Re: can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread Jason Chambers
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:52:12PM +0800, Smith a wrote: > when i am in command line , i often use up arrow key to get commands used > before, but if i have used a command several times, the up arrow key will > display the same command several times, this is not welcome. > ~/.bash_history cont

Re: i82365 and Cirrus Logic CL 6729

2005-01-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:38:43 -0600, John Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:42 AM 12/31/2004, you wrote: > > > ~ # insmod i82365 > > > > >Usi > > > ng /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o > > >

sarge install problem: read-only disk

2005-01-01 Thread jon salenger
Hi, I'm working on an install, and I could use a bit of help/advice if anyone can and is willing: I'm doing a daily businesscard install (20041231). The installer finds DHCP and runs perfectly up to the base system install and reboot. At that point I choose packages (in this case, the default 'd

Re: xcdroast

2005-01-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:15:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 08:58:30AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I was able to get the scsi emulation turned back on easily enough. And > > it did burn one CD, the one I needed. But now I need to ac

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-01 Thread Alex Polite
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:51:26PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > Alex Polite wrote: > > > What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point > > to attach to? > > The 'ap' option to iwconfig (part of the wireless-tools package). > Thanks. But I'm thinking of the situation where I

Debian 64 bit on servers

2005-01-01 Thread Siju George
Hi all, I run Debian Woody 3.0r2 on a Pentium III machine now!! I would like to have a faster machine (a medium server but not any high end server) . So I would like to know the experience of others about installing 64-bit debian on an AMD 64-bit hardware or any other faster servers. Is 64-bit

Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello jon salenger (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm working on an install, and I could use a bit of help/advice if > anyone can and is willing: > > I'm doing a daily businesscard install (20041231). The installer finds > DHCP and runs perfectly up to the base system install and reboot. > > At

How to disable module loading during bootup

2005-01-01 Thread Han Lin
Hi guys, I'm new to Debian, I've just installed Debian using sarge debian-installer rc2 cd and upgrade to Sid. I need to disable my TV Tuner card (bttv) during bootup but don't know how to, I've already tried from /etc/modutils/actions by putting # in front of the post-install and post-remove :

Re: netenv boot popup

2005-01-01 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 10:56 AM Subject: Re: netenv boot popup > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > Can someone point me to the source that explains how to remove the > > Network Environment Se

Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:52:12PM +0800, Smith a wrote: > when i am in command line , i often use up arrow key to get commands used > before, but if i have used a command several times, the up arrow key will > display the same command several times, this is not welcome. > ~/.bash_history cont

dsl router with woody crashes sometimes

2005-01-01 Thread tobias pirzer
Title: Nachricht Hi & have nice new year to all, I've got a problem with my DSL Router running Debian woody kernel2.4.18-bf2.4 with 2 realtek network cards crashing abnormal. I was not able to find a reason for that strange behaviour and so I changed themachine and have now a notebook wit

surveillance (new package)

2005-01-01 Thread François Boisson
Good afternoon and happy new year, Just to say I have made a small program called «surveille» in a package named «surveillance». It's a static compiled program, writen in C, that checks the files listed in a liste_file (default is /etc/liste_surveillance) and compares the md5sum with the original

Re: How to disable module loading during bootup

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Han Lin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm new to Debian, I've just installed Debian using sarge > debian-installer rc2 cd and upgrade to Sid. > > I need to disable my TV Tuner card (bttv) during bootup but don't know > how to, I've already tried from /etc/modutils/actions by putting # in

Re: Sound stopped working after update

2005-01-01 Thread Hank Marquardt
I got bit by this too and posted here and on devel -- I was referred to these two bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/287483 http://bugs.debian.org/284356 If you read through them you'll find that they changed some symbol references in the new kernel you installed and any modules compiled a

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-01 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-31 @ 10:54:44 (week 53) Kent West wrote: > Except that neither of these extensions is available from the "Get More > Extensions" feature in Firefox. However, after your post, I googled for > these two extensions and found them at the "Extension Room" at MozDev > (http://extensionroom

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2005-01-01 Thread JohnOfArc
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer wrote: > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but > chkconfig will list the services and what their runlevels are and > whether or not they are started/stopped. Just curious, is

SOLVED: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2004-12-31 @ 10:54:44 (week 53) Kent West wrote: [I want a closing "X" on my tabs, like the feature found in Galeon. I googled for [tabx] and found [it] at the "Extension Room" at MozDev (http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/ctc), but when I click to install [

Re: How to disable module loading during bootup

2005-01-01 Thread Han Lin
Hi Andreas, Thanks for the hints. Now no more bttv modules appeared in my screen but I still can see the bttv: modules loaded successfully, it's funny but nevermind, I thought it's caused my soundcard not working but actually it's not, it's the OSS driver loaded before ALSA driver. Btw, I also se

Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Adelle Hartley
Hi all, I've been running Debian 3.0 for a while now, and I want to change the format of one of my partitions from FAT32 to a native Linux format. Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I type mkfs /dev/hdd I get the message "mkfs: command not found". Is this the right comman

Re: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Ollie Acheson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:35:22AM +1100, Adelle Hartley wrote: > Hi all, > Hi, Adelle, > I've been running Debian 3.0 for a while now, and I want to change the > format of one of my partitions from FAT32 to a native Linux format. > > Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I t

RE: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Adelle Hartley
> Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I type > > mkfs /dev/hdd > > I get the message "mkfs: command not found". Doh! I forgot to make myself root. Adelle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Linux command

2005-01-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Alvin Oga wrote: if i understood correctly, the original question was dealing with partitions ... This is true. But if he's already installed (which he has) those partitions are populated. Now, I'm not saying that the original poster is a complete neophyte as to think the data would move w

RE: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Adelle Hartley
> On my system the command is /sbin/mke2fs. There is a good set > of man pages starting with man mkfs. > > By the way, you need to point at the partition, e.g., > /dev/hdd3, not the overall hard drive as you did above (/dev/hdd). > > I assume you are abandoning the FAT32 partition's contents?

Re: How to disable module loading during bootup

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Han Lin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks for the hints. Now no more bttv modules appeared in my screen > but I still can see the bttv: modules loaded successfully, it's funny > but nevermind, I thought it's caused my soundcard not working but > actually it's not, it's the OSS driver lo

Where to put the PDA ?

2005-01-01 Thread J.F.Gratton
Hello everyone, I've bought a Sony Clie PDA and am currently trying to make it connect properly on my Debian system. My computer has 2 hi-speed (USB 2) ports as well as 2 USB 1.1 ports. When I run dpkg-reconfigure gnome-pilot (or kpilot), it asks on where port will the PDA be connected, giving my

Re: RE: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Huston
I use fdisk and do the same thing. - Original Message - From: "Adelle Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] RE: Changing the format of a partition Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I type mkfs /dev/hd

Re: pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2005-01-01 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 at 03:37:27 +, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >Dec 29 20:40:30 ifi pppd[793]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 > ><67ebcc8735df1478486093c19f9e869c>, name = "apx-na1"] > >Dec 29 20:40:30 ifi pppd[793]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 > ><8b7464067e56bd43969a6f290ef2e077>, name = "robert210"

Kernel upgrade followed by Palm sync freezing X?

2005-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
Could that be more convoluted? In order to fix my already-posted-about problem with ripping CD's, I finally upgraded from kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7 to kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7. It worked -- paranoia can read CD's again. Unfortunately, the first time I ran jpilot, X froze solidly. No mouse movement

NFS

2005-01-01 Thread jpollara
Hello, When I mount an NFS share I can't seem to write to it as any user... Both the systems authenticate against the same ldap server so uid's and gid's are all the same. My /etc/exports file looks like : /mnt/sda1/home/ (rw,no_root_squash) I mount the share from the client with the command : m

Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
From: Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Somewhat related: with CONTROL-R you can search backwards in your history when on the command line. It can be quite a time saver. I think that's only when you're in emacs-compatible mode. This is a feature of bash. Someone with more knowledge of the vari

Re: Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: From: Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Somewhat related: with CONTROL-R you can search backwards in your history when on the command line. It can be quite a time saver. I think that's only when you're in emacs-compatible mode. This is a feature of bash. Someone with

Re: Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread Jason Chambers
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:01:02AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Well, in the one true shell, zsh, ESC-P and ESC-N will go backwards and > forwards in the history respectively. It will even take the current line > as a filter so "ls" followed by multiple ESC-P will bring up my previous ls > co

Re: Kovacs,Levente

2005-01-01 Thread SF
Hey.. I just seen your article asking about Levente Kovacs paintings.I have one its signed,sile#900.19,8,64. I don`t knowe verry mutch about the painting jet and I`m looking for more infos about it to.Its a wonderfull painting thats what I can say. you can replay to me@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]   th

Re: netenv boot popup

2005-01-01 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
From: Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * jose isaias cabrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20041231 10:57]: Hi. Let me get into this one, because I want to also get rid of it... I can't really take a screen shot, because the system is booting, but maybe I can take a picture of it. Anyway, it comes

newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
Hi, I am considering installation of Debian Linux on an older PC - a Compaq 4850. I want to refamiliarize myself with Unix, after being a Windows user since early 1993. I was a user of various versions of Unix for about 12 years prior to then, but I am so rusty and out of date that I am essent

Problems with kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7 (2.4.27-6) (Testing)

2005-01-01 Thread Jedi Knight
Hello, I'm running woody here with some packages from sid and sarge. I was using the 2.4.27-1-k7 kernel (version 2.4.27-2) and everything was working perfectly. Some time ago an update was released (version 2.4.2-6), so I installed it through apt-get. However, to my surprise, I started to have pr

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian M. Godfrey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am considering installation of Debian Linux on an older PC - a > Compaq 4850. I want to refamiliarize myself with Unix, after being a > Windows user since early 1993. I was a user of various versions of > Unix for about 12 years prior to t

A list administation query

2005-01-01 Thread Felixk Karpfen
Is there a "subscribe to list" option that will enable me to post messages to the list and continue to read the posted listings via a newsgroup? Currently, I have to subscribe to "gmane.linux.debian.user" to be able to post messages. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA

Re: Sound problem - very belated followup

2005-01-01 Thread Felixk Karpfen
On 2004-12-21, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Felix Karpfen (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> SNIP >> >> ,[ modules.conf ]- >> | [...] >> | #alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio //remark this line, >> |this is default audio driver >> | [...] >> | #--- Intel 8x0 and S

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-01 Thread Adam Aube
Alex Polite wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:51:26PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: >> Alex Polite wrote: >>> What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point >>> to attach to? >> The 'ap' option to iwconfig (part of the wireless-tools package). > Thanks. But I'm thinking of the

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-01 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I don't know the answer to your question, but a feature I'd like for mailing lists to have in general would be "send only subscriptions". I think anyone can post to debian-user (not sure), but many lists only allow subscribers to post, in an effort to keep out spam. What I'd like to do is subs

Re: NFS

2005-01-01 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, Am Samstag, 1. Januar 2005 18:36 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, > > When I mount an NFS share I can't seem to write to it as any user... > Both the systems authenticate against the same ldap server so uid's and > gid's are all the same. My /etc/exports file looks like : > /mnt/sda1

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
> This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) > and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but > not part of the base system. You can however install it later. So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally, just to get it to boot up, then install discover...

Re: SOLVED: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-01 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-01-01 @ 09:19:13 (week 53) Kent West wrote: > So I right-clicked on the "install" link and selected "Save Link As" to > save the "tabx.xpi" file to my home directory. I then went into > Firefox's "File/Open File" menu, opened "tabx.xpi", which seemed to > install the extension, then res

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #1

2005-01-01 Thread jon salenger
Title: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #1 Hi Andreas, on 1/1/05 5:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:05:14 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk Hello

Need help with building secure web proxy...

2005-01-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I recently build a Debian woody box (I've had previous experience with Debian Woody so Debian is not new to me) for use as a web proxy server, but I also want to make it secure (requires username). It was built via http via floppy and only has what the installer includes. I tried squid, but I mus

Re: NFS

2005-01-01 Thread Adrian Levi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I mount an NFS share I can't seem to write to it as any user... Both the systems authenticate against the same ldap server so uid's and gid's are all the same. My /etc/exports file looks like : /mnt/sda1/home/ (rw,no_root_squash) I mount the share from the cli

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian M. Godfrey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) >> and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), >> but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. > > So I could install the stable version (Woody) minim

New years wish/request from repository owners

2005-01-01 Thread ocl
Hi, A lot of unofficial repositories use trivial repository format which makes it impossible to do apt-pinning for their packages. Here is the link that tells the general idea about apt-pinning: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html Here is the link that explains trivial repository: http://

Re: Help with Linux command

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > if i understood correctly, the original question was dealing with > > partitions ... > > This is true. But if he's already installed (which he has) those > partitions are populated. Now, I'm not saying that the original poste

Re: NFS

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When I mount an NFS share I can't seem to write to it as any user... > > Both the systems authenticate against the same ldap server so uid's and > > gid's are all the same. My /etc/exports file looks like : > > /mnt/sda1/home/ (rw,no_root_squash) t

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread messmate
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:03:42 +0100 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello > >Brian M. Godfrey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >>> This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) >>> and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), >>> but not part of the base system. You

Re: i82365 and Cirrus Logic CL 6729

2005-01-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:38:47 -0600, John Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:02 AM 1/1/2005, you wrote: > >What's the output of: `dpkg -l | grep "pcmcia"`? > > Null. Nothing. In fact, 'dpkg -l' gives nothing. Keep in mind that I'm > booting from a debian installer CD. > > I'm getting the err

nvidia problem

2005-01-01 Thread Bayrouni
Hello, I have a permanent problem with nvidia driver (propietary one). When I install it, I can run X server with 3d support. But when I rebbot or turn on my machine, the X fails. I repeated the installation many times, and I had the same problem. I a running sid kernel 2.6.9 and the driver is NV

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 04:09:28PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I think anyone can post to debian-user (not sure), but many lists only > allow subscribers to post, in an effort to keep out spam. What I'd like to > do is subscribe in such a way that I can post but not recieve the list in

Upgrade kernel from 2.67?

2005-01-01 Thread Agustin
Hi and happy new year to everyone, I have a question regarding the possibility of upgrading the kernel on my debian sarge machine. I see from the synaptic manager that what I have installed is kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386, and that there is another available, kernel-image-2.6.9-1-386. Can anyone tell

Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-01 Thread John Plate
Hi I tried to install Java SDK (j2sdk1.4), but dselect claims that there is no j2se-common file available. How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable? Thanks in advance John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i82365 and Cirrus Logic CL 6729

2005-01-01 Thread John Heim
At 04:51 PM 1/1/2005, you wrote: Ok, are you trying to install Woody (aka Debian 3.0)? I don't recall exactly but at some point of the Woody installation it should ask about pcmcia support, anyway do you need to use the pcmcia to complete the installation? I'm using the debian installer program., r

kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp apt-get error

2005-01-01 Thread Simon Buchanan
Im getting this error when apt-getting the kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp package... anyone know what i should do next? Thanks... Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp (2.6.8-8) ... cpio: (0x): No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0x)': No such file or directory

Re: i82365 and Cirrus Logic CL 6729

2005-01-01 Thread John Heim
At 04:51 PM 1/1/2005, you wrote: Ok, are you trying to install Woody (aka Debian 3.0)? I don't recall exactly but at some point of the Woody installation it should ask about pcmcia support, anyway do you need to use the pcmcia to complete the installation? More info... I sent a message to the auth

Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confused

2005-01-01 Thread Ridge Chittenden
Hi all, I have a machine running Debian Woody. There's one 120GB hard drive, /dev/hda. When I installed Debian a few months ago, I split the disk into two 60GB partitions. I figured that I'd install another OS in the second partition. I never did. Now, I want to recombine the partitions into one,

XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Ridge Chittenden
Hi all, (Another question, new thread Appreciate all the help as I try to understand Debian and Linux.) I have a machine running Debian Woody that's being used as a server--no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. I have XDMCP set up so that I can log in to an X session on the machine from another

Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confused

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ridge On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > machine1:~# df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available > Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 57677500 45016936 9730712 > 83% / > /dev/hda3 56720252618292 53220704 > 2% /usr looks normal "/" is

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Brian M. Godfrey wrote: This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally But I'd suggest installing Sarge

Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Ridge Chittenden wrote: Hi all, I have a machine running Debian Woody. There's one 120GB hard drive, /dev/hda. When I installed Debian a few months ago, I split the disk into two 60GB partitions. I figured that I'd install another OS in the second partition. I never did. Now, I want to recombine th

Re: nvidia problem

2005-01-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:56:34 +0100, Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a permanent problem with nvidia driver (propietary one). > When I install it, I can run X server with 3d support. > But when I rebbot or turn on my machine, the X fails. > > I repeated the installation many times, an

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 04:17:38PM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hi all, > > (Another question, new thread Appreciate all the > help as I try to understand Debian and Linux.) > > I have a machine running Debian Woody that's being > used as a server--no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. I > h

Re: Backing up a running system

2005-01-01 Thread Robert S
> Try Mondorescue... > I've finally gone for Mondorescue. I compiled the latest version from source (have Woody) - the Woody version seems to have a few "issues". Thanks for the suggestions. Apart from a bit of lack of polish, it does things that commercial products (eg. Norton Ghost) doesn't

Re: Sound stopped working after update

2005-01-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
Another thing you might check is this. /dev/dsp is the device-node used by the OSS system. `play' uses this device (as does wavp and realplayer and many other sound applications). To access hardware via /dev/dsp under Alsa, then, you need to make sure that you have oss-emulation set up. The norm

Re: Problems with kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7 (2.4.27-6) (Testing)

2005-01-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/01/2005 02:30 PM, Jedi Knight wrote: Hello, I'm running woody here with some packages from sid and sarge. I was using the 2.4.27-1-k7 kernel (version 2.4.27-2) and everything was working perfectly. Some time ago an update was released (version 2.4.2-6), so I installed it through apt-get. Ho

Re: nvidia problem

2005-01-01 Thread hvw
Bayrouni wrote: Hello, I have a permanent problem with nvidia driver (propietary one). When I install it, I can run X server with 3d support. But when I rebbot or turn on my machine, the X fails. I repeated the installation many times, and I had the same problem. I a running sid kernel 2.6.9 and th

digital camera (100 - 200 USD price range)

2005-01-01 Thread David Mandelberg
My sister is looking to get a digital camera, and I'm trying to find one that is compatible with ubuntu or another easy to use debian derivative (or debian itself if sarge/etch is user friendly enough). Any suggestions appreciated. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/

Re: Problems with kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7 (2.4.27-6) (Testing)

2005-01-01 Thread David
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:22:23AM -0800, Jedi Knight wrote: > I'm running woody here with some packages from sid and > sarge. I was using the 2.4.27-1-k7 kernel (version > 2.4.27-2) and everything was working perfectly. Some > time ago an update was released (version 2.4.2-6), so > I installed i

Whence cometh grove.log

2005-01-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I have a file, 'grove.log' in my root folder: -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 65 Oct 28 22:24 /grove.log It contains just one line: 20041028 22:24:51 grove: client (pid 20227) exited with 1 status Does anyone know where such a file may come from and what it means? Log files in the root directory tend

Re: Help with Linux command

2005-01-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Alvin Oga wrote: given /home has the correct home data and is say 2GB on say /dev/hdaxxx given /usr has the correct usr data and is say 10GB on say /dev/hdayyy if as in the original reply, to simply "swap the /home and /usr partition" You're making a false asumption. From the original mess

Re: Where to put the PDA ?

2005-01-01 Thread Steven Yap
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 11:27 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > My computer has 2 hi-speed (USB 2) ports as well as 2 USB 1.1 ports. > When I run dpkg-reconfigure gnome-pilot (or kpilot), it asks on where > port will the PDA be connected, giving my a choice of ttyUSB0 or > ttyUSB1. How do I know which p

Re: Help with Linux command

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > given /home has the correct home data and is say 2GB on say /dev/hdaxxx > > given /usr has the correct usr data and is say 10GB on say /dev/hdayyy > > > if as in the original reply, to simply "swap the /home and /usr pa

Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

2005-01-01 Thread Ridge Chittenden
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ridge Chittenden wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I have a machine running Debian Woody. There's one > >120GB hard drive, /dev/hda. When I installed Debian > a > >few months ago, I split the disk into two 60GB > >partitions. I figured that I'd install another

Re: Help with Linux command

2005-01-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Alvin Oga wrote: yes and no .. depends on th point of view and just for clarification ... No, no point of view. "If I want to swap the mount point and all it's content between /usr and /home." both mount points and data is moved ... No data is moved. You're presuming that he has them bac

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
apt-get install j2se-package On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:21:32AM +0100, John Plate wrote: > Hi > > I tried to install Java SDK (j2sdk1.4), but dselect claims that there > is no j2se-common file available. > > How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable? > > Thanks in advance > John > > > -- >

Sound Problem Using Blender

2005-01-01 Thread tech
I am posting this question on this list because I beleve the problem might be Debian related. I am using Blender 2.35 on Debian amd64 unstable with KDE3. I was trying a sample audio project and I am getting the following error: open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy Couldn't open audio:

Blender Sound Problem

2005-01-01 Thread tech
I am posting this question on this list because I beleve the problem might be Debian related. I am using Blender 2.35 on Debian amd64 unstable with KDE3. I was trying a sample audio project and I am getting the following error: open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy Couldn't open audio

Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk

2005-01-01 Thread jon salenger
Title: Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk Sorry for the repost. Replied to digest by accident. Thought better to keep it in the thread. Hi Andreas, on 1/1/05 5:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:05:1

Re: Re-partitioning -- uh oh, I'm confusedconfusconfusconconfusedfusededed

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Ridge Chittenden wrote: --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ridge Chittenden wrote: Now, I want to recombine the partitions into one, big chunk. This would be a pretty straightforward use of parted, I assume, but here's the rub: For some reason, the Debian installer put / on /dev/hda1

Re: cannot obtain graphical mode

2005-01-01 Thread David Mandelberg
waliyullah umar wrote: > hello, > i am new to linux. i have currently install the new debian os(from pcquest > dvd) but after choosing install package list, > i was greeted by a prompt after typing my user name and password , the x > window has not been installed , can you help me? Use debian-use

Re: digital camera (100 - 200 USD price range)

2005-01-01 Thread JohnOfArc
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:32:47 -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > My sister is looking to get a digital camera, and I'm trying to find one > that is compatible with ubuntu or another easy to use debian derivative > (or debian itself if sarge/etch is user friendly enough). > > Any suggestions apprecia

Re: Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread cga
Steve Lamb wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: From: Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Somewhat related: with CONTROL-R you can search backwards in your history when on the command line. It can be quite a time saver. I think that's only when you're in emacs-compatible mode. This is a feature of ba

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-01 Thread Han Lin
Hi John, I'm not sure for J2EE, but for J2se, you can just download it from java.sun.com and do the proper path-ing in /etc/profile. regards, Han Lin On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 00:21 +0100, John Plate wrote: > Hi > > I tried to install Java SDK (j2sdk1.4), but dselect claims that there > is no j2se-

Re: digital camera (100 - 200 USD price range)

2005-01-01 Thread Han Lin
> http://www.dcresource.com/ which is recommended by gphoto.org, is an > awesome site or http://www.dpreview.com :-) it's a great website for digital photography. regards, Han Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-01 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, A newbie question: # Is there a step by step instuctions on how to setup Sound ? 1) I did an apt-get install sndconfig. When I run sndconfig, I get the following error: "" You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular ? sound enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the ? module

Re: cannot open root device "801"

2005-01-01 Thread Eric N. Valor
Andrea, Alvin, and Reiner (and the rest of Debian-User): Thank you for your assistance. It turns out that there was something scrod in my source tree. After multiple attempts (including a "make mrproper") I finally blew away the source directory and re-extracted from the tarball. My builds hav

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
> You can also install at this reboot the 'rescue' package > apt-cache policy rescue > ... > There you'll find all info about your machine. That sounds handy. I'll do it. Too bad I can't run it before the install so I'd just have to do it once. (Well, one less time, anyway. :-) Thanks,

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
> But I'd suggest installing Sarge instead of Woody. > (Let the flamefest begin . . . .) I haven't seen any flames yet, Kent. Maybe it's a good idea. But I can borrow the 3.0r2 disks which, I think, are Woody. I'm sure they'll be fine for now. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Than

how to set up 2 hard drives to cable select

2005-01-01 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am running debian sarge. I use a hard drive for back up, and I have to remove the hard drive intermittently. Each time I pull out one of the the hard drives from the machine to store as a backup, it seems that I must always set the jumpers on both! drives each time. with 2 drives in mac

Re: how to set up 2 hard drives to cable select

2005-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, I am running debian sarge. > > I use a hard drive for back up, and I have to remove the hard drive > intermittently. Each time I pull out one of the the hard drives from the > machine to store as a backup, > it seems that I must always set the

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:45:57 +0100 Mauro Darida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that ubuntu is probably a good name if you want to > sell in africa but certainly not a good choice if you want to sell in > the western world. In what western language is there a word that sounds like ubuntu tha

Re: Blender Sound Problem

2005-01-01 Thread David Baron
>open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy >Couldn't open audio: No available audio device One possibility: Check, make sure ARTS is either off or set to release resources when it (KDE sound effects et all) is not needed. I have it off. BTW, the thing did not install correctly on Win98. How

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Brian M. Godfrey wrote: But I'd suggest installing Sarge instead of Woody. (Let the flamefest begin . . . .) I haven't seen any flames yet, Kent. Maybe it's a good idea. But I can borrow the 3.0r2 disks which, I think, are Woody. I'm sure they'll be fine for now. Feel free to correct m