Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > 2005, or 2006, when Sarge ships? :/ > Depends on how much longer the hot babe/LCC/blob threads are going to last. :) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Ensonic SB sound card drivers?

2004-12-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello John Conover (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do you install the drivers for an Ensonic SB card on Debian 3? It > was es1371 under Debian 2. Where is es1371.o and soundcore.o for > Debian 3? Which kernel do you use? If it is 2.2.20-idepci (the default installation kernel), install either

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:31:18PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: > unneeded utilities. Does anyone know of an active > floppy based firewall (Linux or *BSD)? No. Use an old laptop with a hard drive, and two PCMCIA net cards. Take one floppy. Put the OpenBSD install image on it. Install OpenBSD vi

Re: switching X resolution modes?

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Michal, I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but here's my idea. If you are starting X with the "startx" command, there is a switch available for color depth: startx -- -depth 16 So in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, you could define different resolutions for different color depths

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Alex Barylo
I second that - I use my old AMD-K6 box with Sarge as a firewall. I use and _highly_ recommend FIAIF firewall (http://www.fiaif.net/) - I picked it up from securityfocus.com top tools. HTH, Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Park
Ken Gilmour wrote: Captain's Log, stardate Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:11:46 -0600, from the fingers of Michael Madden came the words: Does anyone know of a decent Linux based router project out there? In the past I've used LRP (http://www.linuxrouter.org), but it looks like the project isn't maintained

RE: webmin sendmail not working Debian Woody

2004-12-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > piffle...sendmail works fine, real easy to add in clamav/clamav-milter ...and rootkits :-) as well, far easier than postfix. > eh six of one and half a dozen of the other I suppose. I've used sendmail, exim, and postfix. I prefer postfix. None of th

the point of user groups?

2004-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
adduser on a default Debian system will create a new group for each new user, and make e.g. /home/joe be joe:joe. Why? joe is *not* given rights to add members to the group. So what's the point? I think this is a RedHat-ism, and I think they never had a real reason. Maybe I am also just overlooki

Re: xserver trouble

2004-12-13 Thread Kent West
Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: Hello list I'm in trouble with the installation of the xserver. After I installed the packages discover, mdetect and read-edit, I installed the x-window-system and configured it. When I run startx I get the following: (WW) Radeon: No matching Device section for instance

usb stick hangs debian

2004-12-13 Thread Vijaya S
hi all, Whenever i connect a USB flash stick to my debian sarge machine it hangs and i have to reset the machine.. why does this happen any ideas pls? its an AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ processor speed 2004.568 512Mb ram /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted apm

Re: usb stick hangs debian

2004-12-13 Thread Vijaya S
USB Mass Storage support registered. the above message only appears in /var/log/messages Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:26:39PM +0530, Vijaya S wrote: > > hi all, > > Whenever i connect a USB flash stick to my debian sarge machine it hangs > > and i have to reset the machine.. > >

Support for VIA/S3G Unichrome integrated graphics card

2004-12-13 Thread A. Lanza
I have a VIA/S3G Unichrome graphics card integrated on my motherboard. I have installed Woody but can't start X server. Logs say that no device is found. Is there any support for this integrated graphics card for Debian? Any help would be appreciated. TIA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

gnome logins

2004-12-13 Thread Matt Johnson
Hi, I really need a hand fixing gnome 2.8 after a dit-upgrade yesterday. I'm downloading kde as this problem is a show stopper in the library lab at the school in which I teach - and people need to use these machines. Summary: * we use winbind/pam/nt server for auth for our debian terminal serve

Re: Free alternative to File Maker

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:03:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I know it's not a debian question, but I'm looking for an alternative to File > Maker Pro. Let me explain my problem. > > I'm a french teacher and I prepare my students to various exams. We teachers > have an association

Re: usb stick hangs debian

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:42 +0530, Vijaya S wrote: > USB Mass Storage support registered. > the above message only appears in /var/log/messages What about /var/log/syslog? What kernel version are you running? Homegrown, or a pre-built kernel? If v2.6, are you running udev? > Carl Fink wrote: >

Re: OpenOffice exporting EPS files

2004-12-13 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
i mean a translucnt filled square :( too bad its not supported... -- Fred On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:03:30 +1030, David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:42:00PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > Hi. > > Why do the EPS files exported by OpenOffice have

Re: usb stick hangs debian

2004-12-13 Thread Vijaya S
kernel version 2.4.18-bf2.4 vijaya Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:35 +0530, Vijaya S wrote: > > output of /var/log/syslog > > VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64) > > ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 > > ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A > > VFS: Disk change

Re: switching X resolution modes?

2004-12-13 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 13-12-2004 23:39,Robert Storey wrote: > Dear Michal, > > I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but here's my idea. If > you are starting X with the "startx" command, there is a switch > available for color depth: > [cut] Oh, I see I have asked unclearly. What I want is changing the m

Re: usb stick hangs debian

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:01 +0530, Vijaya S wrote: > kernel version 2.4.18-bf2.4 You still haven't explained why there's CD-ROM stuff in syslog when you put in a thumb drive. In order for us to see anything useful, you must remove the thumb drive and then reinstall it. Better, though, would be t

Re: problem with cdrom

2004-12-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Alberto Bert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Dec 14, 2004 at 10:37:51AM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Alberto Bert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >> [cannot mount cdrom] >> Is the isofs driver loaded (lsmod)? > > no! I modprobed it, but now the answere is: > > # mount /cdrom > mount

Re: import outlook express to thunderbird

2004-12-13 Thread David Dorward
ms linux wrote: i'm sorry if this sounds obvious, but i realize that thunderbird for win has feature to import outlook express mails and addressbook. i'm curious how this feature not included in my thunderbird. I would expect it uses hooks into the Win32 API which, for obviously reasons, isn't ava

Re: apache

2004-12-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:34:30PM +0100, Andrea Tasso wrote: > Hi all, > I started from an hybrid istallation, say 50% woody and the rest mainly > sarge, and then > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > but from apache post-install (1.3.33-2) I got > > Unpacking replacement apache ... > Setting up apache

Re: import outlook express to thunderbird

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:34 +, David Dorward wrote: > ms linux wrote: > > i'm sorry if this sounds obvious, but i realize that > > thunderbird for win has feature to import outlook > > express mails and addressbook. > > i'm curious how this feature not included in my > > thunderbird. > > I wou

Re: Support for VIA/S3G Unichrome integrated graphics card

2004-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
A. Lanza wrote: I have a VIA/S3G Unichrome graphics card integrated on my motherboard. I have installed Woody but can't start X server. Logs say that no device is found. Is there any support for this integrated graphics card for Debian? Any help would be appreciated. TIA. I think it is the version

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >*snip* >> >>To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and >>fdisk, then you'll be backing up anyway ... So, do you backu

import outlook express to thunderbird

2004-12-13 Thread ms linux
i'm sorry if this sounds obvious, but i realize that thunderbird for win has feature to import outlook express mails and addressbook. i'm curious how this feature not included in my thunderbird. i'm still dualbooting with win on hda1 ( for gaming purpose only ) and will be very excited if my mails

{ugh} Front Page Extensions

2004-12-13 Thread John Fleming
I've been on this list awhile now, and I've never seen this topic. I was wondering if anyone here would consider mentoring a newbie (off-list) with the installation of {ugh} FP Extensions on an up-to-date Debian Sarge server? Any tips/pitfalls? I've read what I can find on related FPE sites, but

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:06:50PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I am using Sarge with a kernel 2.6.7-1-686. I have udev and hotplug and > gnome-volume-manager. However, I do not get an icon automatically when I > plug in a USB stick. In the other two machines in my home LAN, in which > I am

Re: Raid Array stays Dirty

2004-12-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:48:05PM +, ognjen Bezanov wrote: > After Setting up my RAID5 Array (4x 40gb drives) i got 120GB free space > and everything seemed ok, then after restart i was told that i had a > failure on a non-existant drive and the array rebuilt itself, not a big > deal in itself

Re: PowerPc 5300 compatible?

2004-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 05:06, sasha shkolnikov wrote: > I am new to Debian. I have an old Apple Macintosh 5300 PowerBook > (PowerPC chip). Does anyone know if I can run Debiac on it? ..and how. > Really don't want to waste it. A quick google

Re: [OT] Searching for a new upstream maintainer of Muttprint

2004-12-13 Thread Bernhard Walle
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:44:27PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: at first, what is Muttprint? Muttprint is a small Perl script to print mails in Mutt and other text-based mail clients in a friendly way. I've been working on Muttprint for 3 years. It was my first OpenSource project,

Re: Debian-based live-cd w/ LVM2 support?

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Garside
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:05:15AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:58:25PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > I haven't used it, but I think you can make your own with the > "bootcd" package. This package is very useful if you have a pre-existing system configured and takes

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-13 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 10-12-2004 23:26,Steve Block wrote: [] > > As far as to the 1280x1024 question, I don't know. What I do know is > that when I run my 19" Trinitron on 1280x1024 everything looks great, > and when I run it at 1280x960 things look strange. Maybe I just got used > to the aspect over time. > Dave h

Re: Re: woody support

2004-12-13 Thread mickeydog
>>Sarge is 3.1. >>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Thanks. 15 CDs??? I was a little overwhelmed that woody was 7...now 15 It seems like the other linux's are 3 or 4. Why so many? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:50 -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without > >any problems. > > Interesting. Will this work if I have to fix partitions that do not > end on cylinder boundaries? > > > fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > Dis

sync-ing Evolution on 2 debian boxes

2004-12-13 Thread michael
Hi I have two Debian boxes, each with Evolution running, and I wish to share the Calendar/Tasks. I did a web search and came up with people promoting "multiSync" so I have downloaded & installed that, plus the libmultisync-plugin-syncml, using 'apt-get install'. I've tried to run multiSync, using s

Re: debian cd

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53:49PM +0800, Jianan wrote: > Is there a distributor of Debian CD in Singapore? I am looking for the > 'testing' CD. yes. http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/#sg http://www.mynasoft.com/orders.htm They are only advertising woody CDs, they say to contact them by email if

Re: rpm

2004-12-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:58:40 +0100, Giorgio Raccanelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I need to install a driver for my ATI Radeon 9600. I found at the > following URL > > http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submi

Re: Bluetooth in the kernel

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:18 -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:09:02AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Where in the 2.6 menuconfig tree are the bluetooth drivers located? > > 2.6.10-rc3 > Device drivers > -> Networking support >-> Bluetooth subsystem support Thanks. Found it. -

Re: Looking for a potato mirror

2004-12-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:23:40PM +0100, Jim MacBaine wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Is there still any active mirror for Debian Potato? I've not > found any apt repository except the security and the non-US > ones. http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive has a list. They don't all work anymo

Fully open source java (and jsp) under Woody and Sarge

2004-12-13 Thread rec.sea
Dear friend, we would need to implement a jsp solution under Debian. On the server where we will implement the solution, we currently use Woody with some few packages from Sarge. I would like to know if it is possible to implement fully open source jsp solutions, or if we need in any case to inst

Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-12-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:16:28 -0600 (CST), Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:27:46 -0600 (CST), Gayle Lee Fairless > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > > I was wondering if the apt-get dist-upgrade would also upgrade > the > > kernel, too. Sour

Re: Fully open source java (and jsp) under Woody and Sarge

2004-12-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:53:47 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friend, > > we would need to implement a jsp solution under > Debian. On the server where we will implement the > solution, we currently use Woody with some few > packages from Sarge. > > I would like to

Endless X reconfigure

2004-12-13 Thread John Hodges
Just migrated to Debian for largely philosophical reasons, and now XFree86 is giving me fits. When I dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, the mouse does not respond regardless of which mouse settings I choose. After reconfiguring 5-6 times (even if I use the same values), it eventually works. Whenever

Re: can't initialize iptables table

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Buchanan wrote: > Hi There, as the last part of setting up our new mail server, i was just > about to install our firewall script based on iptables... having a quick > check i get this output: > mx1:/# iptables -L > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is > wro

Re: Fully open source java (and jsp) under Woody and Sarge

2004-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 13 Dec 2004 18:06, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > http://www.livejournal.com/users/avdyk/ Thanks for your very timely answer. I have to say that from reading the page you sent, we did not understand how to make jsp work under Debian using Open Source packages. Is there any further documen

Re: OpenOffice exporting EPS files

2004-12-13 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
i saw nothing listed there... :( i am exporting a powerpoint drawing into an EPS file for a dissertation i'm doing in LaTeX. does anybody know any other way to do this? i have already tried exporting through Microsoft PowerPoint, but it's EPS exporter is terrible. -- Fred On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:07

Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Michael Madden
Does anyone know of a decent Linux based router project out there? In the past I've used LRP (http://www.linuxrouter.org), but it looks like the project isn't maintained anymore. My requirements are pretty simple. I want to route traffic from network A to network B and route traffice from networ

Re: Java

2004-12-13 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
Dalibor Topic escribiÃ: You can fetch debs from blackdown already, if you feel like it, afair. I tried it, but it didn't worked in my computer ;( Yes. But that's not Debian's problem ... it's Sun's. They have not been seriously interested in fixing their licenses in the last 5+ years, though, s

iptables string support in Woody?

2004-12-13 Thread stefan kuttler
hi, trying to load this rule: % iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -d 0/0 --dport http -m string --string "/default.ida?" -j LOG I get the error: "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name" on: Linux 2.4.28 #2 Tue Nov 23 17:20:42 CET 2004 i686 unknown Debian Woody. Is this related to

Re: kde apps crashing

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Matt Price wrote: thx steve. so I tried installing kdelibs, kdebase, and kde... after which I am still getting this message. any idea which bits of kde I'm missing? No clue. I just know when I had that error message it was when I had installed k3b from unstable. I went back with Aptitude s

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Michael Madden
Alex Barylo wrote: I second that - I use my old AMD-K6 box with Sarge as a firewall. I use and _highly_ recommend FIAIF firewall (http://www.fiaif.net/) - I picked it up from securityfocus.com top tools. HTH, Alex. Thanks for all the advice. I guess something like LRP appealed to me more since it

nVidia 6629 driver

2004-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I tried out the latest nVidia driver - 6629 - and the result was disastrous. Now running 6111. Gdm starts up its autologon session (fvwm) and what should be a desktop is black without any characters anywhere. Their forum already noted similar problems. Anybody try it and have better

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Dnia 13-12-2004 10:56,Francois Cerbelle napisał: > Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20AM +0200, David Baron ecrit : >> On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is >> > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. >> >> B

rpm

2004-12-13 Thread Giorgio Raccanelli
Hello I need to install a driver for my ATI Radeon 9600. I found at the following URL http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=8&submit.y=7 the driver I'm looking for, but it is a .rpm file. Can I use it in Debian? Th

Re: Re: woody support

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
mickeydog wrote: >>>Sarge is 3.1. >>>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > Thanks. > 15 CDs??? > I was a little overwhelmed that woody was 7...now 15 > It seems like the other linux's are 3 or 4. > Why so many? Because of the massive package repository. Realistically, though, you can u

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree [SOLVED]

2004-12-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't you both take this off-list and save us dusting off our killfiles? actually I only saw that spew as I was looking for bug reports. My regards to the slashdotters. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --

Re: CD/DVD writer successes anyone?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:46:33PM +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > Ron Johnson escribió: > > >On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:46 -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > > > > >>Hello: > >> > >>I'm interested in adding a CD/DVD reader/writer to my meager system and > >>have been looking at LG GSA 416

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > QTparted is a very dangerous program. Rubbish, unless you can provide some evidence? I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without any problems. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Ken Gilmour
Captain's Log, stardate Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:26:40 -0500, from the fingers of Bruce Park came the words: > Ken Gilmour wrote: >> The only problem i have with Linux's iptables as opposed to >> OpenBSD's PF is that iptables has an overwhelming amount of stuff >> it can do and you can easily break it

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Watkins
You can also try "regular" parted, in the "parted" package. This is a command-line tool, very reliable, and fairly easy to use. Personally I'd rather not use a GUI to munge my partitions, especially as the X server has not been all that stable lately. qtparted is a frontend to parted. Unfortunat

Re: the point of user groups?

2004-12-13 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time martin f krafft said... > adduser on a default Debian system will create a new group for each > new user, and make e.g. /home/joe be joe:joe. Why? > > joe is *not* given rights to add members to the group. So what's the > point? I think this is a RedHat-ism, and I think they never

Re: Alsa Master is Mono?

2004-12-13 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:09:42 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Audigy2. I've done no special twiddling. I use Kernel 2.6.9 > with built in Alsa. > > Part of the output of "amixer" is: > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined > Playbac

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-13 Thread Micha Feigin
At Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:53:03 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:59 +, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (uppercase drivel deleted). > > Maybe you should spend more time reading such "drivel" and less time > spewing drivel, eh

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-13 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Install PS printer on your windows machine. Print to a file to make a PostScript file. On Linux PS files can be converted to CGM using ps2edit on command line or interactively using vector drawing program "sketch". I think that there is free plug-in for MS Word to import PS files. Google for it. O

udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-13 Thread H. S.
I am using Sarge with a kernel 2.6.7-1-686. I have udev and hotplug and gnome-volume-manager. However, I do not get an icon automatically when I plug in a USB stick. In the other two machines in my home LAN, in which I am running Sid, I can get the icon consistently. In this machine, running Sa

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree [SOLVED]

2004-12-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 13 December 2004 05:35 pm, Thomas Dickey wrote: > actually I only saw that spew as I was looking for bug reports. > > My regards to the slashdotters. I hate to ask, but: what spew? -- Kirk Strauser pgpi1u2QudRV0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Why does Sid debootstrap install ipchains? Why does sarge?

2004-12-13 Thread William Ballard
Sarge installs ipchains by default. Nothing that depends on ipchains is installed by default. I don't use ipchains. I use less. Can we have less in the base install and not ipchains? I use OpenBSD as my firewall. I think it's fair for people who want to use this non-essential feature of the ke

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:31:18PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: > > Thanks for all the advice. I guess something like > LRP appealed to me more since it was floppy based > and didn't require setting up a distro with many > unneeded utilities. Does anyone know of an active > flop

Re: Why does Sid debootstrap install ipchains? Why does sarge?

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sarge installs ipchains by default. > Nothing that depends on ipchains is installed by default. > > I don't use ipchains. I use less. > > Can we have less in the base install and not ipchains? It already is that way. less is Priority: standard, so i

Alsa Master is Mono?

2004-12-13 Thread William Ballard
I have Audigy2. I've done no special twiddling. I use Kernel 2.6.9 with built in Alsa. Part of the output of "amixer" is: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Mono: Playback 50 [50%] I use commands like "a

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 15:46 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Michael Madden wrote: > > > Alex Barylo wrote: [snip] > > > Freesco is a pretty decent floppy based router. > > freesco.org Note, though, that it uses kernel 2.0.39. -- - R

Re: OpenOffice exporting EPS files

2004-12-13 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Frederico, If you have a PostScript printer configured, you can print to a PS file and import PS to your LaTex document. Ivan On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 06:56, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > i saw nothing listed there... :( > i am exporting a powerpoint drawing into an EPS file for a > disserta

Re: nVidia 6629 driver

2004-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I tried out the latest nVidia driver - 6629 - and the result was disastrous. Now running 6111. Gdm starts up its autologon session (fvwm) and what should be a desktop is black without any characters anywhere. Their forum already noted similar problems. Anybody

Re: What happened to my menubar?

2004-12-13 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 15:02 -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I updated last night to the current sarge. Since then, my x11 session has > been > missing the menu bar that used to be on the top of the screen, and the bar at > the bottom that has an item for each open window. > > Nautilus is r

Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-13 Thread cga2001
> > You really don't need the latest version of gcc in order to install > Sarge, > no matter what install technique you use. All the stuff that you need to > install the OS is already compiled in a self consistent way. Once you > have > Sarge installed, you get the latest gcc for further work,

Re: GNOME File Association

2004-12-13 Thread Tim
I experienced the same problem recently while updating unstable (I've been running unstable for a while; it's possible I accidentally corrupted some file). Anyway, I solved my problem by running apt-get install --reinstall [all the programs Ron mentioned above]. All the programs were already inst

Okay. "debootstrap sid" worked and I can chroot. Now what?

2004-12-13 Thread William Ballard
I've run "debootstrap sid" (it spewed an ungodly number of warnings and failed to configure many packages, but it essentially worked) and I can chroot into it. Now what? Is there a way to run the rest of debian-installer inside of it to finish properly configuring the system? The ultimate goa

Re: Chaning GNOME Icon Size

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Park
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 19:19 -0500, Bruce Park wrote: In attempt to change the GNOME icon size, I did the following, Applications->Desktop Preferences->File Management Preferences. Under the "Icon View Defaults" I change this to 75%. Both of the checkboxes right below are unche

Re: Chaning GNOME Icon Size

2004-12-13 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:31:05PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > By the way, what is up with all these broken up things in GNOME. Eversince > I did an upgrade, it's been a nightmare when it comes to small things like > this. I really like Debian but it seems like I'm spendin a lot more time > tryin

Re: Chaning GNOME Icon Size

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Park
William Ballard wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:31:05PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: By the way, what is up with all these broken up things in GNOME. Eversince I did an upgrade, it's been a nightmare when it comes to small things like this. I really like Debian but it seems like I'm spendin a lot m

Re: Okay. "debootstrap sid" worked and I can chroot. Now what?

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:01:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I've run "debootstrap sid" (it spewed an ungodly number of warnings and > failed to configure many packages, but it essentially worked) and I can > chroot into it. > > Now what? Is there a way to run the rest of debian-installer

Re: Chaning GNOME Icon Size

2004-12-13 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 23:31 -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Eric Gaumer wrote: > > You can adjust the size of icons in the gtkrc file under the theme you > > are currently using and/or the index.theme file under the icon theme > > itself. > > I don't have any files other than .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2. > > In

Re: Troubleshooting Tips for ttyS0 problem

2004-12-13 Thread Pete
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:02 -0500, James Richardson wrote: > > what output do you get from setserial /dev/ttyS0 -a ? > > > Hi James, this is what I get: starserver:~# setserial /dev/ttyS0 -a /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divi

request

2004-12-13 Thread Avinash Parhi
Sir, i, avinash parhi,am a student of National Institute Of Rourkela(NIT)am very much interested in Gentoo Linux .Can i Get it For free as i will use it for learning purposes only as i m a student (My Roll no at NIT Rourkela-10405007).If yes i will be grateful to u for the favour. i will be eag

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