Re: dvd & tv-out problem with X

2004-04-10 Thread Kristian Niemi
Seems there aren't too many using / interested in tv out. Anyway, I managed to get tv-out to work (by using atitvout) with telling X to use the vesa driver instead of radeon. (I.e. by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, looking up the device driver (was "radeon") and changing it to "vesa".) There's

Re: parsing Apache logs

2004-04-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Happy "Good Friday" everyone: >> >> I seem to remember there being a Debian package that allowed one to parse and >> view Apache logs via the web. I can't remember the name of the package though. > reportmagic let

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to get udev to work properly. After installing the udev > > package my system booted fine from my SCSI drive, seems to detect the alsa > > devices and stuff. But: it doesn't detect my IDE an

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tom Schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.10.0508 +0200]: > Martin, have you seen my thread "no sound with 2.6.3, nForce2, and > ALSA"? No, sorry. I am not reading d-u these days... > I have just discovered the same thing you did. xmms works with the > Output Plugin set to "OSS Driver

Re: white-ish display with Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro in XFree86 4.3 - unstable

2004-04-10 Thread Pim Bliek
> > Symptoms: X starts, but the image is white-ish. I can just read > > it... It looks like someone tuned up brightness to an insane > > level... Not workable.. > > Start with a properly adjusted monitor. Start off with the contrast > all the way up, and the brightness all the way down. Reduce t

Re: Kernel paging errors

2004-04-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:02:28 -0400 Nathaniel Eliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting recurring kernel errors, that disappear for a while on > reboot. The error starts with "Unable to handle kernel paging request > at virtual address". The few times I encountered those errors, it was beca

Re: white-ish display with Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro in XFree86 4.3 - unstable

2004-04-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > However, Elimar Riesebieter pointed me in the right direction by sending his X > config, and hinting about drm. > > After compiling drm into the kernel the problem went away. > > Pim Pim, at what step in the configuration of the kern

Evolution and spambayes

2004-04-10 Thread Simon Cahuk
Hi! I'm using evolution 1.4.5 and spambayes 1.0a9. I have 3 subfolders: spam, debian and gentoo. If I move a message from one folder to another one, that message isn't visible anymore, but it stayes in the first mbox, too. For example, I move a spam from debian to spam subfolder, the debian mbox

Re: white-ish display with Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro in XFree86 4.3 - unstable

2004-04-10 Thread Pim Bliek
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:22, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > > However, Elimar Riesebieter pointed me in the right direction by sending > > his X config, and hinting about drm. > > > > After compiling drm into the kernel the problem went a

Keydrive

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
I suggest simplify the installation of Debian in a Keydrive, to boot if from a memory stick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive We must offer a more easy tool than slackware (see above link). Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Manu
Hi I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and I have when starting my pc I see the following: --- hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive --- when I execute "cdrecrod -scanbus" I get: cdrecord: No such fil

HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-10 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Could someone please help me find the kernel config settings which I've neglected, that prevent me from using DMA? I expected inclusion of AMD and nVidia IDE chipset support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=m) would be sufficient. I have tried enabling DM

VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Markus Lindström
Okay, here's the deal. I'm a newbie trying to get Debian Woody to work on my comp. Unfortunately, the native 2.4.18 kernel shipped with it doesn't support my network card. On the other hand, compiling a newer 2.4 kernel resolves the problem. BUT, I'm trying to compile a 2.6 kernel (which I've h

Re: upgrade broken (Testing) for 10 days - libxrender

2004-04-10 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:30:17 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Coming to libxrender-dev: seems libxrender1 depends on a lower version > than installed. You can try to manually download libxrender-dev > version 0.8.3-5 and carefully dpkg --force downgrade --install it (not to > mess up the rest of the pac

Re: mozilla 1.5 spell checker does not work?

2004-04-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am using Mozilla 1.5 on Sarge (kernel 2.4.24-1-686). When composing news in the Newsreader, I notice that if I run the spell checker (by clicking on the Spell icon), it doesn't catch any spelling mistakes. Suggestion what I am missing here and how to make it work? Thanks, ->

Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-10 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Up till now I was always running Gnome, but yesterday I decided to have a go at Xfce4 so installed the Xfce4 packages. This seemed to go OK, but I'm still not able to get it listed in the GDM sessions menu. I already did quite some googling but still no luck. In /etc/gdm/Sessions there is

Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu#

2004-04-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Jaap Haitsma told: [...] > So how can I get a session and in particular Xfce4 added to GDM? Put your Xfrce startscript executable to /etc/gdm/Sessions. The filename will appear in your sessionlist. You can also try to put the following in an executabl

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Aurel
Yes, module-init-tools isn't in stable packages, try to download (you'll find a .deb here: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/module-init-tools/binary-i386/) and install it, you should use modules. Retry making a make-kpkg clean before compiling and choose the default answers and th

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Manu
> Oui on peut utiliser Nautilus pour graver un CDRW, > je ne le fait pas, > j'utilise eroaster qui permet plus de choses avec > une interface en GTK2 > facile a utiliser. Merci pour l info je connaissais pas eroaster. J ai utiliser k3b et ca marche nickel. En fait j avais rajouter ce que tu m as

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Markus Lindström (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > In fact I've been trying to compile 2.6.4 and > 2.6.4-ck2. The compilation itself doesn't encounter any problems, so > that's clear. > > The problem comes at boot time, where I can the following message: > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "

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Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Aurel
Ok, it really depends on your config. Do you have a USB mouse or keyboard, what's you sound card, network card...? When you run make {x,g,menu}config there is a short description for each option. The better way is to look at the kernel how-to (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/). I hope my

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Katipo
Manu wrote: Hi I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and I have when starting my pc I see the following: --- hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive --- when I execute "cdrecrod -scanbus" I get: cdrecord:

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Katipo
Katipo wrote: Manu wrote: Hi I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and I have when starting my pc I see the following: --- hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive --- when I execute "cdrecrod -scanbus" I get

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Manu told: > Hi > > I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering > how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and > > I have when starting my pc I see the following: > --- > hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ---

Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!

2004-04-10 Thread Adam Funk
I just did an apt-get upgrade and now the GDM sessions menu has been cut down to Default (which is KDM), Failsafe GNOME and Failsafe something else. /etc/gdm/Sessions still contains all the previous launch scripts: /etc/gdm/Sessions $ ls -l total 24 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 34 200

Re: upgrade broken (Testing) for 10 days - libxrender

2004-04-10 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:50:05 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:30:17 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > >> Coming to libxrender-dev: seems libxrender1 depends on a lower version >> than installed. You can try to manually download libxrender-dev >> version 0.8.3-5 and carefully dpkg --forc

[md.kth.se #5789] AutoReply: lol

2004-04-10 Thread Webmaster at S3 via RT
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back up and lilo

2004-04-10 Thread Hans
Happy Easter, I want to experiment a little bit with my system. Before that I want to back up my stable system to another partition, in case I mess up. What is the smartest way to do that and how do I change lilo.conf so that I can boot in to both partitions? E.g. stable system on /dev/hda3 --

Re: upgrade broken (Testing) for 10 days - libxrender

2004-04-10 Thread Katipo
Uwe Dippel wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:50:05 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:30:17 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: Coming to libxrender-dev: seems libxrender1 depends on a lower version than installed. You can try to manually download libxrender-dev version 0.8.3-5 and careful

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 02:06:57PM +0200, Markus LindstrÃm wrote: | Okay, here's the deal. | | I'm a newbie trying to get Debian Woody to work on my comp. | Unfortunately, the native 2.4.18 kernel shipped with it doesn't support | my network card. | | On the other hand, compiling a newer 2.4 ker

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Katipo
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Manu told: Hi I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and I have when starting my pc I see the following: --- hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM d

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Katipo escribió: Katipo wrote: Manu wrote: Hi I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and I have when starting my pc I see the following: --- hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive --- when I execute "cdrecr

Re: lkm trojan

2004-04-10 Thread Pistnbroke
Hi I am replying to the LKM trojan thing, i have seen this in my install too. Last night i reinstalled, and i 1>fresh install 2>unplugged the net And run chkrootkit imiadiatly after install done.it said 3 processpossible trojan installed...i would have to believe this is a bug

Re: Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!

2004-04-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 13:48:44 +, Adam Funk wrote: > I just did an apt-get upgrade and now the GDM sessions menu has been cut > down to Default (which is KDM), Failsafe GNOME and Failsafe something > else. /etc/gdm/Sessions still contains all the previous launch scripts > but GDM is ignoring

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johann Koenig wrote: On Friday April 9 at 06:42pm Warren Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85 s

bad v4l2 colors in linux 2.6

2004-04-10 Thread csj
I have a Bt878-based TV tuner card (WinFast something) that's producing satisfactory video in linux 2.4. Under 2.6 the video is under-saturated (i.e. the colors look pale). What am I missing? Are there any magic options to pass to the v4l2 (linux 2.6) drivers to get my "rich" v4l (linux 2.4) col

Re: back up and lilo

2004-04-10 Thread Hans
Add this lines to lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda7 label="Debian_backup" This implies that you have lilo installed in the partition /dev/hda7, but that is not the case as it is installed in the MBR. My lilo.conf is in /hda3/etc. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: back up and lilo

2004-04-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hans On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: > Happy Easter, > > I want to experiment a little bit with my system. Before that I want to > back up my stable system to another partition, in case I mess up. What > is the smartest way to do that and how do I change lilo.conf so that I > can boot

Re: back up and lilo

2004-04-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hans wrote: Happy Easter, I want to experiment a little bit with my system. Before that I want to back up my stable system to another partition, in case I mess up. What is the smartest way to do that and how do I change lilo.conf so that I can boot in to both partitions? E.g. stable system on

Re: back up and lilo

2004-04-10 Thread Hans
Hello, "smartest" way to do backups .. assuming you want to protect your data a) if your data is on /dev/hda ... than backup to another disk on another PC -- never backup to the same disk - if the disk dies, you lose both main and backup stuff - if your system goes down, you mi

Re: Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!

2004-04-10 Thread Adam Funk
I forgot to mention the background information. I'm running Debian testing and the current (upgraded) gdm is 2.4.4.7-1. I'm now running it with the new /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file (overriding my customized one which I had kept while upgrading), but GDM still ignores /etc/gdm/Sessions/*. This is very

cheapest options from the Rx counter

2004-04-10 Thread Velma Echols
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Re: check disk for reiserfs?

2004-04-10 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:41:08AM -0400, Linux Nick wrote: > Is there anything like chkdsk for debian for reiserfs? Think I have a drive > going out wanted to check the sectors. > > Chkdsk is a DOS command. Try fsck -fc. -- Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Re: Keydrive

2004-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: > I suggest simplify the installation of Debian in a Keydrive, to boot if > from a memory stick > We must offer a more easy tool than slackware (see above link). > The debian installer allows you to write the installer to one keychain, plug it in, plug in a second

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Elimar Riesebieter escribió: On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Manu told: Hi I have never used a CDRW on Linux and was wondering how to configure it. I am using kernel 2.6.4-1 and I have when starting my pc I see the following: --- hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-RO

Re: CDRW conf

2004-04-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Pedro M. (Morphix User) told: > Elimar Riesebieter escribió: [...] > >On an ATAPI system you must use: > > > >$ cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI > > > >To burn a cd you have always to use dev=/dev/hdc. > > > >Ciao > > > >Elimar > > > > > > > I am sure we nee

Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-10 Thread Bob Schlärmann
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:07:41 +0200 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > What I cannot find out where gdm gets the info about the available > sessions. For example I first had also KDE installed and it was in the GDM recently switched to a new session file format based on .desktop file

Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Nori Heikkinen escribió: on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:47:26PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:32:10PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | after hearing all the brouhaha about the 2.6 kernel, i thought i'd try | it out. but a simple `apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.4-1

Re: apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Niels L. Ellegaard escribió: "Pedro M. (Morphix User)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Good idea . One can create "plug-in" s for Mozilla to run Synaptic from Mozilla. I found this one, but I am not sure if it solves your problem: http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dpkg-www http://olympu

pppd not able to authenticate using pap-secrets

2004-04-10 Thread Soumyadip Modak
I'm trying to use kppp to dial in to my isp. Problem is, even though the username and password are stored in pap-secrets file, pppd is unable to use it. /var/log/syslog says: Apr 10 07:29:04 modak pppd[967]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Apr 10 07:29:04 modak pppd[967]: but

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it seems that it gets created later. On boot there is no such thing. > However, when I make /dev/hda2 with mknod and then mount that partition, > hda and hda1 get also created, along with /dev/ide/bus. So something is > working, but udev needs to get 'trigg

Re: Keydrive

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Joey Hess escribió: Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: I suggest simplify the installation of Debian in a Keydrive, to boot if from a memory stick We must offer a more easy tool than slackware (see above link). The debian installer allows you to write the installer to one keychain, p

Re: Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!

2004-04-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Adam Funk wrote: I forgot to mention the background information. I'm running Debian testing and the current (upgraded) gdm is 2.4.4.7-1. I'm now running it with the new /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file (overriding my customized one which I had kept while upgrading), but GDM still ignores /etc/gdm/Sessions/*

This is an alert from PALTEL E-Safety System

2004-04-10 Thread esafety
* *** PALTEL E-Safety System detected a hostile content in this email. *** * Should you need any information or clarifications rega

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
hugo vanwoerkom escribió: Hi Debian! I find references to such document, but cannot find it. Anyone knows where it might exist? Thanks. Hugo You can use httrack and download it ( and print it if necessary). Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:40:21AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check some of the other nodes, for instance your scsi drives, to see if > they have the correct permissions (should be something like > root.disk). I had this problem some time ago (with my

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:05, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and while we're at it - netherlands is really holland. > > > > No, it's not, actually. Holland is only part of the Netherlands. > >well, yes. but: in slovakia the name for the country is holandsko > (slovak spelling for hol

mozex

2004-04-10 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I am currently using Mozilla as my main web browser. After a while away I have returned to using gnus for mail and news. What I want to be able to do is call gnus from within Mozilla when a mail link is selected. I understand it can it be done

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Johann Koenig wrote: > >On Friday April 9 at 06:42pm Warren Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite > >

grepping for tabs

2004-04-10 Thread William Ballard
I searched google a bit, nothing jumped out: Suppose the file '1' words seperated by tabs: hostcookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk $ grep '\b8' 1 hostcookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk $ grep '\t8' 1 $ grep "`echo -e '\t'`8" 1 hostcookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk I could have sworn

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Your is probably UDMA 133. Mine is a Maxtor Diamond Max 120 GB, and it is UDMA 133. My other box, with a Western Digital UDMA 100 drive, gets like 800-900 MB/s in buffer-cache reads. I am really stumped on this. Just

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:40:21AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Check some of the other nodes, for instance your scsi drives, to see if they have the correct permissions (should be something like root.disk). I had this pr

Re: grepping for tabs

2004-04-10 Thread dircha
William Ballard wrote: I searched google a bit, nothing jumped out: Suppose the file '1' words seperated by tabs: hostcookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk $ grep '\b8' 1 hostcookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk $ grep '\t8' 1 $ grep "`echo -e '\t'`8" 1 hostcookie 8 www.execsoft.co.u

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-04-10 Thread jacobmaxwinkler
I have the same problem only mine reads lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Mar 22 12:48 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 this is running knoppix, if that makes a difference, and I'm total newbie. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

X hangs system on log out

2004-04-10 Thread james
Hello About a week ago I posted this problem on the debian-laptop list, unfortunately I received no response so I am having a 2nd try with this posting on both the laptop & the debian-user lists. Also I suspect that this might be a generic nvidia problem. Recently I have noticed that whenever I l

Re: grepping for tabs

2004-04-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from dircha: > William Ballard wrote: > >I searched google a bit, nothing jumped out: > > > >Suppose the file '1' words seperated by tabs: > >host cookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk > > > >$ grep '\b8' 1 > >host cookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk > >$ grep '\t8' 1 > >$ grep "`echo -e '\t'`

Re: grepping for tabs

2004-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
William Ballard wrote: > $ grep '\t8' 1 > $ grep "`echo -e '\t'`8" 1 > host cookie 8 www.execsoft.co.uk > > I could have sworn that shells natively understood \t as tab, > but apparently the only way to pass one to a shell is with > `echo -e '\t'`, or `echo -e t`. Yes, a common shell

samba shares and case sensitivity

2004-04-10 Thread Micha Feigin
I am having an issue with samba exports. I am trying to compile a program with msvc (Yes I know the enemy) which resides on a samba share on my linux system (I actually developed it cross platform with wxWindows and msvc is running under vmware so my interaction with the big devil is as minimal as

SSL error in lynx browser

2004-04-10 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I go to a secure site in lynx I get the following seemingly harmless error: SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y) I say that the error seems harmless because if I hit y or any other key except n, it continues and disp

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-10 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/04 05:40, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: | Hi Debian! | | I find references to such document, but cannot find it. | | Anyone knows where it might exist? | | Thanks. | | Hugo | | It's in the apt-doc package: $ cat /usr/share/doc-base/apt-offline-usage-

Re: Courier-imap and LDAP [SOLVED]

2004-04-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> | 1) Is it possible to have Courier work with LDAP without having to > | install courier-ldap? > > Yes - if pam/nss in the libc uses ldap. I couldn't get courier-ldap to work so i deleted it and edited /etc/pam.d/imap instead to see if i could get Courier to play nice with pam. I've traced /var/

(pam_securetty) access denied

2004-04-10 Thread Volker Schlecht
Hi, since a few days (weeks?) I notice a message saying "(pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0' is not secure" in my auth.log when I log in via kdm or do an su in a konsole. The login and the su do work, though. I don't see any such message when I log in or su in a normal console. Any ideas on

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-10 Thread Johann Koenig
On Saturday April 10 at 11:15am Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Disk is a Maxtor 8mb 160gb 7200rpm, on a VIA chipset: > > mental-graffiti:/proc/ide# lspci > > .. > > :00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master

?'s on HP Deskjet 692C Printer

2004-04-10 Thread Rcorky2000
I am currently trying to get a program to install a HP Desk Jet 962C Printer and I don't have the slightest clue where to get the program.  I was wondering if there was a way to download the program from the internet?  Could you please inform me of who I can contact or where I can get such a progra

Re: ALSA problems sarge 2.4.25 (trying 2.6.3)

2004-04-10 Thread lebbatdot
The painful oddessy contiues Fortified with turkey I am trying 2.6.3 Loaded the bin version Booted no problems Seems to see both cards No Sound !!! Silent scream (I hava a console machine, no x windows, and I used alsamixer to set the levels, the ultimate goal is a jukebox) Test the spe

Problems with X 4.3.0

2004-04-10 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hello, I am running Debian testing, and have recently upgraded to XFree86 4.3.0 using "apt-get upgrade". I have a problem I have no idea how to solve, so I would appreciate a few pointers. If I try to change to a text terminal once X is started (using Ctrl-Alt-F1 for example), no text is display

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:55:06PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > This worked for me. HTH > > http://216.239.39.104/linux?q=cache:zDwdFYeY0mgJ:www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.pdf+usb+memory+stick+linux+howto&hl=en&ie=UTF-8#24 > > Hi Damon, checking

Problem with sed s command

2004-04-10 Thread David P James
I use KMail to read this and other mailing lists. When replying to a message, KMail will look for the last instance of and remove that and everything below from the reply. A problem occurs however on mailing lists that use that format to delimit the unsubscribe info when the author has also use

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another problem I have been running into are the permissions. I have a > nvidia card, so I added this to links.udev: > M nvidia0 c 195 0 > ... > M nvidia7 c 195 7 > M nvidiactl c 195 255 > > These get created on boot, but with the wrong perm

Re: Your information

2004-04-10 Thread Autoresponder
Success! Your email address has been added to our subscription list for the P4 update newsletter. There is no fixed publication schedule for this newsletter; it will be sent out each time there is new information about P4/P5 cards. P4 UPDATE The rumors are flying: everyone seems to know a

Symbolic links in /etc/alternatives not working as intended

2004-04-10 Thread users
Debian 3.0 Usage: update-alternatives --install [--slave ] ... is the name in /etc/alternatives. is the name referred to. is the link pointing to /etc/alternatives/. is an integer; options with higher numbers are chosen. I'm trying to update my /usr/bin/vi to use gvim instead of vim. C