Re: lost my Apps - Shells - bash option in Blackbox Menu

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0600, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Is there some magical command to regenerate the default menus? I haven't > added anything by editing the .blackbox-menu file or anything like that - > I've always been happy with how apt/dpkg managed it for me . . . . As root, ru

Re: gtk background

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:23:22PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I had to re-install, and suddenly some of the GTKGTK2 based apps are > very "dark". So set your GTK theme to a "brighter" one. Use gtk-theme-switch if you don't know how to do it yourself. > I've tried editing the ~/.gtkrc ~/.gtk

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-10 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:52:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > thanks, I will try that. > > Cheers > > Paul > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:10, David Jardine wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote

Re: APRS under Linux

2003-11-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Don't forget to subscribe to debian-hams mailing list very low traffic, but some of the pioneers of ham radio use in Linux are hanging around there in the shadows. Nate WY0X Dana J. Laude wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:12:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..excellent, tell

Re: [OT] routing failed

2003-11-10 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:51:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:10:52 +0100, > David Jardine wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:18:54AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:46:15 +0100, > > > David Jardine wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:51:46AM +080

Re: Using an IDE CD-writer via scsi emulation

2003-11-10 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Otto, I don't know how much this will help, but these are the exact steps I used to get my IDE CDRW working in debian... maybe you can run down these step again and see whether you missed anything? 1) Add SCSI Emulation support by running 'modconf' and selecting the 'ide-scsi' module 2) Add

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Hector
> > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a > > > > > pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local a

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-10 Thread John Peter
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:28:30 -0900, Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:55 pm, stan wrote: Am I mistaken? It depends, do you have KDE 2.x installed, or some other backport ? If so KDE 3 went into t

split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Jens Tobiska
When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've found an inconsistency. The original file consists of number - one per line - total 5*10^8. After `split -l 1000 foo' I have 50 files. In some of them, however a dot has been replaced by `<'. Is this a known problem? `foo'

G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-10 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all Does anyone know how to enable 3D acceleration / Open GL for my Matrox G550 AGP using Debian? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Re: Gaim needs kernel-headers ?]

2003-11-10 Thread John Peter
--- Begin Message --- On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:45:37PM +, John Peter wrote: > Hello all > > I would like to understand why, if someone has the time to explain it ... > > I have Sarge and 2.4.22 kernel ( installed and configured by me from > sources). > I allready had installed gaim_0.72-1

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:36:15AM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Does anyone know how to enable 3D acceleration / Open GL for my Matrox > G550 AGP using Debian? Sure. Make sure that whatever kernel you're using has support built for it, load the module, and start up X. Make sure you're loading t

Using dselect and apt - urgent

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Simpson
Hi, sorry to bother you with probably a very stupid question, but here goes. We have our website (aidu.mod.uk) now on our own webserver for the past 8 months. I use dselect to get updates for our system, however in all the months we have not had an update. I downloaded from the debian site in

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-10 Thread Danie Roux
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:29:30AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > However > > > > \-> cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [raid1] > > read_ahead 1024 sectors > > md1 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0] > > 305088 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > resync=DELAYED > > md0 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] >

Installing packages from source with apt

2003-11-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
What is the best way to compile and install packages from source with apt? I don't want to use "dpkg -i" once the packages are built (as suggested in the how-to) since dpkg doesn't check dependencies and may break the system (it did in the past...). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

ppp slow on home build kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Martijn Brouwer
I have a laptop that has a 56k6 pcmcia modem and runs debian testing. PPP does work, but when I use an 2.4.22 kernel that I compiled myself, the connection is very slow: only 1.5 kbyte/s for a compressed file. If I use a standard 2.4.22 debian kernel, I get 3.5 kbyte/s, which is still somewhat s

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Jens Tobiska wrote: > When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've > found an inconsistency. The original file consists of number - one per > line - total 5*10^8. After `split -l 1000 foo' I have 50 files. In > some of them, however a dot

Re: RAID Failure

2003-11-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya danie On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Danie Roux wrote: > > > md0 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] > > > 194000832 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > > [>] resync = 1.9% (3862080/194000832) > > > finish=82.4min speed=38421K/sec ... > > dont write any data to your disks ... while

Re: Motherboard ASUS a7v600: is anybody using this?

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 12:49, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Could I ask about the complete specs and costs of what you put together? > I have been eye'ing the Asus A7V600 also. These are the parts I was > looking at.. Off www.newegg.com > > $130 SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9600 256MB 8X AGP >

gnome root window (background) image?

2003-11-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
what sets the background image in sid's gnome? i set it in the background dialog found under desktop preferences menu, but it never takes affect. i end up resorting to running chbg in session startup programs. i have another machine though that does the background just fine with the one in prefe

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Jens Tobiska
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:19:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Jens Tobiska wrote: > > When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've > > found an inconsistency. The original file consists of number - one per > > line - total 5*10^8. After `spli

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 22:37 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jesse Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "debian-user"

Re[2]: No to wine!

2003-11-10 Thread Alexander Moiseev
Hello Roberto, Sunday, November 9, 2003, 2:08:44 PM, you wrote: >> 4. Wine. The crutch this is absolutely right, but right now that's the >> only way to play Windows-only games on Linux. And the better it is, the >> better we are for it. >> RS> I can agree with this. That's not right logic. Non

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-10 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello, Sure. Make sure that whatever kernel you're using has support built for it, load the module, and start up X. Make sure you're loading the dri module. Strange - as I've got 2 graphics cards and 3 monitors, an el cheapo TNT2 and the G550. The desktop "on" the TNT2 shows OpenGL application

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:05, Jens Tobiska wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:19:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Jens Tobiska wrote: > > > When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've > > > found an inconsistency. The original file consists

Re: gnome root window (background) image?

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:51, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > what sets the background image in sid's gnome? i set it in the Nautilus. -- Mark Roach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-10 Thread David Millet
thank you very very much to everybody that has helped me out with my upgrade problems, i'm going to give all your advice a try this morning. should be fun! david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 03 November 2003 23:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi all! > > I partitioned my new disk with parted. Runs great. > > However, when I run parted on it now he comes up with: > > No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! > Parted can't resize this (yet). I'm intere

Re: Using an IDE CD-writer via scsi emulation

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel B.
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: > ... > 1) Add SCSI Emulation support by running 'modconf' and selecting the > 'ide-scsi' module > 2) Add 'append="hdc=ide-scsi"' to the correct kernel image section > under the Kernel Command line options in lilo.conf > e.g. image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-o

Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-10 Thread Parfait BINI
Good morning Sir, My name's Parfait BINI, I got  a boot problem with my computer. I had a new RAM for playing Playstation games,when I start by Win98 iI don't have no problem but when I start by WindowsXP it shows me an error of imcompatibility. I've remove this RAM and since this day ,I no more

Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Chema
I often would find useful to stole the process from a tty wich is in a remote box, or to be able to see the output of a nohup'ed command, or to recuperate the process of a ssh session that got an abruptly end. Is there a way to relocate a process in a new terminal? Like "screen -d -r", but wit

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-10 Thread moseley
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:18:44PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Strange - as I've got 2 graphics cards and 3 monitors, an el cheapo TNT2 > and the G550. The desktop "on" the TNT2 shows OpenGL applications just > fine, but the desktops "on" the G550 won't show OpenGL applications, I've got a G

Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm setting up a new computer. I've installed Debian before, but it has never gone completely smoothly, i.e. with a minimum of commands typed, and zero steps re-done. I have a set of CDs. This time I'd like to install base system, X-windows, and Gnome, but *not* KDE. It seems to me that using dsel

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread moseley
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:01:18AM -0600, Chema wrote: > I often would find useful to stole the process from a tty wich is in a remote box, > or to be able to see the output of a nohup'ed command, or to recuperate the process > of a ssh session that got an abruptly end. > > Is there a way to rel

Problem with samba & win2k dfs

2003-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Absolute newbie, till yesterday I was able to connect my debian 3.0 testing client box to a windows 2000 fileserver share modifying the boxed smb.conf accordingly. Now, the computer people at my office set up a dfs win2k box and my linux client is no longer able to access the share, that is, I conn

Re: Installing packages from source with apt

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the best way to compile and install packages from source with > apt? > > I don't want to use "dpkg -i" once the packages are built (as suggested > in the how-to) since dpkg doesn't check dependencies and may break the > system (it did in the pa

Portable shell scripts

2003-11-10 Thread csj
Is there a way to write portable shell scripts. In particular, I've problems with built-ins setenv (tcsh) and export (bash). How do I define variables in tcsh and have them usable in bash too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-10 Thread csj
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:22:08 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > Anyway, it bugs me to have my music stop when I leave X. Is > > there way to run XMMS without X? Something in the spirit of > > abcde (the coolest wrapper in the world)? >

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Mueller
On Sunday 09 November 2003 03:48, Karsten M. Self wrote: > See: > >     http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/FreeSoftwarePrimer > > Both standards *and* free software matter. Nice link - thanks. I've been looking for something like this but I didn't know how to ask for it. I've read some things on the

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your output and mine agree except as follows: Yours:ttyS04 at port 0x7feo (IRQ = 10) is a 16550A Mine: ttyS04 at port 0xd000 (IRQ = 19) is a 16550A Which means you're modem is on Com5, IRQ 10. You sh

Re: Using dselect and apt - urgent

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
"Mike Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please set your mailer to post in plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. And don't include the word "urgent" in your subject line; everyone's question is "urgent" in some form or another

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:15:56AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is there a way to write portable shell scripts. In particular, > I've problems with built-ins setenv (tcsh) and export (bash). > How do I define variables in tcsh and have them usable in bash > too? I don't believe you can write anything usef

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-10 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:42:29PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > > > I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-10 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
I have come into this thread pretty late, but from what I understand, you are trying to get a modem to work. It's a PCI modem, and you can see it mentioned in the kernel as ttyS04. The problem, as I see it, is that you can't get the modem to respond to any calls from any programs? If I understan

Re: gtk background

2003-11-10 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:00:45 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:23:22PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I had to re-install, and suddenly some of the GTKGTK2 based apps are > > very "dark". > > So set your GTK theme to a "brighter" one. Use gtk-theme-switc

Major network problems

2003-11-10 Thread Jon Eisenstein
Ever since a power outage this weekend, I have no internet access in my Linux box (which is used as a network router). Even local loopback isn't working. After testing with help from #debian, it seems that ifconfig is acting up. When I try to ifup -v lo, I get the following: ifconfig lo 127

nice

2003-11-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
There was some discussion about nice -10 a few days ago and the question was how to set nice. The command is nice -10 . Reference debian "reference". In Linux: nice: Range -20 (Not nice) to 19 (Very nice) In English: Priority level: 1 to 39. For whomever cares; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

a few Qs about debian's apt

2003-11-10 Thread Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com
hi, a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys could help me answer them :) 1) does 'apt-get upgrade' upgrades: i) the kernel, ii) base apps iii) local apps (/usr/local) 2) where does apt-get saves all it package information? 3) is there a way to just upgrade the local

Re: Major network problems

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:02, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > Ever since a power outage this weekend, I have no internet access in > my Linux box (which is used as a network router). Even local loopback > isn't working. After testing with help from #debian, it seems that > ifconfig is acting up. When I try

Re: parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: I'm interested in this too, so I went looking a bit, and there are many people citing this message in the parted mailing list archives, but AFAICS no responses. So you can do anything else, no resizing. Yeah, well, I don't know if that is exactly the point, but accord

Re: Installing packages from source with apt

2003-11-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-10 11:15:26 -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > dpkg does *check* dependencies, it just doesn't go out of its way to > *correct* them. That is, dpkg shouldn't let you install a package if > its dependencies aren't already installed. If you never use a --force > option and your packages work,

Which apt source to use for Evolution?

2003-11-10 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I'd like to run the lasest possible version of Evolution available for my Debian Testing (Sarge) system. What apt source should I use? Google reports multiple sources, none of which were familiar, and Ximian itself appears to only have 1.2 available, when 1.4.5 is the current rev. TIA

Re: 2 Server in leafnode

2003-11-10 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > 1: What server is leafnode using, if the group is on both > > servers. > > Check the Path headers in question, it varies and I forget what the > deciding factors are. Where or what are they? - -- MfG usw Werner Mahr GPG-Key-ID 44B53C40 Registe

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:31:46PM -0600, Chema wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:01:49 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RW> > When I got to the boot loader options, I was surprised to find > RW> > only lilo. > RW> > RW> You need a default bootloader during the install. lilo works.

kernel-2.6.0-test9 & USB 2.0 Question

2003-11-10 Thread Thomas H. George
I purchased aSony USB DVD+R+RW and succesfully played a dvd movie but in spurts using an old system with only usb 1.0. Next I upgraded the system with an Albatron KX400-8XV motherboard and an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu. Same result. My 2.4.22 kernel doesn't support USB 2.0. Downloaded kernel-source

hardware detection on i386

2003-11-10 Thread tallison
I haven't done an install on Debian for about 4 years now. I recently played with a few other distriibutions and was impressed with their ability to do hardware detection auth-magically for me. I'm trying to get some feedback on how well Debian performs at being able to detect (and configure) har

EpoX board + nvidia nforce2 chipset + DMA for EIDE controller

2003-11-10 Thread e-bone
Does anyone know the story on EIDE DMA support on nvidia nforce2 boards ? I saw a kernel patch for this on the internet, but I'm just curious if anyone has tried it ? I am "stuck" using kernel 2.4.17 right now, so I am having to just go with the vesa video driver (I'm not a big gamer anyways). Fo

mplayer, ogle, unable to play DVD

2003-11-10 Thread Sudarshana N Koushik
Hi ppl, I have one CDR/W drive and one DVD drive. cdrecord -scanbus displays the foll. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-32123S ' 'XS0R' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) ' ATAPI ' '12X DVD-ROM ' '1.7B' Removable CD-ROM I also have append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in

Re: a few Qs about debian's apt

2003-11-10 Thread tallison
> hi, > > a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys > could help me answer them :) > > 1) does 'apt-get upgrade' upgrades: > i) the kernel, > ii) base apps > iii) local apps (/usr/local) > I'm probably not an expert here, but... apt-get upgrade will typically not upgrade

Re: Major network problems

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
Jon Eisenstein wrote: Ever since a power outage this weekend, I have no internet access in my Linux box (which is used as a network router). Even local loopback isn't working. After testing with help from #debian, it seems that ifconfig is acting up. When I try to ifup -v lo, I get the following

kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Chris Knoblock
hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this one. running unstable and trying to install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is giving me an error ldd: /lib/ld.linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (139) Failed to create initrd image. can anyone help with this? -cknobs

Re: a few Qs about debian's apt

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys > could help me answer them :) > > 1) does 'apt-get upgrade' upgrades: > i) the kernel, If the kernel was installed through package management it will be upgra

Re: Which apt source to use for Evolution?

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:29, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Team: > > I'd like to run the lasest possible version of Evolution available for my > Debian Testing (Sarge) system. What apt source should I use? Google > reports multiple sources, none of which were familiar, and Ximian itself > appears to

Re: hardware detection on i386

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't done an install on Debian for about 4 years now. > > I recently played with a few other distriibutions and was impressed with > their ability to do hardware detection auth-magically for me. > > I'm trying to get some feedback on ho

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:01:33AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:22:08 -0500, > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > > Anyway, it bugs me to have my music stop when I leave X. Is > > > there way to run XMMS without X? Something

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:46, Chris Knoblock wrote: > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this one. > running unstable and trying to install > kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is giving me an error > > ldd: /lib/ld.linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code > (139) > > Failed to create initrd imag

Re: a few Qs about debian's apt

2003-11-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 01:30:50PM]: > Somewhere in /var. Sorry for being stupidly vague, but I am not in front > of a Debian machine right now. /var/apt? /var/lib/apt > > 3) is there a way to just upgrade the local apps instead of all > > local/kernel/base at the same

Re: Re: Installing/Configuring SpamAssassin and ClamAV

2003-11-10 Thread BruceG
Just wanted to let you know that Paul Johnson's link helped quite a bit. I got exim4 and ClamAV running, and am able to reject (some) virii at smtp time. Think I'll hold off on rejecting spam until I get a beefier PC for the duty. I'm already swapping out of memory too much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

exim4 + fetchmail - duplicate mail in Inbox and in folders

2003-11-10 Thread BruceG
I think the list was discussing this last week, but I can't find it. Darn! Anyway - I am using Exim4 (with ClamAV) as my SMTP transport. I created some subfolders to group mail on the server. I am also using fetchmail to grab pop mail from my ISP, and also have an Exim .forward file to group my e-m

Re: nice

2003-11-10 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:55:22AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > There was some discussion about nice -10 a few days ago and the question was > how to set nice. The command is nice -10 . > Reference debian "reference". > In Linux: > nice: Range -20 (Not nice) to 19 (Very nice) Nice guys finish las

Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, In Gnome Volume Control 2.4.0, I try to set the volume, but get the error Unable to open audio device '/dev/mixer'. Please check that you have permissions to open 'dev/mixer' and that you have sound support in your kernel. Well The motherboard is a Shuttle FX41 that has Via KM266/VT837

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:22 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>>Your output and m

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:52 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > I have come into this thread pretty late, but from what I u

where does uname get its info from ...etc

2003-11-10 Thread john gennard
I got an unofficial snapshot .iso for Sarge, burned it to a CD and installed from the CD. The installaton was very basic, and I've been gradually and laboriously building it up by hand - this has been very educational and has taught me a great deal. Now as I was considering recompiling the kernel

Re: Spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Thanks, but I don't use procmail, I don't like it. :) Em Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:47:40 +0100 Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:28:34AM -0200, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:06:37 -0400 > > Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:29:38PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:46:33PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:32:47 +0200, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking Tom > > > > > > Try Scite, you'll

Re: a few Qs about debian's apt

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
"Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys could > help me answer them :) I notice you're asking a lot of questions about apt-get. It often can be a little difficult to figure out what apt-get is doing; a hig

Re: nice

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
"Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was some discussion about nice -10 a few days ago and the question was > how to set nice. The command is nice -10 . > Reference debian "reference". > In Linux: > nice: Range -20 (Not nice) to 19 (Very nice) > In English: > Priority level: 1 to 39

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:48:17 -0500 (EST) Parfait BINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning Sir, > My name's Parfait BINI, I got a boot problem with my computer. I had > a new RAM for playing Playstation games,when I start by Win98 iI don't > have no problem but when I start by WindowsXP it s

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Chris Knoblock
Here is what i type and output word for word: apt-get -u install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or

[ssh] KeepAlive

2003-11-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
My ssh sessions from my local Debian machine were closed when there was a route problem (or possibly after an ADSL reconnection), so I added the following to my .ssh/config: KeepAlive no This worked for several months, but since a few days, my ssh sessions get closed again (for the last one, I co

Re: parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:59, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: --snip-- > Yeah, well, I don't know if that is exactly the point, but according to > the GNU parted homepage, parted can only resize ext2, ext3 and reiserFS > partitions if the starting point remains fixed... I guess that's rarely > very useful

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:01, Chema wrote: > I often would find useful to stole the process from a tty wich is in a > remote box, or to be able to see the output of a nohup'ed command, or > to recuperate the process of a ssh session that got an abruptly end. > > Is there a way to relocate a process

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=meta-kde Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:46, Chris Knoblock wrote: > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this one. > running unstable and trying to install > kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is giving me an error > > ldd: /lib/ld.linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code > (139) > > Failed to create initrd imag

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:01:18AM -0600, Chema wrote: > > I often would find useful to stole the process from a tty wich is in > a remote box, or to be able to see the output of a nohup'ed command, > or to recuperate the process of a ssh sess

Re: Spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:37, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: > Em Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:47:40 +0100 > Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:28:34AM -0200, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:06:37 -0400 > > > Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Alsa with 2.6.0-test9

2003-11-10 Thread Martin
Hi everybody Since I've upgraded from 2.4.23 to 2.6.0-test9 I don't have sound anymore. Here's the environment: ASUS M2400N notebook, Intel i810 onBoard soundchip, debian sid and - as mentioned above - kernel 2.6.0-test9. I've compiled everything possible as module in the sound section. Now this i

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Chris Knoblock
cramfsprogs is already installed. no other warnings except for editing the lilo.conf for initrd. --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:46, Chris Knoblock wrote: > > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this > one. > > running unstable and trying to install

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-10 Thread Cam Ellison
* Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any > > Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. > It's there, all right, and so is KDE2. Don't try to install KDE3 from scra

Re: Alsa with 2.6.0-test9

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:48, Martin wrote: > Hi everybody > > Since I've upgraded from 2.4.23 to 2.6.0-test9 I don't have sound > anymore. Here's the environment: ASUS M2400N notebook, Intel i810 > onBoard soundchip, debian sid and - as mentioned above - kernel > 2.6.0-test9. > I've compiled every

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:59, Chris Knoblock wrote: > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:46, Chris Knoblock wrote: > > > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this > > one. > > > running unstable and trying to install > > > kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is gi

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Vincent Lefevre said on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:00:09PM +0100: > This worked for several months, but since a few days, my ssh sessions > get closed again (for the last one, I could see in the logs that it > was closed during an ADSL reconnection). So, I did some tests with > "ssh -v" and the follow

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 & USB 2.0 Question

2003-11-10 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:48:50AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I purchased aSony USB DVD+R+RW and succesfully played a dvd movie but in > spurts using an old system with only usb 1.0. > > Next I upgraded the system with an Albatron KX400-8XV motherboard and an > Athlon XP 2000+ cpu. Same r

Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Lynn W.
How do I activate sound so I can play music files in KDE using XMMS? I did a basic install of Debian 3.0 Woody, and after successfully configuring web server type stuff, decided to see how to get a desktop environment up and running out of curiosity. So I installed x-window-system, kde, kdm and xm

Re: Alsa with 2.6.0-test9

2003-11-10 Thread Martin
Hello Thanks for the reply. I think I was wrong in the last mail: I didn't compile everything in the sound section: i.e. I just compiled the alsa-subsection (with oss-emulation) and I have most of these packages you've mentioned installed. So, what else could it be? Thanks anyway Martin On Mon, 2

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

2003-11-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-10 13:24:28 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Have you looking into ClientAliveInterval? ssh v2 has a built-in > keepalive mechanism that dodges some of the problems with regular > TCP keepalive, and you probably need to disable both of them to get > what you want. This option doesn't exist

something wrong with kernel source 2.4.22?

2003-11-10 Thread mbc
* Please reply to me as I'm not on this list * Hi. So, I'm trying to build a kernel so that I can compile some modules I need for my wireless card to work. I want to disable modversions in my kernel so that the madwifi modules and the bcm4400 module won't complain about unresolved symbols just be

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: You are on target however there is some question, in my mind at least, where the modem is installed in linux. KDE says it is d000-d007 others say it should be ttyS04 and ttyS4 my system seems to list ttyS? as TTYS??. Windows XP installed it on com4, which impilys that it should

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
David Palmer. wrote: Perhaps you might like to try Debian? Debian isn't arrogant at all. ROTFL!!! (Okay, out of context, but still, that was funny!) :-) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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