Re: protecting a colour printer

2004-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > So I am wondering what some strategies would look like to make sure > they print b/w instead. We do not have a username or machine policy, > so we cannot work with lpd accounting. Some approaches that have > come to my mind: Add username and machine po

Re: Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

2004-11-19 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
> >Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte > >hdwr sectors (200050 MB) > >Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: Partition check: > >Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 > >p2 > >Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 39072196

Re: Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

2004-11-19 Thread Laurent CARON
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: Partition check: Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:17, Chad wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs > (in Debian anyways), also

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 18 November 2004 13:28, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:02, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:34:41AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > Do mutts and squirrels play together? > > > > > > Imap access has become sooo slw using kmail (seems e

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:26, Mauro Darida wrote: > Some questions on coming Sarge release: > 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? Yes. When you compile a kernel it updates grub's menu.lst automatically. Chris. -- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: print to a Windows machine's printer

2004-11-19 Thread michael
Pascal Bonesh wrote: Hi Michael, to make this a bit more verbose: -point your browser to http://localhost:631, that's the cups administration -click on 'printers', then click on 'add printer' -give it a name and such and click next -choose 'Windows Printer via Samba' -write the URI in the field -

Mail login

2004-11-19 Thread Elias Obudho
Hi, I have a mail account with the Uinversity of Nairobi. My problem is that for some computers whenever I try to loin I get a message of "Unknown user or password is uncorrect". This happens before typing my password. I cannot log in since the login page does not come. Can you help me please.

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-19 Thread michael
John covici wrote: You should do a lspci -v and make sure you really have a sound blaster live -- it should tell you its identity. If you can't modprobe emu10k1, my guess is that you do not have that chip. Interesting! That comes up with :04:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB A

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-19 Thread michael
robin wrote: > michael wrote: > >> robin wrote: >> >>> michael wrote: >>> robin wrote: > michael wrote: > >> michael wrote: >> >>> robin wrote: >>> michael wrote: > I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, so...

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-19 Thread David
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:12AM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [Sarge/testing, mozilla-firefox 1.0-2, cupsys- 1.1.20final+rc1-10] > > Old problem > --- > I have tried about everything (including changing margin settings in > the "page setup" dialog, examining possible options in "about:

SafeInternetEmail Notification [ref# AiAJBrnV25892]

2004-11-19 Thread SafeInternetEmail Threat Notifier
SafeInternetEmail Notification [reference number: AiAJBrnV25892] A message from Shiloh Industries' e-mail filtering system, This is an automatic notification generated by Shiloh's Safe Internet Email system, in response to a message which appears to have originated from your email accou

Re: mutt skipping messages and the concept of threads

2004-11-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:17:37AM -0700, Sean wrote: > I somehow deleted a mesage from someone who only sent me one message and > I did this by just deleting message by thread where I deleted all > messages in a thread. What makes up a thread? Also I guess it's > actually skipping certain mes

Re: Linux and IPR

2004-11-19 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:29:33 -0800 (PST), ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > MS boss was reported to have warned Asians govts that they could face > IPR-infringement lawsuits for using Linux. > > How was the outcome of the case betweeen SCO and IBM? Will it be the end of > L

Re: Mail login

2004-11-19 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:28:01 + (GMT), Elias Obudho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mail account with the Uinversity of Nairobi. > My problem is that for some computers whenever I try > to loin I get a message of "Unknown user or password > is uncorrect". This happens before typi

std out & std err

2004-11-19 Thread michael
I have a problem understanding why, when attempting to configure mpich under the 2.4.27-1-686-smp kernel using bash shell, that I lose my std output when I enter (all on the same line)" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mpich/mpich-1.2.6/ifc-ch_p4 > config.log 2>&1 This is my standard way of doi

Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

2004-11-19 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the root I run: "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" disabled (NO) -- "frames interfaces kernel frames" and selected //dev/input/mice/ instead. Still no luck. However the error message pumped out something about fonts. If it's a mouse problem, your log file should

Re: Mail login

2004-11-19 Thread Kent West
Elias Obudho wrote: Hi, I have a mail account with the Uinversity of Nairobi. My problem is that for some computers whenever I try to loin I get a message of "Unknown user or password is uncorrect". This happens before typing my password. I cannot log in since the login page does not come. Can you

Re: std out & std err

2004-11-19 Thread michael
michael wrote: I have a problem understanding why, when attempting to configure mpich under the 2.4.27-1-686-smp kernel using bash shell, that I lose my std output when I enter (all on the same line)" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mpich/mpich-1.2.6/ifc-ch_p4 > config.log 2>&1 This is my stan

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Lale wrote: "The Linux Logical Volume Manager. LVM supports enterprise level volume management of disk and disk subsystems by grouping arbitrary disks into volume groups. The total capacity of volume groups can be allocated to logical volumes, which are accessed as regular block devices."

Re: pdflatex cannot see index

2004-11-19 Thread Filipi Vianna
When you use indexes in latex, you have to run latex (or pdflatex) at least three times. One to make the .aux file, the second to build the index and the last to build the index again, now because of the rearangement of the pages resulting of the placement of the index. I use to put all those stuf

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Michael Spang (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Although this questionis not specific to Debian, it is relevant and I figure someone here has the answer. Why is the Linux community so opposed to moving to Kernel 2.6? Is 2.4 really that much more stable? Familiar? Upgrading

Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc

2004-11-19 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:35 -0500, homeless wrote: > hi all, > > i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the > 2.6.9 version. i use kernel-package and debian's packages. running > my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig, > nothing relevant appeare

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Mauro Darida wrote: > I cannot quite understand which machines debian "architectures" are > referring to. Of course I know that x-86 are common pcs, sparc are sun > workstations, but others are quite cryptic to me. Anyone willing to > translate into non-developer language?? Here's a list off the

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread michael
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Mauro Darida wrote: I cannot quite understand which machines debian "architectures" are referring to. Of course I know that x-86 are common pcs, sparc are sun workstations, but others are quite cryptic to me. Anyone willing to translate into non-developer language?? Here's

Re: pdflatex cannot see index

2004-11-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Filipi Vianna wrote: When you use indexes in latex, you have to run latex (or pdflatex) at least three times. One to make the .aux file at this stage, do not forget to properly run `makeindex' , the second to build the index and the last to build the index again, now because of the rearangement of

Re: Linux and IPR

2004-11-19 Thread John Hasler
ken keanon writes: > BTW, if SCO sues Debian, will Debian have the resources to fight the case > in court? The SCO Group (which is _not_ the same company as the old Santa Cruz Operation) will not be suing anyone else. IBM is destroying them. If someone else was to file a TSG-style suit against S

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:27:55 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * alpha - Digital (DEC) workstations, usually originally running VMS, > although there was a Windows NT port to this for a while. Pretty much > legacy-only now. And let's not forget OSF1/DigitalUnix/Tru64, not to me

Help reporting bugs

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi. Can you clear me what is the procedure to follow to report/reopen bugs? I looked at all bug reporting docs I could bind at debian.org and I got a number of different ways to do things, like: - submitting to debian-bugs-dist mailing list - mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the installation repo

Automatic mount of usb-storage devices on 2.4.*?

2004-11-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. No, this is not about the auto-mounter. What I am trying to do is figure out how to consistently mount a given usb-storage device no matter the order it was inserted. A little background. I am running Testing on a Thinkpad 390E with the kernel-image 2.4.26 and hotplug packages. I have

Re: Automatic mount of usb-storage devices on 2.4.*?

2004-11-19 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:03 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi All. > > No, this is not about the auto-mounter. What I am trying to do is > figure out how to consistently mount a given usb-storage device no > matter the order it was inserted. > > A little background. I am running Testing on a Thi

Re: LANGUAGE=en_PT ?!? There is no such thing!

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 14:33, Joao Clemente wrote: > Hi João. :-) > Ok, so now we know it's really a bug... how do one reports this? Is > there a person to contact specifically about bugs found running the net > installer? a generic debian bug report e-mail? Any developer reading > this list? Re

Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 08:10 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:35 -0500, homeless wrote: [snip] > there *is* some bug with the 2.6.9 kernel. i can fully compile a 2.6.9 > kernel while running a 2.6.8 kernel, but my machine crashes (really > badly too, power off and all, not ev

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:12:22PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > expect folders to be inside INBOX, the INBOX can only be read in > mutt at startup. Once you move into another folder, returning to > the top of the tree only shows the folders below it and not the >

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:24:35AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:26, Mauro Darida wrote: > > Some questions on coming Sarge release: > > 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? > > Yes. When you compile a kernel it updates grub's menu.lst

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joao Clemente (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I would ask the same question Michael did, but the other way around: > Why should I update to 2.6 when I'm perfectly happy with my 2.4 > kernel? My hardware is completely supported at this moment, so what > features (non-hardware-support-related)

ssh with X window

2004-11-19 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi all, I have tried to make the ssh works with X on my debian system and no successful results. On local mahine I have put: $ xhost ip_remote_host After that I type: $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] After I logged I type export DISPLAY=ip_local_host:0.0 When I try to run any graphical applicati

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-19 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 18.11.2004 at 23:07 -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote: > > There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good > > idea to keep /tmp and /var away from the root parti

Re: Help reporting bugs

2004-11-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:54:24PM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > Hi. Can you clear me what is the procedure to follow to report/reopen bugs? Look at package `reportbug'. It takes you through all the necessary steps for a good bug report. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/N

Re: ssh with X window

2004-11-19 Thread Adriano Rafael Gomes
Mauricio Lin escreveu: Hi all, I have tried to make the ssh works with X on my debian system and no successful results. On local mahine I have put: $ xhost ip_remote_host After that I type: $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] After I logged I type export DISPLAY=ip_local_host:0.0 When I try to run any graph

how to use sarge boot disc as rescue disk?

2004-11-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! trying to get my server working again.. somehow is the MBR of the boot disk corrupt, and i don't seem to get it repaired (should have never thought about rebooting that damn machine... was running fine for 3 years) thus i want to be at least able to boot the system from a cd d

Change URGENT notification in KDE

2004-11-19 Thread Rick Friedman
As it is now, the URGENT notification in KDE flashes the taskbar entry for an app, 3 times. Is there anyway to have it flash continuously? I find that 3 times is sometimes not enough for me to notice it. Rick -- "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean." - G.K. Chesterton -- T

Re: ssh with X window

2004-11-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mauricio Lin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have tried to make the ssh works with X on my debian system and no > successful results. > > On local mahine I have put: > > $ xhost ip_remote_host Don't use xhost unless you know exactly what you do. Using xhost +ip_remote_host will allow

..amd64, was: Re: no subject

2004-11-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:28:52 -0600, Nelson, wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just bought an HP with an AMD 64 processor. It came w/ wireless > keyboard/mouse. If I install debian stable or unstable will it have > drivers for these or will I need a plugged in keyboard/mouse. > > -

How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I recently took a stab at upgrading my "testing" installation to "sid". I've had some instability when logging out from KDE, so I've decided I'd rather live with "testing". What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a r

mouse stuck with kernel 2.6.7

2004-11-19 Thread Philippe Gouffon
Hi Just for the fun of it, I installed the "testing" kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 package on my K6-450 PC (sarge, up-to-date). It boots fine but the mouse (wireless logitech) does not move at all. It works fine with package kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k6, which I tried to see if it had anything to do with a

Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel

2004-11-19 Thread homeless
well, ok, as I am not the only one seeing this I am indeed going to file a bug report. right now. for what it's worth, my machine is also seg faulting when i run some hardware tests, particularly memtest, and this even when using the 2.6.8 kernel precompiled by debian. maybe this weekend i'll

lyx-1.3.5 for debian

2004-11-19 Thread belahcene
Hi, every body I want to upgrade lyx to the latest version 1.3.5 I tried the rpm created for fedora, there was error, same thing with the source I need extra files, is there who created it for debian ? thanks a lot bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Matt Price_, on 18/11/04 18:05,typed: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote: Many thanks for your reply. I did not have the theasaurus or the help package installed so I added those but unfortunately it did not correct the problem. On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:04

Re: Help reporting bugs

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 14:54, Joao Clemente wrote: > Hi. Can you clear me what is the procedure to follow to report/reopen bugs? > > I looked at all bug reporting docs I could bind at debian.org and I got > a number of different ways to do things, like: > - submitting to debian-bugs-dist mailing l

battery-graph gives errors

2004-11-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I installed the latest battery-stats package available in sid. When I run the battery-graph command I get the following errors. Is it a known bug? Is there any workaround? I would appreciate if you can point me in the right direction. $battery-graph gnuplot> set ylabel "%Full" 0.00,0.

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 19 November 2004 09:08, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently took a stab at upgrading my "testing" installation to "sid". > I've had some instability when logging out from KDE, so I've decided > I'd rather live with "testing". Did you upgrade your entire system or just se

how to create a binary package

2004-11-19 Thread belahcene
Hi every body, can I post it here or on devel-list? I try to use the last lyx 1.3.5, from the source ( I didn't find a debian binary), ./configure --with-frontend=qt gives the folowing error checking for moc2... not found checking for moc... not found configure: error: moc binary not found in $PAT

Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Spiller
I'm not a complete Linux novice, but I'm beating my head against a wall. I have 2 systems with Sarge installed. I connect through a standard Hub, onto a Windows Domain (PDC & BDC are Win2k Server) with 2 Redhat DNS servers and then out to the Internet through a Smoothwall Firewall on a 2Mb Cable co

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Colin
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:24:35AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:26, Mauro Darida wrote: > > Some questions on coming Sarge release: > > 1. I know GRUB will be the default: will make-kpkg support it? > > Yes. When you compile a kernel it upd

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 November 2004 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:12:22PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > expect folders to be inside INBOX, the INBOX can only be read in > > mutt at startup. Once you move into another folder, returning to > > the top of the tree only sh

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? > > That's pretty much it. :-/ If you do end up going that route, here's something you can do to at least ma

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Metzler
*Please* trim the replies folks. As far as your problem . . . On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:18:22 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1 > /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/d

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
ot actually during compilation, but when you install the kernel. Here is the screen output of dpkg installing a new kernel: thinkpad:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119_custom.1.00_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-ndis-20041119. (Reading databas

Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're there, I can't find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) I had been running sarge since June, and I just did a complete reinstall of the latest sarge (don't ask- it's embarassing), dated 11/17, I think. 1. It never asked me th

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:45 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:27:55 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * alpha - Digital (DEC) workstations, usually originally running VMS, > > although there was a Windows NT port to this for a while. Pretty much > > legacy

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:34:45PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to > > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? > > > dpkg --get-selections > packages.dpkg

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both > woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support > is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., > download drivers for stuff- although now that I've said it

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., download drivers for stuff- although now tha

Re: Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Steve Spiller wrote: > and Windows XP). However, the two Sarge boxes cannot ping each other or > other systems by name, only by IP address (local net range 192.168.0.x). I This means your name resolution is busted. Things that have to do with it need to be checked: /etc/nss

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500 "Williams, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're > there, I can't find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) > > I had been running sarge since June, and I just did a complete > reinstall of the

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
H. S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Apparently, _Matt Price_, on 18/11/04 18:05,typed: > >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:37:08AM +1100, Bernard Lineham wrote: > > > > > Actually, yes. Since when I was having a problem in seeing bold fonts > onscreen, the exported PDF files looked ok

Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse?

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
Matt, Thanks for the help. Another question: > again, the display manager (at least for gdm) has a setting where you can disable root logins. Do you know where this is? Thanks, Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 02:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it > than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select > or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to > eyeball. I've had g

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Jim Hall
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., download drivers for stuff- although now tha

nis, nfs and netgroup problem

2004-11-19 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I'm trying to set up NIS with NFS. The server running NIS and NFS is a nat box. I'm using the package ipmasq for the masquerading. Only boxen behind the nat box are using NIS and NFS. NFS works when I export a directory on the server like this: /home 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
Jacob, Thanks, and, yes, it was a very vanilla install (because it didn't as me any question;>). > > 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was > used to with > > both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find > out what > > device support is installed, and get su

Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Anthony Hoskins
Good day folks, I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor. I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I don't remember now, but could probably replicate if need be. I also tried installing via apt-get, which left me with an outdated d

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file system what ever that is I dont know, secondly

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Christian Convey_, on 19/11/04 14:43,typed: Hey guys, I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. Is there a general

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> Hey guys, > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to > figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. > > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and IRQ > channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot? You may > have to tell the sound module to use a specific IRQ when it's loaded. I >

framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver and the other ati. If somebody has that high resolution screen boot up working with the tux

RE: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Williams, Allen
What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Thanks, Allen > My experience has been great with udev except in the case of > multi-card > reader that I have (not sure how to set that up). Other than > that, I can > insert my USB stick and a

Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
homeless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > well, ok, as I am not the only one seeing this I am indeed going to > file a bug report. right now. > > for what it's worth, my machine is also seg faulting when i run some > hardware tests, particularly memtest, and this even when using t

Re: Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Spiller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm not a complete Linux novice, but I'm beating my head against a wall. > > I have 2 systems with Sarge installed. I connect through a standard Hub, > onto a Windows Domain (PDC & BDC are Win2k Server) with 2 Redhat DNS > servers and th

Re: Default Routes, configuring networking

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Steve Spiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a complete Linux novice, but I'm beating my > head against a wall. > > I have 2 systems with Sarge installed. I connect > through a standard Hub, > onto a Windows Domain (PDC & BDC are Win2k Server) > with 2 Redhat DNS > servers and then out

Re: Mail login

2004-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:10:36AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Not without more information, such as, "Are you logging in via POP? > IMAP? webmail?" What email client are you using? What do you mean by > "log in"? Email is usually not "logged into" (unless it's webmail, in > which case you may ha

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Williams, Allen_, on 19/11/04 15:41,typed: What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Thanks, Allen As I had written earlier, just put "nvidia" in /etc/modules and it will be loaded upon boot time. So install the nvidia driver i

Re: Linux and IPR

2004-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:54:22PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > What SCO does is patently illegal and reeks of the worst things > corporate greed can muster, yet they still go unpunished. "Patently" illegal? :-) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Pr

Sound LTSP esound ALSA

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
I'm setting up LTSP clients. Now that I have video, I want to move up to sound. I'm using the kernel 2.6 ALSA sound on my Debian workstation (LTSP server) The LTSP docs show something can be configured for esound, which might be my best bet. Is there some kind of alsa -> esound emulator I can use

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
Andreas Janssen wrote: Almost all other mainstream distibutions (Mandrake, Slackware, Fedora, SuSE) install 2.6 by default. Knoppix comes with kernel 2.6 (although you may have to activate it using a boot option). Debian Sarge comes with kernel 2.6 (although I think right now the default installati

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2004-11-19 Thread Hugo Tapia
i finished to install debian linux 3.0 r2, but i have bot access to the console that running in gnome. what i can do? i only see de text mode console. i used the debian instruction for installation, i use woody installation because i have 7 cd from debian. thanks. hugo tapia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:55 -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X > starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver > and the other ati. > > If somebody h

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2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Hugo Tapia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i finished to install debian linux 3.0 r2, but i > have bot access to the > console that running in gnome. > what i can do? > i only see de text mode console. > i used the debian instruction for installation, i > use woody installation > because i hav

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:50, Williams, Allen wrote: > I checked the debian site for sarge release notes, and if they're there, I > can't > find 'em, so it's back to the mailing list;-) The installation manual http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#install and the Debian Reference http://www.debia

RE: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and ot her questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:27, Williams, Allen wrote: > Matt, > > Thanks for the help. Another question: > > > > again, the display manager (at least for gdm) has a setting where you can > disable root logins. > > Do you know where this is? On the gdm login screen itself! Drop down the appropri

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:35, Michael Spang wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and > > noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly > > what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with th

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Anthony Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good day folks, > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can > run Boa Constructor. > I have tried installing from source, but encountered > some errors which I > don't remember now, but could probably replicate if > need be. > >

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-19 Thread H. S.
Glyn Tebbutt wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:55 -0500, H. S. wrote: I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver and the other ati. If so

Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.

2004-11-19 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Sergio Basurto Juarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Anthony Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Good day folks, > > > > I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can > > run Boa Constructor. > > I have tried installing from source, but > encountered > > some errors wh

Re: sound driver

2004-11-19 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > Sounds like you have a DMA or IRQ problem. Can you check which DMA and IRQ > channels are assigned during Knoppix boot, and during Debian boot? You may > have to tell the sound module to use a specific IRQ when it's loaded. I >

Re: Postfix + SASL + Amavis-new + ClamAV + Courier-(imap, imap-ssl, maildrop) problems.

2004-11-19 Thread Josh Metzler
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 07:12 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > I just got my system up and running (went from Mandrake to Debian) and > i'm having problems getting Postfix to authenticate with saslauthd. > This is on a "Testing"/"Sarge" system. > To check that sasl is working, I used the

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
Chris Lale wrote: > This reminds me. I cannot view /proc in Nautilus - even as root. Is there a way to do it? Chris. Works for me.. does nothing appear or do you get an error? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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