Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 3/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > > > year ago. I've always used just plain

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-05 Thread mslinuz
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:19:38 -0500 >Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: >> >> >>>�ann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifa�i Marty Landman: >>> >>> I have installed woody on hda and also m

Re: modprobe.d and post-install problem

2006-03-05 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200 "Andras Lorincz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with kernel version > 2.6.15.4. When booting I want to pass the module alsa=1 option and to load > the saa7134-alsa module also. So I took these steps: > > 1. c

Anyother VNC server?

2006-03-05 Thread Deephay
Greetings all,  I am wondering if there are more VNC software other than TightVNC and RealVNC,seems that the TightVNC is not developing any more (with bugs still). I do not knowwhether there are sill some VNC apps (no more found with apt-cache search)? thx! Deephay

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:06:24 -0500 "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500 > > "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't > >>listen to the instruction to i

Re: Dual boot comoputer

2006-03-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:33:39 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting cody chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi to all, > >> I had a dual boot computer, Debian and Windows XP. The motherboard in the > >> computer failed, the mo

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-05 Thread Vincent Smeets
Marty Landman wrote: At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifaði Marty Landman: > I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and hdb > is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box which > has dat

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-05 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 04.03.2006 at 16:51 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > >As I understand it: nVidia claim that they would *like* to > >open-source their drivers, but that parts of the driver code include > >code (and other patented/copyrighted stuff??) from third parties, > >such

Re: Update killed X11 and damaged Locales

2006-03-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 06:24:00PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > No, I checked with dselect, searching on locale, and balocs-locales(*) > is not installed. The only locale that is installed is > liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1. Thanks for taking the time to reply. So try apt-get install locales, or

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi, I was just trying to use pbuilder on a sarge system and during creation of the baze.tgz (sudo pbuilder create) it complained about missing .pbuilderrc file, despite the fact that I have one in my home directory. After some investigation I found that sudo doesn't set the HO

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2006-03-05 Thread peter lener
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Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-05 Thread Brett
Clyde Wilson wrote: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home system... I for one would not trust "Shields Up". Firstly I believe it is targeted at MS OS's and secondly I wouldn't even trust it for that as it only scans a few (

getting apt-zip to work

2006-03-05 Thread The Quibbler
I'm getting an empty list. The info file doesn't seem very clear on how to use it. The fetch script is only 850 bytes. When I run it I get an empty tar file. I tried running with various options, all resulting in no files to fetch. apt-zip-list -m /floppy -a upgrade -o tar apt-zip-list -m /home/

Re: Dual boot comoputer

2006-03-05 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:33:39 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I see you have knoppix. Boot with it. Find out what your / partition is. I will assume it is /dev/hda2. Open a root console and type these commands: > > umount /dev/hda2 > mount -o rw /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 > m

can't find /selinux

2006-03-05 Thread ericradt
HiI  am running sarge,kernel 2.6.14,and  choose all  option about selinux for "N" when compile kernel,but  the error "can't find /selinux" is appear every boot,how can i get rid of this error, i am only find  selinux FAQ,or how to install selinux in debian, with google,apprecate any advice,

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-05 Thread John Hasler
Brett writes: > I for one would not trust "Shields Up". Firstly I believe it is targeted > at MS OS's and secondly I wouldn't even trust it for that as it only > scans a few (well known) ports (IIRC). It just runs Nmap. You can choose to have it scan all ports. Ignore his silly nonsense about "s

Re: Graphics Drivers (I'm new to Linux)

2006-03-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took a look through, I used the first link in the email I was given (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html) and under the heading, "Stock or Custom Kernel?" I ran the following in a terminal: apt-cache policy kernel-image-$(uname -r) and I was give

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-05 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. It will config allfonts. whenever you > >add fonts do this. > Followed your recommendation but this seems to be mostly about > font-rendering choices. I saw that it did regenerate fontconfig's font > cache but where it w

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
Can someone please tell me what `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` actually does? At the end of the procedure it talks about writing two new configuration files. Where are these files? I'd assumed it was talking about /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but mine isn't changed in any way. The reason I ask

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Doofus wrote: Can someone please tell me what `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` actually does? At the end of the procedure it talks about writing two new configuration files. Where are these files? I'd assumed it was talking about /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but mine isn't changed in any way. I

apt-move affected by keys [was: Re: apt-move archive not being picked up by apt]

2006-03-05 Thread Chris Stiles
On 2/18/06, Chris Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions Andreas, I didn't know about the policy > option before. I used it and came up with the following: > > /usr/mirror is in sources.list: > > commanche:~# grep /usr/mirror /etc/apt/sources.list > #deb file:/usr/mirror/de

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Doofus wrote: Can someone please tell me what `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` actually does? At the end of the procedure it talks about writing two new configuration files. Where are these files? I'd assumed it was talking about /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but mine

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply, and I apologise for not reading the config file > notes properly with regard to overwriting the file. > > I've looked at many web resources on this problem, and I don't know > how I've missed your second link above. It looks excellent - I

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply, and I apologise for not reading the config file > notes properly with regard to overwriting the file. > > I've looked at many web resources on this problem, and I don't know > how I've missed your second link above. It looks excellent -

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the > middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other > methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file? > ugh, the attachment I sent dosent have that resoulution b

Re: can't find /selinux

2006-03-05 Thread Linas Zvirblis
ericradt wrote: > I am running sarge,kernel 2.6.14,and choose all option about selinux for > "N" when compile kernel, > but the error "can't find /selinux" is appear every boot,how can i get rid > of this error, You do not have to do anything. This is not an error, but an indication that SELi

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread [KS]
Angelina Carlton wrote: > Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the >>middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other >>methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file? >> > > ugh, the attachment

Re: can't find /selinux

2006-03-05 Thread S. Sakar
ericradt schrieb: > Hi > I am running sarge,kernel 2.6.14 and choose all option about selinux for > "N" when compile kernel, > but the error "can't find /selinux" is appear every boot,how can i get rid > of this error, > i am only find selinux FAQ,or how to install selinux in debian, with > go

Re: getting apt-zip to work

2006-03-05 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:56:21AM -0500, The Quibbler wrote: >I'm getting an empty list. The info file doesn't seem very clear on how >to use it. The fetch script is only 850 bytes. When I run it I get an >empty tar file. > >I tried running with various options, all resulting in no files to fetch.

Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard

2006-03-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to ins

Re: modprobe.d and post-install problem

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 00:35:50 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200 > "Andras Lorincz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with kernel version > > 2.6.15.4. When booting I want to pass the module alsa=1 option and to

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 05 March 2006 00:47, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:29, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > > steef wrote: > > > Michael M. wrote: > > >> Paul Johnson wrote: > > >>> On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > > I am very certain that

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:06:24 -0500 > "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500 > > > "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>When I run "aptit

Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marty
http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. From .xsession-errors: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:50:22 -0500 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links > are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was > working until recently. > > From .xsession-errors: > > The program 'Gecko' received an

Re: Installation hitch

2006-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:01:20PM -0800, sphitz wrote: > Hi debian folks, > > I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Dimension E310 from a recently burned > net install disc, i386 Binary 1. Strangely, during the initial phase of the > installation I can use the keyboard to select from the menu,

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marty
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian etch/testing, firefox 1.5.0.1 Loaded fine. Looking at your weather in San Jose right now. I'm using sarge versions mozilla-browser 1.7.8-1sarge3 and mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sarge5. Since first posting I found that the failure does not happen running locally on tw

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:53:27 -0500 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Debian etch/testing, firefox 1.5.0.1 > > > > Loaded fine. Looking at your weather in San Jose right now. > > I'm using sarge versions mozilla-browser 1.7.8-1sarge3 and > mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sar

Re: Dual boot comoputer

2006-03-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 04:56:59 -0800 (PST) Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:33:39 -0700 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I see you have knoppix. Boot with it. Find out what your / partition > is. I will assume it is /dev/hda2. Open a root

Update: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marty
The systems that were working started failing in some cases, and vice versa. Then the problem disappeared on all systems, probably as the ads changed. Whether javascript was running sometimes but not always made a difference. Which ads were running, or whether the ads serves were blocked, also se

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marty
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Each of these firefox installs are from the mozilla web page, and not from the debian repositories. At this point I think I can accurately speculate why. :-| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marty wrote: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. From .xsession-errors: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
Angelina Carlton wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file? ugh, the attachment I sent d

xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-05 Thread Tore Ericsson
I would much appreciate any idea (else than complete system reinstallation) how to correct this fatal error. Background == Unfortunately I have made a grave mistake after an interrupted Synaptic update of xserver-xorg by running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" instead of "dpkg --configure -a" (as ad

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2006-03-05 Thread Bruno Buys
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: I think what we need to do is create some kind of meta-package that would pull in a full environment like what is installed by Ubuntu (which I know has been discussed in the past) and then offer an official "Debian De

Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-05 Thread pinecone
Hi Everyone: Slink loads and finds the nic. I want to upgrade the version and get a text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house. The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade proc

LVM problem

2006-03-05 Thread Bernard Fay
For any LVM commands I run I receive the following message: Incorrect metadata area header checksum and/or Volume group mapper doesn't exist Someone knows why and how it could be fixed? I run Debian etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-386 and lvm2 version 2.01.04-5. TIA, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-05 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On Sarge since sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 it is. Hugo, I am sorry, but I am not sure what do you mean. Does sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 set the HOME variable on your system, or it doesn't and this is intentional? If the later is the case what is the reason for this? Did

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Re: Gecko crashing? (further info)

2006-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marty wrote: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. From .xsession-errors: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marty
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marty wrote: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. I don't know if this is related, since I am not getting errors in .xsession-errors, For the record

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Did you try to mount it with the following line? mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb /path/to/mountpoint Thanks Oli. This seems fine, I guess. Will explain a bit more detail. My install just finished this afternoon. I've got 3 ide's and only hda got us

Re: postgresql-common 42 fails to upgrade

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote: > I have a Debian Etch machine that I keep up to date. [...] > Setting up postgresql-common (42) ... > dpkg: error processing postgresql-common (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [..

Re: environment for viewing/creating ANSI art?

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:54:07PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The other problem is colors. I know that the 'rxvt' xterm clone > > allows each ANSI color to be set to an arbitrary RGB value using X > > resources. > > hmm - yes: it implements the cont

Re: Sudden sound performance problem

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:25:52PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've been running Debian full-time on my desktop for over a year > now, with a combination of testing and unstable (mostly testing). > At the moment I'm running 2.6.15, compiled with Debian's default > config except for turning on a c

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But now I'm even more confused. Ideally I'd like to understand why it > suddenly works. Everything I've found on the net describes the great > difficulty in configuring this laptop to run correctly at > 1400x1050. Some X config files I've found (which didn't wo

Re: mount previously formatted linux drive

2006-03-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Did you try to mount it with the following line? mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb /path/to/mountpoint Thanks Oli. This seems fine, I guess. Will explain a bit more detail. My install just finished this afternoon. I've got 3 ide's and only hda got us

Re: Gecko crashing? (further info)

2006-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Marty wrote: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. From .xsession-errors: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. Th

Klibido

2006-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Intuitive" seems to be a word completely out of place when talking about klibido, it is the rare tool indeed which completely eludes me. I simply cannot make it do what it says it does. I would appreciate some off-list "click this button, you silly

Re: sata/scsi confusion at boot

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:14:11AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 22:20, Andrew Cady wrote: > > > How grub names and finds drives is completely unrelated to how linux > > does it. If your problem is with grub's behavior, then /dev/sd? and > > udev are definitely not involve

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:52:46PM -0500, pinecone wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Slink loads and finds the nic. I want to upgrade the version and get a > text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house. > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > d

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
Angelina Carlton wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But now I'm even more confused. Ideally I'd like to understand why it suddenly works. Everything I've found on the net describes the great difficulty in configuring this laptop to run correctly at 1400x1050. Some X config files I've

Re: APT -- if I do this will I screw the pooch?

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I have all the packages downloaded in my /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. I don't want the notebook to have to download them all > again [...] > After reading the man pages on apt, apt.conf, aptitude etc, and googling > around

X broken after upgrade

2006-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Nowakowski
I'm using testing, with no packages from unstable. I'm also using gdm. First, while upgrading a bunch of packages yesterday I got an error upgrading the x11-common package. Second, after rebooting I get some nasty looking kernel messages in the logs. I have included both errors below, along wit

Re: Dual boot comoputer

2006-03-05 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On xx, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting cody chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I had a dual boot computer, Debian and Windows XP. The motherboard in the computer failed, the motherboard was replaced( I wasn't

Re: PPPOE CHAP authentication failed

2006-03-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Hi All,  I have problems with PPPOE. It's my /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file:# Secrets for authentication using CHAP# client server secret IP addresses"my_login" * "my_password"I think I had that message too, many moons ago. The problem? I mixed up the username and password. Try flipping them. How did y

help with color scheme in aptitude

2006-03-05 Thread Paul E Condon
My installation of Sarge has a problem that I would like to fix: When I run aptitude in a gnome-terminal window, most of the text is rendered in dark grey on a black background. I find this difficult to read. Is there some configuration file, like .muttrc for mutt that I can use to try to fix the p

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 05 March 2006 13:52, pinecone wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Slink loads and finds the nic. I want to upgrade the version and get a > text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house. > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > doesn't seem to h

dh_python module dependencies..

2006-03-05 Thread Varun Hiremath
Hello, I am trying to build a debian package. I have some python scripts in my package. Now when I run dpkg_buildpackage it doesn't show the python-module dependencies. I mean to say that, Some of the scripts are importing beautifulsoup but dh_python doesn't show python-beautifulsoup as a depend

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-05 Thread H.S.
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if > you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access to run? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

DSL/Networking Help

2006-03-05 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Just got my SBC DSL package with a 2Wire 1701 HG Gateway, wireless router/DSL modem. I need 2 wireless adaptors to complete the network hookup. Googled til I about to shoot myself as I don't know/understand all the rhetoric. I just need to know the brand, model, chipset of a linux compatable adapt

Re: dh_python module dependencies..

2006-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Varun Hiremath wrote: > I am trying to build a debian package. I have some python scripts in > my package. Now when I run dpkg_buildpackage it doesn't show the > python-module dependencies. I mean to say that, Some of the scripts > are importing beautifulsoup but dh_python doesn't show > python-bea

Re: dh_python module dependencies..

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:36:31AM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote: > Hello, I am trying to build a debian package. I have some python > scripts in my package. Now when I run dpkg_buildpackage it doesn't > show the python-module dependencies. I mean to say that, Some of the > scripts are importing beau

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-05 Thread cga
H.S. wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access to run? ->HS I did it as root w/o th

Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian > repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would > like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet > card is sis190, for which the dr

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:52:46PM -0500, pinecone wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Slink loads and finds the nic. I want to upgrade the version and get a > text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house. > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > d