Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dr. MacQuigg wrote: I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the newsgroup. Are we supposed to use email only, or can we work

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: dman writes: The only thing I have to add, apart from noting above that the exploit was divulged... The _bug_ was divulged. The exploit is so difficult that the kernel hackers didn't think the bug was exploitable. There would seem to be a misnomer, "script-kiddies" can come u

Re: How do I temporally disable gdm? (or is it gpm)

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: I've received a number of suggesions for my X problem. Before I try any of them I'd like to disable my graphical login screen. It is either gpm or gdm. I can't remember which one is the login screen and which is the console mouse driver. Anyway, I'm hoping that there is a lin

Re: OT: Successful thesis defense

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Just wanted to let everyone know that on Monday morning I successfully defended my undergraduate honors thesis, entitled "Improving Computational Efficiency in Context-Based Reasoning Simulations." I submitted the final drafts te be bound yesterday and will graduate with hono

Re: these fonts are making me go crazy

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bill Moseley wrote: Why the #$%* can't the font installation and setup be a bit easier? I would not have put it so nicely! ;) I finally got my fonts looking better on one of my machines that's been driving me NUTS for about a year (debian-user is littered with my pleas for help with fonts). This

Re: missing URL

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom Allison wrote: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ I don't know if this is still a known problem, it probably is, but this URL is missing. I only bring this up because the rest of the server seems to have some presence on the Internet. I'm really curious to see what developmen

Re: loading ide-scsi at bootup

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: I am using debian testing/unstable with kde. I have a CDRW/DVD combo on hdd. I have added the line "append hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. The ide-scsi module is not beingloaded at boot up. How do I go about setting it so that it is loaded at startup. I am a recent mig

Re: vertical scrolling mouse?

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
stan wrote: Strolling through a CimpUSA store the other day, I noticed a new mouse from Microsoft, that you could push the little scrollwhell left & right on. This is to allow vertical csrolling something like the scrollwheel. I was wondering if it was posible to make this work under X? I have an

[OT] got a new isp

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
After 28 months with Mexican Prodigy switched to Mexican AT&T. It was the worst service ever: almost every day at least one hangup, frequent DSN lookup hangs, frequent nothing-at-alls. But... I should not complain because I paid for only 12 months... which is a symbol of the organization. So I

Re: Color in text console

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Cruncher wrote: I've got aalib installed and games like prboom or quakeforge (nq-sdl) use it by default, which is what I want, and I can alter the text size to get a reasonable resolution. Does anybody know how to get color? The text console will do color (eg. ls -l --color=auto produces a c

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:08:40AM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:00:28AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Thomas: Fragen Sie bitte auf englisch an diese Liste, oder frage an den debian-user-de Liste Karsten, you realise what you repl

Re: Apache memory leak

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Schwarz wrote: Hello, I'm using Apache from Debian Woody on my server. Now I noticed that Apache is eating up more and more memory, so that I have to restart it every few days. The following graph of the swap usage illustrates the problem: https://andreas-s.net/mrtg/localhost.swap-week.png

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Satyajit Das wrote: Dear list, Just today I entire this world and also in Linux world. By "this world" I would assume the newsgroup world and *this* world in general :)) welcome to Linux world! I'm single user. I collect Debian 3.0 beta , total 8 CD's . After struggle 4 days("ds

mplayer peculiarities

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I use mplayer only to listen to classical music from KUSC. It is a welcome alternative to RealPlayer. First installed mplayer-386 from deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main that got me sig 11 errors. I posted that a while back. Then I installed mplayer-686 from same place. Got rid of sig 11's

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Magnus von Koeller wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 16:29, John L. Fjellstad wrote: When I tried, I got several unresolved symbols when installing the deb package during the /sbin/depmod -a stage. I'm guessing because testing uses libc6 2.3.2, while stable uses libc6 2.2.5. Hey, finally some

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I do about 50% comprehension of written German when I try reading it. That looked _vaguely_ technical when I read it in the wee hours /me hides in a corner h

Re: Problem Compiling kernel-source-2.4.18

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: My system is testing fully up-to-date. I just ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade which installed kernel-source-2.4.18.. My current kernel was built from kernel-source-2.4.22 but I have been experiencing irratic behavior - specifically many p80211/knetdev_hard-s

Re: Keyboard or resolution problem?

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John wrote: One problem for us newbies is not knowing what to call our problems, which makes it hard to know how to search for a solution on our own. So I apologize in advance for wasting your time with this one. Most things work. But when I finally try to enter, e.g. anything at all on emacs, or

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "csj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 22:40 Subject: Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises On 3. December 2003 at 5:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Moni

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:38:45AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Depends which *people* Debian targets. Myself I think the Debian install method is just about where I want it, I must be one of the *people*. First as a newbie you do RH and KDE. Then you see that is way too

Re: FWD: Can't Get Past "Install the Base System"

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joey Hess wrote: debian-user is not the right lists for questions about the new debian installer. Forwarding to debian-boot. It seems to me that you are trying to use the debian-installer with the Debian 3.0 (woody) CDs. The debian-installer is targeted at the next release of debian (sarge), and pr

Re: removing menu icons in fvwm

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Micha Feigin wrote: How do I lose the icons in the auto generated debian menu in fvwm ? Its nice to have a few icons, but they are too big, probably to memory intensive and make it harder in general to find what I want. You mean in /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook they all look like so: DestroyMenu "

Re: [OT] got a new isp

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: After 28 months with Mexican Prodigy switched to Mexican AT&T. The latest *scientific* results are in from the comparison between AT&T and Prodigy ISP's in Mexico: 1. Prodigy will cut off any session lasting more than 8:00 hours at exactly 8 hours. I t

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mariano Kamp wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 23:22, Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24PM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote: Hi, I bought one of the "cheap" PCs from a german discounter. I am wondering if anybody has been able to install Debian on it? Any pointers would be nice. ww

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:45:25PM +0100, Mariano Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 23:22, Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24PM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote: Hi, I bought one of the "cheap" PCs from a german discounter. I am wonde

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:43:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [great stuff which is absolutely correct] However, I "Tom Ballard" have figured it all out. The problem with all of computer science is the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. All of these problems are finite a

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mariano Kamp wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 06:30, Karsten M. Self wrote: More significantly: get a Knoppix disk. Use it to identify the HW on the system. The 'lshw' command is useful, as is my own system-info script: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript Meanwhile I got

Re: compiled and installed new kernel, but dkpg does not find it

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Hi, I downloaded the source for 2.4.22 and compiled it and installed using dpkg: 461 cd kernel-source-2.4.22 462 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 ./.config 463 make menuconfig 464 make menuconfig 465 make-kpkg clean 466 make-kpkg --append_to_version -nvidia kernel_image

Re: what kernel to use?

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tripolar wrote: package listing on debian is down. I am using Linux version 2.4.22-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)) #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 cpu- AMD 2700+ Athlon ABIT NF7 Nvidia chipset Nvidia Nforce2 I want to recompile or try new kernel ( if it w

Re: Xprint observations

2003-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Dear Jan, I have an interesting footnote to add to your observations. If you install mozilla-browser_1.5-3 and include mozilla-xft_1.5-3 from unstable, and in Mozilla, under Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts, select the fonts serif, sans-serif and monospace, wit

Re: [OT] got a new isp

2003-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: After 28 months with Mexican Prodigy switched to Mexican AT&T. The latest *scientific* results are in from the comparison between AT&T and Prodigy ISP's in Mexico: I know you are waiting with baited breath for more *scientific* r

Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change

2003-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alexander Fitterling wrote: Everyone. Debian has some setting like this for my modem device crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 7. Jan 2002 /dev/ttyS0 I added all necessary users to group "dialout" at least to have them access our modem. But when some users start wvdial and the line b

Re: [SOLVED] Re: compiled new kernel 2.4.22, but computer does not power off fully

2003-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: H. S. wrote: Hi, I compiled a new kernel (2.4.22) but upon shutdown my computer does not power off completely. It goes through all the shutting down routine, even shuts down hard disks and then the last message displayed is "Power Off", but the actual power does not go off. In my

woody cd's 6+7

2003-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi List! I found descriptions of Woody CD's 1-5 in the acompanying docs. But not what is in 6+7. (No doubt not looking right ;-) ) What is in them? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mc compilation

2003-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florentin Ionescu wrote: I am trying to compile mc with ext2undel - apparently default configuration does not include ext2 undelete feature. Now, file "/usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h" does exist, and I also installed e2fslibs, e2fslibs-dev in order to use option "--with-ext2undel=/usr/lib/libext2fs.

Re: Q:No modconf in 2.6?

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mariano Kamp wrote: Hi, I just installed 2.6 and to my surprise it came up nicely on first try. When trying to install modules though, modconf didn't show any? Is there another tool to be used. I've also seen this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=192232 Would that m

Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I am gitting rid of the XP partition. 2 years ago I KazAa'd (when it was still on Linux) the XP Professional CD. I used it to run Adobe's PDF editor (also KazAa'd) to edit the IRS pdf docs. (and to test my Qt programs under Windows) But you can do equally as well with: pstoedit -f fig:-startdep

Re: Newbie problem finding module

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vineet Kumar wrote: * Paul Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 10:28]: I have just installed Woody on my system. My first problem is that I can't start the X server. Searching various archives I have determined that the problem is most likely associated with the i815 graphics chips on the MB

Re: SOLVED

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Schwarz wrote: Andreas Schwarz wrote: Hello, I'm using Apache from Debian Woody on my server. Now I noticed that Apache is eating up more and more memory, so that I have to restart it every few days. I found the reason: libapache-mod-ruby 1.0.7-1 is leaking memory when Apache receives U

Re: SOLVED

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Schwarz wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andreas Schwarz wrote: Andreas Schwarz wrote: Hello, I'm using Apache from Debian Woody on my server. Now I noticed that Apache is eating up more and more memory, so that I have to restart it every few days. I found the reason: libapach

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Schulman wrote: Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with reinstalling Windows, yet agai

woody backport of mozilla-xft?

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I see signs of this while googling, e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20030517173012%2446a1%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=6 but in backports.org I don't find it. Is there a woody backport of mozilla-xft? Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: how to interpret /proc/asound

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
michelle wrote: I figured it out. That's just showing me oss emulation. So what did you do? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody backport of mozilla-xft?

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I see signs of this while googling, e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20030517173012%2446a1%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=6 but in backports.org I don't find it. Is there a woody backport of mozilla-xft? Thanks! Hugo. So

In my defense! (was: Getting rid of MS XP)

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [SNIP] Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Hugo. Congrats. And yes, 7 flavours of Debian on one machine is overkill :-) -Roberto This brings up a favorite topic, that I frankly

Re: Installing Debian question.

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Just join this list I am going to install Debian with Disk-1 and Disk-7 on a 6G hard drive for test purpose. They were burnt from following Official CD images of the "stable" releases from Debian mirror sites; debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso debian-30r1-i386-binary

Re: make-kpkg

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Montagne wrote: I use Grub as a bootloader. After making a kernel .deb using make-kpkg, I'm running dpkg -i Near the end you are asked to if you want to make a boot block. What is this? Is it just an entry in Grub or LILO? What I'm most concerned about is being able to boot to my o

Re: Mixing woody and sarge

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, What will happen when I add testing lines also in sources.list of a stable (woody) box and apt-get a package available in testing? For example ulogd. After that will the box be stable (woody), with just that package (and dependencies) from testing? What happens when a se

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: devfs_reg

Re: Install Debian

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph MICHEL wrote: Hello, I have just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my PC (Intel Pentium 233 Mhz MMX, Ram 64 Mo, Disk space 8 Go, Graphic card : Matrox Millenium 4 Mo). There was no problem during installation. However, everything is extremely slow : the least application (even the desk

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 16:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..for those in need of spoonfeeding the wee hints: 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' on the box you wanna forward _thru_, opens the forwarding, 'echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' to close the forwarding.

Re: OT: Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 17:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Vennlig Tiddeli-bom, Kjetil Mmmm... Vennlig Tiddeli-bom refers to them spoons? ;-) Straws perhaps? Hehe, no it refers to my long-standing admiration for Winnie-the-Pooh... There is a hum, which in English goes

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Debian User wrote: if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it in assembly native to that processor. you can even write them inline within your C code. asm(" mnemonic_instruction operand, operand"); Debian User wrote: > if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it

xsane on woody

2003-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color negative. Googling got me no closer. I

Re: xsane on woody [SOLVED]

2003-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color neg

Note for woody epson 1250 users, was: xsane on woody

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color neg

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:03:03PM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. Interesting. I h

Re: web page -> ps problems

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ross Boylan wrote: I saved a web page as html with Mozilla 1.5, and then printed it to a postscript file. Can you print anything to file with Mozilla 1.5 and look at it with gv? Hugo. I use xprt-xprintorg 0.0.8.cvs20030508-6. Somewhere along the way something went wrong; when I faxed it (h

Using libstdc++.so.5 on Woody

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I compiled Mozilla 1.6b on Woody, Xft enabled. It runs good but has a problem of pasting, not germane to the subject problem. To see if the Mozilla's problem also exists on Mozilla 1.5 I compiled it too. It refuses to run because it cannot find libstdc++.so.5 The problem was mentione

Re: mc question

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florentin Ionescu wrote: Is it possible to change in mc M-tab with control-tab for completion? Thank you, I don't think so. But you would be better off asking this to the mailinglist for mc, Pavel Roskin surely knows the answer, but I asked something similar a while back: the key sequences are

Re: Knoppix saving data

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gruessle wrote: I am trying to use the XFree86 config data from knoppix for Debian. The only place I could find where I can save data while in knoppix was the desktop. After exiting knoppix and going back to Debian I can't find the desktop. I figure knoppix deleted that folder. Do you have any sol

Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter wrote: Howdie, I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a switch todo this in a style like passwd user password Thankz, Peter I want to make a s

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
benoit wrote: Message de Gruessle, le mardi 16 décembre : Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program where you can have two folders side by side and work with them, like co

Re: web page -> ps problems

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:51:07PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: I saved a web page as html with Mozilla 1.5, and then printed it to a postscript file. Can you print anything to file with Mozilla 1.5 and look at it with gv? Hugo. Good question. I tried

Burning bad CD-RW hangs sys.

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! My Maxwell CD-RW's do not last very long. Got an error running apt-get with one. Still had the .iso file so during the cdrecord run on woody, the light on the CD goes out and you hear him making wheeling noises inside the CD, but the whole system freezes solid. I unplugged the power t

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0600: I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this: su export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11 xsane exit from script Note: su insists on running from a terminal window. How do

Re: Can't find QT

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sébastien (Newsletters) wrote: Hi, I need to install QT-based software but QT isn't on my system and I can't find it in my packages database. I'm using CDs 1, 5, 6 and 7 of the Debian distro. Is it on another CD (2 or 3) ??? I'm trying to download it from trolltech's website which is unavailable.

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Haines Brown wrote: Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. xTree Gold is a dos based program where you can have two folders side by side and work with them, like copy move etc. I suppose most replies t

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: The nForce is the mobo chipset (not the graphics chip). If I had it to do over, I would get an AMD (which I already have) a mobo with VIA chipset and no onboard anything (except maybe sound, since that is not so im

Re: Using libstdc++.so.5 on Woody

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! I compiled Mozilla 1.6b on Woody, Xft enabled. It runs good but has a problem of pasting, not germane to the subject problem. To see if the Mozilla's problem also exists on Mozilla 1.5 I compiled it too. It refuses to run because it cannot find libstdc++

Re: web browser

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: Hello I have a new user on Kde after my previous account crashed. I can no longer use Mozilla, no matter. Can anyone suggest a better (best) browser that will open all graphics and doesn't keep giving a 'jigsaw'? Gavin Mozilla has so many versions that you could be run

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lou Losee wrote: * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]: Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet. So I will email it to my other pc. Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename it will give you a text version of the man

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nunya wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:48:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: We'll leave it as an exercise for the students to discover why xsane only works well under su. Neither my Epson 1650U nor my HP PSC 750 requires root under xsane. IJW. My Epson 1250 doesn't either on Sar

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ScruLoose wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Ricky Taylor wrote: I second this. Getting tired of seeing his inter-company mail. Just my .02. 1) Please don't top-post. It screws up the readability of threads. 2) I think you mean "intra-company mail". 3) Unless my .forward logging

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James Hosken wrote: Alf Werder wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing) However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be muc

Re: How to get a newer Mozilla (1.5) in Sarge

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Roach wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:23, Rich B wrote: Howdy, I'm running Sarge (Testing) and want to update Mozilla to 1.5. I've looked at apt-get.org and only see backports to Woody, not Sarge. Where can I find Mozilla .deb's for Sarge? Have you tried the ones from unstable? or see my re

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. Screen is blank till X starts up. I have same experience on Sid machines, one uses nv driver and the other ati. If somebody has that high resolution screen boot up working

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > success so far. Cannot get the logo at all. I have it on my machine with a custom logo on bootup. I thought I would like to see something other t

Re: which kernel patches should I apply while compiling Debian kernels?

2004-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: This may sound like a dumb question but should one apply debian kernel patches to a Debian source kernel before compiling one? e.g. I am right now working on kernel source of 2.6.9. Are the patches included in this source or should I select and install the ones listed by: $> COLUMNS

Re: which kernel patches should I apply while compiling Debian kernels?

2004-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: This may sound like a dumb question but should one apply debian kernel patches to a Debian source kernel before compiling one? e.g. I am right now working on kernel source of 2.6.9. Are the patches included in this source or should I select and install the ones listed by: $> COLUMNS

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

2004-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frederik Dannemare wrote: On Saturday 20 November 2004 22:03, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi ! I just want to know if anyone here has installed yet these drivers with Sarge and how did you do. Newbie with NVIDIA-Linux drivers ! Though it doesn't cover the fancy module-assistant, it's still a pretty easy t

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:59:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sridhar M.A. wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > > > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > > > success so

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jules Dubois wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:41:32 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Apparently -- I don't buy closed hardware -- udev is not able to create the device nodes needed by X quickly enough to satisfy the NVidia server. So, as

Changing framebuffer settings on the fly

2004-11-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I asked the author of vsefb-tng what that means. He is very good in replying to email you send him: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:16:52AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, >> Thanks a lot for the latest vesafb-tng. I use the 2.6.9 version. >> I have a question on what you

mplayer vs fbxine

2004-11-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I posted earlier http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fbxine+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&selm=2VxCv-5jm-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2 an attempt to run fbxine: OSS sound would quit after a few minutes. Trying mplayer like this: mplayer -vo fbdev -vm -fbmode 1024×768-60 The_P

Re: mplayer vs fbxine

2004-11-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:13:29 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Debian! I posted earlier http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fbxine+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&selm=2VxCv-5jm-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2 an attemp

d-i rc2: boot linux26 vs. default

2004-11-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I have problems with the Sarge d-i freezing on my system using the "linux26" boot option. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277177 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278254 Yesterday tried rc2: same thing. Freezes at "installing partitioner". BUT: using the

Re: monitoring cpu temperature, fan etc...

2004-11-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Beresford wrote: Hello, I'm using a debian woody mixed system (have stable, testing and unstable packages installed). My kernel version is 2.4.18-k7 (stable). The machine is an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with ASUS A7V8X motherboard. First of all, I'd like to know if it is actually possible to m

Re: Mozilla crashed when browsering webpage containing after installing libflash-mozplugin

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
W. Paul Mills wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lian Liming wrote: | | I can't install libflash-mozplugin, once installed it, my mozilla crash | when meeting flash. | I have installed "libflash-swfplayer" but i seems not work in mozilla. | | I have do "aptitude update", so i thin

Re: How do you make mkinitrd work!?

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Spang wrote: Shawn McCuan wrote: This is what i get - but - ive already used make for the modules - - metion:/home/metiosarius/src/linux-2.6.9# mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.6.9.img 2.6.9 /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /lib/modules/2.6.9: Not a directory /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: MODULES needs to be set to

Re: how to check temperature on my desktop

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 23:31 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2004 07:36 pm, H. S. wrote: [snip] Use sensord/sensors in user space and, I2C/LMsensors, in your kernel. ACPI isn't relevant, afaik. Alternatively, mbmon. Pure userland. Did not know about that one

Re: partition magic?

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/11/2004 10:57:25 AM: > Hi every body, > I have a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, > I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of > mandrake on debian), either on windows or on

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lian Liming wrote: Hi all, I just have problem of compiling kernel. The standard debian way of compiling kernel is using the make-kpkg. But i never successfully compile any kernel(2.6.*) on my box(AMD althon1400, 256DDR, 40IDE hard disk). What strange is that there is different error on d

Re: [OT] k3b won't fully ackowledge a friends CDR/CDRW

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:31:11 -0800, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an elderly woman, whom I installed debian sarge for. She now has a cdrwriter installed on her computer, but it fails to full recognize it. it shows the writer as a reader under all user ac

Re: d-i rc2: boot linux26 vs. default

2004-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joey Hess wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I have problems with the Sarge d-i freezing on my system using the "linux26" boot option. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277177 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278254 Yesterday tried rc2: same thing.

Re: How do you make mkinitrd work!?

2004-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Spang wrote: Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Good point. So what's the reason that debian kernel images come with an initrd? An example I can think of is vesafb: in order for that to be used it must be either builtin or in initrd. Right? H. The kernels Debian pro

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lian Liming wrote: Perhaps you need to compile an initrd and you forgot to give the --initrd option to make-kpkg... This is something confusing me so long. Is it neccessary to make the initrd file? I just remember that i have read quite a lot articles about compiling kernel on Linux, a lot of

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roel Schroeven wrote: Alfredo Cole wrote: El Vie 26 Nov 2004 12:15, Roel Schroeven escribió: (...) -- "Codito ergo sum" Roel Schroeven If you are trying to quote Descartes, then it is "Cogito ergo sum". Otherwise, forget it. Yes and no: it's supposed to mean "I code therefore I am", instead of

Re: debian cd boot parameters

2004-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:44:37 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You boot with the rescue CD, mount your partion RW, chroot your partition, cd to the chrooted partition and then you can try to fix the MBR. that's exactly the question, how to do

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael D. Crawford wrote: Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even do his job at all? Is there a procedure for taking a package away from a maintainer, and having someone else take care of maintaining it? I don't know anything about the packages in question or t

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