Re: kernel compile volume picture.

2006-02-18 Thread Kent West
L.V.Gandhi wrote: >Today I compiled kernel with same config but for enabling dell laptop >option and disabling radeonfb. But when I boot with new kernel and do >login through kdm, I get volume picture as given in attachment. I >don't know how to remove it? Why does it appear? > > > Do you get it

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:32:48 + john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am most grateful to the seventeen persons who > responded to my request; it would take up a lot of list > space to reply to each. > > In a few weeks, I'll be 76 and do not need to > use a battery as I've no

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:32 pm, john gennard wrote: >> a. Is it harmful to use the Laptop with Adapter >> without any battery on board? No way, works a treat without the battery. My brother-in-law has used a Toshiba laptop without a battery for 5 years and it runs like on rails still. I ha

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-18 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:47:28 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...]I am the author of pppconfig[...] Knowing that may I say how easy it made setting up my accounts when I still used dial-up? I particularly liked using short simple ques for different dial-up modem numbers at my ISP.

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:27 am, Micha Feigin wrote: >> AFAIK thinkpads will not run without butteries. Don't know if its a > design > feature of flaw though. >> >> Not sure what would happen with a dead battery. I can't speak for Thinkpads, but previously I had a brand that I can't e

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:42 am, M-L wrote: >> [installed with win2.1] Sorry, that should be win 3.1 -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. .Henry David Thoreau

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:26 am, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:47:28 -0600 >> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > [...]I am the author of pppconfig[...] >> >> Knowing that may I say how easy it made setting up my accounts when I >> still used di

Re: latest on botnets

2006-02-18 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:28:28 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ > has some unbelievable numbers: the average botnet (network of > compromised PC's) has 36,8000 members! > > None of these can be Debian boxes running chkroot r

Kernel problems

2006-02-18 Thread Jamie Thompson
Ok, I'll start by saying that I adore the "Debian Way"(TM). However, I have a long-standing problem that is pretty much the only blight I can find with Mr Debian. My server PC is old. Really old. Cyrix M2 old. That said, it does the job until newer spare hardware becomes available. My first foray

Re: Kernel problems

2006-02-18 Thread Jamie Thompson
Whoops! My apologies, I left return receipt on. My bad. Oh well, at least its only me who gets to suffer the flood, not the list :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

OfficeJet 4110 [Was: Why do I bother?]

2006-02-18 Thread Brett
S Clement wrote: > The usb connectiion did not work and neither did the printer, an HP Officejet 4110. For anybody that's interested, I have used a HP OfficeJet 4110 for two years on Linux using hpoj with no problems (apart from the initial setup, due to several factors which aren't the case

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 18 February 2006 16:27, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:32:48 + > > john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am most grateful to the seventeen persons who > > responded to my request; it would take up a lot of list > > space to reply to each. > > > > In a f

Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

2006-02-18 Thread Francis Bennett
Brian,   I solved this problem by setting PnP OS in BIOS to NO (found the tip here)   http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2110213   Francis

Re: cant route out

2006-02-18 Thread Mankuthimma
On 2/19/06, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I seem to have a very weird problem.I have a gateway that allows me to route into the LAN etc, but for some reason I cant get traffic out.I have apprended a route like below to help me if its getting that far, and it defiantly is. Dont you n

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Feb 18 16:21 -0600]: > steef wrote: > >hi all, > > > >want to install the latest xmms, > > > Just curious, why? Despite the slight version difference, the changelog does show quite a few fixes and improvements. Not bad for a package no longer officia

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Sunday, 19 February 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Feb 18 16:21 -0600]: > > steef wrote: > > > want to install the latest xmms, > > Just curious, why? > > Despite the slight version difference, the changelog does show quite > a few fixes and improveme

Debian Jam, Seisure, Notch ...

2006-02-18 Thread AUTOHK
I install debian on TravelMate 245LC. Starting is normal only to start server X, and in this time jam. ERROR MESSAGE: Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely is not set up corretly. Would you like to view to X server output to diagnose the probelm ? YES NO Nothig I

Re: Debian Jam, Seisure, Notch ...

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:17:58AM +0100, AUTOHK wrote: > I install debian on TravelMate 245LC. > Starting is normal only to start server X, > and in this time jam. > > ERROR MESSAGE: > > Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). > It is likely is not set up corretly. Would you lik

Re: udev problem

2006-02-18 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:33:58 -0500 Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a second box, I thought I would get "smart" > and install yaird and remove initramfs before I switched from 2.4 to 2.6 > kernel, but that didn't work somehow. Typing 'man mkinitrd.yaird' shows: To let yaird build

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread M-L
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:14 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > AFAIK thinkpads will not run without butteries. Don't know if its a > design > > feature of flaw though. >> >> Nope, they run without the battery.  Had my roommate unplug the > battery while > in the truck the other day by a

Configuring the Keyboard in an Acer Laptop

2006-02-18 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello!!! I know it must be a silly question, but I want to know how I configure my Acer laptop's keyboard to understand characters like 'c, 'a and ~a, for instance (these ones are not like that, I just typed this way because I can't do the right ones). My laptop is an Acer Aspire 3002LCI and its m

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:31:01 -0800 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15.20060216 > root(hd0,8) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.20060216 root=/dev/hda9 ro quiet > splash vga=791 > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15.20060216

Re: kernel compile volume picture.

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you get it if you log into a different windowing environment (Gnome, > fluxbox, edtc)? > > Do you get it if you log in as a different user? As I don't have other wm or other user I didn't try them. > Do you get it if you start with your old k

Re: OT: What wireless cards are well supported in Linux?

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Perry
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:20:21 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Magnus Therning (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> After cancelling a 7 month old order with one ISP I'm now fairly >> hopeful I'll have ADSL at the end of the week. :-) So it's time to >> start putting together a shopping list.

Re: cannot load color "black"

2006-02-18 Thread Deephay
Thx for you nice explanation! seems that the problem doesn't affect the system much I think I will just remove openoffice and see if that affects But I'll still install OO back again...:) - Original Message - From: "Digby Tarvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian_user" Sent: Sunday, Februa

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If vga=791 is not working for you you might try a different one. > > In case it's not obvious rows are color depth columns are resolution. ;) > > ...#...640x480.800x600.1024x768.1280x1024 > ## > 25

vi flashes in KDE shell

2006-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
Is there anyway to fix this problem? It drives me nuts. Basically the gui flashes occassionally and seems to miss commands I give it. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot load color "black"

2006-02-18 Thread Angelina Carlton
"Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thx for you nice explanation! > seems that the problem doesn't affect the system much > I think I will just remove openoffice and see if that affects > But I'll still install OO back again...:) > Do you by any chance have an ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources fi

Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: amor eyesapplet fifteenapplet kdetoys kmoon kodo kteatime ktux kweather kworldclock xmms 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 14.1MB will be freed. Do you want

AMD64 ISOs

2006-02-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,I'm sorry for bothering you like this, but can you please email me the FTP address so I can get the AMD64/EMT64-based CD and DVD ISOs of the last stable Debian-GNU release.Thank You

Unable to print from mozilla-firefox only

2006-02-18 Thread Jason M Cox
This issue started when trying to print from mozilla-firefox. I choose file>print. I get the print dialog. Then click print and get a window titled "printing" and a progress bar as if it is piping it to lpr. The progress bar completes the "printing" window disappears and nothing prints. I check lpr

Re: cannot load color "black"

2006-02-18 Thread Deephay
Hi, My problem is not the same as yours I don't have any of these files. Seems it is caused by openoffice. Thx, though. Deephay - Original Message - From: "Angelina Carlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: Re: cannot load color "black" > "Dee

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-18 Thread Jason Clinton
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 21:29 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: ... > How can I stop that from running? I don't want any packages removed from my > system unless I say so. Use the 'M' key to mark the packages as packages "M"anually marked -- that y

Re: Restricting POP3 / IMAP access from certain interface

2006-02-18 Thread mslinuz
Allan Wind wrote: >As your restrictions are based on the imap/pop credentials, you would >need to find servers that support such policies (or enhance existing >ones). I am not aware of any servers that can do that. > >You may be able to find servers that can bind to specific interfaces and >then

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:29:04PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > amor eyesapplet fifteenapplet kdetoys kmoon kodo kteatime ktux kweather > kworldclock xmms > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-18 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Sunday, 19 February 2006 13:29, Rob Blomquist wrote: > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > amor eyesapplet fifteenapplet kdetoys kmoon kodo kteatime ktux > kweather kworldclock xmms Those packages are marked as automatically installed, which implies you did not manually i

autofs not mounting certain devices

2006-02-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I just switched over to udev and autofs to make my wife's work with an mp3 player easier, but have hit some strange behavior with autofs. I have each device I want to mount under separate files, referenced by auto.master, as follows: = daddy:/etc# cat auto.master auto.mp3 auto.flash auto.car

Re: unable to make backup link: operation not permitted (was: 2.6.15-1-686 Kernel Wont Upgrade)

2006-02-18 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:49, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > The pertinent error shown is > "unable to make backup link of > `./usr/share/lintian/overrides/libslang2' before > installing new version: Operation not permitted". Searching The Fine Archives indicates that this may be caused by the f

Play 3gp file in gnome debian linux.

2006-02-18 Thread Surachai Locharoen
what program can play 3ogp file in gnome shell? I use mplayer for play it. but there is not sound. Could you sugguest any program? Kan begin:vcard fn:Surachai Locharoen n:Locharoen;Surachai email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enoug

Installing lmule

2006-02-18 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello!!! I'm trying to install lmule on Debian Sarge 3.1 and I did the following steps: - downloaded lmule from sourceforge. - executed configure script. It needed a libexpat library. - apt-get install expat - ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so - configure wasn't able to find l

Re: Configuring the Keyboard in an Acer Laptop

2006-02-18 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello!!! I found the right keyboard configuration. I chose "with deadkeys" in xf86config and now I'm able to type ã, á, ç, ë, ü and other special characters. Unfortunately, I still don't know to fix the following problems: Thanks!!! > Another thing. I've added in my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file

Re: Configuring the Keyboard in an Acer Laptop

2006-02-18 Thread Henrique Rennó
I fixed the bbkeys problem too. I copied .xinitrc as .xsession and it worked. Now when I run blackbox, bbkeys runs and its icon stays on the left lower corner of the screen. I'm trying to figure the following problem out: > > It may be strange but my /etc/inittab has 3 as the boot's level but > >

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