suspend to disk and sound

2004-07-04 Thread Scetbon Cyril
Hi, I use kernel 2.6.7, and there's no matter when i suspend to disk. But when I resume, I'm no longer able to hear something. I've found a solution by compiling support for sound in modules and reloading all of the modules needed after resume. Any other idea to have the sound working correctly ?

Re: beep in console

2004-07-04 Thread Scetbon Cyril
Wayne Topa wrote: Scetbon Cyril([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I run scripts in my crontab but i'm not able to generate a beep in console mode. I tried echo -e '\a' but no success while I can use sound. Is there a pbm with my PC Speaker ? Yoy did not mention what kernel you are usin

what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-04 Thread cwinl
hi all, i'm confused about several aptitude param. thank you all. -- P4/2.4B ELSA 528/128 512MB DDR333 240GB MSI 845PE BenQ FP557s Pioneer DVD-120A LG GCE-8320B -- http://www.cwinl.com/ http://forum.lnnu.edu.cn/

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Owen Jones wrote: Hi! spent ages installing debain and it all went well and i was excitted thinking that it was going to work so well, but no. When the computer re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 90... when i tried to run the OS on the HD. This is a lilo error isnt

Re: keyboard (console?) problem

2004-07-04 Thread Johannes Resch
[please CC me on replies] On Sun, July 4, 2004 at 17:13, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Johannes Resch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Deferring virtual terminal setup until console accessible. >> pluto:/usr/local/bin# > > Where are you running this command from? Is it from an xterm, or a VT. If > you s

downloaded txt.iso file: how to make a bootable cdimage out of it??

2004-07-04 Thread steef van duin
hello out there, i should appreciate some illuminating help with the following problem: for some reasons i temporarily fell back for work on woody, standard vanilla kernel. yesterday i downloaded an official .iso file from woody (first cd) for a friend of mine. i only can get this on my harddis

Re: Highpoint htp374 HD controller install problem

2004-07-04 Thread Christopher Townson
Thanks, Mark. The HPT can be "disabled" so that HDs are (presumably) run through southbridge, as you suggest. I'm dual-booting with winxp at the moment, though (boo, hiss :D) and I have found in the past that doing this causes terrible and inexplicable stability problems in windows (no surprise

Re: problem with invisible/disappearing files - but inodes there

2004-07-04 Thread invader_zim
Hi Simon, Sorry, forgot to cc the list. I found that there are files larger than 1 byte in size: stampy:/mnt/backup/tmp/CGI_Cache# ls -l register.cgi/f/9/6 total 0 debugfs: ls -l register.cgi/f/9/6 302792 40777 (2) 33 334096 18-Mar-2004 18:56 . 286856 40777 (2) 33 33

Re: set proxy with socks5 to use apt-get

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
dbosz wrote: > my company LAN use proxy with socks 5 authentification > . How to set apt-get to through this proxy server to > go to Internet. I tried this > set http_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port" > set ftp_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port" > but it not working. I have a similar arrangement. I hav

Re: problem with invisible/disappearing files - but inodes there

2004-07-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We have an unusual problem with 'invisible' and disappearing files: some files are > not > visible in a directory using 'find' or 'ls' on the directory, yet they > are visible using tools such as 'debugfs' or if you know the actual n

Re: kppp problem

2004-07-04 Thread Ralph Bacolod
Have you tried running kppp as root? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge distribution). > The same connection using command line utility (pppconfig and pon) > works just fine. With KPPP program attempts to connect (login > scri

problem with invisible/disappearing files - but inodes there

2004-07-04 Thread invader_zim
Hi, We have an unusual problem with 'invisible' and disappearing files: some files are not visible in a directory using 'find' or 'ls' on the directory, yet they are visible using tools such as 'debugfs' or if you know the actual name of the file, you can use 'ls' to list it explicitly. For insta

Re: Re: sendmail and procmail , spamassaign

2004-07-04 Thread Amrita Priyadarsini
Hi, I have installed spamassassin & procmail in my system. However when I try to start the spamd daemon,it gives the following error.. "Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /opt/perl5/lib/5.6.1/Cwd.pm line 92." Any help in this matter is welcome.. Warm Regards, Amrita

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-04 Thread Vadik
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an ftp server which I can utilize for backups. I can not modify anything on that server. This looks to be a very simple exercise in scripting, if nothing else. Have you taken a look at "kbackup" (I assume not): http://kbacku

kppp problem

2004-07-04 Thread Tadek
I am having a problem with KPPP (2.1.4 KDE 3.2.2 sarge distribution). The same connection using command line utility (pppconfig and pon) works just fine. With KPPP program attempts to connect (login script's debug window displays series of AT commands and responses with the last one CONNECT 45333

Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-04 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member organization, and I want to adapt the Standard Resolution

set proxy with socks5 to use apt-get

2004-07-04 Thread dbosz
Hi.. my company LAN use proxy with socks 5 authentification . How to set apt-get to through this proxy server to go to Internet. I tried this set http_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port" set ftp_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port" but it not working. Do I need to put username and password for proxy?

Re: exim-tls removed, but exim4 replaces it, but exim4 conflicts with mutt?

2004-07-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: | On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:33:20AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | > crypto is now in "main" (has been for a while) | | Then the message from apt-get that exim-tls is replaced by exim4 is damned | confusing. (I almost typed "d

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Weir wrote: > Adam Funk said > > If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a > > lower-numbered version, how would I do so? > > You can't, generally. Often you can downgrade individual packages by > dpkg -i'ing them from /var/cache/apt/archives/ or playing apt pinn

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Funk wrote: > Thomas Adam wrote: > > dist-upgrade should be used here. > > In what circumstances is 'upgrade' more appropriate than 'dist-upgrade'? The 'upgrade' keeps the list of packages installed on the system exactly the same. It does not allow changes. Topologically the package contou

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look for more detail in my other post, but essentially they also > require you now to acknowledge their contribution along with any > acknowledgment to other software distributed with it. essentially it demands equal treatment - the notion of which is rep

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-04 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > I guess what I should be asking is where/how do I bind specific ports? > > I can't find anything in the man pages (at least the ones I'm looking > at) to set this up. I am running the kernel based server so I may have What I had in mind was to add the o

Re: How are these packets getting created?

2004-07-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 5 Jul 2004, Jor-el wrote: > I have a router / switch that sits between my Debian machine at the > cable modem. It does NAT. I also have iptables running on my Debian > system, and I noticed that the following packets were being dropped by > the Debian firewall : Just to be clear, the firewall y

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Kent West
Thomas Dickey wrote: Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, that is correct. XFree86 changed their copyright recently and it is no longer free. The major distros have dropped it due to the new licensing restrictions. This is not a Debian specific. Here are some slashdot articles on it.

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that is correct. XFree86 changed their copyright recently and it > is no longer free. The major distros have dropped it due to the new > licensing restrictions. This is not a Debian specific. Here are some > slashdot articles on it. citing slashdot

Re: software suspend in kernel 2.6.7

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone has info regarding that (like this feature is out from the > vanilla kernel tree - doesn't seems so according to > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.7) or I'll > open a bug on it. Regardless, you should use the p

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-04 Thread Kent West
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello JOHN WALL (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I`ve installed Debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) Everything seemed OK until I was asked for the user name and passwords to log in, this I inserted and instead of getting a GUI or some sort of window all that happened was I got a flashin

software suspend in kernel 2.6.7

2004-07-04 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi List, I installed kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7 and found out that the module swsusp isn't there. I'm using this feature all the time. Does anyone has info regarding that (like this feature is out from the vanilla kernel tree - doesn't seems so according to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v

Re: apache2 sends reply for / and redirect for ~ (setup Q)

2004-07-04 Thread Ketil Froyn
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 01:53:02 +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GET /~ HTTP/1.0 Try GET /~/ HTTP/1.0 > I get a Moved Permanently reply That is standard when you give a directory without the trailing slash. > with the server's external > host-name. How do I set it up so that it wo

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ftp server which I can utilize for backups. I can not modify > anything on that server. This looks to be a very simple exercise in scripting, if nothing else. Have you taken a look at "kbackup" (I assume not): http://kbackup.sourceforge.net/ I

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello JOHN WALL (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I`ve installed Debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) Everything seemed > OK until I was asked for the user name and passwords to log in, this > I inserted and instead of getting a GUI or some sort of window > all that happened was I got a flashing curser. The D

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread dircha
Sam Halliday wrote: well i could easily use aptitude to purge packages... but since that is a pain if i have more than 5 packages which i uninstalled, i'd prefer to use a scripted approach. it's all too easy to type - instead of _, especially since _ on a packge will only - its dependencies. That y

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-04 Thread Vadik
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find package which does that. My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 backups (or do incremental backups). Why ftp? Why not use rsync? I

apache2 sends reply for / and redirect for ~ (setup Q)

2004-07-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I set up apache2 to handle public_html dirs in home directories. Trying to connect with telnet localhost 80 to make sure everything is ok when I do GET / HTTP/1.0 I get the standard apache2 reply (if you think this is a mistake ...) If I try doing: GET /~ HTTP/1.0 I get a Moved Permanently reply

Re: beep in console

2004-07-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Scetbon Cyril([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I run scripts in my crontab but i'm not able to generate a beep in > console mode. > I tried echo -e '\a' but no success while I can use sound. > Is there a pbm with my PC Speaker ? > Yoy did not mention what kernel you are using. In t

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-04 Thread Kent West
JOHN WALL wrote: I`ve installed Debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) Everything seemed OK until I was asked for the user name and passwords to log in, this I inserted and instead of getting a GUI or some sort of window all that happened was I got a flashing curser. I`ve tried different flavours but get the sa

Re: on sarge xine crashes X

2004-07-04 Thread Kent West
Sven Heinicke wrote: About a week ago a new XFree86 came out for sarge. Since the xine (and gxine) crashes X, and I get no useful error messages. I had xine crashes also. I found that by deleting my ~/.xine directory the crashing problem went away. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

"pon" gives "ttyS overrun" after upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread rickm
I did an "apt-get upgrade" and, now, when I execute "pon", my modem won't connect. The modem is seems to be making the same connection sounds as before the upgrade; also, the modem is working in Window98. I have before/after upgrade records from syslog. After upgrade, I notice this message: k

Unidentified subject!

2004-07-04 Thread JOHN WALL
I`ve installed Debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) Everything seemed OK until I was asked for the user name and passwords to log in, this I inserted and instead of getting a GUI or some sort of window all that happened was I got a flashing curser. I`ve tried different flavours but get the same results and I`

Re: beep in console

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Scetbon Cyril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run scripts in my crontab but i'm not able to generate a beep in > console mode. > I tried echo -e '\a' but no success while I can use sound. > Is there a pbm with my PC Speaker ? pbm? Oh, I think you missed some letters there. I would think your

beep in console

2004-07-04 Thread Scetbon Cyril
I run scripts in my crontab but i'm not able to generate a beep in console mode. I tried echo -e '\a' but no success while I can use sound. Is there a pbm with my PC Speaker ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-04, Owen Jones penned: > > Hi! spent ages installing debain and it all went well and i was > excitted = thinking that it was going to work so well, but no. When > the computer = re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 90... > when i tried to run = the OS on the HD. This is a lilo e

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Vadik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find > package which does that. > > My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 > backups (or do incremental backups). Why ftp? Why not use rsync? -- Thomas Adam

acpid and battery

2004-07-04 Thread Scetbon Cyril
Hi, I've installed kernel 2.6.7 patched with acpi. I'm able to see files under /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/ to know for example the status of the battery... However, I can't get event from my battery when the power of the battery is low. I get events when I connect the ac_adapter. Any idea ? Note: I

backing up to ftp server

2004-07-04 Thread Vadik
I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find package which does that. My only requirement that it should do daily backups and keep last 7 backups (or do incremental backups). Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- UndiFineD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd suggest then not to use bitmaps, but a scalar file type > which is best (and free) I don't know Makes no odds. Lilo can only display at a colour-depth of 256 colours anyway. > I use: vga=791 > which I love in textmode, it makes flipping to X seem

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2004-07-04 Thread UndiFineD
I'd suggest then not to use bitmaps, but a scalar file type which is best (and free) I don't know I use: vga=791 which I love in textmode, it makes flipping to X seem eassier too (prolly less stress on the monitor too :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: error opening /dev/mixer

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somewhere I have crossed something up and I can't figure out where. I > mostly use a 2.4.22 kernel which I compiled with support for my sblive > pci card but I have started using a 2.6.5 kernel which I compiled with > ALSA sound support. So

error opening /dev/mixer

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas H. George
Somewhere I have crossed something up and I can't figure out where. I mostly use a 2.4.22 kernel which I compiled with support for my sblive pci card but I have started using a 2.6.5 kernel which I compiled with ALSA sound support. Sound works fine with the 2.6.5 kernel but no longer with the

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:49:35 -0500, Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never seen a Word document match a good LaTeX or TeX document, > because Word doesn't have as good a layout algorithm. I'd certainly agree that Knuth's typesetting algorithm is second to none. -- Jon Dowland --

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-04 Thread Joris Huizer
Adam Funk wrote: On Friday 02 July 2004 17:50, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Adam !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade should be used here. In what circumstances is 'upgrade' more appropriate than 'dist-upgrade'? apt-get upgrade Will upgrade

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Sam Halliday
David Fokkema wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > hi there, > > > > when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages > > using`dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and > > starting afresh. > > > > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems

home videos to DVD

2004-07-04 Thread H. S.
I am planning to save all the MiniDV tapes (recorded with Sony TRV25 camcorder) on DVDs. I guess to capture the tape data to disk I can use dvgrab or Cinelerra. And for editing and captioning I could use Kino. But how do I record the video on to a DVD? Or if I just want to dump a tape to a DVD,

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:13:17PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:13:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > jack kinnon wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it > > > mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be > > > free? > > > > Yes, that is

Re: Kernel 2.6 and sound ymfpci

2004-07-04 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 04 July 2004 01:14 pm, Christoph Sticksel wrote: > Everything sound-related is loaded and lsmod shows a whole bunch of snd_* > modules, snd, soundcore, opl3sa2 and ad1848 are there as well. > If I do a "modprobe -r opl3sa2" and reload it with "modprobe opl3sa2" I see I'm not familiar w

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:07:41AM -0700, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi, > I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it > mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be > free? > Xfree86 is still free and you can download the source at www.xfree86.org. I am not sure exactly what the prob

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read some academic papers where I could not tell which program > was used to compose them until I inspected the source. That's usually caused by scientists screwing up the LaTeX to match uglification requirements for submission. I've never seen a

Unidentified subject!

2004-07-04 Thread JOHN WALL
could some one help please. Have installed debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) Everything seemed to go in fine, except for some seek errors which I assume is normal. Got to user name and password OK. then nothing, I was expecting some format like windows, GUI, all I have is a flashing cursor. I`ve installed

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:43:13 +0100 "Owen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok now im confused, i thought i was replying to the mail list, i have no > idea what you are going on about i am sorry if i have done somthing wrong, > i will make sure i dont send u any more private messages, sorry man.

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 19:14:53 +0100 "Owen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tried to run cd in rescue mode and it through up this error after a while : > Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05 > > what should i do? thanks for the help > > owen > > > > Hi! spent ages installing d

Re: dual boot xp/debian on raid0

2004-07-04 Thread Ian
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:24:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to install debian on asus p4p800, > with e1000, and ichr5 chipset raid0 on sata. > > I have tried two weeks ago. > I installed with kernel-2.4.23 and patchs iswraid,libata. > (sorry, I don't remember version's pa

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:35:54 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Installed testing on a DELL Latitude d400 with 2.6.6 kernel. > Now audio is screwed up, though dmesg identifies the i810 correctly (??). > > The problem is a very skewed pitch and distortion of the signals on XMMS, > but also with a .wav red

"GOOD NEWS" 互動雜誌 issue 012

2004-07-04 Thread david
"GOOD NEWS" Online Magazines issue 012 『集合你我專長,凝聚互動力量』 看後,請繼續轉寄! ( 請按 F11 轉至全畫面 ) http://wwc.debian-user+lists.debian.org.magazine.issue012.gnmagazine.sytes.net:13792/main.php

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Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:13:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > jack kinnon wrote: > > I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it > > mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be > > free? > > Yes, that is correct. XFree86 changed their copyright recently and it > is no longer fre

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > hi there, > > when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages using > `dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and starting afresh. > > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it se

Kernel 2.6 and sound ymfpci

2004-07-04 Thread Christoph Sticksel
Hi all, I upgraded from 2.4 to Kernel 2.6.6 and just now to 2.6.7 (testing/unstable-system) and I'm having problems with my sound card which is a Yamaha-something. It has worked fine with 2.4 Kernels and ymfpci module. On booting, the modules are loaded and dmesg says: | ad1848/cs4248 codec d

Re: ssh mystery

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Antony wrote: > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not sure crossposting is the best idea for this discussion. I have dropped that address from this reply. > I'm having an odd problem ssh'ing into a box. It has a public IP address, > and is behind an ADSL router (Amigo CA8XR). Here's the odd bit: >

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
jack kinnon wrote: > I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it > mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be > free? Yes, that is correct. XFree86 changed their copyright recently and it is no longer free. The major distros have dropped it due to the new licensing restriction

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:55:45PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > I suggest you learn how chroot(1) works. It would make your life much > easier than skipping installation instructions... Yeah, I need to do that. But my god man, the Debian installer is there and supported. Skipping around the boot

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, have a bootdisk, but it's easiest with Woody to just boot off the > CD, skip the default sequence of installation instructions and manually > select "Mount an Existing Partition", mount your root part as /, and > then choose "Make System Bo

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:38:25PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > a new kernel necessary. If possible, test the bootdisk on another system > to see if it gets past the "LILO loading stuff" line befor even > considering rebooting your system. Yes, have a bootdisk, but it's easiest with Woody to just

Re: delete mbox mail from command line

2004-07-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Gillingham wrote: > I appreciate the example of using find with time parameters. It's true > that my current setup is not Maildir. The documentation is not complete > for barrendero, I have not tried barrendero and know nothing more about it then what I read from the documentation. > but a

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but as a more general solution i'd just like to get my dpkg list to > agree with > the `apt-get dselect-upgrade` one. It should just install those packages once you set the selections. > > yeah... i had considered doing that, but it seemed a on

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:24:55 +0100 "Owen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the computer re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 90... > when i tried to run the OS on the HD. This is a lilo error isnt it? > does this mean i have installed it wrong, or i have used the wrong > distirbutat

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Sam Halliday
Thomas Adam wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > may i ask how this would suggest that i have a broken system? i fail to > > see the > > reasoning. > > You said to "purge all un-installed apps". I mis-read that. Mind you, it > wasn't well written anyway. :) What you mean is, you "remove'd" a package

Re: debootstrap umount bug - workarounds?

2004-07-04 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > Just to be sure we're talking about the same bug, here's the end of the > debootstrap output and the error messages: > > ... > I: Installing core packages... > ln: `/mnt/hda6/./usr/bin/awk': File exists > umount: /mnt/hda6/./dev/pts: not mounted > umount: /mnt/hda6/./dev

How are these packets getting created?

2004-07-04 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I have a router / switch that sits between my Debian machine at the cable modem. It does NAT. I also have iptables running on my Debian system, and I noticed that the following packets were being dropped by the Debian firewall : Debugging sambaIN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.103 DST=65.75.

Highpoint htp374 HD controller install problem

2004-07-04 Thread Christopher Townson
hi have been trying to install Woody on a pc with an Abit AT7-Max2 motherboard which has an onboard Highpoint HPT374 Hard disk controller. Unfortunately, none of the kernel flavours available as boot options on the install CD seem to suppport the HPT374 - therefore it cannot detect any hard dri

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > may i ask how this would suggest that i have a broken system? i fail to > see the > reasoning. You said to "purge all un-installed apps". I mis-read that. Mind you, it wasn't well written anyway. :) What you mean is, you "remove'd" a package but did

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Sam Halliday
Thomas Adam wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a > > memory of > > all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is there any way i can > > Yes, that was meant to be run *after* you --set-selections! yeah... i know, but at the time (

Re: keyboard (console?) problem

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Johannes Resch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deferring virtual terminal setup until console accessible. > pluto:/usr/local/bin# Where are you running this command from? Is it from an xterm, or a VT. If you switch to a VT and run it, before you do, what does the following produce: # tty # ls

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Owen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! spent ages installing debain and it all went well and i was excitted > thinking that it was going to work so well, but no. When the computer > re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 90... when i tried to run > the OS on the HD. This is a lilo

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:07:41AM -0700, jack kinnon wrote: > I have tried to search apt-get.org but it doesn't seem > to work. It can't find even Debian packages I am > currently using. Apt-get.org is specifically for NON-STANDARD debs, that is, for things that aren't in the current release str

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a > memory of > all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is there any way i can Yes, that was meant to be run *after* you --set-selections! > clear that > list, as i would like to

Re: L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:24:55 +0100 "Owen Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! spent ages installing debain and it all went well and i was > excitted thinking that it was going to work so well, but no. When > the computer re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 > 90... when i tried to run t

apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages using `dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and starting afresh. but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a memory of all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is th

Re: DRI, working somewhat? But ...

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:02:15PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Here is what I have so far. Just put in the 2.6.7 kernel (Hey, now the mouse > is working immediately--enough of an improvement. :-) ) > > # dmesg | grep AGP > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd000 > [drm] Initialized mach64 1.0.0

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread jack kinnon
Hi, I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be free? I have tried to search apt-get.org but it doesn't seem to work. It can't find even Debian packages I am currently using. Looks like I have to stick with 4.3.0 for the moment. How do

Apache2/mailman - Scripts Don't Run

2004-07-04 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I believe I've followed all the procedures to get 'Mailman' running with 'Apache2' on 'sarge'. Searching "Debian Bugs", "Apache2 docs" and the WWW has not helped solve my problem. FWIW, I've installed 'mailman' successfully on other systems ... Everything looks OK except for one thing: when a UR

L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-04 Thread Owen Jones
Hi! spent ages installing debain and it all went well and i was excitted thinking that it was going to work so well, but no. When the computer re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 90... when i tried to run the OS on the HD. This is a lilo error isnt it? does this mean i have install

DRI, working somewhat? But ...

2004-07-04 Thread David Baron
Here is what I have so far. Just put in the 2.6.7 kernel (Hey, now the mouse is working immediately--enough of an improvement. :-) ) # dmesg | grep AGP agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd000 [drm] Initialized mach64 1.0.0 20020904 on minor 0: ATI Technologies Inc 3D RagePro AG

on sarge xine crashes X

2004-07-04 Thread Sven Heinicke
About a week ago a new XFree86 came out for sarge. Since the xine (and gxine) crashes X, and I get no useful error messages. ii xine-ui0.99.1-1 the xine video player, user interface ii xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 the XFree86 X server Linux acorn 2.6.6-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed May 1

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex > > thingie". >

Re: why does mutt ignore /etc/mailcap??

2004-07-04 Thread Magnus Therning
Try using the command view-mailcap (defaults to 'm' in the attachment view). /M On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:52:25PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: >Hello! > >since some time now i notice that i can't anymore open images send by >mail directly from mutt, not so bothersome since this doesn't happen v

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:10:45 +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Some

why does mutt ignore /etc/mailcap??

2004-07-04 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! since some time now i notice that i can't anymore open images send by mail directly from mutt, not so bothersome since this doesn't happen very often, but still annoying... the images have the correct mime-type in the mail, corresponding lines are in /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap even, but s

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex > thingie". One point that I haven't seen raised yet - handling of embedded image

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 01 Jul 2004 09:42:31 -0400, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Much of the power that latex has exists now in word: e.g. automatic > > contents building. > > How about automatic equation numbering like this? I can only comment on my own e

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:10:45 +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > >

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