GCC 3.2 transition question

Hi, 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 yes, when is this likely to happen and how wo

Phoenix debs for woody?

Hi, Does anyone know if there are any Woody compatible debs of Phoenix anywhere? Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Phoenix debs for woody? - SOLVED

Hi, A big thanks to all who replied me. When I first looked at the Phoenix website I seem to have "got lost" somehow and missed the tarball completely :( Downloading and unzipping it to /usr/local/ worked perfectly! BTW, is there a way to make it use anti-aliased fonts under blackbox? Many than

Re: Phoenix debs for woody?

>#Phoenix >deb http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386 ./ > >just as synaptic says, converted from slackware tgz. Works great btw. > >Elijah I've tried that, but it requires a newer libc etc. then the Woody version. Anyway, as others have pointed out it is the easiest to just untar the packa

Performance needed for an Internet gateway

Hi, I have an ADSL Internet access and I'm planning to set up some sort of firewall/gateway for my home network. Here's what I roughly have in mind: NAT / port forwarding packet filtering bandwidth management / trafic shaping some sort of secure access for my laptop through wireless network I wa

Re: Performance needed for an Internet gateway

>Bandwidth management & traffic shaping on your home network >Unless you're learning how to do it so you can then do it at work, >seems like a huge overkill. > >> I was wondering what sort of processing power is needed for such a >> computer? > The main reason would be to prioritize upstream

Re: Re-broadcasting/caching streaming video

> >Couldn't she just leave the streaming client running on her machine? Yes, that's what she does right now. But it's a Windows machine and therefore needs frequent rebooting :) Also it's a damn noisy one :( > >> So I was wondering whether it would be somehow possible to use >> my always on Debi

Snort: TCP CHECKSUM CHANGED ON RETRANSMISSION

Hi, My Snort logs often contain the message indicated in the subject. I have a NAT setup to connect my home network to the DSL line. Does this message mean that there is a problem somewhere or is it a sideeffect of the NAT setup? Many thanks for your help in advance! regards, Balazs -- To UN

Re: HD size limit ?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:09:26AM -0700, nate wrote: >Kevin Coyner said: >> >> Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can >> accomodate? >> >> I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I >> just want to make sure I'm not buying something that

Running giFT from boot scripts

Hi, What is the recommended debian way of running the giFT daemon automatically on each boot? I know that I should create a shell script in /etc/init.d/ and use update-rc.d to add the symlinks, but ... - Where do the config files go? It seems to insist on the home directory of the user starti

Wireless networking question

Hi, I've recently bought a notebook, and I'm planning to buy a wireless network card (PCMCIA) for it as well. My question is, that the notebook also contains a built in 100 MBit NIC, and I'm not sure whether I'd need to do anything special to make the two work together... Presuming that installi

Re: Wireless networking question

Hi, Thank you all for your suggestions. They basically confirm my fears that it isn't going to be very simple. I must admit I'm not a networking expert, allthough I thought, that I have a good understanding of the basics. Please let me give you some more details on my (probably typical) setup and

Home wired+wireless network configuration advice needed

Hi, I would appreciate if somebody could give me some help with the following network setup problem: I used to have a very simple home network setup. All computers plus the DSL router were connected to a single ethernet switch and were sharing the same subnet. Each PC had the DSL router as the de

Nautilus2 crashing a lot

Hi, I've installed sid and kernel 2.4.20 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, and was finally able to try Gnome2. So far I only played with it for about 3 minutes. I've opened a couple of folders, clicked on a picture, and tried to open some of the preferences windows. During that time Nautilus crashe

Re: Ralhp's KDE 3.1 packages

Hi, deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/woody/i386 ./ Balazs On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:47:50PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: >Hi there: > >I can't seem to find Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages for woody. does anyone >have a URL in hand? or the line which should be added to sources.list? > >Cheers

Looking for good usenet binaries downloader

Hi, In your oppinion what's the best program for downloading a lot of binaries from usenet servers? At the moment I'm using pan, which is a very nice one, but ideally I would like to have something that can combine posts from several servers automatically for multipart messages etc. Some sort o

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

Hi, I've missed a couple of messages in this discussion, so sorry if this was already mentioned before... I'm not sure whether the administrative overhead makes this worth it, but did it occure to someone, that somebody could sell the mp3 plugin for XMMS or other players for a nominal fee of say

Re: XFree and Matrox G550 -- HELP!

Hi, I have also the same card and it works with the downloaded drivers. Try checking the refresh rate section of your XFree config. One problem I fequently had is that the debconfig script asks you for the frequency range your monitor supports, and if I put in the _maximum_ frequency it supports

Re: CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?

Hi, CDRDAO is for recording bin/cue files. Cdrecord id for burning iso files. Use mkisofs + cdrecord to burn files from a directory, and cdrdao mainly for downloded stuff... Here's my short rundown: mkisofs -r -U -J -f -o cd_image private_collection/ cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_

TRENDnet wireless networking stuff

Hi, I'm plannig to buy a wireless access point and a wireless PCMCIA network card. Both should work under Debian. The nearest local store sells these: http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-301PC.htm http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-310APB.htm Does anyone have experience with these? If th

Re-broadcasting/caching streaming video

Hi, I wonder whether there is a solution for this problem: My wife would like to whatch some sreaming video channel from the net on her Windows box but unfortunately the server is quite busy and it is difficult to connect to it. The only solution seems to be not to let the connection drop once i

Managing shares and authentication for a small network

Hi all, I'd like to ask your opinion on the best approach for setting up file sharing and user authentication for a small home network with a diverse list of clients. I have currently a Debian server providing various services including samba, nfs, ftp etc. In addition I have a few desktops and n

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

I had this problem once with 2.2.19pre17, so it's probably not the kernels fault. I would bet on the X screensaver as I think I've read somewhere that has some stability problems. I might of course be wrong ... Unfortunatly I newer found the reason :( regards, Balazs On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:49

Which IMAP server to use?

Hi, I'm planning to set up an IMAP server on my Woody machine so that if needed I could access my mail folders from remote machines. Also my has a Windows box and is using Outlook Express 6 to read her mail. I'd like to 'filter' her mail through the Linux machine, so that I can use Procmail on her

Which FTP client?

Hi! I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client CuteFTP with a Linux one. Which is the best client out there? I'd like to be able to: -easyly create a queue of files and directories (recursive) to be downloaded -leave it unattended For the second point it should be able to reconnect if

How to keep modules configs current

Hi, Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a different set of modules it can happen that there are some error messages at boot time issued mostly by modprobe saying something about devices/modules or aliases not found. Or sometimes that it cannot load a module because it might be compil

Re: language and charset settings

Hi, Somebody suggested to me to use: LANG=C LC_CTYPE=hu_HU and it seems to work. I guess the ctype sets the display charset and the land the application language. Try cetting ctype to de_DE... Balazs On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:23:55PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: >Hello, > >does anyone know how

Galeon and libgdk-pixbuf2

Hi, I did an update on my Woody machine yesterday, which caused Galeon to be removed due to dependency problems. I've installed mozilla 0.98 from Sid along with a couple of libs that where needed. This went fairly well with the exception of libgdk-pixbuf2 which if I try to upgrade suddenly conflic

Looking for lftp tutorial

Hi, I'm looking for some good material to help me understand how to use lftp to it's full power. I've tried searching trough Google but haven't found anything :( I'm using Linux only since a couple of months, and currently I'm still using CuteFTP on Window$ because it seems to be the easiest way

ALSA, Via686a and Gnome

Hi, I have a motherboard with integrated Via686a sound chip. I'm trying to set up ALSA for it correctly, as it was suggested by many people that ALSA drivers are preferable. Unfortunatly, even though I've read all the documents and FAQs found on their site, I'm still not sure weather everything i

How to remove Home and Trash icons from Nautilus

Hi, Is there a way to tell Nautilus, not to put the home and trash icons on the desktop? It keeps revreating them... And what's worse even if chose to view home dir on the desktop (the contents) it will put those links also directly under the home dir next time I start X... Many thanks for your h

Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

Hi, What is the best solution on linux to play most movie formats? (doesn't need to be a single app) I've been slowly trying to be able to perform most task on my Woody box that I used to do on Window$. But I'm still struggling a bit with playing various multimedia files. I would like to be able

Using multiple versions of gcc

Hi, I have never done any developement on gcc before, however I have the necessary packages installed, so that I can compile packages distributed as source only. I have both gcc 2.95.x and 3.x installed on my Woody box and they seem to coexist just fine. Now some packages seem to have preference

Looking for Gnome Panel icons

Hi, I was trying to find some icon collections for the Gnome Panel on the net, but without luck. Many applications do not have icons/pixmaps installed for them so they don't look very nice on panels. I was hoping to find tons of custom icons on the net from which to choose, but using Google I was

Disabling discard, daytime, time

Hi, Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from inetd critical to the system? I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out. Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs

fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Hi, When I try to ssh from one of my Woody boxes into the other (using OpenSSH) I am able to connect but I get the following message: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable The same message then appears each time I try to run something that tries to fork a new shell e.g. less Any ideas wh

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

t I still have plenty of swap left... Balazs On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:31:29PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:12:17 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > >> >>Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this? >> > >You're out of memory. Add som

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Hi, Yes, indeed there have been a huge number of defunct sh processes... It works now. Many thanks again! best regards, Balazs On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:52:24AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: >On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:16:39PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This

user xsession or how to start ssh-add

Hi, How do I start ssh-add when X starts to add my key to the agent? (Agent is already running?) I've tried to figure out what exactly happens when I do a startx, and followed several of the config files in /etc/X11/. I think I generally understood the concept of the xsession.d dir, which is pret

Re: ALSA install steps???

Hi, Is there a way to directly compile them into the kernel? e.g if I don't want loadable module support... Many thanks in advance! best regards, Balazs > >I've always used the make-kpkg method and made a modules_image after I >compiled my kernel. >This method makes a neat little *.deb for you

Re: Gnome Error Message

Hi, I've had the same problem. I don't know whether this is the proper solution, but my messages went away after I added the following to my .bashrc: export LC_ALL=C Balazs PS: BTW does anybody know where one can set the global environment variable defaults? On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:57:08AM

Re: Continuing ALSA suckage

So? Are there any good documentation available somewhere? I've been trying to figure this whole issue out myself for a while but then gave up and moved to more important stuff for a while, as I'm generally fairly new to Linux and have a lot of other things to learn as well. Generally speaking I'm

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

>And then there's my CD burner and my printer to set up, both of which >"just worked" under Windows. My CD Burner scr*wed up on avg. 6-7 CDs out of 10 on Win2K. Burning would just freeze solid the whole stupid machine at some point, no matter what software or drivers or burning speed I've tried.

Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

Hi, There are two features I've been missing / would like to have in ICQ, but I havn't found any implementation with either... So I thought I bring this up, maybe somebody knows one, or gets an idea for implementing one :) 1. The Windows client allow for a pseudo chat like view of the messages ex

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

Hi, Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol? best regards, Balazs On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor wrote: > >> There are two features I've been missing / would like to have >> in ICQ,

Re: Missing ICQ features / anyone seen those?

... Balazs On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:09:05PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: >Hi, > >Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol? > >best regards, >Balazs > >On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: >>On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor w

X resources the Debian way

Hi, How does one set some individual application properties the Debian way? If I start a console application from the Debian menues it will by default start in a maximized terminal window. Allthough what environment that terminal has I'm not quite sure of, as mc startc in black and white by defau

Re: X resources the Debian way

: >on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How does one set some individual application properties the Debian >> way? > >Systemwide: /etc/X11/Xresources/ > >User: ~/.Xdefaults or the directory that was supposed to replace it

How to change default domain?

Hi, During the first time when installing Debian and networking it asked for the default domain name that is to be appended to non qualified host names... How can this be changed later? Someone once suggested: echo 'domainname' > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname Is this really the 'official' way???

Building Video CDs

Hi, I'm trying to create a Video CD from an mpg file. I've found vcdimager and had a look at the documentation but I didn't really understand it very well... Could someone please tell me what's the simplest way to create a VCD / SVCD from an mpg file? Many thanks in advance! best regards, Balazs

Re: Building Video CDs

anks again! regards, Balazs On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:19:11PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to create a Video CD from an mpg file. >I've found vcdimager and had a look at the documentation but >I didn't really understand it very well... > >Could

Hard disk access causes high CPU load

Hi, How can I find out whether the hard disks in my Woody box are using the best possible DMA mode (or any DMA at all)? Allthough I have a relativly slow machine (VIA C3 800 + 256MB), I have an ATA100 controller (VIA PL133) and two Seagate Barracuda IVs. So they should be relatively fast and use

Re: Hard disk access causes high CPU load

Hi, Thanks everybody for the help! hdparm tells me that I don't have either DMA nor 32bit transfers enabled... Before switching it on though, might there be a reason for this? e.g. Is the controller on my Shuttle FV24 (VIA PL133) not supported properly? It says something about not 100% native mod

Is kernel OSS support necessary?

Hi, I'm a bit confused about the kernel sound configuration. I have an on board VIA686a chip providing sound. There are dedicated modules for that in the 2.4.x kernels. If I select those will I still need the OSS module? Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Hard disk access causes high CPU load

Hi, I've found the reason. VIA chipset support was not compiled into my kernel (oops). I've recompiled and now DMA and 32bit transfers are enabled by default. Balazs On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:12:44AM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: >Hi, > >Thanks everybody for the help! >

ESD and Gnome Sound woes

Hi, I have a strange problem with esd. If I select to start esd and to enable Gnome sounds in the controll panel, then whenever I start X I get some strange pulsing high frequency sound from my speakers, that stops after X has finished loading. And allthough strange that's not a big problem. The p

Mozilla slow response time

Hi, Since a while Mozilla has become very sluggish in openeing pages. When I click on something it ususally takes several seconds to start loading the page at all. It usually says 'Resoving whatever.com' or 'Connecting' It can sometimes do this for 5 to 10 seconds. Then suddenly it starts loading

Same bookmark file for Galeon and Mozilla?

Hi, Is it possible to use the same bookmark file for both Galeon and Mozilla? I often find it difficult to decide which one I should use. Galeon seems to be the better choice, but it also tends to crash more often :( The problem is that if I use one of them for a while I always have to update my

C64 emulator

Hi, What is the best C64 emulator for Linux? After doing a search on Google, I've noticed that there are quite a few ones oout there. I would very much welcome any recommendations you might have! Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

Hi, I'm currently tracking testing with the /etc/apt/preferences set to: testing - 800 unstable - 700 stable - 600 Recently after doing an update in dselect/apt-get it automatically selected GCC 3.1 and several related stuff. Unfortunatelly they seen to depend on some libs and the binutils in SID

Matrox G550DH and XFree86

Hi, I have a Matrox G550 DualHead video card and I'd like to run XFree86 on it. I seem to remember having read somewhere that XFree 4.1 dos not have proper support for it but XFree 4.2 does... Is this true? If yes, what's the best way to go? Look for unofficial XFree 4.2 debs or to compile it fro

Looking for tutorial on how to edit GTK themes

Hi, Are there any good sites or tuturials from which you can learn how to create or edit GTK (and maybe other) themes? I have a big problem with most of the darker themes: They look fairly good, but in many application I have a black text on dark grey background effect. (e.g ickle or gnomeicu).

CD writing for non root users

Hi, What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs without requiring to be root? Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mirroring Debian

Hi, If I would want to create a local mirror of the complete Debian distributon (stable,testing and unstable) and keep it up to date, what's the best way to do this? Also roughly how much space would I require for it? Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

Hi, I have a small home network of 3 machines and I'm looking for recommendations / best practices on how to set up certain services between them. I'm more interested in the what then the who at the moment. I'm especially interested in: - How to set up my mail so that I can use it from both Linux