Re: Loop in today's sid

Apparently, on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:27:40AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > I got this too, but the dist-upgrade didn't fix it. Any ideas? I'm > afraid to try the Force-LoopBreak option. > Try this apt-get install libtext-iconv-perl and then maybe a dist-upgrade or dpkg --configure -a -- To UNSU

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

Apparently, on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:34:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > Hanasaki JiJi said: > > Any input on what to use for hardware and capture / playback software? > > > > I am hoping for only open source. I know that leaves NVidia out due to > > the closed drivers. How about ATI? > > just becau

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

Apparently, on Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:38:10AM -0700, nate wrote: > Tim Moss said: > > > I'm not sure if there's any issues with using a 2.2.x kernel but I have a > > Radeon 7500 with XFree 4.2 (on kernel 2.4) and it works great. It's > > extremely fas

Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!

Gary Jones wrote: Okay, now I'm /really/ confused! Who nicked my firewall script?! Have a read of this (some snipped for brevity): ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ls -la total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 21 19:26 . drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 3072 Jul 21 19:24 .. -rw-r--r--

Re: data recovery startup service

JNF Stoffels wrote: i've just recently acquired a copy of debian 2.2 r3 and was wondering whether or not i can use it to start an inedxpensive data recovery business. i live in south africa , and being one of the previously disadvantaged it's still hard to find work. that i swhy i would

Re: xfree86_4.1.0-2 broken dga

Sean Morgan wrote: All my DGA using apps have broken as of late giving: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86dga.so: undefined symbol: atexit A 'dpkg -S libXxf86dga.so' gives no results, but I assume it used to be in xlibs. So were the DGA libs moved or something, or am I just SOL til the maintainer fixes

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

Stig Brautaset wrote: * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* The easiest way is to borr

Re: how do i activate DGA support?

Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! thanks to the people here i was able to recompile a kernel and add the nvidia stuff into it, unfortunaely it didn't resolved my problems with xawtv it complains about missing DGA support how do i activate this? couldn't find anything in the xawtv help (besi

Re: Magic SysRq key

A. Didit Mifanto wrote: Dear Debian User: What is the meaning of Magic SysRq key in the kernel hacking config? Thanks Didit http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/sysrq.txt "It is a 'magical' key combo you can hit which kernel will respond to regardless of whatever else it is doin

Re: allowing users to upload

Martin F Krafft wrote: hi, i operate a couple of non-profit servers for friends to host their websites. there is only ssh, no ftp, but most users are mac or windoze, and so they have considerable difficulty uploading, even with the OpenSSL or other comparable scp-featuring packages. i would like

Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings!! I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on CD-Writing HOWTO) that trac

Re: using cd is shell script

bob parker wrote: Hi all, being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that goes like this: #! /bin/bash # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain cd /some long dir chain/xxx My question is, how can i make the change persist after the script is done Thanks Bob Parker No n

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

Steve Dondley wrote: I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/index.htmlbeginner's guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one particular to Debian. If not, can someone point me in the direction of a good gene

Re: wireless networking support?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a linksys wireless network and I'm wondering if there is device support for it in the linux kernel, and more realistically, if there are some drivers out there that can make it work. Specifically, I'm hoping to find some way to connect to the internet. The c

Re: Change colums and rows.

F Zimmermann wrote: hello a have a little problem. I scanned a DNA sequence and the OCR software changed colums and rows. So instead of aa bb cc aa bb cc I got this aa aa bb bb cc cc How can I chang

Re: Restart fontserver in XF86v4 w/o restarting X?

Karsten M. Self wrote: See subject. There's an AbiWord bug which apparently requires adding the AbiWord font directory to the XF86Config-4 file. Wondering if there's any way to extend/expand the font path without having to exit and restart X. I'll muddle with xset a bit. You can change th

Re: ipmasqadm portfw and apache

Jason Majors wrote: I'd like to forward all requests on port 80 thru my firewall, however, I use VirtualHosts under apache. Is there a way to forward the port with the desired host name? Or can I do it based on the hostname desired? (eg forward a request to www.foo.com to port 81 and a request to

Re: iptables and syslog

default log level of console messages to n. iptables logs at priority 4 and, by default, klogd sends anything of a priority higher than 7 to the console. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

CVS right now. It should be included in the next official release. I think you have to use the generic SVGA support if you have a current XFree release. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing over the internet

Apparently, on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the > internet. I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem > on my computer, only DSL. > http://www.tpc.int/tpc_home.html "Welcome to the TPC

Re: broadcast 2000

Apparently, on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:15:55AM +0100, Florian Struck wrote: > Hi i was looking for broadcast200 does someone know if there is a debian > capable version out there? > thx > Florian > You might try checking the demudi (Debian Multimedia Distribution). http://www.demudi.org/ Add the

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

Apparently, on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:09:29AM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version > 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card > inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize > the

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

Apparently, on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: > Hey...On an a Apache (1.3.23-1) system, ExecCGIs are failing under all > circumstances. mod_perl, mod_php, mod_jk are functioning properly. > Similarly configured machines seem to work proplerly as well, and I've > read ov

Re: Apache fails to ExecCGI properly

Apparently, on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:31:20PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote: > > Look at /var/log/apache/suexec.log. I think it's because your scripts > > are outside the suexec docroot (which is /var/www/ in the Debian > > packages). > > Looks like you might be onto something. This is what I get in

Re: Sound Editing Package

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 05:27:30 +0100 "Stephen J. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone suggest a GOOD sound editing package for linux? I need to > be able > to trim sound files and save them as wav's. > There's a big list here http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:08:38 -0400 "ae roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm > trying to > boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub > fi > le > Windows' system partition has to be on the first disk. Wi

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:51:52 -0400 "Bruce Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that you are getting too complicated. Windows is, indeed, > not very flexible but I am not sure that the comments in this thread > are either correct or relevant to the real problem. Complicated? Yes (not

Re: how to remove penguin logo

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:15:11 -0700 "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- > The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel > and > the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew > correctly > in the first place). > --snip-- Are you talking abo

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:21:59 -0700 "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 22:25:42+0200]: > > > you know a word that has ADAC in it, and starts and ends with > 'he'? > > > say, what is PEBCAK??? you are giving me he

Re: Framebuffer is cool, but can I still use NVdriver module?

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:39:46 -0500 "Lance Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have the framebuffer working in the console, while using > the > NVdriver modules for X? Is there some trick I should know? The > framebuffer howto doesn't seem to address nvidia cards. > > Or is there ju

Re: Does frame buffer only work with sepcifc video cards?

video cards, or is it > only supported on the short list in the kernel config? > I think the VESA framebuffer should work with most relatively modern video cards. It may not be optimal since it's sort of a lowest common denominator approach. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Capturing install screenshots

minal should work fine. You may have to experiment with your terminal font to make sure the shapes and such display well but it definitely can look fine. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shell Scripting Question

e/dir/some /some/dir/file.txt Set IFS to just new lines before running the for loop and you should be fine -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting samba shares...

and I don't know > how to specify them in it... > > I know you can put a line in /etc/fstab, but sometimes i need a quick way > to mount... > mount -t smb -o username=,uid=,gid= //server/share /mnt/smb/ -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting samba shares...

P address in place of the netbios name like this smbclient -L 10.0.0.1 I'm not sure if it works on all versions. I don't have any others here to test with. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tulip chip Netgear card

h the cards. > But > I'm dead in the water until I get them working in Debian. > Try using old_tulip instead of tulip as the driver. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEC Silentwriter Superscript 660 printer support

pretty sure those printers support postscript natively. -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver

Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME? I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that works! I'm running Debian unstable. Even if I add a file in /usr/share/control-center/.data called Blank.desktop with these conte

Re: debian: usb logitech mouse help with devfs required

Brendan J Simon wrote: I'm trying to get my USB Logitech optical mouse to work with my Pentium machine. It is currently running a mixture of testing and stable distros. I am currently using the latest kernel-image-2.4.x-k6 with devfs and xfree86 from stable (ie. not version 4.x.x). I have

Re: want gdm to manage remote displays ONLY...how?

Walter Tautz wrote: how do i do this? The reason is the graphics card does not seem to agree with X11 on the machine gdm would run on so I want to have it manage a remote display instead. Commenting out does not seem to work and the documentation doesn't seem to offer a solution. This is on wo

Re: OT: how to get rfc's by email

Rino Mardo wrote: > hi. just would like to know how can i request for, let's say, rfc 822 > to be sent to me via email. > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc-retrieval.html There are several servers listed that support e-mail retrieval

Re: Debian inside VM can't find NIC

Rupert Heesom wrote: I've installed Debian within a VMware VM with host-only networking. However I didn't pick any NIC adapter software modules when I chose the hardware to support, and now need to know how to get Debian to see the NIC that VMware should be showing it. I've found the ne2k-pci.o

Re: potato: port forwarding question--

Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:35, will trillich wrote: we're trying to establish port forwarding so that a box internal on our lan (192.168.1.2) can serve requests through the debian/potato firewall, from 'out there'. i had this working at some point -- but now i can't get

Re: iptables nat forwarding

Hereward Cooper wrote: Hi, Could someone please tell me why this command won't forward any www calls to 192.168.1.1 (firewall + gateway) to 192.168.1.2 (apache server). iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2:80 What I can't figure is why that doe

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ... if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each with Outlook, which is more popular? (From a number of users standpoint, Outlook should be the answer). Your script doesn't account for this. Well then,

Re: latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT) "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get upgrade this morning, upgraded a lot of GNOME stuff. Now galeon > crashes a lot. Anyone else seeing this suddenly? > Unfortunately, I don't have anything useful to add that might help solve the pro

Re: OT: netfilter inquiry

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:10:22 +0800 "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi. i have installed from source iptables-1.2.3 thinking that the > message i'm > getting with iptables-1.2 was because of an older version. after > installation > i'm still getting the same message plus a newer one. i

Re: ipmasqadm portfw

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:15:07 -0500 "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i used to have this working like a champ, but now it folds its > arms and laughs and evil laugh-- > > we're trying to establish port forwarding so that a box internal > on our lan (192.168.1.2) can serve requests thro

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:44:35 -0500 "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone > will point the way-- > > i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe > on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web pag

Re: Outgrown chrooted Woody

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:06:50 +0200 "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time agoo I did the "Chroot Woody in 15 minutes" thing and > happilly ran a chrooted Woody inside my Potato setup. But times have > changed and now I need to beef up that woody partition into a full > blown woo

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:54:49 +0100 "Pedro Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2001 16:39, Matthias Richter wrote: > > > > > (How) did you configure your soundcard? I can't see any sound > modules > > in your output of lsmod. tvmixer is used by the soundcore-module > here: >

Re: ssh2 denials

Apparently, on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:33:41PM -0600, shock wrote: > I'm using ssh2 (www.ssh.com), and I'm trying to login to my home machine > from the office. After entering "ssh home", I'm presented with the > password prompt. I enter my password, and am presented with the > password prompt ag

Re: Screensaver while gdm is runing?

Apparently, on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:45:33AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying > alogin prompt? > > I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following > > /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 1

Re: from casette tape to computer?

Apparently, on Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:25:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > >> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > >> convert it to an audio file on my computer. > > > >You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) > > > >- Adam >

Re: ssl for webmin

Apparently, on Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:37:11AM +, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser > > doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times > > thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but t

Re: web-based email for debian?

Apparently, on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > the question remains -- > > is there a DEBIAN/POTATO PACKAGE to install a webmail > server? (we like the looks of acmemail/sparkle, as it works > with MOD_PERL/APACHE...) > On my sid system, a quick "ap

Re: MPEG video recorder

Apparently, on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:01:56AM +0800, csj wrote: > I'm looking for a software mpeg encoder that can produce synced > audio/video from a bttv-compatible capture card. I'm presently using > NVrec to record DivX ;-) movies > from my VCR. But since

Re: MPEG video recorder

Apparently, on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:54:06AM +0800, csj wrote: > > NVrec with FFmpeg produces mpeg which only a hacker can love. IIRC when > I attempted to demultiplex an mpeg-encoded capture (necessary, so that I > can re-multiplex it to a VCD-compliant mpeg), the audio and video > differed in

Re: MPEG video recorder

Apparently, on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:09:11AM +0800, csj wrote: > > As for FFmpeg encoding to a VCD-compliant stream, I don't know. What > options do you pass to FFmpeg or NVrec? > I've never made a VCD but, according to documents I found on the web, the specs are: MPEG-1 video stream with the d

Re: Hiding a process

Apparently, on Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:55:43PM -0500, Daniel DiPaolo wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:15, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS > > > > exec -a /sbin/getty 31337r007k17 -destroyeverything > > > > ;-> > > > Note that this is a shell specific thing (doesn

Re: Eterm background

Apparently, on Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:50:02PM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all. > > Is there someone in this list that uses Eterm and knows how to set > transparent background? > Eterm --trans Try Eterm -h for a bunch of options. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Eterm background

Apparently, on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:16:26AM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > Try Eterm -h for a bunch of options. > > I'm trying to run that, but the background is still a random image and > get the following message to stdout > > oralnx~$ Eterm --trans > created ph2 mask pixmap 1c6 (48