Re: Adding an unstable package

2004-10-22 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:58:31 -0400, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi -- > > I've been playing around with Linux for some time; but, I'm > very new to Debian. > > I have installed the stable version of Debian. However, I > really nee

Re: swap space size

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Gilbert, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is an issue that I do not fully understand that I have always kind of > taken for rote. I was told back when I first started working with Unix that > the swap space needed to be at least twice the

How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I know the subject of this email might be pretty simple. But I've really got confused as to how Linux (or other OS's work). I'll be specific to linux. This is the way I understand. The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loade

Re: cdrecord permissions problem in 2.6.8

2004-10-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
> There was a problem in 2.6.8 kernel where a normal user could not burn > CD's using cdrecord. I experienced that problem and installed 2.6.7, > which did not suffer that problem. I am wondering, is that problem fixed > now? I am planning to compile the 2.6.8 kernel source package from Debian.

Re: Adding an unstable package

2004-10-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I have installed the stable version of Debian. However, I > really need a more current version of Exim. I'd like to > install the exim4-daemon-heavy package which is in the > testing tree. I added: Bad idea. You may wind up upgrading to newer versions of exim4-daemon-heavy's prerequisites and

Re: swap space size

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have 131 meg of memory and a swap of about 100megs.. Ouch. You might see some performance gains from a bit more swap, since you'll be able to swap more of what's not actively running out, allowing for more file

Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this is probably the most obvious question ever, but I just can't find it in Google or Wikipedia. Just what the heck is the difference between buffer and cache in terms of memory usage? What is each catagory used for? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ritesh On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > This is the way I understand. > The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loader loads the > kernel image. If the kernel image has modules, initrd also gets loaded so > that appropriate modules can be loaded for the

Re: Install mplayer on debian

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I am using debian/unstable and find i can't find "mplayer" in the > package list. After using "apt-cache search mplayer", i get the > following result: Have you looked on apt-get.org for a more suit

Re: swap space size

2004-10-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
On 2004-10-21, Gilbert, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > taken for rote. I was told back when I first started working with Unix that > the swap space needed to be at least twice the size of physical memory in > order to ensure a stable system. I believe this was just a rule of thumb when memo

Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's weird - that Knoppix has problems with 3Com network cards but > boot-floppies can cope OK. I like these cards because they Just Work. I tend to prefer the RTL-8139 based cards because everything supports th

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Now here is what confuses me ! > Say, My machine has a scsi disk in it. In normal scenarios it's obvious that > I'll be using a modular kernel with initrd support shipped by my Linux > distribution vendor. Fine till now. > > OS installation is done.

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please see http://ursine.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php?title=Top_Posting "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I worked with gentoo and all that compiling takes too much of my time. Nothing like wasting hours to save usecs, that's fo

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loader > loads the kernel image. If the kernel image has modules, initrd also > gets loaded

Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives

2004-10-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/04 14:59), s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from William Ballard: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > > > session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to > > > have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you susp

Re: Install mplayer on debian

2004-10-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I just wonder why mplayer is not on the debian apt package list? and how > can i find a easy way to install myplayer on deiban? :) Check out the mplayer website (Google for it) and somewhere under the downloads page there is a reference to some good soul who has prepared debs (I think his name i

Re: How does linux boot - best way 2 figure it out

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Now here is what confuses me ! best way to learn how a PC boots.. take the dumb/silly/antiquated BIOS and throw it away ... - now figure out how it boots - the CPU does jump to 0x as its first instruction after

Re: problem with /etc/profile

2004-10-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
> My /etc/profile is not being run when I reboot and log on. Can anyone give me some > advice about how to figure out what is wrong? What should be calling it and when? > Would any failures get logged someplace? How do you know it is not run? Is the user's shell one that *should* run /etc/pr

debian webhosting services

2004-10-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am looking for debian webhosting service, probably dedicated, unless the speed and bandwidth are so good that it doesn't matter being shared. Does anybody have any suggestions? (of course price is very important). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Install mplayer on debian

2004-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 07:27 +, Alexis Huxley wrote: > > I just wonder why mplayer is not on the debian apt package list? and how > > can i find a easy way to install myplayer on deiban? :) > > Check out the mplayer website (Google for it) and somewhere under > the downloads page there is a ref

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 01:19 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > > The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loader > > loads the kernel image

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 05:36:04 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.17.0837 > +0200]: >> Gnus can handle all that, > Nice to know, but I ain't switchin' operating system. ;^> >> Additionally, it has an adaptive scoring mechan

SB Live! with 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-10-22 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I'm having problems getting my sound card (SB Live!) working with the kernel 2.6.8.1. It was working fine with 2.4.26. Which kernel options should I use? Should I create modules or compile into the kernel? I'm using the testing branch with kde 3.3. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Change of kernel

2004-10-22 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
because of the cdr problems with Sarge kernel 2.6.8 I want to change from kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.7. How do I do this? Regards Vegard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Softzware

2004-10-22 Thread lrains
New Q E M on http://bbbf.huturo.com/ Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise - 100.00 Utilities Mac 8.0 - 20.00 AutoCAD Electrical 2004 - 110.00 Microsoft Works Suite 2004 - 25.00 Utilities Mac 8.0 - 20.00 Personal Firewall Plus - 20.00 AutoSketch 8 - 100.00 VMware GSX Server 3 Linux - 150.00 Symantec Partitio

Re: SB Live! with 2.6.8.1 kernel

2004-10-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Glenn Meehan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm having problems getting my sound card (SB Live!) working with the > kernel 2.6.8.1. > > It was working fine with 2.4.26. > > Which kernel options should I use? Should I create modules or compile > into the kernel? Kernel 2.6 comes with bot

Re: How does linux boot - simple

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > BIOS does a POST, and if successful, hands off to the bootloader. The > > bootloader loads the kernel image, then the initrd. Kernel then > > starts running, loads modules. initrd is optional and NOT required modules is optional and NOT requir

wu-ftpd

2004-10-22 Thread Gorka
Because of my poor English I'll try to explain it in Spanish. ¿Alguien me puede pasar una lista de pasos a dar en plan novatísimo para compartir mediante wu-ftpd la carpeta /var/www/web entre un par de personas (sin usuario en Debian) que actualizarán sus páginas persona1.php y persona2.php median

Re: Install mplayer on debian

2004-10-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 22 October 2004 02:40, Lian Liming wrote: > That means i can't use "apt-get" to install mplayer. Yes, but not from the official Debian repositories. > As everyone know, > to install mplayer from the source is a different thing. So I've heard (but I haven't tried it). > how can i fi

Re: debian webhosting services

2004-10-22 Thread Upayavira
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am looking for debian webhosting service, probably dedicated, unless the speed and bandwidth are so good that it doesn't matter being shared. Does anybody have any suggestions? (of course price is very important). I've had a short (but so far happy) stay with bytemark.

Re: Change of kernel

2004-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 11:43 +0200, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > because of the cdr problems with Sarge kernel 2.6.8 I want to change from > kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.7. How do I do this? # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 # shutdown -t1 -r now -- ---

Re: debian webhosting services

2004-10-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 22 October 2004 09:30, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am looking for debian webhosting service, probably dedicated, unless > the speed and bandwidth are so good that it doesn't matter being > shared. Does anybody have any suggestions? (of course price is very > important). Have a look at

Re: wu-ftpd

2004-10-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am replacing his question with the English adapted version: He wants to make available to two people the directory "/var/www/web" (none of the two is a 'user' of the system), who would be able to make changes to their personal pages persona1.php and persona2.php through a ftp client from window

USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-22 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot my machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast transfer rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so). When I boot my regual installation of Debian (sarge), with both kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.8 (installed via apt-

(sid) ACPI Errors on Boot

2004-10-22 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
Hi All, during the boot sequence I have the following errors: ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 at this point my laptop (IBM TP-R40e) freezes for about 2-3 seconds, and then all is ok. By the Way...regarding the irq 11. How can be possible all the devices wants

Who maintains orphaned packages?

2004-10-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, I was checking the wnnp page and noted there are packages which have been orphaned for over 2 years. If someone reports perhaps an RC bug, can someone else fix that bug such that it will be accepted in the new stable system or does it have to have a maintainer before that? Thanks.

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Micheal Mukherji
Buffer is a logical cache maintained by the operating system in the main memory while cache is actually a physical hardware that the cpu uses to decrease the effective memory access time. Buffer cache is used to store the most recently accessed data from disk(or what so ever), so that they dont ha

Re: Kernel 2.6 compile problem - Solved

2004-10-22 Thread Russ Cook
Russ Cook wrote: David Clymer wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 07:06, Russ Cook wrote: The problem turned out to be the lack of module-init-tools on my system. An additional problem was that module-init-tools conflicted with modutils already installed. I had to upgrade modutils to most cu

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmmm., But why am I getting this message when not everyone seems to get > it? I've tried, for instance, setting LogLevel = QUIET in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but no luck. It may depend upon the shell and the way your .profile is setup - though most people

Strange display ....

2004-10-22 Thread Vittorio
I have a compaq evo 800 (Pentium 4, 2GHz) portable pc dual-bootable both win-XP & debian testing with kde 3.2.2 desktop . At home I use the box as is and both win xp and debian work great. Instead at work where I plug the pc into a docking-station endowed of its own 21" monitor, mouse and keyboa

Re: (sid) ACPI Errors on Boot

2004-10-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Riccardo Tortorici (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > during the boot sequence I have the following errors: > ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > at this point my laptop (IBM TP-R40e) freezes for about 2-3 seconds, > and then all is ok. > By the Way...regardin

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:26 +0530, Micheal Mukherji wrote: > Buffer is a logical cache maintained by the operating system in the > main memory while cache is actually a physical hardware that the cpu > uses to decrease the effective memory access time. > > Buffer cache is used to store the most re

Re: wu-ftpd

2004-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 06:15 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am replacing his question with the English adapted version: > > He wants to make available to two people the directory "/var/www/web" > (none of the two is a 'user' of the system), who would be able to make > changes to their personal

Re: Running jobs at shutdown

2004-10-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:59:19PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:19:05PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:50:18AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Currently I have a few jobs I run at boot time using @reboot in my > >> crontab. I would rea

How to use ldap clients from mozilla mailer ?

2004-10-22 Thread belahcene abdelkader
hi everybody, I am using mozilla mailer ( Debian distribution) to send and receive my emails. On the mail server LDAP is used and the list of all the users is available. I want to get and include it my mozilla client to send for example a message to all users. someone has an idea how to do it tha

Sound problems

2004-10-22 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I have a dell workstation 470 with (of course) debian. The soundcard is a: Analog Devices ADI 198x and this should be a Intel 82801DB AC'97 (according a post i found on google) but i don't know how to install it or what driver to use (don't find anything in the new kernel config in sound

Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread James Wiggs
Folks, I'm trying to determine if I've found bugs in the C++ compiler on Sarge or not. I'm trying to compile quickfix-1.9.2 and some of my own codes which link to it, and I'm repeatedly getting internal compiler errors. I've posted about it on the quickfix mailing list and gotten zero respo

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Micheal Mukherji
> No, because Linux doesn't see the CPU cache. I'd bet my last > kopek that Paul is talking about: Who said Linux sees CPU cache? He was asking the difference between the two.. or am I wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Netatalk2

2004-10-22 Thread Joachim Smit
> I did that manually, at the command line, while > testing. Then I adapted > a Debian's "skeleton" init script to the task, which > I paste below. Then > you need to make the appropriate symlinks in > /etc/rcN.d, or use > sysv-rc-conf to do that for you, or use file-rc. I > use file-rc. Thanks.

Re: SSH

2004-10-22 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:34:02 -0400, cmdrwoody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greeting all! > > I am trying to write a script that ssh to all the computers in my > school and perform automated tasks. For a machine say, p30, i can > just put ssh p30 in my script to execute that command. I > have pu

Re: USB 2.0 speed

2004-10-22 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:06:38 +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot my > machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast transfer > rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so). > > When I boot my

Re: 82815 graphics controller config in debian 3 woody

2004-10-22 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:47:32 +0530, VRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an integrated 82815 graphics controller > i tried using the vesa driver > it was working well for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > for higer depth 16 and 24, the screen was flickery... > pls help > thanks in advance > vinay Try findin

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 17:17 +0530, Micheal Mukherji wrote: > > No, because Linux doesn't see the CPU cache. I'd bet my last > > kopek that Paul is talking about: > > Who said Linux sees CPU cache? > He was asking the difference between the two.. or am I wrong? Because Linux also has a "cache", a

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Micheal Mukherji
If I am not wrong, the standard OS terminology for it is "buffer cache". I think this is what Paul was trying to differentiate from the main "cache". Paul, please confirm. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:13:17 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 17:17 +0530, Micheal Mukh

Re: SSH

2004-10-22 Thread Micheal Mukherji
> Use ssh-keygen to generate an RSA key pair. then copy the generated > public key to all of your workstations' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Shud it be to authorized_keys? I think to avoid typing yes, he should make entries in ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. neways, since it asks only once, you can as well

Re: squirrelmail+uw-imapd broken

2004-10-22 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Mon 18 October 2004 18:41, lacharme wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure uw-imapd has no consequences > > As somebody any idea ? I know that using secured procedures woukd be > better, but, I wish, in a first time, make things running as before > (i.e. with authentification type : login). Read /usr/shar

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 17:52 +0530, Micheal Mukherji wrote: > If I am not wrong, the standard OS terminology for it is "buffer > cache". I think this is what Paul was trying to differentiate from the > main "cache". Sigh. The Linux kernel has *both* "buffers" and "cache" both of which are allocate

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RE: subscribe jim@great-incentives.com

2004-10-22 Thread Jim Nielsen
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Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> Nothing like wasting hours to save usecs, that's for sure. ive never used gentoo or any other compile from source distros, but my understanding is that their main "selling point" is that one has greater control over the dependencies of packages. the speed improvement is a "side effect". > > >

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Dickopp
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > So, Is the boot-loader so smart and powerful (much more that the > kernel) that it reads data from the disk without knowing the type of > disk and the filesystem type ? I mean the kernel requires modu

Re: Who maintains orphaned packages?

2004-10-22 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hello, > I was checking the wnnp page and noted there are packages which have been > orphaned for over 2 years. If someone reports perhaps an RC bug, can > someone else fix that bug such that it will be accepted in the new stable > system or does it have to have a maintainer before that? Thanks

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
>The bugs are *not* repeatable. I can type make, have the make > choke on something like the above, type make again, and it will get > through the compile. Are you sure you don't have hardware problems? Most likely such gcc failures are caused by bad ram and/or processor overheat. -- To UN

Re: Set up virtual tap0 device on boot

2004-10-22 Thread chris-usenet
Damir Dezeljin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to set tap0 in promisc mode and add it to br0 bridge that is > set up on boot from /etc/network/interfaces. I would like to avoid adding > my own program for tap0 registration. Is there anything similar already > implemented in 'standard' Deb

Re: SSH

2004-10-22 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:02:21 +0530, Micheal Mukherji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use ssh-keygen to generate an RSA key pair. then copy the generated > > public key to all of your workstations' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. > > Shud it be to authorized_keys? > I think to avoid typing yes, he should ma

Re: (sid) ACPI Errors on Boot (TP R40e)

2004-10-22 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
I use lilo and I booted with the pci=routeirq option.. unfortunately nothing do not work the same... How can I fix those errors but, most important thing, what the hell they are? Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Riccardo Tortorici (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: during the boot sequence I have the fo

Nvidia installation (nvidia-kernel-source)

2004-10-22 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I'm pretty new to driver installations. I downloaded with apt-get nvidia-kernel-source and now it is in my /usr/src path. How do i install it ? Grtz, Phil. Disclaimer : This e-mail is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s) mentioned as recipient(s). If you are not the inten

use of graphic card nVidia FX5700

2004-10-22 Thread Csaba
Hello!    I have Debian distribution Woody 3.0r1 and wanted to install on my computer which has nVidia FX5700 graphic card.  Do you know which package should be to select in dselect to correctly the X server?     Thank you Do you Yahoo!?vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

Re: Nvidia installation (nvidia-kernel-source)

2004-10-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> I'm pretty new to driver installations. > I downloaded with apt-get nvidia-kernel-source and now it is in my > /usr/src path. > How do i install it ? phil, you should check out http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net . they have a section all about kernel compiling (and add on modules). if you have

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread James Wiggs
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 08:59, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >The bugs are *not* repeatable. I can type make, have the make > > choke on something like the above, type make again, and it will get > > through the compile. > > Are you sure you don't have hardware problems? > Most likely such gcc

Re: Dual Monitor Configuration - What Am I Missing?

2004-10-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:01:50PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I am trying to get my system set up to be able to output to the TV (an > old Amiga monitor connected to a VCR). Yesterday, I went ahead and > purchased an S-Video to composite adapter and ran a cable from the > S-Video Out port on my v

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread James Wiggs
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 11:22, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 08:59, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > >The bugs are *not* repeatable. I can type make, have the make > > > > choke on something like the above, type make again, and it will get > > > > through the compile.

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 08:59, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > >The bugs are *not* repeatable. I can type make, have the make > > > choke on something like the above, type make again, and it will get > > > through the compile. > > > > Are you sure you don't have hardware problems? > > Most l

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > OK, this is probably the most obvious question ever, but I just can't > find it in Google or Wikipedia. > > Just what the heck is the difference between buffer and cache in terms > of memory usage? What is each catagory used for? Kernel buffer c

Re: SSH

2004-10-22 Thread Micheal Mukherji
> This file is automatically appended for each new host connected to, > and is subsequently checked everytime you try to connect to a remote > host. Yes. So to avoid typing yes, an entry should be in the known_hosts file. To avoid typing password, an entry shud be made in the authorized_keys file.

Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache

2004-10-22 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > > No, because Linux doesn't see the CPU cache. I'd bet my last > kopek that Paul is talking about: > > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 1003760 kB > MemFree: 89652 kB > Buffers:138752 kB <<< > Cached: 32

Compaq ProLiant DL320 Running Sarge Hangs During POST Following Warm Reboot

2004-10-22 Thread Michael G. Morey
All, I just installed Debian Sarge a Compaq ProLiant DL320, and whenever I perform a warm reboot by either typing "reboot" at the shell prompt or by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, it performs an orderly shutdown, the screen goes blank, and it hangs during POST, displaying: 1152 MB Processor: Pen

Re: aptitude, dpkg, apt

2004-10-22 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:39:23 +0100, nx13372a wrote: > > How can i print this: > > Versions of packages clamav depends on: > ii clamav-base 0.80-2 Base > package for clamav, an anti-v > ii clamav-freshclam [clamav-da 0.80-2 Downloads > clamav virus databases f > ii

Re: aptitude, dpkg, apt

2004-10-22 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:39:23 +0100, nx13372a wrote: > > How can i print this: > > Versions of packages clamav depends on: > ii clamav-base 0.80-2 Base > package for clamav, an anti-v > ii clamav-freshclam [clamav-da 0.80-2 Downloads > clamav virus databases f > ii

Re: aptitude, dpkg, apt

2004-10-22 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:39:23 +0100, nx13372a wrote: > > How can i print this: > > Versions of packages clamav depends on: > ii clamav-base 0.80-2 Base > package for clamav, an anti-v > ii clamav-freshclam [clamav-da 0.80-2 Downloads > clamav virus databases f > ii

Re: aptitude, dpkg, apt

2004-10-22 Thread nx13372a
Sergio Basurto wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:39:23 +0100, nx13372a wrote: How can i print this: Versions of packages clamav depends on: ii clamav-base 0.80-2 Base package for clamav, an anti-v ii clamav-freshclam [clamav-da 0.80-2 Downloads clamav virus databases f

RE: SSH

2004-10-22 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
So, you already have your keys generated and installed. Here are the ssh options I use in my automation: ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no The StrictHostKeyChecking is the option that does what you were asking about. I feed it in as an argument to ssh within the script so that I do not have ch

RE: swap space size

2004-10-22 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
-Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, that used to be the rule of thumb for a Linux-specific problem > with swap space. Today, you can run without swap without a problem. > I keep a gig of swap on hand to avoid out of memory problems at all > costs and h

Re: use of graphic card nVidia FX5700

2004-10-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:29:40AM -0700, Csaba wrote: > Hello! > > I have Debian distribution Woody 3.0r1 and wanted to install on my computer > which has nVidia FX5700 graphic card. > Do you know which package should be to select in dselect to correctly the X > server? xserver-xfree86 ? Ken

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Re: Sound problems

2004-10-22 Thread robin
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hello, I have a dell workstation 470 with (of course) debian. The soundcard is a: Analog Devices ADI 198x and this should be a Intel 82801DB AC'97 (according a post i found on google) but i don't know how to install it or what driver to use (don't find anything in the

Re: Nvidia installation (nvidia-kernel-source)

2004-10-22 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Friday 22 October 2004 16:42, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > Hello, > > I'm pretty new to driver installations. > I downloaded with apt-get nvidia-kernel-source and now it is in my > /usr/src path. > How do i install it ? I wrote a short howto last time I installed nvidia onto a few new sar

how to change font of desktop icons

2004-10-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I am using KDE, debian sid update regularly. Can someone please tell me how to change the size of the fonts used for kde-desktop icons. I searched google and went around the kcontrol window but could not find anything. Any hacks, suggestions would be very helpful. I find that the fonts used

kopete problem after upgrade

2004-10-22 Thread techlists
A recent upgrade on my Sid Desktop has produced a strange problem with kopete. Now on my contact list every other contact is encased in a dark grey. The program functions ok, but it makes the contacts hard to read and is quite annoying. I've checked the settings and can find no way to fix the pr

Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives

2004-10-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:28:05PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > And I spent a month getting all Debian's eyecandy and hardware > acceleration working. And mutt was ridiculous at first compared to > Outlook. You can say that again!!! It is funny as hell to look back at how foreign it felt

software suspend 2 (swsusp2), patching a Debian source package kernel vs Vanilla

2004-10-22 Thread H. S.
On the webpage (http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/Software-suspend-2.html) in Section 2.4, they say regarding swsusp2 patches : "If your kernel is not the vanilla one from kernel.org, you will have to apply these patches manually and edit some of the rejected hunks." Is the source I get from De

Re: Nvidia installation (nvidia-kernel-source)

2004-10-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I downloaded with apt-get nvidia-kernel-source and now it is in my > /usr/src path. > How do i install it ? http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

W2K connectivity to Samba server

2004-10-22 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Anyone have any ideas about the following problem. We have a W2K Advanced Server as a PDC in a domain: WINDOMAIN And we have a Samba 2.x server as the PDC (through LDAP & PAM) of another domain: LINUXDOMAIN Any computer in WINDOMAIN can access shares on any computer (Linux, Windows, etc.) in LIN

kernel compile error

2004-10-22 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Hey all I'm just trying to install 2.6.9 and am getting this error, i have no idea why dolphy:/usr/src/linux# make bzImage /bin/sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2 the only include/linux/version.h i can find is in /usr/include/linux/ which lo

udev with Xwindows and winmodems,

2004-10-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having installed the udev.deb package, the following problems have been encountered. 1) Xwindows does not start unless first, /etc/init.d/udev stop Once Xwindows is up, it is retained after /etc/init.d/udev restart 2) The Lucent winmodem uses /dev/ttyLT0 c 62 64 with a symbolic link to it.

Mail Server Questions

2004-10-22 Thread Phil Bardanes
Hi, noob here. We have five machines running various OSes (only one Windows box) with a Debian sarge business server on our private network. Everything is run through a dedicated firewall using iptables rules for NAT, packet filtering, port forwarding, etc. We also have a public server for our pu

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 22 2004, James Wiggs wrote: >I have access to another box running RedHat 8.0; I will attempt > a compile over there. You might want to create a chroot install of sarge there (or in any other computer you can) to test if it is really g++ doing bad things. Hope this helps, Rogério. --

RE: kernel compile error

2004-10-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jule The /usr/include/version.h in general does not match the /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h which will be created during a kernel configureation Try # make mrproper before # make bzImage MarvS Original Message: - From: Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Oct

Re: kernel compile error

2004-10-22 Thread Jule Slootbeek
that worked, strange, did some stuff change in the config file? -JSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jule The /usr/include/version.h in general does not match the /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h which will be created during a kernel configureation Try # make mrproper before # make bzImage MarvS O

customizing gnome icons on task bars

2004-10-22 Thread H. S.
Given Debian Unstable, can I customize the the appearance of the icons that appear on the task bar using the 'add applet' (or something similar) option by right clicking on taskbar? I am trying to change the icons (or the pop-up labels) of the volume controls. I have a control for PCM, speaker

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