Re: Re: How to find in which CD is a package ?

2004-08-31 Thread belahcene
Thank Andreas, But the question is general one !!! Is there a possibility to find the number of the CD which contains a given Package! that 's all!! best regards bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Compile

2004-08-31 Thread Grant
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:06:59AM +0100, Grant wrote: Hey, I have a laptop P2 300mhz, 128mb ram and a desktop box thats 2ghz,512mb ram. The question is that could i use my 2ghz machine to make and compile a kernel, then package it up into a .deb and send it to the laptop a

Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, martin f krafft wrote: try installing noflushd. I'd assume it to be syslog. Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is _some_ process running, which forces every 60 seconds the HD to spin up: Aug 31 11:44:36 localhost noflushd[3549]: Spinning down /dev/h

Re: REALTEK driver?

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Gear
John Fleming wrote: > I have an eMachines computer that my kids use that I'm trying to get going > with Sarge. If I use Knoppix/Debian Unstable, it finds eth0, gets IP from > DHCP on my LAN, and we're on the Net fine. However, the Sarge installer > does NOT get IP and therefore doesn't find the I

Re: No sound in Sarge, snconfig has a problem

2004-08-31 Thread Joris Huizer
belahcene abdelkader wrote: --- Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the same problem with my isa sound card. Normally, with other distro, I 've only to run sndconfig , which detects the card. Unfortunately, with sarge, the soundcore is called soundcore.ko, while sndconfig searches for

Latex broken in sid?

2004-08-31 Thread Johann Spies
Trying to compile a template that I use often in Latex is failing on sid at the moment: ERROR: No room for a new \dimen . --- TeX said --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3} \fi l.36 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread cr
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:31, Francisco Borges wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't build HTML pages in years and I'm looking for an editor that > would allow me to have a quick (re)start. Any recomendations? > > Running Sarge here. > > thank you for your attention ;-) > > peace. 'Quanta' is pretty good an

Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread martin f krafft
> Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is > _some_ process running, which forces every 60 seconds the HD to > spin up: You may want to peruse lsof and get periodic outputs to compare. I know of no tool that does disk monitoring or the like. -- Please do not CC me when r

SOLVED: Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread Martin Fluch
I managed to track the "offending" process down with "top" and a sharp look at the right moment and spotted the korganizer applet being active at the moment the HD spun up. Now that I removed the applet everything is back to normal again :) Thanxs for your comments! - Martin On Tue, 31 Aug 2004

Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread Tim Connors
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:35:58 +0200: > > --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is > > _

Re: Can't ssh

2004-08-31 Thread Prashant Jaikumar
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:56:35 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Fleming wrote: > > >Since yesterday I can't ssh in to my Debian unstable box, fully upgraded. > >When using Putty, as soon as the terminal window opens, it immediately > >closes. This is true whether from another mach

Re: hauppage 350 pvr

2004-08-31 Thread Tom Allison
Stephen Tait wrote: At 22:28 30/08/2004 -0400, you wrote: --device=/dev/lirc/0 This is already set up Personally, I'd dispense with LIRC until you can get the TV card working. Makes sense. If LIRC really is missing modules, your kernel config should look something like this: I2C support I2C bit

SIOCSIFADDR error...!

2004-08-31 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I have two ethernet cards on my machine one , both Realteck at the time of installation testing/woody it have detected both also when it was showing both at first boot , but it shows me eth1 down when i try to up it it give me error i.e ebian:~# ifup eth1 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

ALSA on 2.6

2004-08-31 Thread Tom Allison
How to I check if ALSA is actually working on my system? I have sound, but things like mplayer say that alsa can't be found. xine works fine, but I can't find anything in the xine menus to tell me what it's using for sound. Eventually I want to set up a TV card, but I need to go back and check o

IBM Compatibility

2004-08-31 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi It is the first time I am subscribing to any debian list. I have recently become a "convert" of debian and would just like to know some things regarding ibm hardware. I am ordering IBM G40 Thinkpads and would like to know wether they will work nicely with debian. Googling seems to say that in

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread Caveman
> 'Quanta' is pretty good and easy to use.Comes packaged with KDE in Debian > Woody, so hopefully is still there in Sarge. Personally I also like quanta, its got good syntax highlighting. As for a WSIWYG editor you would be best to run dreamwaver, I know it requires wine, but for just click a

WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Roger Creasy
I have struggled for 2 months to get ndiswrapper to work on my box. I am throwing up the white flag. Can anyone suggest an 802.11g card that has a linux driver?   Alternately, I have a dLink DWL-G510. Does anyone know of a driver?   Thank You,   Roger Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage

Re: ALSA on 2.6

2004-08-31 Thread Joris Huizer
Tom Allison wrote: How to I check if ALSA is actually working on my system? I have sound, but things like mplayer say that alsa can't be found. xine works fine, but I can't find anything in the xine menus to tell me what it's using for sound. Eventually I want to set up a TV card, but I need to g

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: > I have struggled for 2 months to get ndiswrapper to work on my box. I am throwing up > the white flag. Can anyone suggest an 802.11g card that has a linux driver? ndiswrapper is a pain ... sometimes it works .. sometimes it doesnt "works" == i

Re: ALSA on 2.6

2004-08-31 Thread Tom Allison
Joris Huizer wrote: Tom Allison wrote: How to I check if ALSA is actually working on my system? I have sound, but things like mplayer say that alsa can't be found. xine works fine, but I can't find anything in the xine menus to tell me what it's using for sound. Eventually I want to set up a TV c

Usb mouse frozen randomly

2004-08-31 Thread Hasan
My mouse frozen sometimes , often when cpu %95-100 loading (maybe after apt-get) and i cant move the mouse . I unplug the usb and plug again and its working . But its really headache . I'm using updated SID and 2.4.27-1-k7 kernel. Any suggest? (Now i cant send mouse frozen again :) ) -- To UNSU

Re: Usb mouse frozen randomly

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:58:35PM +0300, Hasan wrote: > My mouse frozen sometimes , often when cpu %95-100 loading (maybe after > apt-get) and i cant move the mouse . I unplug the usb and plug again and > its working . But its really headache . I'm using updated SID and > 2.4.27-1-k7 kernel. An

Re: dcopserver would not run

2004-08-31 Thread Ciprian Nita
delete the .ICE* files from your home folder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usb mouse frozen randomly

2004-08-31 Thread Hasan
3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb2:3.0 Aug 31 17:22:54 localhost usb.agent[17873]: usbmouse: blacklisted Aug 31 17:22:54 localhost usb.agent[17873]: hid: already loaded Aug 31 17:22:54 localhost usb.agent[17873]: mousedev: already loaded Aug 31 17:31:39 localhost kernel: us

Recompiling from 2.2.x to 2.6 OK?

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Dickner
Or should I recompile first to 2.4 and then to 2.6? Thanks, ejd ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

pppoeconf doesn't work

2004-08-31 Thread The Cypher
I can't seem to figure out what's the problem, but after detecting eth0, it gives me an error about not finding an "access concentrator". What's strange is that the same tool in knoppix does find it and all I need to do is type my username and password in order to connect using my ADSL connection.

Re: IBM Compatibility

2004-08-31 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:50:12 +0200, Gerhardus Geldenhuis escreveu: > no definitive answer on debian or any other distro Generally speaking distros donât make much of a difference. Debian is just starting the autodection game, but Knoppix and Gnoppix, which are Debian-based, are there alre

Camera and usb-connection.

2004-08-31 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Having trouble getting my camera to work in debian, tried usin the kamera-tool in kde, but couldn't initialize the camera, tried to mount /dev/sda manually (fdisk reports the fs to fat16) but get the message "fs type fat not supported". Tried "modprobe fat" no error-message, but still no go...

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Sysmin Sys73m47ic
> Can anyone suggest an 802.11g card that has a linux > driver? Personally I like the Proxim Orinoco b/g card. It uses the madwifi driver and it seems to work very well. It has a strong internal antenna and it also has a plug on the end that you can remove if you would like to put an external ante

Re: Recompiling from 2.2.x to 2.6 OK?

2004-08-31 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:10:26 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or should I recompile first to 2.4 and then to 2.6? You could do so right away. Just note that running a 2.6 kernel would need more recent versions of userland utilities (see the Changes file in the kernel source c

Re: SIOCSIFADDR error...!

2004-08-31 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 13:37, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I have two ethernet cards on my machine one , both Realteck > at the time of installation testing/woody it have detected both > also when it was showing both at first boot , but it shows me > eth1 down > > when i try to up it it

apache2 logs ([notice] child pid nnnn exit signal Segmentation fault (11))

2004-08-31 Thread John Harrold
While on vacation, one of our servers more or less died when /var filled up. This was a result of the error.log file for apache2 filling up with the following messages. [Sun Aug 22 06:25:32 2004] [notice] child pid 3881 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sun Aug 22 06:25:32 2004] [notice] child

Re: Sarge-No Sound/NEWBIE

2004-08-31 Thread Roger Creasy
you need to tell us which sound card you use. Maybe the isapnptools package can help you.Sorry for the previous incorrect reply. I am learning :). Is there a way to use isapnptools (or something else) to find out which sound card I am using? I built this box from salavaged parts, the sound card i

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Roger Creasy
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote:> I have struggled for 2 months to get ndiswrapper to work on my box. I am throwing up the white flag. Can anyone suggest an 802.11g card that has a linux driver?ndiswrapper is a pain ... sometimes it works .. sometimes i

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 18:08, cr wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:31, Francisco Borges wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I haven't build HTML pages in years and I'm looking for an editor that > > would allow me to have a quick (re)start. Any recomendations? > > > > Running Sarge here. > > > > thank you

Re: ALSA on 2.6

2004-08-31 Thread Josef Oswald
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joris Huizer wrote: >> Tom Allison wrote: >> >>> How to I check if ALSA is actually working on my system? >>> >>> I have sound, but things like mplayer say that alsa can't be found. >>> xine works fine, but I can't find anything in the xine menus to >>> te

Re: Kernel Compile

2004-08-31 Thread Sergio Basurto
Why you must recompile the kernel?, the current dist support almost any hardware!! If you really need to do that: You must compile the Kernel with the hardware of the laptop, there is not need to include your desktop hardware. kernel-package in woody dist, can help you to achive the .deb package e

Re: Debian Display on Virtual PC 2004

2004-08-31 Thread Sysmin Sys73m47ic
> I recently installed the testing Debian (Sarge) on > Microsoft Virtual > PC 2004. I am new to linux and am still poking > around. I think that Microsoft is the key word here. Lol. Ok, all joking aside. This is a new product for Microsoft and they are probably still ironing out the bugs in it. I

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:08:42 +1200, cr wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:31, Francisco Borges wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I haven't build HTML pages in years and I'm looking > for an editor that > > would allow me to have a quick (re)start. Any > recomendations? > > > > Running Sarge here. > > > >

Where is Latest Firefox?

2004-08-31 Thread Ed Sutherland
Where can I apt-get the latest ppc version of mozilla-firefox? (I need the one which reinstated CUPS printing.) Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenOffice printing with cups.

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Howdy.. I am trying to organise a network printer to work with OOo with Deb Sarge. I have successfully installed printer and test pages under Kprinter and works fine.. I cannot however, print using OpenOffice. I have tried using printer manager in OOo, which cannot find printer installe

Re: Debian Display on Virtual PC 2004

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Ferguson
The MS VirtualPC works great on windows with other versions of windows. It will support linux, I have tested a few distros myself. But it almost always mangles the video. I think the best option for VM linux inside windows is still going to be VMware. -halo On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:14:35 -0700 (PDT

Howto: Enable Gnome Sound on iMac?

2004-08-31 Thread Ed Sutherland
How do I enable Gnome sound so I can play audio CDs and MP3 files on my iMac? I've enabled the sound server on startup item from the "Sound" preference menu item, but Gnome says /dev/dsp doesn't exist. What is my next step? Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: OpenOffice printing with cups.

2004-08-31 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:12:46 +0930 Stef VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy.. > > I am trying to organise a network printer to work with OOo with > Deb Sarge. I > have successfully installed printer and test pages under Kprinter and > works fine.. I cannot however, print using O

Re: OpenOffice printing with cups.

2004-08-31 Thread René Seindal
Stef VK5HSX wrote: Howdy.. I am trying to organise a network printer to work with OOo with Deb Sarge. I have successfully installed printer and test pages under Kprinter and works fine.. I cannot however, print using OpenOffice. I have tried using printer manager in OOo, which cannot find print

Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Pack
I want to have either the Tux logo or a bootsplash screen at boot. I've found a few pages that explain this, but each time I delve deeper I hit roadblocks. I've been referred to kernel patches at www.bootsplash.de, but I have no idea which package I need. I know I'm missing something here, but ha

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roger Creasy wrote: > > > Alternately, I have a dLink DWL-G510. Does anyone know of a driver? > > > > what is the chipset ?? ( run lspci ) > > I did run lspci. It did not find my wireless card. Could this be the problem? no ... there is data in lspci aboout your dlink ...

ADSL/pppoe configuration problem

2004-08-31 Thread easf cdscvs
Hello, I just recently installed debian, and I can't configure my ADSL connection. When I run the configuration in the menu, it says it found the ethernet device, but the next step fails, something about "access concentrator not found" and hinting that another proccess may be using it. Any idea wh

Re: OpenOffice printing with cups.

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 00:31, Jacob S. shared with us the following: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:12:46 +0930 > > Stef VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy.. > > > > I am trying to organise a network printer to work with OOo with > > Deb Sarge. I > > have successfully installed pr

Re: OpenOffice printing with cups. * CORRECTION*

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 00:45, Stef VK5HSX shared with us the following: > Thanks Jacob all seems to work now.. many thanks for the tip.!! > Also to Ed for the bug report.. Sorry Rene.. Mistakenly placed Ed as the reply with bug report instead of you.. Apologies..! -- Regards - Stef VK5

Re: ADSL/pppoe configuration problem

2004-08-31 Thread Robert Parker
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:14, easf cdscvs wrote: > Hello, I just recently installed debian, and I can't > configure my ADSL connection. > When I run the configuration in the menu, it says it > found the ethernet device, > but the next step fails, something about "access > concentrator not f

Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Ruairi Newman
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:07:34 -0400, Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to have either the Tux logo or a bootsplash screen at boot. I've > found a few pages that explain this, but each time I delve deeper I hit > roadblocks. I've been referred to kernel patches at www.bootsplash.de, > bu

iptables and dnat

2004-08-31 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
when I try to insert iptables -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2:80 I get iptables: No chain/target/match by that name Below is my /var/lib/iptables/active What am I doing wrong? Anyone? Thanx :) Sturla #WinLin *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POST

Make-Kpkg SMP

2004-08-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I configure make-kpkg (kernel-package) so that MAKE using the -j3 switch? The smp.txt says edit the Makefile but the line that the smp.txt says to modify does not exist. The kernel-package man does not really cover this. Do I modify the kernel-pkg.conf? If so, how? Lance --

please check if yours bugs reported against wmaker still apply

2004-08-31 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian users and developers, If you have reported a bug against wmaker (WindowMaker) that is still open, please check whether the bug still apply to the current version, and in the negative, please tags the bug as fixed! I make this call because there are several hundreds of bugs reported a

Re: iptables and dnat

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 08:40, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > when I try to insert > > iptables -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT > --to-destination 192.168.1.2:80 > > I get > > iptables: No chain/target/match by that name > > Below is my /var/lib/iptables/active > > What am

Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Pack
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 11:28, Ruairi Newman wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:07:34 -0400, Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to have either the Tux logo or a bootsplash screen at boot. I've > > found a few pages that explain this, but each time I delve deeper I hit > > roadblocks. I've

Re: phpinfo() reading in as a file, bringing up download prompt.

2004-08-31 Thread Nigel J. Wood
Hi Johann, PROBLEM SOLVED: I did /etc/init.d/apache reload and it work! Just one last question. What is the difference between /etc/apache/ ./apache stop & start (which I was doing) and /etc/init.d/apache reload? Thanks again... On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:23:00 -0400, Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PR

Re: apache2 logs ([notice] child pid nnnn exit signal Segmentation fault (11))

2004-08-31 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, John Harrold wrote: > > [Sun Aug 22 06:25:32 2004] [notice] child pid 3881 exit signal Segmentation fault > (11) > [Sun Aug 22 06:25:32 2004] [notice] child pid 3880 exit signal Segmentation fault > (11) > [Sun Aug 22 06:25:33 2004] [notice] child pid 3894 exit signal Segment

Questions

2004-08-31 Thread olayemi ibrahim
Kindly, tell me the 3 differences between these topics bellow.  1    floppy disk and zip disk     2    vcd and dvd   3    cd recordable and rewriteable    4    cd rom drive and cd write   5    laptop and note book Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

please help

2004-08-31 Thread Atiase Favour
Hello: My name is Favour Atiase, I am from Ghana West Africa. I have an HP DesignJet 750C Plus plotter and I have a problem with it. I switch on my plotter and recieced this error message 070010 01E6 on the led display, what does it mean and what do i have to check before. I have change all

pptpd/pppd and radius

2004-08-31 Thread Nathan Kroll
I'm settin up a pptpd vpn server. I'd like to be able to use radius for authentication but I'm having a difficult time finding anything that has to do with this on debian systems. I'd also like to be able to allow more than 21 client connections. If this mean recompiling, I'm more than willing to

Re: please help

2004-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 17:14, Atiase Favour wrote: > Hello: > My name is Favour Atiase, I am from Ghana West Africa. > > I have an HP DesignJet 750C Plus plotter and I have a > problem with it. > I switch on my plotter and recieced this error message > 070010 01E6 on the led display, what doe

Re: Make-Kpkg SMP

2004-08-31 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:55:57 -0500 Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I configure make-kpkg (kernel-package) so > that MAKE using the -j3 switch? > > The smp.txt says edit the Makefile but the line that the smp.txt > says to modify does not exist. > > The kernel-package man does

WAP +Radius

2004-08-31 Thread Gabriel Granger
Hi all, Has anyone tried to setup a WAP using Radius to authenticate users? I'm using FreeRadius and a Belkin F5D7130, my test machine is a Apple powerbook with airport extreme card. When i try to connect to my WAP I'm telling that I'm using WEP-Enterprise and supplying the username / pass

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Re: Usb mouse frozen randomly

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My mouse frozen sometimes , often when cpu %95-100 loading (maybe > after apt-get) and i cant move the mouse . I unplug the usb and plug > again and its working . But its really headache . I'm using updated > SID a

Re: Kernel Compile

2004-08-31 Thread Grant
Sergio Basurto wrote: Why you must recompile the kernel?, the current dist support almost any hardware!! If you really need to do that: You must compile the Kernel with the hardware of the laptop, there is not need to include your desktop hardware. kernel-package in woody dist, can help you to achi

Re: ADSL/pppoe configuration problem

2004-08-31 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I'm not sure exactly who your ADSL provider is but having gone through a similar error situation with SBC Yahoo DSL service I'd suggest checking with your providers tier 2 tech support that the line is actually properly configured for PPPOE. In my case they had the line configured to ignore

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread Joris Huizer
I think that the best editor that you can use is emacs, you can edit whatever you want there even assembler. I recomend that one, besides you can run commands whithin it. Regards. Well, you can do all that in vim too ;) Don't call emacs or vim the best, it's a matter of taste! :p (sorry I had to

Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Brian Pack wrote: > I'm making progress. By adding video=vesa vga=0x317 I get a blank screen > up to the point that X starts. That's not a problem for now, because I > know I'm on the right track. I'm recompiling a kernel right now that has > vesa included, and not a module,

Re: Questions

2004-08-31 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
- floppy disk = only 1.44mb per disk, easy to break - zip disk = more than 100mb (old and new ver) harder than floppy, the floppy drive of Mac :) - vcd = ??? video cd is refer to movie in a cd - dvd = dvd is the media that being used in replacment of CD (not vcd) has more advance tech, can contain

Re: Re: Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system

2004-08-31 Thread David Bokan
Title: Re: Re: Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system >Yes, I have tried CTRL-ALT-DEL and it does not work, which is why I believe that logging in over a LAN wont work, however, I will try a telnet/ssh when I get home tonight, I have tried to SSH into the system. It works when the system is ru

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread Sergio Basurto
Sorry if the statement hurt in any way, I agree with you its a matter of taste and I think my statement was bad formed, I mean at least for me is the best and obviously there are a lot goo editors out there. Well for my experience emacs is a good one. Regards. On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:04:02 +0200,

Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Pack
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Brian Pack wrote: > > > I'm making progress. By adding video=vesa vga=0x317 I get a blank screen > > up to the point that X starts. That's not a problem for now, because I > > know I'm on the right track. I'm recompiling a kernel

Iptables help ..

2004-08-31 Thread debi
Hi, I am using the following iptables rules for the NAT, but i also want to block outgoing port 25 traffic from the LAN clients. INAT works fine but the outgoing port 25 is still open /sbin/iptables -F -t nat /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 -s 0/0 -d ! 10.0.0.0/8 --dport 25 -j REJECT

pptpd/pppd and radius

2004-08-31 Thread Nathan Kroll
I'm settin up a pptpd vpn server. I'd like to be able to use radius for authentication but I'm having a difficult time finding anything that has to do with this on debian systems. I'd also like to be able to allow more than 21 client connections. If this mean recompiling, I'm more than willing to

mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX 5200 using the nvidia binary driver. I've had this problem on both a home-rolled 2.4.22

Kernel boot problem?

2004-08-31 Thread Grant
Hey, I kinda have a problem, I have compiled now 4 kernel's and the first two kernel's got stuck on this message at boot. VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) The ot

Re: Questions

2004-08-31 Thread Josef Oswald
olayemi ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > Kindly, tell me the 3 differences between these topics bellow. > > 1floppy disk and zip disk > 2vcd and dvd > 3cd recordable an

Re: howto chat behind a proxy

2004-08-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:08:29AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > Hi every body, > I want to use the irc.debian.org fro direct chating. I > use xcaht to do this, > unfortunatly I am behind a proxy, and don't have a > direct access. > I tied to configure the xchat by adding addresse of > our p

Re: Debian Display on Virtual PC 2004

2004-08-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:49:46PM -0400, Benny Wong wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed the testing Debian (Sarge) on Microsoft Virtual > PC 2004. I am new to linux and am still poking around. > > I installed a base system and I installed x-window-system and gnome by > using the 'apt-get in

Re: Integrating creating users through WebMin

2004-08-31 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 30 Aug, 2004, at 16:49, Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:32:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: On 30 Aug, 2004, at 14:57, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Currently we have a RedHat 8 server

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-31 Thread Lauri Tischler
Sergio Basurto wrote: I think that the best editor that you can use is emacs, you can edit whatever you want there even assembler. Ummm... Any text editor can edit assember language, Midnight Commander has nice editor, MC also shows html-crap properly formatted, so you can type your text and then s

Re: Kernel boot problem?

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey, > > I kinda have a problem, > > I have compiled now 4 kernel's and the first two kernel's got stuck on > this message at boot. > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-

Re: apache2 logs ([notice] child pid nnnn exit signal Segmentation fault (11))

2004-08-31 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in August Richard A Nelson assaulted the keyboard and produced: | upgrade apache2 *and* any modules (ie apache2-mod-security) | to the latest levels and this should no longer be an issue Ok, I'll do this. A question from someone rather new to Debian. Is there an email list (similar to

Re: Re: Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:14:49PM -0400, David Bokan wrote: > >Yes, I have tried CTRL-ALT-DEL and it does not work, which is why I believe > that logging in over a LAN wont work, however, I will try a telnet/ssh when > I get home tonight, > > I have tried to SSH into the system. It works when the

[Fwd: Re: HTML editor. What to use?]

2004-08-31 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Begin Message --- Slightly off-topic, but I thought everyone might find this useful as I learned it only a few days ago. I always admired emacs for it's ability to run a shell within a frame of the program. It's very useful for programming, is wonderful for web development as well since you

logo - Re: Tux logo, Nvidia drivers, and framebuffer

2004-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Brian Pack wrote: > I compiled a new kernel, with vesa included instead of a module, same > for console framebuffer. Added video=vesa and vga=0x317 in menu.lst for > grub. > > I've got Tux! :) congrats ... now add your own corp logo next to tux .. and or more fun pla

Re: Iptables help ..

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the following iptables rules for the NAT, but i also want to > block outgoing port 25 traffic from the LAN clients. INAT works fine but > the outgoing port 25 is still open > > /sbin/iptables -F -t nat > /sbin/iptables -

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX > 5200 using the nv

Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system

2004-08-31 Thread Clive Menzies
On (31/08/04 13:14), David Bokan wrote: > >Yes, I have tried CTRL-ALT-DEL and it does not work, which is why I believe > that logging in over a LAN wont work, however, I will try a telnet/ssh when > I get home tonight, > > I have tried to SSH into the system. It works when the system is running >

Re: USB harddrives and device associations

2004-08-31 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 13:10, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Hi, > > This may be a simple question, or complicated. > > I have a lot of USB drives that I deal with and I'm getting quite > annoyed that whenever I switch drives the /dev/sdX association changes > too. I started on /dev/sda and now I'm curre

Re: Kernel Compile

2004-08-31 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 19:06, Grant wrote: > Hey, > > I have a laptop P2 300mhz, 128mb ram and a desktop box thats 2ghz,512mb ram. > > The question is that could i use my 2ghz machine to make and compile a > kernel, then package it up into a .deb and send it to the laptop and > install it and it

tasksel problem with Sarge netinstall RC1

2004-08-31 Thread Magnus Ekhall
Hi, I tried to install Sarge from a netinstall CD, but I run into trouble when I get to tasksel. There is no option to select "Desktop environment" or "x server". There are only options to install web server, file server and so on. I'm using ftp.se.debian.org and security.debian.org as my sources

Sparc station 10 install X not working

2004-08-31 Thread dave
hi I am unsuccessfully trying to get my Sparc station 10 to run the X server. The error i get is #X (WW) SUNCG3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID SBUS:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],e000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],e0001000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0) found (EE) No devices detected. the device is ok > sh

compile time on 2.6.8

2004-08-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How long is it taking people who compile the 2.6.8 kernel? It is taking about 30-40 minutes on my dual AMD MP2100?? And I am compiling from a Deb Sarge kernel-image 2.6.8-1-K7-smp?? Doesn't seem right. Seems like I used to compile in 5 minutes or less?? Compiling on Debian Sarge. Lance --

Re: compile time on 2.6.8

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Pack
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:10, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > How long is it taking people who compile the > 2.6.8 kernel? It is taking about 30-40 minutes > on my dual AMD MP2100?? And I am compiling from > a Deb Sarge kernel-image 2.6.8-1-K7-smp?? > Doesn't seem right. Seems like I used to compile >

Re: IBM Compatibility

2004-08-31 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:45:47PM +0200, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: > I am ordering IBM G40 Thinkpads and would like to know wether they will > work nicely with debian. Googling seems to say that in general ibm > hardware will work painlessly with linux but no definitive answer on > debian or any

First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Madhusudan Singh
alt.os.linux.debian Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by requesting them to carry it. Let us get it started. -- CHARTER: For questions and answers relating to the ins

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