Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-30 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:16:07AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Worth a try. Maybe only saving the few I really need will work. As I said, > the source line accesses the file but then the script aborts. I was going to write back about this but I thought there were too many suggestions already! Wel

debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Mauro Darida
hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives an

tomorrow's OS

2004-11-30 Thread Mauro Darida
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 at 23:42:00 +, Brian Coiley wrote: > > Unfortunately, unless it gets one hell of a sight easier very fast, > tomorrow's operating system is going to remain the preserve of a few very > determined digit heads. I have 20 years' software development experience > and a degree

whre i can download LiNUX Kernel 2.4.20-13.7

2004-11-30 Thread Umar Draz
hi dear members     i have broad logic DVB card now i want install it on linux but DVB card only support kernel 2.4.20-13.7. but on kernel.org there is no kernel by that name so plz help me where i can find this kernel.   thanks and regards     Umar Draz Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo!

Can't get network to work

2004-11-30 Thread Michelle
Hi all, I'm a complete debian newbie; I decided to delete my slack distro and install deb instead because of all the rave reviews, but the rewards have yet to materialize. Deb is more "hard core" (and therefore presumably better) than slack, as evidenced by how hard it is to set up! Problem: On a

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > thing I currently use MS Windows for i

Re: Can't get network to work

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 01:58 -0800, Michelle wrote: > Hi all, I'm a complete debian newbie; I decided to delete my slack > distro and install deb instead because of all the rave reviews, but the > rewards have yet to materialize. Deb is more "hard core" (and therefore > presumably better) than slac

Re: Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Juergen Neumann
Hi Dan, I've just run apt-get update && upgrade and since then I have just the same problem that you experienced: All my mozilla-based browsers crash on some sides. I have no clew how this could happen. Have you ore anyone else found a solution for this problem yet? Thx a lot JuergeN

Re: Can't get network to work

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 30.11.2004 at 04:27 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 01:58 -0800, Michelle wrote: > > Hi all, I'm a complete debian newbie; I decided to delete my slack > > distro and install deb instead because of all the rave reviews, b

Re: using mail

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:44:21PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > 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 > > >>

Re: whre i can download LiNUX Kernel 2.4.20-13.7

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Umar Draz wrote: hi dear members i have broad logic DVB card now i want install it on linux but DVB card only support kernel 2.4.20-13.7. but on kernel.org there is no kernel by that name so plz help me where i can find this kernel. thanks and regards Umar Draz --

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-30 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:10, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:16:07AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > Worth a try. Maybe only saving the few I really need will work. As I > > said, the source line accesses the file but then the script aborts. > > I was going to write back about t

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also) Solved (for me at least)

2004-11-30 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > I was wondering if anybody could point me to a faq for cron and anacron? > > Reason I ask is because I am getting into noffle and the doc says to run > an > expire every day. I noticed just such a command on a directory called > /etc/cron.daily/ > > So I also, (in add

Re: Openoffice Setup Fails after Upgrade on Sid

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:50 -0500, Carl Brown wrote: > ~# openoffice > OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz > running openoffice.org setup... > /usr/bin/openoffice: line 281: 13905 Aborted (core > dumped) /usr/lib/openoffice${VER}/program/s

Re: mdadm raid1

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Harland Christofferson wrote: I think I figured it out but am still looking for suggestions: mdadm --stop /dev/md0 mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc and it looks like the kern.log reflects that the array is being resynchronized. Is this correct? I would have done mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 23:03 -0600]: > My uncle uses SR (speech recognition) when "writing". He speaks > the paragraphs in while walking around (long cord on the mic :) > or laying back thinking. Then he edits it in Word. At one time, some years back, I thought that IBM

ftp.au.debian.org mirror

2004-11-30 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Hi there.. Anyone else having problems accessing the ftp.au.debian.org mirror for downloads and updates? Is there a reason for this (maintenance\server down), this was the main server I use (have now moved over to aarnet.edu.au & pacific.net.au which seems to be ok... -- Regards - Stef

Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 06:10, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:44:13PM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > > 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 grap

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-30 Thread Colin
I'm surprised that no one mentioned Subversion yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mdadm raid1

2004-11-30 Thread Harland Christofferson
I am using the whole disk, not just partitions. Thanks for your suggestion! At Tuesday, 30 November 2004, Laurent CARON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harland Christofferson wrote: > >>I think I figured it out but am still looking for suggestions: >> >>mdadm --stop /dev/md0 >>mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: > I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use > in a linux world. For using your iPod, there seems to be two options: gtkpod and gnupod-tools (the latter being a suite of scripts). For playing your songs, the closest things that I know are r

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Colin wrote: I'm surprised that no one mentioned Subversion yet. It has been mentioned several times Regards, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Juergen Neumann wrote: > All my mozilla-based browsers crash on some sides. I have no clew how > this could happen. Which sites are you visiting? If you cited some sites, then perhaps others could try to see if they also see the same symptoms and file bugs on mozilla. I'm currentl

Re: Can't get network to work

2004-11-30 Thread Kent West
Michelle wrote: Problem: On a fresh install of Debian 3.0r3 Woody (2.2.20-idepci kernel) off the .iso from the server, the neworking doesn't work. I'm on an AMD Athlon with a 21140-based on-board ethernet chip (lspci and WinXP both say so) SO I KNOW IT CAN WORK. HOWEVER, after booting, eth0 is on

usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I've got a usb camera (Kodak DX6490). I'm starting to suspect from various tinkering I've done (in Knoppix, FC3, and Sarge) that the kernel can't find a module to associate with the camera, and that's causing my problems. In 2.6/Sarge... - How does the kernel know which driver to use

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 29 2004, 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

Re: Multiple NICs + GW's

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Michael Bellears wrote: Is there anyway I can force traffic to go back out via the NIC it came in on? LARTC: http://www.docum.org/docum.org/faq/cache/44.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Sam Watkins wrote: > I don't think mutt can do its own mail delivery. > Apparently msmtp is designed precisely for this purpose. > > You can put an msmtp binary in your home directory and put > something like this in .muttrc: > > set sendmail="/home/someone/bin/msmtp" I tend be

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:44:57 -0500, Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've got a usb camera (Kodak DX6490). I'm starting to suspect from > various tinkering I've done (in Knoppix, FC3, and Sarge) that the kernel > can't find a module to associate with the camera, and that

running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Mark D. Hansen
When I reboot my Debian box, the login comes up in an X environment. I notice that my login scripts (e.g., /etc/profile, .bash_profile) do not run. How to I get these scripts to run when I login via X ?? Thanks, Mark

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Convey
Hi Andrea, I am using hotplug and udev. Thanks for the Gnome tips; I'd still like to solve this at a lower level if possible. Do you know the process by which the system goes from (a) discovering that a device was connected to a USB port, to (z) binding a driver to that device? The reason I'm

problems waking up from S3

2004-11-30 Thread Juha Jäykkä
First, some background. I have two boxes, that I want to put into ACPI S3 when they're not in use. They are running kernels 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 (custom, not pre-packaged Debian), with all the relevant ACPI options turned on (or as modules and loaded). Suspending works fine on both machines. Waking up c

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Noah Durell
Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:09:12AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: [...] Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on http://localhost:631 it says: Forbidden You don't

creating images

2004-11-30 Thread James LeClair
Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my age, I'd prefer to sp

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:51:20 +1300, Simon Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep.. But the server i have is a dual xeon. Which is *NOT* 64bit - > right? Are you saying that the AMD64 is faster as an alternative for the > xeon? That dual Xeon is 64bit, as Intel licensed the 64bit extensions from

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:03:55 +1300, Simon Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry... Im getting confused... So i should be running this kernel *right*? > > kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 > on Intel EM64T SMP systems Do note that should you choose that

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:23:39 -0500, Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > I am using hotplug and udev. Thanks for the Gnome tips; I'd still like > to solve this at a lower level if possible. > Ok, "hotplug" is the USB agent that should load the appropriate kernel module f

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:31:09 -0400, James LeClair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? > > I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding

Re: whre i can download LiNUX Kernel 2.4.20-13.7

2004-11-30 Thread David Dorward
Umar Draz wrote: i have broad logic DVB card now i want install it on linux but DVB card only support kernel 2.4.20-13.7. but on kernel.org there is no kernel by that name so plz help me where i can find this kernel. The -version indicates that it is a vendor (distro) specific kernel. There is

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:47 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > hello debianers, > I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh > kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the > first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects > here, though.

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Aube
James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? System Imager may be what you are looking for. http://www.systemimager.org It's also in Debian. A

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: > This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, > cpydyn, or cpufreqd), and also without spinning down the hard drive. Would anybody provide a short description of which one of these frequency scaling packages (powernowd, cpudyn, cpufreqd)

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

Re: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:04:17AM -0500, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > When I reboot my Debian box, the login comes up in an X environment. I > notice that my login scripts (e.g., /etc/profile, .bash_profile) do not run. > > How to I get these scripts to run when I login via X ?? /etc/profile and ~

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its > HD). This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise won't be an issue for too long. Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good ide

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Convey
Another thing maybe you can clarify for me: Suppose that my camera supports a USB mass storage interface as well as a camera (PTP?) interface. Is it the case that only one driver at a time, either mass-storage or ptp, is allowed to bind to the camera (i.e., /proc/bus/usb/001/005) ? Probably true,

Re: freeswan

2004-11-30 Thread avr
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:51:25PM +, 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-patch

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 07:04 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 23:03 -0600]: > > > My uncle uses SR (speech recognition) when "writing". He speaks > > the paragraphs in while walking around (long cord on the mic :) > > or laying back thinking. Then he ed

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Juergen Neumann wrote: Hi Dan, I've just run apt-get update && upgrade and since then I have just the same problem that you experienced: All my mozilla-based browsers crash on some sides. I have no clew how this could happen. But then of course you used partimage or mondo to back up your partition

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Noah Durell
Noah Durell wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:09:12AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Noah Durell wrote: [...] Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on http://localhost:631 it says: Forb

Re: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > How to I get these scripts to run when I login via X ?? Just put whatever you want in ~/.xsession. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpol

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise > won't be an issue for too long. > > Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good idea. Yes, I know about this issue. I think that getting some more RAM

Where is the modversions.h in 2.6.9 kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Collet Brunel
I recently downloaded the 2.6.9 kernel-source package from debian repository and tried to compile it on my wood y system. I followed the general instructions.. go to the src, make menuconfig and the make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image.. Also did make-kpkg kernel_headers to generate a headers package...

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mauro Darida wrote: hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Window

Re: Re: usb camera / filesystem question

2004-11-30 Thread Jim McCloskey
Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: |>> To use a Sony digital camera with my Debian laptop, all I had to do |>> was to include this line in /etc/udev/udev.rules: |>> |>>BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="Sony", NAME="camera" |> |> If you ever get another hot-pluggable Sony device, your rule |> will fail. Be

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
machoamerica wrote: i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i boot i get this: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) /dev/hda4 is the root partition and has /boot on it as well. it's an ext3 partition. i have no U

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use in a linux world. Anyway, I just hope that we soon have a Desktop-agnostic version of iTunes for Linux (I use fluxbox on an old machine with low RAM). I want to be DFSG as much

re^2: daytime

2004-11-30 Thread petereasthope
Joost Witteveen and anyone interested, jw> Maybe something in /etc/hosts.allow ... ? Yes. hosts.allow needed an improvement. Thanks. The oberon client still reports no response. Someone please tell me what in debian is a daytime client? Google finds nothing helpful in http://www.tldp.org/.

Re: Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-11-30T11:25:38+0100, Juergen Neumann wrote: > Have you ore anyone else found a solution for this problem yet? Do you have flash installed? It seems you have choice between one that cause 100% cpu utilization (swf-player) or crashing (libflash-mozplugin.so). /Allan signature.asc Descri

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:12 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: > > > >>I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use > >>in a linux world. > > > > > Anyway, I just hope that we soon have a Desktop-agnostic version of iT

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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 bootable rescue disk? I want to get into my system using the fl

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Pau Rul·lan Ferragut
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15:54, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: > Also, which one integrates better with laptop-mode? I'm thinking of using > laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its > HD). Umm... perhaps it is a long shot, but I wou

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I > have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something > greater than I ;-) I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in t

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:15:17 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: > I think that iTunes unites an amazin set of resources together that makes > the life of its users so easy. It should be the prototype of application to > pursue, as far as I am regarded (ye

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, 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. What's wrong with using apt-get over the network? Good point. Nothing. However

RE: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Mark D. Hansen
When I first log in (after reboot), I'm logging in to an fvwm session. /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile definitely are not being run. Any ideas? > -Original Message- > From: Sam Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:26 AM > To: Mark D. Hansen > Cc: [EMAIL

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:50:12PM -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > How do I get the line out jack to work on the back of this pc? A lot of those via-based onboard sound cards actually assign a dual purpose to the line-in jack. On mine, it doubles as a line-out jack, I think for surround sound or somet

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:59:54PM -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > 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? Don't use the mic in, the sound will suck. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://w

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 6:31 am, James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/path/to/image.img To restore, just switc

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I >> have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something >> greater t

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread George Iordanou
Thanks a lot for your help. > if you have a bootable disk with chroot, you can run the mkrescue (or > maybe mkboot for a bootdisk). I usually use knoppix. Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need knoppix? I have the installation cd of sarge. > Is a bootable rescue CD

Re: simple problem

2004-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 29 November 2004 13:45, 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

Re: Where is the modversions.h in 2.6.9 kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Collet Brunel wrote: I recently downloaded the 2.6.9 kernel-source package from debian repository and tried to compile it on my wood y system. I followed the general instructions.. go to the src, make menuconfig and the make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image.. Also did make-kpkg kernel_headers to generate

ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-11-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ? OR Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which Motherboard's would work with Debian. Thanks in advance, Rathon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: > Here it is: Well, I asked for it, so I had better say something. I'd better come clean and admit that I am no expert. It looks alright to my untutored eye. There are rather a lot of comment lines so a bit of help from sed gives:

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:31, James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? > > I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I >>> have decided they would be a good i

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, 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

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 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

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:59 am, Mike M wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, 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 b

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:54:45AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > > thing I current

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:19:04AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:59 am, Mike M wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, Mike M wrote: > > > > > > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > > > 2) s

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:56 am, Mike M wrote: > Yep. Now, how to get it in. > > a) ssh over Internet to unprotected box and recompile kernel and play >with config > b) drive 6h to get box; install behind my f/w; fix it; drive 6h to put >box back > > If risk is manageable then I

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 17:14, Ken Bloom wrote: > > Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. > Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. Except for me. I can't burn CDs on either. I now understand why though (afre a massive debugging effert), its a timing issue with my drive. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROT

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:14:53 -0800, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. > Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. I'm not sold on 2.6 yet. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread CW Harris
Ray you sent this to me privately... Fwd this one back to the list... CW Harris wrote on 2004-11-30 02:33: > You might google, or ask, over on debian-firewall... I seem to recall > someone mentioning a package or setup they used that allowed one to > restore the old ruleset after a defined time

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
George Iordanou([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > > if you have a bootable disk with chroot, you can run the mkrescue (or > > maybe mkboot for a bootdisk). I usually use knoppix. > Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need >

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Noah Durell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Noah Durell wrote: > > >Richard Lyons wrote: > > [ cut here ] over 20 K of previous posts deleted [ cut here ] > > > >-Noah > > > > > Hey Guys, > Very weird. I tried running the KDE printer utility again today and it >

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:59:38AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:56 am, Mike M wrote: > > > If risk is manageable then I choose a). If not, then b) or c) father > > buys router/firewall appliance. > > Finagle's Law dictates that A will inevitably lead to B. That's a

Debian Sid clean installation problem ?

2004-11-30 Thread Aleksic Predrag
Hello, I have try to install Debian Sid from 15 cd`s i have buy somewhere on the net . When i boot from cd`s after couple of steps (language, keyboard map ...etc) i got to the end point "ash shell" which is quite wierd . Can somebody help me to finish installation , i have read similar thr

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread machoamerica
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > machoamerica wrote: > > i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i > > boot i get this: > > > > UDF-fs: No partition found (1) > > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) > > [snip] > > > > worse, my old 2.4.18 kernel no

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:09:45AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mauro Darida wrote: > >hello debianers, > >I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh > >kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the > >first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No

compiled nvidia module fails

2004-11-30 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am unable to use the nvidia module compiled from nvidia-kernel-source that is used with the nvidia-glx package. On boot-up, the computer freezes when gdm starts. The error message I get in the logs is Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel

Re: usb vs. drivers

2004-11-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 06:48 am, Christian Convey wrote: > >>Another thing maybe you can clarify for me: > >>Suppose that my camera supports a USB mass storage interface as > >> well as a camera (PTP?) interface. Is it the case that only one > >> driver at a time, either mass-storage or ptp, i

Installing 2.6.9 Kernel

2004-11-30 Thread Shawn McCuan
I am running Debian Unstable. Currentley I have the 2.4.27-1-386 debian default kernel installed. I want to install kernel 2.6.9 because it has support for certain features of my hardware. (such as my soundcard that is "disturbingly un-functional" in 2.4.27. I have read through various sites ab

Re: Debian Sid clean installation problem ?

2004-11-30 Thread Kent West
Aleksic Predrag wrote: Hello, I have try to install Debian Sid from 15 cd`s i have buy somewhere on the net . When i boot from cd`s after couple of steps (language, keyboard map ...etc) i got to the end point "ash shell" which is quite wierd . Can somebody help me to finish installation , i have

Re: Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Allan Wind, > On 2004-11-30T11:25:38+0100, Juergen Neumann wrote: > > Have you ore anyone else found a solution for this problem yet? > > Do you have flash installed? It seems you have choice between one that > cause 100% cpu utilization (swf-player) or crashing > (libflash-mozplugin

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Hugo Vanwoerkom, > 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

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Sudarshana Koushik
> For using your iPod, there seems to be two options: gtkpod and gnupod-tools > (the latter being a suite of scripts). Well, actually you should be able to recompile rhythmbox to connect to iPod as well. For some reason, the debian version is not compiled with iPod support. But it is possible to

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