Xen-enabled kernel sources for etch

2007-02-19 Thread Иванов Михаил
Greetings! Where can I find debian etch kernel sources patched for xen? I installed linux-source-2.6.18 but no xen related code is present. I want to rebuild the kernel with different HIGHTPTE (and maybe some other settings) because after I have installed oracle 10.2.0.1 under dom0 I'm getting a

Re: [SOLVED] Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-19 Thread Mirko Scurk
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:53:59PM +0100, Mirko Scurk wrote: > Hi Mirko, > I think that you should definatley send a message to the debian-devel > list and tell them what you have done, I'm sure they'd get a big kick > out of it :-) > cheers, > Kev Ha, ha, ha! Very funny! I r

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread Mirko Scurk
Joe Hart wrote: > But then again, old advice from a teacher: You'll never know the answer > unless you ask. Which advice to follow? Oh I'm so confused :) (not > really) > As someone said - there are no stupid questions just stupid answers. There are many different people among us - I guess tha

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Lale
Ken Heard wrote: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? No need to mount/umount a PCMCIA wireless network card. When I remove my running RT2500 card in Etch, dmesg shows pccard: card ejected from slot 0 ACP

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread Mirko Scurk
Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > No matter how easy or difficult the question you ask, there will always > be some smartass who tell to you go RTFM (which is often a longer > sentence to type than the answer to your question). Don't let it bother > you.

Re: no sound..

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Lale
Mikael Backman wrote: I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just that there is no sound. Not a beep :( Do you have a motherboard with integrated sound _and_ a PCI sound card? If so, the s

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-19 Thread Mirko Scurk
Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 23:19 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: >> I saw on the net a little linux computer that consists pretty much of a >> network card and a serial port. www.picolinux.com I think. I thought > > Wrong url, here's the correct one: > > http://www.picotux.com/ > >

MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did a really stupid thing and messed up my permissions all over, so I said hell with trying to fix it and just reinstalled as a Windows user might. After the net-install (from today's daily build) I noticed that I could play mp3 files. I find that

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 18:52 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Did your research indicate that SANE supports the V100? > > No. The list of supported devices listed at www.sane-project.org does > not include the V100 but I hoped it would be supported as most Epson > scanners use the same backend.

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirko Scurk wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >> No matter how easy or difficult the question you ask, there will always >> be some smartass who tell to you go RTFM (which is often a longer >> senten

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge >ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on >Etch. If your PC is fast enough, why not use dosbox instead. It uses cpu-emu

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:57:36AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > If you install the Debian TeXLive package, you should find that LaTeX > works as it formerly did in TeTeX. I am running TeTeX under Etch on > one i386 machine, and TeXLive under Etch on another i386 machine, and > I have not seen

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > I even sometimes use links to browse the web. grml is one of my > favorite distros because of the 'text tools' approach. If I could > somehow merge a few different distros into my own, well that would be > the ultimate, but I have a few years to go before I can take somet

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:40:30PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when > installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Not usually, but I suppose what type of card it is. I have a modem PCMCIA card which I just "release" whenever I feel l

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> I even sometimes use links to browse the web. grml is one of my >> favorite distros because of the 'text tools' approach. If I could >> somehow merge a few different distros into my own, well that

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Pobega wrote: On 02/17/2007 08:52:31 AM, Jan Sneep wrote: [...] If you use iTunes to download music you're out of luck, because there are almost no Linux equivalents. If your kids only use iTunes to update their iPods, then there is always gtkpod, which is what I personally use to upda

Returning from screensaver doesnt work

2007-02-19 Thread Otto Peura
I have 2 screen system with nvidia-glx-drivers and tv-out. If my computer is idle, it of course goes to screensaver mode and it locks with a password (like it should do) But unlocking my computer doesnt work. I can't see the password dialog at all. It sometimes comes to my TV but sometimes it does

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Lale
Steve Lamb wrote: Justin Hartman wrote: Wouldn't the Debian Live CD work as a better option? Not really. Since Debian has so many different release architectures they really don't push automatic detection and configuration as far as the splinter distributions which focus mostly on

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did a really stupid thing and messed up my permissions all over, so I said hell with trying to fix it and just reinstalled as a Windows user might. After the net-install (from today's daily build) I noticed that I could play mp3 fi

Re: 2.6.20 kernel in unstable?

2007-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Trounson wrote: Any idea when kernel 2.6.20 is going to show up in Sid? The most recent version I see in Sid is 2.6.18-4. Both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 have a critical cifs bug that makes any machine that mounts windows shares pretty much unusable. thanks, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! > > greg> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz > > Could you (or someone) please explain the step-by-step sequence to > apply the above patch to install VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175 on >

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge >>ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on >>Etch. > > If your PC

Re: (GNOME?) Logout Problem

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:33:56 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:13:31 -0500 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:06:02 +0200 > > >Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Have a look at > > > http://bugs.debi

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-19 Thread Rolf Bode-Meyer
Thanks to you all for replying. Firstly I have to admit that this particular system is actually not a real Debian system but Ubuntu. I wrote here because I wrongly assumed both distributions are more similar then they are. And because Debian users knowledge about the system is better than Ubun

laptop network routing

2007-02-19 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am looking for an application/script, which will do internal routing for my laptop, and will dynamically choose the better network interface to use. I.e., when I disconnect my NIC, it will continue my ongoing ssh session over wireless, and vice

Re: fglrx, kernel 2.6.20, dri and composite problem [SOLVED]

2007-02-19 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I guess it is clear for all, but it was not for me.. One should completely _remove_ ati proprietary driver, before trying to use the open source one, since it changes /usr/lib/libGL.so. After removing it and including: deb http://debian.beryl-pro

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

2007-02-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
> Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) > > These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: > "I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where to begin > to look." > "Internet access is flaky, slow and expensive." Differs from list to list, I guess. In the days w

any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Karl Goetz
hi all i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could recommend specific help they used to go with the huge quantity of goodness-knows-what

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:18:42AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > If your PC is fast enough, why not use dosbox instead. > > It uses cpu-emulation instead of vm86 mode, so it's a bit slower, > but it's a lot easier to get going (dos is built in, and it can > access the linux file system

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I > thought that MP3 was one of the "questionable" formats that goes against > the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong. > > In any event, I was pleasantly surprised. I find that mp3 and ogg a

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 19:43, Ken Heard wrote: > Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge > ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on > Etch. What kind of trouble are you having? I installed dosemu on one of my boxes that will need i

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/02/07 01:09), Karl Goetz wrote: > hi all > i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its > backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. > > I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could > recommend specific help they used

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > hi all > i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its > backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. > > I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could > recommend spe

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 11:43 +, Stephen Chadfield wrote: > Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! > > > > greg> http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz > > > > Could you (or someone) please explain the step-by-step sequence t

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:52:43AM EST, Stephen Chadfield wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge > >>ever since Sarge came

Re: 2.6.20 kernel in unstable?

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 06:03 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Greg Trounson wrote: > > Any idea when kernel 2.6.20 is going to show up in Sid? The most recent > > version I see in Sid is 2.6.18-4. > > > > Both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 have a critical cifs bug that makes any machine > > that mounts windo

Re: Saving threads (was Re: help with debian)

2007-02-19 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/18/07 22:46, Kent West wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> It would have been better to quote a few lines, but the thread is still >>> fresh. It's not like he posted to an age-old thread, where context is >>> really important. >>> >> Not meaning to take sides, but I my

kann Refresh-Rate nicht kontrollieren aus xorg.conf

2007-02-19 Thread Boris Andratzek
Hallo mal wieder, ich nehme die List hier gegenwärtig stark in Anspruch Danke dafür Ich habe jetzt mein Desktop-System auch auf Etch gehoben und die Darstellung des X ist nicht OK. Der Server (i810) stellt 1280 x 1024 dar, allerdings offensichtlich mit einer Refresh-Rate, die mein Monito

[OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:45:10 GMT > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > I think you are overreacting a bit. Oh? About what? I'm serious. You snipped the context too, so anyone coming across this post will have no idea what we're talk

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/02/07 10:18), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > exim4 > > Personally, I would recommend Postfix instead. If you choose Postfix, > there is tons of good documentation on the Postfix website. Hi Roberto I've always used exim since using debian, primarily because it is the default. Why would

psp link request

2007-02-19 Thread Timothy J Miller
To Who It May Concern - I am submitting a written link request. My goal is to gather as many Psp Links as I can and put them together to make 1 ultimate download site. I believe this well accomplish 2 things. 1 by doing this the soon to be customer will save time and money by havi

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/18/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:11:09PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > In my great attempts to minimise bandwidth usage, I download Debian > source packages since they contain only Debian changes (.diff.gz and > perhaps the .dsc files). B

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:42:31PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I've always used exim since using debian, primarily because it is the > default. Why would you recommend postfix? I've looked at it > occasionally and I've done a few Ubuntu installs including on my > workstation. However, I've

gnome-desktop messing with X cursors

2007-02-19 Thread Dan H.
During periods of boredom I sometimes check on the current status of desktop environments (I myself have been an icon-less fvwm man from day 1), so for giggles I installed the package gnome-desktop-environment and played a bit with it. Getting back to serious things I started my usual fvwm environ

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and a local mirror or a R/W DVD

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:14:39 -0700 Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Regarding the DVDs: AFAIK you cannot make changes to a full DVD, even if it is rewritable. Rewritable on a CD (and I suppose the same for a CD) means you can erase it all and start over. This is not the same as with a f

Re: gnome-desktop messing with X cursors

2007-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 17:04:19 +0100, Dan H. wrote: > During periods of boredom I sometimes check on the current status of > desktop environments (I myself have been an icon-less fvwm man from day > 1), so for giggles I installed the package gnome-desktop-environment and > played a bit with it. >

Re: gnome-desktop messing with X cursors

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:04 +0100, Dan H. wrote: > This is not good, as it changes the behavior on the system even for > users that don't want to have anything to do with gnome. Does anybody > have an idea who changes the cursors and how these changes can be > restricted to gnome sessions only? It

OT: Odd traffic on my firewall

2007-02-19 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am seeing an inordinate amount of packages dropped on my firewall - all coming from the same source and hitting a very limited range of ports (as reported by psad): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mon Feb 19 10:34:03 2007 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: (GNOME?) Logout Problem

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Pobega
I figured out the source of the problem...My iptables script in /etc/rcS.d/ is messing up everything! I have S40 as Networking and S41 as iptables, what is a better way to do this? Or at least an alternative that won't mess everything up. On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:05:43 -0500 Michael Pobega <[EMAI

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:07 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:45:10 GMT > > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > I think you are overreacting a bit. > > Oh? About what? > > I'm serious.

Re: kann Refresh-Rate nicht kontrollieren aus xorg.conf

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:19:48 +0100 Boris Andratzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo mal wieder, German: Hallo, ich glaube das war fuer debian-user-german gedacht, oder? English: Hello, I believe that was meant for debian-user-german, isn't it? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simp

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:18 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >> Is there in the Etch packages data base a "complete web authoring >> system" more or less equivalent to Nvu, which is in the Sarge data base? > > This was discussed some time ago, search the mailing list archives for >

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:42:31PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: I've always used exim since using debian, primarily because it is the default. Why would you recommend postfix? I've looked at it occasionally and I've done a few Ubuntu installs including on my workstatio

how to use start-stop-daemon (installing daemon)

2007-02-19 Thread Brad Brock
I want to set my program as daemon that started when system start. I have read the manual of start-stop-daemon but I think an example would be great for me. Does anyone has the example? Thank you. No need to mi

Re: how to use start-stop-daemon (installing daemon)

2007-02-19 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/2/19, Brad Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I want to set my program as daemon that started when system start. I have read the manual of start-stop-daemon but I think an example would be great for me. Does anyone has the example? Thank you. Hi, which program ? Have you made it yourself ? Mayb

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Ken Heard wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. Regards, Ken Heard test to see if the address works.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

2007-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 February 2007 09:26, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) > > > > These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: > > "I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where to begin > > to look." > > "Internet access is flaky, slow a

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 10:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:07 GMT > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:45:10 GMT >>> "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 2/18/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:11:09PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> In my great attempts to minimise bandwidth usage, I download Debian > >> source packa

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:07 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My .sig explicitly says not to Cc: me, and that's ignored too. Why am > > Hhhm, Sylpheed-Claws is automatically adding the Reply-To: address to > the Cc:. Maybe I'm wrong, bu

Re: VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

2007-02-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO-8859-1, 33 lines --] > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 11:43 +, Stephen Chadfield wrote: >> Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Thanks for the letters from Liam and Greg! >> > >> > greg> http

Some Debian docs... error perhaps?

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
I was just reading through a few Debian docs today and came across something that makes it appears that Etch *HAS* been released. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-codenames And to quote from the location: Currently, stable is a symbolic link to etch (

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: > > > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I > > thought that MP3 was one of the "questionable" formats that goes against > > the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong. >

Re: DCOP problem after Etch with Kde upgrade

2007-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:50:46 +, john gennard wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >The DCOP server itself is responsible for creating the file that is > >mentioned in your error message (as far as I know). > > > >Something fundamental seems to be wrong with your KDE. With Etch being > >

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:30:52 -0500 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I > > > thought that MP3 was one o

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:22:53 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/19/07 10:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:07 GMT > > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

2007-02-19 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:18 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2007 09:26, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > > Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) > > > > > > These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: > > > "I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where

What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread hendrik
Do I understand this correctly? In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 root(hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-486 root=/dev/mapper/lovesong-other ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-3-486 savedefault (I edite

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do I understand this correctly? > > In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza > > title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 > root (hd0,7) This particular "root" is the "grub installation root" IOW it

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:29:20PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote > > > ... get the newest alsa-drivers (1.0.14) from their site and the > > alsa-libs and alsa-utils (2). > > > > compile the drivers as root into a (new) directory /usr/src/alsa (3) and > > ins

preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-19 Thread ccostin
What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? $ cat file1.cc #include "file.hh" void f1(int x,int y, int z) { a=x; b=y; c=z; } $ cat file2.cc #include "file.hh" void f2(int x,int y, int z) { a=x; b=y; c=z; } $ cat file.hh #ifndef _FIS_H_ #define _FIS_H_ in

Re: preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
Completely wrong list to ask. This appears to be a lesson from an instructor. BTW, you are missing something glaringly wrong. On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:27 +0200, ccostin wrote: > What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? > > $ cat file1.cc > #include "file.hh" > void f1(int x,int y, int z) > { >

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread vees
correct. as long as any software is free, it is compatible with the DFSG, even if it is intended to work with non-free file formats such as mp3. this is also why MS Word *.doc can be read with plenty of free word processors (kword, OpenOffice among others). Motto: chown -R linux:GNU world D

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 11:52, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:22:53 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/19/07 10:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:0

ftp server

2007-02-19 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hi, My question concerns ftpd and wu-ftpd installation under debian etch. It seems that creating /bin/ls (and librairies) for example is needed as the code corresponding to it is not embedded in those ftp servers. Thus every users is chroot ed even if not present in ftpchroot file (don t know why

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Kleene
On Jan 15 13:40:01 EST 2007, I wrote > I also have no sound with a recent etch install and an onboard Intel sound > card. ... > > On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote > > > ... get the newest alsa-drivers (1.0.14) from their site and the > > alsa-libs and alsa-utils (2). > > I'd rather not do

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do I understand this correctly? > > > > In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza > > > > title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 > > root

Re: how to use start-stop-daemon (installing daemon)

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:07:36AM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > I want to set my program as daemon that started when > system start. I have read the manual of > start-stop-daemon but I think an example would be > great for me. Does anyone has the example? Thank you. /etc/init.d/ is full of examples

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty 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 > the entire file syste

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and a local mirror or a R/W DVD

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Archive wrote: > I really like the idea passed on to me of getting the entire 14 disk > ETCH (older and therefore stable) distribution on a R/W DVD where the > first DVD contains the installer. Apparently, this approach using the > appropriate package m

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Nope. You seem to mention the Debian-specific diffs. I'm looking for > upstream diffs: diff between OOo 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (orig.diff perhaps), > not between Debian 2.0.1-3 and 2

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and IP CHAINS and IP FORWARDING

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:44:50PM -0700, Archive wrote: > As mentioned in an earlier email the DOMU or secondary Xen system(s) can > not only talk to the DOM0 or Xen primary system but also to other other > DOMU or secondary Xen system(s) and that most likely involves not only > LAN interaction

[OT] Re: preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-19 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
ccostin writes: > What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? > $ cat file1.cc > #include "file.hh" int a, b, c; > void f1(int x,int y, int z) > { >a=x; >b=y; >c=z; > } > $ cat file2.cc > #include "file.hh" > void f2(int x,int y, int z) > { >a=x; >b=y; >

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:23:17AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mirko Scurk wrote: > > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > > >> No matter how easy or difficult the question you ask, there will always > >>

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Thanks everyone for the replies. If I understand them correctly, the situation is as follows: PCMCIA cards can be hot plugged and hot unplugged just like for instance USB devices. However, also like USB devices, if the PCMCIA card is or contains a mobile storage device, to gain access to the st

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (It's been a while since I used Sylpheed, but I think it has a > >> Reply To List option. > > > > It has three buttons: > > > > o Reply: Reply-to-list for lists or simple reply for normal mail. > > If a Reply-To: is

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/07 21:43, Ken Heard wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. This is an example of a Bad Question. A

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread John Hasler
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: > Me not sure I understand: I know Debian's got diffs, but those diffs are > only Debian-specific. So for each source package you got orig, diff, and > dsc, and nothing else. Right. > What I'm looking for is the 4th file which also got the diff between orig > files (u

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
I found the answer to my own problem. I only had gcc installed; whereas it seems that g++ was also needed for the configuration. It seems that g++ and gcc are dependent on each other. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:29:35PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > [...] > On Mon Feb 19 12:43:18 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As you seem to be running sid or at least parts of it, I'd suggest > > using checkinstall from the package with the same name. ... > > Also the package module-assista

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Since several people for various reasons mentioned Dosbox instead Dosemu, I will try the former first before trying to get the latter to work in an Etch box. When looking for a DOS "emulator" way back when I found that Dosemu met my needs; whereas Dosbox did not then. Perhaps Dosbox will do s

HP nx6125

2007-02-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I've had this notebook for more than a year now, and I'm still battling with it's ACPI. The biggest problem is that the fan control is irregular. Trip points are reached or exceeded, and acpi -t shows the correct temperature and that the fan is on, but the fan isn't. There is an entry

about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hello, I just started to use audacity with some live recorded music. I have a few starting questions: Audacity: 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being saturated and that the output from mixer sho

aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hello, I started using aptitude a few days ago. I remember that at that time it was showing many packages were broken and wanted to remove a bunch of them. I then did some operation that I now forget which made aptitude to 'forget' about those packages and to clear the cache or some such thin

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> (It's been a while since I used Sylpheed, but I think it has a > > >> Reply To List option. > > > > > > It has three buttons: > > > > > > o Reply: Reply-to-list for lists

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I haven't digured out how th install grub in a floppy disk yet, by the > way. grub-floppy -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - -http://ww

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 15:40:10 -0500, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > I started using aptitude a few days ago. I remember that at that time it > was showing many packages were broken and wanted to remove a bunch of > them. I then did some operation that I now forget which made aptitude to > 'forg

Re: Some Debian docs... error perhaps?

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > I was just reading through a few Debian docs today and came across > something that makes it appears that Etch *HAS* been released. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-codenames > > And to q

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:31 -0500, H.S. wrote: > 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what > does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being > saturated and that the output from mixer should be reduced. I think that's correct. "Any waveform that goes

Re: Returning from screensaver doesnt work

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:29 +0200, Otto Peura wrote: > I have 2 screen system with nvidia-glx-drivers and tv-out. If my > computer is idle, it of course goes to screensaver mode and it locks > with a password (like it should do) > But unlocking my computer doesnt work. I can't see the password dial

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