Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote: > Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself > cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean. In what way do *you* think it can consume CPU? -- Kirk Strauser pgpSLMRaidtRT.pgp Description

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

2004-09-20 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry, that was written before I installed 0.8-2 ... everything is now working properly. Cheers, Adam. Alexander Sack wrote: Adam Bogacki wrote: Sorry to be a spoil-sport but when replying (TB0.8) to an email I found the "Compose' pane stuck one third of the way down the screen, and the written

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-20 Thread Rob Sims
On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:53 am, Nicolas de Sereville wrote: > Following the "ATI Radeon Linux How-To", I managed to get the 3D > acceleration with the previous xserver version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-6) but > overwriting the MESA libGL library with the ATI one, through a "dpkg > --force-overwrite -i fg

Re: Unable to ping gateway

2004-09-20 Thread Jacob Larsen
Sergio Basurto wrote: #route del -host 87.7.167.224 eth0 #route del -host 87.7.167.224 eth1 # route del -host 87.7.167.224 eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process # route del -host 87.7.167.224 eth1 SIOCDELRT: No such process # ip neigh show 81.7.167.225 dev bond0 lladdr 00:d0:00:e4:fc:0a nud reachable I w

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-09-20 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi, Rob Sims wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:53 am, Nicolas de Sereville wrote: Following the "ATI Radeon Linux How-To", I managed to get the 3D acceleration with the previous xserver version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-6) but overwriting the MESA libGL library with the ATI one, through a "dpkg --force-

Re: glibc 2.3 and updated gcc for woody

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:50:53PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:30:24PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: > > > Is there an updated version of glibc (2.3) and gcc for woody? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Cole >

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to buy a PC with Debian Preinstalled. Should I go with "Stable" Woody or "Development" Sarge? Which PC? Why not build a PC, buy the 14CD's and install Sarge? Sarge, definitely. But why not wait until Sarge is stable? Then you won't have to upgrade... Hugo.

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:13:05PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself > > cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean. > > In what way do *you*

Re: mouse: kernel 2.6.6 -> 2.6.8 ???

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:01:11PM -0500, helices wrote: > What broke? What changed? > > I have been running 2.6x kernels on this legacy PPro box for most of > this year -- first kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686, then > kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- without incident. > > Today, the only change I made was

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread robin
"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than "Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from that one. I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. Maybe I've been lucky but debian i

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:13:05PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself > > cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean. > > In what way do *you*

USB DVD-RW drive

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Konosky
I have been wanting to get a DVD-RW drive and recently someone suggested I get an external drive, which I had never thought of. It will be more expensive than an internal drive, but I could use it on all of my computers to backup data, with less hassle than an internal drive. Also, I might be g

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Adam Aube
martin f krafft wrote: > Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20 users > invoke spamassassin at the same time. Spamassassin is a resource > hog and that will cause the machine to basically become unusable, > with the load going to 30 and higher. > Obviously, I have put limits o

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:22:13PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20 users > > invoke spamassassin at the same time. Spamassassin is a resource > > hog and that will cause the machine to basically become unusable, > > wit

Upgrade to sarge from woody box not using apt-get

2004-09-20 Thread Cole S. Ashcraft
Is there a way to install / upgrade to sarge from a debian box running woody without using apt-get? I have glibc2.3 instsalled. Cole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade to sarge from woody box not using apt-get

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:59:29PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: > Is there a way to install / upgrade to sarge from a debian box running > woody without using apt-get? I have glibc2.3 instsalled. Yes. Download the sarge netinst ISO. Burn it to CD. Back up all your data. Turn off computer. Inse

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Adam Aube
Stefan O'Rear wrote: > How about a serializing wrapper? > Now, if you make the script NOPASSWD sudo -u sa_learn able, and make > sa_learn only executable by user sa_learn, only one will be running at a > time. Or you could make the script setGID, then remove world read and execute rights on the

How to have X not start at boot?

2004-09-20 Thread JoeHill
Hi all, *Very* new Debian user here, first install ever, though I was surprised at how easy it was, even though I chose to install from floppies over the internet. That's pretty cool! Anyhow, stupid question number one: I would like to have the system boot to a text mode login, but I cannot find

Re: How to have X not start at boot?

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:13:55PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > Hi all, > > *Very* new Debian user here, first install ever, though I was surprised at how > easy it was, even though I chose to install from floppies over the internet. > That's pretty cool! > > Anyhow, stupid question number one: I w

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:19:27AM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:54:13PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:43:07 -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, the most obvious is flashblock. > > > > I don't think that's what Pigeon

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 20 September 2004 07:29 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm not sure who *you* means, but my original thought was that the > device driver associated with the port might be using a lot of CPU > cycles. I think that's exactly what's happening, and I was curious as to why others thought that it

Re: How to have X not start at boot?

2004-09-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:36:30 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:13:55PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > Anyhow, stupid question number one: I would like to have the system boot to a > > text mode login, but I cannot find where to make the change in any of the sys

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:09:27AM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:54:09AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael Marsh wrote: > > That's true -- I wasn't aware of that. However, that doesn't address > > the issue that some people don't run Flash for one reason or another. > > Most of us

Re: How to have X not start at boot?

2004-09-20 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:36:30 -0700 Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following: > > Anyhow, stupid question number one: I would like to have the system boot to > > a text mode login, but I cannot find where to make the change in any of the > > system administration tools. I plan to (try) to admin the

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Icebiker
Doh, you are absolutely right, I meant XP. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Marc Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 18:06 Subject: Re: parallel port using lots of CPU On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:42:30PM -0400, Icebiker wrote: In NT/XP

Re: How to have X not start at boot?

2004-09-20 Thread Blake Swadling
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:59, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:36:30 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:13:55PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > Anyhow, stupid question number one: I would like to have the system boot to a > > > text mode login, bu

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 20 September 2004 19:02, robin wrote: > >"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than > >"Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from > >that one. > > I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a > desktop machine. I have run unstable without any p

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:50:36PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 07:29 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I'm not sure who *you* means, but my original thought was that the > > device driver associated with the port might be using a lot of CPU > > cycles. > > I think that's

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 20 September 2004 10:09 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > Mine says > parport0: Printer, Lexmark International Lexmark Optra E310 > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP] > > I don't really know what that means, but it apparently has no > interrupts and there's no re

Re: mouse: kernel 2.6.6 -> 2.6.8 ???

2004-09-20 Thread helices
* Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:09:20:16:02:59-0700] scribed: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:01:11PM -0500, helices wrote: > > What broke? What changed? > > > > I have been running 2.6x kernels on this legacy PPro box for most of > > this year -- first kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686, then > > k

Re: Not optimal display

2004-09-20 Thread Jean-Francois Lefebvre
Selon Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:08:33 -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's > one > > problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and still when

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-20 Thread S.D.A.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:06:06AM +0100 or thereabouts, Pigeon wrote: [...] > There is another issue that I can see with flash (and please correct > me if I'm not accurate :-) ) which is the monolithic, binary nature of > the files - in fact this leads to two issues: You're quite right -- It'

Re: kernel 2.6.7 & 2.4.18

2004-09-20 Thread Vijaya S
hi thanks for the reply, but why is this module-init-tools required? Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Vijaya > > >> need 2.4.18 kernel in particular..Is it possible to have that also > >> after having a higher version > > Yes, it is possible. Both can exist peacefully. > > Kernel v2.6.x requires you

Re: Failed PPP hangs system

2004-09-20 Thread Robert Golovniov
Thomas Hood wrote: Only a buggy driver (or other kernel component) can make the whole system hang. I have tried to reinstall the kernel altogether, but the problem persists. Where else can I dig? What about the loadable modules? Can I try checking something there? How can I do it? I can just add

sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-20 Thread Christian Benito
I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian machine too. Can anybody give me a pointer on how to get that working? thanks Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

saving a session urgent pls

2004-09-20 Thread Vijaya S
hi all, i logged into another machine via ssh and while ediitng using mutt for some reason my network went down.. how do i go to the remote machinea nd save the file which i edited..The remote machine is accessible.. Regards, Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-20 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 08:17, Christian Benito wrote: > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The > two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of > them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian machine too. Can > anybody give me a pointer

long logout times

2004-09-20 Thread Rob Benton
Just installed from a new sarge cd. I'm noticing on the virtual terminals 2-6 that loginng out takes up to a minute. I'm not sure what's going on here. Got one message from init after logging out: INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes This shows up in /var/log/auth.log: Sep

Re: Upgrade to sarge from woody box not using apt-get

2004-09-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:59:29 -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to install / upgrade to sarge from a debian box running > woody without using apt-get? I have glibc2.3 instsalled. > Do you mean without a net connection? Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: X and Intel I810 video card

2004-09-20 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:09:26 +1000, Greg Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to running X and I'm having a problem getting the I810 video card > on this D845GLVA motherboard to run at 1280x1024 on my 17" TFT monitor: > > I've got this line in my XFree86 > SubSection "Display"

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