Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/14/05, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to find out svga, dma chipset "lspci -v" and/or  "lspci -vv" I couldn't make out anything from the output for svga or dma. It will be nice if you can be more explicit. >> and all the cpu flags it uses >How to know? cat /proc/cpuinfo

SOLVED: Re: cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Erik Steffl wrote: Sep 13 03:06:40 jojda cyrus/master[9483]: unable to create imaps listener socket: Address family not supported by protocol Something gone wrong in your IPV6 (or lack thereof) setup? Tell cyrus to bind explicitly to a

FW: IPPPd incoming channel bundling issue.

2005-09-14 Thread Mahesh
Hi, We are using IPPPd open source package for ISDN connection and it is working fine. The problem we are facing is with channel bundling for incoming calls. I am adding ippp0 to ippp15 channels as Master interfaces. But when there is an incoming call to my system and the dial-in user wants to do

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-14 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a joe wrote: > > i have used Debian 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, potato and woody. with each new > > version come some new features that i found useful. > > > > a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian > distro > > because no new features

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-14 Thread Dom
On 9/13/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dom on 12/09/05 12:20, wrote: > > SO I need to change system variables TMPDIR, TEMP and TMP... how > > should I do that? > > One source tells me to change .bash_profile from my (and every other > > user's if I want to do this as the system default

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-14 Thread Katipo
Jason Clinton wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:43 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: I'm not feeding this troll any more. Well, I don't know if he's trolling. He comes across as someone who uses one app. and therefore nothing else is any good. I've used aptitude for a couple of years now, on

Fantastico De Luxe Auto Installer

2005-09-14 Thread F.X. Harry Wardhana
Dear All, I'm very interest to use Fantastico De Luxe Auto Installer script. Where can I buy it? I need it badly. I've search it anywhere with google and i didn't get this info. Help... Thanks a lot, -- F.X. Harry Wardhana http://www.harry-wardhana.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:52 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Juha Pahkala wrote: > > > Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > No, actually Oliver was 100% correct, I somehow had some dvb > > recordings under one of my nfs mount points and they took up the space > > that didn't show up using du. > > Ok, I gu

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in > /etc/profile since all users' profile include that. Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a similar program? I tried to get my ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-14 Thread Andras Lorincz
Maybe this helps: I'm using kdm and if I want .xsession to be executed then at the session menu choose default, maybe it's similar in gdm.On 9/10/05, Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hi All,Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athalon box with all the current updates. I have tried to no avail to get

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I discovered that sawfish, metacity and enlightenment work. Blackbox and > uwm don't (weird effects happen instead though - quite interesting!). > > Still to try wmaker and a couple of others. > > I haven't found a window manager fulfills all the little qu

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I'd like to find out a way to keep windows from stealing focus > if at all possible. A number of window managers have a "focus new windows" option. It may work to turn that off. I don't know whether your wm has such an option, though. Kai --

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-14 Thread Pooly
2005/9/6, mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot > and > | > the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Angelo on 14/09/05 06:00, wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:59 pm, David Purton wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:51:59AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Angelo Bertolli on 13/09/05 19:16, wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:39:58PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: This thread

IPPPd incoming channel bundling issue.

2005-09-14 Thread Mahesh
Hi, We are using IPPPd open source package for ISDN connection and it is working fine. The problem we are facing is with channel bundling for incoming calls. I am adding ippp0 to ippp15 channels as Master interfaces. But when there is an incoming call to my system and the dial-in user wants to do

apt-listbugs and pinning

2005-09-14 Thread Basajaun
Hi all, I am following the Etch release, and use apt-listbugs as a way to prevent installation of buggy packages. I have came across a problem a previous poster asked about, on July 25th (http://makeashorterlink.com/?D23453BCB), but got no definitive answer. The thing is: let's say I have package

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 09:16, wrote: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I discovered that sawfish, metacity and enlightenment work. Blackbox and uwm don't (weird effects happen instead though - quite interesting!). Still to try wmaker and a couple of others. I haven't found a window

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Gu Xiaoyang on 14/09/05 05:46, wrote: I think that there should be a log file in /var/log. Its name is like Xorg.0.log. Please check that file to find what happened. Btw, when the system freeze, you can try to ssh login from other machine, this maybe works. Good LucK! On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 a

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 09:07, wrote: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in /etc/profile since all users' profile include that. Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a similar program? I tried to g

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
Tong Sun wrote: Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html tha

Re: Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome

2005-09-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
Chuck Williams wrote: Hi all, I'm tracking etch and installed all upgradable packages on two systems today, including current etch upgrades to version 6.8.2 of some X packages. During the upgrade of one of the systems, but not the other, I was asked for the default xserver in a configuration qu

IMAP Bandwith

2005-09-14 Thread Koybe
Hello, Can someone help me estimating the bandwith needed for a server delivering mail trough IMAP using CYRUS. It's about 100 clietns in a day to day use. thank you. Jérôme Herman

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > to escape from x, the key combo ALT-CTRL-Backspace will kill it and > everything running. On my laptop, since installing Xorg, I get the xdm login screen, but it's totally nonresponsive to keyboard input. Ctrl-Backspace does nothing,

Re: IMAP Bandwith

2005-09-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:39:11AM +0200, Koybe wrote: > Hello, > Hi, > Can someone help me estimating the bandwith needed for a server > delivering mail trough IMAP using CYRUS. It's about 100 clietns in a > day to day use. > No problem. You will use somewhere between 0 Mbps and the maximum a

Stop autoloading of prism54 module

2005-09-14 Thread Chris
Using a 3com wireless card. It doesn't work with the prism54 module (none of the firmwares from prism54.org work with it) - and googling on it suggests that they changed the chipset - but not the part number or other identifiers. However - the card works just fine with ndiswrapper. So - I have

how would remote user start X application on local monitor

2005-09-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Problem: I log in from a remote location, but I need to start an aplication (example: emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper & ) so that the person at home can see it and work with it. The person at home is very old (8x, x > 5), so there is little hope of getting the person to start the applica

Re: IMAP Bandwith

2005-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:39 +0200, Koybe wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone help me estimating the bandwith needed for a server >delivering mail trough IMAP using CYRUS. It's about 100 clietns in a > day to day use. Will this be a LAN, a WAN, or both? If both, which will be the primary means of tr

Re: IMAP Bandwith

2005-09-14 Thread Koybe
2005/9/14, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:39:11AM +0200, Koybe wrote: > > Hello, > > > Hi, > > > Can someone help me estimating the bandwith needed for a server > > delivering mail trough IMAP using CYRUS. It's about 100 clietns in a > > day to day use. > > >

Radio tuner on nvidia card howto

2005-09-14 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I have a radio tuner on my nvidia card and I would appreciate if someone could point me a documentation on how to get it working. The lspci looks like this: :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Tong Sun a écrit : Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html

Re: Help with apt-get upgrade

2005-09-14 Thread Rishi
> You might want to change that. Sarge has has been stable for months now. > You're doing a stable-to-testing upgrade while testing is in a state of > major flux. Hi So is this what it should be? deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main c

Re: IMAP Bandwith

2005-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 12:56 +0200, Koybe wrote: > 2005/9/14, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:39:11AM +0200, Koybe wrote: [snip] > Sure for a local network but i was thinking about client connecting > trough the internet. An important point you neglected to me

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Jon Roed a écrit : I have just compiled a new kernel (2.6.13) and i cannot get it too boot. When i select my new kernel from the boot loader i get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) Please append a correct "root= " boot option kernel panic: not synci

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I only tried it with startx from a cmd line. Thanks for the info. But I > can't think where else you would set it up. Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the use

Re: Help with apt-get upgrade

2005-09-14 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:09:24PM +0530, Rishi wrote: > So is this what it should be? > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib Yes. O, wait a minute. No. I would choose 'sarge' here instead of 'stable'. For now it would b

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Aurélien Campéas wrote: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) > > Please append a correct "root= " boot option > > kernel panic: not syncing : VFS cannot open root device > > > > i am wondering what to add as a boot option (i am running L

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Carl Fink on 14/09/05 11:20, wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: to escape from x, the key combo ALT-CTRL-Backspace will kill it and everything running. On my laptop, since installing Xorg, I get the xdm login screen, but it's totally nonresponsive to keyboard

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Simo Kauppi
Hi, My two cents to the window manager monologue... :) On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 09:16, wrote: > >Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I discovered that sawfish, metacity and enlightenment work. Blackbox and > >>uwm don't (wei

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Antony Gelberg on 14/09/05 10:00, wrote: Tong Sun wrote: Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see all > apps in a list or a row with the current selected app highlighted. I saw > one window manager doing it just how I like it but don't remember which > one now. WindowMaker does this

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 13:01, wrote: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see all apps in a list or a row with the current selected app highlighted. I saw one window manager doing it just how I like it but don't remember w

Re: webcam troubles

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work. I > managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get > no picture, and an error that says: > > ftp: lost connection > ftp: connect failed,

Re: ftp://ftp.nerim.net repository broken?

2005-09-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:13:21AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Tong wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > > > Yes, it is, but I'm sure they are aware of it, as I couldn't get a > connection with aptitude. > Server probably down for maintenance. It's not a server problem. Marillat anounced in June[1] that the ar

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Alvin Oga a écrit : On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Aurélien Campéas wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) Please append a correct "root= " boot option kernel panic: not syncing : VFS cannot open root device i am wondering what to add as a boot option (i am runnin

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:17:42 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see > all apps in a list or a row with the current selected app highlighted. > I saw one window manager doing it just how I like it but don't > remember which

Re: bootsplash

2005-09-14 Thread Nicolas Cadou
Le 13 Septembre 2005 05:03, mess-mate a écrit : > | I have encountered this problem with S3 Virge cards. > | > | I found a patch for 2.4 kernels (tested on 2.4.21 and 2.4.24) which > | side-steps the problem, by setting video modes through VESA. > | > | Let me know if it works. > > Thanks but i bui

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Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Aurélien Campéas wrote: > a "mkinitrd for the dummies", riddled with examples, would be neat > > but for a costom kernel without initrd, also don't forget to disable > initrd support (in the kernel) (it sits near the RAM fs section) do you man disable or enabl

font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

2005-09-14 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've just installed Stacked View Extension -- which is great! -- but it leav

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-14 Thread Kent West
Katipo wrote: > I've used aptitude for a couple of years now, on dial-up, go to bed on > the upgrade, wake up in the morning, and everything's done. > Must be something wrong with me. Well, obviously! What self-respecting geek wakes up in the _morning_?! Well, okay, I guess 11AM is still consid

Installing mplayer

2005-09-14 Thread John Talbut
It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the nearest there is to an "official" Debian version of mplayer is at http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty installing this. I do not seem to be ending up with, in particular, the codec files referred t

Re: bootsplash

2005-09-14 Thread mess-mate
Nicolas Cadou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Le 13 Septembre 2005 05:03, mess-mate a écrit : | > | I have encountered this problem with S3 Virge cards. | > | | > | I found a patch for 2.4 kernels (tested on 2.4.21 and 2.4.24) which | > | side-steps the problem, by setting video modes through VESA. |

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:37:52PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 13:01, wrote: > >Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see all > >>apps in a list or a row with the current selected app highlighte

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread James Vahn
Tong Sun wrote: > This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having > upgraded from xsever to xorg. > > Is there any way I can have my X back? X-window-system-core depends on xserver-xorg, you could try removing both of them and installing xserver-xfree86. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: how would remote user start X application on local monitor

2005-09-14 Thread James Vahn
Tony wrote: > Problem: > > I log in from a remote location, but I need to start an aplication > (example: emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper & ) Try: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper It's been a while since I've used it, that might be bad advice. Another

Installing mplayer

2005-09-14 Thread John Talbut
(Repeat posting, to disconnect it from another thread) It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the nearest there is to an "official" Debian version of mplayer is at http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty installing this. I do not seem to be e

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Jon Roed
I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. I have an AMD Athlon 64 2800+. The chipset according to the manual that came with the motherboard is a SiS746 Northbridge and SiS963 Southbridge. I can't find an option for either of those. Also, which IDE drivers should i make sur

Re: Installing mplayer

2005-09-14 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/14/05, John Talbut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears from http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html that the > nearest there is to an "official" Debian version of mplayer is at > http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge . I am having difficulty > installing this. I do not seem to be en

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Jon Roed a écrit : I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. I have an AMD Athlon 64 2800+. The chipset according to the manual that came with the motherboard is a SiS746 Northbridge and SiS963 Southbridge. I can't find an option for either of those. Also, which IDE drive

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Alvin Oga a écrit : On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Aurélien Campéas wrote: a "mkinitrd for the dummies", riddled with examples, would be neat but for a costom kernel without initrd, also don't forget to disable initrd support (in the kernel) (it sits near the RAM fs section) do you man

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jon Roed wrote: > I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. the chipset you care about is the output of "lspci" - you'd want to make sure you can find all the drivers for each of the hardware controllers listed in the output of

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:19:14PM +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > Hi, > > My two cents to the window manager monologue... :) > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see all > > apps in a list or a row with t

Re: Help with starting Totem

2005-09-14 Thread [KS]
Seeker5528 wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:01:03 -0400 > "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>lsof doesn't give me anything :( >>~# lsof /dev/dsp >>~# >> >>Any other pointers? > > > Are you using totem-gstreamer or totem-xine > Are you using alsa drivers? > > If you don't know then open

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Cybe R. Wizard on 14/09/05 13:38, wrote: IceWM can do that. (but multiple desktops are /so/ cool!) I think you'd be happy with IceWM as it is configurable to do most of what you want so far. In addition you'll need Iceconf or Icepref for configuration. Thanks for those tips. Got most of it c

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Cybe R. Wizard on 14/09/05 13:38, wrote: I think you'd be happy with IceWM as it is configurable to do most of what you want so far. In addition you'll need Iceconf or Icepref for configuration. one major plus point for icewm - it starts all programs with a window the same size as the availab

Re: SOLVED: Re: cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Erik Steffl wrote: > anyway, fam NEWS/Debian.gz mentions the problem and refers to bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277528 Hmm... some people are just too shortsighted when they design software. > random daemons... Also seems like it would be really

Re: IMAP Bandwith

2005-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Koybe wrote: > Can someone help me estimating the bandwith needed for a server > delivering mail trough IMAP using CYRUS. It's about 100 clietns in a > day to day use. Well, this question has no good answer because: 1. It depends on the average mail size, which depens on you

Solved: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Tong
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:39:03 -0500, Kent West wrote: >>This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having >>upgraded from xsever to xorg. >> >> [...] >>that there is way to restore using xserver instead of >>xorg. I tried to follow it, but wasn't successful. >> >>I removed all xorg and xserv

Re: how would remote user start X application on local monitor

2005-09-14 Thread Tong
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:44:56 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Problem: > > I log in from a remote location, but I need to start an aplication > (example: emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper & ) > so that the person at home can see it and work with it. Should be as simple as set your DISP

Freshness of packages

2005-09-14 Thread Tong
Hi, Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those packages been in Debian Testing repository? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: > > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling > > symlink > > Th

lock ssh user in his home

2005-09-14 Thread Leonardo Marques
Hey people, Someone know what can i do to lock ssh user in his home ? Thanks for attention, []s -- -- Leonardo Marques http://www.analyx.org --

RTC driver failure

2005-09-14 Thread Tong
Hi, I think it began after my recent upgrade. My RTC driver fails during boot. I noticed that when gazing at the boot screen, but wasn't able to find it in syslog or dmesg. ls: /proc/sys/dev/rtc: No such file or directory Does it proove that I don't have RTC? How to solve it? Thanks tong

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

2005-09-14 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Erdi Balint wrote: Hi, Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it works as it should. However, how do you make a front-end (namely xcdroast) use this setting? I keep getting scanbus errors using xcdroast and unable

kernel version and gcc's

2005-09-14 Thread Tong
Hi, Do I have to install the gcc that corresponding to what was using when my kernel was compiled? Googling on the web tells me that it might not be necessary. But I get the following message when trying to compile modules for vmare: Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "3.4.3", while you

Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Funk
Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Net install image

2005-09-14 Thread olive
Hi, I tried today's net install iso file but it did not work. I downloaded it from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ I control checksum and it's ok. I burned it twice. I have an error while installing base system saying me some packages are missing. Seems file is

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
David E. Fox wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz >>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2005-09-09 10:05 >>>/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> >>>/etc/alternatives/x-term

Re: screen resolution

2005-09-14 Thread Chris Parker
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 03:17 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > Chris Parker wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:36 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > >>Chris Parker wrote: > >>>First off - kern = 2.6.8-2-i686 > >>>Package: xserver-xfree86 > >>>Status: install ok installed > >>>Priority: optional > >>>

Re: screen resolution

2005-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Chris Parker wrote: <>>> Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" # VideoRam16384 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "MX70" HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 47-120

the netcard config is not there

2005-09-14 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi, I installed sarge want to configure the network card, but no tool there for that !! In previous debian I remember, threre was a netcardconf or something like this , but nothing here??!! Of course I can use ifconfig but not for permanant address, or must change manually the files. strange, norm

Re: lock ssh user in his home

2005-09-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, Leonardo Marques wrote: Hey people, Someone know what can i do to lock ssh user in his home ? by setting proper permission ? hth, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On lørdag 10 september 2005, 23:02, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > >The first is a dirt cheap Sunsway Sil 3112-based card, i.e. > > fakeraid. > > How "old" is your PC? Pretty exactly 4 years old. It has the last generation of Athlon T-Bird CPUs. > On my 2ghz AthlonXP I have onbo

Re: the netcard config is not there

2005-09-14 Thread Juan Fco. Casanova Rodriguez
> Hi, > I installed sarge > want to configure the network card, but no tool there > for that !! > In previous debian I remember, threre was a > netcardconf or something like this , but nothing > here??!! > Of course I can use ifconfig but not for permanant > address, or must change manually the fil

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-14 Thread Marco
Simo Kauppi ha scritto: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Marco wrote: Simo Kauppi ha scritto: It seems to me that the conditions for the first domain say that any hostname which is not www.doamin1.com should go to www.domain1.com. I.e. Apache is doing exacly as asked (domain2

Re: the netcard config is not there

2005-09-14 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Thanks, Yes I know how to configure the netcard manually, but for the newbie, it is important to have a button for that. look at the menu there are a lot of button for almost every thing less important that networking, but not for the network configuration. best regards bela --- "Juan Fco. Casa

Re: ftp://ftp.nerim.net repository broken?

2005-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 14:52 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:13:21AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > > Tong wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it is, but I'm sure they are aware of it, as I couldn't get a > > connection with aptitude. > > Server probably down for maint

Re: Stop autoloading of prism54 module

2005-09-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi Chris, On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:15:25PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > Using a 3com wireless card. > > It doesn't work with the prism54 module (none of the firmwares from > prism54.org work with it) - and googling on it suggests that they > changed the chipset - but not the part number or other id

Re: the netcard config is not there

2005-09-14 Thread Juan Fco. Casanova Rodriguez
Ok... Looking at my menu (i use gnome) in the applications->systemtools->network tools you can configure your devices... My menu is in spanish so some name couldn't match with yours... Hope to help you again! :) > Thanks, > Yes I know how to configure the netcard manually, > but for the newbie,

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Hi, I have removed the Rewrite rule on my Virtual Host configuration file, I have added the rule ServerAlias domain1.com *.domain1.com, and I have restart apache2. Test: http://www.domain1.com --> OK http://domain1.com --> PAGE NOT FOUND ??? I have also an other question, using

Re: Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

2005-09-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:20:01PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" > and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Normally, /usr/bin/time -v, but apparently since 2.4 kernels a lot of information is not available. Fran

Re: Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome

2005-09-14 Thread Chuck Williams
FYI, I resolved this and the follow-on problems fully by:   1.  Upgrading all X components to version 6.8.2 (from etch repository)   2.  Upgrading my kernel to 2.6.13.1   3.  Upgrading to the latest nvidia driver (7676)   4.  Moving to the xorg xserver   5.  Reconfigure my virtual workspaces to

Re: Freshness of packages

2005-09-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? > > Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages > need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those > packages been in Debian T

Re: Easy way to determine how much memory a program used?

2005-09-14 Thread Marco
Frank Gevaerts ha scritto: Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? Thanks, Adam I don't understand exactly what you want to do... but have you tried simply with "top"?? Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-14 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:20:09PM +0200, Marco wrote: > Simo Kauppi ha scritto: > > >On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Marco wrote: > > > > > >>I have test with your settings but I have still problems. This is the > >>configuration of 000-domain1.com > >> > >> > >>This is the configurat

KPM update failure

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Schwartz
I tried to update the KPM list [running woody] and got the following error Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing xvfb (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_b

Re: Freshness of packages

2005-09-14 Thread Tong
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:35:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? >> >> Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages >> need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those >> packages been in Debi

Re: KPM update failure

2005-09-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:58:52PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I tried to update the KPM list [running woody] and got > the following error > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing xvfb (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /

no icons on kde 3.4.2 desktop after reboot

2005-09-14 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Hi, I wonder if anyone has seen this problem and knows how to solve it. After a reboot, my KDE desktop shows no icons and a pop-up window shows the message: Error - KDesktop The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly If I end the session and log in again, the icons appear. I'm runni

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

2005-09-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:19:30AM +0200, Erdi Balint wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the > dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it works as it > should. However, how do you make a front-end (namely xcdroast) use this > setting?

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