Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:34:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: I'm sick to death of this voting business. Sarge will be released When It's Ready, and not a moment sooner ... The vote isn't about whether it's ready, it's about whether to discard the current Sarge and start from scratch. ... If

Re: Anyone using GNUstep?

2004-07-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
Running GNUstep applications under fluxbox works fine. After all the clutter of the major environments and wrestling with the quirks of so many other windowmanagers, fluxbox seems a joy of simplicity and compactness. About the only extra detail I need in a windowmanager - a simple digital

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Brian Astill
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:54 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Is that what you wanted? Well - it's certainly on topic! :-) this is what I find: # dict -d moby-thesaurus quit moby-thesaurus is not a valid database, use -D for a list No definitions found for quit and: # dict -D moby-thesaurus Databases

Re: Unknown root partition type?

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:04:49PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Norman Walsh said There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only one experiencing the problem.

Re: Unknown root partition type?

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only one experiencing the problem. Did I miss something, or is it still unresolved? It is still

Re: Custom Debian distro

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:51:54PM +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: Hi, Searched about this in gmane, but couldn't find much useful stuff. If I remember correctly, there was a post by someone, who had written a comprehensive document on building custom Debian distros. Specifically, some members

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:12, Brian Astill wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:54 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Is that what you wanted? Well - it's certainly on topic! :-) this is what I find: # dict -d moby-thesaurus quit moby-thesaurus is not a valid database, use -D for a list No definitions

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 04 July 2004 12:12 am, Brian Astill wrote: moby-thesaurus.dict.dz doesn't seem to contain them (or at least I haven't found a way to unpack it. Arc (in KDE) shows only the one file within moby-thesaurus.dict.dz You should be able to get it to go with the .dict.dz and the .index

Re: Anyone using GNUstep?

2004-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:08:22 -0400, Ed Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the GNUstep approach to applications, but am not crazy about the windowmanagers -- windowmaker and nextstep. Are there any better windowmangers for GNUstep? I think AddressManager is far better (at least for me)

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thomas Adam: I'm sick to death of this voting business. Sarge will be released When That's a very good point. For those who _just can't wait_ for sarge to go stable, I say nuts to you! There are many options for you, including sarge and sid, and Libranet, Xandros, Morphix, ...

Re: modules_image

2004-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 01:01:05 -0400, Paul Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I'm trying to recompile a kernel with make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image . However, the process terminates without any errors and there is not modules.deb package. I just installed sid though a nework install.

Re: debootstrap umount bug - workarounds?

2004-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Malcolmson wrote: Is debootstrap completely unusuable pending a fix for bug #253387 (multiple umount errors after packages retreived) or does anyone know of a workaround for this? The umount errors are harmless warning messages (bug #253468). Whatever bug dannf ran into, it's not

Re: Fonts in Open Office not anti aliased

2004-07-03 Thread Silvan
the solution. I found a document though with which you can see if open office is using anti aliased fonts: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/aa_test.sxw That test isn't reliable. Arial and Helvetica are obviously identical here, but the fonts are most assuredly antialiased, as

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not mistaken the X version in debian, despite being 4.3 is more in the direction of a pre version of 4.4 (just before the license change). no judging by the bug-reports. It's 4.3 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

Re: SB Live! 5.1 - Can not make the rear channels working

2004-07-03 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 03 July 2004 05:35 am, LeVA wrote: I'm asking for help, to make the rear speakers working with this sb live card. I have no idea how to control them independently from the front speakers, but I have all five working. I run ALSA rather than OSS. I have an RCA cable plugged into a

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread S.D.A.
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:32:04AM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: I couldn't care less when sarge goes stable. Take your time guys. No rush! You did such a great job on woody, it would be a shame to give up on it now. :-) Hear, Hear. I for one like the 'when it's ready

Re: Anyone using GNUstep?

2004-07-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
I've tried Afterstep. Good interface (the 'wharf' takes some getting used to) but was a bit flakey when I tried to run GNUmail -- the mail app's windows kept flickering. Ed Jon Dowland wrote: I gave the gnustep livecd a go the other day out of curiosity. Not bad but a bit skimpy. A while ago I

Re: Mono tutorial -- gtk-sharp?

2004-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Tom [Sat, Jul 03 2004, 02:16:11AM]: Today, I thought I'd give the Mono/Gtk# tutorial at www.gotmono.com/docs/gnome/bindings/gtk-sharp/getstart.html a shot, but compiling the very first tiny example yields errors (about not finding the assemblies 'gtk-sharp.dll' and

a problem about rcconf and other things

2004-07-03 Thread gxy98
Hello, I don't know when it happened. but now when i user rcconf and others such as dpkg-reconfigure locales, it looks like the picture below. It can work, but looks so urgly. I don't know wether it is a bug, or just my own problem. If anyone who has the same problem, please tell me the method to

Re: postfix + amavisd-new + clamscan

2004-07-03 Thread German Gutierrez
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:13:43 -0400, Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ran into some questions/problems with configuration amavisd-new and postfix and clamscan. --- AMAVIS + CLAMAV Jul 2 20:55:16 cling amavis[13330]: Using internal av scanner code for (primary) Clam

Re: a problem about rcconf and other things

2004-07-03 Thread Thomas Adam
--- gxy98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I don't know when it happened. but now when i user rcconf and others such as dpkg-reconfigure locales, it looks like the picture below. Looks like you've chosen the wrong locale you should put it back to something more sensible, or try: LANG=C

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-03 Thread Moshe Bergman
That's incorrect... my monitor supports 75hz: http://www.hyundaiq.com/pro_spec_q17.asp And I am not sure... but my eyes hurt sooner in 60hz Moshe Bergman Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: Ehm... If I remember correctly The optimal refreshrate for any LCD is 60 Hz. No need to go higher. It might

Re: Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-03 Thread Moshe Bergman
Well, I am editing the config file by hand... Also, seems ATI (fglrx) does not support xrandr, the program does not execute. xvidtune hungs when it attempts to load the ATI drivers, and if I request it not to load any modules, any change yeilds that the frequency is not supported... Moshe

udev question

2004-07-03 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, i was wondering if somebody could help me set up udev to make symlinks in a specific way... i have 2 mouse input devices... one is always connected (/dev/input/mouse1) and another is a usbmouse and appears as (/dev/input/mouseX), with X increasing every time i remove and reconnect it.

dma timeout retry: status=0x58

2004-07-03 Thread Owen Mehegan
Hello - The reason I'm submitting this to the Debian list is because this issue seems to be related to whatever kernel options Debian gives me, or perhaps the specific 2.4 version that Debian installs. In short, when I boot Red Hat 9 on this system, also using a 2.4 kernel, I don't seem to

Re: dma timeout retry: status=0x58

2004-07-03 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Owen Mehegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the system is warm booting, I get these errors when it tries to enable dma (pulled from dmesg so you can see context): using_dma= 1 (on) At your bootprompt, try booting with: linux nodma to see if that helps. If not, and the errors

Re: Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?

2004-07-03 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:27:07PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in | multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text. | | Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody,

Re: dma timeout retry: status=0x58

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:02:57PM -0400, Owen Mehegan wrote: Hello - The reason I'm submitting this to the Debian list is because this issue seems to be related to whatever kernel options Debian gives me, or perhaps the specific 2.4 version that Debian installs. In short, when I boot Red

Re: Modem connection speed

2004-07-03 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:04:35AM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, How can I know my modem's connection speed? I checked the /var/log/syslog and found some hex number from the /usr/bin/chat output. I'm guessing that's related (since it should be the handshake between the modems). But I'm

Re: exim4: Avoiding dynamic IP blacklists

2004-07-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 03 July 2004 08:10, Paul Johnson wrote: An article on vnunet reminds me that I was going to post how to get exim4 to go around those plain retarded DULs. I finally got around to it, and here it is. I do something similar but upside-down in the routers section (of my monolithic

Re: exim4: Avoiding dynamic IP blacklists

2004-07-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 03 July 2004 08:10, Paul Johnson wrote: An article on vnunet reminds me that I was going to post how to get exim4 to go around those plain retarded DULs. I finally got around to it, and here it is. Here are some more domains for the sample picky-hosts file, if you're interested.

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-03 Thread Ernest Johanson
Right. It can go in /etc/init.d or in /etc/network/interfaces. Probably better in interfaces so the rules are applied as soon as the interfaces are up. On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: Ernest Johanson wrote: Good refinement to tighten things up. Thanks. I thought it would be

Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-03 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-03, Tom Furie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:42:31AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: You can look at just read messages leaving unread messages untouched by finding only in the new directory. find ~/Mail/Maildir/new -type f -mtime +7 -print Don't you mean the

Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

2004-07-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have had lots of probs with this laptop and decided just to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Debian (for the first time ever - oh the shame) even tho all probs would be fixable - but I needed a working laptop. Anyway it's all working but KDE feels very slow, and looked up the

Re: Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:46:55PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have had lots of probs with this laptop and decided just to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Debian (for the first time ever - oh the shame) even tho all probs would be fixable - but I needed a working laptop.

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Brian Astill
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:31 am, Silvan wrote:  I have some experience fooling with the thing, but none of it recent enough to feed you exactly the right magic words. Yes, that's your/my problem. My files came from (apt) debian.org so that should be OK. Documantation seems not to cover magic

Re: Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

2004-07-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Hmmm good point - even using the bf24 kernel, the speed feels the same... I'm sure this should feel a little faster considering its a 750MHz CPU...? Or is it just KDE being bloaty? Thanks very much for your help! Cheers - Piers David Fokkema wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:46:55PM +0100,

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:50:01PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not mistaken the X version in debian, despite being 4.3 is more in the direction of a pre version of 4.4 (just before the license change). no judging by the bug-reports. It's

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 04 July 2004 08:36 am, Brian Astill wrote: refers to mthes.txt and roger13a.txt, neither of which are on my system. The dict man page gives syntax, but not original setup. Hrm. I just aptitude install dictd dict-wn dict-moby-thesaurus pointed KDict at it, and away I went.

Re: Mono tutorial -- gtk-sharp?

2004-07-03 Thread Tom
* [Saturday 03 July 2004 18:27] Eduard Bloch: www.gotmono.com/docs/gnome/bindings/gtk-sharp/getstart.html a shot, but compiling the very first tiny example yields errors (about not finding the assemblies 'gtk-sharp.dll' and 'glib-sharp.dll'. Don't follow deprecated guides. This method did

Re: Question about X Window Crashing

2004-07-03 Thread Haoyu Zhang
Dear Aaron, I have checked the configuration file. The screen section is like the one you gave me. However, its device and monitors are all set as generic. I am wondering that I may need to install the module for them. I also checked device and monitor section, they are all set to be generic.

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Brian Astill
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:58 pm, Silvan wrote: # Older dictionary database packages did not automatically invoke # /usr/sbin/dictdconfig upon installation and removal, so you may # need to do so manually (after which, you should restart dictd). Ah-Ha! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bra# ll

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-03 Thread Tom Allison
Ernest Johanson wrote: Right. It can go in /etc/init.d or in /etc/network/interfaces. Probably better in interfaces so the rules are applied as soon as the interfaces are up. I got the distinct impression that running firewall scripts using the /etc/network/if-up.d and /etc/network/if-down.d

Re: postfix + amavisd-new + clamscan

2004-07-03 Thread Tom Allison
German Gutierrez wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:13:43 -0400, Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to set the USERS in clamav and amavisd to be the same? I had the same problem, as long as I can remember I solved it adding the user clamav to the amavis group. I can try that easily

Re: debootstrap umount bug - workarounds?

2004-07-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On 2004-07-03, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The umount errors are harmless warning messages (bug #253468). Whatever bug dannf ran into, it's not prevented debootstrap from working fine in general in the month since he filed it, and it's probably not whatever problem you're running into.

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager on Debian?

2004-07-03 Thread A. Wrasman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:18:14AM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Has anyone installed and used the tivoli storage manager on debian unstable? I have to and don't know if the rpm's are working fine on debian, or has anyone .debs ? Been

Re: debootstrap umount bug - workarounds?

2004-07-03 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Andrew Malcolmson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and so on. Then install them. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once

xfree86 4.4.0 vs. XOrg?

2004-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- jack kinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Is Xfree86 4.4.0 available for Debian stable? If so, how do I download a copy? Read this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200403/msg03376.html (and follow-ups) So is XOrg

Re: Re: nVidia Control Panel?

2004-07-03 Thread jsass
where an i get of find the control panel. i have a ge force 5700 card.

Re: DULs considered harmful

2004-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 03 July 2004 08:10, Paul Johnson wrote: An article on vnunet reminds me that I was going to post how to get exim4 to go around those plain retarded DULs. I finally got around to it, and here it

Re: xfree86 4.4.0 vs. XOrg?

2004-07-03 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So is XOrg driver-compatible with xfree86? What do you mean by driver compatible? The changes made are to the modular tree (as you've read by that link). Can you be more specific, or elaborate. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic --

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-03 Thread Johan Kullstam
Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at a time, gets dozens of unexpected signal (source unknown) and gives up the ghost. questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:34:16 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sick to death of this voting business. Sarge will be released When It's Ready, and not a moment sooner. If that's too late for you, then tough. Either dist-upgrade to (the current) testing, or backport every

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: were voting on this topic. The developers decided they needed to address this issue (and I think they were right). Why does that trouble you so? It doesn't trouble me, per se. I just wish all the red-tape, squabbling, arguing would stop, so that a

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Metzler: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:34:16 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sick to death of this voting business. Sarge will be released When Uh, WTF? This concerns a vote the developers were having on what Marvelous. Excellent. Some of us are just

Re: xfree86 4.4.0 vs. XOrg?

2004-07-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So is XOrg driver-compatible with xfree86? What do you mean by driver compatible? The changes made are to the modular tree (as you've read by that link). Can you be more specific, or elaborate. Will XF86

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem (Solved)

2004-07-03 Thread Moshe Bergman
found the answer in: http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_refreshrate *_Question 4.5_*: /X is ignoring my modeline setting, or I can't get the refresh rate I want/ Try changing the IgnoreEDID setting in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to on. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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