Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Jason Lewis
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: >Hi, > >I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an >_encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and >has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version >at least. > > > Hi Laszlo, I use a program called gringotts for storin

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Joe Mc Cool wrote: Sarge, and with either 2.2 or 2.6 kernels: at boot up I get a login prompt at the F1 console ok. After about 10 secs, the screen goes blank. After another very long delay I get an hour glass in the middle on the screen at F7. There is another very long delay before I get

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread [KS]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a happy user of Testing, but I'm a bit concerned about getting > updates to Firefox in a timely manner. The current version in Testing > is 1.0.4-2, which has recently-announced vulnerabilities in it. The > vulns (I don't like typing that word :) have been fixed in

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:01:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, I'm far from an expert, and I'm still fairly new to Debian (less > than a year), but it seems like something needs to change. I don't > want to run Unstable on my computer, but I don't want to be stuck with > vulnerable brow

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Victor Munoz
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:57:53AM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version > at least. > You could try

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-17 Thread Nate Duehr
Daniel L. Miller wrote: Great! So now some people say Realtek sucks, others say it's better. What's a poor admin to do? Buy both and test, like any good engineer. ;-) Nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-17 Thread Bob Vloon
>> BTW: I assume that the IRQ- messages are harmless, but I might be proven >> wrong.. AR> I have the feeling that they are related to the problem, because it AR> happens always when I connect anything to a usb port for the first AR> time after rebooting. After that first time, no more reaction fr

RE: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Žáček Kryštof
Try updating the font cache by typing # fc-cache > -Original Message- > From: Joe Mc Cool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:18 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: slow X and kdm startup > > Sarge, and with either 2.2 or 2.6 kernels: > > at boot

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:57:53AM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version > at least. Tomboy is quite a

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:01:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, I'm far from an expert, and I'm still fairly new to Debian (less > than a year), but it seems like something needs to change. I don't > want to run Unstable on my computer, but I don't want to be stuck with > vulnerable brow

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

2005-08-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 04:37, M Carlock wrote: > I recently upgraded from woody to sarge per the > instructions (aptitude etc), which was successful. > > However, after then upgrading the kernel from > 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.8-2-386, I found I could boot OK, > but I'd lost eth0 and the ATI frame

Re: no desktop

2005-08-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 8/17/05, Stephen Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > i'm a newby installing debian for the first time. i've been able to install > debian 3.1, however i'm unable to reach the desktop. when i boot up i only > get to the text based screen which presents me with a prompt, ( debian > login

Re: Translucency, Kompmgr and Xorg in KDE

2005-08-17 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 17 Août 2005 06:06, David R. Litwin a écrit : > I recently installed Xorg. There is a bit in KDE's Control Centre which > speaks of Translucency. It requires Xorg 6.8 or greater, which I have. But, > it still doesn't work. It claims it needs kompmgr, but this is not a > package in Debia

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel McBrearty
for anyone who might benefit from this in future ... it's a DLink problem. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01093.html Thanks to all those who responded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:57:53AM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version > at least. You can use cfs to

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:02:02AM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: > >> BTW: I assume that the IRQ- messages are harmless, but I might be proven > >> wrong.. > > AR> I have the feeling that they are related to the problem, because it > AR> happens always when I connect anything to a usb port for the first

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> It was a kernel problem, I had not thought of that. I went ahead, > grabbed a kernel image from sid, installed it (2.6.11) and all usb > and scanner permissions problems dissapeared. But now there is no > sound, I tried to find any info in kern.log, syslog, but didn't see any > reference to alsa.

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Peter J Ross
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:01:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I could upgrade Firefox to the version that's in unstable, but there > are two problems: If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security updates ought to work for it. Try adding security.debian.org to your

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote: > If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security > updates ought to work for it ... ... right up until there are major library changes in Unstable. Such changes are happening now. Once that happens the depende

Deb packages dependent tree

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Is there is a simple way to get all deb packages that on dependent tree of some deb package. For example i have deb package A that depends of package B and C. And B depends of D. I want to run some command on A and get B, C, D. Thanks, Pavel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mailing list header exlanation

2005-08-17 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, can someone explain me the meaning of the list header X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/405738 What is the last number? Can I construct the url of this article in the archive? And can I use this number to report spam anyhow? Thanks for your help, Jörg. -- Richard is only to blame for his in

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > for anyone who might benefit from this in future ... it's a DLink problem. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01093.html It is not necessary to turn off dhcp. Just add a "prepend domain-name-servers" line to /etc/

Re: Deb packages dependent tree

2005-08-17 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 11:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I want to run some command on A and get B, C, D. Something like apt-get install? -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser: 295882 pgp7YghLDxDKl.pgp Description: PGP signature

rat trouble with etch

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Calleja
Hi, I'm running etch with a 2.6.11-1-686 kernel and have installed the rat package, but when I try to connect to a multicast audio session I just get: Setting volume: Invalid argument Getting volume: Invalid argument rat-media: auddev.c:957: audio_get_ogain: Assertion `volume <= 100' failed.

cant copy file

2005-08-17 Thread Lars
Some times when i want to copy a directory it's omitted, and i dont get it. It has nothing to do with permissions, because i can 'mv' it with no problem. debs:# cp /root/.openoffice/ /home/nogetfx/ cp: omitting directory `/root/.openoffice/' Any ideas on this? /lars -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit, a 17/08/05 08:01: > I'm a happy user of Testing, but I'm a bit concerned about getting > updates to Firefox in a timely manner. The current version in Testing > is 1.0.4-2, which has recently-announced vulnerabilities in it. The > vulns (I don't like typing that

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Peter J Ross
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:15:18AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote: > > > If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security > > updates ought to work for it ... > > ... right up until there are major library changes in U

Re: cant copy file

2005-08-17 Thread Lars Roland
On 8/17/05, Lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some times when i want to copy a directory it's omitted, and i dont get > it. It has nothing to do with permissions, because i can 'mv' it with no > problem. > debs:# cp /root/.openoffice/ /home/nogetfx/ > cp: omitting directory `/root/.open

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-17 01:01:20 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a happy user of Testing, but I'm a bit concerned about getting > updates to Firefox in a timely manner. The current version in Testing > is 1.0.4-2, which has recently-announced vulnerabilities in it. The > vulns (I don't like typing th

apache2/perl/mysql pkgs

2005-08-17 Thread brett
Greetings, I am looking to use perl cgi scripts with apache2 and mysql but I am not exactly sure which packages would will fullfill this requirement in Debian. I have read a number of package desciptions and howtos but none are really debian specific. I already have mysql installed. Do I now o

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-17 09:34:02 +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Yes. But you may want to search the archives of the debian-user and > debian-devel mailing lists of the past few weeks, as there have been > discussions about this subject. I have hardly read it all, but I > think there were people running t

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-17 13:06:09 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Another way to go is to not wait for debian packages. I go directly > to the firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, etc. and download the > latest releases. I'm running Firefox 1.0.6 on testing (2.6.8-2) with > zero problems. Same for TB 1.0.6 and OO

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2005-08-17 Thread TomTom Support
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Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two > problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the > screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I > had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two > problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the > screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I > had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:57:53AM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > > has some developm

uncompressing .sitx with unstuff

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
I received a .sitx file and need to uncompress it. The only thing I found to do it is a 15-day trial proprietary utility named unstuff by Stuffit. When I use it, I get: $ unstuff file.sitx yo::fork exception: cannot open "file.sitx"; 2 No such file or directory. I don't know what to make of t

Re: Deb packages dependent tree

2005-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:32:52PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 11:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > I want to run some command on A and get B, C, D. > > Something like apt-get install? I thinks he means he wants to see a dependency tree. apt-get show will show th

mplayer error reading DVD

2005-08-17 Thread Bayrouni
Hello all, I have this error when trying to read a movie DVD. Please see attachment. Thank you Bayrouni MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3D

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/17/2005 01:00 AM, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version > at least. > > Thanks, > Laszlo/GCS apt-cache

Re: Deb packages dependent tree

2005-08-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:46:28AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: } On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:32:52PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: } > Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 11:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: } > } > > I want to run some command on A and get B, C, D. } > } > Something like apt-get install? }

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/17/2005 02:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a happy user of Testing, but I'm a bit concerned about getting > updates to Firefox in a timely manner. The current version in Testing > is 1.0.4-2, which has recently-announced vulnerabilities in it. The > vulns (I don't like typing that wor

Re: WINE

2005-08-17 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: > I've apt-get install wine. I wish to set it up nicely. It also says: > > If you have launched this through the KDE meny system and your KDE > installation is specially configured for Wine, then you can use the > KDE file browser to select a Windows executable and then clic

debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #2076

2005-08-17 Thread jpshanle
- Message from Unknown on Unknown - debian-user-digest Digest Volume 20

Kernel modules loaded twice

2005-08-17 Thread Piero Piutti
Hello. I run Etch with a custom build 2.6.12 kernel ("vanilla" with the CK patches applied and built using kpkg). The kernel has been configured according to my hardware (my pc is a HP NX9010 notebook) and it works nicely. I have noticed though that during the boot sequence, a few errors appear

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Vincent Lefevre ha escrit, a 17/08/05 13:27: > On 2005-08-17 13:06:09 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >>Another way to go is to not wait for debian packages. I go directly >>to the firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, etc. and download the >>latest releases. I'm running Firefox 1.0.6 on testing (

Fw: GPRS PPP Carrier Detect.

2005-08-17 Thread Louis Swart
Hi, I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Intel x86 installation that has pppd version 2.4.3. I have a GPRS modem connected to /dev/ttyS0. I can connect and get a ppp0 interface. When I unplug the GPRS modem from the serial port I can see the modem signals change state including CD (Carrier Detect): >F

how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Albert
I can find no documentation for using a window manager other than xdm, e.g. xfwm4 with ROX. I don't want either Gnome or KDE. Can anyone here point me in the right direction. X Windows was up and running before I installed these two packages. Now I just get a gray screen and no pop up menus. Al

Postgresql on Debian

2005-08-17 Thread Eriberto
Hello All, I need a little help. When I install the Postgresql on Debian running in i686 architecture, the command: =# select version(); shows: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) (1 row) I would like to know if the package was install

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Not exactly. There are builds for Solaris and Mac OS X and maybe some > others as well. I didn't get what platform the OP was using so it > seemed a reasonable alternative to suggest. Frankly, it's the only option, unfortunately. The

Re: Bad superblock [solved]

2005-08-17 Thread Martin Schmid
OK, the problem is solved. If ever you happen to be in the same situation and have to recover data from a partition with damaged primary superblock, you can try the following. We use an example where the failing partition is /dev/hda4 with block size 4kb and an intact backup superblock at block 32

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:53:11PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > He also incorrectly attributed the ownership of the patent(s). Just for the record, what *is* the proper patent attribution? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hi everyone, I'm still in 800x600 :-(... I've tried with a couple of different drivers and color depths and nothing. Searching the web I found this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2004/10/msg00191.html. But I haven't found anything else, so I don't know the full context of that posting. I hav

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/08/05 10:18), Albert wrote: > I can find no documentation for using a window manager other than > xdm, e.g. xfwm4 with ROX. I don't want either Gnome or KDE. Can > anyone here point me in the right direction. X Windows was up > and running before I installed these two packages. Now I just

pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
Hello everyone, I am playing around with Roberto Sanchez's Debian Package Customization HOWTO on http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/?page=debcustomize. This is failing for me at the first step already: pbuilder create. To capture the output I used the following line: sudo pbuilder create > outp

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 09:57 pm, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version > at least. You could just take your journa

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:40 pm, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm still in 800x600 :-(... I've tried with a couple > of different drivers and color depths and nothing. > Searching the web I found this: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2004/10/msg00191.html. > > But I haven't

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:44:38AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > That's what I would suggest, except that I'd use encfs instead of cfs. > I had several problems with cfs, and encfs seems to be more stable and > faster. This is my favourite solution, sounds most UNIX-y :) -- Jon Dowland

Re: Postgresql on Debian

2005-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:50 -0300, Eriberto wrote: > Hello All, > > I need a little help. When I install the Postgresql on Debian running in > i686 architecture, the command: > > =# select version(); > > shows: > > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.5 > (Debia

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:33 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:53:11PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > He also incorrectly attributed the ownership of the patent(s). > > Just for the record, what *is* the proper patent attribution? The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated C

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 07:40 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm still in 800x600 :-(... I've tried with a couple > of different drivers and color depths and nothing. Typically, this would mean that the capabilities of your monitor and videocard are inadequately stated in /etc/X11

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:44:37PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > What could be wrong? I would appreciate any help. It may or may not be related, but there's a thread in -devel atm about pbuilder being broken for unstable chroots. Try explicitly specifying either stable or testing. If you want

Re: PDF Plugin in Firefox Deer Park

2005-08-17 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 8/16/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Adobe Reader for Linux which works nicely. It comes > with a Plugin for Mozilla, which I should think works in Firefox. Now, > yes, I am using Deer Park, but it doesn't matter: It didn't work when > I had standard Firefox and

Re: Deb packages dependent tree

2005-08-17 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 14:46 schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:32:52PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 11:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > I want to run some command on A and get B, C, D. > > > > Something like apt-get install? > > I thinks

Re: Postgresql on Debian

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 17.08.2005 at 09:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I need a little help. When I install the Postgresql on Debian running in > > i686 architecture, the command: > > > > =# select version(); > > > > shows: > > > > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.5

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-16 17:16:14 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote: > > I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two > > problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the > > screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I > > had it

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-17 15:31:30 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > En/La Vincent Lefevre ha escrit, a 17/08/05 13:27: > > But you need to recompile firefox if you don't have an x86 architecture. > > > Hi Vincent, > Not exactly. There are builds for Solaris and Mac OS X and maybe some > others as well. I didn't

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've noticed that after Sarge is > installed, the maximum configured resolution is 800x600 (anyone > knows why?), and one needs a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > for higher resolutions. I recently installed Sarge (a few times, actually) and I also experienced the 800x600 problem. I did not

lossless growing of linear RAID (resizing)

2005-08-17 Thread M. V. Gandhimohan (a.k.a. G. M. Viswanathan)
I had great difficulty finding info. on how to convert from RAID-0 to linear and then grow the system. I have since found out, and am documenting the details here in case others have similar needs. My setup (for the compelte debian mirror at debian.fapeal.br) was 2 80 Gb disks on separate control

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
How about flac? Is there any comparisson between flac and Ogg in terms of compresion and sound quality? Thx, Javier. On 8/13/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: > > > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: How about flac? Is there any comparisson between flac and Ogg in terms of compresion and sound quality? Flac is lossless compression. Almost like zipping a wav file, the compression is just optimised for the type of data in an audio stream. Ogg does the sa

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Žáček Kryštof wrote: Try updating the font cache by typing # fc-cache Thanks a lot. That is one of the first things I've tried, but to no avail. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Albert wrote: I can find no documentation for using a window manager other than xdm, e.g. xfwm4 with ROX. I don't want either Gnome or KDE. Can anyone here point me in the right direction. X Windows was up and running before I installed these two packages. Now I just get a gray screen and no p

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:44:37PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote.. > I am playing around with Roberto Sanchez's Debian Package > Customization HOWTO on > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/?page=debcustomize. This is > failing for me at the first step already: pbuilder create. Have a look

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:56:13PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > It may or may not be related, but there's a thread in -devel atm about > pbuilder being broken for unstable chroots. Try explicitly specifying > either stable or testing. If you want sid, the recommended approach is > to start with test

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Joe Mc Cool on 17/08/05 16:34, wrote: Žáček Kryštof wrote: Try updating the font cache by typing # fc-cache Thanks a lot. That is one of the first things I've tried, but to no avail. Joe don't you see which part of the load process is being carried out when you startx? -- To UNSUB

dhcp configuration issues

2005-08-17 Thread David Berg
I have a dsl gateway that can't seem to give out proper dns information. So I configured it to pass different dns servers in its dhcp leases. When I cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases it looks like this: lease { interface "eth0" fixed-address 192.168.0.2; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Palmer
Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > > You can use cfs to make a small encrypted filesystem out of a normal > > directory; then you can store your diary in the encrypted > > filesystem. > > That's what I would suggest, except that I'd use encfs instead of cfs. > I had several problems with cfs, and encf

desktop / window manager

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Hardy
An applet crashed while I was surfing and after it died, my bottom panel in gnome doesn't show what programs are running on my desktop. I exited my desktop and startx'd again, but still have no cure. I find the desktop and the window manager a bit of a minefield so I don't want to start tryi

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-17 Thread tigergutt
ons, 17,.08.2005 kl. 01.53 -0600, skrev Nate Duehr: > Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > > Great! So now some people say Realtek sucks, others say it's better. > > What's a poor admin to do? > > Buy both and test, like any good engineer. ;-) Realtek -> max 12MB/s 3com -> Max ~50MB/s (Disk don't del

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Have a look at this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00649.html > > ... which is a workaround. Essentially create a stable chroot > first, then upgrade it to unstable. And how do I create a stable chroot? *That

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Adam Hardy wrote: don't you see which part of the load process is being carried out when you startx? Yes, I described this in an earlier post where I tailed /var/log/XFree86.1.log. thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Evolution and OO integration

2005-08-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I have always used Thunderbird for my email and have never given the other email clients much of a look, but I got to playing with Evolution this weekend and it's integration with OO looks pretty cool. However, I'm having real problems getting OO to print fields. I have set up OO to print th

Re: slow X and kdm startup

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Joe Mc Cool on 17/08/05 18:17, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: don't you see which part of the load process is being carried out when you startx? Yes, I described this in an earlier post where I tailed /var/log/XFree86.1.log. Oh. I didn't see the earlier post. I suffer from slow gnome startup

cant connect to port 80

2005-08-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hi list I have my routing rules as so /sbin/ip route add 196.36.10.113 dev eth0 src 196.36.10.114 table IS /sbin/ip route add default via 196.36.10.113 table IS /sbin/ip route add 192.168.10.200 dev eth2 src 192.168.10.100 table TELKOM /sbin/ip route add default via 192.168.10.200 table TELKOM

Ownership of cdrom devices

2005-08-17 Thread [KS]
Hello all, I reinstalled Debian Unstable on my machine just a few weeks ago. Today I wanted to play an audio CD and the CD player program popped up (Gnome desktop, uses gnome-cd program) to play it. But there was no sound. Testing alsa player by playing an mp3 (from hard disk) showed no problems a

Re: hotplugging mouse hassles

2005-08-17 Thread Ryan King
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:13:38PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > and for a while now the psmouse driver loses synch and goes nuts when I > switch the KVM, even though Hotplug should keep it in there, as per this > /var/log/messages: My experience with PS/2, under Linux and Windows, is that it doesn

Re: Evolution and OO integration

2005-08-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
As an addendum to my previous post I finding that when I quit OO after trying to print an envelope from the Evolution address book OO goes to 98% cpu usage and just stays there. It never shuts down unless I shut it down with a kill command. Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have always used Thunde

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Joe Mc Cool wrote: just last night I ran: apt-get xfce4 aaargh, that should have been: apt-get install xfce4 (go see www.xfce.org) super system, beats kde anyday. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mysql server

2005-08-17 Thread carl Williams
Hello,   I’m working with the Asterisk PBX on debian 2.6.10- system and I’m getting errors trying to install myqsl database the errors are as follow. Please help!     Errors:   IPPBX:~# dselect Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies.

loopback interface does not come up

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running sarge with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on a new machine connected to a hardware firewall (as eth1), shared with another machine (eth0). # ifconfig eth0 ... UP BROADCAST RUNNING ... ... [no lo entry] # /sbin/ifup lo /sbin/ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/i

apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread Yoav Felberbaum
Hi, I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. Doing an "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" is EVEN worse, with apt-get claiming I need to "REMOV

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:54:20PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote.. > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > Have a look at this: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00649.html > > > > ... which is a workaround. Essentially create a stable chr

Lavalife cancellation request sent from incorrect email address

2005-08-17 Thread help
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Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread [KS]
Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't > been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade > php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. > > Doing an "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" is EVEN worse, with ap

Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yoav Felberbaum wrote: > I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that hasn't > been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade > php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update. > > Doing an "apt-get

Re: pbuilder create fails on debootstrap

2005-08-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:45:10PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > In looking closer at your first email, I noticed you set: > > APTCONFDIR="/etc/apt/" in your .pbuilderrc file > > ... which means the apt sources will be copied from your setup. The > default is to leave this blank. Do you have a

Debian Sarge ugly screen display at 1280x800 on notebook

2005-08-17 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
Hi, some times ago I wrote about the "ugly fonts" on my notebook in native resolution. First of all: It were not just the fonts, but everything (icons, borders, ...). It seems the nv-driver delivered with Sarge has a bug at this resolution and a depth of 24. When I set DefaultDepth to 16 all was

OpenOffice: How can I use fonts installed in X

2005-08-17 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
Hi, I've just installed some Type 1 fonts with type1inst and mkfontdir. It seems they are recognized by X11. But when I start OpenOffice (version 1.1.3 I think, the one installed with current Sarge stable), I can't see these fonts. Doesn't OpenOffice/StarOffice use the fonts, installed on X11, i.

OpenOffice: No Help available

2005-08-17 Thread Hans-Peter Sulzer
Hi, I have installed Debian Sarge (current stable) and thereby OpenOffice was also installed (I didn't install it explicitly). Problem: If I select Contents in the "Help" menu, the help browser starts, but in the right window the following message appears: The requested document does not exist i

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