Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-06 Thread Sam Watkins
The other thing about ssh attacks is that I feel that I should try to contact the people whose server has presumably been taken over and let them know that it is attacking other servers. I did this manually a couple times, but I guess it would be useful to have a script to help. (lookup whois and

samba, set read-only attribut

2004-12-06 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (Bhi, (B (BI have two debian boxes, one runs samba from unstable on ext3 the other (Bone samba from testing on xfs. (B (BAs a reference box, I have a gentoo/stable with xfs (my working box). (B (BI create a directory in my home directory

Re: A question about locally compiled modules

2004-12-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:52:23PM -0500, stan wrote: > I need to get the spca50x.o module installed. And therin lies the dificluty. > make install which invokes depmod fails with unresolved symbols. Yet I can > insmod the module, and it work :-( > > What am I doing wrong? dunno What happens if

too hard to pass parameters to modules, especially implicitly loaded ones

2004-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-installer Richard Hector wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:13:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Richard Hector wrote: > > > I've downloaded a netinst iso that has 2.6.8, so that bit should be ok, > > > and I then boot with either > > > > > > linux26 hda=stroke > > > > > > or > >

Re: open terminal in VNC

2004-12-06 Thread chris-usenet
Stefan Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things work like a charm but. Sometimes you accidently close the > terminal in the VNC and you are stuck. Is there a way to open en termial > through ssh or similar and make it appear in the VNC session? What window manager is the remote end using?

Window sizing on Windowmaker

2004-12-06 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have used windowmaker a lot for quite a while on my work and home computers, but one thing really bugs me is that only a few certain window, when opened, is sized in crazy sizes. For example, if I open an email in Thunderbird, the window takes up the full width but only 1cm or so hi

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:51:47 +, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:08:51 +, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I have just gotten a Radeon 9250, which is really just a Radeon 9200 in > >>

Re: open terminal in VNC

2004-12-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-12-04 23:00:29 +0100, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: > Things work like a charm but. Sometimes you accidently close the > terminal in the VNC and you are stuck. Is there a way to open en > termial through ssh or similar and make it appear in the VNC > session? Yes, open a terminal with the righ

Re: too hard to pass parameters to modules, especially implicitly loaded ones

2004-12-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:48:59AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > One thing I've been considering is passing all kernel parameters to > modules in the modprobe line always. I'm not sure about that. I haven't yet got my new non-initrd kernel going (my solution to avoid messing with the initrd image),

Re: Anyone know why AOL users post "Art Files" queries?

2004-12-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:34:07 -0600, Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely a minor annoyance, but it might be useful to find out why this list > gets periodic postings to it from "lost" AOL users wanting to get rid of "art > files". > > Does anyone know why these queries are being sent to

Re: setting GTK 1 font size

2004-12-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:14:46 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 05 2004, Stephen Patterson wrote: > > Everything's looking good apart for the rather huge font size on the few > > remaining gtk1 programs (xmms and uae). > > I don't know the answer to your problem, but you can u

Re: file system error?

2004-12-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:44:53 +0200, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ?r-r-x 65136 153551110 19332176 17170693 1970-07-18 01:25 > sylpheed.mo > > this is what I see for sylpheed.mo. > > Is it a filesystem error? Is there a way to delete the file? > What filesystem? For sure so

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:11:55 +, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 December 2004 16:53, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: > > > ...and have them running when I log off. > > ssh -X If by 'log off' he means turn off his desktop; then ssh -X most likely will not do. He needs to

Re: open terminal in VNC

2004-12-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:43:52 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-12-04 23:00:29 +0100, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: > > Things work like a charm but. Sometimes you accidently close the > > terminal in the VNC and you are stuck. Is there a way to open en > > termial through ssh o

Re: Framebuffer console - chrooted Debian install

2004-12-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:31:10 -0500, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I followed the directions in the Debian installation manual (section > 3.7) to install woody from an existing RedHat system and everything went > very smoothly. The only annoyance is that the graphical console was not > enabled by

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just gotten a Radeon 9250, which is really just a Radeon 9200 > in disguise. When I try to start X, the display goes between power on > / off every couple of seconds or so. The analogue cable works ok, but > I resent having to use it as DVI is

Re: setting GTK 1 font size

2004-12-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:22:51AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:14:46 -0200, Rog?rio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 05 2004, Stephen Patterson wrote: > > > Everything's looking good apart for the rather huge font size on the few > > > remaining gtk1 programs (xmms

Re: sound/alsa: missing dependencies

2004-12-06 Thread michael
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 18:02, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:10:10 +0100, michael wrote: > > I've run `alsaconf` but it gives errors (below) > > > There is a problem with the alsa-modules package in the archive. You > need to build your own alsa-modules package from alsa-source using

[solved] Re: hda=stroke for installer?

2004-12-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:23:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install sarge on an old (Celeron 366) machine with a new > disk. Thanks to all those who offered advice. To summarise: I jumpered my 80G disk to clip its capacity, so that my old Award bios would boot.

Re: Debian Apache Config Document

2004-12-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:40:41AM +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > I am a linux user who swich other linux distro to debian linux. I > find apache configuration on debian seems a little different from other > distro. So i am looking for document for apache configuration on debian. What I did i

ibm xseries x336/x346

2004-12-06 Thread debbie
Hi, is there anybody who succeeded in installing debian on a ibm xseries x336 (or x346) server? I have experienced the installation on older x335/x345 and I am wondering whether the emt64 platform brings additional difficulties or not. Thanks Debbie -- questo articolo e` stato inviato via web

Re: setting GTK 1 font size

2004-12-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stephen Patterson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm running sarge with all the latest updates, and without gnome > installed, though with a few gtk2 and gtk1 apps. Everything's looking > good apart for the rather huge font size on the few remaining gtk1 > programs (xmms and uae). Does anyo

dhclient errors

2004-12-06 Thread michael
Pretty much once a day I get the following in syslog... any ideas on what causes it or how to determine whether it's a problem? thanks, Michael Dec 6 09:12:24 localhost dhclient: Option option-105 length 255 overflows input buffer. Dec 6 09:12:24 localhost dhclient: Option option-105 length 255

Re: Running solfege under Sarge

2004-12-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:23:36PM +1100, Lex Hider wrote: > If anyone can get solfege [music ear training software from universe] > working with Sarge, can they please inform me on how to do it. I tried it on my Gentoo box, didn't use Sarge, but it should be the same. For starters, make sure you

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Antony Gelberg
Dominique Dumont wrote: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have just gotten a Radeon 9250, which is really just a Radeon 9200 in disguise. When I try to start X, the display goes between power on / off every couple of seconds or so. The analogue cable works ok, but I resent having to u

W komunikacie "Spamed?" został wykryty wirus

2004-12-06 Thread Szumska, Maja
Program Norton AntiVirus wykrył wirus w załączniku ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wysłanym do Szumska Maja. Aby adresaci mogli korzystać z otrzymanych plików, przeprowadź wyszukiwanie wirusów, oczyść zainfekowane pliki i ponownie wyślij załącznik. Załącznik: websitelist01_maja.szumska.exe Nazwa wirusa:

strange question

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi group,   I have just a bit of an odd question.   Does anyone know if this device called: "NEC PC-9801 Bus Mouse Driver for Linux" also can be seen as a simple serial mouse?   Thanks in advance,   Paul Akkermans

Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use /backup to...well...back things up :) How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only accessible to the root user. I've read through a few man

Re: cannot display with res of 1024x768

2004-12-06 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   I'm afraid it's not that simple. I had tried it with 1024x768, it had not work that's why I took it out. Ohterwise I would not be able to go into graphics mode. Similarly for videoram.   Try harder for me pls.   Reply onlist pls.   thks   Jack        

running debian on graphics cards

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Howorth
I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? There, that's a wacky question for today! I don't even know whether the question makes sense. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: virtual interfaces

2004-12-06 Thread Adam Aube
Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:10:43AM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: >> Here's the problem - eth0 and eth0:0 are identical, so you have defined >> the interface twice. > > really? I can bind eth0 and eth0:0 to different IPs on my 2.4 box no > problem. I just tested this on my system

Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ben Bettin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system > installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use > /backup to...well...back things up :) > > How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only

Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Kent West
Ben Bettin wrote: I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use /backup to...well...back things up :) How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only accessible to the root user. I've read

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nope, file is attached. I have also tried inserting the amd64_agp > module instead of via_agp, and disabling all the X extensions - no > joy. Again - this config works great with my Radeon 9000 card. I can > see that when the screen "flicks" every sec

Re: APT / DSelect questions

2004-12-06 Thread matze
El Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:25:06AM -0600 Michael Satterwhite ha dit: > Over my time on debian, I've been getting better at using these great tools, > but I have a couple of questions for the experts here: > > (1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / versions are > currentl

Re: cannot display with res of 1024x768

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 05:49 -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm afraid it's not that simple. I had tried it with 1024x768, it had > not work that's why I took it out. Ohterwise I would not be able to go Probably because it's 24bpp. Try 16bpp. > into graphics mode. Similarly for vide

Re: strange question

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:57 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi group, > > I have just a bit of an odd question. > > Does anyone know if this device called: "NEC PC-9801 Bus Mouse Driver > for Linux" also can be seen as a simple serial mouse? Bus mouse??? Gads, those are *Ancient*, even from

Re: running debian on graphics cards

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:09 +, Dave Howorth wrote: > I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered > whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? > > There, that's a wacky question for today! I don't even know whether the > question makes sense. GPUs and the circuit

APT / DSelect questions

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Over my time on debian, I've been getting better at using these great tools, but I have a couple of questions for the experts here: (1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / versions are currently installed on my system? (2) Procedure question: I currently have Python 2.3 i

Re: APT / DSelect questions

2004-12-06 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / > versions are currently installed on my system? dpkg -l will list all packages installed and their current versions. > (2) Procedure question: I currently have Python 2.3 installed o

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Antony Gelberg
Dominique Dumont wrote: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nope, file is attached. I have also tried inserting the amd64_agp module instead of via_agp, and disabling all the X extensions - no joy. Again - this config works great with my Radeon 9000 card. I can see that when the screen "f

Re: Radeon 9200 issues

2004-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure what you mean "logged by X as possible". It works fine with > my Radeon 9000. >From the EDID data retrieved (see below) by the radeon driver, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is: - not a "Supported VESA Video Modes" - a "Supported Future Video Modes" Re-r

OT: Debian Jobs / Consulting

2004-12-06 Thread Guy Koehler
Is there a listserv that focuses on Linux (Debian) jobs, consulting opportunities? How many of you are earning your income working with Linux? with Debian? If so, what do you specialize in? I write C/C++ (always worked with Win / Mac up till now). Am installing Debian on a new machine, and am res

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> If your home directory has a different path on the two machines, try this: > > DYNAMIC=${PWD#$HOME/} > ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd $DYNAMIC ; exec /bin/bash --login -i" > > This should plunk you in the corresponding directory on the remote host, > whether you're in $HOME/foo or /usr/bin.

Re: dist-upgrade broke srage

2004-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Xucaen wrote: I just did a dist-upgrade on my sarge installation and for some reason it tried to re-install my kernel image. Before any dist-upgrades do a backup. Then when all hell breaks loose you just restore. Dist-upgrades belong either to UNSTABLE or to TESTING neither of which have any gu

Re: strange question

2004-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:57 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi group, I have just a bit of an odd question. Does anyone know if this device called: "NEC PC-9801 Bus Mouse Driver for Linux" also can be seen as a simple serial mouse? Bus mouse??? Gads, those are *Ancient*, even f

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 17:53 +0100, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server without a monitor that I need to run X on. > I will need to run X programs on the machine and I want to be able to > log on to the server from my desktop mashine. When I log in I want to be > able to start X p

[OT] Internet control

2004-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! This from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/business/businessspecial2/06net.html which says that all internet traffic goes through 5 backbones, supposedly to check for content. Question: with the amazing volume they have, how do they do it? Use current technology á

Re: [OT] Internet control

2004-12-06 Thread Ken Gilmour
Captain's Log, stardate Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:39:59 -0600, from the fingers of Hugo Vanwoerkom came the words: > which says that all internet traffic goes through 5 backbones, > supposedly to check for content. > > Question: with the amazing volume they have, how do they do it? Use > current technol

Network card woes

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Croucher
Hi I am trying to install Debian (The latest stable release) on a shiny new viglen machine but they seem to have given me a weird network card. It was not autodetected by the installer and I cannot find any info that helps via a google search. lspci gives me Ethernet controller: Galileo Technolog

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Otto Wyss
Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'ello Otto > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the > > > gtk2-engines-xfce package too. > > I have it installed (from D

Re: lspci and /sys

2004-12-06 Thread CW Harris
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:22:41AM +0100, Petter Senften wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to > my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some > attention here :) > > My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from W

Woody & USB drive identification

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Miller
Hello All, I am currently running debian woody with a stock kernel (2.4.20-k6). I have two USB hard drives that I want to be able to swap for a backup. When I plug in the first drive, it gets the assignment of /dev/sdd1. Now I want to be able to unplug this drive and put in the other and have the

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Otto Wyss wrote: Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 'ello Otto On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the gtk2-engines-xfce package too. I have it inst

Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Joao Clemente
Ben Bettin wrote: I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives. One has my system installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup. I intended to use /backup to...well...back things up :) How do I grant certain users access to /backup? Right now it's only accessible to the root user. I've read

Re: sound/alsa: missing dependencies

2004-12-06 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:00:40 +0100, michael wrote: > Am new to this so pls bear with me. I did a 'apt-get install > alsa-source' and it asked a few questions (which soundcard). But what do > I do next? Rough outline: apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 cd /usr/src tar jxf kernel-source-2.4.27.ta

Ending a thread

2004-12-06 Thread Jim Hall
I've noticed a certain variability in ending threads. Is there a particular way to do this, or is it as simple as replying to the last post and adding "problem solved" to the subject? Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Ben Bettin
Over the years one of the few things that has forced me to keep a windows install handy was cd writing. Recently I was finally able to kick the M$ habit, after discovering the ease of Nautilus's data cd creation in Gnome, but it doesn't do everything I'd like to do. I could be wrong, but from wha

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > If the Nautilus creator only does the creation of data cd/dvd's, I > need a simple way to copy cd's and dvd's. I'd prefer not to have to > use the console. I would definitly prefer a method which integrates > nicely into Gnome like the Nautil

Re: running debian on graphics cards

2004-12-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:00 +, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered > whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? > > There, that's a wacky question for today! I don't even know whether the > question makes sense. >

Re: Framebuffer console - chrooted Debian install

2004-12-06 Thread cga
Andrea Vettorello wrote: Thanks much for your reply. In /boot you should find the config used to compile the kernel, i'm not quite sure if is the same for Woody, anyway you can look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4-X where you should find all the info you need. About the only place I didn't thin

Re: Framebuffer console - chrooted Debian install

2004-12-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:45:40 -0500, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > Thanks much for your reply. > > >In /boot you should find the config used to compile the kernel, i'm > >not quite sure if is the same for Woody, anyway you can look in > >/usr/share/doc/kernel-

Package 'prosper' and color in Latex

2004-12-06 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, I have installed the latest versions (from 'unstable') of the Debian packages tetex-{base,bin,extra} and prosper. I am making slides using the 'prosper' class, and I want to be able to change the color of some words. (I don't want to change the color of everything, just to highlight some w

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Otto Wyss
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > them are very nice. G5ish is a nice theme for XFCE, Metacity and Gkrellm. Not very much choices. G5ish is one of the the best but I'll stick with xfce-winter. O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippet

Re: Framebuffer console - chrooted Debian install

2004-12-06 Thread Otto Wyss
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Probably you need to install at least "fbset" package. > > > > > No, I was referring to a Debian config script. The switch to graphical > console takes place very early on in the boot process and the code has > to be a functional part of the kernel (compiled-in

Re: strange question

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:22 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:57 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > > > >>Hi group, > >> > >>I have just a bit of an odd question. > >> > >>Does anyone know if this device called: "NEC PC-9801 Bus Mouse Driver > >>for Lin

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > > What would you all suggest? > > K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning program for linux > there is. Take a look! I second this app. It also has the abilit

Re: Framebuffer console - chrooted Debian install

2004-12-06 Thread cga
Andrea Vettorello wrote: Ah ok, so no configuration script that i'm aware of. I mean, you can configure your boot loader (Grub or Lilo) to pass the needed option to the kernel to enable the framebuffer with resolution, depth, draw strategies and so on, or if 60 Hz refresh rate is enough for you, yo

Re: Ending a thread

2004-12-06 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:41:16PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > I've noticed a certain variability in ending threads. Is there a > particular way to do this, or is it as simple as replying to the last > post and adding "problem solved" to the subject? I don't believe this topic is covered on the Mai

Re: [OT] Internet control

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:11 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Captain's Log, stardate Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:39:59 -0600, from the > fingers of Hugo Vanwoerkom came the words: > > which says that all internet traffic goes through 5 backbones, > > supposedly to check for content. > > > > Question: with the

Re: Network card woes

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:05 +, Mike Croucher wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install Debian (The latest stable > release) on a shiny new viglen machine but they seem > to have given me a weird network card. It was not > autodetected by the installer and I cannot find any > info that helps via a

Re: Woody & USB drive identification

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 12:08 -0600, Nick Miller wrote: > Hello All, > > I am currently running debian woody with a stock kernel (2.4.20-k6). I > have two USB hard drives that I want to be able to swap for a backup. > When I plug in the first drive, it gets the assignment of /dev/sdd1. Now > I wan

Re: Package 'prosper' and color in Latex

2004-12-06 Thread Dustin Lang
To follow up on my own message: I have installed the latest versions (from 'unstable') of the Debian packages tetex-{base,bin,extra} and prosper. Specifically: tetex-base 2.0.2c-1 tetex-bin 2.0.2-24 tetex-extra 2.0.2c-1 prosper 1.00.4+cvs.2004

Re: ssh port forwarding errors

2004-12-06 Thread Allene . Lester
Allene Lester Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 8 OE) Operating Systems Programmer (TSDC UNIX) Federal Reserve Information Technology 214-922-6436 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't eject CD

2004-12-06 Thread John Fleming
Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I really don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAPI:0,0,0. I've tried cdrecord -eject to no avail. Any help please? Debian Sarge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Can't eject CD

2004-12-06 Thread Eriberto
Try #eject. Regards, Eriberto John Fleming escreveu: Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I really don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAPI:0,0,0. I've tried cdrecord -eject to no avail. Any help please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > > > What would you all suggest? > > > > K3b, though not GTK/Gnome, is perhaps the best burning p

Re: Can't eject CD

2004-12-06 Thread Franz Gustav Niederheitmann
Em Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:45:26 -0200, Eriberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disse: > Try #eject. try to umount ! > > Regards, > > Eriberto > > John Fleming escreveu: > > >Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I > >really don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAP

Re: Package 'prosper' and color in Latex

2004-12-06 Thread Dustin Lang
Me again... *sigh* I found a solution: instead of \textcolor or \color, just use \yellow, etc: \documentclass{prosper} \begin{document} {\yellow Test} \end{document} Argh. At least it works. dstn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Ending a thread

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 06 December 2004 12:41 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > I've noticed a certain variability in ending threads. Is there a > particular way to do this, or is it as simple as replying to the last > post and adding "problem solved" to the subject? I would add [SOLVED] to the subject somewhere and pos

Re: Ending a thread

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 06 December 2004 2:29 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:41:16PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > > I've noticed a certain variability in ending threads. Is there a > > particular way to do this, or is it as simple as replying to the last > > post and adding "problem solved"

paper size

2004-12-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
In a sarge installation, I should have leter as paper size for my system, but it seems more like a4. Checking config.ps I see a4 listed before letter. A few years ago, it meant that ps docs produced locally would be a4 by default. Then I had to manually tweak it to get paper size. Afterwards someon

RE: Can't eject CD

2004-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
do a fuser on the cdrive look for the process that "holds" it and stop/kill it. man fuser for details regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: John Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:28 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't eject CD Pse he

Re: APT / DSelect questions

2004-12-06 Thread Lex Hider
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:25 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Over my time on debian, I've been getting better at using these great tools, > but I have a couple of questions for the experts here: > > (1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / versions are > currently instal

install question (P3 and P4)

2004-12-06 Thread Simon Buchanan
hi there...im about to install debian testing onto a box here. Its faily urgent that i get this up and running (like today), but my new P4 motherboard wont turn up until tomorrow... I have a P3 type motherboard... my question is: If i install into my system, with the P3 and P3 motherboard, what

Re: install question (P3 and P4)

2004-12-06 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, I don't have any experience with that particular setup (P3 to P4), but I would bet you a nickel that everything will work fine. You will be installing the "i386" version of debian, which should work equivalently on everything from 386 on up, which certainly includes both P3 and P4 processo

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:35:59PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:28:07 +0100, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:18:54PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sh -c 'cd dirname; exec somecommand'" > > > > > >

Kmix: mixer cannot be found

2004-12-06 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I am using kde and my sound card can work under the kde environment. I can use xmms or mplayer to play music or video. I can also heard the sound of kde startup. But when i want to use kmix to control the volume, it reports "mixer cannot be found". I don't know what is the rela

Re: install question (P3 and P4)

2004-12-06 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:11:00PM +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: > hi there...im about to install debian testing onto a box here. Its faily > urgent that i get this up and running (like today), but my new P4 > motherboard wont turn up until tomorrow... I have a P3 type > motherboard... my questio

Re: Kmix: mixer cannot be found

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:20 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, >I am using kde and my sound card can work under the kde environment. > I can use xmms or mplayer to play music or video. I can also heard the > sound of kde startup. > >But when i want to use kmix to control the volume, it re

Linux Old on LILO & Vmlinuz.old in Root

2004-12-06 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Reinstalled Woody several times due to faulty system or setup. Last time appeared successful but included Linux Old besides Linux on startup and Vmlinus.old on root directory. First time this happened. Can anyone explain and is it safe to rm(delete) Vmlinuz.old from root? This occurred even tho

Re: Linux Old on LILO & Vmlinuz.old in Root

2004-12-06 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Reinstalled Woody several times due to faulty system or setup. Last time appeared successful but included Linux Old besides Linux on startup and Vmlinus.old on root directory. First time this happened. Can anyone explain and is it safe to rm(delete) Vmlinuz.old from roo

Using AutoCAD 2005 on linux:

2004-12-06 Thread Mike
I use autocad frequently. Is there some way to emulate it or is there a linux version available. I have heard that WINE and AutoCAD are not very stable. I heard that architects prefer linux for large projects instead of windows. I want to use AutoCAD. There has to be some way. This is the

Re: Framebuffer console disabled in woody [SOLVED?]

2004-12-06 Thread cga
Tried with 2.4.18 - seems to be the most recent kernel w/ woody (?) - same difference.. Then I took a look at the .config file in /boot and sure enough the VESA VGA option is unchecked. So the woody kernels apparently ship with the graphical console disabled. I googled a bit more and found a c

Re: Linux Old on LILO & Vmlinuz.old in Root

2004-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > If your current kernel is booting the system fine, then yes, you can > remove the vmlinuz.old from the root, and the appropriate stanza from > /etc/lilo.conf, and re-run lilo to get rid of it. However, there is no compelling reason to do so. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Using AutoCAD 2005 on linux:

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:25 -0800, Mike wrote: > I use autocad frequently. Is there some way to emulate it or is there a > linux version available. I have heard that WINE and AutoCAD are not > very stable. I heard that architects prefer linux for large projects > instead of windows. I want t

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Pack
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:53 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: > > > > What would you all sug

[Error]dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ,dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } with eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x6 length 0 status 00000600!

2004-12-06 Thread Adomelf
Hi, I meet some errors occasionally ,such as dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x6 length 0 status 0600! in the same time. The frequence of these errors incre

Debian Installer Error

2004-12-06 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, Im using the latest debian installer (netinstall) to install and getting this error: Debootstrap error, Couldn't download libnewt0.51. Anyone seen this error before? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installer Error

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:33:47PM +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Hi There, Im using the latest debian installer (netinstall) to install > and getting this error: > > Debootstrap error, Couldn't download libnewt0.51. > > Anyone seen this error before? no. a) which version? b) did you have NIC in

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