Re: cdrom install

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
rogerwphx wrote: I downloaded the full cd images all 14? Lucky you. And how long did that take? H. and the first cd booted and installed just fine. I don't know how to upgrade the installation using the images for the other disks from bash. Thanks for any help, Roger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make system bootable." which

Re: Grub menu.lst

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I made a dual boot system out of a Win2K box I had. I installed sarge and everything worked great. I could boot to both Debian and Win2K. I did that install with the sarge installer and the 2.4.26 kernel. I later installed the 2.6.9 kernel from source. My problem is

Re: Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Mandelberg wrote: Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: 1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to successful completion The output of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ is emailed to root, so you just need to set up a mta to forward it to your real address (unless you already have a wo

using mail

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Mail has a zillion options. When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of course does not exist at that inet.addrs. How do I with an option not s

Re: 30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. But I looked like a tool having to do that. What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean? I talked about this a year ago. Seve

Re: using mail

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sam Watkins wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of cour

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ken keanon wrote: Hi, I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? Anyone has done a complete and succe

Re: simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi group, I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have to search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. Isn't there an easier way to do this with some sort of

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Juergen Neumann wrote: Hi Dan, I've just run apt-get update && upgrade and since then I have just the same problem that you experienced: All my mozilla-based browsers crash on some sides. I have no clew how this could happen. But then of course you used partimage or mondo to back up your partition

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mauro Darida wrote: hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Window

Re: 2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
machoamerica wrote: i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i boot i get this: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) /dev/hda4 is the root partition and has /boot on it as well. it's an ext3 partition. i have no U

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 29 2004, Mike wrote: I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use in a linux world. Anyway, I just hope that we soon have a Desktop-agnostic version of iTunes for Linux (I use fluxbox on an old machine with low RAM). I want to be DFSG as much

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
George Iordanou wrote: I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following files: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers.img root.img How can i create a bootable rescue disk? I want to get into my system using the fl

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, rogerwphx wrote: I installed debian and it boots up in bash ok, but the cdrom images are .iso images. How do you upgrade the installation from bash with iso's. What's wrong with using apt-get over the network? Good point. Nothing. However

Re: Where is the modversions.h in 2.6.9 kernel?

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Collet Brunel wrote: I recently downloaded the 2.6.9 kernel-source package from debian repository and tried to compile it on my wood y system. I followed the general instructions.. go to the src, make menuconfig and the make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image.. Also did make-kpkg kernel_headers to generate

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

Re: repeated messages in /var/log/syslog from sensord

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: I installed sensord a couple of days ago and since then I am getting these messages repeatedly and I am not sure what to make of them. Should I be worried? If not, then how can I stop these messages(apart from uninstalling sensord)? If yes, what could be wrong? Here is one cycle wh

Re: rescue disk

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tony Godshall wrote: According to Hugo Vanwoerkom, George Iordanou wrote: I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following files: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers.img root.img How can i create a boo

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I have decided the

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Par wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ? OR Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which Motherboard's would work with Debian. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWT

[OT] booting through RTC wake-up

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I think this is OT. Anyway I don't know how to explain the following: I want to boot my KT7A mobo with Award Bios with a RTC wakeup event at 1:45AM (to record music with mplayer from crontab) So I set that time in the menu. I use a voltage regulator to plug the system into (I live in Mex

Re: [OT] booting through RTC wake-up

2004-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alban Browaeys wrote: But if I put a timer between the power and the voltage regulator and pop the timer at 1AM, it does NOT work. I add the same problem years ago. I do not shut the power off with a timer behind the pc now , but nvram-wakeup (on sourceforge) led to think the BIOS Did not know ab

Re: display problem

2004-12-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dudley Cooke wrote: Since doing apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade this morning my display has been ugly with horizontal streaks in X and console (curses programmes where there are blocks of colour). I'd like to fix the problem or file a bug report, but don't really know how to identify the ca

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
he HDD's + use a crossover cable to compare it with running Ruby, because I have 2 17" monitors w. kbds, mice and videocards. I think that wiki would be a good idea. Just experiences. H. - Rathon On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:34:03 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brad Sims wrote: I have a 512mb Sandisk Cruzer, it works perfectly. However when unmounting it the light stays on, it goes off on Windows... Personally Windows nor any product of M$ is not a measure of anything, given what that organization is, does and wants to stand for. Just was wondering if

Re: Can't get hal/udev/hotplug/whatever to mount usb flash card reader

2004-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:13 +0100, René Seindal wrote: Ron Johnson wrote (05-12-2004 11:32): On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:14 +0100, René Seindal wrote: kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in last message repeated 7 times kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in hald[10310]: Time

Re: dist-upgrade broke srage

2004-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Xucaen wrote: I just did a dist-upgrade on my sarge installation and for some reason it tried to re-install my kernel image. Before any dist-upgrades do a backup. Then when all hell breaks loose you just restore. Dist-upgrades belong either to UNSTABLE or to TESTING neither of which have any gu

Re: strange question

2004-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:57 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi group, I have just a bit of an odd question. Does anyone know if this device called: "NEC PC-9801 Bus Mouse Driver for Linux" also can be seen as a simple serial mouse? Bus mouse??? Gads, those are *Ancient*, even f

[OT] Internet control

2004-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! This from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/business/businessspecial2/06net.html which says that all internet traffic goes through 5 backbones, supposedly to check for content. Question: with the amazing volume they have, how do they do it? Use current technology á

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian Pack wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:53 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05 -0500, Ben Bettin wrote: What would you all sugge

Re: Debian Installer Error

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Simon Buchanan wrote: Im downloading the latest version of the installer now... But here are the replies below: Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:33:47PM +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, Im using the latest debian installer (netinstall) to install and getting this error: Deboot

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: Hello everyone, I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI Radeon 9600, so I installed the driver radeon as suggested in the HOWTO. When I run dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low xserver-xfree

cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. It start a script that forks and runs execve mplayer to record KUSC for 3 hours. Then 3 hours later I start another cron job that kills the former. My problem (small one) was tha

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Katipo wrote: Ian R. Meinzen wrote: I am currently running sarge with both KDE and Gnome installed. I'd like to remove the games from my system (*WAY* too much temptation for someone who is already far enough behind), but I noticed that the kde and gnome-desktop-environment packages depend on t

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ben Russo wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah > /var/log/mplayer.log 2>&1 This command will create a new log eve

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a question I

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:51:19PM +0800, ms linux wrote: is there a free visual c++ equivalent in linux ? searching so far I only found IBM XLC, but of course, it's not free. thanks, --me-- Hi MS, well there are 3 things that make up vc++ from my perspective: a)c++ language b)gui

Re: the new installer for the previous sarge

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
belahcene wrote: Hi, I ve just downloded the sarge net-installer RC2, and tried to install the sarge I downloaded before ( release aug 2004 ( 13 CD) ). The installation gave release error. have to download again all sarge CD 5 (15 CDs) is there a possibility to install my old CD with the ne

Re: Cloning a workstation

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ben Bettin wrote: I've been looking into doing the same thing at my office. After researching a bit, Partimage sounded like a nifty program (http://partimage.org/). I havn't tried it yet, but everything I've read about it sounded promising. I believe, however, that the project is dead. There has

Re: cannot display with res 1024x768

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
jack kinnon wrote: Hi, No one got any solution to my problem? I think this mail-list is dying. The number of pages per month has been in decline for the past months. Fewer people are posting, and fewer still are getting any solution to the problem posed. Any opinions to the contrary ? Yes.

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Johnson wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. It start a script that forks and runs execve mplayer to record KUSC for 3 hours. Then 3 hours later I

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Apparently, _John Covici_, on 08/12/04 15:56,typed: Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked because the machine is an

Re: Learning GTK+ proramming under Debian

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Madden wrote: What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+ or Qt seem more acceptable under Linux. Maybe th

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on what people would expect in a retail kit for Debian, as I've been put in charge of pushing Debian in the shop I work at. Right now, since we're concerned only with i386, I'm thinking a Sarge CD set and a printed copy of the installation manual,

Re: cannot display with res 1024x768

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
jack kinnon wrote: Hi, You can read through all the mails concerning my problem in Debian's Dec User mail-list by "Author". Did. You were told what the problem is on Dec. 5 by Ron Johnson. HTH H Cheers Jack Do you Yaho

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:16, Jon Dowland wrote: I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) In a nutshell, X.org was created because the XFree86 people wouldn't accept

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:10:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:20:06PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Something I missed. echo 4 >/proc/acpi/sleep indeed does so. Then what? You power down? With the button? I reboot with resume=/dev/hda13 in the boot cmdline and linux complains about not being shutd

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Invest in LTSP.org It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower of your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients.

Re: Debian-based live-cd w/ LVM2 support?

2004-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:58:25PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote: I've been looking for a Debian-based live-cd with LVM2 support for a long time, Gnoppix, Knoppix, etc.. all do not support LVM2 volumes. Feeling left out in the dark here.. anyone know of one that does? I have

Re: Support for VIA/S3G Unichrome integrated graphics card

2004-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
A. Lanza wrote: I have a VIA/S3G Unichrome graphics card integrated on my motherboard. I have installed Woody but can't start X server. Logs say that no device is found. Is there any support for this integrated graphics card for Debian? Any help would be appreciated. TIA. I think it is the version

Re: sem_open / how to use NPTL?

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Viktor Horvath wrote: Hello everybody, forgive me for bothering you, but after hours and hours of searching, I'm stuck. For my university, I've to program some easy things with POSIX.4 semaphores. I know that I need kernel 2.6 and NPTL for that, and I have kernel 2.6.7, gcc 3.3.5 and libc6-i686 wel

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Toufeeq Hussain wrote: HOWTO available for installing the NVIDIA Driver through the default NVIDIA Installer at nvidia.org ? When I run the installer it says kernel source not found even after I provide the --kernel-source-path= I apt-get 'ed the kernel source too, still it fails to build the mo

Re: mozilla iconify problem

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
STEPHANE DURIEUX wrote: Hi, I have a problem with mozilla when I iconify it disappear s and the process is killed. My distro is sarge and mozilla is 1.7.3-5 version Does anybody have an idea ? Most likely not Mozilla. Does that appear on its bugzilla? If not, it's you window/session manager, whic

Re: sem_open / how to use NPTL?

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Viktor Horvath wrote: Hello Hugo, Compiled flawlessly. I should have been more precise: Compiling works. The interesting question is: Does it *run* with saying nothing (good, NPTL works) or does it say "Function not implemented", which was my problem? Sorry. Compiled flawlessly. Executes without

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Boy, BootCD is one superslick package. Used it with a debootstrap chroot. It just works, seriously. I might finally be able to give my friends and family a LiveCD that will entice them to switch. A Kernel that works just for them, Fluxbox, Firefox, MPlayer, Java, OpenO

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the cdrecord to burn CD's and K3b does not see my cdwriter as a write

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a

xpaint was orphaned

2004-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! When a package is orphaned it has no maintainer anymore. Anything a lowly user can do about that? I like xpaint to make icons. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP connection

2004-12-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Collet Brunel wrote: Hello, I connect to the internet through a 56K USR modem. Whenever I connect to my ISP using wvdial, it outputs lots of messages about the connection and one of these displays the connection speed that was established (something like CONNECT 50666 etc... ). However, whenever

nVidia 6629 driver

2004-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I tried out the latest nVidia driver - 6629 - and the result was disastrous. Now running 6111. Gdm starts up its autologon session (fvwm) and what should be a desktop is black without any characters anywhere. Their forum already noted similar problems. Anybody try it and have better

Re: Installing on an Abit AN7

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Beattie wrote: I am trying to install on an abit AN7 and I cant get the network card to work. I think I remember having it working before on this computer, but I think that was on a custom kernel that I dont have. And I dont have a way to get any kernel sources or anything without the ne

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a

Re: gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Roach wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't have a command line

Re: xpaint was orphaned

2004-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Hugo, hello list! On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:22:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: When a package is orphaned it has no maintainer anymore. Sort of, the QA team is the "maintainer", which quite often seems to be better than the previous (non-)maintainer. But

Re: Noninteractive "apt-get upgrade "question.

2004-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Ivan Teliatnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041220 07:31]: What is the best way to "apt-get update" a classroom full of debian sarge machines. Assuming you test it on one machine first, ... DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy dist-upgrade Nevertheless I was asked som

swsusp wipes out the swap file

2004-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I am trying to get swsusp working in the 2.6.8 kernel that comes with the installer rc2. I have asked this question before, but now I know more. So I recompiled the kernel with: # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y CONFIG_PM_DISK=y CONFIG_PM_DI

Re: No CD sound

2004-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ted Parks wrote: Andrea, I am using ALSA. I now have gotten XMMS to work, I think consistently, by configuring the CD plugin to read the CD through Digital Audio Extraction. But I still don't understand why, before, XMMS would work some of the time. And is there a way to configure GNOME-CD or KsCD

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bob Alexander wrote: Background considerations, question follows: When I was studying as a doctor (a lng time ago) my Pharmacology professor told us: "A good doctor is never the first to use a new medicine and never the last to abandon an old one" and later on my sailplane instructor told m

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
alireza faryar wrote: I installed fvwm on debian.testing using apt-get install fvwm. When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. What am I missing, Be more specific: how do you run fvwm? You have it set as the default window-manager and start gdm or xdm? Or how do you do it? H Thanks

Re: Program to display process information (especially sockets)

2004-12-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sam Watkins wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 15:19 +0700, David Garamond wrote: Anyone knows of a program (command-line or GUI) to display process information, e.g. which TCP/UDP/Unix sockets are used by the process and what are their ports/hosts/etc. Probably the best you're going to get is the outpu

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 11:32 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have difficulty with english as localization is quite poor) Although I cannot comment on the localization issue let's please not

oops diagnosis

2004-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi World! I have installed Sarge (level from 11/26/2004) on 2.4.29. 1. If I install mc (midnight commander) from that Sarge I get an oops. I also have a directory where I installed mc-4.6.1-pre1 (latest unstable) from May 6th 2004. 2. If I make install from that directory again (using Sarge of 1

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in Acrobat Professional or some such Adobe product? If so, try installing the acroread package from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-mar

Re: Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system

2004-12-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: cga wrote: I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities, wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available as .deb's. As I see it I can either copy them to /usr/loca

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2004-12-31 @ 10:16:43 (week 53) Kent West wrote: Galeon has an X on each tab; clicking on the X closes that tab. I really like this feature, but can't seem to figure out how to add it to Firefox. I had it added a few (pre-0.9) versions ago via an extension, but that exte

Re: Grub pausing during boot at stage 1.5

2005-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:21:27AM -, Rich Stanton wrote: I've just completed an install of sarge on my laptop. Everything is fine except that grub (installed into the MBR) pauses for ages at boottime after the 'stage 1.5' message. It seems to be accessing my cdrom peri

Re: Grub pausing during boot at stage 1.5

2005-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rich Stanton wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugo Vanwoerkom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 January 2005 13:24 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Grub pausing during boot at stage 1.5 William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:21:27AM -, Rich Stanton wrote: I&#x

Re: mondoarchive - error in mkisofs

2005-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert S wrote: I installed mondo/mindi on my work server recently (Woody). I tested it out on an almost identical system at home first and didn't have too many problems - managed to backup and restore a running system with no problems. I've used the stock standard "stable" packages - mondo_1.

Re: Compiling xterm with 256-color support

2005-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Dickey wrote: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: are three old-fashioned-looking buttons, something out of the earliest That's the toolbar option (which you can turn off). Here's a screenshot, for context: ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/utf8-demo.png and the bugs you're desc

Re: mondoarchive - error in mkisofs

2005-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert S wrote: Was there such a file? Which file do you refer to? Anyway, this: http://www.sorcerer.mirrors.pair.com/sources/mindi/ and mondo has other levels. I use mondo 1.67 and mindo 0.87 with a mindi-kernel with great success. So I tend not to change levels until my system hardware changes

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Chuk Goodin wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in Windows. To start with, there is no need to install extra software. You simply plug in your camera and i

Re: mozilla window position

2005-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Waters wrote: Hi, I upgraded mozilla in unstable from 1.7.3 to 1.7.5 and now it doesn't remember its previous window position. And it is not https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269629 ? H Does anyone know an option to force a position such as -geometry or --geometry= ? I've tr

Re: grub-install failed during debian testing installation

2005-01-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Yu Yong wrote: > Hi, > This is my first post to this list :) > I'm installing debian testing distro on my notebook and PC . The > notebook works properly with debian. But on the PC, installation failed > to run grub-install on MBR. The progress bar stopped at about 50%. > I waited for more than 2

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

2005-06-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6/ ,after a

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

2005-06-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
john doe wrote: I don't have that file, not even /etc/X11/xdm directory. Do I really need to install xdm package to adjust it? I thought we are talking about gdm here. -jd On 6/12/05, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: john doe wrote: I did a standard installation, somehow the font on g

Hats off to Debian maintainers: Sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! Just dist-upgraded to the new stable Sarge from a version of last November. I had to reboot because X would not start: could not GETVT? Then the fonts had changed: in the Mozilla menubar and in my QT applications using QLabel. Impressive job! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Help me please! I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge and it is a DISASTER. HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! THIS IS INEXCUSABLE ! ! ! I find this on DEBACLE: NOUN: 1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat;

Re: Getting the hang of APT....

2005-06-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:00:31AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I have a HOWTO [0] on creating a Debian Package repository. It is meant to have more of a tutorial feel to it and you should find it helpful. -Roberto [0] http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

Re: Suspend: after resume Xserver hangs when playing a film+usb mouse

2005-06-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mohammad Halawah wrote: Hello fox, I have softwaresuspend patched on 2.6.11.8 (kernel.org) working but two things, Firstly, the Xserver hangs after resuming, specificly when I try to play a film.I found this in the www.suspend2.net/FAQ-5.html#ss5-16 It says change a directive in the file /

Re: a2ps: Printer "display" not working

2005-06-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, "a2ps -P display .bashrc" yields: [.bashrc (plain): 2 pages on 2 sheets] sh: line 1: /tmp/a2_HSzrDm: Permission denied [Total: 2 pages on 2 sheets] sent to the printer `display' [2 lines wrapped] Using strace i found: [pid 8415] open("/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p", O_WRONLY

Re: Mondo Frustration

2005-06-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert S wrote: How can I get mondo to work with a system that uses a floppy-based GRUB instead of a hard drive-based LILO? This is a rather important experiment for me, and I'm hoping I can get this worked out really soon. I got mondo/mindi working after a lot of frunstration, by manually

Copy protected CD's

2005-06-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html Would cdparanoia care? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to reinstall without changing anything?

2005-06-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike Oliver wrote: A couple of times I've gotten nervous about whether I could have been hacked, back before I got a good iptables set up and turned off sshd etc. I've run various diagnostic scripts but generally found them to be overly prone to false positives. My *guess* is that I'm fine, gi

deskjet plus margins

2005-06-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian!!! In 1990 I bought an HP deskjet plus for $500. I now build complete systems easily for that price. Anyway. I just lugged it acrosss the continent and plugged it into Sarge. Cups knows it. But it always overflows its margins. Anybody have a deskjet plus and solved that problem? Thank

a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Anybody out there printing .ps files with a2ps successfully? Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie can't install 3.1

2005-06-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dylan Evans wrote: I don't know much, and figured the best way to learn linux is by having it. Unfortunately, the installation looked like it only half succeeded. The gui won't work, and it won't auto-config my network card (I'm often on a big lan, and windows works). Of that I am certain, a

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Hugo, can you describe your problem? Regards, MC Yes, I realized after I posted that the question was wrongly posed. My problem is stated in another (unanswered) post: I am using a deskjet plus HP printer that I bought in 1990. Used on M$ in the pre-Debian era. St

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