RE: DRI usage by non-root

2004-07-30 Thread David Baron
Using Mode 0666 does in fact work. What the problem is: DRI dependent applications will not work correctly run from KDE menus/panels, even if "run in terminal". One must explicitely open an xterm and run from there. This is also a problem run as root! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

2004-07-30 Thread Paul Gear
John Summerfield wrote: > ... Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message below on debian-boot without any response. I've also searched the debian-user archives without result.

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-30 Thread Griffin Palmer
Muddled thinking was also a problem! I was taking the "connection refused" message to be a symptom that the firewall was rejecting packets on that port. But I should have remembered from my own experience (duh) that one gets that message when trying to connect to a port on which no service is liste

Re: Source ISOs

2004-07-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:10:06PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm a Debian CD vendor and a customer asked me the source distribution > (woody). However I and my customer both don't know how one can install those > CDs, and I'd like to know what exactly a source distributio

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-30 Thread Paul Gear
Steve Witt wrote: > ... > Yeah, me too. I had to install one of the first real servers (from a > hardware point of view) I've ever done. It has 6 IDE disks all on > separate PCI IDE Controllers (none on the motherboard IDE channels), > some SCSI, gigabit Ethernet and other fairly new hardware thing

Re: eDirectory

2004-07-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:53:30AM -0500, cjackson wrote: > Any eDirectory or other Novell deb files out there? Any on the way? hm isn't eDirectory $$$-software produced by Novell? I think you should ask Novell for .deb packages but I guess they'll only certify it for SuSE Linux and produce rpms f

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

2004-07-30 Thread Paul Gear
Paul Gear wrote: > ... >>>How do i do that? I've never run a serial console on a Linux box. >> >>Try reading the installation documents:-) > > > You mean the ones that only apply to Woody and kernel 2.4? :-) Sorry - spoke too soon. I found them at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/ -- Pau

sound problem flashplugin-nonfree

2004-07-30 Thread David Burgess
Since moving to the 2.6 kernel I get no sound from Flash. I had sound in 2.4, but not in any of the 2.6 kernels that I've used. Shortly after switching to 2.6 I began using my on-board sound, as it required alsa, but still no luck. The sound works fine with other applications. I really don't think

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: John Summerfield wrote: ... Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message below on debian-boot without any response. I've also searched the debian-user archives without result.

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: Paul Gear wrote: ... How do i do that? I've never run a serial console on a Linux box. Try reading the installation documents:-) You mean the ones that only apply to Woody and kernel 2.4? :-) Sorry - spoke too soon. I found them at http://d-i.alioth.

Re: Source ISOs

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:10:06PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: Hello everybody. I'm a Debian CD vendor and a customer asked me the source distribution (woody). However I and my customer both don't know how one can install those CDs, and I'd like to know what exactly a source

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: When I get desperate,as root I do things like this: du --max-depth 2 -m | sort -n | sort not fair ... that's the same answer i was gonna post, but you beat me cause i was home eating and watching Jay leno Whoever Jay is.

Re: AnyOne got "Rekall" working on Debian

2004-07-30 Thread Miernik
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So the next question is how do you start it? I am using the Ion window manager http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/ So I just press F3, type rekall and presss I don't use KDE or any other bloat. But perhaps you also have a "Run" command, so you can type the name

Re: sound problem flashplugin-nonfree

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
David Burgess wrote: Since moving to the 2.6 kernel I get no sound from Flash. :-) Sounds like an advantage to me. Don't you just hate it when you rock up to some website and it deafens you with noise? Since switching to Debian I've not bothered installing flash, and my nerves are much bette

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > When I get desperate,as root I do things like this: > du --max-depth 2 -m | sort -n | sort not fair ... that's the same answer i was gonna post, but you beat me cause i was home eating and watching Jay leno though i'd just have used sort +1

Re: sound problem flashplugin-nonfree

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
David Burgess wrote: Since moving to the 2.6 kernel I get no sound from Flash. :-) Sounds like an advantage to me. Don't you just hate it when you rock up to some website and it deafens you with noise? Since switching to Debian I've not bothered installing flash, and my nerves are much bette

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john - fun stuff ... > >>When I get desperate,as root I do things like this: > >>du --max-depth 2 -m | sort -n | sort > >> ... > >not fair ... that's the same answer i was gonna post, but you > >beat me cause i was home eating and watching Jay leno i had fat fingers hit return before

Random freezes & font size changes

2004-07-30 Thread Edvard Majakari
Hi, I've been wondering what is wrong with my Debian box. Symptom 1: Few times a week the system freezes when using X, and the system doesn't respond to anything. However, when I log on to the system remotely via ssh from another machine, the freeze stops and the system works again. It seems li

Squid problems

2004-07-30 Thread nx13372
Hi all, All i do, was: #/etc/init.d/squid stop #rm -fr /var/spool/squid #rm /var/log/squid #squid -z #/etc/init.d/squid restart Squid starts ok. Now squid works, but don't cache. The #du -sh /var/spool/squid is always 16452! Since i have 3 squid.conf.x in /etc/squid/ i already copy an older co

PHP and CLI

2004-07-30 Thread Michael Bernhard Sørensen
Hi there. What package is nesesary to install if I want to use php in the shell? Thanks in advance. Michael Denmark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:54, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > > When I get desperate,as root I do things like this: > > du --max-depth 2 -m | sort -n | sort > > not fair ... that's the same answer i was gonna post, but you > beat me cause i was home eating and watchin

Re: PHP and CLI

2004-07-30 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 30 July 2004 12:03, Michael Bernhard Sørensen hurled the following on the wire: > Hi there. > > What package is nesesary to install if I want to use php in the shell? php4-cgi joost DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you

off-topic, but skills in Linux are important

2004-07-30 Thread nx13372
Hi all, since in Linux it's so easy to control de layer 3 of the tpc/ip with netfilter, i was wondering if it's possible to create a program that runs on Microsft XP and (to start) change the TTL on the header of each packet when sending . And why not discard packets that have for example a TTL

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-30 Thread Dave Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Although it is clearly reading the articles and processing them, they > never show up in the file tree of /var/lib/news. Plus, they never > show up in my xnews reader when I connect to my debian box from my > Windoze

Re: Squid problems

2004-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 05:57, nx13372 wrote: > Hi all, > All i do, was: > #/etc/init.d/squid stop > #rm -fr /var/spool/squid > #rm /var/log/squid > #squid -z > #/etc/init.d/squid restart > Squid starts ok. > Now squid works, but don't cache. The > #du -sh /var/spool/squid is always 16452! > Sinc

debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error?

2004-07-30 Thread Leif W
Hello, If there have been bug reports filed for these issues, please let me know. I'm using a Pentium (586) class computer (AMD K6-2 running at 262 MHz in a system running at 75 MHz FSB, 37.5 MHz PCI bus), with 128 MB of EDO DRAM. The system appears to be stable, and has run at this bus speed fo

Re: off-topic, but skills in Linux are important

2004-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 06:54, nx13372 wrote: > Hi all, > since in Linux it's so easy to control de layer 3 of the tpc/ip with > netfilter, i was wondering if it's possible to create a program that > runs on Microsft XP and (to start) change the TTL on the header of each > packet when sending . An

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-30 Thread Dave Hathaway
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I use cnews+suck on Woody, but I do so because I have been using cnews ever > since it came out. It takes quite a bit of fiddling, and I had to > patch suck. I could try to document my configuration for you if you want

Re: debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error?

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
Leif W wrote: Hello, If there have been bug reports filed for these issues, please let me know. I'm using a Pentium (586) class computer (AMD K6-2 running at 262 MHz in a system running at 75 MHz FSB, 37.5 MHz PCI bus), with 128 MB of EDO DRAM. The system appears to be stable, and has run at this

Re: AnyOne got "Rekall" working on Debian

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Cormier
On July 29, 2004 03:06 pm, John Foster wrote: > I am trying to get Rekall 2.0 to compile on Debian sid. It seems to > crap out saying that there are no headers or libs installed. I have > qt3-mt installed, & am wondering if the 'mt' is the problem. I ran > into a similar issue a while ago with per

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid

2004-07-30 Thread JMS
It certainly shouldn't segfault - that's a pretty serious problem. What architecture is this on? You might try setting up a new user and seeing if it runs better then. -- Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Squid problems

2004-07-30 Thread nx13372
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 05:57, nx13372 wrote: Hi all, All i do, was: #/etc/init.d/squid stop #rm -fr /var/spool/squid #rm /var/log/squid #squid -z #/etc/init.d/squid restart Squid starts ok. Now squid works, but don't cache. The #du -sh /var/spool/squid is always 16452! Sin

Controlling kernel log size

2004-07-30 Thread Bruno Diniz
Hi all, looking into my /var/log, I noticed that kern.log and syslog were taking a lot of space. After inspecting this files, I figured out that they were keeping 4 weeks of entries. I don't need that much, so how can I reduce the number of weeks kept in this logs? I tried to change the /etc/logro

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Re: why EsounD does not start with /etc/init.d/esound start ?

2004-07-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why EsounD is not started with something like /etc/init.d/esound start like all other daemons, only it is started as a user logs in, well, in fact I don't know very well what starts EsounD, but I have big problems with it, it's a mess-up. I is not a "mess-up". If you are

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-30 Thread Griffin Palmer
Blindingly obvious (in retrospect) troubleshooting sequence: Is the service supposed to run as a daemon? Yes Is the daemon active and listening? In my rather weak defense, whenever I've seen the "connection refused" message in the past, it was in a different context: I was confirming that

Problem with network card onboard

2004-07-30 Thread Silvio Malta Rangel Drummond
Problem with network card onboard   /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/sis900.o: Device or resource busy  Hint: insmode errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters  

vim place marker

2004-07-30 Thread Craig Jackson
Hi, I have read through the vim docs and definitely missed something (it's a tome). How do I configure vim to place a marker for each file edited and then open the file at that place the next time it is opened? Not a Debian question, but the kind of thing all debpeople should know. Thanks, Crai

parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-07-30 Thread Hendrik Fuß
Hi, are there known problems with parport on asus mainboards or is it just my fault? /dev/lp0 behaves like /dev/null, everything I print just disappears, no error or log messages. Even echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0 doesn't do anything. Under 2.4 kernels everything works as expected. mainboard:

Re: Controlling kernel log size

2004-07-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bruno Diniz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > looking into my /var/log, I noticed that kern.log and syslog were > taking a lot of space. After inspecting this files, I figured out that > they were keeping 4 weeks of entries. I don't need that much, so how > can I reduce the number of weeks kep

sarge: kernel & gcc version confusion

2004-07-30 Thread cam
Hello all, I've just moved to debian in the last few days after several years of RH - usual reasons. Enjoying it very much so far. I installed woody with bf24 kernel from dl'd CD and just put on the most basic system. I used apt-get to install x, xfce, mozilla and a few other things.. I then decid

Problems swithcing _from_ initrd kernel

2004-07-30 Thread stan
Last night I tried to take a "unstable" system from the 2.4 series of kernels to 2.6. Here's what I did. I downloaded teh apropriate 2.6 kernel mage pacakge & installed it. During this, I was prompted to change lilo,conf to use initrd. I did this, and the machine rebooted OK, except for a few issu

`who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-07-30 Thread Adam Funk
For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear them (`cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the problem. The false entries all seem to refer to xterm sessions (running bash but without the -l option),

Re: vim place marker

2004-07-30 Thread dircha
Craig Jackson wrote: I have read through the vim docs and definitely missed something (it's a tome). How do I configure vim to place a marker for each file edited and then open the file at that place the next time it is opened? Not a Debian question, but the kind of thing all debpeople should know.

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 17:28 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: --snip-- > I don't suppose you managed to get it to either: > > a) Create software RAID devices without hanging, or > b) Just mount an existing software RAID device without attempting to > recreate it? I actually just tried this a couple of da

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-07-30 Thread Tom
* [Friday 30 July 2004 15:34] Adam Funk: > For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` > output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear > them (`cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the > problem. The false entries all seem to refer to xterm

Re: Source ISOs

2004-07-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:01:35PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:10:06PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > > > > >>Hello everybody. > >> > >>I'm a Debian CD vendor and a customer asked me the source distribution > >>(woody). However I and my cu

Install stable with the new installer (was Re: Thanks for Debian Installer)

2004-07-30 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of dircha on 2004-07-29 22:45:05 -0500: > Is there an advanced option in the new installer to install woody? I > swear I remember seeing at least an advanced option to install sid directly. If you boot into the 'expert' install and load the installer component to select the mirr

Re: Source ISOs

2004-07-30 Thread John Summerfield
Where exactly are they? Aehm depends on what's on your binary CDs ... the source packages for the offical Debian packages can be found on a mirror close to you. Iso images with the source packages for woody should be avaible in the same place you can grab the binary image. I don't recall s

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:50:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Griffin Palmer wrote: > > >OBTW -- when I try to telnet to port 25 on the new box > >from the old box, I get "connection refused." > > > > > > > That's your problem. > > Here's how to use lsof for this prob: > ns:~# lsof -c post

command apt-get

2004-07-30 Thread vjimenez
Hi I install debian in my brother computer, but when i try to start install any program .deb with the command apt-get update && apt-get install but show the message package no found, My brother uses a Sound Blaster CDROM In my computer the command work perfectly!!! and i install all the progr

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid RESOLVED

2004-07-30 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, JMS wrote: > It certainly shouldn't segfault - that's a pretty serious problem. What > architecture is this on? > > You might try setting up a new user and seeing if it runs better then. Thanks for your reply, Jonathan. Someone contacted me offlist, saying they'd had a simi

MIMEDefang Notification.

2004-07-30 Thread MIMEDefang
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Re: command apt-get

2004-07-30 Thread remy harel
Hi, Put your cdrom in your drive, and "apt-cdrom add", then apt-get update && apt-get install .. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > Hi I install debian in my brother computer, but when > i try to start install > any program .deb with the command apt-get update && > apt-get install but >

/dev/dsp problem

2004-07-30 Thread remy harel
Hi list, - Debian Sid up to date Kernel 2.6.7 debian patched emu10k1 on pci card ( SB live player ) - alsa -- I'm currently trying to run the unreal tournament 2004 demo but it runs without sound. Yet, my sound card is pretty nice configured, I'm usin

Re: Problems swithcing _from_ initrd kernel

2004-07-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 30 July 2004 05:54 am, stan wrote: > Last night I tried to take a "unstable" system from the 2.4 series of > kernels to 2.6. Here's what I did. > > I downloaded teh apropriate 2.6 kernel mage pacakge & installed it. > During this, I was prompted to change lilo,conf to use initrd. I did >

Re: command apt-get

2004-07-30 Thread nx13372
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I install debian in my brother computer, but when i try to start install any program .deb with the command apt-get update && apt-get install but show the message package no found, My brother uses a Sound Blaster CDROM In my computer the command work perfectly!!! and

Re: /dev/dsp problem

2004-07-30 Thread Matt Brubeck
remy harel wrote: > Yet, my sound card is pretty nice configured, I'm using an SB Live! > 1024 ( emu10k1 ) with alsa, loaded as a module. Sound work perfectly > in all applications, dvds, mp3 etc...even the surround is perfect ( by > the way, how wonderful is alsa ! ). > > I'm pretty experienced w

Re: Source ISOs

2004-07-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:37:36PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > >>Where exactly are they? > >> > >> > >Aehm depends on what's on your binary CDs ... the source packages for the > >offical Debian packages can be found on a mirror close to you. > >Iso images with the source packages for woo

KDE Crashing - Sarge

2004-07-30 Thread Bruno Bellantuono
Folks, I had always used Debian testing perfectly, but on 27th July I made a dist-upgrade, as usually. Suddenly all KDE applications started crashing just after they were closed. Applications like Knotes, Kmixer, Korganizer, summarizing ALL KDE applications. Such a thing had never happened to

Re: sarge: kernel & gcc version confusion

2004-07-30 Thread David Burgess
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 07:28, cam wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just moved to debian in the last few days after several years of RH - > usual reasons. Enjoying it very much so far. I installed woody with bf24 kernel > from dl'd CD and just put on the most basic system. I used apt-get to install > x,

screen goes black

2004-07-30 Thread disciple
When I leave my PC on with no activity it goes black. When I move the mouse or hit a key it comes back. I don't lose any info. Is this a BIOS thing? Can I set it so that the screen does not go black for an 1 hour? Is there a file within debian that I can edit? Thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: /dev/dsp problem

2004-07-30 Thread Yahoo
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:58:38 -0700 (PDT), Matt Brubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thks, but I have no module named "snd-pcm-oss", just one named "snd-pcm", so I think it 's bad. this is an extract of my .config : Device driver->Sound->Alsa->oss mixer api Device driver->Sound->Alsa->OSS PCM (

Re: sound problem flashplugin-nonfree

2004-07-30 Thread David Burgess
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 02:11, John Summerfield wrote: > David Burgess wrote: > > >Since moving to the 2.6 kernel I get no sound from Flash. > > > > > :-) Sounds like an advantage to me. Don't you just hate it when you rock > up to some website and it deafens you with noise? > I would love to

Re: Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

2004-07-30 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Debian Users wrote: > Hello there! > > I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows > XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on > the Linux install of the laptop and rsync (under Cygwin) on the Wind

Re: command apt-get

2004-07-30 Thread Paul Tsai
nx13372 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I install debian in my brother computer, but when i try to start install any program .deb with the command apt-get update && apt-get install but show the message package no found, My brother uses a Sound Blaster CDROM In my computer the command wor

Re: screen goes black

2004-07-30 Thread p
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:33:05PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I leave my PC on with no activity it goes black. When I move the > mouse or hit a key it comes back. I don't lose any info. Is this a BIOS > thing? Can I set it so that the screen does not go black for an 1 hour? > Is th

Re: How set the assoications in Firefox?

2004-07-30 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:49:17 +0200, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-30 03:29]: > > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:37:18 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > > > > > >I cannot set any association in Mozilla-F

Convert Real video to MPEG4 or QTime

2004-07-30 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
Hello, I need to do a one time massive conversion of video materials currently in Real's .rm files to MPEG4 and/or QTime (switching from RealServer to the open source Darwin Streaming Server). Can anybody recommend a free converter for Linux (or Mac OS X for that matter)? Thank you, Sarunas --

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid RESOLVED

2004-07-30 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:17:37 -0500 (CDT), James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, JMS wrote: > > > It certainly shouldn't segfault - that's a pretty serious problem. What > > architecture is this on? > > > > You might try setting up a new user and seeing if it runs better t

Ethernet not working in sarge. Have I done enough?

2004-07-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've been trying to net-install sarge using the new installer. The install worked, in the sense that I now have useless but otherwise working sarge system. The trouble is that is seems to be unable to communicate with my ethernet card, a Realtek RTL-8139, for which it has installed the 8139too mod

Re: sound problem flashplugin-nonfree

2004-07-30 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 01:22:48 -0600, David Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since moving to the 2.6 kernel I get no sound from Flash. I had sound in > 2.4, but not in any of the 2.6 kernels that I've used. > > Shortly after switching to 2.6 I began using my on-board sound, as it > required

Re: I/O Errors

2004-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:04:07AM +1200, Steven Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 30 July, 2004 at 8:50 a.m. Michael G. Morey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1. I've recently had to restart GNOME > > 2.2, and found the following errors on the console (

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:22:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hi ya > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote: > > > > - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody > > > > > > - anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the spot > > > :-)

Re: KDE Crashing - Sarge

2004-07-30 Thread Bruno Bellantuono
    That's exactly what I was getting as error messages. What is the total size of the .deb packages that you got from kde.org?     Well, I suppose you didn't dist-upgraded your system since you installed these packages... Thus, this is a partial solution. Anyway its better than having KDE cra

Re: parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-07-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi Hendrik, On 30.07.2004 15:04, Hendrik Fuß wrote: are there known problems with parport on asus mainboards or is it just my fault? /dev/lp0 behaves like /dev/null, everything I print just disappears, no error or log messages. Even echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0 doesn't do anything. Under 2.4 kerne

Re: KDE Crashing - Sarge

2004-07-30 Thread José Pedro Afonso
I've experienced some problems too with the updates. I've been using kde 3.2 binaries (*debs) from www.kde.org (They're not available anymore). The Bug system from kde it seems not to be very intuitive. It returned something like: (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "

Problem with showing some fonts.

2004-07-30 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. When I have partly upgraded my X (from woody to unstable) I can not see some symbols of "SIL Encore IPA" (SIxDIPA_.PFB) fonts in xfontsel and the programme which use those fonts. The pfaedit font editor and xfd show all symbols of this fonts. What must I do that correct this problem? Many

dselect installing packages I didn't request

2004-07-30 Thread Matt Perry
Why does dselect want to install packages that I haven't requested? I'm not talking about dependencies. Here's how to replicate what I'm seeing. I installed debian woody. During the install I said NO to tasksel and NO to dselect. I got a very minimal system (good). If I run dselect, select

Re: debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error?

2004-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
| I'm trying to install a fresh copy of Debian unstable using the unstable | boot/root floppies from 20040715. | | | | I am not sure what to look for in the syslog or messages files. Near the | beginning of the install, I skip the "load drivers from disk", as there are no | esoteric devices i

Fixing Wireless PC Card 16550A UART Serial Device Assignment

2004-07-30 Thread Michael G. Morey
All, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 with hotplug, modutils, pciutils, and usbutils back-ports from www.backports.org, on a Dell Latitude D800 laptop. I'm running a custom Linux 2.4.26 kernel I've built from a Debianized back-port, configured for 16550A UART support for PC card devices. I

Re: Controlling kernel log size

2004-07-30 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-30, Bruno Diniz penned: > Hi all, > > looking into my /var/log, I noticed that kern.log and syslog were > taking a lot of space. After inspecting this files, I figured out that > they were keeping 4 weeks of entries. I don't need that much, so how > can I reduce the number of weeks kept

Re: debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error?

2004-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Leif W wrote: > Initially I tried expert mode, as I'm an experienced user. I've been > successfully installing various flavors of Linux since 1997, and Debian since > 2001. :-) But apparently, you have never seen or paid attention to the standard output of debootstrap before: > Anyways, there a

Re: sarge: kernel & gcc version confusion

2004-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:28:04AM -0700, cam wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just moved to debian in the last few days after several years of RH - > usual reasons. Enjoying it very much so far. I installed woody with bf24 kernel > from dl'd CD and just put on the most basic system. I used apt-get to

Samba problems in stable?

2004-07-30 Thread Robert L. Harris
Recently a production "stable" samba server started producing this: samba-log.cpr8r: oplock_break failed for file Share1/Files/Financial/Comms.xls (dev = b, inode = 151073815, file_id = 31). samba-log.cpr8r: oplock_break failed for file Share1/Files/Financial/Futures.xls (dev = b, inode = 411

Re: bjc-4300 canon colour buble jet printer

2004-07-30 Thread Marcelorenaomi
driver missing please help me

Re: On the verge of suicide:tar & gunzip problems

2004-07-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> zcat /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz | >> perl -ne 'm,home/vic/, && do { ++$count[($l + length($`)) % 512] }; >> $l += length($_); END { for (0..511) { printf "%3d %5d\n", $_, >> $count[$_] if $count[$_] } }' | sort -nr +1 | head -20 > > For the time bein

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid RESOLVED

2004-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:17:37AM -0500, James Miller wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, JMS wrote: > > > It certainly shouldn't segfault - that's a pretty serious problem. What > > architecture is this on? > > > > You might try setting up a new user and seeing if it runs better then. > > Thanks for

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread Silvan
On Friday 30 July 2004 02:52 am, John Summerfield wrote: > These days, disk is cheap in com[arison with time, and you need to keep > this in mind. It might be better to replace the drive, put the old one > in a USB enclosure so you can get your important bits back. However, > some will choose to s

Re: KDE Crashing - Sarge

2004-07-30 Thread José Pedro Afonso
I've downloaded and made a repository with apt-ftparchive on my machine. I don't have internet at home so I worked with my Pen Drive. The total size was more or less 80/100 Mb. I'm not sure. I think that's because some debian package as it worked very fine till all those crashes. I'll try to fo

Blopping

2004-07-30 Thread Tim Raats
Everytime I play a song in programs like Noatun, JuK, Amarok I hear a strange 'blopping' sound. With is the cause if this problem and how to solve it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I/O Errors

2004-07-30 Thread Michael G. Morey
CW Harris wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:04:07AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I would suggest the disk is stuffed. I could be wrong, but isn't dev 0b:00 /dev/scd0 ? So it's having trouble reading a scsi cdrom? CW, Y

Re: How does exim4 format bounce messages

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 30 July 2004 07:48, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am running a "Sarge" based Exim4 mail server for the domain > chandlerfamily.org.uk. ... > I have two problems > > 1) I have hundreds of messages sat on my queue. They are being sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sender address of @chandlerfam

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:37:32PM -0400, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 30 July 2004 02:52 am, John Summerfield wrote: > > > These days, disk is cheap in com[arison with time, and you need to keep > > this in mind. It might be better to replace the drive, put the old one > > in a USB enclosure so you

Re: none

2004-07-30 Thread Matt Perry
Paul Johnson writes: > "Eric Haii Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, smells like spam. How many Eric's have the login "angela"? I don't know. How many Theo's have the login "felicity"? Well, Theo Van Dinter of the SpamAssassin development team does. So we've ruled out that just because

Re: debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error?

2004-07-30 Thread Leif W
> - Original Message - > From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error? > > Leif W wrote: > > Initially I tried expert mode, as I'm an experienced use

Re: data replication how to

2004-07-30 Thread Yohann Desquerre
Ioannou Ioannis wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 19:09, Yohann Desquerre wrote: i think i would plug the 2 storage product and the debian into the switch and then use unison to replicate the data (or do a snapshot)... unison is good for bidirectional replication (i.e. changes are happening

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-30 Thread csj
On 30. July 2004 at 5:02AM +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:15:16AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How do I create an audio cd image on disk? > > > > > > I tried looking into

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)

2004-07-30 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:16 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Varies by jurisdiction. > > Superior (county) judges are frequently elected. > > State/Federal judges are appointed by governors and presidents, > respectively.  I don't believe any state has an elected judiciary, > although California has r

Re: Convert Real video to MPEG4 or QTime

2004-07-30 Thread csj
On 30. July 2004 at 1:12PM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to do a one time massive conversion of video materials > currently in Real's .rm files to MPEG4 and/or QTime (switching > from RealServer to the open source Darwin Streaming Server). > > Can anybody recommend a

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