Re: Some packages disappeared from unstable

2004-12-23 Thread Joop Stakenborg
> Just curious as to why these packages disappeared from unstable today: > > < hamlib2 > < hamlib2++ > < hamlib2-perl > < hamlib2-tcl > < python2.3-hamlib2 > Check out the hamlib3 packages. Joop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-23 Thread David Schmitt
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:23:08PM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > My question to you is -- Would building all source from Debian scratch > myself using apt-build make my system more stable and faster? Or > would I be prone to sending you funny e-mails after I've destroyed my > server? =)

Re: update-alternates

2004-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:56, Randolph Kahle wrote: > I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to > install Java. > > The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". It is > not installed on my machi

Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Cameron G
I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really rather avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain to maintain, and I have several servers to look after. The reason I'm asking is that I just g

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:37:27PM +0800, Cameron G wrote: > I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default > installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really rather > avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain to maintain, > and I have se

what is experimental?

2004-12-23 Thread Mauro Darida
Hello, just wondering what is experimental. I know about stable, testing and unstable, but cannot find anything about "experimental". Someone said it not a real distribution... -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWER reigns UNLIMITED. Successfully Microsoft free since Decembe

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-23 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 at 08:45:25 +, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > published. When you're getting started you're way too stupid to > > "Stupid"? I may not be a native speaker, but that certainly doesn't look > like the correct term at all

Re: SDL sound not working (ALSA, kernel 2.6.1)

2004-12-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dan Lenski (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am running Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.1 and having trouble > getting sound output to work with programs that use SDL. I have > installed the libsdl1.2-debian package. Try to also install libsdl1.2debian-alsa. best regards Andreas Janssen

Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto

2004-12-23 Thread Siju George
Hi all, I run Debian Woody 3.0r2 with the 1.0 version of subversion. I would like to upgrade Subversion alone form version 1.0 to 1.1. Could someone please tell me how I can do this without upgrading the whole System? Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

My Keyboard layout change when shutting down

2004-12-23 Thread Ngawang Dorjee Gelek
My Keyboard layout change when shutting down. I use swedish, 105 keys but when i restart I cant write å, ä and ö and the layout then is 104 keys but still swedish. I use XFLD (a live-cd that I installed on the HD). It runs Debian Unstable on a PC. I have tried to re-install the system, but stil

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:37 pm, Cameron G wrote: > I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default > installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really > rather avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain > to maintain, and I have seve

Re: Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto

2004-12-23 Thread David Dorward
Siju George wrote: I run Debian Woody 3.0r2 with the 1.0 version of subversion. According to a packages search[1], subversion doesn't exist in Woody, therefore you are presumably running a version from either an unofficial apt source, or a version you compiled yourself. I would like to upgrade S

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:32:58PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:22:56PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
I use "screen" for cut and paste in a terminal. I wrote a front-end to screen called "splish" which makes it much easier to switch between screens, and does other stuff, I get a splish prompt instead of a bash prompt when I log in / open an xterm. http://nipl.net/hacks/splish In screen ^A^[ pu

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:05:54PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > You could file a bug and request an option to have Debian's menu be *the* > > Gnome menu. > > Now, that would be a good thing, IMO. Seeing the applications separately > isn't that intuitive

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:01:29PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and > press M to unmute the main volume. > > Why doesn't this get "remembered" across reboots ? There is a gorgeous little program called "setmixer" that I use to

Re: Is the system clock broken ?

2004-12-23 Thread chris-usenet
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:45:55 +, jens wrote: > Hi there, I set up a new Debian box with a 2.6 kernel. For some reason or > other I can't get the system time to be correct. When I do a 'tzconfig' it > reports me as being in the correct time zone (American/Vancouver) but > when I do a 'date' comma

apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > "apt-get autoclean". Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that have b

help regarding /var/log

2004-12-23 Thread Umar Draz
hi dear members!     i need help regarding /var/logs     i want my /var/log/message file automatically clean when it reach 600KB so please help me how i do this log rotation?   thanks & regards   Umar Draz Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good.

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:54:29PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > However, I personally did chmod -R 770 on the basis that there aren't > usually executables in people's data files (at least not the users I'm > catering for). Nevetheless I can see the desirability of eliminating > the possibility o

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-23 Thread Chris Lale
Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 14:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: [snip] Search Googl

Re: How to display CMYK tiffs correctly?

2004-12-23 Thread Piotr Kopszak
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:01:06PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > > ~$ Error PK_85rgb.tif: LZW compression is not available to due to Unisys > > patent enforcement. > > > > > > What version of debian are you running? Much stuff in sarge now includes > LZW support. Use imagemagick to uncompre

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:51:27PM +0100, Richard Kemp wrote: > I tested all outplug of xmms : > OSS ... doesn't work > ALSA ... doesn't work > eSound work .. > > why eSound works and alsa doesn't and what it is ? I think esound is the "elightened sound daemon", esd, which provides sound mix

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:13:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > There's also a Debian package, IIRC 'si', which gleans data out of /proc > and other sources. There's a package called "hardinfo", is that what you meant? Karsten's script is available at Rick Moan's very helpful linuxmafia site,

RE: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Cameron G
> -Original Message- > From: Greg Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 5:40 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6 > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:37 pm, Cameron G wrote: > > I'm just wondering, wha

Re: Need help mounting an LVM partition in fstab...

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:44:22PM -0600, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I have both Debian 3.1 and Fedora Core 3 on this computer, and FC3 is > using an LVM filesystem. I can mount my Debian filesystem in Fedora > because it is a simple ext2 partition, but in Debian, I am not sure > how to mount my Fedor

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-23 Thread Julien Danjou
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:23:08PM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > My question to you is -- Would building all source from Debian scratch > myself using apt-build make my system more stable and faster? Or > would I be prone to sending you funny e-mails after I've destroyed my > server? =)

Re: help regarding /var/log

2004-12-23 Thread harry_b
Hi, --On Thursday, December 23, 2004 02:03:04 -0800 Umar Draz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i need help regarding /var/logs i want my /var/log/message file automatically clean when it reach 600KB so please help me how i do this log rotation? apt-cache show logrotate HTH, Harry -- 1024D/40F14012

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it linked against ncurses? http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#using_gpm_lib -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:37:27 +0800 "Cameron G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default > installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really > rather avoid rolling my own kernels There are symbolic links in / for the kern

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-23 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Mauro, hello list! On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > just wondering what is experimental. I know about stable, testing and > unstable, but cannot find anything about "experimental". Someone said it > not a real distribution... "It is meant to be a temporary sta

Re: My Keyboard layout change when shutting down

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:38:56AM +0100, Ngawang Dorjee Gelek wrote: > My Keyboard layout change when shutting down. > I use swedish, 105 keys but when i restart I cant write ?, ? and ? and > the layout then is 104 keys but still swedish. Are you talking about the keyboard layout in X? > If any

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Meyer
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and paste anything since I'm w

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 22:20), Ian Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get our system to boot using > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with > no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and > paste anything since I'm working on the console)

Re: Rotating mail.log

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:56:42AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Perhaps I didn't explain properly. I know cron is running (ps ax | grep > cron), but don't know how to check if it's doing what it's supposed to. Apparently something's not doing what it's supposed to do if your logs aren't gettin

disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before. However, this seems to be impossible, as the console blanks itself after a couple of minutes. As said,

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Parker
On Thursday 23 December 2004 20:57, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > > "apt-get autoclean". > > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > option that do

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 04:20, Ian Meyer wrote: > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init 424 cannot open dev/console > kernel panic: Attempted to kill init > I've seen this a lot while testing debian-installer on DL380's with the 2.6 kernel but they were all related to using grub as the

Re: Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto

2004-12-23 Thread Siju George
Hi David, Thankyou somuch for your reply :) On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:41:22 +, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > I run Debian Woody 3.0r2 > > with the 1.0 version of subversion. > > According to a packages search[1], subversion doesn't exist in Woody, > therefor

Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Björn Abt
Hello List, I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed Debian Sarge netinst on this machine and after examining the system i found out that top only shows 906MB RAM, even /proc/meminfo shows only 906MB. I tried this with both the 2.4 (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386)

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:18:24PM +1100, Robert Parker wrote: > > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > > option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that > > have been installed on your computer. If it's installed ok already, we > > don't

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: > I have translated a french article about apt-build. This is a quick > introduction about its usage. > I hope this could help some people to use this software and to make it > better by sending patches, for example. :-) Julien, thanks

Re: dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-23 Thread Bob Alexander
Sam Watkins wrote: you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly: dig www.apple.com Thank you Sam. Very interesting. But I keep on being a little confused. tcpdump -n -i eth0 port 53 shows activity for "dig www.apple.com" every time, while for all other names I can try, the activity on p

Re: SMBMount issues between Woody and Sid

2004-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/04 14:59), Gonzalo Sainz-Trápaga wrote: > Hi, I posted this message on debian-testing and someone recommmended > posting here instead. The original message follows. Since samba 2.2 > went EOL lately, I upgraded Samba on the server to samba 3.0 from > backports.org after writing this messa

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Björn Abt wrote: Hello List, I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed Debian Sarge netinst on this machine and after examining the system i found out that top only shows 906MB RAM, even /proc/meminfo shows only 906MB. I tried this with both the 2.4 (kernel-imag

Re: Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:15:36PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > So I went to the subversion mailinglist and posted this problem and > they gave me two urls which I added into my source list > --- > deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ stable main co

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread JerryN
How exactly do you do that? CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G CONFIG_HIGHMEM Jerr On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 14:05 +0100, Laurent CARON wrote: > Björn Abt wrote: > > >Hello List, > > > >I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed > >Debian Sarge netinst on this mac

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
JerryN wrote: How exactly do you do that? CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G CONFIG_HIGHMEM Jerr Either download a highmem enabled kernel or build one (with make-kpkg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Meyer
John Smith wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 04:20, Ian Meyer wrote: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init 424 cannot open dev/console kernel panic: Attempted to kill init I've seen this a lot while testing debian-installer on DL380's with the 2.6 kernel but they were all related to using gr

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread JerryN
Which kernels for a 386 would be 4GB enabled? On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 14:11 +0100, Laurent CARON wrote: > JerryN wrote: > > >How exactly do you do that? > > > >CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G > >CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G > >CONFIG_HIGHMEM > > > >Jerr > > > > > > > Either download a highmem enabled kernel or build one

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:45:12 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > Happens only with user "bob" or with any user? IIRC, there should be a > > debconf option for ALSA to save mixer volume, try with > > "dpkg-reconfigure -plow alsa-base"... > > > > > > Andr

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:57:53AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:31:32PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > > What is the best way to "apt-get update" a classroom full of debian > > sarge machines. > > > > I tired using > > > > apt-get update > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninterac

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:16:35 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. > Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would > like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before. > However, this se

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:22:45AM -0500, JerryN wrote: > Which kernels for a 386 would be 4GB enabled? I don't think any of the default debian kernels are 4GB enabled, are they? Their package names don't mention it, anyway. You may have to build your own. Is there someplace to download highmem

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:16 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. > Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would > like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before. > However, this seems to be impos

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome system monitor 884 MB. I have to say that my kernel is not 4GB enabled: so far I thought that 1GB was smaller that 4GB. Jerome Björn Abt wrote: Hello L

Re: Issues with Gnome-2.8

2004-12-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:18:21 +, Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there, > > i have been a long time blackbox user, but recently decided that maybe a full > blown desktop would be nice for a change. so i installed gnome-2.8 from > testing/unstable. it looks very sweet, but i have se

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:39:12 +, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): > I have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB > and the Gnome system monitor 884 MB. > > I have to say that my kernel is not

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:39 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I > have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome > system monitor 884 MB. > > I have to say that my kernel is not 4GB enabled: s

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-23 Thread housetier
After talking to lilo of freenode staff about this matter, I was advised that ##debian (yes, two '#') and not #debian-friendly is the right place for the unofficial debian support channel. So I have joined it and would like to ask others to do so as well, so we can try to help those who (for whatev

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Chris Lale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 14:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> > >>>on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL > >>>PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > > "apt-get autoclean". > > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > option that

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for the reply. Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:39:12 +, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome system monitor 884 MB. I ha

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Dave Ewart wrote: On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:39 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome system monitor 884 MB. I have to say that my kernel is not 4GB enabled

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 14:15 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I > >>have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome > >>system monitor 884 MB. > >> > >>I have to say that my kernel is not 4GB enabled: so far I

How obtain an old kernel source

2004-12-23 Thread Norberto Altalef
Hi. I need the kernel-source-2.6.8, but no the last release. Is there any site to download old versions or is there any way to obtain from the present release ? Present package: kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-10) I need: kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-3) I appreciate very much any advice. Thanks in advan

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Sam Watkins wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:22:45AM -0500, JerryN wrote: Which kernels for a 386 would be 4GB enabled? I don't think any of the default debian kernels are 4GB enabled, are they? Their package names don't mention it, anyway. You may have to build your own. Is there somep

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Kent West
Aldebaran wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running "apt-get autoclean". Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to hav

Re: How obtain an old kernel source

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Norberto Altalef wrote: Hi. I need the kernel-source-2.6.8, but no the last release. Is there any site to download old versions or is there any way to obtain from the present release ? Present package: kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-10) I need: kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-3) I appreciate very much any a

Re: Sarge Upgrade Broke Everything Except Terminal

2004-12-23 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not sure what you mean by "virtual kernel-image". When I do an "apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6.8", with my sources.list pointing at unstable, I see no version -10; -9 is the highest I've seen. I'll explain. It'

dpkg install and extract options

2004-12-23 Thread Bahadir Balban
just a simple question - if I use dpkg -i option, does it do anything extra than resolving dependencies and extracting the packages? In other words, if I know about the dependencies of my packages, simply using the -x (extract) option, would I get a working installation for a package? Thanks, B

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-12-23 20:57:36 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that > have been installed on your computer. If it's installed ok already, we > don't need the archive, righ

Re: No net, kernel recompile

2004-12-23 Thread Ted Parks
I appreciate the help with my query. I was able to solve the problem after stumbling upon some earlier messages from the list. The problem is that, upon recompiling the kernel, I failed to build in the first and sixth items under "network options," I think they were, which are necessary for DHCP t

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 23 December 2004 07:16 am, martin f krafft wrote: > I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. > Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, Check the cpu fan? daveA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
Björn Abt wrote: Hello List, I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed Debian Sarge netinst on this machine and after examining the system i found out that top only shows 906MB RAM, even /proc/meminfo shows only 906MB. I tried this with both the 2.4 (kernel-imag

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Cameron G wrote: > I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default > installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really > rather avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain to > maintain, and I have several servers to look after. The reason I

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:41:07 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the mail please let me be more sure: > > The backup directory contains a Mail/Local Folders directory in which I > see two file pairs of interest: > keep and keep msf > Sent and Sent msf > > If I rename them and pl

boot disk for sarge?

2004-12-23 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody, Just installed sarge, GRUB is all messed up so I'm trying to make a boot floppy to be able to boot for now. But I can't find any choices for Make a Boot Floppy in the menu system on the netinstall disc like there is on the woody disc. Can you please tell me how to do this with

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:28:43PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:13:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > There's also a Debian package, IIRC 'si', which gleans data out of /proc > > and other sources. > > There's a package called "hardinfo", is that what you meant? > >

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:00:03AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Chris Lale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 14:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >> > > >>>on Tue

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread JerryN
Intriguing! So many words in this track being said but nothing really of any value whatever... On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 16:02 +, Joao Clemente wrote: > Björn Abt wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed > > Debian Sarge netins

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Sam Watkins([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:57:53AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > > I just noticed there are some dpkg options that cause it not to ask > these questions. > > --force-confold and --force-confnew > > I wouldn't use --force-confnew, but --f

Ethernet Card Problem

2004-12-23 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
Hello List, I have a probelm with a wireless card, I loaded the correct drivers, nevertheless at boot time it shows me the follwing messages: eth1: unknown hardware address type 24 Listening on LPF/eth1/ Sending on LPF/eth1/ Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 15:15, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:39 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > > > >>Hello List, > >> > >>I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I > >>have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread JerryN
I have the book. Sorry, but it's about as practically informative as these numerous emails. On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 18:24 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 15:15, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Dave Ewart wrote: > > > On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:39 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > >

Re: boot disk for sarge?

2004-12-23 Thread messmate
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:33:19 -0500 Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey everybody, > >Just installed sarge, GRUB is all messed up so I'm trying to make a >boot floppy to be able to boot for now. But I can't find any choices >for Make a Boot Floppy in the menu system on the netinstall di

evolution 2.0 broken on sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Lou Ruppert
Ignoring the irony of asking people to email about whether their email has died, has anyone had any problems like the following?: When I updated my Sarge apt packages last night, upgrading from evolution 1.x to 2.x, the conversion process hung during the contacts conversion. I tried it eight or n

Re: help regarding /var/log

2004-12-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 23 December 2004 2:03 am, Umar Draz wrote: > i want my /var/log/message file automatically clean when it reach > 600KB so please help me how i do this log rotation? http://ursine.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/dwww?search=logrotate Check out the documentation. I believe there are several examp

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:10:15 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and > press M to unmute the main volume. > > Why doesn't this get "remembered" across reboots ? > > Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel. udev or not? -- Thoma

dpkg install and extract options - are they different from installed files' point of view?

2004-12-23 Thread Bahadir Balban
Hi there, just a simple question - if I use dpkg -i option, does it do anything extra than resolving dependencies and extracting the packages? In other words, if I know about the dependencies of my packages, simply using the -x (extract) option, would I get a working installation for a package?

Re: dpkg install and extract options

2004-12-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 23 December 2004 6:48 am, Bahadir Balban wrote: > just a simple question - > > if I use dpkg -i option, does it do anything extra than resolving > dependencies and extracting the packages? It calls debconf to set up the package as well. > In other words, if I know about the dependen

download help needed

2004-12-23 Thread lball211
I'm trying to download woody via jigdo. The isntructions are not clear. Jigdo was asking me for the number of the file i wanted to download. various numbers etc were tried to no avail. Can someone send me more clear step by step instructions to getting Debian. Thanks Lauren -- No virus foun

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-23 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:47:11AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:05:54PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > > You could file a bug and request an option to have Debian's menu > > > be *the* Gnome menu. > > > > Now, that would be a go

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 12:33 -0500, JerryN wrote: > > > >>Hello List, > > > >> > > > >>I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron > > > >>8200): I have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB > > > >>and the Gnome system monitor 884 MB. > > > >> > > > >>I have to say t

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:38:27AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:47:11AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:05:54PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: > > > > You could file a bug and request an option to have

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-23 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:38:27AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:47:11AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:05:54PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > On Dec 22 2004, William Balla

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread JerryN
Nobody has said which kernel would work. I am using the 386 kernel. As I understand it, the 686 is only for Pentium 4's. I've seen several emails about that. So I would love to see something practical and very specific. In as far as "real world" commands that are needed in order to utilize

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-23 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:26:56AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Sam Watkins([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I just noticed there are some dpkg options that cause it not to ask > > these questions. > > > > --force-confold and --force-confnew > > > > I wouldn't use --force-confnew,

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread David
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:57:07AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Aldebaran wrote: > >On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote: > >>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >>>Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > >>>"apt-get autoclean

Correct syntax for mkinitrd command?

2004-12-23 Thread Andrew Konosky
I am trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.9 kernel and I have configured it and compiled it, but the mkinitrd syntax is different from the one I am used to in Fedora. My kernel modules are in /lib/modules/2.6.9custom and I want to create an initrd image in /boot/initrd-2.6.9_custom.img. I ran this a

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