pre-install not executed before loading a module

Hello,   I'm using testing and I have TI SD reader in the laptop. For it to work, a pci register must be modified so before loading the modules mmc_core, mmc_block and sdhci I want to be executed this command:   setpci -s 02:0b.3 4c=0x22   To do this, I created a script in /usr/bin/change_pci_regis

Re: where can i find user-he for amd4

Hi! * Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061016 08:05]: > i need to get two packaes that are avalibale in regular stable (i386) for > amd64 : > user-he That's an arch:all package availabe in Debian's testing and unstable distribution. arch:all means it is architecture independend so you can use the

Re: System maintenance

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:29:43PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > In reading online it seems that the standard practice to apply > security patches would be to run 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get > upgrade'. I am curious if this really is the best way and if so, how > often should it be done? > > I

Re: System maintenance

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:30:05 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/15/06 21:03, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:47:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > >> Personally, I always use aptitude so I can see what it wants to do > >> before it does it. > >> >

Re: apache2 apr_filename_of_pathname

Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-10-13, 16:59:29 (+0200) skrifaði Ivan Glushkov: I have no idea if it runs or not, as far as I see it, it is not running, but I cannot be sure: You can allways check if a process is running by using the ps -A command, so to check if apache is running yo

Re: How to PIN a package?

Hi all, I didn't get any answer. Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't help. Regards Mirto Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. > Now I need to avoid

Re: How to PIN a package?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:26:12 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I didn't get any answer. > > Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) > > Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't help. > > Regards > Mirto > > > Mirto Silvio Busi

Re: limit certain ports to be forwarded through ssh account..

On Sunday 15 October 2006 22:47, Eric Persson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in allowing a few selected users forward their > imap/smtp traffic over ssh. But I also want to prevent them from > doing anything but that, they shouldnt be able to forward any ports, > or get a shell at all, just some c

Re: how to play .wmv files on Debian..???

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 17:36 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Congratulations on making the transition. To play movie files, > install the w32codecs package on your system, and then applications such > as Totem movie player will be able to play them (most of them anyway). > The package m

Re: Xine vs. GStreamer

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:59 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > There's been much improvement in GStreamer and I'm wondering if it has > reached the level of maturity of Xine (stability, media format > support). What is the list of shortcomings? I actually prefer GStreamer over Xine. At least for

Problem with PPPoE in Debian 3.1 sarge

Hello. I have installed Debian 3.1 sarge on my PC. IP I take with DHCP. Also I have configured pppoe with pppoeconf. Whith started pppoe (pon dsl-provider) I can't ping anything in local network and can't ping any internet adress. I have tested Knoppix (based on Debian) and PHLAK (based on Deb

Re: use of -m limit for Syn Flood protection

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 03:54:17PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hey all > > In my continuous quest to understand TCP and netfilter / iptables more, I > have started experimenting with rate limiting and different TCP Flags. > > On my Lan I have mail server and obviously ident requests are perform

problem partially solved

I did the following : # apt-get --purge remove alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui # apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui Then, re-select "alsa" as sound system in KDE "control center". The sound works, but at each reboot, i "need" to do alsaconf to recover the sound

Mounting SATA/USB External Hard Drive

Hi, I've just picked up a CoolerMaster External HDD and am not sure how to get it mounted. I also have a 500GB Exter Lacie HDD when I plug that in via USB is appears as a device almost instantly. Eg: sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb I can mount this up no problems. For the SATA Coo

Debian unstable and Apache 2.0.55-4.1 instead of 2.2.3-2

Dear all, a couple of days ago I made the mistake to allow dselect to upgrade from Apache 2.0.55 to 2.2.3. Since then, I only run with problems, neither PHP, Python nor SSIs/CGIs work as they did smoothly before. Hence my question: How can I fallback to good 2.0 series of Apache while keeping De

Re: How to PIN a package?

Florian Kulzer wrote: [...snip] >>> I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. >>> Now I need to avoid that this package will b e upgraded again. >>> >>> Following the manuals I put in apt files (in /etc/apt): >>> >>> apt.conf: >>> -

dpkg: error while cleaning up

Hi guys, I'm busy setting up a mail relay on Etch 3 Beta, and I decided to have a look at postfix-policyd. Installing it gave me an error though. Now when I apt-get install anything, I get the same dpkg error for postfix-policyd, and trying to remove it give the same problem: mail:~# dpkg -r po

Re: Easy way to find right module [was Re: Pinnacle PCTV 50e USB capture device [solved]]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 23:12 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:50:32PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Found a forum in some language I couldn't even identify, but it did lead > > me to a post on the Gentoo forums saying the Pinnacle PCTV 50e uses the > > saa711x and em28xx

Re: Mounting SATA/USB External Hard Drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/06 05:08, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > Hi, > > I've just picked up a CoolerMaster External HDD > and am not sure how to get it mounted. > > I also have a 500GB Exter Lacie HDD when I plug that in via > USB is appears as a device almost instantly.

Re: Is ACPI on nx6125 safe with 2.6.15-1-486?

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:46 +0100, Michal Simovic wrote: > hi guys, i've recently obtained HP nx6125 notebook > with AMD Sempron processor. i registered that there > was an issue with APCI not handling thermal events > correctly. i didn't want my CPU to overheat and so > used the "acpi=off" > boot

Re: ATI's SB400 Southbridge - Linux support

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 02:15 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > Please does anyone know of any good Linux support > for ATI's SB400 southbridge on their Radeon Xpress > 200 chipset ? > > I have a Debian Sarge system (kernel level 2.4.27) > and want to use ATI's Xpresws 200 chipset with an > AMD A

Re: build own deb-packages

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 13:36:04 +0200, Raphael Brunner wrote: >Dear Users > >I know, this is a stupid question, but I can't find the common way to do >this: > >I have a driver downloadet for my wlan-card. I must compile it with >make, make install > >Now, I don't want to "make install". I want to

Re: Xine vs. GStreamer

On 10/16/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:59 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > There's been much improvement in GStreamer and I'm wondering if it has > reached the level of maturity of Xine (stability, media format > support). What is the list of shortcomi

Re: Mounting SATA/USB External Hard Drive

Hi, >> The device has 1 x USB 1.0, 2 x USB 2.0 and 1 x eSATA ports. >> How can I mount up the HDD via the USB 1.0 port? > Blech, why would you *want* to? Um .. Well I guess any USB 2 will do I was just trying out USB 1 first. > What DE or wm are you running? Debian Sarge. > Is udev installed? Y

Re: What is the easiest way to setup simple DNS server on my server?

Yura: > > Do I need to "register" it in my ISP? Not for local usage. If, for example, all you need is to resolve host names from your own network and want to provide a single nameserver to all your clients, you should try dnsmasq. It is a DHCP server and automatically resolves local host names. (

Re: Debian unstable and Apache 2.0.55-4.1 instead of 2.2.3-2

Lukas Ruf wrote: > a couple of days ago I made the mistake to allow dselect to upgrade > from Apache 2.0.55 to 2.2.3. Since then, I only run with problems, > neither PHP, Python nor SSIs/CGIs work as they did smoothly before. I am affected by the same problem. In my case, OpenGroupware.org does

Re: Mounting SATA/USB External Hard Drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/06 06:07, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > Hi, > >>> The device has 1 x USB 1.0, 2 x USB 2.0 and 1 x eSATA ports. >>> How can I mount up the HDD via the USB 1.0 port? > >> Blech, why would you *want* to? > Um .. Well I guess any USB 2 will do I was j

Re: How to PIN a package?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:16:52 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...snip] > >>> I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. > >>> Now I need to avoid that this package will b e upgraded again. > >>> > >>> Following the manuals I put in apt files (in /etc/apt)

Re: unable to start qjackctl and ardour

John thank you very much for your detailed answer. I am using the default 2.6.8 kernel in Debian. I tried the jackstart command and I got: marcelo:~$ jackstart jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel

Re: unable to start qjackctl and ardour

Chris, thank you very much for your answer. The situation is the following. As a normal user I want to use qjackctl in order to start jack. Then I get the followin message: cannot lock down memory for jackd (Operation not permitted) loading driver .. apparent rate = 48000 creating alsa driver ..

startup services and rc.d

Can anyone give me a rundown on how startup scripts work in debian and how you would star up services upon system startup etc. Plus what are these cmds and their meanings:   invoke-rd.d name restart /etc/inid.d/name restart   What is this init.d?         If anyone has any links to a website that

[SOLVED] choppy sound with via ingame, sb resets on reboot

Never mind, not sure what went on but eventually the configuration stuck to the SB card instead of the via onboard chip. Seemed to need a full power down instead of just a reboot. -- Kind Regards, B. Hoffmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: System maintenance

* Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Patrick, Hello Kevin, > the best option if you want stability and (little or) no breakage is to > run 'stable'. This is what Debian releases. Although there is now > security support for testing also. I had actually intended initially to install Stabl

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I am not familiar with apt-listbugs and apt-changes. What are those? http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/44 They show you outstanding bugs/changes which will be applied when you upgrade. > One thing that I am now cu

Re: How to PIN a package?

On Monday 16 October 2006 00:26, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I didn't get any answer. > > Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) > > Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't > help. > > Regards > Mirto > > Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: >

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

On Monday 16 October 2006 02:08, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Robert Baldwin wrote: > > i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org > > . when i try to install nvidia-glx and > > nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the > > mirror). however

Re: System maintenance

* Steve Kemp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > > I am not familiar with apt-listbugs and apt-changes. What are those? > >http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/44 > >They show you outstanding bugs/changes which will be app

Re: System maintenance

cothrige wrote: > Very cool. Good to know about that. But, I found that my system > doesn't have any idea about anything like apt-listbugs. I followed > the link in the article and found that there were packages listed for > stable and unstable. How does one normally proceed from there? Will >

unable to find suitable module for webvam

hello ..i have acer 5102wlmi laptop that has web cam.the out put of usb devices is : prodid:5602 vendorid:0402could any one help ? here is the cat devices.debian:/proc/bus/usb# cat devices T:  Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480 MxCh= 8B:  Alloc=  0/800 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso= 

Re: wireless network configuration

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 23:30:50 -0400, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > Hi, > > How can I setup my debian box to connect to a wireless router for my > internet connection. My wireless card is: > > D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ Wireless NIC (PCI) 802.11b > > If you can point me to some useful information on

HAL and ipw2100

Hi all,I have spent a couple of hours googling this problem, to no avail.The "presenting problem" is that NetworkManager doesn't correctly handle my Intel PRO/Wireless 2100B card.  nm-tool says this about it: - Device: eth2   NM Path: 

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:19:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:29:43PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > In reading online it seems that the standard practice to apply > > security patches would be to run 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get > > upgrade'. I am curious if this real

Re: problem partially solved

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:39:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did the following : > > # apt-get --purge remove alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui > # apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui > > Then, re-select "alsa" as sound system in KDE "control center". >

Re: startup services and rc.d

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:15:44 + Andrew Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone give me a rundown on how startup scripts work in debian > and how you would star up services upon system startup etc. Plus what > are these cmds and their meanings: invoke-rd.d name restart > /etc/inid.d/na

Re: What is the easiest way to setup simple DNS server on my server?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:08:50PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Yura: > > > > Do I need to "register" it in my ISP? > > Not for local usage. If, for example, all you need is to resolve host > names from your own network and want to provide a single nameserver to > all your clients, you should tr

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Isn't there a plugin or something for aptitude that can tell you about > extant bugs in packages that it's going to update for you? I seem to > remember hearing about it, not having time to install it, and now wishin > I ha

Re: startup services and rc.d

--- Andrew Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone give me a rundown on how startup scripts > work in debian and how you would star up services > upon system startup etc. Plus what are these cmds > and their meanings: > > invoke-rd.d name restart > /etc/inid.d/name restart > > Wha

Re: What is the easiest way to setup simple DNS server on my server?

Jochen Schulz wrote: > Yura: >> Do I need to "register" it in my ISP? > > Not for local usage. If, for example, all you need is to resolve host > names from your own network and want to provide a single nameserver to > all your clients, you should try dnsmasq. It is a DHCP server and > automatical

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:36:14 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Isn't there a plugin or something for aptitude that can tell you about > > extant bugs in packages that it's going to update for you? I seem to > > reme

module options ignored at bootup?

Hello, In Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.17, are options given in /etc/modules to modules ignored at bootup? To load the ath-pci module at boot, this line in /etc/modules: ath-pci autocreate=ap seems to be ignoring the autocreate option. This problem is gotten around by using these lines in the ath0's

Re: wireless network configuration

Florian Kulzer wrote: essages. > > If everything works out: Install "wireless-tools" and use "iwconfig" to > check and set parameters such as the ESSID, access point, encryption > key, etc. > Also, when everything works out for the modules, you can just use the network-admin command (or networki

Re: module options ignored at bootup?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:03:56 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > In Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.17, are options given in /etc/modules to > modules ignored at bootup? > > To load the ath-pci module at boot, this line in /etc/modules: > ath-pci autocreate=ap > > seems to be ignoring the autocreate opt

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

Aaron Hall wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Jos� Alburquerque wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: tcsh has the feature of printing time automatically after each command executed (time variable). it also has 'precmd' and 'postcmd' aliases that are executed (if set) before and after any com

Re: unable to start qjackctl and ardour

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:55:40 -0200 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > John > > thank you very much for your detailed answer. I am using the default > 2.6.8 kernel in Debian. I tried the jackstart command and I got: > > marcelo:~$ jackstart > jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabi

Re: How to PIN a package?

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:59:15AM +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. > Now I need to avoid that this package will b e upgraded again. > > Following the manuals I put in apt files (in /etc/apt): > > apt.conf: > ---

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:19:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:29:43PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > Unfortulately, aptitude doesn't know if you explicitly requested a > package using apt-get, so you will

Which linux-image should I download ??

Dear all, I've got a PC AMD 800 MHz and I want to update my kernel to the 2.6.17-2 version on my Debian Etch system. So I want to download a pre-compiled kernel from my repositories, but I don't know which one matches my processor features: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 - Linux 2.6.17 image on PPro

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > One thing that I am now curious about is the setup of sources.list and > the release of the next stable. For instance, my sources.list was > initially setup with entries for 'etch' such as "deb > http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/mirrors/debian/

Which file am I supposed to download?

Dear staff of Debian,  I'm trying to upload the  debian o.s.;  I've read the faq but I' ve some problems anyway; First of all I think I should download the i386 architecturewhen I get to this page http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/bt-cd/, what shall I do? Have I to download

Install Debian on external hard USB disk

Hey list, I'm thinking of buying an 80G removable external USB hard disk and installing debian on it. Is this doable? If it is, are there any limitations on installing multimedia packages on it? Thanks a lot in advance! Rocky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: startup services and rc.d

On 10/16/2006 08:15 AM, Andrew Critchlow wrote: Can anyone give me a rundown on how startup scripts work in debian and how you would star up services upon system startup etc. Plus what are these cmds and their meanings: invoke-rd.d name restart /etc/inid.d/name restart What is this init.d?

Re: Which file am I supposed to download?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, cristian zapelli wrote: > Dear staff of Debian, This is the list for debian users, but we try to help anyway :) > I'm trying to upload the debian o.s.; > I've read the faq but I' ve some problems anyway; > > First of all I think I should download the i3

Re: Which linux-image should I download ??

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:53:33PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Dear all, I've got a PC AMD 800 MHz and I want to update my kernel to the > 2.6.17-2 version on > my Debian Etch system. So I want to download a pre-compiled kernel from my > repositories, but I > don't know which one matches my proce

how to start the sound system

Howdy,... i own acer 5102wlmi and im unable to start the sound system : debian:/home/mha13# lsmod|grep snd snd_seq_oss    35840  0 snd_seq_midi    9792  0 snd_rawmidi    27556  1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event  9728  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_device  9

In search of Helvetica

Hi, Running Sarge. I'd like to use fonts like Helvetica and Lucida Sans Typewriter as menu fonts, editor fonts and the like. However, I can only do so in gtk1 applications, such as the version of Sylpheed that comes with Sarge. They do not show up in gtk2 and qt applications (except for OpenOffi

Re: Which file am I supposed to download?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, cristian zapelli wrote: > Dear staff of Debian, > I'm trying to upload the debian o.s.; > I've read the faq but I' ve some problems anyway; > > First of all I think I should download the i386 architecturewhen I > get to this page http://cdimage.debia

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being > > upgradeable? > > Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely > updated. Use anot

Re: In search of Helvetica

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:52:59 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Running Sarge. I'd like to use fonts like Helvetica and Lucida Sans > Typewriter as menu fonts, editor fonts and the like. > > However, I can only do so in gtk1 applications, such as the version of > Sylpheed

Re: webmin in Etch?

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:46:25PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:42:16AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are plans to include webmin as a part of Etch? > > Well, considering that webmin currently isn't even part of unstable > the chances of inc

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:34:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > FYI: 'icedove' aka thunderbird was just uploaded! > let the coldwar begin... sure something better than "icedove" could be used. Iceweasel makes sense as its a sort of "elemental" "wiley predatory omnivore". But to go from a powerful

Re: In search of Helvetica

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:02:37 +0100 Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:52:59 +0200 > Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Running Sarge. I'd like to use fonts like Helvetica and Lucida Sans > > Typewriter as menu fonts, editor fonts and the like. > > > > H

Where is this font?

I am trying to run a sudoku program that I found at www.lemo.dk/sudoku. I installed openmotif-dev and it now compiles OK. It even runs OK. Printing is another matter. It generates a postscript file which I then print manually. That would not be a problem, except that the printed font as ab

Re: webmin in Etch?

On Monday 16 October 2006 10:09, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've been wondering about that. its sad really as I love webmin and > use it on a couple of my machines. Is there some other analog to > webmin out there in debian-land? Just download the .deb from the webmin site. It works fine. --

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:05:39PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being > > > upgradeable? > > > > Becaus

Re: Debian Weekly News?

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:50:41AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: From the September 26 DWN: As Debian experiments with funding, the author of DWN is going to experiment with spending less time on Debian. Please understand that due to this there may be no future issu

Re: off-site backup

Just a reminder, reply to the list. I'm not sure which list you read it on, so I sent it to both. On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0600, Cedar Cox wrote: > >It seems that USB sticks/flash-drives are far more rugged than anything > >other than paper. What have you found? > > Flash memory doe

Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message; /etc/cron.monthly/vrms: vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74! pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1603! pkg=[xjig], pkgstatus=[install ok install

Re: dpkg: error while cleaning up

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:28:23 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm busy setting up a mail relay on Etch 3 Beta, and I decided to have a > look at postfix-policyd. Installing it gave me an error though. Now > when I apt-get install anything, I get the same dpkg error for > postfix-po

Re: module options ignored at bootup?

Florian Kulzer wrote: Try to put a file named "my-ath-pci" (or whatever you like) into the /etc/modprobe.d directory. This file should contain the following line: options ath-pci autocreate=ap Modprobe should honor that during boot. That worked perfectly. Thanks! ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

guessnet and wireless

Hi I'm successfully using guessnet to use a specific wired network configuration by using specific tests. I'd like to do the same for wireless network; guessnet says that it supports waproamd, but waproamd says it is obsolete and suggests to use wpa-supplicant instead... does anyone have a

Re: hibernate desktop?

CJ van den Berg wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 02:08:51PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody done this successfully? Details? On a desktop running a two-seater Sid and kernel 2.6.17-ck1 and suspend2-2.2.7.5-for-2.6.17 applied to that kernel with Hibernate Script

Re: how to start the sound system

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 18:28:41 +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Howdy,... > i own acer 5102wlmi and im unable to start the sound system : > > debian:/home/mha13# lsmod|grep snd > snd_seq_oss35840 0 > snd_seq_midi9792 0 > snd_rawmidi27556 1 snd_seq_midi > snd_seq_m

Re: Which file am I supposed to download?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:56:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, cristian zapelli wrote: > > Dear staff of Debian, > > I'm trying to upload the debian o.s.; > > I've read the faq but I' ve some problems anyway; > > > > First of all I think I should do

Re: off-site backup

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0600, Cedar Cox wrote: >> >It seems that USB sticks/flash-drives are far more rugged than anything >> >other than paper. What have you found? >> >> Flash memory does have limited write cycles. This is probably more an >> issue for

Re: changing the MBR for a dual-bootup system

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 18:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am running Debian Etch 2.6.15-1-686 on an Asus motherboard with an AMD64 > chip. Etch is running on /dev/hda. I wanted to try out the 64bit kernel so > I installed a second HD /dev/hdb and installed Sid amd64 from scratch. I

Re: off-site backup

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:50:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know what the limit is? 10 years at monthy is 120 cycles; > 10 years at weekly is 520 cycles, 10 years at daily is 3,650. Different types of flash memory have different cycle counts. > Does the cycle limit apply to

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

On Mon October 16 2006 06:47 am, David Baron wrote: > Yes, they are "closed" but the drivers are apparently the same. The glx > maybe not. I get much better results with those on Nvidia's site than those > on Sid. I keep the Sid nvidia-kernel-source package around because when > this is upgrades,

Re: mp3 organizer

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:18:06PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote : > J Merritt wrote: > > > I am trying to find a good mp3 organizer that will run under Debian. > > Features: organizing mp3 audio files (by ID3v1/v2 data) into subfolders by > > artist or category, rewrite ID3 tags, etc. Is anyone aware o

Re: guessnet and wireless

Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'm successfully using guessnet to use a specific wired network configuration by using specific tests. I'd like to do the same for wireless network; guessnet says that it supports waproamd, but waproamd says it is obsolete and suggests to use wpa-supplicant instead

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:16:09AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:34:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > FYI: 'icedove' aka thunderbird was just uploaded! > > let the coldwar begin... > > sure something better than "icedove" could be used. Iceweasel makes > sen

How to determine which config files I have changed

I would like to be able to create a list of all of the configuration files I have changed / created since installation. Mainly to make it easy if I wanted to rebuild my system from scratch. I can get a list of installed packages easily enough (dpkg-query). I can use the cruft package to find fi

Re: off-site backup

On 10/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a reminder, reply to the list. I'm not sure which list you read it on, so I sent it to both. On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0600, Cedar Cox wrote: > >It seems that USB sticks/flash-drives are far more rugged than anything > >ot

Re: off-site backup

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:57:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:50:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Different types of flash memory have different cycle counts. > > > I don't know how a memory chip gets translated into a 'drive'. Is it > > like a HDD with

Re: System maintenance

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable > text-based user interface, use 'aptitude'. > after it's started in a text console (very useful if your X is broken) > the command 'u' updates its package lists, 'U' then does the

Re: System maintenance

* Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > Scenario1: You install stable (now sarge) and the entry in your sources.list > is 'stable'. When etch will be released the next dist-upgrade will upgrade > your whole system to etch *without

Request: Old Debiab Blue Background

I just upgraded my Sid desktop, and the background changed from dark blue to light blue, but with the same file name! So the dark blur Debian swirl I had an hour ago is gone, lost forever, overwritten. Could some kind soul point me to where I can get a copy of the old 'Debian Blue", or send me t

Re: What is the easiest way to setup simple DNS server on my server?

Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:08:50PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > all your clients, you should try dnsmasq. It is a DHCP server and > > automatically resolves local host names. (At least, when your clients > > send a hostname when they ask for an IP address via DHCP. Deb

Re: How to determine which config files I have changed

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 19:32:34 +0100, Paul Cager wrote: > I would like to be able to create a list of all of the configuration > files I have changed / created since installation. Mainly to make it > easy if I wanted to rebuild my system from scratch. > > I can get a list of installed packages

Re: Request: Old Debiab Blue Background

Ok, never mind. I found a Knoppix disk, and sure enough it still had the file. (good thing too, being a CD...) debian-kde_default.png A nice dark blue swirl. Ah, eye comfort again Curt- On 10/16/06, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just upgraded my Sid desktop, and the background

Re: off-site backup

Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make sure NOT to mount with -o sync on flash drives. Some distributions > mistakenly used -o sync on all removeable media, which was very bad for > performance and also the lifetime of flash disks. Also, make sure not to mount with access time (atime

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