Can't install on ASUS MB -- need recommendation of MB that will work

2005-08-11 Thread Eric Brown
I ordered and built what I thought was my next computer -- dual-core Intel 820, asus P5WD2 -- I didn't expect I wouldn't be able to install debian because of weird IDE/SATA controller issues: http:// kerneltrap.org/node/5392. (I tried disabling lots of drivers in expert install and changing

Re: Severe problems after upgrading some packages

2005-08-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So upgrading to kernel 2.4.27 will fix it? Unfortunately it first tries to continue configuring the libc6 package. In the process it calls mv which uses libacl.so.1 that causes all the problems. Is there a way to NOT try configuring the libc6 package? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install kernel-i

Re: daytime not working - despite enabling it

2005-08-11 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:55:37 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Seems I have to file a bug report against update-inetd ! hahaha ! Funny one here. Look at the bug reports, and has been broken for almost eight years ! Ought it not have been removed by now ?? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

no kdm after 2.2->2.4

2005-08-11 Thread joe mc cool
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joe Mc Cool (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I have just just upgraded from woody to sarge, no problem. But when I upgrade from the 2.2.20 kernel to 2.4.27-2-686, kdm will not start. In /var/log/syslog I get error messages like: Jun 27 17:47:24 s

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address

2005-08-11 Thread Joakim Franzen
One of our servers stopped working at midnight probably during heavy load due to several disc intensive cron jobs starting around that time. The kern-log managed to collect the following before the server stopped working. Any idea if there is a solution. Aug 11 00:02:29 pe1600 kernel: Unable to ha

how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-11 Thread phyrster
Hi debianers, Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non root), how to make bash login a user automatically? regards bx

How does wdm detect and store window manger sessions?

2005-08-11 Thread bxuefeng
Hi list, I am using wdm as an alternative to xdm as the display manager. In the drop downlist file, there are choices of installed window managers. But after I compile and install another one instead of using debian's pkgs, I don't know where to add it to display mangers like wdm. How to regi

RE: Can't install on ASUS MB -- need recommendation of MB that wi ll work

2005-08-11 Thread Herbert, Mark
> I ordered and built what I thought was my next computer -- dual-core > Intel 820, asus P5WD2 -- I didn't expect I wouldn't be able to > install debian because of weird IDE/SATA controller issues: http:// > kerneltrap.org/node/5392. (I tried disabling lots of drivers in > expert install and

Re: How does wdm detect and store window manger sessions?

2005-08-11 Thread strawks
Hi, On jeu, 2005-08-11 at 17:01 +0800, bxuefeng wrote: > Hi list, > > I am using wdm as an alternative to xdm as the display manager. > > In the drop downlist file, there are choices of installed window managers. > But after I compile and install another one instead of using debian's pkgs, I >

Changing graphics card causes applications' and window manager's fonts to change?

2005-08-11 Thread Adam Funk
Yesterday I shut my Debian box off, swapped in a different graphics card, rebooted, went into a console and changed one line of XF86Config-4 (the Driver line for the card) and did "/etc/init.d/gdm restart". The screen resolution is the same and the monitor is the same. The GDM login screen came u

Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Adam Funk
I quite like the "Tabbrowser extensions" extension except that it seems to interfere with enabling desired pop-ups that come from clicking links that run Javascript commands. Has anyone else noticed this, or have I misconfigured something? Any recommendations for alternative tabbed browsing exten

Re: Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Funk: > > I quite like the "Tabbrowser extensions" extension except that it > seems to interfere with enabling desired pop-ups that come from > clicking links that run Javascript commands. I cannot comment your specific problem but I'd like to mention that the mozilla.org people strongly disc

Re: daytime not working - despite enabling it

2005-08-11 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:50:54 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > Looks like daytime is still disabled(commented out). Uncomment both > daytime lines and do a "killall -HUP inetd". Sure; noticed myself, did so; added a gentle kill -s SIGHUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` and everything was as expected. A

Re: Help with Netinst

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ryan M. O'Toole wrote: Hi, I burned a netinst image to a cd in order to install Debian on my system. It got to "Detecting hardware to find CD Drives" and the progress bar would never pass 2%. Under the progress bar it reads " Loading module 'ohci1394' for 'Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE

Re: Debian Partitioning Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Erick Delgado wrote: Dear Debian, I'm currently having a problem when I install Debian and end up on the partition section. For some odd reason everytime it loads up my hdd it shows 33.8 for both hdd I have. The master hdd is 40gb and the slave is 80gb. I don't know why does it pick up as R

Re: Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Adam Funk
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Adam Funk: >> >> I quite like the "Tabbrowser extensions" extension except that it >> seems to interfere with enabling desired pop-ups that come from >> clicking links that run Javascript commands. > > I cannot comment your specific problem but I'd like to mention that the

Re: Error when compiling the kernel

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ctrlER wrote: Hi, I'm getting the folowing errors when compiling the kernel. CC [M] drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o In file included from drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:29: include/linux/i2c.h:58: error: array type has incomplete element type include/linux/i2c.h:197: error: array type has incomplete element type

security updates in testing

2005-08-11 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, what's the security policy of Debian testing? for several reasons, I must use Debian Testing on a public server and Awstats has not been upgraded: http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Aug/0134.html Should I ask to the package maintainer? Should I make My own package, waiting fot it? --

Re: Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:17:31PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: [...] } I'm now trying "Tabbrowser preferences" and "Duplicate tab". So far, I'm } having better luck than with "tabbrowser preferences". I recommend Tab Mix. It does all that and more. It's incredibly powerful. The only problem with it I

Re: daisy-chaining internet connectivity

2005-08-11 Thread Terrence Brannon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Sims) writes: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:30:30AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> * Configure the second wired network card with a static IP address. >> Use a different subnet than you have on our WAN side. That is, if >> you have a 10.* address use 192.168.1.1 on the LAN.

Re: security updates in testing

2005-08-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina: > > what's the security policy of Debian testing? Generally, security updates will propagate through unstable just like any other update. Since the release of sarge (or a short time before that), there is also a repository with security updates for testing. Current

Re: Loadlin Booting Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Paul, On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:05:22AM -0700, Paul Kranz wrote: > I would like help getting Loadlin to work with Linux > 3.0 r6 which is using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 and Windows > 98. Loadlin boots the vanilla version of the kernel > 2.2.20 as expected, however it seems to have a problem > unco

dovecot update ?

2005-08-11 Thread Brent Clark
Hi list Im currently run debian sarge / testing. I upgraded my dovecot this morning on my mail server this morning, and my dovecot stopped working for my mail users email clients. I told debconf to replace the dovecot.conf (Baring in mind I saved my conf file). The output I was getting was as so

Re: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address

2005-08-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On 8/11/05, Joakim Franzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of our servers stopped working at midnight probably during heavy load > due to several disc intensive cron jobs starting around that time. The > kern-log managed to collect the following before the server stopped > working. Any idea if the

Re: Re: Debian Partitioning Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Erick Delgado
I don't have Ubuntu installed at the moment (before I did). I have Windows installed because when I was going to install Debian Testing (etch I believe) to see if it will pick up my hdd correctly it did, but when I booted I had errors on my first hdd (40gb) which was odd so I installed Windows

Re: no kdm after 2.2->2.4

2005-08-11 Thread Joe Mc Cool
I can run X ok and startkde, but I need kdm to provide user logins a la kde. A line in /etc/init.d/kdm features the debug level. I uncommented this and now kdm presents a login fine (irrespective of kernel), but very, very slowly. But - wait for it - I re-commented the bebug line and kdm

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-11 Thread Mark Roach
On 8/11/2005, "phyrster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? > >The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other >remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non >root), how to make bash

dpkg: error processing... for quite some days now?

2005-08-11 Thread Tom
Hey ho, As the subject says: since about a week, I have quite a lot of packages (about three a day) that end, when apt-get upgrading, in dpkg errors. All of them seem to be GTK-related (i.e. depend on it), but that might just be a coincidence. Today looks like this: Setting up capplets-data (2.

Re: dpkg: error processing... for quite some days now?

2005-08-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Tom wrote: Hey ho, As the subject says: since about a week, I have quite a lot of packages (about three a day) that end, when apt-get upgrading, in dpkg errors. All of them seem to be GTK-related (i.e. depend on it), but that might just be a coincidence. Today looks like this: Setting up cap

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-11 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:20:24PM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 08/10/2005 06:32:56 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > ... > > If the info is pasted in too fast, the router or switch will drop > > characters, so I need something with a configurable delay after > > pasting characters or lines from

Re: Debian Partitioning Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Erick Delgado wrote: I don't have Ubuntu installed at the moment (before I did). I have Windows installed because when I was going to install Debian Testing (etch I believe) to see if it will pick up my hdd correctly it did, but when I booted I had errors on my first hdd (40gb) which was odd s

shorthand for ip ranges

2005-08-11 Thread Ken Walker
how would i put the following into smb.conf in a shorthand format host allow all ip's from 192.168.0.151 to 192.168.0.185 but non outside this range without putting them all in separately, is it host allow 192.168.0.151 - 192.168.0.185 ? Many thanks Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Loadlin Question

2005-08-11 Thread Paul Kranz
I would like help getting Loadlin to work with Linux 3.0 r6 which is using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 and Windows 98. Loadlin boots the vanilla version of the kernel 2.2.20 as expected, however it seems to have a problem uncompressing kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 and displays the following messages at bootup.

Re: dpkg: error processing... for quite some days now?

2005-08-11 Thread Tom
[11/08/2005 -- 17:26u] kamaraju kusumanchi: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > capplets-data > > eog > > gnome-control-center > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Which distribution are you running? Unstable. > Are there any third party repositories in

Re: How does wdm detect and store window manger sessions?

2005-08-11 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
I've never modified wdm-config, but that's a nice option. wdm will call always ~/.xsession. What I've always done is to call the WM I want from ~/.xsession and that's it. It might be I misunderstood the question though, and also previous answer... Javier. On 8/11/05, strawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shorthand for ip ranges

2005-08-11 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello Ken, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:26:19 +0100 Ken Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how would i put the following into smb.conf in a shorthand > format > > host allow all ip's from 192.168.0.151 to 192.168.0.185 but non > outside this range > > without putting them all in separately, is it >

hald & kernel 2.6.12.x vanilla

2005-08-11 Thread Steven Pasternak
Hi! I use sarge, kernel 2.6.8-k7 (something like that). I compiled my own vanilla kernel 2.6.12.{0-4}, and when hald starts I get this: Starting Hardware abstraction layer: 11:45:45.233 [W] hald.c:302: Your kernel does not support capabilities; some features will not be available. hald. What do

Re: Changing graphics card causes applications' and window manager's fonts to change?

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Funk wrote: Yesterday I shut my Debian box off, swapped in a different graphics card, rebooted, went into a console and changed one line of XF86Config-4 (the Driver line for the card) and did "/etc/init.d/gdm restart". The screen resolution is the same and the monitor is the same. The GDM

Re: Debian Partitioning Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Erick Delgado wrote: Dear Debian, I'm currently having a problem when I install Debian and end up on the partition section. For some odd reason everytime it loads up my hdd it shows 33.8 for both hdd I have. The master hdd is 40gb and the slave is 80gb. I don't know why does it pick up as R

Re: How does wdm detect and store window manger sessions?

2005-08-11 Thread strawks
On jeu, 2005-08-11 at 09:47 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > I've never modified wdm-config, but that's a nice option. wdm will > call always ~/.xsession. What I've always done is to call the WM I > want from ~/.xsession and that's it. It might be I misunderstood the > question though,

From what point on does Logger work? Can I start it earlier?

2005-08-11 Thread Brian
Hi, subject says it all. I would like to know what exactly "Logger" depends on, and from what point in the boot process it is usable? I assume it needs klogd to be running, which is started by RC on my system 2.6.10 Kernel Sarge. Any way I can start to write things earlier than that, or star

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-11 Thread Edward Dunagin
there was a login manager in kde, but darned if i can find it now. this would allow auto logins. --- Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/11/2005, "phyrster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting > up? > > > >The sarge box is

xfree86, via, and xv

2005-08-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
My onboard video has the KM400 chipset which is supposed to be driven by the 'via' driver in XFree86. According to the man page this driver supports Xv video overlay extensions. My logfile shows that the Xvideo extentions are loaded. However, xvinfo reports no adaptors present and xine-check says "

demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:13 +0100, various wrote: > > > > I'm with Demom, its £25 per month, 2mb, uncapped with a static ip. Havn't > > been with them long so cant comment on how reliable they are. > > I've been with Demon for more years than I care to remember. > > They're not bad. DNS can be a

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-11 Thread James Burke
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:19:34 +0100 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:13 +0100, various wrote: > > > > > > I'm with Demom, its £25 per month, 2mb, uncapped with a static ip. Havn't > > > been with them long so cant comment on how reliable they are. > > > > I've been wi

[OT] Radeon, anyone?

2005-08-11 Thread Tong
Hi, I'm trying to make use the TVout of my Radeon 9200 SE. I googled a bit and (seem to have) installed the ATI proprietary driver. What's next? I didn't find any instruction how to verify whether the installation is successful, and how to use it, how to play movies in it, etc. I did find s

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/11/2005 05:20 AM, phyrster wrote: > Hi debianers, > > Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? > > The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other > remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non > root), how

Re: Help with Netinst

2005-08-11 Thread Tong
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:42:01 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > It is a daunting task to create an install CD that works in all cases on > all machines. Try kanotix! a very promising Live CD: http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.php?t=8473 >From distrowatch.com: KANOTIX is a Linux live CD based on

Re: From what point on does Logger work? Can I start it earlier?

2005-08-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/11/2005 01:00 PM, Brian wrote: > Hi, > subject says it all. I would like to know what exactly "Logger" depends > on, and from what point in the boot process it is usable? > > I assume it needs klogd to be running, which is started by RC on my > system 2.6.10 Kernel Sarge. > > Any way I can

SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

2005-08-11 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably well u

Re: Manipulation debconf database and package unatteneded installation and configuration (locally)

2005-08-11 Thread Tong
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:46:25 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > I'm administering only my local computer and, fortunately, don't need to > clone my installation to many machines. But I want to backup the > debconf database (configdb) in order to automatically preconfigure some > (but not all) pa

glibc & tls

2005-08-11 Thread Steven Pasternak
Hi! I am trying to compile glibc 2.3.5 on etch, but when I do, it goes fine except that it doesn't overwrite /lib/tls/*. My configure command is as follows: ../glibc-2.3.5/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \ > --enable-kernel=2.2.0 --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ >--with-header

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-11 Thread TreeBoy
On Thursday 11 Aug 2005 18:19, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:13 +0100, various wrote: > I've signed up with Demon and got their USB modem - but Debian doesn't > bring up eth0. Do I have to anything extra before I can use their modem? > Thanks, Michael Ooh bum - you've selected my sugg

UT2k4 install questions

2005-08-11 Thread Mike Markiw III
Hi all, I just got a new install of Debian 3.1 and want to set up Unreal Tournament 2k4 for use as a dedicated server. I have the DVD edition of it, and it seems to have no problem reading the files. On the DVD is a file named linux-installer.sh. I su to root and try to execute it when I get t

installing kernel module on install from CD

2005-08-11 Thread Ken Walker
Does anybody know where i can get the driver ( module ) to install 3.1 onto a scsi system with an advance scsi card. I've been to the advansys web page and looked at the installation cd, but they only have drivers for up to redhad5.2, and they are in zipped tar format in .c and .h, but i haven't g

Re: Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 11 August 2005 03:22 am, Adam Funk wrote: > I quite like the "Tabbrowser extensions" extension except that it > seems to interfere with enabling desired pop-ups that come from > clicking links that run Javascript commands. > > Has anyone else noticed this, or have I misconfigured someth

Re: UT2k4 install questions

2005-08-11 Thread James Burke
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:36:31 + "Mike Markiw III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just got a new install of Debian 3.1 and want to set up Unreal Tournament > 2k4 for use as a dedicated server. I have the DVD edition of it, and it seems > to have no problem reading the files. > >

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-11 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/11, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 8/11/2005, "phyrster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? > > > >The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other > >remote control sort of things. For the con

Re: Audio / Video catalog program?

2005-08-11 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:07:38PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there are any good audio / video cataloging programs > for linux, I would like to catalog all of my 12" records, CD's, DVD's > and mp3's on cdrom. Mainly interested in: > > 1] Being able to log all inform

Re: [OT] Radeon, anyone?

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 8/11/05, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I'm trying to make use the TVout of my Radeon 9200 SE.I googled a bit and (seem to have) installed the ATI proprietary driver. I the 9200 is the last chip made by ATI that has full open source driver support IIRC.  You might need the atitvout, or gat

unsuscribe

2005-08-11 Thread Manuel García
-- Manuel Garcíaa.k.a mannytoDebian user #379718 kernel 2.6.12.2-x86  

ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel McBrearty
Anyone using ddclient that knows how to configure it to run after reboot? At the moment I start it manually. I looked atthe deb policy manual about scripts to be added to /etc/init.d and the scripts that come with ddclient don't seem to fit (ddclient doesn't accept the start, stop and so on args).

Re: Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 11 August 2005 19:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 03:22 am, Adam Funk wrote: >> I quite like the "Tabbrowser extensions" extension except that it >> seems to interfere with enabling desired pop-ups that come from >> clicking links that run Javascript commands. >> >

libpam.so.0 error on non-graphical login

2005-08-11 Thread Brian K McDonald
When I try to login to a console on my woody-unstable load, instead of password: I get: login: error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14 Are there any files I can replace to make this situation happier?

Re: UT2k4 install questions

2005-08-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:36:31PM +, Mike Markiw III wrote: > > On the DVD is a file named linux-installer.sh. I su to root and try to > execute it when I get the following message: > bash: ./linux-installer.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Most likely, the script doesn't hav

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem? Wouldn't it be possible to extract this quite simple using dumpe2fs? It seems you can get some usefull numbers from the output of $ dumpe2fs |head -36 E.g. "B

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem? Wouldn't it be possible to extract this quite simple using dumpe2fs? It seems you can get some usefull numbers from the output of $ dumpe2fs |head -36 E.g. "

Debian Sarge (Kernel 2.4.27) wanting BootSplash

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Wuest
Hello everybody, for some days I am know trying to teach my debian sarge with kernel 2.4.27 to use bootsplash. I read many articles in the internet. All I tried did not lead to a bootsplash screen and now I have the following questions: Why do I not get the option "Device-Drivers- Grap

Re: Gnome: how to globally set environment variables?

2005-08-11 Thread furufuru
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > I'm totally at a loss. Could someone tell me how one should set > environment variables at the startup of Gnome? A person responded via email to this query of mine. A solution is to write shell commands in ~/.gnomerc. For example, your .gnomerc might look like

Debian Sarge (Kernel 2.4.27) and Bootsplash

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Wuest
Hi. For some days now I am trying to teach my Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 to use Bootsplash. I read many articles and HOW TO´s, but my results are not what I want. It seems to me that I have a very simple problem. after doing "make menuconfig" regarding the HOW TO´s I need to enable some o

Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 and Bootsplash

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Wuest
Hi. For some days now I am trying to teach my Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 to use Bootsplash. I read many articles and HOW TO´s, but my results are not what I want. It seems to me that I have a very simple problem. after doing "make menuconfig" regarding the HOW TO´s I need to enable some o

Re: How does wdm detect and store window manger sessions?

2005-08-11 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:32:40 +0200 strawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On jeu, 2005-08-11 at 09:47 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > > I've never modified wdm-config, but that's a nice option. wdm will > > call always ~/.xsession. What I've always done is to call the WM I > > want from

Re: Audio / Video catalog program?

2005-08-11 Thread Terrence Brannon
The scripts that are available with amarok can do some or all of this... > Hi, > > I am wondering if there are any good audio / video cataloging programs > for linux, I would like to catalog all of my 12" records, CD's, DVD's > and mp3's on cdrom. Mainly interested in: > > 1] Being able to log all

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:20:51PM +0200, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > Anyone using ddclient that knows how to configure it to run after reboot? > > At the moment I start it manually. I looked atthe deb policy manual > about scripts to be added to /etc/init.d and the scripts that come > with ddclient

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel McBrearty wrote: Anyone using ddclient that knows how to configure it to run after reboot? At the moment I start it manually. I looked atthe deb policy manual about scripts to be added to /etc/init.d and the scripts that come with ddclient don't seem to fit (ddclient

Re: Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 and Bootsplash

2005-08-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
First of all, you posted this message three different times. That is not really necessary. On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:38:48PM +0200, Michael Wuest wrote: > Hi. > > For some days now I am trying to teach my Debian Sarge > with Kernel 2.4.27 to use Bootsplash. > > I read many articles and HOW TO´

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:41:03PM -0700, Steve Witt wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > > >Anyone using ddclient that knows how to configure it to run after reboot? > >At the moment I start it manually. I looked atthe deb policy manual > >about scripts to be added to /etc/init

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel Warhammar
Anyone using ddclient that knows how to configure it to run after reboot? At the moment I start it manually. I looked atthe deb policy manual about scripts to be added to /etc/init.d and the scripts that come with ddclient don't seem to fit (ddclient doesn't accept the start, stop and so on args)

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel McBrearty
> > Did you set run_daemon="true" in /etc/default/ddclient? > > -Roberto Yes, that line is there. The problem is to start the daemon after reboot, and I guess stopping it before would be nice (on the off chance that it is in the middle of writing out the last ip address - though that is very u

Re: daisy-chaining internet connectivity

2005-08-11 Thread Terrence Brannon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Sims) writes: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:30:30AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> * Configure the second wired network card with a static IP address. >> Use a different subnet than you have on our WAN side. That is, if >> you have a 10.* address use 192.168.1.1 on the LAN.

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:55:01PM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > > > > > Did you set run_daemon="true" in /etc/default/ddclient? > > > > -Roberto > > > Yes, that line is there. The problem is to start the daemon after reboot, and > I > guess stopping it before would be nice (on the off cha

Planet Penguin Racer problems

2005-08-11 Thread Laura Bruce
I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad. We are having trouble with PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer). Upon starting a course, the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of looking ahead from behind. This makes it a little tricky to decide where to steer, to say

Re: ddclient at startup

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel McBrearty wrote: Anyone using ddclient that knows how to configure it to run after reboot? At the moment I start it manually. I looked atthe deb policy manual about scripts to be added to /etc/init.d and the scripts that come with ddclient don't seem to fit (ddclient doesn't accept the st

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-11 Thread linux
At 19:20 11/08/2005, you wrote: On Thursday 11 Aug 2005 18:19, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:13 +0100, various wrote: > I've signed up with Demon and got their USB modem - but Debian doesn't > bring up eth0. Do I have to anything extra before I can use their modem? > Thanks, Michael

Rebuilding libc6 fails

2005-08-11 Thread William R Sowerbutts
I'm running etch. My attempts to rebuild libc6 fail miserably. I do this: sudo apt-get build-dep libc6 apt-get source libc6 cd glibc-2.3.2.ds1/ sudo debuild And it fails like this: (snip) glibc-2.3.2/wctype/wctype.h glibc-2.3.2/wctype/wctype_l.c touch /tmp/glibc/glibc-2.3.2.ds1/stamp-

Re: xfree86, via, and xv

2005-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rick Pasotto wrote: My onboard video has the KM400 chipset which is supposed to be driven by the 'via' driver in XFree86. According to the man page this driver supports Xv video overlay extensions. My logfile shows that the Xvideo extentions are loaded. However, xvinfo reports no adaptors present

Problème de disque dur sur un Lapto p : bruit de rangement de tête à in tervalle régulier (problème d'alimentation ?)

2005-08-11 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Bonjour, j'ai un problème que je n'arrive pas bien à analyser. Je ne sais pas si l'origine est matérielle ou logicielle. Résumé du problème : à intervalle de temps irrégulier (entre 20 et 60 secondes), mon disque dur fait le bruit qui (je crois) correspond à peu près au rangement des têtes. L

Re: xfree86, via, and xv

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 19:14, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Rick Pasotto wrote: >> My onboard video has the KM400 chipset which is supposed to be >> driven by the 'via' driver in XFree86. According to the man page >> this driver supports Xv video overlay extensions. My logfile shows >> that the Xvide

Re: Problème de disque dur sur un L aptop : bruit de rangement de tête à intervalle régulier (problème d'alimentatio n ?)

2005-08-11 Thread Greg Vickers
Wouldn't have the faintest what you've said mate - this is an English mailing list :) Try this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ Greg KLEIN Stéphane wrote: Bonjour, j'ai un problème que je n'arrive pas bien à analyser. Je ne sais pas si l'origine est matérielle ou logicielle

Re: Squid: problems with authentication of a user

2005-08-11 Thread Romulo Sousa
Hi there, I wouldn't like to use pam_auth but a file passwd in which I have all my users (including myself w/ different password of my that I use to log in my system. I've read a doc about getpwnam_auth. So, I've change the following line of my squid.conf: auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/g

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2005-08-11 Thread NetSnake
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Re: Planet Penguin Racer problems

2005-08-11 Thread [KS]
Laura Bruce wrote: > I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad. We are having trouble with > PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer). Upon starting a course, > the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of > looking ahead from behind. This makes it a little tricky to decide

ifconfig not really shutdown interface

2005-08-11 Thread NetSnake
Does anybody meet this? Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-15 ifconfig not really shutdown the interface. For example, I config a interface eth1 like this: ifconfig eth1 61.50.120.55 up The interface is working fine, we can ping and ssh to it via this IP. But when I shutdown this interface eth1:

My Grub/MBR went bye bye

2005-08-11 Thread Jason Edson
My girl just bought me a new laptop, Averatec 6100A, I used gparted from a live cd to split my ntfs partition to make way for debian. All went well and worked great. The problem is when I booted Wnd**sa dialog kept popping up saying there was an error. It kept popping up so I clicked fix and now wh

Re: My Grub/MBR went bye bye

2005-08-11 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:55:04 -1200, Jason Edson wrote: > My girl just bought me a new laptop, Averatec 6100A, I used gparted > from a live cd to split my ntfs partition to make way for debian. All > went well and worked great. The problem is when I booted Wnd**sa > dialog kept popping up saying th

Re: Problème de disque dur sur un Laptop : bruit de rangement de tête à intervalle régulier (problème d'alimentation ?)

2005-08-11 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:51:49 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > Bonjour, > :) Par avance, je m'excuse si mon message est un peu hors sujet. Bonjour, tu as raison. On est assez hors sujet. Il me semble que la disque dure dont tu parle soit borked et doit être échangée. TMPV, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRI

RE: [Solved] [Bit OT]: Latex Gurus?

2005-08-11 Thread Byron Hillis
Thanks Kevin, your example below worked perfectly. I didn't have a chance to try yours Jim, because I liked the idea of not needing external packages. Thanks again to everyone who helped out. Just marvellous ;-). Byron Hillis > From: Kevin Buhr > > -START OF EXAMPLE- > \documentclass{a

Re: Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 and Bootsplash

2005-08-11 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:38:48 +0200, Michael Wuest wrote: > For some days now I am trying to teach my Debian Sarge > with Kernel 2.4.27 to use Bootsplash. > > I read many articles and HOW TO´s, but my results are > not what I want. > > It seems to me that I have a very simple problem. Dunno abou

Re: My Grub/MBR went bye bye

2005-08-11 Thread Joe Smith
Boot your live cd and get a root shell. mkdir /mydisk && mound /dev/hda1 /mydisk chroot /mydisk install-grub reboot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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