http_proxy with firefox?

2006-08-17 Thread Christof Hurschler
does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment variable? Thanks, C -- "Feel free" – 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: http_proxy with firefox?

2006-08-17 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi!}} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment variable?I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the:SwitchProxy Toolthat is an extension for firefox that allow to change dinamically (without close & reopen firefox) proxy set. Hope it helps you!Bye

Re: Memory card reader on Etch

2006-08-17 Thread Arafangion
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:59 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > First of all thanks to all who replied. > Now I try to reply to all messages. I was hoping that you'd found the solution, and the two attachments were kernel patches! I also have this problem (Though I do not know if I have the exact

Odp: Re: Memory card reader on Etch

2006-08-17 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
try to seek in /media/... I had the same problem with an external reader ("Trust" shipped with Windows driver only). After some frustrating searches in "/dev/sdx", "modconf" and web howtos I found it "just working" as /media/DC_CANNON. This directory appears automatically when I insert the stick

Permission Help(deny others, allow group & Apache+Samba)

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Hawkes
Okay need a bit of help, I have a single folder call /folder in my root partition, basically I have created the group folder and added my user and every user that needs access, the perms on the dir are -rw-rw---, This works fine via Terminal or SSH however I also need the Samba daemon to give

Re: system-dependent variables

2006-08-17 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:03:39PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > >>>How may this happen that the tiff image format is not supported on my > >>>system? > >>>I have installed these packages for tiff: > >>>libtiff4 3.7.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library Sorry for my mistake! I have libtiff4

Re: system-dependent variables

2006-08-17 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:18:50PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > Supported image formats: XPM PPM PNG JPEG > > And now, when there are these .tiff images, WPrefs can't load these > > .tiff images, because wmaker Version 0.91.0 not support tiff images. > Your version of wmaker does not support the .

Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function

2006-08-17 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/16, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:24:44PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Hi, > I am quite a newbie with PHP... > > I get this error message: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in > /home/paolo/webs/mypic/s_page/guestbook.php on

Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function

2006-08-17 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/16, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:52:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 2006/8/16, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:24:44PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo > >> Any suggestion? > > > >I suspect that php4-mysql isn't

kiosk firefox in debian?

2006-08-17 Thread Wei Hu
Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; 3) not allow users to open new FireFox tab/window; 4) if there ar

Re: kiosk firefox in debian?

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Hawkes
Wei Hu wrote: Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; 3) not allow users to open new FireFox tab/windo

Re: kiosk firefox in debian?

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Hawkes
Anthony Hawkes wrote: Wei Hu wrote: Does anyone know how to set a kiosk FireFox in Debian? I'd like to make FireFox meet the following in Debian: 1) when Debian boots, the screen displaps FireFox with the default webpage; 2) not allow users to close, minimise FireFox; 3) not allow users to ope

Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function

2006-08-17 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:28:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [...] > I think the error says that PHP doesn't know the function, not that > there is an error executing the function. > > So, finally googling around I found the solution: > > in /etc/php/apache2/php.in > > I unco

Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function

2006-08-17 Thread Jan Dinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:28:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > [...] > >> I think the error says that PHP doesn't know the function, not that >> there is an error executing the function. >> >> So, finally googling

Re: http_proxy with firefox?

2006-08-17 Thread Christof Hurschler
Von: "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment > variable? > > I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the: > SwitchProxy Tool > that is an extension for firefox that allow to change dinamically (without > close

Re: How-to: Internet connection with cellular phone

2006-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the present mini how-to I'm reporting how I connected my laptop to > internet using first a Motorola c350 mobile phone (gprs) > and a then a Nokia 6630 (gprs, edge and umts). The whole report is now present at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtop

Re: How-to: Internet connection with cellular phone

2006-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the present mini how-to I'm reporting how I connected my laptop to > internet using first a Motorola c350 mobile phone (gprs) > and a then a Nokia 6630 (gprs, edge and umts). The whole report is now present at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtop

SOLVED: Sound problems when using two sound devices

2006-08-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
I have found on the alsa website the solution to this problem. Editing /etc/modprobe.d/sound the line options snd-emu10k1 index=0 to options snd-emu10k1 index=-15 did the trick. Sjoerd Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SB Live installed on a motherboard with an on-board audio > device (V

Re: Permission Help(deny others, allow group & Apache+Samba)

2006-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155837967 past the epoch, Anthony Hawkes wrote: > I am not sure which users to add to group folder and what > to modify to fix this problem up, I have googled my heart > out and cannot figure this out can anyone give me some > ideas Apache2 runs as "www-data"; you would have to add www-data to

Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since the release is only a few months away (I ho

Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

2006-08-17 Thread Cary Pembleton
Simo, Never mind, I found it! I was missing the ? At the end of the images line. Geez! Syntax errors are a real stinker! Thanks, Cary -Original Message- From: Cary Pembleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:44 AM To: 'Simo Kauppi' Subject: RE: Apache2 Manha

Re: http_proxy with firefox?

2006-08-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 14:49:37 +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Von: "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi! > > > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment > > variable? > > > > I don't know, sincerely, but i can tell you that i use the: > > SwitchProxy Tool tha

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Scott
Marc Shapiro wrote: CORRECTION: I just found hp-toolbox, which has a 'Supplies' tab showing the installed cartridges and should have the ink levels. But it does not seem to show any ink in either cartridge. The printer is printing fine, so I obviously DO have ink. Is there something that

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Scott
Celejar wrote: Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:51:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell L. Harris) wrote: Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm stymied about my inability to properly (re) configure my Xorg X server; I've googled and found people with similar problems, but no systematic sol

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was > able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 > drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. > Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still > preferred Debian and deci

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 00:30:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:50 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 00:10:16 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:30:37 +0200 > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:31:41 -040

Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

2006-08-17 Thread Cary Pembleton
Simo, Darn it! I am definitely suffering from fat finger keyboard syndrome today. In the /etc/apache2/sites-available/manhat file I was missing the / at the end of this line. I also had to change the custom.h file to reflect the new page I created for the login URL's. It has #define EXIT_URL "http:

Re: two version pythons in my system

2006-08-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Wei Hu wrote: > my system has both pyton2.3 and python2.4. Is it safe to remove > python2.3 using apt-get remove. Just mark in the aptitude as "installed to satisfy dependencies" (M key) and it will go automagically, when the last python package you use switch to 2.4. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF

RE: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-17 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:23 AM -0500, Paul Scott wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > > > CORRECTION: I just found hp-toolbox, which has a 'Supplies' tab > > showing the installed cartridges and should have the ink levels. > > But it does not seem to show any ink in either cartridge. The >

Resend w/o att'ment: [Fwd: My video capture problem: avview requires a specific ffmpeg version]

2006-08-17 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am having trouble setting up video capture with my ATI Radeon 9200 AGP graphics card, using avview and ffmpeg. The primary reason is a problem with the ffmpeg version required to configure avview, as it requires ffmpeg version 0.4.8. I wou

Re: slow dns lookup

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Colton
Hello Tyler, The router I use is the Netgear DG 834 and have had no problems with. Have a look on ebay and you should be able to get one for a good price. Check out the seller history first. In the router config setup I have the options of: Domain Name Server (DNS) Address

Re: mini-DV with sd-card

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2006-08-16, gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux > compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play > the movie with MPlayer and encoded it to DVD format? > >Thank you, >

How to use d-i b3 with sarge?

2006-08-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! Can I use the new debian-installer (beta 3, netinstall.iso) to install Sarge? The Sarge installer doesn’t recognize my hardware. If I boot in expert mode, I can select or enter a mirror and a proxy, but not a distribution. Or are there any Sarge installers with newer kernels available? S

Re: mini-DV with sd-card

2006-08-17 Thread Rick Reynolds
Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2006-08-16, gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello >> >> My question is about the video format Mini-DV. This format is Linux >> compatible? I my camera record the movie in a SD-Card, I will can play >> the movie with MPlayer and encoded it to DVD forma

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-17 Thread David Baron
>Downloaded the WineCVS script and ran it, asking for the bleeding edge user >install (so I will not override my Sid wine). >They are using some sort of funny (flex?) preprocessor and the file ppl.l >"pops out" of this preprocessor prematurely so the c gives errors of stuff >being undefined, re

Re: slow dns lookup

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Colton
Hello again Tyler, There is a way around the problem, you could set the machine up to have a static ip . check out the link http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/254 Or you could apt-get install etherconf "Description: debconf interface to Ethernet device configuration Etherconf is a

Re: booting up the system

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:28:51AM -0300, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > I've installed on my machine a dual boot system, one to debian and other > windows. congratulations. > > > > But I reinstalled my windows OS and now I lost lilo boot loader and I can > boot my linux. > > yup. that happens a lot.

Xorg causes FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO mode init failed if depth>16

2006-08-17 Thread Eric
I just upgraded from sarge to etch and the switch to Xorg did not work. It converted my config quite well, but it will only work if I set the depth to 16. 24-bit fails with the errors: (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument (EE) FBDEV(0): mode in

Bug in apt-get or hostapd?

2006-08-17 Thread Celejar
Hi, I was upgrading hostapd from version 1:0.5.0-1 to 1:0.5.3-1 and apt-get says that hostap-modules is a suggested package. hostap-modules does not currently exist as part of Debian, and version 1:0.5.3-1 doesn't suggest it, but version 1:0.5.0-1 does, so I assume that hostap-modules existed w

Re: How to use d-i b3 with sarge?

2006-08-17 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/17/06, Stephan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Can I use the new debian-installer (beta 3, netinstall.iso) to install Sarge? The Sarge installer doesn't recognize my hardware. If I boot in expert mode, I can select or enter a mirror and a proxy, but not a distribution. The new debian

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:15, Ryan Tucker wrote: > I found in a pronunciation guide in a Greek dictionary that the > diphthong "ae" is pronounced with a long "e" sound so I think that you > should pronounce it demon. or deeemon even -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To

Debian install

2006-08-17 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Just installed base debian form 3.1r1 iso cdrom. I also installed gcc-3.4 with apt-get install. The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I install the header files. uname -a gives: Linux debian 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17... -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Matrox M3D / PowerVR Series 1 - X Acceleration?

2006-08-17 Thread Owen Watson
Hi, I've recently installed Debian onto my Cobalt Qube 2. I also installed KDE (and VNC) on to it, to see how well KDE would work. As it turns out, it's not too bad at all. The other day I was going through my drawers and amongst the junk, I found a Matrox M3D card. It's a PowerVR Series 1 base

Re: Debian install

2006-08-17 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Ishwar. > The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I > install the header files. Just install „libc6-dev“. Regards, Mathias signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Problem of Synaptic

2006-08-17 Thread loveboy
Hi,When i used Synaptic to upgrade my software, i got the error:Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root.Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.Received:Could not connect to databaseWhile expecting:gksu: waitingWhat's wrong. Any one can help me 网 易 邮 箱 带 你 率 先 跨 入 3G 时 代 ! 3G 海

Re: booting up the system

2006-08-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > boot with a live cd like knoppix. you can then chroot into your debian > environment and fix it up from there. There is lots of documentation > in the web about this. try some googling. You can use even installation CD from Debian. Before you get into partition busin

Re: iptables, ipp2p

2006-08-17 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Did you recompile your iptables too??? Check if exist the file /lib/iptables/libipt_ipp2p.so. Gilberto 2006/8/16, David Siroky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi! I successfully compiled ipp2p, modprobe doesn't print any message but everytime a try to use a rule with the ipp2p (e.g. "iptables -A FORWARD

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Margiolas Christos
but the winmodem driver is not open source software  so it's against to the debian policyChristos

how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)

2006-08-17 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello.. im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . id like to run whole system from ram : at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will load from ramdisk : sevrel Question : can i some how change loaded kernal path : after boot remount it from other place. will Kde (or Xfce ) ru

Re: http_proxy with firefox?

2006-08-17 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le jeudi 17 août 2006 16:25, Florian Kulzer a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 14:49:37 +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > > Von: "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > }} does anyone know if firefox can use the http_proxy einviornment > > > variable? > > > > > > I don't know

Re: Debian install

2006-08-17 Thread John Hasler
Ishwar writes: > The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I > install the header files. Mathias writes: > Just install libc6-dev. You'll also want manpages-dev. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-17 Thread David Baron
I commented out the error lines.According to googled postings, they are obselete. Needed to comment the two declarations and where the variables would be used (error condition). I should probably put an assert in this place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Permission Help(deny others, allow group & Apache+Samba)

2006-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:10:05PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1155837967 past the epoch, Anthony Hawkes wrote: > > I am not sure which users to add to group folder and what > > to modify to fix this problem up, I have googled my heart > > out and cannot figure this out can anyone give me some >

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to acce

Re: PHP: mysql_connect() undefined function

2006-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:17:11PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > Well, > > on my toy hosting service I haven't python or ruby, only mysql and > php. I konw Python and I like it very much, but I think I cannot use Then find a better web host :-) Seriously, there are many web hosting providers

Re: booting up the system

2006-08-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
"Iuri Sampaio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >But I reinstalled my windows OS and now I lost lilo boot loader and I >can boot my linux. > >Do you know a way to get into my debian box? Then I am able to install >lilo over again on the master boot sector or even better to install it >

Re: Debian install

2006-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:38:02PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > Just installed base debian form 3.1r1 iso cdrom. > I also installed gcc-3.4 with apt-get install. > The /usr/include/stdio.h etc are missing, how do I > install the header files. > Any time you want to know which package contains

Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)

2006-08-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:51:12PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello.. > im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . > id like to run whole system from ram : > at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will load > from ramdisk : > sevrel Question : > can i some how change loaded kern

Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)

2006-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello.. > im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . > id like to run whole system from ram : > at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will load > from ramdisk : > sevrel Question : > can i some how change loaded

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the > closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into > Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? > > How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their > Kernel and yet remain

Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)

2006-08-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:51:12 +0200 Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello.. > im going to buy a new pc with 4gb ram . > id like to run whole system from ram : > at boot that files will be cpd to ram disk and then the kernal will > load from ramdisk : > sevrel Question : > can i some how chan

system hang

2006-08-17 Thread tom arnall
my system has begun to hang momentarily, every .5 minutes or so, e.g., when typing the echo will lag. Another new thing I see in the system is the following message at boot time: Executing: blockdev --setra 256 /dev/hda1 proc not found in PARTITIONS. /proc not found in PARTITIONS. Checking proc

problems while making java package using fakeroot

2006-08-17 Thread H.S.
To install the Java from Sun, I was following the steps given here: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/debianjava.htm When I do the fakeroot command to make the deb package out of the java bin file I had previously downloaded, I get this kind of output: ---

Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

2006-08-17 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:29:08 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I am running debian-testing on linux 2.6.8 on an IBM T23 laptop. This ... ... I searched the computer and savage.ko is nowhere to be found. What's the best way to obtain this module und

RE: Matrox M3D / PowerVR Series 1 - X Acceleration?

2006-08-17 Thread Cary Pembleton
Hi Owen, Believe it or not, I still have one of those cards and the original drivers CD. Upon investigation I noted it did not seem to have any Linux drivers on it :o(, so my guess is without having the appropriate drivers to make the 3D active, you may as well put it back in your drawer or use it

Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-17 Thread Shadow
Hi, All. A crazy idea came to me to install Debian Sarge 3.1r2 from source. I bought that 3DVD set, but found that there is no installer on those disks... Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? Q2: in the readme on the first disk I read that I should start the insta

VMWare, how to access host share?

2006-08-17 Thread T
Hi How can I access my host shares from under Linux within WMWare? My host's samba and share folders are working fine -- I can access my host shares from win2k guest OS. But I just don't know how to access it from Linux guest. - I used to use "nmblookup \*" to look what's out there, but that f

Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

2006-08-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 18:34:57 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:29:08 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > >>I am running debian-testing on linux 2.6.8 on an IBM T23 laptop. This > >>... > >>... > >>I searched the computer

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Shadow wrote: > Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? > Q3: can I use my Debian Sarge 3.1r0a binary set for that? > Q4: maybe I can just use some mini-distribution like DfS to load the > debian-installer and proceed with my s

dvd rewriter won't burn dvd-r double layer media

2006-08-17 Thread Bruno Buys
hi list, I just bought a new dvd rewriter, lg gsa-4166b. In my first attempts to write dvd's, k3b won't write to dvd-r double layer. I asked k3b to generate rock ridge extensions, as well as joliet. I didn't chose udf. In the advanced dialog, I chose 'allow 103 character joliet...' and 'allow u

Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

2006-08-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brandon Kuczenski wrote: ... Thanks for your reply. I decided to upgrade my kernel since it was old anyway. I used make-kpkg on the source tree that comes with the debian package linux-source-2.6.16 (My apt-get can't find a 2.6.17 version), which seemed to work. However, my resulting kernel

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Arafangion
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: > > > but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against > to the debian policy > Christos Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard. You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the deb

"/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"

2006-08-17 Thread Micha
(Please first cc to me, if i got a reply i will switch to reading the archive) Hello, This is Debian Sid, and since a few months i got this error message (sent via local mail): /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied and i just can't come up with any explanation. Perh

Re: kiosk firefox in debian?

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Colton
hello Wei, Below are a few links that should be of help to you with making firefox to suit your situation. The work you need to do is on the browser.jar file for firefox. The bottom link is for a script that will kill firefox and restart it. this is done through xscreensaver. To edit the .jar

Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"

2006-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:16:08 +0200 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied Cron likely runs with no (or low level) permissions. > /var is mounted as: > /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) > Hmm. nosuid o

Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"

2006-08-17 Thread Micha
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for | executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid | makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those | permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is

Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

2006-08-17 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: 1) After you have untarred the linux source, cd to its directory and run either "make menuconfig" or "make oldconfig". This will import the kernel configuration of the currently running kernel. (You could also copy the config file manually from /b

Disable ACPI on modern kernel?

2006-08-17 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Recently I was forced to upgrade my kernel. I am now running 2.6.16 with an imported configuration from 2.6.8. My hardware is an IBM T23 Laptop, which does not function well with ACPI. I am running with ACPI in the kernel, but disabled at boot (--acpi=off) and APM as a module. This is ident

Re: Disable ACPI on modern kernel?

2006-08-17 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: Recently I was forced to upgrade my kernel. I am now running 2.6.16 with an imported configuration from 2.6.8. My hardware is an IBM T23 Laptop, which does not function well with ACPI. I am running with ACPI in the kernel, but disabled at boot (

how to prevent the creation of hardware icons on desktop on boot

2006-08-17 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello... i just install knoppix into my hdd and then upgraded it to debian-unstable. each time i boot my user some icons are created on my desktop : icons for mounting harddisks. i tried deleting the files but each boot they are recreated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with