Re: A market perspective on the impact of dunc-tanc

2006-12-15 Thread Tim Post
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 08:51 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 21:03 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > IIRC someone related to the debian project 'holds' the debian.net domain > > and it is used as a sort of 'staging' site before it joins debian.org. > > The wiki at wiki.debian.org was

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wulfy wrote: Kent West wrote: You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for Firefox. Do a "locate libflashplayer.so" and rename/move any that you aren't confident is the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories. I used locate to find all the libflashplayer.so's

Pine macros

2006-12-15 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Hi. I'm working on old workstation with PINE 4.44 (I think released in 2002), I can't upgrade software and I must work with users privileges. In this scenario I need define macros for my Pine mail client, or better I need define a mechanism that it allows me I move a single message from INBOX to S

Re: Etch ISO images

2006-12-15 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Hans du Plooy napisał(a): Hi guys, I want to download the latest current testing images. What is the difference between the first three images, and the -binary images after that in: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ Thanks Hans Hi, look at the file dates.

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-15 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Alan Ianson napisał(a): On Thu December 14 2006 19:06, Peter Colton wrote: On Friday 15 December 2006 02:53, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu December 14 2006 18:29, Peter Colton wrote: Hello all, I been using jigdo for the dvd images of Etch "testing" over the last c

Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-15 Thread mess-mate
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | mess-mate([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | > Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Ryo wrote: | > | >[...] | > | >I did "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade" when I got the error | > | >(quoted in the subject of this message). Does tha

Re: Etch ISO images

2006-12-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Hans du Plooy napisa³(a): > >>Hi guys, >> >>I want to download the latest current testing images. What is the >>difference between the first three images, and the -binary images after >>that in: >> >>http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekl

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Thu December 14 2006 19:06, Peter Colton wrote: >> On Friday 15 December 2006 02:53, Alan Ianson wrote: >> > >> > I had a look in a few other arch's and they don't have any -binary in the >> > filenames, those are the ones I would get. The -binary means

Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:01:35 +0100 mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello mess-mate, > | > | > http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Aptitude_-_using_together_with_Synaptic_and_Apt-get). ^ > | Sorry, but there sure is. try it this way > | >

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/15/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 22:24 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi Sven, Hi again, :) > The below works fine: > > $ mplayer -ao esd vcd://6 > > I added '-ao esd' to the .mplayer/config file and now 'mplayer > vcd://6' now returns the fo

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
While I am able to play audio CDs and MP3 files with the sound being fine, and my system sounds working properly, there doesn't seem to be any sound in Flash. I don't know if this is related to the MPlayer issue, but I just thought I would mention it as it might be relevant. Cheers, Brian -- T

Re: dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Lale
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:15:57AM +, Chris Lale wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, If I wanted to install etch as a net install, how do I do this? On the installation web page there is a choice of a weekly snapshot or a daily built image. Th

Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Lale
Joey Hess wrote: Chris Lale wrote: I don't think so. It sounds like a problem with Aptitude's internal database. Incorrect, the error message was a standard apt message. Aptitude throws a wobbly if you use another package manager too. Misinformation. Would you mind t

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Sven Arvidsson escribe: > It should be, > mplayer vcd://3 For a common vcd try this: $ mplayer vcd://2 Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ m. +34679156321 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt j. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpPRCZLI2WeC.pgp Descript

Re: KQemu on Debian Testing

2006-12-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Amit Joshi escribe: > This is all I get. (Remember..I am on Testing) > > debian:~# apt-cache search kqemu > kqemu-source - Source for the QEMU Accelerator module > > Then I guess I need to upgrade to Unstable which I will let go. I will try > Bochs then.. > I'd track when [1]qvm86 reaches unst

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/15/06, Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sven Arvidsson escribe: > It should be, > mplayer vcd://3 For a common vcd try this: $ mplayer vcd://2 Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ m. +34679156321 http://www.flickr.com/p

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > OK, I have changed this in both .mplayer/config and > /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf MPlayer at the command line seems to be > working fine now, but my problems with MPlayer in the GUI is still the > same. In GUI I still get the following: > > "E

Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid)

2006-12-15 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Hi, After today dist-upgrade, my Debian Sid doesn't boot: modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.[...]/modules.dep: No such file or directory (4 times) Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Possibly is due the initramf

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid)

2006-12-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 13:19:19 +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Hi, > > After today dist-upgrade, my Debian Sid doesn't boot: > > modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.[...]/modules.dep: No > such file or directory > > (4 times) > > Failed to execute /init > Kernel panic - not sy

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/15/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > OK, I have changed this in both .mplayer/config and > /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf MPlayer at the command line seems to be > working fine now, but my problems with MPlayer in the

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid)

2006-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Hi, After today dist-upgrade, my Debian Sid doesn't boot: modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.[...]/modules.dep: No such file or directory (4 times) Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

postgrey logging...

2006-12-15 Thread Pete Dowdell
Hi, I have recently installed postgrey (with interactive aptitude) on a postfix +amavis+SA+clam+courier mail server setup. Process is running and everything seems to check out OK, but I can't find a way to view greylist activity. I have /var/lib/postgrey/ : ls -la -rw--- 1 postgrey pos

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid) (SOLVED but be careful with initramfs-tools upgrade)

2006-12-15 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Divendres 15 Desembre 2006 13:48, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > I think it should be possible to generate the modules.dep file after > booting from the Knoppix CD: After Knoppix boot I seen that have initrd.img backup file in /boot and that the new initrd.img file is suspiciously small than t

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Olive
Because, to login from outside you will need to guess a valid username and the corresponding password. After that the root password will have to be guessed locally which would leave a fat trace in the logs. In addition, most of the bots around try to guess the root password and do not spend a lo

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/06 21:20, Wulfy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote: >> >>> I saw the etch/sid deb... I'm running sarge >>> >>> The dependencies seemed to be very differen

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-15 Thread Peter Colton
On Friday 15 December 2006 02:29, Peter Colton wrote: > Hello all, > > I been using jigdo for the dvd images of Etch "testing" over the last > couple of mouths. From : > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ > The jigdo files I downloaded where in the format of

Your little secret is out

2006-12-15 Thread Santa's Secrets
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Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Jacques Normand
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 02:35:50PM +0100, Olive wrote: > > >Because, to login from outside you will need to guess a valid username > >and the corresponding password. After that the root password will have > >to be guessed locally which would leave a fat trace in the logs. In > >addition, most of t

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid) (SOLVED but be careful with initramfs-tools upgrade)

2006-12-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Benjamí Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 15 07:34 -0600]: > Seems that is a initramfs-tools bug, be careful with this Sid package (ver > 0.85d). > > - > $ apt-cache policy initramfs-tools > initramfs-tools: > Instal·lat:

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid)

2006-12-15 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Divendres 15 Desembre 2006 14:14, Hugo Vanwoerkom va escriure: > I've said this before, but it is *not* a good idea to do a dist-upgrade > to Sid on the same partition. I *always* use mondo to backup the Sid > partition, restore that CD/DVD to another one, from where I do the > dist-upgrade. If

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Olive
Well, if sudo is well configured, it does not give complete root access, It should be limited to mostly inoffensive command options and require the password for the rest. As for the logs, you are right in the case where they are kept local, but any reasonable size network will use a separate node

Re: dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-15 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:18:28AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:15:57AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > >>Michael Fothergill wrote: > >>>If I wanted to install etch as a net install, how do I do this? On > >>>the installation web page there is a choice

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Olive wrote: > >Well, if sudo is well configured, it does not give complete root access, > >It should be limited to mostly inoffensive command options and require > >the password for the rest. As for the logs,

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Jacques Normand
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Olive wrote: > >Well, if sudo is well configured, it does not give complete root access, > >It should be limited to mostly inoffensive command options and require > >the password for the rest. As for the logs, you are right in the case > >where they are kep

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:38:51AM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Olive wrote: > > >Well, if sudo is well configured, it does not give complete root access, > > >It should be limited to mostly inoffensive comm

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Jacques Normand
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:03:37PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > > This way to setup sudo does not make sense to me. It is giving full root > > access to every user, which is plain bad. It must be a configuration for > > single workstation used by one person only. > well, not exactly... > normally,

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Erik Persson
Grok Mogger wrote: I've often seen this touted as a good security measure and I've always wondered why. I can think of a few possibilities, but I really don't know. Could someone please explain it to me? Thanks, - GM 1. When a hacker tries to attack a site he (or she) has to guess 2 separ

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wulfy wrote: Kent West wrote: You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for Firefox. Do a "locate libflashplayer.so" and rename/move any that you aren't confident is the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories. I don't appear to have AN

Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-15 Thread Miles Bader
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would you mind telling me why you think this is misinformation? (I had > in mind that using Apt-get for a while and then using Aptitude could > result in Aptitude wanting to remove packages that you wanted to keep.) AFAIK, modulo bugs, that isn't the case.

Re: postgrey logging...

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 15 December 2006 05:28, Pete Dowdell wrote: > Also: the man page refers to postgrey making an entry in /etc/main.cf - > a file I don't have on my system. Debian uses /etc/postfix/main.cf instead. Please file a bug report against the erroneous man page. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Re: dselect and resolving

2006-12-15 Thread Scott and Charity Taylor
Dont know what that is , but I do know I cant get on your site Scott t. Parr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 15.12.2006 at 15:55 +0800, Tim Post wrote: > Leaving root enabled via SSH, you're doing half of the hacker's work > for them. A half-way house option is to only allow root logins via public/private key, rather than via password. To do this, put PermitRootLogin without-password into

Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Lale
Miles Bader wrote: Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Would you mind telling me why you think this is misinformation? (I had in mind that using Apt-get for a while and then using Aptitude could result in Aptitude wanting to remove packages that you wanted to keep.) AFAIK, modulo bu

Re: Pine macros

2006-12-15 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 15 December 2006 01:28, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. I'm working on old workstation with PINE 4.44 (I think released in > 2002), I can't upgrade software and I must work with users privileges. > In this scenario I need define macros for my Pine mail client, or > better I need define a me

New Debian user

2006-12-15 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi all I am new to this list, works as Architectural engineer in Copenhagen DenmarK. I have used several Linux distro's previously back in 1999, among them was: Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse. But due to my work (AutoCad) I had to install Windows (sadly enough !) Now I've been fooling around with

Digital DEC VT-420 to give away

2006-12-15 Thread Jan Prunk
Hello ! Our company is doing a yearly cleanup. There are 4 Digital DEC VT-420 terminals for waste. The cleanup should happen sometime soon in the next few weeks. So if anyone would like to get one of them please contact me on my email, as I cannot store them for a long time, since I don't have en

Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread kevin bailey
Something I've never known how to do?!?! Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the various modules were selected and loaded. Ho

Re: Pine macros

2006-12-15 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 12/15/06, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 15 December 2006 01:28, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. I'm working on old workstation with PINE 4.44 (I think released in > 2002), I can't upgrade software and I must work with users privileges. > In this scenario I need define m

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread csanyipal
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote: > > Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the > various modules were selected and loaded. How to I tell the system to load > the new modules required? Compile the new kernel with support for that new har

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
kevin bailey wrote: > Something I've never known how to do?!?! > > Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and > I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. > > Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the > various mod

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/15/06, csanyipal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote: > > Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the > various modules were selected and loaded. How to I tell the system to load > the new modules required? C

Add hardware

2006-12-15 Thread Eeltje
I have added a new DVD burner: no problem at all. It was discovered and everything worked immediately. Probably the same is true for a graphics card, but I have no experience. -- Eeltje de Vries -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Jacques Normand
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only > during the installation, unless you've changed it manually. > > Answering about the video card and dvd burner: > > - Video card: Probably it will be properly detec

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/15/06, Jacques Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only > during the installation, unless you've changed it manually. > > Answering about the video card and dvd burn

Re: how to connect to smb printer ?

2006-12-15 Thread Jabka Atu
Sorry for the delay .. Hello. im trieng to connect to smb printer (printer that is connected to windows workstation) when i try to use Kprint and choose smb printer im unable to open the shares on the sharing pc im getting the next error : using anonimus: NT_STATUS_ACC

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Jacques Normand
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:26:22PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >While you are right, I see one special case. It is not the case here but > >if you change your booting devices, you will need to rebuild the > >initramfs. I am mainly speaking about adding a drive or controller which > >change the o

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all hi, welcome. > > Now my decision have been made I want to install Debian ! > great! > Using Debian should only be for desktop use (Gnome), mayby later > supplied with some webserver stuff. > > But I have some doubts/th

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > - Video card: Probably it will be properly detected and the kernel > module will be loaded, but you will still need to reconfigure your > Xorg if it uses a different chipset than the older card. You can > reconfigure the package x

Re: dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:46AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:18:28AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:15:57AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > >>Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >>>If I wanted to install etch as a net install,

Re: dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about installing etch Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:20:46 -0500 On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:18:28AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:15:57AM +, Ch

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote: > Something I've never known how to do?!?! > > Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and > I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. > > Now I take it that during installation the h

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-15 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to this list, works as Architectural engineer in Copenhagen > DenmarK. > > I have used several Linux distro's previously back in 1999, among them was: > Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse. > > But due to my work (Aut

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only > > during the installation, unless you've changed it manually. > > > > Answering about the video

Phone's USB address problem

2006-12-15 Thread salahuddin pasha
Hello there, I am having some problem with the USB address. I use the GPRS as my main internet connection & debian upgrade. But some times my mobile's USB address change to /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyUSB1 Is there any way to lock the USB address for this. I am using Siemens SK65. output

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/15/06, Jacques Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:26:22PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >While you are right, I see one special case. It is not the case here but > >if you change your booting devices, you will need to rebuild the > >initramfs. I am mainly speakin

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: Dumb question: have you restarted FF? Yes. I stopped FF before making the changes. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your o

Re: Phone's USB address problem

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:30:16AM +0600, salahuddin pasha wrote: > Hello there, > > I am having some problem with the USB address. > > I use the GPRS as my main internet connection & debian upgrade. But > some times my mobile's USB address change to /dev/ttyUSB0 to > /dev/ttyUSB1 > > Is there a

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:48 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > seems to me that it would be pretty simple to setup X to watch for a > new video card and launch dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg on a reboot > when there is a new one. Maybe udev could write to a file somewhere > with the info on what

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:39:23PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:48 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > seems to me that it would be pretty simple to setup X to watch for a > > new video card and launch dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg on a reboot > > when there is a new

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 02:35:50PM +0100, Olive wrote: > > >Because, to login from outside you will need to guess a valid username > >and the corresponding password. After that the root password will have > >to be guessed locally which would leave a fat trace in the logs. In > >addition, most of t

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> > I also read somewhere that next releases of Xorg, 7.2 and 7.3 will focus > > much on autodetection and making sure that you are never left with an > > unusable X. > > sweet! This article has a little more info, http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2112259&tid=53&tid=96 -- Che

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:14 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > The ao_driver was already set correctly, but I had to change the > vo_driver values from "xmga" to "xv,x11". I now get a picture, but > with the following error: > > ioctl dif1: Invalid argument Feeding those kind of error messages into Goo

USB, VMWare and selfcompiled Kernel

2006-12-15 Thread Kristian Lampen
Hi, i have an up to date sid installation on my laptop with a selfcompiled 2.6.18 Kernel. I use a Virtual-WindowsXP-machine with the VMplayer. The problem is to access the USB-port under the VM-XP, if I use the selfcompiled Kernel. I want to connect an ipaq-pocketpc. If I plug it in, nothing

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Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-15 Thread Miles Bader
That sounds like a bug to me... -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false, for reasons of military security. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Etch or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) LAMP Server for LTSP

2006-12-15 Thread Anthony M Simonelli
I'm beginning to implement Linux at work and have a small HP Proliant ML110 G3 server with two 80GB drives to work with. I plan on using the LTSP.org project to create 'sessions' for the new linux users since there are only two people (myself included) in the IT department and I think it will be e

Re: Debian Etch or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) LAMP Server for LTSP

2006-12-15 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 15 December 2006 18:00, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > My dilemma is that I am waiting for the release of Etch but now I'm > tempted to use Ubuntu 6.10 for the job. I'd recommend 6.06...it will be supported for longer. > What would be the benefit of using Debian Etch over Ubuntu 6.10 Sli

Re: Debian Etch or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) LAMP Server for LTSP

2006-12-15 Thread Tim Post
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:00 -0600, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > I'm beginning to implement Linux at work and have a small HP Proliant > ML110 G3 server with two 80GB drives to work with. I plan on using the > LTSP.org project to create 'sessions' for the new linux users since > there are only two

Re: a sound question

2006-12-15 Thread José Alburquerque
Mark Grieveson wrote: If I recall correctly, the module lines were something like: alias snd-card-0 snd-fm801 options snd-fm801 index=0 alias snd-card-1 options index=1 represents the second module for a second "soundcard" to be loaded in the kernel at the same time. Do you t

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Wulfy wrote: Kent West wrote: You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for Firefox. Do a "locate libflashplayer.so" and rename/move any that you aren't confident is the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories. I don't

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running > 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it > still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others. > > Curiouser and curiouser. Okay; that's getting weird. "updatedb" runs

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:32:19PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running > 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing ... ~~~ What if you spell it correctly? Sorry. What does about:plugins show? -- Carl Fink

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Wulfy
Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't appear to have ANY version of flash currently installed -- $ aptitude search flash p flashplayer-mozilla - Macromedia Flash Player p flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player plugin installer p flashybrid - automates u

Re: Debian Etch or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) LAMP Server for LTSP

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:00:09PM -0600, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > I'm beginning to implement Linux at work and have a small HP Proliant > ML110 G3 server with two 80GB drives to work with. I plan on using the > LTSP.org project to create 'sessions' for the new linux users since > there are on

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others. Curiouser and curiouser. Okay; that's getting wei

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others. Curiouser and curiouser. Okay

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >>> I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running >>> 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it >>> still runs the flash on that pa

Fehler beim Video-DVD abspielen

2006-12-15 Thread Bernd Kloss
Etch 2.6.18-3-k7 w32codecs installiert KDE 3.5.5 Kaffeine 0.8.3 oder mplayer LG-DVD-RW-Laufwerk ATI-Graphik-Karte ca. 2GHz-Rechner, 512 MB Hallo, habe Probleme, VIdeo-DVDs (kommerzielle und TV-Mitschnitte am normalen DVD-Recorder) abzuspielen. Das Probleme scheint allgemeinerer Natur zu sein, d

xserver-xorg-video-i810 now only displays 640x480

2006-12-15 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just restarted my computer after having been away for a few days and the display has come up in 640x480 mode and that seems to be the only option. I have NOT changed xorg.conf so my guess is that it was a recent upgrade of the video driver or some other xorg server things that have made