Logging on kernel 2.2

We're seeing something quite strange. Periodically, logging to messages just "stops" then it restarts. Anyone know what causes this? Scott Mohnkern -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 01:04 pm, Joris Huizer wrote: > > 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. > Well, you can do all that in vim too ;) Don't ca

Re: Logging on kernel 2.2

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:32:56PM -0400, Scott Mohnkern wrote: > We're seeing something quite strange. Periodically, logging to messages > just "stops" then it restarts. > > > Anyone know what causes this? Maybe. Debian rotates logs by default, and klogd can't do much during the rotation. B

cd-rom device loading error

I can't mount my cd-rom device, so i tried "dmesg | grep hdc" (my cd-rom dispositive) and i got this following msg: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCGCC-4320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete D

Re: interview with joey hess

> while trying to help set up someone's machine for them: if all else fails, > you resort to the NATO phonetic alphabet and spell commands letter by > letter :) LOL!! Been there. Foxtrot Sierra Charlie Kilo Space Slash Delta Echo Victor Slash Hotel Delta Alpha Niner Enter. -- Michael McIntyr

Re: knoppix vs standard debian?

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 08:38 pm, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Is there a webpage or faq, or can somebody clue me in to, whether I > should get a "regular" debian?! Would there be an advantage to, say, > picking up a copy of "Debian Bible" and installing that instead over > knoppix debian?

Re: X-Windows startup issue!

Sweet it worked!!! You are my hero!!! I have been trying to get this to work, like FOREVER!! One more quick question: Where in the x-windows setup do you tell it to start kde instead of gnome? _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out th

gui sftp client (using rssh on server)

Hello, I've installed rssh on my server so users can only use scp and sftp. Works fine with sftp in CLI, but I can't find a Linux graphical client which works in sarge (I found FileZilla for Windows). I've tried gFTP, but when I tick "Use SSH2 SFTP subsys" in FTP/Options/SSH, I get the following

Console-Based Appd Recommendations

I'm in the process of tinkering around with my old TI Extensa 450 Laptop and getting Damn Dmall Linux installed on her, since she only has 12MB RAM and a 540MB hard drive. Due to memory limitations (until I can get a pair of 72 pin 16MB laptop DIMMs), I am running without X. Therefore, I am lo

Re: ALSA

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:29:26PM -0400, Rod MacPherson wrote: [..] >The first is /etc/hotplug/blacklist add a line with just the name of >the OSS version of the sound driver module for your soundcard/chipset. >(in my case, since mine is an AC97 compatible chipset it was >"i810_audio") The packag

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your PC would carry the whole NG instead of the messages you're interested > in. In the long run you would have two choices: Either set up a rather > short expiry period

Icon colour not quite right after reinstall of kde

Hi there I managed to break my copy of KDE when upgrading to kde 3.3. As such I unistalled kde and reinstalled back to 3.2. All is fine except I have now have an irritating feature. When I click on an icon on the desktop a horrible red line replaces the black in the icon. Its get more obvious when

Re: Console-Based Appd Recommendations

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:45:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I'm in the process of tinkering around with my old TI Extensa 450 Laptop > and getting Damn Dmall Linux installed on her, since she only has 12MB > RAM and a 540MB hard drive. > > Due to memory limitations (until I can get a pair of

Re: X-Windows startup issue!

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:31:29PM +, Will Ness wrote: > Sweet it worked!!! You are my hero!!! I have been trying to get this to > work, like FOREVER!! One more quick question: Where in the x-windows setup > do you tell it to start kde instead of gnome? update-alternatives --config x-window-

Re: Jigdo Sarge templates outdated?

Hello! On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:07:22PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Now the templates et al. are dated almost a month back. Does that mean > that Sarge cdimage work has been suspended? > Did I miss an announcement? A note from : | Note (Aug 30, 2004): Th

Icon colour not quite right after reinstall of kde

Hi there I managed to break my copy of KDE when upgrading to kde 3.3. As such I unistalled kde and reinstalled back to 3.2. All is fine except I have now have an irritating feature. When I click on an icon on the desktop a horrible red line replaces the black in the icon. Its get more obvious w

Icon colour not quite right after reinstall of kde

Hi there I managed to break my copy of KDE when upgrading to kde 3.3. As such I unistalled kde and reinstalled back to 3.2. All is fine except I have now have an irritating feature. When I click on an icon on the desktop a horrible red line replaces the black in the icon. Its get more obvious w

Re: cd-rom device loading error

Danilo Horta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't mount my cd-rom device, so i tried "dmesg | grep hdc" (my cd-rom > dispositive) and i got this following msg: > >ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCGCC-4320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdc:

Re: X-Windows startup issue!

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:18:58PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:31:29PM +, Will Ness wrote: > > Sweet it worked!!! You are my hero!!! I have been trying to get this to > > work, like FOREVER!! One more quick question: Where in the x-windows setup > > do you tell it t

kdvi

Why is kdvi only in unstable? Hans -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt issues with gcc?

I also experienced this. My system is complaining about files that are provided by multiple gcc packages. A dpkg -i --force-all of the packages gets them installed okay. Nate On Aug 28, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Peter wrote: Hi, Am i the only person experiencing issues with apt? I get some errors and

Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

My system was complaining that one of the README files was provided by multiple gcc packages. Looks like a packaging error. A dpkg -i --force-all on the gcc packages worked to get them all installed after I carefully checked that this was the only thing apt was complaining about. Same README

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

I love vim too, so whatever you decide to use it is ok, I think vim is a very powerful tool, and I love that editor, what I know is that which ever of both are a good option to edit ;). Regards. On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:55:30 -0400, Silvan wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 01:04 pm, Joris Hui

Making KDE my default GUI....

Ok, I honestly tried to google and find the answer, but I have gotten is comparison reviews between Gnome and KDE. Can someone please tell me where the file resides that I need to edit? I have been scoping out /etc/X11 and usr/X11R6/bin and still am stumped.. Please help! TIA!! - Will _

Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

begin Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki: > Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --8<-- I take it you're using POP3 to read your email. IMAP works basically the same way as NNTP, so there's no clear win either way. >> >> Is it possible to work offline with IMAP? I.e

Re: GTK App Fonts

Peter O wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 19:20, Steven Feinstein wrote: >> The apps I use based on either GTK or Gnome start up with very small >> fonts. >> The apps I'm using are FireFox, The Gimp and gVIM. I read in another >> message that running gnome-settings-daemon solves the problem

Re: Console-Based Apps Recommendations

On Thursday 02 September 2004 15:20, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > First, there is the CD player. I tried out cdcd, and it seems like > > it will be suitable for my needs. However, I need some sort of > > front end for it, sorta like a XMMS, but in console mode, and works > > with gpm. > > tcd It l

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 19:58, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand > why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. I have > no problems with moderation and revealing my mail address (it's my spam > col

Re: Console-Based Appd Recommendations

On Thursday 02 September 2004 15:15, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:45:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > Emacs 21 has an enriched-mode that will load/save rtf. Dunno if it > will fit in 540MB, though. It might be able to load rtf, but that doesn't make the rtf file Human reada

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

I have a KVM swicth(keyboard, Visual, Mouse Switch), can it provide a dummy keyboard and a dummy mouse? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making KDE my default GUI....

Will Ness wrote: Ok, I honestly tried to google and find the answer, but I have gotten is comparison reviews between Gnome and KDE. Can someone please tell me where the file resides that I need to edit? I have been scoping out /etc/X11 and usr/X11R6/bin and still am stumped.. Please help! TIA!!

Re: upgrading g++-3.3 gcc-3.3 libstdc++5-3.3-dev

It's been reported as a bug. The workaround is to force the installation of the packages if you need them and there's no other errors reported. dpkg -i --force-all On Aug 28, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Anthony Costa wrote: i'm getting overwrite problems when trying to apt-get upgrade the following pack

Re: Making KDE my default GUI....

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:40:07PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Will Ness wrote: > All you need is the appropriate line for your desired wm/environment. But KDM and GDM (yet another reason why the developers should be shot on sight) do not honour ~/.xsession. XDM does, as does startx. -- Thomas Ad

Re: need iptables port forwarding help!

Tom Vier wrote: i've tried several times, using multiple different rules i've found from different sites, and i still can't get port forwarding working. does anyone have working rules they could send me? i'm trying to forward packets from my isp to port to an internal ip (i use nat) and port 2

Re: Console-Based Appd Recommendations

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Thursday 02 September 2004 15:15, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:45:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > > > Emacs 21 has an enriched-mode that will load/save rtf. Dunno if it > > will fit in 540MB, though. > > It

Re: Key Mapping: .Xdefaults -- translataions

Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a trick to unbind those mappings when vim starts and also > restore them when vim exits back to mutt? Probably not. Why not just change the translations to send up/down arrow controls? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invi

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

Li Daobing wrote: I have a KVM swicth(keyboard, Visual, Mouse Switch), can it provide a dummy keyboard and a dummy mouse? Most do this already, yes. -- Cheers, Paul Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +0800, Li Daobing wrote: > Hello, > I have a linux server, the system is Debian sarge, kernel version is > 2.6.7. > I want to know how to make the PS2 keyboard hotplug. There may be confusion here -- is PS2 the hardwarey thing IBM came up with a few years ago for

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +0800, Li Daobing wrote: Hello, I have a linux server, the system is Debian sarge, kernel version is 2.6.7. I want to know how to make the PS2 keyboard hotplug. There may be confusion here -- is PS2 the hardwarey thing IBM came up with a few y

Re: Configuring Courier

Please reply only to the list, as I'm subscribed and you'll probably get much better help than mine for your problem. I am *certainly* not an expert on this, I'm just trying to share my experience. On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:38:13 +0100 Upayavira wrote: > Carlos Sousa wrote: > > >On Wed, 01 Sep 2004

Unmount Question

I have an NTFS drive that I mount as ReadOnly. I have found that when I use Konqueor to browse the drive and then exit Konqueor, I am not allowed to unmount the drive. I get the error "device is busy". I close all apps, but I can't find a way to be allowed to unmount the drive. This seems to on

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

It's PS/2. I am sorry that it make you confusing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Just a heads up for those who had gpg-agent fail to start

KDM fails to source /etc/X11/Xsession, see bug 265865. The fix is to 'vi .xprofile' which contains just one line... "source /etc/X11/Xsession". -- Are you sure that Kraft's Pasteurized Process Cheese Food actually spoils? I'm not convinced that any self-respecting microbe would be seen near it.

Re: Unmount Question

IIRC umount -l will perform a lazy unmount, thus ignoring the fact that the drivce is being used by something On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:32:12 -0400, Steven Feinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an NTFS drive that I mount as ReadOnly. I have found that when I use > Konqueor to browse the dri

Re: question about growisofs

On 31. August 2004 at 9:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember being able to overwrite the contents of a dvd+rw > by using the -Z option. That was from 6 or 8 months ago, > and using woody rather than sarge. And, I distinctly remember > that such a use of -Z was explain

Re: Unmount Question

On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:32 pm, Steven Feinstein wrote: > I have an NTFS drive that I mount as ReadOnly. I have found that when I > use Konqueor to browse the drive and then exit Konqueor, I am not allowed > to unmount the drive. I get the error "device is busy". > > I close all apps, but

Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue

On 2. September 2004 at 1:19PM +, "Will Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an X-Windows configuration issue, and it was suggested > on IRC that I post the error log onto the mailing list for > others to look at, and perhaps to solve my problem. The > question is how do I do this on a st

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:39 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > There may be confusion here -- is PS2 the hardwarey thing IBM came up > with a few years ago for making PC's, distinguishing ti from PS1? > Or is PS2 the well-known appreviation for the Sony PlayStation 2? > > Both these systems can hav

Dock Appts

I'm new to Debian and learning the system. I have a minimal "testing" set-up here which I got using the business card iso with base packages, fluxbox, links (which I use in graphical mode for downloads) firefox and thunderbird installed. I'd like to use dock appts instead of the gkrellm system

Re: Unmount Question

begin Mike Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dedi ki: > IIRC umount -l will perform a lazy unmount, thus ignoring the > fact that the drivce is being used by something But the lock on device will still persist. It might be better to check which processes are responsible for the lock via "fuser -amv" a

Konsole font

Hello everyone I installed debian sarge. But I have problem with the konsole font. It is really ugly now. I searched the web to find the method to add font, but I could not get it. From the setting, I can only see several fonts available. None of them work well. Any suggestions about that? T

Re: Gnuplot 4 on Woody : no Xterm

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:35:56PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > BTW, Alberto didn't say he is using Woody, one could only guess from > his version of KMail... This hopefully isn't becoming slashcrap, where no one ever reads the OP... or didn't the subject of the mail tell you anything? -- Marc

Tasksel not supporting Desktop selection

Hi All I install a Sarge box using 1st CD. After that I edit my /etc/apt/source.list to reflect my closest Debian mirror and did apt-get update and upgrade without any problem. I wanted a Debian desktop and I ran tasksel and found out there's no selection for "Debian Desktop" which was there last

Re: colours stoped working in vi

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Paul Boyle wrote: I just upgraded my computer from testing for the first time in about a week and vim stoped working properly. It no longer displays syntax highlighting eventhough I have changed nothing. This problem exists in both v

Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue

csj wrote: On 2. September 2004 at 1:19PM +, "Will Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an X-Windows configuration issue, and it was suggested on IRC that I post the error log onto the mailing list for others to look at, and perhaps to solve my problem. The question is how do I do this on a

Help!!!! If I'm to get debian up, I need help solving this...

dear debian users, OK, here's the problem: I for the life of me can't connect to the online apt sources. dhcp IS finding the cards...and I CAN ping the net. I really WANT to use debianbut things are beginning to look doubtful. I've configured apt sources in all the ways I can think, ftp

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