Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, so i recompiled kernel without IOMMU and selected CONFIG_AGP and CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 to be compiled as modules What does dmesg say about agp? now i get Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0 agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xc8000 agpgart and amd64_

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-05 Thread Dick Davies
You're better off using something like sieve to filter mail into IMAP folders on the server. This way you get to use other clients (webmail, thunderbird, whatever) and still keep your filters. Most mail servers will have some way of sorting mail into folders as it arrives, check your docs. On 05/

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto suggested. If that's impossible, you should look into offlineimap. Basically, it syncs your local Mail with the IMAP. Since it's IMAP, any changes you do on the local end gets changed on the server. It's especially nice solution for laptops (wh

Re: Extremely small fonts

2005-10-05 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
Do you use KDM? If using KDM, it may cause that problem. You can change font size in KDE Control Center. On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:21:32PM -0700, Matt Jerdonek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm pretty new to Debian / Linux. I'm using > Debian-Sarge (stable) release along with X-window & > KDE. When I p

Dell inspiron 4100... custom kernel install

2005-10-05 Thread James Gibbon
I'm having a bit of trouble installing Debian on my inspiron 4100.  I've identified the problem.  The solution is in a kernel rebuild. I can't get the kernel to rebuild because the system freezes before the laptop can rebuild the kernel.  It doesn't usually stay alive for more than two or three min

Extremely small fonts

2005-10-05 Thread Matt Jerdonek
Hello, I'm pretty new to Debian / Linux. I'm using Debian-Sarge (stable) release along with X-window & KDE. When I powered up my PC today, the fonts in all the X-windows were so small to the point of unreadable. However, the icons and other graphics were not affected. Fortunately, I'm able to

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >I have a > stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The > server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion > slots. I w

Re: make-kpkg & initrd?

2005-10-05 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
If fs and ide drivers are compiled into kernel, then initrd is not necessary. Using make-kpkg to build a custom kernel-image is quit simple. You can get more info from debian-reference and man pages. On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:10:36PM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I'm trying to build a debian kern

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2. mutt filters the mail into folders based on certian rules (mailing lists, etc.) 3. mutt keeps all mail on server w/ the POP of course i had to download the mail, so i used procmail for the filtering. Is what i'm wanting to do even possible (i

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/05 16:52), Cameron Matheson wrote: > I've been using mutt happily w/ my POP email account for a good long > while now, but i'm switching over to an IMAP server. I've been using > thunderbird (which is cool, but it's eating up sooo much RAM), and i > would like to go back to mutt. Rea

Re: make-kpkg & initrd?

2005-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 10/05/2005 11:10 pm, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I'm trying to build a debian kernel using make-kpkg. It seems simple > enough, except when I install the newly created kernel package, it > doesn't create the initrd image. So, when I manually create the > initrd image with mkinitrd, the boot process

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Here is what can be changed; what I think may be the problem. Home Networking modem IP Network IP Address: IP Netmask:Default Gateway:  or Use WAN Host Name: DHCP Server: EnableDisableStart IP Range: End IP Range: Default Gateway:  or Self DNS: or  Use WANDomain Name:Lease Time (mins): Requires

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Alrigh. Before I was so rudely interrupted by the Evacuation of my College, I had foudn some thing out: The wireless works fine here.This means that there is definitely some thing wrong with the way I set up the Nework at my home: It isn't Linux or the Driver; it is some thing else. Now, cat /etc/r

Re: make-kpkg & initrd?

2005-10-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:10:36PM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I'm trying to build a debian kernel using make-kpkg. It seems simple > enough, except when I install the newly created kernel package, it > doesn't create the initrd image. So, when I manually create the > initrd image with mkinitrd

preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-05 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I've been using mutt happily w/ my POP email account for a good long while now, but i'm switching over to an IMAP server. I've been using thunderbird (which is cool, but it's eating up sooo much RAM), and i would like to go back to mutt. Reading through the muttrc manpage, it seems that

make-kpkg & initrd?

2005-10-05 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
I'm trying to build a debian kernel using make-kpkg. It seems simple enough, except when I install the newly created kernel package, it doesn't create the initrd image. So, when I manually create the initrd image with mkinitrd, the boot process complains about not finding modules.dep file in the

Re: Serial lockup during smp boot [Sarge]

2005-10-05 Thread Svein Seldal
Hi. I'm running getty. Still, if I remove the getty on ttyS0, the result remains the same. The lockup occurs somewhere after init has started (as previously) and remains until init 2 is run (when the syslogd/klogd kicks in). I am willing to bet on interrupt problems. As it seems, 16 bytes is

Re: exim4 smtp session transcript ?

2005-10-05 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
You can start exim4 with #exim4 -d then use mail command to send a mail, you can find a lot of useful debug informations in the terminal. good luck On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:44:04PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > > I've trying to setup configuration when exim4 sends outgoing mail

Re: Exim ignoring aliases, relaying email to incorrect addresses.

2005-10-05 Thread Nick Sopkovich
Hi Stefhen On 2005-10-05, Stefhen Hovland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully setup my debian box to send email to my gmail > account, but it is not expanding aliases correctly, and it is sending > email to the wrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like to have any email sent to

Re: Serial lockup during smp boot [Sarge]

2005-10-05 Thread Alexey Lobanov
Hello. Two ideas. 1. What program is bound to ttyS0 in inittab? *getty? Nothing? What if to change this (something to nothing or vice versa)? 2. Damned IBM PC interrupts? It may be deja vue, but it seems me that I had same effect in Novell server 10 years ago; the reason was incorrect combinat

Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
At least 2.6.14 has something for the K8T890. You can just `grep -i k8t890 /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c` to see if it is in the 2.6.12. it seems to me that the only way how to get these modules is to DISABLE IOMMU support. with IOMMU enabled i wasn't able to compile them as module

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Fbset gives: > > mode "1024x768-85" > # D: 94.500 MHz, H: 68.677 kHz, V: 84.997 Hz > geometry 1024 768 1024 1024 32 > timings 10582 208 48 36 1 96 3 > hsync high > vsync high > rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24 > en

Serial lockup during smp boot [Sarge]

2005-10-05 Thread Svein Seldal
Hi. I have some strange problems during boot of my system: I'm running stable (Sarge) with kernel-image-2.6.7-2-686 plus ditto-smp. I have a Intel machine with a Intel P4 (family 15, model 4) @3GHz. I have 1G of memory. My SATA HDD's are running software RAID-1 with LVM (but that's probably i

Re: APM suspend lost! (mypost: 4octrl3)

2005-10-05 Thread rich
Sorted. it was xorg. Changed back to xfree and all works sweetly. Really annoying untracable bug though. Still, happy that it works now. bye. (hope this thread of use to someone adn I'm not just emailing myself!!) rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: APM suspend lost! (mypost: 4octrl3)

2005-10-05 Thread rich lott
Sorted. it was xorg. Changed back to xfree and all works sweetly. Really annoying untracable bug though. Still, happy that it works now. bye. (hope this thread of use to someone adn I'm not just emailing myself!!) rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: do download after system upgrade

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:21:10PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > After dist-upgrade from woody to testing, and kernel > upgrade from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12-1-686 > I am not able to download but able to connect, using > the 2.6.12 but the problem does not exist in 2.6.8. > do I have twick and recompile 2.6.12? >

Re: chkrootkit "warning got bogus tcp line"?

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:47:16AM +0200, Tarapia Tapioco wrote: > What does this warning really mean? > > I got it in the cron.daily chkrootkit output but when I ran chkrootkit > -v manually it has disappeared. > I've never seen that message. What version of chkrootkit are you running? --

Re: login then .xsession stuff

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:51:45PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > Hello > > When I boot up with my debian testing/usnstable > 2.6.12, it gives the login screen wdm. I have icewm > selected and like to use it. But I want to see xterm > and emacs open as soon as I login. So I created > .xsession file in my

Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Hmm, that is weird! yes, it is! Yes I think it is ok. Unfortunately I don't have any further info about IOMMU, but the help for IOMMU says that it includes a driver for the AMD Opteron/Athlon64 IOMMU, so I guess that you can have agp driver for AMD on-CPU GART with or without IOMMU. ok, it's c

Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:03:24PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi, > > >What does dmesg say about agp? > actually, nothing... it's weird, because agpgart should be compiled into > the kernel Hmm, that is weird! > >In my AMD64 the AGP comes from: > >Device Drivers ---> > > Character devices --

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:51:00PM -0500, Steve Block wrote: > Thanks for the extra info, Noah. I use the password library from the > openwall project to enforce strong passwords/passphrases on the system, > make sure daemons can't log in, etc. I'm not going to worry about these > automated scans t

mysql installation

2005-10-05 Thread alrenaud
My MySQL installation does not have a mysql.sock file(it is not anywhere in my system).So,when I try to connect to the mysql server the connection fails.My Debian system when starting shows that mysql server is starting,when stopping shows that mysql server is stopping.The installation was done wit

Re: No Swap

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:16AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > > > top - 20:35:11 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.18, 0.11 > > > Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zom

Re: module psmouse missing on boot, mouse doesn't work.

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:30:54AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > Hi, > > I've had some troubles with my mouse, after most reboots it wouldn't > work, only after some (>1) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and reboots > and stopping and restarting gdm several times, it would come to life. > >

Re: pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-10-05 Thread Orville Canter
I tried one more thing since I posted this. I installed an old 3com NIC, the system recognized it and loaded the 3c59x module. I get the same behavior, though--services (SSH and HTTP) start up OK, then after a little while, stop responding. The NIC is pingable during these outages, but I cannot

Re: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-10-05 Thread H.S.
Žáček Kryštof wrote: >> >>I recently had a similar problem. After starting the k3b >>installation assistant, /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap lost it's >>set-uid bit. I reinstalled it with chmod u+s >>/usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap and now, k3b works fine again (do not >>start k3b assistant). >> >># l /usr/bin/

Drivers for Adaptec aar-1420sa

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Martinell
Trying to install debian on a system that has 4 SATA drives connected to an Adaptec AAR-1420SA RAID card. I have looked at adaptec's site and have not found any drivers that will work with the kernel I am using. My kernel is 2.6.12. I have tried to install debian using the linux26 option on the

Re: Cron problems

2005-10-05 Thread Christopher Pharo Glæserud
Christopher Pharo Glæserud, > Out of the blue, cron has suddenly stopped working, and all I get in my > logs (syslog) is: > > CRON[4008]: Critical error - immediate abort For the interrested: Problem solved. Apparently libpam-modules version 0.79-2 is what broke cron. Updated to 0.79-3 and cro

RE: Desktop icons, bottom bar to switch desktops is gone from KDE

2005-10-05 Thread J F
I can now get konqueror to run without crashing by: cd ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application rm octet-stream.desktop Wish me luck, I will reboot and hope to get by desktop back! Maybe KDE is just waiting for me to close those 20 error popup windows that say "Could not find mime type application/octet-

Re: Exim ignoring aliases, relaying email to incorrect addresses.

2005-10-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:52:35PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully setup my debian box to send email to my gmail > account, but it is not expanding aliases correctly, and it is sending > email to the wrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like to have any email sent to ju

Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, What does dmesg say about agp? actually, nothing... it's weird, because agpgart should be compiled into the kernel In my AMD64 the AGP comes from: Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support If I have Process

Re: Need some help ???

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:41:20AM -0500, Larry Shields wrote: > > > I am in need of some help on not wanting some packages to be removed > when I try using either apt-get install (package name), or using > Synaptic...They both want to remove alot of packages that I do not want > to do a tota

Need some help ???

2005-10-05 Thread Larry Shields
I am in need of some help on not wanting some packages to be removed when I try using either apt-get install (package name),  or using Synaptic...They both want to remove alot of packages that I do not want to do a total of 512... At one time I had this very same problem, I had mentioned i

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > phyrster wrote: > >Hi debianers, > > > >I applied vesafb-tng patch to kernel to get ttys show high refresh rate. I > >have set the kernel parameters in menu.lst and now it seemed to have > >worked. > >However, is there any command

i810_audio can't be loaded

2005-10-05 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
Anybody know what this means when I am trying to install Sarge on a laptop. I get this and the boot hangs, I get this right after I install the base system and it stops me from even getting to the point where I can install anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Desktop icons, bottom bar to switch desktops is gone from KDE

2005-10-05 Thread J F
Yesterday, I added the pattern *.ASP to to the applications that should be opened by the embedded html viewer inside konqueror. Maybe this caused my problem, maybe it did not. Then I shutdown for the evening. Today, my desktop is a blank blue except that for 20 (one for each of my 20 Konqueror wi

Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:46:03AM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, Hi, > i'm running testing on my amd64 and i updated to kernel 2.6.12 (via > dselect). i selected to compile drm and dri as modules (i want hw > acceleration of my ati radeon x600 card). compilation went fine, the new > ker

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread phyrster
On 14:10 Wed 05 Oct 2005, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi debianers, > > > > I applied vesafb-tng patch to kernel to get ttys show high refresh > > rate. I > > have set the kernel parameters in menu.lst and now it seemed to have > > worked. > > > > Howev

Re: back Up in CD

2005-10-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Luis Garay wrote: Hi, im really new in Linux and newer in Debian. i'm trying to make athe back up of a directory thas weights 3 gig's, but i need to storage this in CD, how can i make the iso images this size?? Sorry, my english is pretty bad. mondoarchive -O -w 11 -d ATAPI:0,0,0 -9 -I ""

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
phyrster wrote: Hi debianers, I applied vesafb-tng patch to kernel to get ttys show high refresh rate. I have set the kernel parameters in menu.lst and now it seemed to have worked. However, is there any command to show the exact refresh rate of ttys? I want to make sure it indeed worked.

start firefox in particular desktop (under XFCE4)

2005-10-05 Thread Matt Price
I love XFCE4, but one bummer is that its session manager doesn't see firefox, so it won't get restarted automatically when I log in. The workaround is to put an executable file in ~/Desktop/Autostart with the single line: /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox this then gets executed on every startup. But I

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/04/2005 11:00 PM, David E. Fox wrote: > I've logged thousands of attempts from chinanet > and kornet within the last few days. I've reported (as if that would do > any good) with "Free Tibet" and of course copies of the log - 500K in > one instance(!) but am more interested in just blocking t

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi debianers, > > I applied vesafb-tng patch to kernel to get ttys show high refresh > rate. I > have set the kernel parameters in menu.lst and now it seemed to have > worked. > > However, is there any command to show the exact refresh rate of ttys? >

Re: A problem with my apt-get

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Jollans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, -- As apt-get uses dpkg program, I can ask a question about apt-get install here:). Here the command line and the associated error: lucifer:/home/metan# apt-get install bb snip : french apt-get output saying that it depends on l

RE: A problem with my apt-get

2005-10-05 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Could help me? Have you made an "apt-get update" before? Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread phyrster
Hi debianers, I applied vesafb-tng patch to kernel to get ttys show high refresh rate. I have set the kernel parameters in menu.lst and now it seemed to have worked. However, is there any command to show the exact refresh rate of ttys? I want to make sure it indeed worked. regards bxuef --

A problem with my apt-get

2005-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, -- As apt-get uses dpkg program, I can ask a question about apt-get install here:). Here the command line and the associated error: lucifer:/home/metan# apt-get install bb Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait

Cron problems

2005-10-05 Thread Christopher Pharo Glæserud
Out of the blue, cron has suddenly stopped working, and all I get in my logs (syslog) is: CRON[4008]: Critical error - immediate abort where 4008 is the pid of the child that the cron daemon forks. I'ts been like this since Oct 1, 15:00 CET. I'm running sid, but there hasn't been any recent chang

Problem with Fontconfig and the 9x18 bitmap font

2005-10-05 Thread Toby
I don't seem to be able to select the 9x18 'misc' bitmap font in Fontconfig because it gets confused with other fonts. The 9x18 font I'd like to use is provided by the xfonts-base package in the four following files: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/9x18{,B,-ISO8859-1,B-ISO8859-1}.pcf.gz The proble

chkrootkit "warning got bogus tcp line"?

2005-10-05 Thread Tarapia Tapioco
What does this warning really mean? I got it in the cron.daily chkrootkit output but when I ran chkrootkit -v manually it has disappeared. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Florian Dorpmueller wrote: my .config file contains CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y CONFIG_DRM=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m Try CONFIG_DRM=y i'll try. however, why should this solve the problem? in 2.6.11 DRM compiled as a module worked ok... regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Alexey Lobanov
Hello all. On 05/10/05 12:12, Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez napisał(a): > >> Does that mean that if I plug in the two cards I cannot use the four new >> channels in addition to the two onboard channels? Is there any way >> around >> that? > As far as I see in /usr/src/whatever/Docum

RE: drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
my .config file contains CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y CONFIG_DRM=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m Try CONFIG_DRM=y Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APM suspend lost! (mypost: 4octrl3)

2005-10-05 Thread rich lott
Ok, if I boot straight to console, suspend works ok. But it seems to fail when X is running. I thought it could be the video driver, which was "radeon". I tried "ati", no improvements. Then I tried disabling dri, still no improvements. So I rekon that it's not a kernel module that's causing the

drm and radeon module load problems

2005-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i'm running testing on my amd64 and i updated to kernel 2.6.12 (via dselect). i selected to compile drm and dri as modules (i want hw acceleration of my ati radeon x600 card). compilation went fine, the new kernel works ok. however, i cannot get hw acceleration to work. the 2 modules

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Roberto C. Sanchez napisał(a): I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in one system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total will be 8 drives including the CD-ROM? Only if they are seen