Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware?
For PCI specifically? /sbin/lspci should get you a listing of
everything you have installed; there are a couple of packages that
claim to do autoconfiguration of one sort or another but I've n
"Jameson C. Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package,
> how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev?
Does your kernel actually have devfs support? I believe the standard
Debian kernel's don't, or at least don't have it enabled by defa
"Jernej Zidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After a Windows reinstall, I have lost lilo. How do I install lilo or any
> bootloader, so I will be able to access my linux system?
Use a boot floppy or Debian install CD to get access to your Debian
partition. Then run 'lilo' or 'grub-install', depen
"Jeff Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm setting up a "test" debian server (contemplating a move of several
> redhat boxes)
> One quick question to get me going a little better... How do you install
> services (apache, samba, whatever) and NOT have them start on system
> startup?
Probably t
Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> using tcsh on debian sid, I defined an alias for ls
>
> alias ls 'ls --color -F !*'
'--color=auto' might be better for your purposes; it only inserts the
color magic if its output is connected to a terminal.
> I would like to make use of the color feature h
Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having problems with the new kernel I've compiled on woody. I've
> used the 2.4.8 source and patched it with xfs filesystem support, and
> loopback filesystem encryption support.
(2.4.8? Do you mean 2.4.18?)
> It was compiled with make-kpkg.
>
> T
Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a pure sid system running on my notebook. Could somebody
> please tell me whether I can still run apt-get update etc. during
> this phase without completely messing up my system?
>
> Or should I wait with any update until the transition is over? If
cyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In a flurry of unwise decision, while trying to setup synchronization of
> my clie and looking at java sdk 1.4.1 - I attempted to upgrade my libc6 to
> 2.3.1 from 2.2.5 - a process that I didn't see as a huge problem as I
> could just roll back.
>
> LONG story shor
cmustard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.18bf
> thanks.
>
> hdb: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1092/240/63
> hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-R
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
>> 'chsh /bin/zsh', then ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
> please explain...
The syntax for aliases is substantially different in Bourne
"Andrew M. Lindley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a new motherboard with a VIA AC97 chip for sound, I can't get the
> via82cxxx_audio driver to load for it. I've read around on the internet
> but they all seem to refer to PCI string 0x1106:3058 whereas (as you
> can see) lspci gives 0x1106:
"Jonathan Brandmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect.
> Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar.
> Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, with
> apt-get and tar.
> Built n
"Caoilte O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got several services installed on my laptop that I don't always use
> (db+webserver for example).
>
> What would be the best way of configuring my system such that I can
> choose an option on my grub boot menu for which services I want
> starte
mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry to post this message twice..
> I'm unable to get lm-sensors working.
> MB asus P4T533-R with P4.
> Installed lm-sensors-source, compiled, patched the kernel and reinstalled
> the kernel (2.4.20) inclusif i2c.
Maybe you could explain in a little more d
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got this question: Is there a program to read a
> cd & store songs or whatever as a MP3 format ?
I like to use abcde; by default it will take a CD, stare at it, and
produce a directory full of Ogg Vorbis files. If you *really* want
MP3 you can conf
"Dave De Graff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Can you please configure your mailer to only send plain text?)
> I've installed gcc but can't find its executables. Seems like the
> last time I installed it on a fresh woody installation, it was a
michaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I upgraded to Gnome2 for woody on i386 and decided at one point to
> purge gdm2. Well there was this warning 'directory /etc/gdm/
> not empty so not removed', leaving it half-configured.
There are several states a package can be in. "Half-configured" is, I
be
"Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Tips for moving to XEmacs
>> $ dpkg -l | grep emacs
>> ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Comm
Keith Steensma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't
> find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in
> the Debian packages list.
>
> The error is -
> Undefined subroutine &main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.pl li
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon
> All-In-Wonder). It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch
> does not support my card well. The previous version supported it and 4.2
> supports it.
>
> So a
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 25.01.2003 19:33 Jonah Sherman wrote:
>> You need ide-scsi emulation to use an IDE CDRW drive. Add
>> SCSI(CONFIG_SCSI), SCSI Generic(CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG), and SCSI
>> CDRom(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR), and SCSI IDE
>> Emulation(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) to
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> But I don't want to upgrade to testing or unstable in general. How crazy
> is it to do this? What will I break? (I'm comfortable self-compiling
> kernels.)
I su
franck routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libfam.so.0.0.0 is not an ELF binary - it has the
> wrong magic bytes at the start
In my experience, this generally indicates disk corruption. You might
check the affected packages with debsums or just try to reinstall
them.
> This
ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations?
Emacs. Or vi. Or anything else that can edit text. There are a
couple of WYSIWYGish things (I think LyX is the main one), but all of
the reference material I've seen assumes you're going off and edit
karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to get im_sensors running on my debian box, but I am getting
> some opposition. First of all, I do have my kernel source, and it is
> symlinked to /usr/src/linux. but for some reason when I go to where i2c
> installed from apt get /usr/src/modu
karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Although I am sure I have about 75% of what I need to do complete, could
> somebody give me a walkthrough of getting lm-sensors up and running on
> debian? The goal being getting some sort of information with the
> command sensors or with gkrellm's sensor pl
"Doug MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Up to now, I've been building my kernels as root. In fact, doing everything
> as root. Installing the source, compiling, and installing the resultant
> kernel.
>
> But this group seems to think that sound practice would be to only use root
> to down
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry, this is not so related to Debian. I am just wondering
> if there exists a script/ software that compares similarities
> between two files. It should be more sophisticated than "comm"
> and "diff".
>
> Someone would like to use that script for scree
George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since you (mess-mate) probably have your own reasons and desires to
> continue to use your own kernel, another alternative is to make a
> 'dummy' deb info entry.
The 'equivs' package can do this. But, really, there are better
options. Foremost is us
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried running deselect and received this error message:
>
> E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (deb)
> update available list script returned error exit status 1.
> Press to continue
> This is the trouble maker line:
>
> deb http://ftp.de.
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting
> point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want.
You can use the 'texdoc' tool to conveniently read a file in this
tree. For a good beginner's reference, I'd recommend "The No
Itsik Aviad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had a serious lock up that forced me to shutdown the system. When
> I brought it back. It went through the normal procedure of 'fixing'
> everything, except for a section where it said (and I don't remember
> the correct syntax) that it wasn't 'continous
Alexey Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's the right way to make apt use my localy compiled packages
> instead of those from {stable,testing,unstable}.
Add a new entry to debian/changelog in the source package with a
higher version number. Appending a ".1" to the Debian revision is
proba
Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if I give either stable or unstable as target release, it wants to
> install gcc 3.2 (the following NEW packages will be installed:
> gcc-3.2-base libstdc++5 transcode).
> Is it possible to install gcc 3.2 besides gcc 2.95 currently installed
> on my system? or
arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And actually, what is going on with libc? why haven't it upload to
> testing yet?
There's a concise explanation at http://packages.qa.debian.org/glibc;
essentially, it boils down to there being hard-to-fix release-critical
bugs.
> (to my understanding, it
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having some difficulty regarding accessing an audio cdrom
> through /cdrom directory.
"You don't." Audio CDs don't have filesystems (typically), and so
there's no way to mount them.
> Currently, I can access the audio cd through /dev/cdrom. He
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I want to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is there any deb file for
> it?
For reading and printing PDF files, I've almost always found xpdf
sufficient. It's DFSG-free (acroread really isn't); you can install
it with 'aptitude install xpdf', etc.
The only thing you reall
Josh Rehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to dual boot my machine, and need to exec parted to do
> this. However, parted isn't on the Debian 3.0 distro CDs that I have,
> and gnu only provides floppy images - and my laptop doesn't have a
> floppy drive (nor an IR port...beware, prospe
Joey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I understand there are no security updates for testing/unstable,
> because they are so fluid, but what exactly is the difference
> between them
Developers upload packages to unstable. Those are available to users
who follow unstable within 24 hours. A
"Victory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just installed rsh-server and don't know how to set it up so that
> I can do "rlogin temp1 -l root" from remote machine.
You almost certainly don't want to, unless you *want* your root
password passing across the network in the clear. Better:
(1) Remov
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to get a "nice" looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using
> the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. I'm using a
> couple of symbols that I wouldn't expect to find on a keyboard (namely
> \times and \equiv) but apar
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've heard of filters that can "learn" what is and isn't spam by having
> you feed it anything you consider spam. What are people's experiences
> with them? Are the useful/reliable? Any problems with false
> negatives/positives?
I have had very good l
tongKe Xue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (2) I want to be able to post to debian-user, but read in digest
> mode ... I started out subscribing to debian-user-digest, but then
> realized I didn't know how to post,
debian-user doesn't place any particular restrictions on who can post;
it's fine t
raoul duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i need to recompile my kernel (2.4.18-k7) with some minor adjustments to
> the configuration. since i can get the configuration file from /boot, all i
> need is the kernel source. i installed kernel-source-2.4.18, configured it
> and tried to compile it but
emarsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From the tree where the packages are (they can be in one or more
> subdirs) type:
>
> touch override
> #(scanpackages need an override file, that can be blank)
>
> dpkg-scanpackages ./ override > Packages
> #I trie
Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been reading and trying the same procedure. I noticed that in the
> example given (deb file:/root debs/) there is no forward slash between
> root and debs. I strongly suspect that that is not a typo but cannot
> figure out why the / is missing (acc
TongKe Xue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I did a search for "XFree86" in the packages section, and one of
> the responses I got was:
>
> experimental xfree86-common 4.3.0-0pre1v1 (583.7k)
>
> I'm curious about
> (1) What is experimental? Even more unstable than unstable?
> (2) What's be
Neo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> anybody know of a way to switch workspaces in gnome/ any
> windowmanager? (on Debian of course ;-) )
>
> Background: I want a central monitoring station in a 24x7 monitoring
> environment to cycle automatically through each workspace which each
> contains a monito
"Valter G. Nogueira Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to use sarge.
...
> 2. apt-cdrom add (sarge cds)
...
> Now I want to make gnome my desktop but I am not sure about what package
> should I install.
>
> In order to get it, I tried to install several packages but I get nothing
...
>
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a sid system upgraded yesterday (kernel custom 2.4.22, kde3.1).
> I have also been experimenting with kerberos V for deployment. Just
> discovered that when I try to get a TGT with kinit, the password is
> printed in cleartext at the prompt!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello, Im trying to use
>
> I make-kpkg modules_install
Do you mean 'make modules_install'? Or do you mean 'make-kpkg
modules-image', followed by 'dpkg --install ../nvidia-*.deb'?
> it installs one module the nvidia.o in to
> /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/driver folder
tvn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One of my computer is running Debian as the main server, it has 2 nics
> and connected to a hub and cable modem. Its current job is acting as a
> router so other computers in my lan can connect to its hub and share the
> internet connection. Now I want to try wi
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Maze wrote:
>
>> kinit (from the MIT Kerberos packages, not Heimdal) works as I (and you)
>> expect. Where does your kinit come from?
>>
>> which kinit
>> dpkg -S `which kinit`
>
> This is most disturbing. After a check at my home lan where
Rodrigo Valenzuela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When i connect via ssh to my computers it goes fine, but when i
> tried 'startx ' it complains with 'X: user noy authorized to tun the
> x server'.
...and you don't actually want to succeed at this, since if you do
there will be an X server running
Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A couple of days ago, I installed these packages from sid:
> lm-sensors-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1
> i2c-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1
>
> I have done this before many times, to save myself the trouble of
> compiling these kernel modules myself. I'm running a tes
Chad M Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route?
> I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place.
You probably want a 'gateway' line in /etc/network/interfaces on
exactly one interface that's up.
--
David Maze
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can a kernel-image 2.4.21 package from testing (built from source) be
> installed on woody without removing a kernel-image 2.4.18 package from
> woody?
>
> It seems that:
> - testing's 2.4.21 kernel package depends on module-init-tools, but
So when you
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> May I know how a user can modify the TEX parameters
> as in /etc/texmf.cnf ? A superuser could easily
> modify the /etc/texmf.d directory.
You could make a copy of the file, edit it, and point $TEXMFCNF to
that directory, checking that 'kpsewhich texmf.cn
Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where do I configure entries into my routing table so that when I reboot
> they exist the next session?
You probably need to add them to your /etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.1.0.14
netmask 255.255.0.0
up rou
TR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the following sid screwed system:
> / in hdb1
> /home in hdb2
> swap in hdb3
> grub floppy is used to boot.
If you haven't figured it out yet, you should be able to use the GRUB
floppy to boot from an old kernel:
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz- root
Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Today i read that Slackware doesn't use PAM by default because of
> some of the leaks that pop up now and then. I was wondering what
> other type of authentications there are on Linux and how
> easy/difficult they are to set up.
The basic answer her
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think another possible way would be through the C library. I believe
> that the C library has certain authentication functions (I think for
> passwd file and NIS). I think that you could modify these functions to
> provide whichever method you want.
Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Op zo 28-09-2003, om 00:45 schreef David Z Maze:
>
>> I think both Kerberos and RADIUS are "single sign-on" protocols: when
>> you log on you get some sort of authentication token, which you can
>> use to
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using Icewm on Sid and running Xinerama.
>
> Anyone know how I can put different image on each screen of my root
> window?
My understanding is that, since you're using XINERAMA, you only have
one screen, end of story.
> I've tried the display comma
Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> According to the Debian reference Debian uses both ~/.xsession and
> ~/.xinitrc for setting up an X-environment.
>
> I use wdm as display manager and need a personal PATH.
>
> If I set it up in ~/.xsession it works as desired but if I now login on
> a ter
Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo on the root
> sector of a partition, does this mean that it has no affect on the
> MBR?
Yes.
> Exactly, what does it do when it is on a partition?
When the MBR picks a partition, the "standard" thin
Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set
> up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian.
>
> Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time
> intervals. I'd like to run the swendeleter.pl script automa
Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it
> looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the answer
> but as the difference between the system(pc) and the actual(ntp) time is
> so great it won't work.
>
> So how
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The monitors are samsungs 17" but the cards are
> different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and
> the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x.
>
> I notice no difference between the 2 other than that I
> paid $25 more for the MX440.
The last time I boug
Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i have a dell precision 360 with an Intel® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6
> Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by
> compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in
> /etc/network/interfaces and in modutils/ and updated
> modules.c
Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to figure out Linux with the help of O'Reilly's /Running
> Linux/. It recommends that I do not install new versions of compilers
> unless absolutely necessary just in case things get broken by the new
> version of the compiler.
That sounds
Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In an effort to run ppp as non root, I had to include my normal user
> id in the group 'dip' by directly editing /etc/group using
> vi. However, on saving and exiting /etc/group, I still could *not*
> access files owned by user root and available to us
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote:
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 18:32 schrieben Sie:
>> > > make-kpkg modules_image
>> >
>> > Shouldn't that create a .deb for the modules, that I need to dpkg
>> > -i? If so, I can't seem to find i
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse and I use
> them with Backstreet Ruby to have 2 users use the one
> Debian system.
>
> But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I
> usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looking at
> the other tub
Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there anyway with X i can make it use the Bitstream Vera font
> instead of Helvetica, and the Vera Mono font instead of Courier for
> all X applications?
There's just too many font schemes out there. You should be able to
easily change the font scheme
Sudeep Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the equivalent of RH's ntsysv in Debian? I want to
> permanently disable a few services like Samba, etc.
'dpkg --remove' can be very effective at doing this sort of thing.
Otherwise, the easiest thing to do is to remove the relevant 'S' link
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually this doesn't have to be just in regards to gzip, but any file
> compression application.
(gzip only compresses a single file, but this might apply to tar or
similar programs.)
> Is there a way to force the application to provide a specific
>
KRF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On the advice of some compadres I have ordered the 7 CD package so
> that I can try Debian.
If the label says "Debian 3.0" (or 3.0r1, or 3.0r2), or "woody", then
it's stable. That is, in fact, a 7-CD set, though you get two choices
for the first CD (so CheapByte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have
> been keeping documents in various formats I'd like to move to
> text-based documents so we are not dependent on a specific product
> (like Word). So I'm looking for suggestions.
Aah, the document
J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been messing with grub without accomplishing much, accept an
> occasional kernel panic, error fs not found
> and an hour or more rescuing my system. I let grub do most of the work
> on the configuration that follows
> and it actually boots debian, with t
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a few
> days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a lot) foggy
> on what exactly it's used for. For instance, I have
> /etc/alternatives/vi and /etc/alternatives/e
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a work laptop running Win2000 that has a large number of files I
> would like to transfer to my home Linux desktop. What would be the
> easiest way to do this?
Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), which gives you a familiar
bash shell under
David Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and
> xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running
> "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things:
>
> -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans
> mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6
> has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What
> holds up a package like that for almost a week? Just wondering.
Packages that are new to Debian need to be
Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote:
>
>> Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing "."
>> from $1 and tacks on ".wav".
>>
>> "${1%.*}.wav"
>
> That's much better, no dependency on yet another utility, so more portable
>
"Bob Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need.
>
> I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult.
>
> Is there a way to say:
>
> This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their
> dependencie
"C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any one got any advice how to get lmsensors working on a 2.4.21-5-k7
> kernel?
My best advice is to build your kernel from source, disable anything
and everything i2c-related in the kernel source, and then install the
lm-sensors-source and i2c-source packages and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 14:45:43 -0400]:
>> Setting up a new machine, I'm trying to run the openafs client from behind
>> a firewall.
>>
>> 1.) Is it possible to run an openafs client via NAT? and
>
> It might be that you will need to
"Price, Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed Debian a few weeks ago, then installed SuSE on top of it
> (keeping the partition setup I had created during the Debian
> install). SuSE installed a boot loader for me, so that whenever I
> start the computer I get to choose between Linux an
Try KDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for such a software that takes arrays of scientific data
> and spit out a gif file consisting of chart or pie picture (like what
> you'd often see on a benchmark site?). Any suggestions?
Sadly, the best approach for doing that sort of thing I've
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sdownes) writes:
> I need the source code for a few standard bits Kernel & PCMCIA bits to
> compile a driver for a PCMCIA card. I would expect to find it on the
> Debian site but can't.
>
> Can anybody tell me where it is
You can install the kernel-source-2.4.19 and pcmcia-s
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 21 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
>> one thing i missed out on was that instaed of purging the packages, i
>> removed them. if i understand correctly, it means that the configuration
>> and other files will be on the system still.
(Just the p
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you are going to get into shuffling around these items, I would
> suspect that long-term package management considerations *might* be
> better respected if you use update-rc.d(8) to make your changes, rather
> than just diving in and renaming files t
"Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is required to install GTK+ apps on a system?
Strictly speaking, the libgtk1.2 package and its dependencies. More
loosely, APT. :-)
> Do you need to have Gnome installed as your desktop?
No.
> Can you just install GTK+?
Yes. (Well, and
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It could be an other file to insert the different
> gateways/destination/netmask but I am not sure. Lot of the routing
> address have the same interface (eth0) but different
> gateways/destination/netmask.
That sounds like you want to use "IP aliasing":
iface eth0 i
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I believe it's non-free...
...and more to the point, I believe it's non-free to the point of
being non-distributable. Googling for 'debian xv license' brings some
useful hits; one of these is
http://www.fifi.org/doc/xv-doc/html/availability.html, w
Felipe MartÃnez Hermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just upgraded to woody and I just can't connect to my X
> server.
>
> User "felipe" is running X and I want to execute an application
> on that X server. The usual procedure used to be:
>
> felipe@machi
Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working with apt and have a few queries:
>
> 1. I've copied the first 3 woody disks on my hard disk in
> /var/cache/apt/cds/[123].
>
> I want apt to recognize these sources as the primary installation sources. I
> made changes in /etc/apt/sources.list, sa
Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another question. I have a box with SuSE left and want to upgrade it
> to debian. The box has now two hds and I want to keep the second drive
> for the time beeing and after the new system is alive and kicking I will
> format it. What do I need to do to ge
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if i was gonna tagg an email ( spam ) for later processing ...
> i might as well have spent the 1 second to check it the first
> time and hit the "D" key ... instead of looking at that email twice
Does your MUA have some concept of folders? What I do is h
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