like the gnome symbol (foot) on a sheet of paper. Suggestion on how I can get the defult icons on my desk top back on gn

mouse freezing in X Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
I'm running a woody unstable box, GUI is X-Windows with XFCE4; my mouse keeps freezing in x-windows. I can use the keyboard to do stuff in xfce (run commands, tab through options, type in an xterm, etc) and if I go to another console (e.g., alt-F2,) and then go back to X-windows (alt-F7) I can

Re: Problem with Toshiba 5105 laptop, kernel-2.6.4 and nvidia driver 1.0-5336.

2004-03-23 Thread CW Harris
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:22:23PM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having this problem with Toshiba 5105 laptop, kernel-2.6.4 and nvidia > driver 1.0-5336. There is about a 1/4 inch gap of the screen not being used > on the right hand side of the screen running vertically. I used

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Di, den 23.03.2004 schrieb Anthony Campbell um 13:12: > On 23 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I said md5sum for a reason. Even a checksum would be nice. See > > RFC1680(?) - MD5, RFC1750 - Randomness recomendations for security. > > Essentially date(touch) and file size(ec

Re: Netatalk

2004-03-23 Thread Darik Horn
> How though do I find out what's going to be > installed in say vanilla, or bf24 before doing it? Why do you care? Try them all until one works and upgrade the kernel afterwards. The required effort will be less than doing a surgical inspection of the BF innards. Past that, you can inspect th

Re: Max number of ide disk atteched

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:53:14 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Brian Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > One option is devfs - which is deprecated but works fine. >> >> When did devfs become deprecated? > > With the 2.6 kernels.

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul's a smart guy, and we really appreciate having him on this list, > but he tends to be rougher than sandpaper socially (at least on this > list); you gotta take him with a grain of salt. I try to be funny, not insulting the vast majority of the time. >

Re: Max number of ide disk atteched

2004-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:24:31AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:53:14 -0800 > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When did devfs become deprecated? > > > > With the 2.6 kernels. > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/61490/ >

Re: Problem with Toshiba 5105 laptop, kernel-2.6.4 and nvidia driver 1.0-5336.

2004-03-23 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hey Chris, Thanks, I didn't know that the 2.6 kernel uses /etc/modprobe.conf. But that still doesn't work. I think that it's a driver problem because: > > Even if I exit out of the GUI and stop x, and kdm and "rmmod nvidia" to > > unload the module and then reload it with: > > "modprobe nvidia N

Re: 03/20/04 version of new installer with Lilo?

2004-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I tried sarge's #1 CD with the new installer, version of 03/20/2004. Without the URL to the image you used, I cannot really help you, as you could be describing any of 5 different CDs. > With bootparm "linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" you can select which > bootloader you

Re: Max number of ide disk atteched

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:24:31AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:53:14 -0800 >> > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> When did devfs become deprecated? >> > >> > With the 2.6

Re: mkraid could not lock sda2

2004-03-23 Thread Michael Webber
UPDATE on bottom On Monday 22 March 2004 22:12, Michael Webber wrote: > hi,   I have to scsi disks that are the same size and have the same > parititon sizes.  when I go   mkraid /dev/md0 > > handeling MD device /dev/md0 > > analyzin super-block > > disk0: /dev/sda1, 979933kb, raid superblock at

Re: mouse freezing in X Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread Kent West
David Piniella wrote: I'm running a woody unstable box, GUI is X-Windows with XFCE4; my mouse keeps freezing in x-windows. I can use the keyboard to do stuff in xfce (run commands, tab through options, type in an xterm, etc) and if I go to another console (e.g., alt-F2,) and then go back to X

persistant apt-get error

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Mackinney
For some time I get the following error in apt-get on a Testing system: apt-extracttemplates: error while loading shared libraries: \ libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2: cannot open shared object file: \ No such file or directory I haven't found anything in the bug database. Anyone have a soluti

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread David P James
On March 23, 2004 07:52, Andy Firman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > > > > > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and > > it looks the same as my printout. > > > > I am using d

Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Number Six wrote: Even though I still have a bunch of stock, and I'm a linux lover now, so I cheer if it goes up and I cheer if it goes down, I was expecting Europe to really nail Microsoft to the wall. I dunno, I expected some surrogate America-bashing, or just a really f-you to an American c

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Re: 03/20/04 version of new installer with Lilo?

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joey Hess wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I tried sarge's #1 CD with the new installer, version of 03/20/2004. Without the URL to the image you used, I cannot really help you, as you could be describing any of 5 different CDs. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/jigdotemplat

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Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-23 Thread Bruce Miller
On March 23, 2004 14:14, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Number Six wrote: > > Even though I still have a bunch of stock, and I'm a linux lover > > now, so I cheer if it goes up and I cheer if it goes down, I was > > expecting Europe to really nail Microsoft to the wall. I dunno, I > > expected some surr

Debian 3.0 Woody Module problem

2004-03-23 Thread JOKe
I hate instaled Debian 3.0 r1 woody with bf24 kernel ( 2.4.18) i have select module of my lan card under the isntallation the module is via-rhine but when everythink was installed i have no lan I meen the module is loaded it is in use by eth0 but no ping to anyone .. the module is via-rhine im s

Re: persistant apt-get error

2004-03-23 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:15:11AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > For some time I get the following error in apt-get on a Testing system: > > apt-extracttemplates: error while loading shared libraries: \ > libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2: cannot open shared object file: \ > No such file or dir

Re: mouse freezing in X Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread David Piniella
Kent West wrote: David Piniella wrote: I'm running a woody unstable box, GUI is X-Windows with XFCE4; my mouse keeps freezing in x-windows. I can use the keyboard to do stuff in xfce (run commands, tab through options, type in an xterm, etc) and if I go to another console (e.g., alt-F2,) and

Re: persistant apt-get error (UNSUBSCRIBE)

2004-03-23 Thread Eduardo Sampaio
PLS UNSUBSCRIBE ME - Original Message - From: "CW Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: Re: persistant apt-get error > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:15:11AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > For some time I get the fol

Re: mkraid could not lock sda2

2004-03-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:12, Michael Webber wrote: > UPDATE on bottom > [snip] > ___ > sda1 is a swap partition and im 100% sure that isnt being used (I have > 2 gigs of ram hehe) sda2 is being used thats what I boot from ... but > .. wha

nvidia bzflag

2004-03-23 Thread Captain Jack Sparrow
My brother and I both have the same problem under Debian testing, bzflag freezes as soon as it comes up in fullscreen mode. Bringing it up in window mode works fine. We both have nvidia ge-force II cards, but totally different architecture other wise...AMD-XP 2000/Intel Celeron 1GHz. We've never

Re: mouse freezing in X Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread Kent West
David Piniella wrote: I'm running a woody unstable box, GUI is X-Windows with XFCE4; my mouse keeps freezing in x-windows. I can use the keyboard to do stuff in xfce (run commands, tab through options, type in an xterm, etc) and if I go to another console (e.g., alt-F2,) and then go back to X

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I said md5sum for a reason. Even a checksum would be nice. See > > RFC1680(?) - MD5, RFC1750 - Randomness recomendations for security. > > Essentially date(touch) and fil

Mathematica 5.0 and Debian Linux

2004-03-23 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: Has anybody been successful in converting Mathematica (,nb) files with Save as SPecial to latex and then running latex on the file? I get lot error messages, though at the end a dvi file is produced. There is lot of places where the text goes past the page, and I am unable even to adjust

Re: Debian 3.0 Woody Module problem

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:48:55PM +0200, JOKe wrote: > > I hate instaled Debian 3.0 r1 woody with bf24 kernel ( 2.4.18) i have > select module of my lan card under the isntallation the module is via-rhine > but when everythink was installed i have no lan I meen the module is loaded > it is in

IGP 340M

2004-03-23 Thread Ernesto Gonzalez Gomez
Hi, I have a presario 1520 LA, with IGP 340M, i want 3d support for xfree86 4.4.0. first i installed xfree86 4.4.0 and glxinfo dosent works, then i download some modules from xfree86.org (radeon_drv.o and ati_drv.o or something like that) and glxinfo begins to work, but it reports indirect rende

Re: Advice on tulip driver

2004-03-23 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:28:24PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The current distribution has four tulip drivers named tulip, > > old_tulip, ng_tulip, and tulip_scyld. Can anyone provide > > information on the differ

Debian to SuSE??

2004-03-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed that the latest Debian Newsletter has an article on how to move from Debian to SuSE Gnu/Linux. I'm finding this vaguely amusing ... right now I'm considering going from SuSE to Debian. Am I behind the curve as usual? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/04 15:20, Glenn Meehan wrote: | 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 c

switching window managers and session managers - update-alternatives ?

2004-03-23 Thread Jerry_Bash
I have a question about switching between kde and other window managers (blackbox, fluxbox, ion, etc). I am interested in learning what is the preferred or intended method of switching between kde and other 'more traditional' window managers in Debian. I realize that kde is termed a session manag

Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-23 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont really know but while we are on the topic of microsoft vs linux i heard that lots of computers are being sold in asia with linux installed on them instead of winblows Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . Yes, H.P. are installing Turbolinux into Asia. Reg

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:44:56PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/21/04 15:20, Glenn Meehan wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I am having a problem printing from mozilla. > | > | This is what I am doing: > | File -> Print > | I then select postscript-defa

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