Starting wlan0 instead of eth0

2005-05-26 Thread Jason Edson
I'm new to this part of my debian system. Instead of having eth0 load up when my system starts, I want to run a script that enables my wireless card(wlan0) that uses ndiswrapper to load. My script looks like this: #!/bin/bash echo "Starting wireless networking." ifconfig eth0 down modprobe ndi

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Dowland
shatam bhattacharya wrote: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device Any clues ?? Thanks Bbye You need to tell XMMS to use ALSA, rather than OSS (default). Then you'll get an alsa-specific error message which will be more helpful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 20:43 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Brendan wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:02 pm, Stephen Queen wrote: > > > > > > > > I've done both of those many times, now and in the past. > > It shows up, but no printing commences. > > > > > > > If I may, a comment. I had the pr

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Steve Lamb wrote: Bah, and to think I do that from time to time on purpose just to see how far I can fork before the machine hangs. Last time was playing with Python's threading. Decided to have a thread recursively start itself as child threads. Got up to over 1000 before the machine was not

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Ionut Georgescu wrote: Then, if you you use lilo, create the following entry in /etc/lilo.conf: Don't the kernel package install scripts manage lilo.conf themselves? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install on Poweredge 2300

2005-05-26 Thread Ian Tobin
Hi,   when I try and install Debian on the poweredge 2300 i get the message that it can't find any hard disks.   It has a mega raid scsi controller so I would assume I need a driver disk.   Has anyone else managed to install Debian on a 2300? if so could you help?   thanks in advance   Ian

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Funk
Jon Dowland wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Bah, and to think I do that from time to time on purpose just to see how >> far I can fork before the machine hangs. Last time was playing with >> Python's >> threading. Decided to have a thread recursively start itself as child >> threads. Got up to ov

Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Funk
I recently installed leafnode. Every hour when it runs I get the following e-mail: Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news ]; then /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news; fi Server disconnection or timeout before article could be retrieved #1 Warning: aborting fetch

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-26 02:54:41, schrieb David Jardine: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:23:19PM -0500, Dan Fulbright wrote: > > >Have you actually checked that you have NFS support? What does > > > > > > grep NFS /boot/config* > > > > > >give you? > > > > It gives me nothing, but it also gives me nothing

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
It may be, I don't know. I quit using lilo 3 years ago. I know they do it for grub, though ;-) But even if I knew, I think it's better if the people also know what happens in the background. Ionut On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:20:07AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Ionut Georgescu wrote: > > >Then, i

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: On Sunday 22 May 2005 03:33 pm, Bill Mair wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >>Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge >>of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy >>my harddisk? debian

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Jon Dowland wrote: > The fun is stopping a fork bomb, not starting one :-) In the case of a Python thread bomb as described CNTL-C works nicely. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboa

Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread SA
Dear List, I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a little confused: Since sarge is due out at the end of

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-24 19:11:57, schrieb Dan Fulbright: > So, it looks like you might be right. The two machines are nearly > identical. I didn't do the actual install of Debian, and I just noticed > that they are running different kernel versions: > > host1:~# uname -a > Linux host1.domain.com 2.4.23 #

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-24 20:21:30, schrieb Marty: > Dan Fulbright wrote: > >On host2 (the client), I get: > >program vers proto port > > 102 tcp111 portmapper > > 102 udp111 portmapper > > 1000241 udp704 status > > 1000241 tcp707 statu

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
No, if that is an older machine what he has, it is better he sticks with 2.4. I already had this experience and the difference is amazing! With 2.6.1 it took ages to start firefox, with 2.4 I could run gnome and gimp end epiphany alltogether. It was Toshiba notebook with 500MHz and 64MB of RAM. N

[pre|post]-install in modules.conf don't work

2005-05-26 Thread jpahka
Hello, I'm running debian unstable and I can't seem to make pre- and post-install directives in modules.conf work. For example, I have the following lines that worked in my fedora box in /etc/modutils/lirc (and modules.conf) to make serial ir-dongle work with lirc: alias char-major-61 lirc_seria

Two sreens with one graphics card

2005-05-26 Thread Sebastian Noack
Hi, I try to make a second screen work. I use the window-manager fluxbox. Xinerama is built in. And I have modified the XF86Config-4 as following, but only the first sreen works. :( -- # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

2005-05-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-25 18:23:19, schrieb Dan Fulbright: > >Have you actually checked that you have NFS support? What does > > > > grep NFS /boot/config* > > > >give you? > > It gives me nothing, but it also gives me nothing on host1, where NFS is > working fine. Try:grep -i NFS /boot/config* G

Two Screens with one graphics card don't work

2005-05-26 Thread Sebastian Noack
Hi, I try to make a second screen work. I use the window-manager fluxbox. Xinerama is built in. And I have modified the XF86Config-4 as following, but only the first sreen works. :( -- # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System

Re: Two sreens with one graphics card

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Vangel
Sebastian Noack wrote: Hi, I try to make a second screen work. I use the window-manager fluxbox. Xinerama is built in. And I have modified the XF86Config-4 as following, but only the first sreen works. :( -- # XF86Config-4

Re: Laptop Network Card and X-windows Issues...

2005-05-26 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:31:30AM -0400, Will Ness wrote: > Hello All!! > > I have some vexing problems that I have tried to solve on my own, and > I am at last beyond my capabilities > > Ok heres the sitrep: > > My system is setup on a Compaq Presario 1230. You may rember me > posting issu

Photos, drawings, graphics...learn to create them...then share them all...

2005-05-26 Thread Osmond
Don't be a fuddy-duddy...use the software everyone's using... http://cvu.4bqj7lmx1w4bj54.diceigdice4.com Never fight an inanimate object. CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Two Screens with one graphics card don't work

2005-05-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Sebastian Noack wrote: you might need BUSID - check if you are pci or agp based for your busid you are missing horiSync and VertRefresh in "extern display" i think you need to change your ServerLayout screen definition i think the 2nd fild is missing example

Re: installing debian

2005-05-26 Thread Cedric BRINER
I think that this is related to your initrd. I've had some problem with this too. My response was to install kernel2.4. and then when sarge is correctly installed. I just install a new kernel. works for me (o o)' Ced. > Hi, > > I have tried to install Debian Sarge on my notebook, a Toshiba Sa

hipcrime?

2005-05-26 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Where can I get the famous "hipcrime" software? Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deployment question

2005-05-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:17:00AM +0200, Simon Balzan wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Can you help me in finding a third party software that helps me make a > deployment of Windows XP from a Linux server. Not me (I don't use Windows, have no experience with that); but I wanted to point out that you've a

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:11:59 +0800, Robert wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adam Funk wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > >>Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. > > > > > > My recent prize-winner was this > > # ifdown -a > > over an ssh connection. Fortunately the

famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

2005-05-26 Thread rich lott
re: Sarge / Kde / konqueror / smbmounts Often when I mount a remote samba share and browse the share with konqueror, I can't unmount it after. mount complains that "device is busy". This happens when the mount point is not showing in konqueror, and no files are opened on the share by any other

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/26/05, SA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List, > > > I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I > can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these > but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a >

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
We should wake up people, both of them ar wrong!!! :-) First, we are loading the kernel itself as an initrd image :-)) Second, it cannot be append, because initrd is the boot loader's task. So: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 label=Linux-2.4.27 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-686

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-26 Thread Steve A
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:31:03AM +0100 or thereabouts, Adam Funk wrote: > I recently installed leafnode. Every hour when it runs I get the following > e-mail: > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news ]; > then /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news; fi > > Serve

Re: Two IDEs - KDE and Gnome

2005-05-26 Thread Wackojacko
I a bit of a noob myself, but since noone else has replied I'll give it a go I had two machines, one had KDE on it, and the other had Gnome. Now, I want to put both the hard drives in one machine. I have already recompiled the kernel for the hard drive that I want to install. But I did so by te

Re: famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

2005-05-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/05/05 12:52), rich lott wrote: > re: Sarge / Kde / konqueror / smbmounts > > Often when I mount a remote samba share and browse the share with konqueror, > I > can't unmount it after. mount complains that "device is busy". > > This happens when the mount point is not showing in konqueror

Re: Two Screens with one graphics card don't work

2005-05-26 Thread Sebastian Noack
After I have set the position of the extern screen right of the built-in-screen instead of left of the built-in-sreen, in the negative area and... Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse"

Re: Two sreens with one graphics card

2005-05-26 Thread Sebastian Noack
>> Section "Device" >> Identifier "ATI Radeon 9000 M9 (build-in-screen)" >> Driver "radeon" >> Option "DynamicPM" "true" >> Option "DynamicClocks" "true" >> Option "DPMS" >> Screen 0 >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >>

MySQL 5.x debian packages?

2005-05-26 Thread Jessica Svensson
Can anyone please tell me where i can find mysql 5.x debian packages? So i could easily install it via apt-get thanks! _ Nyhet! Hotmail direkt i Mobilen! http://mobile.msn.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread steef
Ionut Georgescu wrote: We should wake up people, both of them ar wrong!!! :-) First, we are loading the kernel itself as an initrd image :-)) Second, it cannot be append, because initrd is the boot loader's task. So: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 label=Linux-2.4.27 initrd=/boot/ini

Re: Laptop Network Card and X-windows Issues...

2005-05-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Will Ness wrote: > The network card is of pcmcia make. I managed to get it to identify > and use the correct driver, and my pcmcia daemon is running. Try to make it work manually according to PCMCIA-HOWTO, then you will find whether it works or not. > As for the X-windows, 'startx' or kde do not

Re: famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

2005-05-26 Thread rich lott
Hi thanks for your reply. I've changed fstab, and did modprobe cifs and now get $ mount -t cifs //st/rich /mnt/st_rich/ mount error: could not find target server. TCP name st/rich not found rc = -1073743656 No ip address specified and hostname not found I tried $ mount.cifs //192.168.254.202/

Moving from Fedora to Debian

2005-05-26 Thread Jeremiah Foster
OK, I have had enough. I am interested in moving from a Fedora box to a debian machine. Is there a way to do this without destroying my old info? Like downloading kernel sources, building a new kernel and then using apt-get? I thought I heard about a web site that talked about moving from Red H

[Fwd: Re: alsa problem]

2005-05-26 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: alsa problem Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:42:56 +0200 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian: gebruikerslijst References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROT

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:42:56PM +0200, steef wrote: > Ionut Georgescu wrote: > > >We should wake up people, both of them ar wrong!!! :-) > > > >First, we are loading the kernel itself as an initrd image :-)) > >Second, it cannot be append, because initrd is the boot loader's task. > > > >So: >

Which fonts a program uses

2005-05-26 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão
Hi, The way my box is installed, kpdf is showing really ugly, barely readable documents. I don't know enough of font-handling under X to correct this. Specifically, I have the following doubts: - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ? - How do I discover which fonts are ins

i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-26 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
So I've been trying to get my i810 card to enable direct rendering. I have it so now when X starts up it says that Direct Rendering is enabled, however glxinfo says that it is not enabled. Any suggestions? I can post both the output of glxinfo and the log from the startup of XFree. -- o) De

vesa-framebuffer is not working

2005-05-26 Thread Joydeep Bakshi
Dear all, I have integrated VGA based on KM400 chipset from VIA. when I boot from *lnx-bbc* and *Knoppix* I can see the boot-logo. now I have configured 2.6.10 kernel from debian and enable framebuffer-support, vesa-support,linux-logo support all as *built-in features* but the newly buil

Re: Moving from Fedora to Debian

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Dickopp
Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought I heard about a web site that talked about moving from Red > Hat to debian once, anyone remember that link? http://www.google.com/search?q=moving+%22red+hat%22+debian Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: hipcrime?

2005-05-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday May 26 2005 3:28 am, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: > Where can I get the famous "hipcrime" software? Don't expect much support for you and your usenet flooding ideas here. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ pgps4u

Re: [SOLVED] Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-26 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:44:49AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > --- Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think this is normally done by the command "make modules > install" > > > (after > > > compiling the modules using "make modules." There

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Certainly a stupid Subject: line (sorry :P) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-26 Thread hacker
On 5/26/05, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I've been trying to get my i810 card to enable direct rendering. I > have it so now when X starts up it says that Direct Rendering is > enabled, however glxinfo says that it is not enabled. Any suggestions? I > can post both t

synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)

2005-05-26 Thread rich lott
Hi I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages. However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk) recently on another system and noticed that they would REMO

Problems with network cards in old board

2005-05-26 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I'm trying to replace a 10MBit card in an older computer by a 100MBit card. The system is an Pentium-133, PIIX chipset, running Sarge with kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386. Previously the system had an 10Mbit Intel EEPro ISA card, which worked flawlessly. The system is an X terminal. First I trie

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-26 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:55, hacker wrote: > My i810 will only work on 16 bit depth, so maybe your in another > depth. Also, try glxgears to test it .. should be about 100 fps > normally and 300+ when accelerated. Yup, I'm in 16 bit depth. I've verified this using xdpyinfo. I do get 300+ FPS on g

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-26 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2005-05-25, Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, > compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. I don't know much about this, but perhaps it's as simple as "mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img".

Re: Starting wlan0 instead of eth0

2005-05-26 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 26 May 2005 01:39 am, Jason Edson wrote: > I'm new to this part of my debian system. Instead of having eth0 load > up when my system starts, I want to run a script that enables my > wireless card(wlan0) that uses ndiswrapper to load. My script looks > like this: > > #!/bin/bash > echo "

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Funk
Steve A wrote: > Run leafnode in full verbose mode to see what's happening. Then you should > see what the "previous condition" is. I added "-vv" to fetchnews in /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news and got this mail. text.news.blueyonder.co.uk: connecting to port nntp... text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-26 Thread hacker
On 5/26/05, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:55, hacker wrote: > > My i810 will only work on 16 bit depth, so maybe your in another > > depth. Also, try glxgears to test it .. should be about 100 fps > > normally and 300+ when accelerated. > > Yup

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Re: Which fonts a program uses

2005-05-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:20 +0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão wrote: > - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ? I'd expect anything running under X to simply load named fonts from those that are available to the X server. > - How do I discover which fonts are installed on

tape drive help

2005-05-26 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hello, I got assigned to set up a new backup system here at work, so i've decided to go w/ amanda. Everything seems to be great, except for the fact that i have no experience w/ tape whatsoever. I've configured amanda so that it works and will back up to my tape drive /dev/nst0, but i would like

Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread SA
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Probably a stupid question but... Date: Thursday 26 May 2005 18:20 From: SA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I downloaded the netinst image, put it on a CD and booted my machine with it - after a few questio

Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer

2005-05-26 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Marty ha escrit, a 24/05/05 21:44: | I am running Debian testing which has recently transitioned from tuxracer | to ppracer 0.3.1. | | The game has slowed by at least an order of magnitude, based on | side-by-side testing with a backed-up copy o

Re: Which fonts a program uses

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:58:03PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:20 +0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão wrote: > > - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ? > > I'd expect anything running under X to simply load named fonts from > those that are av

Surprise upgrading Debian packages!

2005-05-26 Thread nuno romano
I have a background with several Linux distributions,and when I want to upgrade one package,I download the source package (or binary,if compatible) through a web browser html/ftp interface in a mirror. I see all packages listed and I pick what I want.Now,I have Debian and when I want to download i

Re: synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:07:40PM +0100, rich lott wrote: > Hi > > I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to search > the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed (dependencies etc) > and easy to select packages. > > However, I had to use aptitude and d

Re: Surprise upgrading Debian packages!

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:12:28AM -0700, nuno romano wrote: > I have a background with several Linux > distributions,and when I want to upgrade > one package,I download the source package > (or binary,if compatible) through a web > browser html/ftp interface in a mirror. > I see all packages liste

Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-26 Thread SA
Pissing around with the "expert" mode of install leads me to belive that some (possibly all) the network modules are missing from the installer as well as some other modules. In an attempt to get around this I installed another network card in the machine and tried to boot again. Same fa

Re: exim SMTP Authentication

2005-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Adam Thanks for the tip. I have exim4, with exim4-daemon-light, installed and am still fighting to get AUTH working. Here is what I have found. Telnet smtp.intergate.com 25 EHLO intergate.com 250-corpweb.trip.net Hello host-69-95-14-38.roc.choiceone.net [69.95.14.38], ple ased to meet you

Re: synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)

2005-05-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 26 May 2005 07:07 am, rich lott wrote: > Hi > > I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to > search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed > (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages. > > However, I had to use aptitude and dselect (yuk)

Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer

2005-05-26 Thread Marty
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Since we're on the subject of ppracer. Can anyone tell me how to get the music to work. It sounds like midi music to me. To hear it you would need all your midi bits (kernel and user) to be working, but I don't know offhand what they are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Surprise upgrading Debian packages!

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:02:04PM +0200, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:12:28AM -0700, nuno romano wrote: > > I have a background with several Linux > > distributions,and when I want to upgrade > > one package,I download the source package > > (or binary,if compatible) through

Sound in Ppracer (was: Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer)

2005-05-26 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:48:01 +0200 Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since we're on the subject of ppracer. Can anyone > tell me how to get the music to work. The sound effects are fine but > they're .wav files. I installed cheesetracker and checked the music > box on the ppracer config

Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:05:18PM +0100, SA wrote: > > Pissing around with the "expert" mode of install leads me to belive that some > (possibly all) the network modules are missing from the installer as well as > some other modules. In an attempt to get around this I installed another > netw

Re: tape drive help

2005-05-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I got assigned to set up a new backup system here at > work, so i've decided to go w/ amanda. Everything > seems to be great, except for the fact that i have no > experience w/ tape whatsoever. I've configured amanda > so that it works and will back up to my tape drive > /dev/nst0, but i would

Re: Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

2005-05-26 Thread SA
No I haven't sent this to anyone else (actually just forwarded to debian-boot). This is the first time I have used debian for 3 years (previously only once before on an old alpha). Despite many years unix experience I haven't got the foggest idea what is going on here or if this is in fact a

Re: tape drive help

2005-05-26 Thread Matheson Cameron
Andrew, thanks, i actually have read the mt man page and everything... i still don't have a real solid concept of what is going on w/ tape changing devices and what not... i read up on mtx, and ran mtx status. here's the output: Storage Changer /dev/sg2:2 Drives, 31 Slots ( 1 Import/Export )

Re: Issues with network card and installer [WAS: Re: Fwd: Re: Probably a stupid question but...]

2005-05-26 Thread SA
Well this could explain one of the problems but not the majority: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerFAQ Question 22: Why isn't my NIC supported by DebianInstaller, I know the "tg3" driver supports it! Answer: As tg3 contains firmware which does not seem to meet the requirements

Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Software Development Group
I have recuperated from a PC a DEBIAN HD and have installed in another PC. The display options for this new one are different (different monitor type, output...) so when I boot, at the end I get the message: Not starting X display manager (xdm), it is not the default display manager. How can I

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Kent West
Software Development Group wrote: I have recuperated from a PC a DEBIAN HD and have installed in another PC. The display options for this new one are different (different monitor type, output...) so when I boot, at the end I get the message: Not starting X display manager (xdm), it is not

Autoboot programs

2005-05-26 Thread Software Development Group
How can I change the applications that are loaded at boot time? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autoboot programs

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:57:19PM -0400, Software Development Group wrote: > How can I change the applications that are loaded at boot time? Edit the run levels. -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpCd3f0U20qJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Xen Virtual Server

2005-05-26 Thread Timothy Spear
Hello all,     Before I try the Xen Virtual Server from unstable, on my Sarge based desktop, is there anyone out there running Xen on Sarge and can give some pointers or howto information?   Thanks,   Tim

sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread noc-ops
Hi, I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? Am I missing something? Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade to? Any insight will be appreciated. regards, /virendra -- To UNSUB

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:03:50PM -0700, noc-ops wrote: > Hi, > > I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install > came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel > still shows as 2.4? > > Am I missing something? > > Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade

problem with bcm5700.o creation

2005-05-26 Thread MXR
Hi;   First go at doing a DEBIAN box and it has unfriendly h/w. I am trying to compile the broadcom bcm5700 object and w/o modversions.h it won't compile. I have searched and can't seem to find a modversions.h for Debian. Any ideas?   Thanks Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
noc-ops wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? Am I missing something? Also, which kernel-image (2.6.?) should I upgrade to? Any insight will be appreciated. regards, /viren

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-26 12:03:50, schrieb noc-ops: > Hi, > > I was under the impression that the latest "testing" install came w/ 2.6 > kernel by default. In installing i386 the kernel still shows as 2.4? > > Am I missing something? Yes, Linux 2.4.27 is the default Kernel and you can get Linux 2.6.8 if y

aptitude -t

2005-05-26 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi I'm running sarge (testing) I wan't to download a more recent kernel-image and kernel-source from the unstable distribution. Read the man pages for aptitude and found a option -t . I then tried to search for kernels by running: $ aptitude -t unstable search kernel-image kernel-source I al

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Kent West
Software Development Group wrote: startx did not work. The monitor blaked out and just came back again with an error. I run dpkg-reconfigure xdm and selected xdm. It came back to the command line saying System startup links for /etc/init.d/xdm already exists. Try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfre

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Software Development Group
I already tried that and still does not work. If I try loadind X I get an error saying: Fatal server error: no screens found At 16:14 26/05/2005, you wrote: Software Development Group wrote: startx did not work. The monitor blaked out and just came back again with an error. I run dpkg-reconfigu

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-26 Thread Steve A
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:17:36PM +0100 or thereabouts, Adam Funk wrote: > Steve A wrote: > > > Run leafnode in full verbose mode to see what's happening. Then you should > > see what the "previous condition" is. > > I added "-vv" to fetchnews in /etc/news/leafnode/do-fetch-news and got this > m

Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-26 Thread Kent West
Software Development Group wrote: I already tried that and still does not work. If I try loadind X I get an error saying: Fatal server error: no screens found Just double-checking; you already tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", not "dpkg-reconfigure xdm", right? Try choosing SVGA (o

Re: Moving from Fedora to Debian

2005-05-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:36:44PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > OK, I have had enough. I am interested in moving from a Fedora box to a > debian machine. Is there a way to do this without destroying my old > info? Like downloading kernel sources, building a new kernel and then > using apt-get

Re: aptitude -t

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:13:28PM +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: > Hi > > I'm running sarge (testing) > I wan't to download a more recent kernel-image and kernel-source from the > unstable distribution. > > Read the man pages for aptitude and found a option -t . > I then tried to search for kernels

root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-26 Thread Selva Nair
Hi all, One of my machines running debian woody (up to date with all security updates) was broken into yesterday. The attacker gained a normal user access possibly by cracking a weak password and then managed to get a root shell, install a rootkit etc... Looking through evidence left behi

mouse scroll wheel ZAxisMapping

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi List I'm having problems setting up my mouse in x to scroll properly with the wheel. I followed advice from http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ which looks useful but gives the impression it is at least 5 years old. I've got a logitech mouse and that webpage says maybe i shouldn't

Re: exim SMTP Authentication

2005-05-26 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:05:27PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Adam > > Thanks for the tip. I have exim4, with exim4-daemon-light, installed and > am > still fighting to get AUTH working. Here is what I have found. > > Telnet smtp.intergate.com 25 > EHLO intergate.com > 250-corpweb.trip.net

how to use the LANGUAGE environment variable

2005-05-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
According to the glibc reference manual, LANGUAGE can contain a colon-separated list of locales to indicate their order of preference. However, the behaviour I observed is different from what I expected. (tested with "cat -h", which produces a short error message) LANGUAGE seems to have no effect

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Selva Nair wrote: Hi all, One of my machines running debian woody (up to date with all security updates) was broken into yesterday. The attacker gained a normal user access possibly by cracking a weak password and then managed to get a root shell, install a rootkit etc... Looking throug

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