Re: Problems with kinput2

2005-11-07 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:09:59PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote: > I'm trying to configure kinput2 for Japanese text input, but as of yet > I've had no success. I have the following lines in my ~/.Xdefaults and > have merged them using xrdb: > *KinputProtocol.XlcConversionStartKey: Shiftspace > *Conv

Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

2005-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:20 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 09:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, An

Testing weekly iso image generation

2005-11-07 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I'm interrested when are the testing iso images regenerated. I'm interested in this because I want to avoid to download some cds corresponding to a week and the other cds to be from the next week.

Re: Problems with kinput2

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:09:59PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > I also have the following in my ~/.xsession: > > [...] > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 um... did you want to see english or japanese text ?? export LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 export LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf-8

Re: how to regress to stable

2005-11-07 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:45:49PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. > > > > I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to > revert > > back to stable. > Go and fix all

openct does not start when token is inserted

2005-11-07 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i've got a cryptographic token (Rainbow iKey 3000) and want to use it on my debian box. there's some problem, though. when i plug it in, i get usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 in my logs. however the corresponding init.d script is not executed and i hav

Re: setting up wifi / interpreting errors

2005-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:22:12 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added the following stanza to my /etc/network/interfaces: > > iface ut-wifi inet dhcp >wireless-mode managed >wireless-essid UTORwin >wireless-key s:UToronto1home >wireless-keymode ope

Strange problem that don't allow me to mount dvd units

2005-11-07 Thread dclemen
Hi, I have a strange problem since 2 days ago, that don't allow me to mount any DVD, in Dvd-reader and Dvd-writer. But I CAN play music from them (reader) and I can control playing with gnome-cd-player. First, my hardware. I have a Amd64 3200+ with asus a8n-e (nvidia nForce4 Ultra) motherboard, a

Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

2005-11-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:13:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:20 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > and parted is included in debian I'm using sid: apt-cache search parted gparted - GNOME partition editor

Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi Finnish friends! A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are supported by the most current linux kernels. Anyone with experience?

Re: WIreless connectivity at boot

2005-11-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Nov 2005, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > Angelina Carlton wrote: > > >Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Here is my interfaces file: > >> > >>auto lo > >>iface lo inet loopback > >> > >>auto eth0 > >>iface eth0 inet dhcp > >> > >>auto eth1 > >>iface eth1 inet dhcp > >>nam

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi Finnish friends! > > A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to > connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit > problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are > supported by the

Re: Problems with kinput2

2005-11-07 Thread George Alexandru Dragoi
I once tryed to make kinput2 working, and actually did it with some help, but i can't do it to work again. Then somebody point me to uim and anthy. The problem is they work only with gtk2 apps. After you install the libs, open a new gtk2 app, right-click, and from Input Methods menu choose japanese

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-07 Thread Thomas
Steve Lamb wrote: Gnu-Raiz wrote: People like me rely on the ISP for their dhcp ip address, so why would a ISP allow their routers to forward port scans to their own ip address net blocks? Becausee, strictly speaking, port scans are harmless. Ooooh, you have open ports. Scary!

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
> Advanced implies being closer to some destination. I don't know if > everyone agrees on what that destination is. Features or complexity is > not a sign of being advanced. > > If your goal is video editing, Solaris is not as advanced as other > operating systems. Excellent answer!!! > Solaris

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/4/05, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > I used Solaris for many years for serious embedded development work, > > as well as an embedded operating system. I've used Linux for just > > about a year. All the GNU tools can b

emacs 21.4 and antialiasing

2005-11-07 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Hi! Did anybody here manage to make Emacs 21.4 use antialising with true type fonts like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono? I can't make Emacs see Bitstream fonts... -- Registered Linux user number 402184. Get counted! http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe napisał(a): Lovely defence... By the way I hear that loads of server admins tend to avoid the 2.6 kernels, implying that they regard the 2.4 series more stable. Can anyone confirm if it's actually so or if it's more of paranoia? I had oopses on early 2.6 kernels when doing

OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine, mozilla-firefox, openoffice... who else? What about the most active distros (perhaps a tougher one to

Re: SOLVED Configuration error running su in unstable

2005-11-07 Thread Chris Lale
Sravan K Nellutla wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Can you please tell me how you solved the config error problem > in Debian. Even I get the same error messages. I got your > email-id when I was Googling on the interet. > > I get the same error you got on your pc. > > configuration error - unknown item 'Q

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Scott
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine, mozilla-firefox, openoffice... who else? What about the most active di

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Scott
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine, mozilla-firefox, openoffice... who else? What about the most active dis

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:56 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Advanced implies being closer to some destination. I don't know if > > everyone agrees on what that destination is. Features or complexity is > > not a sign of being advanced. > > > > If your goal is video editing, Solaris is not

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/7/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > >Hello, > >My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- > >numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to > >approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine, > >mozilla-fi

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On 11/7/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- > numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to > approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine, > mozilla-firefox, openoffice... w

Citrix client on Sarge - intermittent CAPS lock problem

2005-11-07 Thread David Mummery
Hi all - I've installed the latest Citrix client (v9) on Debian Sarge. Occasionally, users report that CAPS Lock and Shift keys no longer give them capital letters in the Citrix session. Locally capitalisation is fine. Any ideas? Daavid Mummery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread David Mummery
Hi all - Is there a way to remove Abiword from Debian Sarge without Synaptic insisting on removing all of Gnome-Office? I have a real pain with it opening .doc files instead of OpenOffice under the Gnome environment. Alternatively, how can I force .doc files to be openned by default by OpenOffic

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 16:40 Sun 06 Nov , Cloaked Hunter wrote: > I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian > packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now, > regardless of what kernel I boot, none of my network interfaces will > initialize during boot, not even th

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/11/05 12:32), David Mummery wrote: > Hi all - > > Is there a way to remove Abiword from Debian Sarge without Synaptic insisting > on removing all of Gnome-Office? > > I have a real pain with it opening .doc files instead of OpenOffice under the > Gnome environment. > > Alternatively, how

Re: 2.6.14 Problems (was Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot)

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 21:56 Sun 06 Nov , Hendrik Sattler wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 November 2005 19:32, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thats because devfs is creating the nodes in kernels < 2.6.14. > >> With 2.6.14 DEVFS is no longer supported in the kernel, so you have > >> to use anothe

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul O'Malley
Michael Beattie wrote: On 11/7/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine, mozilla-fire

Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

2005-11-07 Thread Bob Hutchinson
On Monday 07 Nov 2005 09:43, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:13:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:20 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > and parted is included in debian > > I'm usin

Mailman/Exim4 issues

2005-11-07 Thread Matt
I've been having some problem getting Mailman to work with Exim4, I've been googling and trying stuff for a couple of days and I'm at a dead end. I'm kind of hoping by the time I articulate my problem and the steps and checks I have performed to solve it, in this email, I will spot the solution.

Re: Mailman/Exim4 issues

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Matt, "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I receive the email messages confirming the list has been created and > showing the aliases. > I'm using Exim4 so I'm pretty sure I do not need to add the aliases to my > /etc/aliases file. What happens if you put the mailman-aliases into the /etc/ali

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/4/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Basajaun wrote: > > > > > >>I hope anyone in the list is more enlightened than me, and can make, > >> > >>for example, a brief comparison of Debian Etch and Solaris 10. _That_ > >>would be way more usefull than just calling

Re: grub kernel parameter

2005-11-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 06.11.2005 at 21:43 -0800, Kancha . wrote: > This is the output of uname -a > > Linux kancha 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST > 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > > and the output of meminfo shows > > MemTotal: 906736 kB > > I'm using sarge and I selected linux26 for the > installati

CHM to html ?

2005-11-07 Thread Armin ranjbar
anyone known a way to convert CHM files into plain html or pdf files ? -- You will be surprised by a loud noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/4/05, Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > > On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison, > > IMO Solaris is superior. > > > > No flames, please. > > You are wise to include the "no flames" request. As a

dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Bruno Buys
I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics or similar (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian friendl

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
For desktops, and even smaller servers, I really prefer Linux. Sure, 99% of the tools on Linux can also be compiled for Solaris. But it's WORK to do that! Trust me, I maintained a repository of GNU and other F/OSS tools for our company for years: it's a big pain in the rear to manage it all your

Re: OT: Most active FLOSS project?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/7/05, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hello, > > My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active -- > > numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to > > approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono,

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Scott
David Mummery wrote: Hi all - Is there a way to remove Abiword from Debian Sarge without Synaptic insisting on removing all of Gnome-Office? I have a real pain with it opening .doc files instead of OpenOffice under the Gnome environment. Alternatively, how can I force .doc files to be openned

RE: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics indeed! What packages do I need? kppp or wvdial Cheers, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 07 Nov 2005 08:47:12 -0500, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For desktops, and even smaller servers, I really prefer Linux. Sure, > 99% of the tools on Linux can also be compiled for Solaris. But it's > WORK to do that! Trust me, I maintained a repository of GNU and other > F/OSS tools

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread David Mummery
Scott - I'm not at all sure - I'll have to give it a go on non-production I suppose.. David Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > David Mummery wrote: > > >Hi all - > > > >Is there a way to remove Abiword from Debian Sarge without Synaptic insisting > >on removing all of Gnome-Office? > > > >I h

e2fsprogs problem

2005-11-07 Thread kangja
i use 'testing' but occasionally installed packages fr sid or unstable. now when i do 'apt-get install, i have the following error : > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the > essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This > is often bad, but if you r

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Bruno Buys writes: > I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new > address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? Hook up your modem, run pppconfig, and follow instructions. > Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics or > similar.

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Bruno Buys
John Hasler wrote: Bruno Buys writes: I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? Hook up your modem, run pppconfig, and follow instructions. To the point. I like that. Thanks John. Gue

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-07 Thread Derek Broughton
Derek Broughton wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > >> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I pretty much think it _must_ be a corrupted DB, but rescanning has no >>> effect. I really have to take the time to figure out how to put the DB >>> into MySQL, because I really do like Ama

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:05:07AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > Hi Finnish friends! > > > > A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to > > connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit > > problem to de

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > >Bruno Buys writes: > > > > > >>(there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian > >>friendly? > >> > >> > > > >Some winmodems can be used with Linux but they are not at all friendly. > > > > > I

Re: How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
Thanks. I was also considering starting a second version of cyrus listening on different port (144) and giving it a config to point it to /mnt/var (old /var mounted on /mnt). There seem to be several utilities out there for synchronising mailboxes between two IMAP instances. Any suggestions as to w

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tl> Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and tl> what a post. Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you summed it up this way makes me wonder if you're a troll. I _DID_ say that in a few sp

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 07 Nov 2005 10:04:52 -0500, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > %% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tl> Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and > tl> what a post. > > Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you > summed

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread James Strandboge
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 13:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 11/4/05, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > I used Solaris for many years for serious embedded development work, > > > as well as an embedded operating s

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Bruno Buys
John M. Gabriele wrote: --- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Hasler wrote: Bruno Buys writes: (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian friendly? Some winmodems can be used with Linux but they are not at all friendly.

Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-07 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:03:28PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On søndag 06 november 2005, 10:54, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > Check your /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 (or /etc/logrotate.conf). > > I've investigated further, and it definitely has nothing to do with > logrotate or postrotate. This is cle

dfsbuild/cdebootstrap can't cd to ...

2005-11-07 Thread Tullio Dovera
Hi all, I'm trying to build a Debian From Scratch live cd using dfsbuild/cdebootstrap. My platform is debian i386 sarge (stable). I have updated just cdebootstratp/dfsbuild and dependencies from sid. At this time I have cdebootstrap 0.3.9 dfsbuild 0.6.21 When I run "dfsbuild -c /etc/d

pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, in an effort to get acpi workingo n my laptop (THinkpad 600e) I've upgraded to 2.6.14 kernel. Seemswo work fine! Except I'm having trouble with my wireless card (D-Link DWL-650+). The third-party driver compiled andi nstalled fine, but when I insert the card I get the message: cs: pcm

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread [KS]
John M. Gabriele wrote: > Go to a used computer shop (if there are any around you); they'll > probably have a box of them stripped from old systems that they're > not doing anything with. > Yes, that is the way to go. A couple of weeks ago somone threw away an IBM PC in the basement of my buildi

aptitude - held broken packages

2005-11-07 Thread marc
Hi, After an aptitude upgrade last week on an etch machine, which pulled in all the KDE 3.4 packages, I am having problems installing a few packages. For example # aptitude install kate-plugins returns E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to correct dependenci

Re: Strange problem that don't allow me to mount dvd units

2005-11-07 Thread dclemen
More info: dmesg Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty0 ) Linux version 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.1-9)) #1 Wed Sep 28 02:31:26 CEST 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) BIOS-e8

Re: Icon zooming disappeared?

2005-11-07 Thread marc
Ryan Schultz said... > On Friday 04 November 2005 05:46 am, marc wrote: > > After applying the testing update to KDE 3.4, a large number of my > > settings have been trounced. Most I've been able to recover, but I > > cannot find the icon zooming feature when hovering over icons in the > > taskbar

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > in an effort to get acpi workingo n my laptop (THinkpad 600e) I've > upgraded to 2.6.14 kernel. Seemswo work fine! Except I'm having > trouble with my wireless card (D-Link DWL-650+). The third-party > driver compiled andi nstalled fin

File server performance

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi, I've just finished building a new file server that has an Adaptec 2400a RAID controller card, to which 4x250GB IDE drives are connected. The card is right now running in hardware RAID-5 mode and I'm using the Linux I2O driver with kernel 2.6.14 (vanilla sources). The server is running debian s

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > > > just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy > > hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next > > debugging step w

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John Hasler
John M. Gabriele writes: > Most internal PCI modems -- that aren't winmodems -- will work fine with > Sarge; whether they're U.S. Robotics or not. They will get by, but they will put your computer at increased risk of lightning damage. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: how to regress to stable

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:45:49PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. > > > > > > I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to > > revert > > > back to stable. I've had a number of problems downgrading, and do

Re: kdeaddons install dependency problem (etch)

2005-11-07 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi, I think we have the same problem. My "testing" installation has been running just fine for over half a year until I ran the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade today. I got a whole lot of KDE related updates and my problem seems to be there. KDM runs fine, so the problem's not in X. Bu

DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Don Hayward
This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an idea. I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up as a DHCP client. When I enable the LAN inte

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to look up compatibility under ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). -- www.gnu.org

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
On 11/7/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought gnome-office was one of those packages who's only purpose was > to depend on the other packages. If you remove that package, the > packages it depended on remain. If however, you remove one of the > packages it depends on you'll also have t

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-07 Thread Cal Paterson
You could try xfce4 or fluxbox (although fluxbox is slightly more non-intuitive for a novice). You might well need to cut down quite agressivly on unneeded daemons/X programs, but I reckon its possible. My xfce4 desktop starts up while using about ~86mb of volitile memory, and I've never bothered

Re: ConsoleOne Install???

2005-11-07 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi, It's been a while since I fiddled with ConsoleOne, but I converted the necessary .rpms into .deb (with "alien -c") and after that it was as simple as dpkg -i *.deb from that directory. I can start ConsoleOne and it reacts when I click with my mouse. Unfortunately that's all it does. My Nov

OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

2005-11-07 Thread Opus
I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org and found that they are in RPMs. I managed to figure out that I needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do with the DEB files. I'm running Sarge with a 2.6 kerne

kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread Mark Hansen
I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I think maybe it has something to do with the SATA drive?? Any help will be appreciated. Here is the e

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

2005-11-07 Thread steef
On Monday 07 November 2005 18:30, Opus wrote: > I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org > and found that they are in RPMs. I managed to figure out that I > needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the > RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do wi

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

2005-11-07 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-07 12:30:16, Opus wrote: > I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org > and found that they are in RPMs. I managed to figure out that I > needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the > RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do with the DEB

Re: kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/7/05, Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). > > I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I > think maybe it has something to do with the S

Re: kernel panic - trying to build 2.6.x for Dell PowerEdge 850

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:29:58PM -0500, Mark Hansen wrote: > I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.6.9 kernel that I built: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,2). > > I'm NOT a linux admin by any stretch. This box boots using 2.4.31. I > think maybe it has something to

Re: Re: kdeaddons install dependency problem (etch)

2005-11-07 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hmm, forget that message... Next time I must learn to check disk usage. Just noticed that my root fs was full. After an apt-get clean everything ran fine again.

Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-07 Thread Thrasher Remailer
I configured the URL's in ~/.premail/preferences, and it downloads the remailer stats, but I can't figure out how to get a nym to work. (using premail 0.46) $ premail -makenym Note: Assuming you don't want to use an address file. Nym to create (example [EMAIL PROTECTED]): fb1282 Getting http://

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 10:04 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: > %% Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tl> Wow!!! So Solaris kernel is generally technically superior... and > tl> what a post. > > Of course, that's nowhere close to what I said. The fact that you > summed it up this

Mail <> Fax gateway

2005-11-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers. I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for email. I've seen: http://www.faximum.com/fms/ which is a Postfix add-on, but just thought i'd ask if any

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-07 Thread Cloaked Hunter
Deleted, rebooted, and it worked! Thank you VERY much! I greatly appreciate your assistance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail <> Fax gateway

2005-11-07 Thread Conall O'Brien
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:03:21PM GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> incoherently babbled: Hi, > I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just > wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers. > > I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for e

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote: > Bruno Buys writes: >> I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new >> address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? > > Hook up your modem, run

Bash: $LINENO can't be modified in bash 3.0, while it can be done in bash 2.05b

2005-11-07 Thread Ahmed Darwish
I've noticed that the $LINENO can't be modified in bash 3.0. I made a script (bash debugger) which modify LINENO to a specific value before using it, it worked in bash 2.05b. but in bash 3.0, even if i've changed it's value, it counts from "one" like nothing happened Ex: --

Re: Remove Abiword from Debian Sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread [KS]
Scott wrote: >> > I thought gnome-office was one of those packages who's only purpose was > to depend on the other packages. If you remove that package, the > packages it depended on remain. If however, you remove one of the > packages it depends on you'll also have to take gnome-office with it.

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > > > hi folks, > > > > > > > > > just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy > > > hints as to

Re: CHM to html ?

2005-11-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 07 November 2005 13:30, Armin ranjbar wrote: > anyone known a way to convert CHM files into plain html or pdf files ? I don't know of any "ready-made" way to do it, but this might be useful if you know python. Package: python-chm State: not installed Version: 0.8.2-3 Priority: optional

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-07 Thread Peter . Robinson
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:05:19AM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > // __ > Your (Peter's) instructions broke at 4) 2.4 "apt-get update" and 5) because > of the previous problem I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but perhaps it would be possible to download the java package directly and

ACL bug in debian sarge?

2005-11-07 Thread Peter Pfannenschmid
Hello, I have seen a very strange thing when using ACLs (OS is debian sarge, FS is ext3): fenrir:/home/iso-img/DCMUPD# dir test -r--rw+ 1 Administrator users 0 2005-11-07 20:52 test Please note that the owner of the file "test", namely the user "Administrator", does not have write permiss

Suspend to disk

2005-11-07 Thread Antonio Paiva
Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? Thanks, -- António Rafael C. Paiva Graduate student Computational NeuroEngineering Laborat

Bug in KDE clock applet

2005-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
On boot the KDE clock applet sets the system time to the hardware time. However, the hardware time is set either manually or by the applet rdate, run either on boot or automatically or manually while the box is operational. Rdate, when run, sets the hardware clock to UTC time. However, the

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:10:16PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > someone out there has seen this or has an idea. > > I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-07 Thread Toens Bueker
Antonio Paiva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? I use http://www.suspend2.net/ for that. Doesn't requi

Re: Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-07 Thread gcrimp
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:27:27PM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:48 -0800, nuno romano wrote: > --snip-- > > -Java: I don´t know which Java Runtime Environment,SDK > > is the most effective,the blackdown.org or the > > Gnu classpath,gcj,or other.For example,I want to >

Re: lyx and k3b absent from testing: is this permanent?

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:10:37AM +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Alright, I have searched through and through the mailing lists and cannot > find > why lyx, k3b and opera are not in testing. > > It seems like this transition away from kdelibs4 to kdelibs4c2 was done about > two months ago. So

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ml> Is NIS reliable? Sure. Enterprises have been deploying it in huge environments for 10-15 years or more. ml> It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure ml> LDAP is much more secure. How stands Solaris when using a PAM/LDA

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