Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 22:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > Maybe the smarthost does not use TLS (an encryption wrapper) because it > is only dealing with internal connections from trusted VMs. I would > start simple on the VM, with this ~/.msmtprc: > > #- > tls off > host

raidutil adaptec 2120S

2007-08-27 Thread Olivier Cant
Hi, I'm having trouble getting the raidutil package to work on debian stable. I've installed the package using apt-get and get this following error : db:/dev# raidutil -L all Engine connect failed: COMPATIBILITY number db:/dev# osdIOrequest : File /dev/dpti17 Could Not Be Opened I went trouch

which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
hi list, which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens attached? or even 4 screens if that's at all possible. gr. tinus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-27 Thread Avi Rozen
Looks like zeroconf traffic (avahi/mdns), maybe try: /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop and see what happens. HTH, Avi. Nigel Henry wrote: > I've had this problem for a while. When booting Debian Lenny, and perhaps > Etch > as well. When booting up I've had the following output trying to acces

Re: xterm won't start

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-26 19:46:29 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Installed 2.6.22 kernel and built module for USB wireless card. > Starting xterm gives: > > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys I've had a pty-related error with xterm on PowerPC in the past. I had

Re: raidutil adaptec 2120S

2007-08-27 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:29 +0200, Olivier Cant wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting the raidutil package to work on debian stable. > I've installed the package using apt-get and get this following error : > > db:/dev# raidutil -L all > > Engine connect failed: COMPATIBILITY number > db:

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread Guido Heumann
Shams Fantar schrieb: > I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to > change it. > > Subject closed. ;-) > > Thank you for your help. > > Regards, > Another thing you could try before replacing the harddrive is replacing the IDE cable. I once had strange disk error m

capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing the address of the real audio file (which I actually don't know: bbc radio just

smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I have changed the subject to get the attention of other bytemark users who might be able to help us with this problem: Richard has an account on a bytemark VM and he wants to send emails via the their smarthost. At the moment we are trying to configure msmtp properly on the VM for this t

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread Shams Fantar
Guido Heumann wrote: Shams Fantar schrieb: I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to change it. Subject closed. ;-) Thank you for your help. Regards, Another thing you could try before replacing the harddrive is replacing the IDE cable. I once had stran

SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Dan H
Hello, now I have this camcorder and want to dump/edit some family videos on it, and before I know it my 160GB harddisk is full. So I need some extra GB. Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel support? Just went and

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Csányi Pál
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:45:56AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about > streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, > if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing > the

Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread Pol Hallen
which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens attached? I always used nvidia video card (with vga+dvi) or even 4 screens if that's at all possible. yep! it's possible :-) with 2 graphics card (vga+dvi) Regards Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Csányi Pál wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:45:56AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without know

Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:20 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens > > attached? > I always used nvidia video card (with vga+dvi) > > or even 4 screens if that's at all possible. > yep! it's possible :-) > > with 2 graphics card (vga+dvi) > >

Re: xterm won't start

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a pty-related error with xterm on PowerPC in the past. I had > to use the following workaround in my app-defaults file for XTerm: I don't think it is related (it's a different error code). > ! On ay (PPC), ones needs to set eightBitInput to t

MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-08-27 Thread Csányi Pál
Hello! I have this video card and set up the X Window to use the nvidia modul. I follow the http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/152/1/ tutorial bellow "The Debian way with module-assistant" heading. It is OK except that that the X Window is not so stable. It can to be freeze and then I

Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread koffiejunkie
Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: I always thought the dvi and analog output were the same signal; how do you get X to show something different on both screens? Well, by default it is, but if the driver tells it to do something else it would. I'm using two 19" 1280x1024 monitors with one big 2560x1024

Re: linux on ipod nano?

2007-08-27 Thread koffiejunkie
Richard Lyons wrote: Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another thread, and I guess nobody noticed. So I'll put it differently: Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch I don't use gpod, so I'm taking a wild guess. Is your

Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:14 +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: > Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > > I always thought the dvi and analog output were the same signal; how do > > you get X to show something different on both screens? > > Well, by default it is, but if the driver tells it to do something else > it

docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math symboles and functions, not always). Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? thanks for help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: xterm won't start

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 10:28:48 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've had a pty-related error with xterm on PowerPC in the past. I had > > to use the following workaround in my app-defaults file for XTerm: > > I don't think it is related (it's a different error c

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:34:15AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Here there be dragons. Remember that your initrd will be set up to > > start your LVM system so that it ca

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-08-27 Thread Pol Hallen
Hello! I have this video card and set up the X Window to use the nvidia modul. Which nvidia's driver u used? I've the same problem with my nvidia geforce 5200fx, but if I use nv driver my X system is ok. Try to read on nvidia's forum. Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: flash on amd64: my report

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: flash on amd64: my report Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:06:26 +0200 Looks like gnash works now at least for youtube stuff. (Still not for myspace.) Otherwise you can play flash flv files externally with vlc plugin. # Machine:

Re: wmv

2007-08-27 Thread giglio robbo' d'acciaio
Bob King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu? mplayer -- Daniele Giglio Dona i tuoi cicli di clock alla ricerca! dgiglio(a)iol.it http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Legge di Cornuelle: L'autor

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread David Baron
On Monday 27 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to > >> change it. > >> > >> Subject closed. ;-) > >> > >> Thank you for your help. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >>     > > > > Another thing you could try before replacing the h

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:29:38AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > Considering that this is exactly what latex was

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:45:56AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > > I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about > streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, > if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing > the addre

help identifying a USB data stick

2007-08-27 Thread Robert Cates
Hi, I've got debian etch running as a server (no GUI at all) and I'd like to use my USB data stick to transfer files, but I cannot seem to find it under /dev . Do I need to, or should I, install an auto-mount package, i.e. would it make access easier? Are there more than one auto-mount type

Re: help identifying a USB data stick

2007-08-27 Thread buffoon
> Hi, > > I've got debian etch running as a server (no GUI at all) and I'd like to > use my USB data stick to transfer files, but I cannot seem to find it > under /dev . Do I need to, or should I, install an auto-mount package, > i.e. would it make access easier? Are there more than one auto-moun

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Dan H wrote: > now I have this camcorder and want to dump/edit some family videos on > it, and before I know it my 160GB harddisk is full. So I need some > extra GB. > > Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two > compare in terms of

Profile for user and root ( locales )

2007-08-27 Thread Vladimir Strycek
Hi all, any idea where alse is setting for each user in bash ? i have small problem that when i log in to my debian box as user everything works great especialy the special character of Slovak language also MC looks fine etc... but when i su to root the special characters do not work anymore.

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would > use latex. AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or > requiring a huge meta-pac

Re: fresh kde install

2007-08-27 Thread Joe Hart
On Sunday 26 August 2007 01:54:43 Joris Huizer wrote: > --- "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have installed etch base system and then > > installed xorg. I was > > trying to install kde > > apt-get install kde kdm > > I get msg saying > > . > > the following packages has unmet

Re: linux on ipod nano?

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 12:18, koffiejunkie wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: >> Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another >> thread, and I guess nobody noticed. So I'll put it differently: >> >> Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: >> >> Failed to rem

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:45:56AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without kno

What about wma (was Re: wmv)

2007-08-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote: Bob King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu? mplayer What about .wma files? I have tried Xine and MPlayer and I do have the w32codecs installed. Both players say that they are playing the file, but I get no audio

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ I have changed the subject to get the attention of other bytemark > users who might be able to help us with this problem: Richard has an > account on a bytemark VM and he wants to send emails via the their > smarthost. At the moment we

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:42:51PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I've had this problem for a while. When booting Debian Lenny, and perhaps > > Etch as well. When booting up I've had the following output trying to > > access 224.0.0.251. > >

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:53, Avi Rozen wrote: > Looks like zeroconf traffic (avahi/mdns), maybe try: > > /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop > > and see what happens. > > > HTH, > > Avi. Thanks for that Avi. As soon as your first line mentioned zeroconf, bells started to ring in my head. Zeroconf ha

Wireless card for emachine?

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas H. George
I have been given an emachine M5310 laptop with a dead battery and am considering trying to convert it to a debian etch laptop. I can boot it with a GRML cd and lsdev reports wifi0 when an Activa wifi card is plugged in. I tried using wlanconfig but have not been able to specify a static IP a

Re: help identifying a USB data stick

2007-08-27 Thread Robert Cates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got debian etch running as a server (no GUI at all) and I'd like to use my USB data stick to transfer files, but I cannot seem to find it under /dev . Do I need to, or should I, install an auto-mount package, i.e. would it make access easier? Are there more th

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish between "Mozilla-style" and "IE-style" browsers, I suppose. I think it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 26, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: However, I do agree that from the user/admin's perspective it is complicated. It offers many advantages to compensate for that. The most obvious is that you do have at your fingertips the ability to tweak the sizes of your partitions whi

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/27/2007 09:17 AM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] You mean that if you hold the mouse over the link, you don't see where its pointing? Personally, I wouldn't click on such a link. the link actually points to an html page where the embedded real player plays the st

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-08-27 Thread Csányi Pál
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:34:05PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > >Hello! > > > >I have this video card and set up the X Window to use the nvidia modul. > Which nvidia's driver u used? nvidia > I've the same problem with my nvidia geforce 5200fx, but if I use nv > driver my X system is ok. If I use

Re: help identifying a USB data stick

2007-08-27 Thread Christoph Fink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Cates wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've got debian etch running as a server (no GUI at all) and I'd like to >>> use my USB data stick to transfer files, but I cannot seem to find it >>> under /dev . Do I need to, or should

Re: help identifying a USB data stick

2007-08-27 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Robert Cates wrote this at Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:49:16PM +0200 > Thanks for the tip/info. My dmesg shows: > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > Vendor: Model: MediBase Rev: 1100 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 > SCS

icon editor

2007-08-27 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi any suggestion for an icon editor, please? I tried KIcon but it does not seem to save in gif format... thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 13:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:34:15AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> > Here there be dragons. Remember that your initrd will be set up to >> > start your LVM system so that it can find

Re: help identifying a USB data stick

2007-08-27 Thread Maciek Rutecki
Robert Cates pisze: >> > Thanks for the tip/info. My dmesg shows: > > SCSI subsystem initialized > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > USB Mass Storage support registered. > usb-storage: d

how to interpret last log

2007-08-27 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, Saw this last log and got confused on my Etch >> bcv pts/0:0.0 Mon Aug 27 22:00 still logged in bcv tty2 Mon Aug 27 21:58 still logged in bcv tty1 Mon Aug 27 21:

Re: icon editor

2007-08-27 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, August 27, 2007 16:43, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi any suggestion for an icon editor, please? I tried KIcon but it does not seem to save in gif format... What is wrong with png? that's fine... I was just curious about other programs... -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD i

Re: icon editor

2007-08-27 Thread Csányi Pál
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:43:07PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > any suggestion for an icon editor, please? > > I tried KIcon but it does not seem to save in gif format... gimp ? I mad an icon this afternoon in Gimp. I saved it with "icon_48x48.xpm" filename. -- Regards, Paul Csanyi

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread cothrige
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about > streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular, > if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing > the address of the real audi

Re: possible to "apt-get -b source everything"

2007-08-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:08:03PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > Apologies if this is not the best place to ask this question, but if > I've apt-get'd some packages and then later want to recompile those from > source (using something like apt-get -b source packagename), is that > possible? >

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:30:53PM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > SATA-I gives 150 MB/s, SATA-II gives 300 MB/s, PATA 133 MB/s. > How does one measure the speeds of these drives? For the PATA drives, I used hdparm -tT /dev/hda to get the numbers. The sdparm utility does not seem to h

Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

2007-08-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 27, 2007 07:38:24 am Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:20 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens > > > attached? > > > > I always used nvidia video card (with vga+dvi) > > > > > or even 4 screens if that's at all po

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-08-27 Thread Tim Day
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:34 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > I've the same problem with my nvidia geforce 5200fx, but if I use nv > driver my X system is ok. I have a Nvidia FX 5200 in an Asus P4S533-E mobo (AGP) and I've been wondering about the stability of the Nvidia drivers too. Under Debian Sarge

OFF TOPIC--Free software based domain hosting?

2007-08-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
There is a recent Linux Today article: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007082402826OPMR that references an opinion piece by Nicholas Petreley asking whether MS has bought Netcraft. That got me to thinking. I have a couple of personal web page collections and one of these days one or t

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron wrote: > > Can also be the power supply! I had to (temporarily) disconnect one of the CD > drives to reduce the load. Not a single WD click-clack or DMA timeout since. Second that. I had a custo

gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout

2007-08-27 Thread Giorgos Pallas
I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my passphrase , it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? I also would like gpg to cache the passphrase for a certain period of time so that I don't have to type it again and again. Any ideas? G. -- To UNSU

Re: Adobe SVG viewer plugin

2007-08-27 Thread Jamin Davis
Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The same happened with my guest account. But, when I logged in to an >> XFCE session with the guest account, all went well. Logging back to >> Gnome the same thing happened (except that the EULA message wasn't >> displayed, since I accepted it). > A

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Dan H wrote: >> Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two >> compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel suppo

Re: which fonts config file?

2007-08-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:56:39PM +0100, Jose Rodriguez wrote: > Hello > > I get different fonts when I start the GUI by issuing startx than > using kdm. I would like to know which configuration files are read > in each case so I can adjust them to my taste. I think this is more an issue of DPI.

Re: Xorg Only Recognize 128 megs From ATI Radeon AIW PCIe 256 Megs

2007-08-27 Thread Jan Schledermann
Orestes Leal wrote: > Dear friends, I have a Ati Radeon All In Wonder x800 XL with 256 Megs GDD= > R3 > PCIe interface, I have the latest closed drivers from ati.com (fglrx) > but Xorg 7.2 only recognize 128 megs, Any help? > > thanks, > > -olr Have you checked out the device section in /etc/X11

Re: Destination Host Unreachable

2007-08-27 Thread Jan Schledermann
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > When trying to connect wirelessly to a Linksys router with IP address > 192.168.1.1, ifup brings up the interface, ifconfig reports its > configuration correctly, iwconfig reports the hardware (MAC) address of > the router correctly, but pinging the router retu

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-27 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike Bird wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2007 14:34, Johannes Tax wrote: On [Sat, 25.08.2007 13:15], Mike Bird wrote: grep -l 'a_certain_function' $(find . -name '*.c') That's exactly what I need. It also shows that I have to investigate the grep command a little bit further ... BTW, unlike ba

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi Lorenzo On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:45:56AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about > streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. vsound -t -f realplay > And in particular, if > possible, I'd like to record what

Re: gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 21:06:54 +0300, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my > passphrase > , it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? That is indeed a bit strange. Is kgpg running in the background? > I also > would

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Aug 27, 2007 at 15:27:55 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > It might be time to contact bytemark's technical support. > > You are probably right. I'll give them a call. Agreed. Call us, or drop us a mail (!) This page on our website has some hints, but it looks like you're aware of t

OT: Suggestions for AM/FM or FM Only Receivers

2007-08-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm working on some music streaming on a Debian system (currently Sarge, but will be updated soon) with Slimserver. I like being able to stream all the music on my hard drive and Internet radio stations to wifi devices around my home. The one thing I miss is local radio. I'd like to find a re

Re: Profile for user and root ( locales )

2007-08-27 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:35 +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > any idea where alse is setting for each user in bash ? i have small > problem that when i log in to my debian box as user everything works > great especialy the special character of Slovak language also MC looks > fine etc... but when

Re: Wireless card for emachine?

2007-08-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:48:09 -0400 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been given an emachine M5310 laptop with a dead battery and am > considering trying to convert it to a debian etch laptop. I can boot it > with a GRML cd and lsdev reports wifi0 when an Activa wifi card is

fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm experimenting with fstab lines to streamline mounting my removable usb drives (flash and HDD). I have tried 'UUID-', 'LABEL-', and '/dev/disk/by-label/', but with any of these the system refuses to boot without manual intervention when the drive isn't attached (I am told to hi

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Celejar wrote: Hi, I'm experimenting with fstab lines to streamline mounting my removable usb drives (flash and HDD). I have tried 'UUID-', 'LABEL-', and '/dev/disk/by-label/', but with any of these the system refuses to boot without manual intervention when th

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm experimenting with fstab lines to streamline mounting my removable > > usb drives (flash and HDD). I have tried 'UUID-', 'LABEL-', > > and '/dev/disk/by-

Re: gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout

2007-08-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 27 August 2007 20:06:54 Giorgos Pallas, vous avez écrit : > I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my > passphrase > , it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? I also > would like gpg to cache the passphrase for a certain period of time s

Re: possible to "apt-get -b source everything"

2007-08-27 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
> You have heard of Gentoo, haven't you? ;-) Several years ago, I installed Gentoo and used it for a while. Several of the packages then were really unstable, and I abandoned it for other more stable and conservative distros (e.g. Debian). I hear that it's lots better now, but I haven't tried it

question about kernel source package

2007-08-27 Thread icelinux
I notice there is a source package for the kernel and a package of debian patches. Has the kernel source already been patched or would one need to patch it with all of the included debian patches when building a custom kernel? "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." A

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Graham
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:30:56 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with fstab lines to streamline mounting my removable > usb drives (flash and HDD). I have tried 'UUID-', 'LABEL-', > and '/dev/disk/by-label/', but with any of these the system > refuses

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

2007-08-27 Thread Roby
Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:51:04 -0700 (PDT) > Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Celejar wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm experimenting with fstab lines to streamline mounting my removable >> > usb drives (flash and HDD). I have tried 'UUID-', 'LABEL-x

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-27 Thread Francois Duranleau
On 8/25/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francois > > Just looked at the config file you listed for the 2.1.18 kernel. > It looks different then mine in the Block Device section. > > # Block devices > # > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set > # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set >

Re: Profile for user and root ( locales )

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:35:33PM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > > any idea where alse is setting for each user in bash ? i have small > problem that when i log in to my debian box as user everything works > great especialy the special character of Slovak language also MC looks > fine etc...

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:24:55PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenm?ller wrote: > You can find out in realplayer by clicking file -> properties -> > clip > source > or in iceweasel by right click on the page -> page info, tab media. I'm curious what extension gives you that. It sure isn't available in m

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:25:53PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would > > use latex. AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > > turned into ps, pdf, tex

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070827 20:28]: >On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:25:53PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> ... Since there are readily >>> available (as debian packages) ways to turn latex into html, I use latex >>> for ever

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:02 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > Shrinking a logical volume, though...that's full of pitfalls. I've > gotten bitten repeatedly by the fact that resize2fs and LVM's tools > apparently don't do math the same way when calculating sizes, > especially if you use human-r

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007 03:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Since this is all happening in /etc/rcS.d, I'd suggest booting with > > init=/bin/sh and running the /etc/rcS.d scripts manually one at a time > > to try to track it down. If

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:13:33AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The instantaneous peak throughput of the original > (four bytes wide, 33 MHz) PCI bus is 132 MB/sec. In real life > you're not going to see over 90. So a SATA-II controller > on a regular PCI card is bottlenecked at the mother

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > These days I am using texmacs for anything that I previously used to do with latex

Re: OFF TOPIC--Free software based domain hosting?

2007-08-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 27/08/07, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, is there a reasonably priced hoster/registrar based solely on Free > Software? Or, are all of these traits mutually exclusive? I use mediatemple.net -- Regards, Sudev Barar See you at 'Freed.in - freedom in technology & software' - In

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: On 8/25/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Francois Just looked at the config file you listed for the 2.1.18 kernel. It looks different then mine in the Block Device section. # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:36:18PM +0100, Tim Day wrote: > A few days ago I reverted to the "nv" driver and so far so good (it's > still a bit early to be sure though though). Interestingly, the > occasional APIC error I used to see in dmesg (a couple a day at most?) > seems to have dried up. >

Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-27 Thread Francois Duranleau
On 8/24/07, Bert Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I took a look at your config and menu.lst > So whats missing seems to be an initrd image which holds all the > modules your kernel needs. Your config uses some of em. You should > build the initrd > mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.1

Ping my modem........

2007-08-27 Thread Charlie
Never having used ping, and not really understanding the man page for it:- When I ping my modem: what command/option/s should I use? Is the following a normal reply from a satellite modem to ping:- ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Oper

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-27 Thread Francois Duranleau
On 8/27/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing that kinda stands out to me in the 2.6 config are: > CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=m > > I'd change those to be compiled in rather than modules. Yes. There were set as modules for some experiments regarding CRC errors (s

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/27/2007 08:08 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:24:55PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenm?ller wrote: You can find out [...] in iceweasel by right click on the page -> page info, tab media. I'm curious what extension gives you that. It sure isn't available in my Iceweasel. (I use

Re: Ping my modem........

2007-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/07 22:21, Charlie wrote: > Never having used ping, and not really understanding the man page for it:- > > When I ping my modem: > > what command/option/s should I use? > Is the following a normal reply from a satellite modem to ping:- > >

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