Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:21:09AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:26:50AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:40:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: If version numbers don't describe precisely that, what does? [ snip, etc. ] I have nothing

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Nathan E Norman said: Sorry for yelling, but this whole debian is hard to install thing drives me crazy. Call me an elite bastard, but I still feel if debian is too hard to install, you shouldn't be installing it. Mandrake et al exist for a reason. well of course there are always

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:30:09PM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Nevermind that my change X or rework X is at the exact same level of the explanation you've given your solution. Difference is, it is already coded. I've thrown out

Re: Disable mozilla plugins selectively

2003-03-25 Thread Simon Piette
Hi, http://www.privoxy.org/ is a good solution. It's the following of junkbuster. You can disable a plugin by default, and you can re-enable them site by site. Since it will change the HTML code embedding the flash file, so more messages about a missing plugin. Also, I think more recent versions

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-25 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:51:35PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-03-23T22:27:37Z, Raju Kurunkad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For laughs, you can read thru the Bastard operator from hell archives at http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html That was written as *humor*? I'd thought it was a

Re: X

2003-03-25 Thread Glenn English
Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does this. You install xdm and the defualt is to boot straight into a graphical login. Why?? At the very least it should ask you when installing if you want to start up into X. Well said. Debian assumes you

Re: please help - can't get Open Inventor demos to build - missing /make/ivcommondefs

2003-03-25 Thread Lukas Latz
Done. (Wow, my first bug report. Hope I did it right) --- Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case I guess you should submit a bugreport against the inventor-demo package. On Tuesday 25 March 2003 13:27, Lukas Latz wrote: Hi list, Well, I guess running Open Inventor is sort

Bug: install /etc/fstab order

2003-03-25 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I would like to report a bug and need help in determining how to format it and where to send it. The website is helpful but I don't know the right package and am following the recommended procedure. I did an install and mounted /var/lib before mounting /var. I mounted / first and then

Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Lukas Latz
Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root, which I found especially useful in the beginning when I was setting up lots of stuff. Normally I log in as a normal user but sometimes I need to su to root and would like to start for instance an editor, or something

Re: no audio cds

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:57:49AM +1100, CaT wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device (that is, /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:15, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:28:03AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies installation for the first time in 2 1/2 years.

RE: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, Try ifconfig -a Do you see both nics? If not, do modconf and install the second nic Willem-Jan Meijer Netherlands -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Juan dominguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 25 maart 2003 15:59 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Multiple network

Re: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Organ Grinder
Hi Are you wanting to add another IP to your existing network card? or are you trying to install another network card to use another IP? if your wanting to add another IP to an existing network card the eth1 should be eth0:1 otherwise you'll need to load the module for the new card using

Re: Alpha setup

2003-03-25 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Vittorio wrote: I installed a perfectly working debian 3.0 on a EV5 Compaq Alpha WS, running the 2.2.20 boxed kernel image. Now I've been trying to install the 2.4.18 (or better the new 2.4.20) kernel image but I've been invariably ending up in a kernel panic. I think that the problem is that I

Re: my helvetica looks ugly

2003-03-25 Thread Gavrila
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:59, Roman Joost wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:01:06AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 19.28 schrieb Roman Joost: I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. I had the same problem after some apt-get upgrade'ing. A

updating KDE menus

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Paige
First, even though I'm using KDE, I do think this is a debian question. Whenever I install a new app, the KDE menus get updated. Cool. Better than I've seen in other distros. However, some apps I install aren't debian packages. How do I update the KDE menus to see my new apps? I've been able

RE: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Juan dominguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multiple network interfaces Hello everybody I have installed debian 3.0 in my PC. After that I recompiled the kernel (version 2.4.4). The

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:40, Paul Johnson wrote: Just because a package moves from 1.x to 2.x or 3.x gives no indication of any major changes. They are just version numbers. Actually, when the major number changes, that's generally an indication that something big has changed. I hate

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks EXACTLY!!! Sorry for yelling, but this whole debian is hard to install thing drives me crazy. Call me an elite

Problems. May be xterm from XFree86 4.3 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I install XFree86 4.3 version from http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386 and now I have problems - X resetup when I try load xterm. What I have in log: (I do not know who is culprit: kernel or XFree) Mar 23 08:13:34 pupkin kernel: printing eip:

Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

2003-03-25 Thread Conrad Newton
From Robert Bj=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F6rn ?= on Tuesday, 2003-03-25 at 13:41:49 +0100: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi I'm not sure whether this has been brought up before, but I searched the mailing list archives and couldn't quite find anything that seemed relevant to my situation.

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbee-ish X and root question Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root, which I found especially useful in

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
-Original Message- From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:28 AM To: debuser Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks A week ago, I was setting up a new box (well, new as Debian - had been Win98 and RH) and got to try the Debian boot-floppies

Did the exim upgrade break my outgoing email?

2003-03-25 Thread stan
I saw a exim upgrade come by in the last couple of days on my testing machine, and now my outgoing email is broken. I run a internal DNS domain for my home network, and my mail is getting rejected by my upstream realy, because it's showing up as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is this caused by the

kudos - Re: help with playing a midi file

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:03:40AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: [ snipped extensive AWE discussion ] Many thanks, that was the spark I needed to get MIDI on my AWE32 working again. Getting hold of synthgm.sbk was the most time consuming part. I recommend www.filesearching.com, which gave me a

web preferred to attachments (was Re: my helvetica looks ugly)

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Roman Joost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 00:17 PST]: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:01:06AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 19.28 schrieb Roman Joost: I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. I had the same problem after some apt-get upgrade'ing

Re: Bug: install /etc/fstab order

2003-03-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:11 AM 3/25/2003 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote: I would like to report a bug and need help in determining how to format it and where to send it. The website is helpful but I don't know the right package and am following the recommended procedure. How to report a bug in Debian

Re: setting up RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lindsay i seen you been doing some homework On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lindsay Yardley wrote: G'day all, I'm setting up a RAID1 set in debian 3r0. I checked /proc/mdstat got the following: Personalities: [raid1] notice ... [raid1] read_ahead not set unused devices: none hmmm,

FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?

2003-03-25 Thread stan
Is there any way to retrieve mail from a web based mail service, and feed it to. let's say procmail? Here's the scenario. My companby has recently changed from providing POP2 based mail acces to a web browser based solution. I was using fetchmail to retireve tha mail and pass it on to sendmail

Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Bona
Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new functionality. Thanks Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Brian
Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do uname -a. My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Kirk Strauser said: Frankly, *I* have to look up my keyboard specs when I install X (which happens, maybe, once every 1.5 years or so), because the answer isn't nearly as straightforward as just counting the physical buttons. Frankly, *I* am a lazy son of a bitch so I don't look up the

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:02 am, Sharninder wrote: hi, My apologies for asking this oft repeated question again, but i could'nt find anything on the archives which could solve my problem.Firstly I am a Debian newbie (kind of). I have the seven

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-25 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably

Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread stan
I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was about how we had time synched all the *NIX boxes. Somewhere in the middle of the discussion, it became quite clear that he simply _did not understand_ the concept of obtaining a peice of software that he did not have to pay

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 01:23:44 -0700 Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Nope. metalab.unc.edu is now ibiblio.org (but requests are forwarded) and the debian directories aren't there. I changed that and I still get: Err ftp://ibiblio.org unstable/main Packages Unable to fetch file,

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 selfmade stops at make modules_install on debian3.0

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:12:51 +0100 Alexander Bruns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, on my debian box the debian-kernel 2.4.18-686 by woody is installed. I tried to kompile a 2.4.20 kernel, but it fails. Then I tried to kompile a 2.4.18 myseld, but it fails too. why does make_modules install

Re: SOLVED: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:30:10 -0500 John Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Tillman suggested... Check out people.debian.org/~blade, I think there is a later greater bf24 version there. And it worked perfectly! Well, still didn't recognize the D-Link that it should have, but the

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need Help: Problems with the netinstaller ... Installing Debian on a SAMSUNG Q10 was Firewire Install

2003-03-25 Thread mkamp
Hi there, I failed installing debian from a firewire cdrom and tried to use the official netinstaller with not much of a success. selected net from the boot prompt. configure network hardware - 4 low - detect hw? yes - Load 3c59x? yes - parameter - empty - 2 - Configure DHCP -

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

2003-03-25 Thread Barry.R
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 12:02, Sharninder wrote: hi, snip Now i got the kde3.1 backport from ktown.kde.org/~nolden .. on a CD. I put the line to that in my sources.list and did an apt-get updatewhich was successful (because it did'nt show any errors !!). Now how do i upgrade kde2.2 to

Re: Bug: install /etc/fstab order

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:11:57AM -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote: I would like to report a bug and need help in determining how to format it and where to send it. The website is helpful but I don't know the right package and am following the recommended procedure. The correct package for this

Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

2003-03-25 Thread Robert Björn
Hello Conrad, Thanks for your advice. I will keep the -s option in mind next time. My Debian installation still seems to be working, despite that apt-get took a lot of stuff from unstable. I hope my good luck continues. The reason that I took KDE from unstable was because I thought it was the

Re: FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:28, stan wrote: Is there any way to retrieve mail from a web based mail service, and feed it to. let's say procmail? Here's the scenario. My companby has recently changed from providing POP2 based mail acces to a web browser based solution. I was using fetchmail

Solved - Fwd: Need Help: Problems with the netinstaller ... Installing Debian on a SAMSUNG Q10 was Firewire Install

2003-03-25 Thread mkamp
Hi, I finally got the firewire thing up and running, so this issue is not important to me anymore. Cheers, Mariano --- Weitergeleitete Nachricht / Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:41:43 +0100 (MET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need Help: Problems with

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I like that debian runs on several different arches; I can log into lorien (my i386 server) or aglarond (my ultra 60) and for the most part, I see no difference (except the ultra 60 kicks more ass). Commands are the same, file locations are the same ... it's a dream: one that no other *nix

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:57, Michael Bona wrote: Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new functionality. Thanks Michael It is a wild idea, but I can see Mozilla.org's own installer

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:32:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine till now. If you don't have hdparm

Re: Kernel Recompile Issue

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:58:42 -0600 Irish, Jon D MEVATEC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recompiled my kernel to get sound working. I used 2.4.20, and sound is now working fine :-) However, my network connection is now dead. I selected it when I compiled the kernel (it is a 3com 3c905C), and

RE: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: smbmount Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do uname -a. My problem is I

Re: X

2003-03-25 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:46:54PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: snip results of confusion caused by loose use of X and xdm Hmmm, I've been arguing a different point. I should have read the entire message first (I though I did, but then found more as I replied). A lot of what I have

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got a new question based on the adjacency of partitions. This is the partition table as it is: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 hdb5 hdb6 the hda disk is where windows lives (for my dad) the /tmp is on hdb3, /home is on /hdb5 the

Re: Need Help: Problems with the netinstaller ... Installing Debian on a SAMSUNG Q10 was Firewire Install

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:41:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I failed installing debian from a firewire cdrom and tried to use the official netinstaller with not much of a success. That's not really the official installer, it's the development installer provided for people to help test

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Kent West
Brian wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do uname -a. My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt

Re: Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 11:27 PST]: I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was about how we had time synched all the *NIX boxes. Somewhere in the middle of the discussion, it became quite clear that he simply _did not understand_ the concept

Re: Boot Disk

2003-03-25 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Didier Caamano wrote: Greetings: =20 I was wondering how can I crete a book disk (in Woody) in a floopy for an= =20 old 486 that do not boot from the CD. =20

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:14:05AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-03-25T15:05:08Z, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, if someone doesn't know how many keys ones keyboard has, _and_ he doesn't know how to count them, then I doubt he should be using a computer at all.

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread also . cute . and . fluffy
I'll offer apologies up top if there's anything funky about the way in which this posting is formatted: it is largely out of my control until I get Exim4 running, because it is sent via the WWW ATTWorldNet emailer interface from MSDoze95. I have no control over how that software mutilates my

Re: i can not start x from screen session

2003-03-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Kent West said... Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: i am unable to start x from a screen session. it exits with a message 'user not authorized to run x server'. how can i remedy it? will i be opening a security hole if i overcome this problem? Look at the allowed users= line

Upgrading to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm currently running a system with NO RAID of any kind, software or hardware. I've ordered a new RAID board from 3ware as per a recommendation on here a while ago. (Thanks Brandon! :) I had thought briefly about doing software RAID before realizing that I have no more free IDE ports, so it

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know what's going on since the syslog shows that after each DHCPREQUEST there is a DHCPOFFER from the correct server. That's broken server behaviour. The server is supposed to respond with either a DHCPACK or a DHCPNAK (or not respond

Re: Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread Jamin Collins
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:47:57PM -0500, stan wrote: Somewhere in the middle of the discussion, it became quite clear that he simply _did not understand_ the concept of obtaining a peice of software that he did not have to pay for :-( (snip) I would like to provide him with a gentle

smartsuite obsolete?

2003-03-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
I searched the last quarter for the user and main developer list and didn't see any note about this: smartsuite has gone missing from all but woody. Is there a reason? For those who don't know it, smartsuite looks at drives' SMART diagnostics and warns if a drive is ready to fail. The

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Lukas Latz
Barry, su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that makes the difference? Thanks! Lukas --- deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:31 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new functionality. These are the entries from my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src

RE: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Juan dominguez
I physically add another NIC, but when I try modconf it doesn't show themodule of the NIC becouse it was compiled as a part of the kernel so i can't loadthis module but the other NIC is working (bothNIC's are the same model) thanks for yopur cooperation! "deFreese, Barry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

emacs and error message

2003-03-25 Thread Stefano Calza
Hi. When I start emacs on testing I get this message: No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove it. How can I configure emacs not to ask for that file? TIA, Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM To: deFreese, Barry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Newbee-ish X and root question Barry, su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that makes the

Re: Woody and 2.4 kernel

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On 22 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0700 Blake Covarrubias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, Linux Junior has a good PET on compiling a kernel from source on Debian. http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/pet.cgi?SUBMIT=Displayid=12 From my experiences it also works on Woody and Sid. Good luck. There's

Stuck with vesa framebuffer not working

2003-03-25 Thread Frédéric Dumont
I have a Compaq Presario 2520. When I try to load the vesafb module, I always get an error: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/vesafb.o: init_module: No such device or address Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Lukas Latz
--- deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Lukas Latz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM To: deFreese, Barry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Newbee-ish X and root question Barry, su -m surely does it. So what

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread David Fokkema
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know what's going on since the syslog shows that after each DHCPREQUEST there is a DHCPOFFER from the correct server. That's broken server behaviour. The server is supposed to respond with either a DHCPACK or a DHCPNAK (or not

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 March 2003 09:16 am, Brian wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do uname -a. My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: ERROR: smbfs

Re: output of a2ps

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:51:50 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sometimes, a2ps will output to stdout, other times it will send the output directly to the default printer (even without -d). how can i control this. i'd like to make a2ps send to stdout at all times, unless, of

ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Christof Hurschler
newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in woody: how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my cdroms and zip i.e. Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 14.A Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI

Re: KDE not working in sid

2003-03-25 Thread florin gheorghiu
For better visualization of the installed or not installed pkgs try synaptin(apt-get install synaptic). Then you can try kdebase 3.1 kdebin 3.1 and so on always with 3.1. For starting, the started script is in /etc/kde3/debian/startkde.. Bonne chance ! From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

2003-03-25 Thread csj
At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:54:52 +, Klaus Imgrund wrote: re-encoding may not work for the same reasons copying with mencoder didnt. Plus the reason I want to do it is to prevent reencoding, I mean I could reencode with mencode as well to a smaller screen or lower resolution and get a

Re: Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman details at: http://www.fsf.org/doc/book13.html maybe not gentle but certainly effective. stan wrote: | I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was |

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lukas Latz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 13:21 PST]: Barry, su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that makes the difference? Two things. Environment variables, to be precise. The two in question are DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY. The former tells X clients where

Mozilla Calendar servers

2003-03-25 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Anyone know of free/opensource software that will function as a server for the Mozilla calendar? Just found the client tool in the nightly build -svg- build. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since this post, I contacted my ISP and they say they can see my REQUEST, and hey! Yes, there goes the ACK! Another REQUEST, another ACK! But somehow, I don't receive them. I use tcpdump options | dhcpdump and that works perfectly, I can see all DHCP

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New Creating Custom Kernels newbiedoc

2003-03-25 Thread kjmck
A new version of Creating Custom Kernels With Debian's Kernel-Package System is available at: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html I'm interested in feedback, especially about mistakes or useability issues. Thank you, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:52:18 +0100 Martin Kacerovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for hints about compiling a new kernel see Linux Kernel HOWTO ( packages usually needed : gcc binutils make libncurses5-dev ) For better hints check out the kernel compiling newbiedoc:

Re: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:58, Juan dominguez wrote: Hello everybody I have installed debian 3.0 in my PC. After that I recompiled the kernel (version 2.4.4). The network interface module is part of the kernel. I have a network interface working successfull, but I want to install another

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 13:59 PST]: Hello, Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got a new question based on the adjacency of partitions. This is the partition table as it is: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 hdb5 hdb6 the hda disk is where windows

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Lukas Latz said... Barry, su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that makes the difference? The difference is $HOME. If you use just 'su', your user environment is inherited by the root shell, except for some variables that get replaced by su. One

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-25T20:18:48Z, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed. Whenever a program tells me to 'press any key', I always first try shift, control and alt. Usually, the message is clearly wrong Have you found any correct programs other than, say, xev? :) Good question. My guess

Re: Kernel Recompile Issue

2003-03-25 Thread Mauricio Coloma
has to entry in modconfig and edit modprobe with values io=0x340 and irq=14 excuse my English - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Recompile Issue On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:58:42 -0600 Irish, Jon D

PCMCIA package stops working w/new kernel

2003-03-25 Thread Brian
Hi, I just finished compiling a new kernel. I was using a 2.2.20 kernel and now I'm using the 2.4.20 kernel. Unfortunately, my PC Card doesn't work with this new kernel. If you have any ideas why the PC Card would stop functioning after creating and using a new kernel please let me know.

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Basically, if someone doesn't know how many keys ones keyboard has, _and_ he doesn't know how to count them, then I doubt he should be using a computer at all. Devil's advocate: A new user may not know whether to count every single key. For example, shift doesn't do anything at

Re: emacs and error message

2003-03-25 Thread csj
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:49 +0100, Stefano Calza wrote: When I start emacs on testing I get this message: No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove it. How can I configure emacs not to ask for that file? Why not just create it? As

RE: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: smbmount -- So, my little one-eyed one, on what POOR, PITIFUL, DEFENSELESS planet has my .. MONSTROSITY .. been UNLEASHED? -

Re: opera browser

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:30AM -0700, Blake Covarrubias wrote: Well, it works. :) Doesn't segfault on startup like the first preview release did. :) For various definitions of works, yeah. :) For instance, the quicksearch bar is dead, and the 'g search terms' in the url bar trick

Re: Upgrading to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yu're barking up the same tree i did a couple weeks ago if you're using the 3-ware 7500-x series.. - connect the drives - run their silly utility to make the raid device ( or play with it as a jbod first: sda ... sdh ) ( and its software

Re: Upgrading to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Alex Malinovich said: drive. What I'm interested in, however, is if there is any way to insert a drive with pre-existing data into an array. That is, attach my current drive and one new drive to the board, and have the striping done automatically with current data as part of a startup routine

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Brian wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do uname -a. My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Lukas Latz said: Oops, sorry for that, I never knew.. The DISPLAY env seems to have some hidden aspects that I'll have to read up on. When I do su (without -m) and then set DISPLAY=0:0 by hand, it doesn't cut it. Thanks, thats because the X server requires authentication to connect to it by

Threading broken mailing list and mutt

2003-03-25 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm subscribed to a mailing list that seems to break just about every rule of heard people fight bitterly over on this list :) The main thing I would like it to do is to thread properly, but The in-reply the headers are stuffed: ie: original message: Message-Id: date [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:06:59PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: [..] apt-get install smbfs He posted error output of 'smbmount' command, which is part of smbfs package along with 'smbumount' ... So I guess he has 'smbfs' package installed :) Bye. --

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