What is the progress of Blender 2.35 into the tree?

2004-11-29 Thread Robert Tilley
Can anyone provide information on when the recent (and improved!) Blender 2.35 will be entering the Debian tree? Thanks, Bob -- Last guys don't finish nice. -- Stanley Kelley, on the cult of victory at all costs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:25:17AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > > Anyway, let me tell what I do here for other people who may not have read > the whole thread. Actually, mutt *can* read POP3 and/or IMAP accounts, if > it is compiled with proper support (such as Debian's). > > In fact, I in

Re: Firefox 1.0, mailto, and mutt

2004-11-29 Thread [KS]
Jim McCloskey wrote: Very nice to have Firefox 1.0 in sarge now. But the mozex extension no longer works, it seems (and judging from the web-site hasn't been updated since September 2003). I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up mutt in response to clicking on mailto links.

Re: Grub menu.lst

2004-11-29 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:36:57AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader ecrit : > Francois Cerbelle wrote: > >Except one thing : both kernel certainly dont have support for you > >root partition filesystem, but the Debian one can find the appropriate > >module in its initrd. I bet that your kernel doesnt have

Problem re-stated

2004-11-29 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   I will re-state my problem. I had been running 'stable' for months when I decided to upgrade to 'testing' via the net. I did a apt 'update' followed by a  'dist upgrade'. Because the number of bytes to be downloaded exceeded my volume-based subscription for the month, I had to conti

Re: cgiemail installs owned by root in /usr/lib/cgi-bin

2004-11-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:49:30AM +0200, Black Dew wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >I noticed that when installing cgiemail it is set as owned by root, > >same as other scripts simultaneously installed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin > >I figure this is right, I would be surprised if i were the first > >

Re: Problem re-stated

2004-11-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/11/04 02:14), jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > I will re-state my problem. I had been running 'stable' for months when I > decided to upgrade to 'testing' via the net. I did a apt 'update' followed by > a 'dist upgrade'. Because the number of bytes to be downloaded exceeded my > volu

proxy

2004-11-29 Thread Giorgio Raccanelli
hello everyone, I need to connect my PC to the Internet for making an upgrade. I have already configured the net-card (I'm sure because I'm able to send ping commands and receive answers), but my PC is on a network, so if I want to be able to receive the packages from the mirror I need to tell t

Re: proxy

2004-11-29 Thread Laurent CARON
Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: hello everyone, I need to connect my PC to the Internet for making an upgrade. I have already configured the net-card (I'm sure because I'm able to send ping commands and receive answers), but my PC is on a network, so if I want to be able to receive the packages from t

modules.usbmap

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm trying to debug a problem where my Kodak DX6490 camera doesn't seem to get properly recognized by my Sarge / 2.6.9 system. In the process, I ran across a promising-looking file: /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-686-smp/modules.usbmap Is it the case that in order for my system to even start

[Solved] Re: [Debian SID] "aptitude upgrade" problem

2004-11-29 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- ocl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried "aptitude install" for a few of them, especially capplets, eog, > > totem, and > libgnome2-0, > > but aptitude tells me that 200+ pakages (mainly gnome-related, but not > > exclusively as > pkg-config > > is among them!) are no longer used and will

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread David Baron
On Monday 29 November 2004 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:24:29 +0200, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to > > and from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? > > The file name is .bashrc >

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Robert Vangel
David Baron wrote: Not what I had in mind. I am interested in doing this for a specific bash script without touching .bashrc. Create a seperate rc file (.scriptrc ?) and have FOO=BAR in that, then source the file in your script eg.. [ .scriptrc ] FOO=BAR [ script ] source .scriptrc echo $BAR

RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Kemp
Which is the best RCS ? I'm a little lost between CVS, SCCS, Arch, Subversion ... Thanks for your experiences -- Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cgiemail installs owned by root in /usr/lib/cgi-bin

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I noticed that when installing cgiemail it is set as owned by root, > same as other scripts simultaneously installed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin > The danger of being root owned would be in the fact that it can > virtually do anything. no, it can't. If root owns an executable

xine error

2004-11-29 Thread Lei Yu
Hello, I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does not work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought swap from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it doesn't seem to be the case. :-( it kept on throw the error message, the plugin for /

Re: [Solved] Re: [Debian SID] "aptitude upgrade" problem

2004-11-29 Thread ocl
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote on 2004-11-29 14:03: By the way, what does obsolete packages mean in synoptic (could not find anything about it in the help)? Is it like with aptitude? I preferred aptitude over apt-get because it would remove useless packages whenever the dependencies of main packages woul

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Richard Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-29 13:28]: > > Which is the best RCS ? I'm a little lost between CVS, SCCS, Arch, > Subversion ... > This depends on your requirements. I know CVS, arch and Subversion. CVS I would not recommend anymore. arch is really cool -- but not too easy. Subvers

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:28:17PM +0100, Richard Kemp wrote: > Which is the best RCS ? I'm a little lost between CVS, SCCS, Arch, > Subversion ... I don't know about "best", but so far I like arch, although it is a little bit "opaque" regarding usage. Arch is especially nice because you don't n

Re: using mail

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the > options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > > But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of > course does not exist at that inet.a

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
User Richard Kemp wrote:: Which is the best RCS ? I'm a little lost between CVS, SCCS, Arch, Subversion ... Thanks for your experiences My favourites (in order): - subversion - darcs - cvs Here is a very nice comparsion which should help you to make a decision. Greets -- Mateusz Łoskot, mateusz (

Re: 30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. But I looked like a tool having to do that. What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean? I talked about this a year ago. Several people tol

simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi group,   I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have to search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. Isn't there an easier way to do this with some sort of application? Can an

Re: using mail

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sam Watkins wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of course does not exist at th

Re: xine error

2004-11-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 2004, Lei Yu wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does not > work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought swap > from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it > doesn't seem to be the case. :-( it kept on

Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread ken keanon
Hi,   I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? Anyone has done a complete and successful conversion? Wil

Re: simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi group, I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have to search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. Isn't there an easier way to do this with some sort of

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:24:29AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and > from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? If you want to see what variables are set, type: set this shows shell functions too. you can save these

Re: simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:45 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi group, > > I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 kernel > source. But the problem > is that there are so many files I have to search through that it could take > hours to find this procedure. Isn't >

Re: Problem re-stated

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
It does sound like you don't have the unix socket support. Perhaps you configured unix sockets as a module in the kernel, but haven't loaded that kernel module? try "modprobe unix" as root to see if that's the case. if you add a line with just "unix" in it to /etc/modules.conf, it should load th

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Emil Perhinschi
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:36:26 -0800 (PST) ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use > all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, >

Re: Can't run kdm, but gdm is fine

2004-11-29 Thread Kent West
Andrew Ingram wrote: Hi list. I've installed Sid on a new box at work to replace the old crappy bit of hardware I used to have. My old box used kdm but when I installed Debian this time, gdm was the default. No problem I thought! After a while, I started missing the way that kdm and kde worked toge

Re: modules.usbmap

2004-11-29 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hey guy, if you have a problem with your USB device, why don't you just tell us what your problem is? I just had a problem that I could not mount an USB stick (unstable, Kernel 2.6.8.1). There was no such device /dev/sd* (check with 'fdisk -l /dev/sd*). But in dmesg|grep -i usb everything seeme

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread David Baron
On Monday 29 November 2004 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Create a seperate rc file (.scriptrc ?) and have FOO=BAR in that, then > source the file in your script > > eg.. > > [ .scriptrc ] > > FOO=BAR > > > > [ script ] > > source .scriptrc > echo $BAR This is what I do once I have the file .s

Re: proxy

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
> Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: > I need to tell the system to go through the proxy. How can I do that? you can configure apt to always use the proxy by editing /etc/apt/apt.conf (or create it if not already there) and adding a line: ACQUIRE::http::Proxy "http://192.168.0.1:3128/";; or whatever.

Re: simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
Paul Akkermans wrote: I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have to search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. Isn't there an easier way to do this with some sort of application?

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Noah Durell
Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: I get this error when I try to configure the printers in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request fail

cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread rogerwphx
I installed debian and it boots up in bash ok, but the cdrom images are .iso images. How do you upgrade the installation from bash with iso's. Thanks for any help, Roger -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-29 Thread Brendan
On Friday 26 November 2004 14:08, William Ballard wrote: > I suppose you want little thought bubbles to pop up in the corner of > your screen on top of your other apps. You're probably having trouble > with your window manager. Kopete has this feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Call for help: TiMidity++ aRts users

2004-11-29 Thread Marco Correia
hi, I'm having trouble with arts+timidity. If I use arts and timidity -Os it says that it cannot open the pcm device, but I assume that is the expected since arts is already using it. If I use -Or, then timidity loads successfully but I cannot here any sound when I play a midi file with timid

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:25:17AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > For sending e-mail with mutt, I am currently using a patched qmail > installation (home-made Debian package with qmail-remote SMTP AUTH patch > and other recommended patches from qmail.org), but I have msmtp installed

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:34:47AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: > How do I check that the firewall is not blocking port 631? telnet localhost 631 if it says "Connected to localhost." then it's not blocked (I don't know why it would be.) you have to type ctrl-] q to kill telnet Sam -- To UNS

Re: Can't run kdm, but gdm is fine

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:11 -0600, Kent West wrote: > My guess, and this is just a guess, is that KDM did not finish > installing properly, or has a bug. I notice it's been a few days; if > you're still having the problem, I'd suggest another round of: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgra

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Noah Durell
Sam Watkins wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:34:47AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: How do I check that the firewall is not blocking port 631? telnet localhost 631 if it says "Connected to localhost." then it's not blocked (I don't know why it would be.) you have to type ctrl-] q to kill teln

Re: Grub menu.lst

2004-11-29 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Francois Cerbelle wrote: Le Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:36:57AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader ecrit : Francois Cerbelle wrote: Except one thing : both kernel certainly dont have support for you root partition filesystem, but the Debian one can find the appropriate module in its initrd. I bet that your kerne

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Aube
Noah Durell wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >>Noah Durell wrote: >>>I get this error when I try to configure the printers in KDE: >>>CUPS is installed and running. I removed it and reinstalled to be >>>sure. Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on >>>http://localhost:631 it says: >>> Fo

Re: Using Openldap for office contacts

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:26:01AM +1100, Robert S wrote: > I'm wondering if it might be possible to convert our contacts database > (currently we're using MS Outlook 2000) over to Openldap. There would need > to be some simple way with which we could modify records in the ldap > database. > So f

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Allan Wind
I just evaluated prcs, cvs and monotone for a paper, representing somewhat the single-user scenario, client-server and peer-to-peer. prcs can be used in a client-server setting too, but requires you to share disks, but has otherwise a really clean interface Not widely used, as far as I know. cvs

Re: Pam Errors

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Collyer wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >> Ok. Run a command that triggers this error (like su) under strace: >> >> strace -o su-strace.log su >> >> Then post the contents of su-strace.log to the list. > See attached. I think I've found the culprit: open("/etc/pam.d/su", O_RDONLY) = -1

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:51:00AM +, rogerwphx wrote: > I installed debian and it boots up in bash ok, but the cdrom images are > .iso images. How do you upgrade the installation from bash with iso's. I don't quite understand - did you download the cdrom images but not burn them onto CDs or

Re: installer on HD onlive CD

2004-11-29 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
Leonardo Marques escribió: Try copy all files for the HD, then you can try install. Its just a suggestion, i dont know knoppix. Leonardo. On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:49:23 +0100, belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I downloaded the morphix installer and tried to install gnoppix 0.8 Onlive-Cd lik

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Noah Durell
Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: I get this error when I try to configure the printers in KDE: CUPS is installed and running. I removed it and reinstalled to be sure. Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on http://lo

apt mirror question

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, Anyone know what's up with debian.mirrors.pair.com? Their website still claims they're a Debian mirror, but their directory tree for Debian is empty. -- Christian Convey Computer Scientist, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Sounds interesting. I do have this situation/problem. My ISP gives me > SMTP AUTH to send messages. Configuring exim to use my mail id and > password is getting the job done. But, that is fine on my home/single > user machine. What if I want to use mutt to send mails with SMTP

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Curt Howland
Ken, I haven't used Windows in years, happily. Do you use any Windows-specific software that has no F/OSS equivalent? Office files are covered by OpenOffice.org, media files are covered by XINE, XMMS, and others. Printers, cameras, memory cards, all taken care of. But there are proprietary ap

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > cvs is the most gorilla of the 3 and it shows especially when it comes > to audit and monitoring (syntax for branching and mergeing seemed > unnatural to me). > > [...] > > I cannot for the life of me get used to the odly named file names or > namespace in

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread rogerwphx
I did burn the images to cdrom and when I down,oaded it it was in iso format. I chose downloading by ftp since I had a decent broadband access and saw no problem until I tried to get past the first cd. Would it be easier to just download it as a collection of small files and redo it? Roger Sa

Re: xine error

2004-11-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 29 November 2004 03:49 am, Lei Yu wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does > not work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought > swap from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it > doesn't seem to be the

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ken keanon wrote: Hi, I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? Anyone has done a complete and succe

Re: simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi group, I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have to search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. Isn't there an easier way to do this with some sort of

Errors using cups-pdf

2004-11-29 Thread Arrizabalaga, Saioa
I have followed the steps (http://transtronics.com/reference/print2pdf.htm) to install a pdf-writer printer in Debian. I have tested it with lp, but the pdf file that is created is empty (Its size is always 321 bytes.) Any idea? Here you have the stack of the errors: (/var/log/cups/error_log)

Re: Call for help: TiMidity++ aRts users

2004-11-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Marco Correia wrote: > I'm having trouble with arts+timidity. Someone that is used to ARTS really should spend some time improving the ARTS support in TiMidity++, it basically sucks... > TiMidity++ version 2.13.2 > kde 3.3 > Gentoo Linux Unless gentoo uses the debian packag

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-11-29T17:53:07+0100, Mateusz Åoskot wrote: > Sorry, I can't help you. Looking on your toughts about all those > RCSs I can say you have a big problem to find the one ;-) One requirement for me to open ended support for files other than line based text files. It should support merging of x

repeated messages in /var/log/syslog from sensord

2004-11-29 Thread H. S.
I installed sensord a couple of days ago and since then I am getting these messages repeatedly and I am not sure what to make of them. Should I be worried? If not, then how can I stop these messages(apart from uninstalling sensord)? If yes, what could be wrong? Here is one cycle which is repeat

memory usage

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for each running process of my debian box. I know there's top but I need these information as graphics. Any ideas? Thanks Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Thanks to Kent West et al

2004-11-29 Thread Brian
A few days ago I started what turned out to be a very long thread about my attempts, as a newbie, to get my new Debian installation working properly. I disappeared for a few days because my monitor blew up so I couldn't even use the Debian box, but I now have a new monitor. My last remaining big h

Re: Using Openldap for office contacts

2004-11-29 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I have installed debian in our office - principally for use as a mail server, using courier-imap. We've got about 6 windows PCs and one debian box. Has worked without a hitch and everyone is very pleased with it. I'm wondering

Unreal Tournament (Toshiba Keyboard, Synaptics?)

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Tsai
Hello, I am trying to get my laptop running Debian, with all the fixings that it has in XP (and I am so close!). Right now I have an issue with running Unreal Tournament. The issue is there seems to be lag/stuck keys when I play (and hence I can't play). Now I disabled the synaptics and the p

cue2wav

2004-11-29 Thread Roberto Winter
Hi all, I recently ran across some cue+mpc files and found out that there is no program on debian to burn them to disc. This is why I made a (fairly poor, I admit) script to be able to get the information from the cue file and split the mpc file into wavs so that I could record them using, say, cd

Re: xine error

2004-11-29 Thread Lei Yu
/dev/dvd does exist, and it is linked to hdc. I will give vlc a try. Thanks. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:49:52 +, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Nov 2004, Lei Yu wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does not > > work and

Re: xine error

2004-11-29 Thread Lei Yu
just tried vlc, I got the following messages libhal.c 696 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised "Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist" libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from http://dvd.sf.net libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. libdvdread: Could not open i

rescue disk

2004-11-29 Thread George Iordanou
I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following files: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers.img root.img How can i create a bootable rescue disk? I want to get into my system using the floppy's kernel. Thank

Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: Hi, I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? An

Re: memory usage

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:44 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for each > running process of my debian box. > > I know there's top but I need these information as graphics. > > Any ideas? gtop? -- --

Re: xine error

2004-11-29 Thread Guillermo Ballester Valor
Try the package at ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb El Lunes, 29 de Noviembre de 2004 19:48, Lei Yu escribió: > just tried vlc, I got the following messages > > libhal.c 696 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised > "Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist"

freeswan

2004-11-29 Thread Alexey Toptygin
I've been trying to get the freeswan modules to compile against various 2.6.8 kernels in testing, with no luck. I've been trying from both kernel-patch-freeswan (which dies with an unknown make target) and freeswan-patches-source (which cannot find a Rules.make) Has anyone had success with buil

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 05:36 -0800, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use > all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, > emails, images, audios and

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:47 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage > and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following > files: > > boot.img > cd-drivers.img > net-drivers.img > root.img > > How can i create a bootab

Re: cyberjack cardreader with libchipcard on sarge

2004-11-29 Thread Rainer Hoeckmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 21. November 2004 15:51 schrieb Rainer Hoeckmann: > Hello, > > I have a ReinerSCT Cyberjack PinPad USB. I'm using Debian Sarge with Kernel > 2.6.8. The driver used for the reader is the NEW libctapi-cyberjack-2.0.1. > A test with ReinerSCT

TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
Greetings, I have a few questions I thought i'd throw around. I recently got a ATI TV Wonder Pro card. After some hacking I finally got it to work correctly. Sound/Video with cx8800 CVS drivers. Now, trying to get the sound from the card to my sound card I have an external cable that goes from

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:50:12 -0600, Chad Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a few questions I thought i'd throw around. I recently got a > ATI TV Wonder Pro card. After some hacking I finally got it to work > correctly. Sound/Video with cx8800 CVS drivers. Now, trying to

Re: Thanks to Kent West et al

2004-11-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/11/04 17:44), Brian wrote: > A few days ago I started what turned out to be a very long thread about my > attempts, as a newbie, to get my new Debian installation working properly. > I disappeared for a few days because my monitor blew up so I couldn't even > use the Debian box, but I now ha

Re: Installer for Woody hangs - more info

2004-11-29 Thread Rothwellc9
Hi,   Looking inside my box I find that my hard drive uses a SATA connector but my CD/DVD connects with an ATA(ribbon) connector. So I think the problem revolves around SATA support in Linux. Does anyone know if sarge deals with SATA effectively? Perhaps buying a SATA cd/dvd drive will resolv

Re: freeswan

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Aube
Alexey Toptygin wrote: > I've been trying to get the freeswan modules to compile against various > 2.6.8 kernels in testing, with no luck. I've been trying from both > kernel-patch-freeswan (which dies with an unknown make target) and > freeswan-patches-source (which cannot find a Rules.make) Per

remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread Mike M
Hi, Yesterday I built a Debian stable file server for my father assuming he had a router/switch with a DHCP server on it. Today I learned that he does not have a router - only a switch. I want to try making the Debian box into a router remotely. Would this work? 1) connect Deb box to cable mode

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: > > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. > The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data > tha

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Chad Davis wrote: How do I get the line out jack to work on the back of this pc? Have you tried playing with the mixer? Try aumix for OSS/Free drivers or gamix for ALSA. The AC97 codecs on VIA sound chips often have a bunch more channels than you would think. There may also be some option swi

Re: apache being hit

2004-11-29 Thread Roberto Winter
Hello, On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:57:03 +0100, Mathias Tauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > well... you were right!! They are receiving 404's... At least that is > > what access.log is reporting. However, when I tried what Mathias > > Tauber said, I got the source code for the root "index.ht

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: [snip] > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > thing I currently use MS Windo

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: --snip-- > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > thing I currently use MS Windows for is listening to the BBC, which uses > Real Player output. Have you tried RealPlayer 10 yet? The few media formats that m

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread David Mandelberg
Mike M wrote: > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > 4) using ssh, install iptables and configure iptables on Deb box That would work, but one problem is that when testing firewall rulesets (especially if you've never don

Error with libapache-mod-perl

2004-11-29 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
When I try to install libapache-mod-perl (debian, unstable) I get the error: mod_macro.so does not have a corresponding .info file. How does one correfct this? Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, Ohio 45810 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-29 Thread George Iordanou
I've actually managed to create a boot disk using dd command. I cannot mount my / filesystem though Partition table: /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 /home /dev/hda3 / boot: linux rescue root=/dev/hda3 Isn't this the right command to mount the / system using the CD/floppy's kernel? Cheers, George On

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
I have been using gnome-alsamixer. I however did go ahead an get gamix. Seems as if everything is all the way up, still no volume from the line in on the back. :/ It did come with a internal cable, however I have lost it. I will have to purchase a new one. What switches in alsa do I need and how

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Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
Okay, I seem to have gotten it to work through the mic line. Should I let this be? Is Mic really the same as another line in? On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:44:48 -0600, Chad Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using gnome-alsamixer. I however did go ahead an get > gamix. Seems as if every

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread David Baron
On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote: > If you want to see what variables are set, type: > >   set > > this shows shell functions too. > > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file: > >   set > myvariables > > and restore them again: > >   source ./myvariables >

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:25:26PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > --snip-- > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > > thing I currently use MS Windows for is listening to the BBC, which uses > > Real Pla

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time David Baron said... > On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote: > > If you want to see what variables are set, type: > > > >   set > > > > this shows shell functions too. > > > > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file: > > > >   set > myvariables

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread David Mandelberg
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > But since RP10 is not yet DFSG free, I use my daughter's Windows box in the Windows isn't DFSG free either. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>$L$*-- P+>++$ L+++()$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o

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