Re: Recent Woody ISO

2002-04-07 Thread Ivo Wever
failed to create good boot floppies. -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to get onboard sound (VT8233) to work?

2002-04-12 Thread Ivo Wever
Below I quoted a message I found in the archives. It pretty much states my problem: VIA supplies drivers for this onboard soundchip (which is on many, if not all, of the motherboards with the VIA Apollo KT266A chipset) for several distros (Caldera, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake), but not for Debian. I

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
observation. What happens when the amount of developers falls below the critical level? sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
you wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: What happens when the amount of developers falls below the critical level? That's certainly not the direction in which things are going. A few people have left loudly, that's true, but there's also lots of new blood, and plenty of experienced developers

Re: I can hear my mouse, but not my music

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
the mouse. Don't ask me why though :) sincerely Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:43:46PM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: On a related matter: if a number of developers were at odds with part of the current policy, how would they be able to try and change the policy regarding that issue (supposing that if the majority of developers

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
, just not about users the consider to be whining). That everyone decided we should constantly hide our true feelings towards other persons isn't his problem. I value honesty more than trying to prevent some long-toed people from being insulted. sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
Alan Shutko wrote: Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, as he said: he doesn't care. Doesn't care because no developers will leave and the users leaving doesn't endanger the existance of Debian; in essence the developers are making it for themselves. Maybe the developers should amend

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Ivo Wever
of the message calling you conscending implied that considering what you said condescending is 'normal'. sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Ivo Wever
, to support Debian. I guess we should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our software on their servers? sincerely Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Ivo Wever
you wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: involving elderly disabled people, to support Debian. I guess we should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our software on their servers? Godwin's Law; end of thread please? Oh sorry about that, I should have written

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Ivo Wever
that they can't even support the internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day, then why is anyone using them and using them in a commercial environment at that? sincerely Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Ivo Wever
you wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: If the other dists are so terrible that they can't even support the internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day, then why is anyone using them and using them in a commercial environment at that? [Personal story about liking several

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Ivo Wever
contributing to the Debian project are not interested in popularity. They are certainly not 'aiming at the people ... '. If you think Debian should be attractive to those users, why don't _you_ do something about it? sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ivo Wever
owner? Depends. But, for all practical values, a simple `dd if=dev/urandom bs=1M \ of=/dev/hdX` should be quite sufficient. Some people advise to repeat this procedure several times. Can anyone explain why? I see no reason why one pass doesn't suffice. sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-14 Thread Ivo Wever
Philipp Lehman wrote: Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people advise to repeat this procedure several times. Can anyone explain why? I see no reason why one pass doesn't suffice. [..] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html Thanks for the replies and especially

How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-14 Thread Ivo Wever
-hoc solution: in what file should I put the commands that unmute the mixers? sincerely -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-14 Thread Ivo Wever
Simon Law wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: I'm assuming that you're using ALSA 0.9. Yes, I am. You should add the correct module lines (that you would put in modconf) in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 I couldn't gather the format of a module line from the alsa docs and it isn't

Solved: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-16 Thread Ivo Wever
Steven Yap wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: Simon Law wrote: You should add the correct module lines (that you would put in modconf) in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 I couldn't gather the format of a module line from the alsa docs and it isn't in the example. What should such a line look like? Here's

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-16 Thread Ivo Wever
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: If the other dists are so terrible that they can't even support the internet connection of a small group of people for three hours a day, then why is anyone using them and using them in a commercial environment at that? Ivo, there is no such thing

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-17 Thread Ivo Wever
ben wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: [snip] I think everyone agrees that Debians package and security update systems are better. Red Hats installation procedure is userfriendlier, but that doesn't explain why professionals use it. I question the claim that Red Hat provides better support (average

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Ivo Wever
? sincerely -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Ivo Wever
Patrick Wiseman wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: Why doesn't anyone follow the procedure outlined in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel-baking ? Other than use of 'fakeroot' (which I don't use because I'm happy becoming root having started with Slackware

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-18 Thread Ivo Wever
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: It's written in geek. The mainboard has a built-in AC'97 4Ch Codec, provides an AMR slot... People consider this geek? sincerely, -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: lilo warnings because it isn't sure my computer is new?

2002-06-18 Thread Ivo Wever
/kernel/0111.3/1204.html sincerely, -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-19 Thread Ivo Wever
' command is for? sincerely, -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound problems...

2002-06-19 Thread Ivo Wever
, if that matters. Can anyone help? I have about the same setup with the via8233 driver. XMMS doesn't work, but alsaplayer does, so I think you should try it :) sincerely, -- Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble