why not try lilypond

2007-02-16 Thread debian
I have not seen anyone in this thread suggest lilypond ? I cannot pretend to be an expert, but its results for me so far are really quite delightful. Documentation is very good. It does guitar TABS and all that sort of thing. Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Since you are using a self compiled kernel could it be you built the >> radeon support into it? >> Look for DRM_RADEON in your kernel config file. >> > Here is the relevant setting: > > CON

Re: Can't get to a console from gdm screen

2007-02-16 Thread Markus . Grunwald
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Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Lale
rocky wrote: Hey all, I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. Can any of you help me on the following please? 1, How can I free

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Lale
Casey T. Deccio wrote: I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is unchanged). [...] Partimage has the opt

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mirko Scurk
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Mirko Scurk wrote: > [snip] >> Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB. >> I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a >> machine with 32MB, but it isn't nice.

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mirko Scurk
Sorry Ron, sorry group - wrong button! -- Mirko Scurk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Lale
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:36, Michael S. Peek wrote: [...] Personally, if you have sufficient harddrive space, I'd keep your current Etch install pointing to Etch in /etc/apt/sources.list. then I would install another instance of Etch. I'd keep this pointing to Etch

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mirko Scurk
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us >> greybeards play "remember when"!!! > >> Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!) > >> Remember when OS/2 r

LDAP COURIER IMAP Login Failed

2007-02-16 Thread Stefan Weber
hi, I have a functioning OpenLDAP server and would like now that ldap users can authenticate itself with their ldap account on the imap mailserver. If i test my configuration with an mail-client (thunderbird or outlook express) their is everytime the message "Login Failed". What can i do that t

What happened to xen images for k7?

2007-02-16 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
In Debian unstable, there previously was a Xen image package for AMD K7: linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-k7 Now that 2.6.18-4 has come out, it has disappeared, and all that is left is linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686, which crashes on my AMD machine. Anyone know why the k7 images have been dropped? Cheer

Re: LDAP COURIER IMAP Login Failed

2007-02-16 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, If i test my configuration with an mail-client (thunderbird or outlook express) their is everytime the message "Login Failed". What can i do that the user can authentuficate itself at the mailserver. Mailserver: Courier IMAP with LDAP support SMTP Server:

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Roberto: On 2/15/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:04:16PM -0200, Fabio A Mazzarino wrote: > # uname -a > Linux loghost1 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > That looks like a stock debian kernel. It certianly has all the iptab

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Answers below: On 2/16/07, Mankuthimma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > First I'd like to show a limitation in my case. The server is at a > datacenter, so booting a new kernel is highly improbable, only in a > emergency case. You say, booting a new kernel is highly improbable. But why are yo

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:21:38AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > 600GB? > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. > Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i > should be car

How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
Hi all, could any body give me a hand with this stuff ? Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix files (LF). This should be safe and recursive but it should not change any binary file. The files arent large but there are millon. Should use flip to do it ?

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:11 -0300, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > Hi all, could any body give me a hand with this stuff ? > > Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix > files (LF). > This should be safe and recursive but it should not change any binary > file. > The files aren

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:11 -0300, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > Hi all, could any body give me a hand with this stuff ? > > Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix > files (LF). > This should be safe and recursive but it should not change any binary > file. > The files aren

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Inko, thanks for the advice. Could you point me to a how-to for installation of xgl + compiz (preferrebly + KDE) on Debian? I found some repository, but nothing useful. How did you install those? Cheers, Ivan Inko IA wrote: > Hi!

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > "flip" works just great. I use it everyday. > >t will not do ANY binaries by default. You have to force it to do >inaries. and recursively ? flip doesnt have this option. If use pipe betwen ls and flip: Does flip detect is a binary file or should do a filte

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Mirko Scurk wrote: > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us > >> greybeards play "remember when"!!! > > > >> Remember

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread FuziOK
Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > > > "flip" works just great. I use it everyday. > > > >t will not do ANY binaries by default. You have to force it to do > >inaries. > > and recursively ? flip doesnt have this option. If use pipe betwen ls and > flip: Does flip detect

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. > > LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes Because it is not designed for reliability, but for flexibility. This is wy it is best to have it ride over a reliability, li

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:39 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Mirko Scurk wrote: > > > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread John Hasler
Luis Ariel Lecca writes: > Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix files > (LF). This should be safe and recursive but it should not change any > binary file. Write script using find to recurse, file to detect binaries, and dos2unix to convert text files. > The files ar

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > > from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is > > haggis) > > > > fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir > > > > All those programs run on haggis? > > S

Searching package descriptions

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On 13 Feb 2007 09:36:09 -0800 Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't forget that 'aptitude search tcl' also searches only packages > > names. > > The ara and xara packages allow for keyword searching in the > description field. I use xara-gtk i

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:09 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > [snip] > >> Or 'sudo dpkg -i .deb' from the cli. > > > > Only if sudo is installed and set

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:59:41 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > > I'm trying to wrap my head around 'forever less one day'. > > Here's a relevant discussion [0]. > > Reminds me of the joke we used to tell to illustrate the > difference between a one-pass algorit

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:30 -0500 Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I said - there are plenty of reasons to hate word. Personally, I > hate some of the auto-corrections it makes. AOL! But you can turn them off. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Traffic shaping for PPPoE / DSL, prio for VoIP

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:17:11 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > what is the best way on a debian/unstable box to set up traffic shaping > on a ppp interface (PPPoE/DSL) so that VoIP-Traffic (Asterisk is running > on this box) > is prioritized in favor of other traffic ? > > Which debi

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600 Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! > > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matching > libc64*." Since "sudo dpkg -l" returns a list of several hundred (a

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:26:00AM -0200, Fabio A Mazzarino wrote: > Roberto: > > On 2/15/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:04:16PM -0200, Fabio A Mazzarino wrote: > >> # uname -a > >> Linux loghost1 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 >

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:16 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > libc6-amd64 is part of the base system (for no particularly good reason > but all it uses is some disk space), so you probably already had it > installed. Yes, I noticed that shortly after my recent install onto a l

Re: How to convert files : Finished

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
FuziOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: find /somedir -type f -exec flip -u {} \; No extra filter is needed. Thanks FuziOK !, I guess its a very good way to do. Thanks to Greg and Matthew tor the sugestions. - Preguntá. Respondé. Descu

Re: What changed permissions of /tmp ?

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > This morning I had a bad surprize on my sarge system: X did not start > any more. After some time I've found the culprit: something had changed > permission of /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. > > I have no idea what could be the cause of this

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:12 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:30 -0500 > Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As I said - there are plenty of reasons to hate word. Personally, I > > hate some of the auto-corrections it makes. > > AOL! But you can turn them off. Not p

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-16 Thread marc
said... > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:52:58PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > > > > > > >>>HTML adapts to the user's browser pane width (well, if the author > > >>>doesn't break HTML's ability to do that). > > >>Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the > > >>author simply pr

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:47:37PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600 > Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! > > > > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matchi

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread FuziOK
John Hasler wrote: > Luis Ariel Lecca writes: > > Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix files > > (LF). This should be safe and recursive but it should not change any > > binary file. > > Write script using find to recurse, file to detect binaries, and dos2unix > to co

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote: > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a normal user. The reason being, it needs to descend into directories to gather usage infor

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:30:36 -0500 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:12 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:30 -0500 > > Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As I said - there are plenty of reasons to hate word. Personally, I > > >

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > Won't they have a hard time with directories and files that are not > readable by the normal user?

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:52:11 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote: > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a nor

Re: My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:24 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address > >> assigned by the gateway, 192.168.0.114, was not reported by > >> ifconfig, presumably because the operating system cannot connect > >> to the networ

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On 15 Feb 2007 18:25:28 -0800 "rocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to > make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion > loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. > Can

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 08:29, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is >>> haggis) >>> >>> fetchmail -> postf

Re: Etch fails to load components from CD/DVD

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:49:59 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It was one of the weekly-builds. > > How do i md5sum verify the iso>? http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify > Sorry for the trouble you're having. The actual burning of the cd and > checking MD5SUMS doesn't s

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Eh? With MSDOS? No gooey stuff in there! >> >> >> Well, there was GEM, plus TUIs like DesqView. > > I wasn't claiming that no GUIs existed, just that I don't > use any. I used DesqVie

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > > > Won't they have a hard ti

Re: dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
But I am not used compiling stuff that would >> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark. >> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it >> from scratch. The software is called ASCEND and is a chemical >> engineering modelling progam. It

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 07:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Mirko Scurk wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > I remember when I got to us

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:34 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/30/07, Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everything is > > working really smooth. Everything seems a lot faster, too. No doubt > > some of that is due to the improved vid

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > If you're behind a firewall, all should be fine. > > The "rule" against putting X on servers is based on "don't put > anything on a server that you don't need". The reasoning is two- > fold: > 1. Security: more "stuff" means a bigg

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
charlie derr wrote: > No, we use dovecot which stores email files in Maildir format on the > server. Dovecot *can* store mail in MailDir. It is not a given. dovecot-common - secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes dovecot-imapd - secure IMAP server that supports mbox and

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > *Solving* the corrupted-mbox problem means moving to Maildir (or, > less popularly, mh) storage. Which is not a panacea. All it does is introduce a different set of problems. ~20,000 individual files in a directory may be more resilient against corruption part way throu

Re: dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 10:01, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > But I am not used compiling stuff that would >> >> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark. >> >> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it >> >>

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:37:02 +0100 "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...]Further down the > > release cycle, testing gets naturally more and more stable and > > easier and easier to administer and less likely to break as the new > > versions get massaged into their final release conditi

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 10:06, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> If you're behind a firewall, all should be fine. >> >> The "rule" against putting X on servers is based on "don't put >> anything on a server

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread John Hasler
FuziOK writes: > I'm not clear how to use command file to detect binaries. Use it to detect DOS files. From the man page: If the lines of a file are terminated by CR, CRLF, or NEL, instead of the Unix-standard LF, this will be reported. Or parse file's output for the identifier for your

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:25 -0700 Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [huge snip] The entire Debian archive is ~205 GB. You do *not* want to download that over a slow connection. Options: 1. Unless you have special needs it is enough to download the first two CDs. That's about 1.5 GB. If you ne

Re: package dependencies

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:14 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Heal wrote: > > > > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is > > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If > > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > > sudo

Re: why not try lilypond

2007-02-16 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: I have not seen anyone in this thread suggest lilypond ? I cannot pretend to be an expert, but its results for me so far are really quite delightful. Documentation is very good. It does guitar TABS and all that sort of thing. Joe Mc Cool Ag! That is TOO easy! This is wond

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-16 Thread john gennard
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:13:16 +, john gennard wrote: [...] This morning, I reconfigured X using the 'vesa' driver and you were perfectly right in your supposition. It now boots directly into Gnome (some tweaking will be necessary - the display is not very good d

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:38:28 + andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is > connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that > I can

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Siju George wrote: > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > 600GB? Depends on the use profile. > Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i > should be careful in any area. XFS does not take well to non-clean unmount

The time has come for Christians

2007-02-16 Thread Elizabeth & Deacon Creflow Juanti
Dear In Christ, The time has come for Christians to worship God in spirit and in truth according to the book of John chapter 4:vs23-24.``But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him . God is a sp

Second NIC won't play

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured itself accordingly. I'm not trying to make the second one talk via a crossover cable to my notebook. But I cannot get the interface up. # ifc

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Problem solved: I'll post the solution for future references: I've reinstalled kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386: # apt-get --reinstall kenrel-image-2.4.27-2-386 And now everything is working just fine. Thanks for your help. Fabio On 2/16/07, Fabio A Mazzarino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Answers bel

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:35:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Modularity is one of the main reasons why I like Debian, and won't > willingly go back to an RPM system. > > Mandrake packaged Python and all the miscellaneous libraries into > one big RPM. Install Python and in comes XFree. Too s

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Fabian (Lists)
Hi Luis, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > Hi all, could any body give me a hand with this stuff ? > > Im trying to find a good way to convert dos files (CR-LF) to Unix files > (LF). [snip] Instead of installing an extra application you could cat your files through sed. >From http://www.student.

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread FuziOK
John Hasler wrote: > FuziOK writes: > > I'm not clear how to use command file to detect binaries. > > Use it to detect DOS files. From the man page: > > If the lines of a file are terminated by CR, CRLF, or NEL, instead of > the Unix-standard LF, this will be reported. > > Or parse file's

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:09 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: >>> [snip] Or 'sudo dp

How to add a kde applet in gnome

2007-02-16 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to add kde applets, but I am using gnome desktop thanks for help best regards bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:25 -0800, rocky wrote: > 4, What if I want install FreeBSD as the third Operating system on my > laptop? What is the best partition plan? > One thing to consider regarding your partitions is that you will be dealing with some file-system incompatibility. Windows, by def

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Fabio A Mazzarino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I removed /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 and renamed > /lib/modules/2.4.27 to /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 > > This is what happened then: > > # modprobe ip_tables > /lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > /lib/modules/2.4.27/kern

Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Vender
Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean install of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade from 3.1r3 or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm not sure if I can use the 3.1r4 CDs to install it. Please RE or CC to my email ad

Re: Second NIC won't play

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:23 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just > one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured > itself accordingly. I'm not trying to make the second one talk via a > crossover cable to m

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:54:49AM -0600, Joe Vender wrote: > Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean install > of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade from 3.1r3 > or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm not sure if I >

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Paras pradhan
Haven't use this but worth checking it http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ Paras. On 2/16/07, Michael M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:25 -0800, rocky wrote: > 4, What if I want install FreeBSD as the third Operating system on my > laptop? What is the best partition plan? >

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-16 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is unchanged). I saw

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It worked on my system. It installs the net-install snapshot of the day if I am not mistaken. Joe Paras pradhan wrote: > Haven't use this but worth checking it > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ > > > > Paras. > > On 2/16/07, Michael M. <[EMAIL

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
Fabian, Thanks for the info. I like use scripting but I prioritize the safe way. I think that find / flip is safe, clear, easy, dificult to make a mistake (few arg) and save time. Thanks, Luis "Fabian (Lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Hi Luis, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote:

Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully > > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things > > working pro

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread Fabio A Mazzarino
Sure. depmod is always needed if I want to avoid a reboot. And it doesn't hurt. Fabio On 2/16/07, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Fabio A Mazzarino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I removed /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 and renamed > /lib/modules/2.4.27 to /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-3

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 16 2007 09:54, Joe Vender wrote: > Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean > install of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade > from 3.1r3 or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm > not sure if I can use the 3

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Bob McGowan
FuziOK wrote: John Hasler wrote: FuziOK writes: I'm not clear how to use command file to detect binaries. Use it to detect DOS files. From the man page: If the lines of a file are terminated by CR, CRLF, or NEL, instead of the Unix-standard LF, this will be reported. Or parse file's

Which one package serve to build debian package from CVS source?

2007-02-16 Thread csanyipal
Hello! There was for this pourpose the checkinstall on Sarge, but now, on Etch, which one package serve for this pourpose out there? If I download some source from one CVS, then can I use dh-make to convert it into a format that will allow me to build Debian packages, right? But then, how can

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread John Hasler
Bob McGowan writes: > Given the original requirements, I'd agree that using 'file' would be a > problem, so I'd depend on 'flip' for determining the text/binary > question. That depends on what his "binary" files are, and on how important speed is. As the files he wants to convert are all "DOS" fi

Re: Which one package serve to build debian package from CVS source?

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:13:28PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > Hello! > > There was for this pourpose the checkinstall on Sarge, but now, on > Etch, which one package serve for this pourpose out there? > It is still available in Sid, which should work OK on Etch. Or you can backport it yourself.

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem

2007-02-16 Thread Inko IA
Hi Ivan! I used one of this Howtos, I don't remember which one: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz http://sonique54.free.fr/xgl/xgl.htm BUT, I think Compiz xgl is for gnome. I remember that once I executed it on KDE and it changed the windows schemes to a gnome ones. Maybe there are some options in

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:12:32PM +0100, ciol wrote: > You seem right and I would really like to trust you, but why there are > some developers demotivated ? Why there is this weird atmosphere ? Some people like drama. It's a lot more attractive to them than actual useful work, paid or not. --

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > >maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but > >it can help you :) > > I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. > > LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes

Re: How to convert files

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
John, Its a linux project (There are libs, executables, scripts, txt, sources and objects.) about 90MB. I did checkout using a svn program under Win32 and when I took a look to sources and scripts on linux, all those files have CR/LF. John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escr

Changing public IP Address

2007-02-16 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I currently have an iptables firewall for our DSL line. My ISP informed me that I need to change my public IP address by the end of month because AT&T is taking back a big block of addresses. I have all of the new information (gateway, new IP address, DNS servers, etc.). I host W

Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-16 Thread Admin
Andrei Popescu Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am not sure. But everyone seems to get distracted about me wanting a l

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] But you can't be using it just for MS-DOS; what's the point of having 16MB RAM if all yo do is run non-extended DOS? I have 16MB of RAM because that's the minimum configuration fo

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Celejar wrote: In Hilbert's hotel, when all the rooms are full and a new guest arrives, the management just moves everyone down one room and places the newcomer into the first room, which is now vacant. When a countably infinite number of new guests arrive, he accomodates them by moving each c

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > But you can't be using it just for MS-DOS; what's the point of having 16MB RAM if all yo do is run non-extended DOS? >>> >>>

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