Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

2006-01-15 Thread Giannis Stoilis
Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system. Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstallation procedure. I want to remove this package comp

Re: Is it possible to balance download speed and upload speed in ADSL connection

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
I recommend you get SDSL. They are often advertised as "ADSL", but that is an incorrect name. They have a defining characteristic that the upload speed is the same as the download speed. The maximum connection I can get with my ISP on SDSL is 512kbps/512kbps, compared with 1.5Mbps/256kbps, f

Re: Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

2006-01-15 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Giannis Stoilis wrote: Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system. Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstallation procedure. I want t

Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, a few weeks ago I updated my imap server on sarge from cyrus-imapd to cyrus21-imapd. Everything went quite well and was running perfectly for a few weeks. Yesterday I decided to purge the old cyrus packages (cyrus-imapd and cyrus-common). I was surprised how fast 250.000 files on a reiser

Problems with ps command / how to show full process path?

2006-01-15 Thread Peter Pfannenschmid
Hello! I have run into the following problem on a debian sarge box when playing around with the system: I log in as root, change to root's home directory and then type "apache". Since /usr/sbin is in the PATH, the apache webserver starts. If I then do: "ps -Alf | grep apache", there will be

Re: Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

2006-01-15 Thread thierry
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Giannis Stoilis wrote: Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system. Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstall

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd [80% solved]

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I have a recent (~10 hrs old) backup of the mailspool in > /var/spool/cyrus, I do not have a backup of /var/lib/cyrus. Is there > an easy way to restore the mailboxes file and the other database > files, maybe even quote information from

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Matthias Pfeifer: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Matthias: > >> > >> I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > >> happening harddisk read/write operation. > > > > If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, this is normal and > > shouldn't stress your hard dis

thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Dear all, when I click on a web link in a mail in Thunderbird, I would like firefox to open it. The onlything that actually happens is that a new window in Firefox is opened and the default homepage is opened. Do you have any idea how to change this? Googling around, I saw that by default fri

Re: Gaim problems

2006-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 19:43:12 -0800, Peter Bayliss wrote: > I have just installed Debian 3.1 and everythign seems > to be working > great. however, Gaim was not installed and when i try > to do in using the Synaptic Package Manager, it fails > and tells me that "libao2 >=0.8.6" and "libg

CUPS problem printing is slow

2006-01-15 Thread Hans Poppe
Hi all, I've encountered a strange problem with CUPS that I've not been able to solve neither by myself, nor by googling or searching newsgroups. I've a network of approximately 70 workstations running Windows XP, but printing is done on a Debian Sarge printserver running CUPS. The printserver is s

Re: thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Dear all, when I click on a web link in a mail in Thunderbird, I would like firefox to open it. The onlything that actually happens is that a new window in Firefox is opened and the default homepage is opened. Do you have any idea how to change this? Googling around, I s

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
matt wrote: hi all, i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. since there are no xfree86 packages in the official repository, i can only hope that they exist elsewhere... so, how can i use xfre

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
matt wrote: hi all, i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. since there are no xfree86 packages in the official repository, i can only hope that they exist elsewhere... so, how can i use xfre

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Jim MacBaine wrote: > Yesterday I decided to purge the old cyrus packages (cyrus-imapd and > cyrus-common). I was surprised how fast 250.000 files on a reiser > filesystem can be deleted: Purging the old cyrus packages removed all > mails from /var/spool/cyrus and all db files

cross compiler for stable

2006-01-15 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, is it possible to build a cross compiler for stable? I've running a server with stable on i386 and I have a powerpc with unstable. Is it possible to cross compile packages on the unstable ppc for the stable i386? Can anyone give me some hints? Thanks, Jörg. -- Du kannst einem Schwein einen g

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > ARGH! indeed, the old cyrus-imapd packages appear to have a grave bug that > removes ALL the information without any futher questions asked on purge. > > I don't know what we can do about this, though :( Those packages are gone > and only

KDE 3.5

2006-01-15 Thread David Baron
I have it working off a konstruct build. I notice these things now getting into Sid officially. Now "only" 30 packages will be removed on a dist-upgrade (of course I have removed most of KDE myself). Is this thing ready to play of Sid or should I stick with my konstuct build? -- To UNSUB

PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Allison
Grr... I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, I'm no longer able to sort it out myself. >From the syslog, it appears that the encryption is no longer valid. This is confusing because I haven't c

Re: Gaim problems

2006-01-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/14/2006 11:10 PM, Peter Bayliss wrote: > I have just installed Debian 3.1 and everythign seems > to be working > great. however, Gaim was not installed and when i try > to do in using the Synaptic Package Manager, it fails > and tells me that "libao2 >=0.8.6" and "libgtkspell0 > >>=2.0.2 are

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Grr... > I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. > I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, > I'm no longer able to sort it out myself. > > >From the syslog, it appears

Re: Problem with dvorak layout

2006-01-15 Thread Adam Fabian
I haven't had the problem you're describing. I type Dvorak on sarge. (Which means I'm using XFree86 4.3.0, probably with Debian patches.) Here are the relevant bits of my X keyboard configuration: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

Re: ca0106

2006-01-15 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: greetings to you all! <.> What options did u use for sound-recorder? H sound-recorder /home/steef/wav_1 -b 16 -c 2 -k -s 44100 steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Crashes and lock-ups in Sarge

2006-01-15 Thread Adam Fabian
I would do a clean install, if you don't have known-good backups to restore to the new hard-drive. Tracking down errors because of randomly corrupted files could be your worst nightmare. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Allison
On 1/15/2006, "Richard Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: >> >> Grr... >> I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. >> I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, >> I'm no long

Problem with (I think) udev_0.080-1_i386

2006-01-15 Thread John
On Saturday, 14 January, I upgraded sid on my A31 Thinkpad (homemade 2.6.15 from vanilla source), including udev_0.080-1_i386. Following the upgrade, I was plagued with something that gave error messages like this excerpt from /var/log/syslog: Jan 14 15:56:38 localhost kernel: hde: hde1 Jan 14 15

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jan 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > > > Grr... > > I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. > > I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, > > I'm no longer able to sort

audio failure

2006-01-15 Thread Jeffrin
hello all, Iam using debian GNU/Linux sid with audio support.sound was working fine in user mode when i added the user into audio mode.when i made an APT upgrade and after thet the sound is not working in user mode. Please help me out with this...thanking in advance -- Jeffrin Jose. Send instan

Re: [fsug-kochi-discuss] audio failure

2006-01-15 Thread Mahesh Pai
On 1/15/06, Jeffrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all, > > Iam using debian GNU/Linux sid with audio support.sound was working fine > in user mode when i added the user into audio mode.when i made an APT > upgrade and after thet the sound is not working in user mode. Does this mean ``sound wo

Re: [SOLVED] Problem removing packages when their uninstall procedures fail

2006-01-15 Thread Giannis Stoilis
To Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I saw your suggestion in the man page. It says: "Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just set the selection state on the requested packages.". My problem isn't the state of the packages, so it didn't solve the problem. To thie

Re: thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Ivan Glushkov wrote: Dear all, when I click on a web link in a mail in Thunderbird, I would like firefox to open it. The onlything that actually happens is that a new window in Firefox is opened and the default homepage is opened. Do you have any idea how to change t

LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Hello, I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged into a promise ide card. So I went into the bios and set it to boot off the pr

Can't open port 3306 on eth0 but can for lo

2006-01-15 Thread Tim
I'm trying to open port 3306 on my Debian server to the LAN. I already have a firewall separating me from the outside world, so my server can be completely open if necessary. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get iptables to do what I want. The port 3306 is accessible from the loopback adapter (lo) bu

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-15 Thread Greg
Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 > Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI >>>emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will >>>be expecting to have srX devices for their drives >> >>1)

Strange Printer Problem

2006-01-15 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great. Next, I opened another document that needed printing, but this time it wouldn't print! When I

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:59, drbob wrote: > I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda > on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because > hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged into a > promise ide card. So I went int

Re: Problem mounting 2GB SD card in USB card reader

2006-01-15 Thread Steven Flintham
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:41:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:22 +, Steven Flintham wrote: > > SCSI device sdc: 2031616 1024-byte hdwr sectors (2080 MB) > > sdc: Write Protect is off > > /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun2:<6>usb.c: USB disconnect on device > > 00:07.2

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Mike Bird wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:59, drbob wrote: I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged into a promi

Problem compiling affix modules: *** No rule to make target `affix.ko', needed by `all'

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Hardy
I'm using 3.1 stable. I've uninstalled the bluez modules and components. Here's what happens when I try and compile the affix modules: #apt-get install affix-headers affix-source affix-common #cd /usr/src #tar xvfz affix.tar.gz #cd linux #fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=-mppe --added-modu

Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-15 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:12 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob writes: > > So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so > > that I can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I > > don't know what it is

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Litwin
Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf.  When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken.An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconfdpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui':  field name `/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfig

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Spang
David R. Litwin wrote: An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui': field name ` /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installed But, when I apt-get install debconf debconf is already the newest versio

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Litwin
># dpkg-reconfigure debconf>dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 >package `dcgui':> field name `>/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installed>>But, when I apt-get install debconf>>debconf is already the newest version. fsck? I ran fsck. It is still co

Re: (solved)Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: > Thank Brad Sawatzky, > Star King of the Grape Trees, > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] No problem. I'm glad I could help. > Does Linux have to be so hard to use?(The user has to > be able to program in shell script or C or other) > Without Brad, I'd rather

Re: PostgreSQL on Etch... - *SOLVED*

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Scott
Mmkay.  Posting solution.  I feel really stupid now (But that's okay, that's what problems are for: to humble you).I finally managed to type the right thing into google to tip me off onto what my poblem was.  Apparently 7.4 defaults to not accept TCP socket connection. :-P.  Just changed that litt

Fwd: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel

2006-01-15 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Forwarded from smpt account as web mail sending was never posted. --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:46:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: DEVFS Or UDEV On 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel > To: debian-user > > Just installed L

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wrong. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in oldstable are fine, and ask > the user before removing everything. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in > *stable* are dangerous and remove everything when you purge them. Isn't this som

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:08:41PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet > 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you > have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in > Stable. Ah,

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Greg wrote: Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 > Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI >>>emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will >>>be expecting to have srX devices for

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
David R. Litwin wrote: Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken. An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 pack

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jan 2006, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:08:41PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet > > 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you > > have upgraded this recently you coul

Problem upgrading bsdgames

2006-01-15 Thread Austin Seraphin
Hi. I began to upgrade to testing from stable. Things went fine until it got to the bsdgames package. Installing it locks the system hard, and the installation does not finish. The developer said that bsdgames could not have caused a lockup, and that it probably came from a kernel or hardware bug.

Reset of limits during login

2006-01-15 Thread Reuti
Hi all, using Debian 3.1 on an Opteron system I noticed the following: $ ulimit -t 55 $ ulimit -aH ... cpu time (seconds, -t) 55 ... $ dchroot Executing shell in 'ia32' chroot. $ ulimit -aH ... cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited Is this intended - or where can I change it

Re: Can't open port 3306 on eth0 but can for lo

2006-01-15 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 15 Jan 2006 10:07:26 -0800, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to open port 3306 on my Debian server to the LAN. I already > have a firewall separating me from the outside world, so my server can > be completely open if necessary. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get > iptables to do what

Re: thumderbird web links in firefox

2006-01-15 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Any other ideas are very welcome... Open your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/...default/prefs.js and add user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/fire

Re: KDE 3.5

2006-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:43:49 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have it working off a konstruct build. About 2 weeks (?) ago (I run etch) was only able to get kde3.5 via konstruct - only a few files refused to build - krita, kaffeine and some others. But kde3.5 was mostly compiled.

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-15 Thread sebastien marbrier
Le Dimanche 15 Janvier 2006 02:43, Sridhar M.A. a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:53:13PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote: >> I tried to put the nvidia module into /etc/modules but nothing >> changed, I also tried to install it through the module-update method >> as it is described

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Matt
Joris Huizer wrote: matt wrote: hi all, i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. since there are no xfree86 packages in the official repository, i can only hope that they exist elsewhere...

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:11:31 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats > that I have thrown at it, including Real Media live streaming audio and I miss xine. :( I'm running testing/etch. There are variants, such as

Re: CD-ROM Installion Problems

2006-01-15 Thread Pureenergy815
control panel cannot install my cd program under add and remove programs please help  

Re: CD-ROM Installion Problems

2006-01-15 Thread Pureenergy815
i cannot install my cd program in the control panel please help '

Re: Strange Printer Problem

2006-01-15 Thread CoolFox
Leonid Grinberg a magnifiquement tapoté sur son clavier avec ses gros doigts boudinés: Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great. Next,

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:28:01 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote: > Download the all* package for Linux of Windows and other codecs. That seems to have worked. (etch) - at least gxine now is able to play one .rm file I've tried, and no longer complains about a missing 'cook' librar

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:25:43 -0500 Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > matt wrote: > > > >> hi all, > >> > >> i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i > >> need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. > >> since ther

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:05:42 +1100: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > >I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > >can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in > >batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! > > > > > I ca

system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Bob Hynes
I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this box is just too slow at

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:25:14 -0800 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:11:31 -0800 > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats > > that I have thrown at it, including Real Media live strea

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:40, drbob wrote: > I'm pretty sure it did. Attached are the outputs from fdisk and > mdstat. They look good. I'm beginning to think that either your partition table is corrupt or it's a non-DOS type that's too large to leave room for LILO. I can't find an fdisk option to

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread Christoph Nenning
Hi, to install a precompiled version of mplayer you can add this line to your sources.list : deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main to play all videos you should also install the package w32codecs regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Allison
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Grr... I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, I'm no longer able t

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:57:55 + Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also co

Re: CD-ROM Installion Problems

2006-01-15 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 15 January 2006 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i cannot install my cd program in the control panel please help ' call 911 or 999 if you're in UK and don't forget *NOT* to provide any address or other information. They'll track you down. -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Casilla de Correo 15

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:55PM +, Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tyin

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Marty
Bob Hynes wrote: I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this box is

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Matt wrote: Joris, Thanks for the tip, I'm working on it right now, but was just wondering if you know of a "clean" way of doing this. currently, i'm planing on removing x-org related packages, editing my sources.list to point to sarge, then apt-get installing the xfree packages. however,

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Mike Bird wrote: They look good. I'm beginning to think that either your partition table is corrupt or it's a non-DOS type that's too large to leave room for LILO. I can't find an fdisk option to ask for the partition table type. You could try "parted /dev/hde print" (etc) to verify that both

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:55PM +, Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tyin

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:57 +, Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying anoth

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Bob Hynes, > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but may

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this b

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 > 16:05:42 +1100: > > Serena Cantor wrote: > > > > >I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > > >can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in >

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Why on earth would you want to put ls in backticks? I wonder who originated this rather redundant and fragile (what happens when a filename has any form of whitespace?) construct? That would be me. If you'r

Re: Problem upgrading bsdgames

2006-01-15 Thread Austin Seraphin
Oh by the way, I run kernel 2.6.8, with the speakup patch. I started the upgrade with the latest stable version of Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 14:39 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > If you run an environment like KDE or Gnome, you will suffer from the > overhead they demand. Although using GNOME, My computer is _generally_ faster under Linux (than when I boot Windows). On the other hand, I dont do the same thing un

Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Don
  I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one.   I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time.  Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality.   Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a position w

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm sending this back to the list to keep it online. Middle stuff chopped out... - Forwarded message from Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivery-date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:30:10 -0800 From: Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: system require

Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Don
I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one.   I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time.  Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality.   Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a position wher

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Don wrote: >I've goggled till my fingers hurt. Is there a way to change the mouse >configuration? In your X11 setup, which will either be in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf or the file /etc/X11/XFree86.conf Look for lines similar to these (your

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
Don wrote: I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one. I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time. Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality. Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a posi

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Bob Hynes wrote: > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe this bo

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
Bob Hynes reports a slow Debian setup. My first suspicion would be that DMA is not turned on. What's the results of running "hdparm /dev/hda" (assuming your setup is installed on /dev/hda)? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 January 2006 19:10, Don wrote: >I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one. > >I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time. > Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse > functionality. > >Due to a bad decision on m

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:58:25PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote: > > My dmesg echoes > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> > IRQ 9 >

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:47:03 +1100: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > >> > >> > >>Why on earth would you want to put ls in backticks? I wonder who > >>originated this rather redundant

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread seeker5528
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:31:51 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file available.old has an uncorrupted copy. Shall I simply copy the good > lines in to the file available and save it? The reason I've not yet done so > is that it says it is a binary file and saving (or is it al

after madwifi install/upgrades, can't make config kernel

2006-01-15 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I've been trying to get my DWL-G510 Wifi card running. I've tried ndiswrapper with no success, and am now trying to get madwifi working.   I am running Debian 3.1r1 and I added deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free to my /etc/apt/sources.list s

Re: Problem with dvorak layout

2006-01-15 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:31:09AM -0800, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Everything works great but for some > reason when I type a shortcut like ctrl + shift + x > (in eclipse for example), the app receives ctrl + > shift + b (which is where "B" in QWERTY, would be). What desktop environment are you u

Printer woes

2006-01-15 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi, I just installed a printer on one of my debian machines (Epson Stylus Color 1520/cups/foomatic). It works locally. I need to use it from windows, so I followed the "Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO". Problem is my XP client found the printer ok, but the "Printers and Faxes" pan

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Tim Connors wrote: Nope -- heaps of people have done this before you. Did you pick this technique up from someone else? It'd be nice if the technique would kindly stop propogating :) Well, I believe I got this from some "advanced" bash guide, or a man page or two. I don't think there

Re: Can't open port 3306 on eth0 but can for lo

2006-01-15 Thread Tim
You sir, are awesome! That was the problem. I never would have thought to look there. Thanks for the help! Later, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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