Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:21:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >> in udev.rules I have: >> BUS="usb" , KERNEL="sd?1",SYSFS_serial="07381C501259, NAME="usbkey" >> I then can: >> mount /dev/usbkey /mnt/usbkey >> or some other magic for automounting. >

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:55:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with udev's >> operation and having consistent device names for my USB and Firewire >> devices. > > What kind of names

RE: Is life with 'udev' good?

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 others have point

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: > 2. My desktop went from KDE to Gnome. Is this normal? Where do I set the > default desktop? When you boot, do you get a graphical login screen? Is there a session icon or menu item? If there is, you should be able to choose a KDE "

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:43:31 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse? udev is, conceptually, a much better naming scheme than is devfs. This purported goodness comes at a price: udev is not able to do directly some of the things

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:19:06 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote: >> >> BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Zynet*",SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-CFC*", >> NAME{all_partitions}="compact_flash" > > Where does this go? /etc/udev/udev.rules? It could, but I think it'

Re: eclipse install

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:56:38 +0100, Eduard Pauna wrote: > Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on debian? Yes: Eclispe 3.0M8, 3.0M9, and 3.0 work for me. I haven't tried 3.1. > I got the eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip package, unzip it and > when I run eclipse I obtain this error >

Re: eclipse install

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:06:05 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Runs fine here on Sid. I also compiled a PPC/GTK version that works fine > on my PPC. In fact the version I built has more features than the x86 > version I downloaded. Windows users report that there are numerous nice features which are si

Re: Hardlinks to remote directories

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:46:46 +0200, ocl wrote: > I am trying to create a hardlink to a remote directory > but it gets rejected Hard links must be on the same filesystem as the target. Hard links to directories are (almost certainly) rejected. > What am I doing wrong? You can't do that. If you

Re: Converting from KMail

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:01:39 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool to convert > from mdir to mbox format? KMail? Create an (mbox) mail folder in KMail and copy all the messages from your maildir message folder into it. Copy the resulting mbox file to a place where your

Re: Trackball Problems

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:59:43 -0500, tech wrote: > I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel > Trackball. > As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. > Any help would be appretiated. In this section of your X11 configuration file: Sec

Re: erased iPod software

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:58:21 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any > ideas how to restore it? The drive's filesystem may be toast but the firmware is intact. I think the iPod manual-ettes come with instructions to reset the device. I

Re: Please, stop mail massive

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:38, Ian Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is it possible to subscribe to the list, yet no receive it via e-mail? Not exactly; "subscribing" means email. > I'd much prefer to read it via Usenet, but if I'm not subscribed, I can't > post. See:

Re: synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)

On Thursday 26 May 2005 09:07, rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to > search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed > (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages. That's also my expe

Re: packages.debian.org down? (June 14 2005)

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:22, Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Are there alternative mirrors? (trying the get kdevelop3) http://www.debian.org/mirror/list If you install and use the 'netselect-apt' package, it will time transmissions to the various mirrors

Re: .aptitude/config and Automatic Cache Deletion

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 07:03, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > 'Autoclean' doesn't seem to be quite what I used in the past. autoclean: remove obsolete packages from the cache. clean: remove all packages from the cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: A little debian-user ml help..

On Saturday 25 June 2005 18:13, Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My isp doesn't provide news server and reading/managing debian-* lists > in evolution is killing me... I really need to switch to a news reader > so I can ignore/follow threads and all that good stuff... S

Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:40, Jason Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just did a dist-upgrade on my unstable box and for some reason apt > wanted to remove gnome, synaptic, aptitude and I think one other. Has > any one else had this problem [...] Yes. > [...] or can som

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of > mozilla-firefox. This URL crashes Firefox 0.9.3.6 for me: http://pclinuxonline.com/ The previous version didn't. > At first I believed it to be a javascri

Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:19:38 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Ian Thomas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [GNOME panel doesn't start using Sawfish WM] >> > Have you deleted the ~/.sawfish dir too, or at least the > ~/.sawfish/sessions dir? I can conf

Re: usb storage kernel module with 2.4 kernel

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:10:52 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: >> on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:00:19PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: >> >> [iPod on USB] >> >> i'm using USB (1.1), fwiw. (but i don't think that matters for this). Officially, USB 1.1 isn't supported. I have a 20GB

Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:34:35 -0700, Ian Thomas wrote: > $ panel & I didn't think of trying to start the panel manually. > No panel starts. I haven't found any information > about how to fix this problem from the following > sources: I'm unable to get the panel to start automatically using Saw

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:22:48 -0400, Brendan wrote: > That's not why NVIDIA cannot open their driver. It's been said by them time > and time again that the drive contains 3rd party code that they have a > limited license for, and as such, cannot expose that code to non-licensees. This is a disin

Re: CD-rom access

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:51:00 +0200, Arnfinn Gjostol wrote: > I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install > packages from my CD-rom, but I do not know how to get access to mu > CD-rom You don't need to do this. Run 'apt-cdrom', if you haven't already, to tell APT have ha

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:26:41 +1000, Caveman wrote: > Frankly I think nvidia should get a clap on the back for making a > driver. A kick in the front for being completely closed. > So its not Open Source, well frankly you are never going to > get totally open source. I may never get totally open

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:58:07 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: >> - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file > > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels.. Except that you don't, as I don't use symlinks for my kernels. >> - Grub understands file sys

Re: Grub won't timeout

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:26:02 -0700, Jason D. Berg wrote: > My Grub won't timeout. # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from # 0, and the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the defau

Re: Grub won't timeout

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:23:51 +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:00:38AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: >> >> (I would have sword GRUB started numbering at 1, not 0, but perhaps I'm >> mistaken. > > I believe you are wrong. It starts at 0. Thi

Re: mozilla-firefox error

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:21:02 -0300, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox > Error: No running window found > auto selected locale: en-US > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory? I get a segmentation fault. Try running 'firefox' wi

Re: mozilla-firefox error

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:59:56 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:18:05 -0600, Jules Dubois > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > [can't run 'mozilla-firefox' from the shell] >> I get a segmentation fault. Try running &#

Re: mozilla-firefox error

[replying to myself] On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:41:35 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:59:56 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:18:05 -0600, Jules Dubois >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >> I suspect some stale

Re: [root@comcast.net: Cron if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:47:44 -0400, xucaen wrote: > Does anyone know what this message means? > > - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It means Comscat's mail service is broken. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:31:21 -0400, H. S. wrote: > I am just trying > to verify it won't mess with my Debian installation. All I want to do is > interchange D: and E: driver letters for two partitions Do you mean changing Windows' drive letter assignments using Windows Disk Manager (or whatever

Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:26:20 -0400, H. S. wrote: > But when windows was started, I got: > hdc2 as c: > hdc3 as e: > hdc5 as d: I had hda1 as c: hda2 as o: hda3 as d: etc. > I have > found out how to change drive letters, I am thinking of doing: > > 1) make d: as z: > 2) make e: as d: >

Re: dselect?

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect can > do. I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available. I recommend it. > If there is graphic tool, that would be better. Synaptic. It's what I used

Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:49:18 -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Jules Dubois_, on 30/10/04 00:21,typed: It's just an unsubstantiated rumor. >> IIRC, you'll have to reboot before step (3), because "e:" was already >> in use before you began relettering. > > Good point! I have been reading about

Re: dselect?

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:55:04 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:02PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > >> Incoming from Jules Dubois: >> > >> > Synaptic. It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled >> > something l

Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > I just ran aptitude and it got "The following packages are unused and > will be REMOVED". There are 8 packages it wants to remove, one of which > is bluefish, which I am using as I run aptitude.(?) Bluefish is an HTML editor based on GTK, n

Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:35:49 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Jules Dubois([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> If you want to keep bluefish, tell aptitude you installed it >> "manually". &g

Re: How to activate a theme look of gtk/gnome application when I usen't gnome session ?

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:48:18 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:29:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> When I'm on KDE, the gnome/gtk application aren't theme. >> > Do you have gnome-theme-manager program? If you run that, and set a > theme, is it then p

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:01:36 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i managed to write the blank database that gtkpod was displaying to my > iPod -- at least, that's what i think has happened. What is the output of 'ls -l ~/.gtkpod`? > now, when i start up gtkpod, sometimes it'll give me an error about

Re: always ask for root password

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:12:51 +, Ananda Kumar Samaddar wrote: > When I boot my custom compiled kernel (2.6.8) the system always asks for > a root password (Ctrl-D for normal startup). That kernel is being booted into single-user mode. Check your boot-loader configuration file -- probably /boo

Re: Alsa Problem

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:20:11 -0800, mamas wrote: > I installed Debian testing (2.4.27-1-386) with all of its Alsa packages > (apt-get install...) so, afaik, I should get full support of my audio > card (Terratec EWX24/96 i.e. ice1712). It looks like you have a pre-built kernel package, which I ne

Re: alsaconf

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have installed libasound1, alsa-base, alsa-utils. When I run alsaconf > it says it can't find any PCI sound cards even though I have an Ensoniq > AudioPCI (ES1371) that is detected on startup. > > I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays

Re: playing cds

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 04:05:10 -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > I too have not been able to play audio cds with alsa. I have not tried > with OSS however. Neither ALSA nor OSS are CD players. What application are you trying to use? What happens when you try to use it? Where have you told this applica

Re: Blackdown

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:44:52 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > I cannot apt-get blackdown JRE. The program says: report the problem to > solve it. What is the actual error message? > I do so. This is basically a mailing list for discussions by users; your message, although lacking essenti

Re: playing cds

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:09:08 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:05:10 -0600, Chad Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> My sound card is: >> :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. >> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) >> > > I've one

Re: alsa won't work unless i kill esd

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:01:19 +0800, ms linux wrote: > sorry for another trivial question about alsa. > i use sid 2.4.27 and gnome for desktop. > recently if i want xmms play my mp3s, i have to kill > esd first :-( Try opening the XMMS preferences and at the bottom of the "Audio I/O Plugins" t

Re: alsaconf

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:47:37 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays mp3 files so I do have sound. >> What I ultimately want to get working is gnomemeeting and evidently I >> need a

Re: Blackdown

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:07:11 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > But I like blackdown, becuase making an apt-get install, it installs > automatically in Mozilla (in a similar way to Macromedia Flash Debian > Package ). I think that's what the 'java-package' package is designed to do: Make a

Re: Get directories names

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:09:51 -0500, Tong wrote: > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- find . -type d -name -print > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. Using 'ls', if the direc

Re: playing cds

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:59:49 -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > So the conclusion to this is it's a alsa bug that I can not play audio > cds? I don't think anything was concluded either way. (I was being pedantic about some CMI chip not being a VIA chip. We concluded, I think, two or three of us, that w

Re: Blackdown

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:10:03 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > VSJ escribió: > >>Read these instructions: >>http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php >>to build you own up to date Debian Java packages. >> > So we would find a single step package that would install Java in Debian > and in th

Re: playing cds

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:22:15 -0600, Chad Davis wrote: Can you get things like system sounds and perhaps Ogg to work? Did CD audio (or all audio) work at one time and then break? > Kernel 2.6.9, custom built. > > snd46052 10 > snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:11:22 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i just ended up restoring the thing How unfortunate. > i tried using ephpod on a windows machine to restore the database, but > when i did, it would prompt me for each mp3 as it was stored in the It could have used some mangling of the

Re: Java

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:12:07 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages. Download one into a good parent directory. chmod u+x on the file. execute it. Add its bin directory to your path. > Too bad they don't have enough sense to put deb's out th

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:48:45 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:10, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > >> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:41 +, Adam Funk wrote: >>> I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. I >>> tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatene

Re: acme

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now > conflicts with "gnome" and other foundational gnome packages. Acme is gone from the GNOME 2.6 packages. It's been replaced, I think, by "Keyboard Shortcuts" in "Desktop Preferences."

Re: Gnome configuration

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:04:59 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I like gnome-terminal [...] But, it used to be that the > browser was selectable via alternatives. Now it seems not to be. >From the GNOME menu, look at Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Preferred Applications -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Configuring the serial PCI I/O card 2port on Linux

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:44:07 +, Vijaya S wrote: > I inserted a PCI serial 2 port I/O card on a Suse machine. This is a Debian mailing list (and/or newsgroup). If you have a SuSE problem, try a general Linux or SuSE specific newsgroup (and/or mailing list). > How do i configure it to get it

Re: ALSA setup problem

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:00:20 -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [sarge/kernel-2.4.26-1-686. I am in the "audio" group.] > > I'm going to jump in here since I, too, can't get ALSA to work > correctly with my board (SB Live!). I was never able to get ALSA to work with my (new) SB Live under kernel 2.

Re: Debian Unstable not updating?

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:56:29 -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote: > Kelly Harding wrote: > >> Hi, >> I've been running Debian for about a year or two now. >> >> I've had no real problems I've not been able to sort out with using >> google or the debian documentation. >> >> However, I appear to have a puzzling

Re: bad sources.list

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:35:58 -0400, Brian Astill wrote: > I am trying to get my system to contact my ISP's mirror, first, before > going further outside. > # Testing > deb ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/debian/pool/ testing main contrib non-free I don't see filearena.net in my list of public mirrors

Re: Debian Unstable not updating?

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:38:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> And check /etc/apt/preferences for the "Pin-Priority" of the >> distributions. I had the same problem for months. About two weeks >> ago, and a

Re: floppy led don't turn off when booting on 2.6

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:40:01 +0200, castet.matthieu wrote: > Hello, > > When booting 2.6.7 linux kernel on PC, if the timeout of the boot loader > is very short (less than 1 second: the floppy led turn on by the bios > trying to boot on floppy don’t had the time to turn off) the floppy led > neve

Re: Upgrading Debian

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, 08 May 2004 15:06:26 +1200, cr wrote: > Rather more significantly, I only have one telephone line - so when my > computer's on line, phone ain't working. Same here. The Potato (stable) to Woody (testing) dist-upgrade took me around 40 hours. I, too, as a

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:39:46 -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I hadn't thought of using unstable. [...] What do you mean "it doesn't > break much"? I've been running unstable since January. Occasionally, Aptitude reports "upgradable" packages for which I have unsatisfied dependencies that I have to r

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:07:03 -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:01:02AM -0400 or thereabouts, Silvan wrote: >> > One pretty decent "Desktop Linux" based on Debian is Libranet; > > . > > All one needs to do is change the sources list to Debia

Re: getting started with LISP

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:45:29 -0500, dircha wrote: > Is Scheme a proper subset of Common Lisp? No. Scheme is a LISP "dialect" which attempts to remove LISPs ugliness and restore its original, functional purity. > What do you make of the available Free software runtimes, compilers, and > librarie

Re: programming editor

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:07:18 +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: > (still have not found an editor that will do a rectangular area > cut/paste in the middle of a text). SciTE will do it. I remember doing it with Emacs 18 but that was a few years ago. Visual SlickEdit will do it, for $300. -- To U

Re: sarge, gnome icons gone

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:30:40 -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > I updated my sarge system yesterday and gnome upgraded to 2.6 -- great! > However, all of the icons are now gone and I can't see how to get them > back. The different themes are all there, but no icons. Any > suggestions? I upgraded to GN

Re: apt-get update lists

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:03:47 -0400, Brian Astill wrote: > Is there a list of packages sorted by Section, rather than by Package, > without logging onto packages.debian.org/stable/ ? Try running Synaptic (GTK) or Aptitude (console) and you can choose a categorized view. > Is there some kind of o

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:47:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Just install a Debian box like you normally do, then "apt-get install > kernel-image-2.6.whateverfitsyourarchitecture". Thanks for the advice, Kent. A foolish question: There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image packag

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:13:37 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most > experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than > the testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / > observation It happene

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:15:59 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:47, Chris Metzler wrote: >> What you're not aware of is that something similar happened last year with >> KDE in testing. More specifically, last year, KDE was uninstallable >> in testing for *several month

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: >> >>Thanks for the advice, Kent. A foolish question: There's really nothing >>more to it than installing a kernel-image package (and, in my case, >>updating initrd-tools)? >> >

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:38:51 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run >> stable and live with the age of the packages. > > Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? She is. Debi

Re: Firestarter, ports access

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:13:38 +0800, Thomas Beresford wrote: > The thing is, whenever I connect to the internet, I receive a lot, but > really lots of attempts to access on port 445, microsoft-ds and some > port 135, loc-srv. Is it normal? Absolutely. These requests are from misconfigured Windows

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >>There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image package >>(and, in my case, updating initrd-tools)? >> > If you're not already running an initrd kernel, y

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:17:49 -0400, John Cichy wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >> I think perhaps "stable", "testing", and "unstable" were not the >> absolutely, positively best choices for the flavors but I can't say I >> could have don

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:37:14 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:01, Jules Dubois wrote: >> >> I installed kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7. I get lots of error during boot; >> they go by quickly, I don't seem to be able to stop them, and they're >>

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:14 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > sid? sid. > I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro > and keep getting depmod errors. How are you building the kernel? I use

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:14 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > Just wondering if all you people are moving to 2.6 from Woody, Sarge or > sid? I have been trying to compile the 2.6.6 kernel on my Woody distro and > keep getting depmod errors. Another thought: Do you have the module-init-tools

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:32:47 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > make-kpkg --revision=786:MyKernel2.4.20 kernel_image I think that's correct. I don't use the 'revision' switch. Instead I've been modifying the top-level Makefile and setting the EXTRAVERSION variable. > Which I got from a gui

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:35:48 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > No, but [Red Hat] were always a company looking to make money off > of their product (not that there's anything wrong with that). Debian > has no such plans, and that's one of the reasons why I trust them to do > what's right rather t

RE: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:29:24 +1000, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > Aha! It becomes clearer (somewhat). I didn't look hard enough for > module-init-tools. I only looked in the stable version DOH! > This may be the answer to most of my problems! Next stop: World Hunger! > Thanks to everyone who

Re: aptitude wants to remove base-config

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:11:57 -0700, William Ballard wrote: > When I updated apt today, aptitude wants to remove base-config due to > unsatisified dependencies: > > tasksel is going from 1.52 to 2.01, and > tasksel conflicts with base-config (< 2.32) > > I assume this is a bad thing, so I put ta

Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:56:58 +0200, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: > [...] installed devfs (bad thing) devfs is a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:22:07 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >>I installed kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7. I get lots of error during boot; >>[...] >>attempt to load a module fails with a "/lib/modules: read-only filesystem" >>error. >>

Re: Missing packages or modules for Sid 2.6.X kernels?

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:27:27 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Charlie Zender wrote: >> >>apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 kernel-headers-2.6.6-1-686 >> >>and then try to boot into 2.6.6, I get kernel panic because, >>apparently, none of the kernel modules were installed and the kernel >>does not

Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:33:25 +0100, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > If you haven't already, turn on bash_completion (smart tab completion) > by typing 'source /etc/bash_completion' or entering that into a > .bashrc or similar and restarting your bash. I had seen the term "bash_completion" many times, ass

Can't access both CD-RW and DVD-ROM

I'm running sid, with a custom 2.6.7 kernel which I build with make-kpkg. I used to be able to access my (ATAPI) CD-RW but after I fooled around to make my (SCSI) DVD-ROM drive work, I can't access the ATA adapter at all. Here's a diff showing all the changes between the two configurations. Und

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:40:38 +0200, NiL SpaaR wrote: > /dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond vfat users,uid=nil,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0 The "uid" must be numeric; I don't know how to use the "iocharset" option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:04:21 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Doubt about Debian Installation > > or > > Configuring PS/2 Mouse Doubts These subject lines are in the same style as headlines in many newspapers and web sites. These posters are likely mimicing this style, most unknowingly, a few to

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:49:30 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >>unknowingly, a few to sound important. Look for other similar subjects >>like "Configuration woes", or "Video nightmare", etc. > > I mostly ignore those. > &

Re: apt-get GDM

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:18:47 +, Craig Dunn wrote: > Hi, > > I'v recently installed Debian on my system. The current version of GDM > that I have is 2.2 and I would like to upgrade it to 2.4. Do you mean GNOME? GDM is just a sort of X-Window login program. > The trouble is I only have a d

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:37:12 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable" and > there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to "sid" > and it retrieved 3217 kB. I hope you'll allow me to interrupt your thread for a related ques

Re: Adding Swap Space

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:03:37 -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Do I need to install swapd? No, the swap daemon is part of the kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:49:14 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > Do I have to remove Debian first [...] You shouldn't have to do anything special to "remove Debian." Tell RedHat (or whatever) to reformat (or initialize or create a new filesystem) in the partit

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:27:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or > dselect. > [snip] I keep hearing about the advantages of aptitude (over, for example, Synaptic), but your article, Mr. Hess, was excellent.

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