spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-08 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
Hi everybody! Here is the nth newbie having problems with this error. I searched over the Net (uncle Google rules... ) but not encountered the solution to my puzzling dilemma. I ever read about poeople who experience this error during the normal computing activity (solving it with a simple dmesg)

Re: D-Link DFM-562E Modem

2004-09-08 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:39:58PM +1000, Christopher Bragg wrote: > Greetings from Australia > > I have spent several nights on your web site, and others > I have a new copy of Debian that I wish to instal. > My problem is a modem. > > Is the above External modem suitable with Debian > > The o

Re: How Best to Email Documents?

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:54:17PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an > email message though it opens a Mozilla send window. > > In any case recipients have good reason to be suspic

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:31:29AM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote: > I did the same thing, but i still can't see dvd's there is something > about MRL plugin. Any ideas? > > Thanks. > Alejandro Hi Alejandro, are there any entries in /var/log/messages abo

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-08 Thread Hamilcar Barca
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:14:06 +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote: > [OUCH!!] There are no input plugins. > xine needs at least one input plugin, but none is installed. > You should probably reinstall xine-lib... > press to continue... With these installed xine-ui0.99.1

Re: exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?

2004-09-08 Thread Travis Crump
Carl Fink wrote: I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge (and automatically uninstalled from my system), I find that unlikely. You can always try sn

Re: download speeds on console

2004-09-08 Thread Vin Jacob
I have been doing some research on this, there are a few actually: - bwm - netstat - darkstat - ntop - nettop - jnettop and the one I liked the most. nload :) Cheers Johann Koenig wrote: On Wednesday September 8 at 08:34am Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday September 8 a

Re: Sendmail: Deferred: Name server: : host name lookup failure

2004-09-08 Thread Robert S
> does `host hypothetical.recipient.address` work ? > Yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host ozemail.com.au ozemail.com.au has address 203.102.166.18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DDNS How to Need HELP

2004-09-08 Thread My Linux
Hi! Where can I get full information about DDNS. I need to setup my own Dynamic DNS Server in my office. Need HELP Thank YOU "Aligator" Regards , [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shrinking of NTFS partition??

2004-09-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ishwar Rattan wrote: System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at least that is what du -sk tells after mounti

Re: Shrinking of NTFS partition??

2004-09-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 01:28 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 > > Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS > partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at > least that is what du -sk tells after mounting it). > > Tha

exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?

2004-09-08 Thread Carl Fink
I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge (and automatically uninstalled from my system), making it impossible to send via smarthosting. I checked apt-

Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

2004-09-08 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:32:09 -0500 Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No answer to your question I'm running Sarge I just ran aptitude update && aptitude upgrade, which ran fine, but ran (for giggles) aptitude -f install. Why in the galaxy would these files be installed/removed, when t

Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:30:23PM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't > find the lyx package, but I lyx exists in the sarge > (testing) in editor section. does that mean that NOT > ALL of the packages of the sarge, are in the 13 CD's. Are yo

Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:30:23PM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't find the lyx > package, but I lyx exists in the sarge (testing) in editor section. does > that mean that NOT ALL of the packages of the sarge, are in the 13 CD's. No, it m

Re: BitTorrent Clients

2004-09-08 Thread Brad Camroux
Okay... but how would I go about doing that? I've never tried to "back-port" something, and I'm not sure how comfortable I am yet at working with raw code. On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:29:22AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > You could always backport from the sources. Unless you need to us

Re: Shrinking of NTFS partition??

2004-09-08 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 > > > > Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS > > partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at [...] > >

PostScripts suddenly too big -- help me diagnose

2004-09-08 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hello all, After returning from a long vacation a few weeks ago, I discovered that converting a text file to PostScript used fonts that were too large (widthwise; heightwise they are OK though the spacing seems a little cramped). For example, enscript -q --font="Courier11" --no-header --margins

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-08 Thread Dana J. Laude
Alejandro Matos wrote: Hi, one of the error comes in the console, the other one (the one with "xine:" at the beginning) isfromthexinegui... I think i don't have any scsi module installed, don' know, i use the 2.6.7-1-k7 kernel image from debianso...i don't really know :$ You do NOT need the

Re: disabling root logins -- HOWTO

2004-09-08 Thread Malin
/etc/ssh/sshd_config add PermitRootLogin no On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:03:12 -0500, Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we wanted to disable root logins (i.e. make it so that the only > way to acquire root is via sudo or su after being logged in as a > valid non-root user -- much better for trac

Re: eht0, wlan0: bridge, ifplugd, waproamd

2004-09-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, is bonding a good alternative ? Ognjen_Bezanov wrote: Slight problem there, this will depend on your wireless card as *most* wireless cards are not capable of being bridged, checkout http://bridge.sourceforge.net/faq.html and the bridge mailing lists there about details concerning your wifi car

http://forums.debian.net in beta

2004-09-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Hi all, Since quite some people like webforums for discussion and support, and also a certain other GNU/Linux distribution has quite succesful webforums, I decided to try providing a webforum for the Debian community too. So, here it is, and lets see whether (part of) the Debian user community al

Re: IRC connection

2004-09-08 Thread jackie wang
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:08:22 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I tried the IRC, but it can not connect to the irc.debian.org. It always > says time out. > Can anyone give me some information how to set it up? > try using port instead of 6667. HTH jackie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

sarge vs spamassassin

2004-09-08 Thread Will Trillich
we're getting "X-Spam-Status: No" but with "identified this incoming email as possible spam" anyhow. huh? this is from a plain vanilla sarge install, running exim4 with cyrus21 delivery. there's a setting in need of repair... get a load of this-- ==8<=== X-Spam-St

disabling root logins -- HOWTO

2004-09-08 Thread Will Trillich
we wanted to disable root logins (i.e. make it so that the only way to acquire root is via sudo or su after being logged in as a valid non-root user -- much better for tracking who's done what). /etc/pam.d/login contains # Disallows root logins except on tty's listed in /etc/securetty

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. $ echo Debian GNU/Linux -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Cynthia is mistakenly crowned King of Norway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Dan Jacobson wrote: > Recently in webland I was asked > > What is your OS? > I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, > $ uname -a #no "Debian" > Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux > $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. > testing/u

Re: Fwd: lpr/cupsys-bsd printing problem after upgrade

2004-09-08 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:47:37AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > I posted this on debian-powerpc recently but received no response, so I > thought I'd try here. > > After a recent sid upgrade, I seem to have lost the ability to print from > some applications. I thought at first it was to

Help !! :D

2004-09-08 Thread Pedro Perez
Hola, quisiera saber si en Chile alguna empresa da soporte tecnico a DEBIAN Por su pronta respuesta, muchas gracias !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

2004-09-08 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:03:55AM -0700, Li Daobing wrote: > the right shift is out of work Interesting. Wonder if it's the interface not syncing until the equal mark/space ratio of scan code 42 (101010) enables it to sync? Does the "o" key (24, 10101) do anything? Just interested, not vital! --

Re: Sendmail: Deferred: Name server: : host name lookup failure

2004-09-08 Thread Richard A Nelson
What does /etc/resolv.conf have ? does `host hypothetical.recipient.address` work ? -- Rick Nelson * Knghtbrd assigns 3 to Chris * variable wonders who else is named chris besides me variable - you. => * Knghtbrd waits for variable to dramatically say "I feel SO used!" Knghtbrd: :) * variable

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-08 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: Recently in webland I was asked What is your OS? I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, $ uname -a #no "Debian" Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. testing/unstable $ grep f

command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
Recently in webland I was asked > What is your OS? I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, $ uname -a #no "Debian" Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. testing/unstable $ grep free /etc/motd #kin

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-08 Thread Alejandro Matos
I did the same thing, but i still can't see dvd's there is something about MRL plugin. Any ideas? Thanks. Alejandro On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:04:35 -0400, Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:07, Alejandro Matos wrote: > > By the way: lsmod | grep ide-scsi doesnt gives m

Re: BitTorrent Clients

2004-09-08 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:32:49 -0600, Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to get started using BitTorrent on my system (Deb. Woody). But I seem > to be > having some troubles getting the client installed. Specifically, I would like to use > Azureus, but have no lu

Re: IRC connection

2004-09-08 Thread Nicholas Lativy
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:08:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I tried the IRC, but it can not connect to the irc.debian.org. It always > says time out. > Can anyone give me some information how to set it up? You may wish to try another server, irc.debian.org just points to Freeno

Init stalls - ProLiant DL380

2004-09-08 Thread Michael Bellears
Sarge RC1 Compaq/HP ProLiant DL380 G3, Compaq Smart Array 5i Shutdown gets to: Sending all processes the TERM signal... And stalls - Power button is the only way to restart the server I saw an almost identical issues posted by Martin Schneider, and a couple of posters sugested installing apm

Re: Shrinking of NTFS partition??

2004-09-08 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 > > Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS > partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at > least that is what du -sk tells after mounting it). > > Thanks

Re: How Best to Email Documents?

2004-09-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:54:17PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an > email message though it opens a Mozilla send window. > > In any case recipients have good reason to be suspicious of attachments. > > Since Open Office can

Re: How Best to Email Documents?

2004-09-08 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:54:17PM -0400 or thereabouts, Thomas H. George wrote: > Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an > email message though it opens a Mozilla send window. > > In any case recipients have good reason to be suspicious of attachments. > > Since

Re: Switch MDK -> Debian, probably

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Zachary Rizer wrote: You don't have any of these silly collision issues with Debian. Occasionally, something like this might happen, but probably only with sid, the unstable branch. Apt handles dependancies far better than any other package manager. Bar none. I wouldn't be so sure of that. It

Re: FreeBSD or DEBIAN for remotely administered internet server

2004-09-08 Thread matt okeson-harlow
webmin runs on port 1 and by default (i beleive) on debian it uses SSL so that the url to get to it would be: https://machine.yourhost.com:10 yes it does support FreeBSD On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 05:55:16 +0800, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- snip -- -- matt okeson-harlow S

Re: How Best to Email Documents?

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas H. George wrote: Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an email message though it opens a Mozilla send window. In any case recipients have good reason to be suspicious of attachments. Some attachments. If I were a teacher and told my students to send homework

kdepim and Evolution

2004-09-08 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hi all, I am using KDE desktop for several years. I am trying gnome and evolution to to taste another flavor of linux. I wonder if there is an easy way to share the data between evolution and kdepim (kaddresbook, korganizer...) Luis. -- -- http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~luis pgpNLcXbisiSM.pgp D

Re: FreeBSD or DEBIAN for remotely administered internet server

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Peter Gutbrod wrote: Sorry for the tripple posting :-( Send it first through usenet and it didn't show up there. I was thinking that with the trouble you're having with mail an all, best you don't do remote admin at all:-) Lotsa folk will tell you that the best admin tool is vi (or emacs); I

Re: clearing out old /dev/* nodes

2004-09-08 Thread David Leggett
> Probably what is happening is that you run udev on /dev without doing > anything to /dev (the debian bootup scripts should have fixed this). > Check to make sure that /dev if mounted as tmpfs. You might have to > enable tmpfs in the kernel. ahh, right, my kernel doesnt have tmpfs support, next k

Re: WEB-Browser with links in evolution ??

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:05:29PM +0200, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > Hi :-) > > I am using EVOLUTION as my standard-email-programm on Debian-Sarge. It > is working fine :-) > > I just would like if somebody could tell me where I can change the > standard-web-browser evolution uses evertime when I

Re: Time

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:30:49PM -0600, CW Harris wrote: > > I believe pool.ntp.org has been set aside for this use. > I should add "if you don't have a more local/appropriate source such as a timeserver at your ISP." See http:/www.pool.ntp.org/#use for more info. -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Time

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:35:13PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:12:34 +0200, Paul Akkermans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not > > set the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I

blackbox broke

2004-09-08 Thread statik tzu
i recently did an `apt-get update; apt-get dist-ugprade` and one of the packages it touched was blackbox. since then, i haven't been able to get blackbox to just start, it says something about not being able to connect to the screen. i'm using sarge. i was able to get it up by starting fluxbox then

Shrinking of NTFS partition??

2004-09-08 Thread Ishwar Rattan
System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at least that is what du -sk tells after mounting it). Thanks in advance, -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

k3b is not writing multisession dvds

2004-09-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all, Not exactly a debian issue, but since I am using sid, I thought I will check up here if someone else had the same problem and solved it. I am using k3b on sid which is upto date with apt-get. The dvds can be written with no multissession. But when the multisession is enabled, there is a

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:21:12PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic characters, a "?" to represent one of them and "*" to represent any number of them. So rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp rm *over-tcp Hmm... I don'

How Best to Email Documents?

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas H. George
Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an email message though it opens a Mozilla send window. In any case recipients have good reason to be suspicious of attachments. Since Open Office can convert a document to HTML format is there any way to insert the text directl

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:41:34PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > >>CW Harris wrote: [...] > >>>Why not just boot from a rescue disk (I think most/all install disks can > >>>be used as rescue disks also--check

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-08 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday September 8 at 09:23am Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) writes: > > The reason is that mail systems can handle reliably & automatically > > PGP/MIME signatures (handling being verify, strip, whatever). OTOH, > > they cannot with inline PG

Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Gear
John Summerfield wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >>> At this time I'd be installing Sarge. I would not be seeking to do an >>> upgrade any time soon. >>> >> >> >> Except that until sarge is released, it doesn't get priority security >> updates. >> >> >> > Does Debian have more than one grade of s

Re: cannot get working OpenOffice under Sarge :-(

2004-09-08 Thread Richard Palfalvi
thx for your hint. But I am still somewhat of frustrated :-( I purge my OO-install and then installed it again with dselect. First start via through windowmaker-menu failed. Then I started OO from the command line, from there it worked to get it starting - BUT: it takes a very long time to OP

RE: Attempting to create internal Debian mirror - Jigdo fails.

2004-09-08 Thread Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL
This is a dupe of 'Debian, ISO's and Jigdo'. I sent it out because I thought the other didn't go through. -Original Message- From: Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Attempting to create internal Debian mirror - Jigdo fai

Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-08 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:30:23 -0700 (PDT) belahcene abdelkader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't > find the lyx package, but I lyx exists in the sarge > (testing) in editor section. does that mean that NOT > ALL of the packages of the sarge, ar

Attempting to create internal Debian mirror - Jigdo fails.

2004-09-08 Thread Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL
I have set up an internal Debian mirror on my home LAN. The mirroring script I run is at the end of this message. Note that I do exclude architectures other than the i386. When I download the sarge .jigdo files from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/, and run jigdo-mi

WEB-Browser with links in evolution ??

2004-09-08 Thread Richard Palfalvi
Hi :-) I am using EVOLUTION as my standard-email-programm on Debian-Sarge. It is working fine :-) I just would like if somebody could tell me where I can change the standard-web-browser evolution uses evertime when I click on a link in an email - it starts EPIPHANY which does not work very proper

Debian, ISO's and Jigdo

2004-09-08 Thread Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL
I have set up an internal Debian mirror on my home LAN. The mirroring script I run is at the end of this message. Note that I do exclude architectures other than the i386. When I download the sarge .jigdo files from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/, and run jigdo-mirr

Re: expat.h

2004-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 19:57:49 +0200, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Indeed I am trying to compile my structure editor, but I have one more > failure and then in works. Now during make I get the message that I have > not got expat.h. I believe that this is a Debian library file? It is a C header file.

Re: expat.h

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 07:57:49PM +0200, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Indeed I am trying to compile my structure editor, but I have one more failure and > then in works. Now during make I get the message that I have not got expat.h. I > believe that this is a Debian library file? If

Kmail & date

2004-09-08 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Under debian testing & kde in the messages pane I see the following columns: Subject Size Sender Date of arrival COMPLETELY EMPTY, no date in the field. How can I tell kmail to show the date in the right field? Ciao Vittorio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Printing with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-09-08 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
s Please, RFC 1855. Em Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:40:09 +0200, Alan E. Davis escreveu: > When trying to print from Mozilla or Firefox on a friend's Debian > box (which started from a Knoppix 3.4 install a couple of months > ago), the print dialog lists some printers, including "lp@:64".

NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-08 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi, I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't find the lyx package, but I lyx exists in the sarge (testing) in editor section. does that mean that NOT ALL of the packages of the sarge, are in the 13 CD's. thanks bela = ___ Do you Ya

Re: Switch MDK -> Debian, probably

2004-09-08 Thread Kent West
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Hi, I'm a MDK user and I'm evaluating a switch to Debian mainly because of the better package management system. To make my mind I need to know few things: -> with MDK, to update the main packages I have to reinstall the OS every 6 or 12 months. I don't use linux as main OS

Re: Switch MDK -> Debian, probably

2004-09-08 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:19:37PM +0200, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > > -> with MDK, to update the main packages I have to reinstall the OS > every 6 or 12 months. I don't use linux as main OS (I use Mac OS X), > so it's pretty annoying... the time I spend mantaining the OS is too > much. What about

Re: Switch MDK -> Debian, probably

2004-09-08 Thread Zachary Rizer
See in-line replies to your specific questions below: --- Olaf Marzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm a MDK user and I'm evaluating a switch to Debian > mainly because of > the better package management system. > > To make my mind I need to know few things: > > -> with MDK, to update

Re: Time

2004-09-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:12:34 +0200, Paul Akkermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not set > the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I can do this without > having to install the entire Debian system again

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Stephen Patterson wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:10:07 +0200, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > I have 2 machines on a local network, both running Debian/Sarge. One has > > a printer (Epson SC 660) attached to it's parallel port, and I have that > > printer set up with CUPS so that I can print to it from

Re: Kill does not stop process

2004-09-08 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:50:32 -0400, Steven Feinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was running k3b and it looked like it wasn't doing anything while writing > (but the CD drive was still flashing). After a while I decided it was not > working and stopped the CD writing. K3b came back with a mess

Switch MDK -> Debian, probably

2004-09-08 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Hi, I'm a MDK user and I'm evaluating a switch to Debian mainly because of the better package management system. To make my mind I need to know few things: -> with MDK, to update the main packages I have to reinstall the OS every 6 or 12 months. I don't use linux as main OS (I use Mac OS X), so

Re: Time

2004-09-08 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Paul Akkermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just a simple problem. During installation of > my Debian system I did not set the correct time on > my Debian system. Does anybody know how I can do > this without having to install the entire Debian > system again? > > tha

Re: Time

2004-09-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not set > the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I can do this without > having to install the entire Debian system again? > > thanks in a

Re: Mouse Wheel not working.

2004-09-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Eric Dickner (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am using XFree86, but I'm not sure if the problem > isn't with the Debian (2.4.27) configuration. > > Or is it a problem with how I've configured XFree? > The KDE control center seems to think that the wheel > is there and working fine. You ne

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for the response, but it's not working. > > > > The docs don't help much. A simple example is needed there. > > Did you check the location entry in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? > > I have this as my location entry to

Time

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi everyone,   I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not set the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I can do this without having to install the entire Debian system again?   thanks in advance,   Paul Akkermans

Re: Trouble mounting floppy with 2.4.27

2004-09-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Eric Dickner (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I didn't have any trouble mounting my floppy drive as > file system type "auto" with 2.2.x, but since my > upgrade "mount" insists that I provide a file system > type. I tried "msdos" but it tells me the kernel > doesn't support that type. > > W

Mouse Wheel not working.

2004-09-08 Thread briand
Typically you have to use the magic lines in the XF86Config file: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" In the input device section for your mouse. It may be that the config missed this. Not sure how kde could think it's working. It wouldn't be getting any events. Trying running "xev" and see if you

Re: Re: Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

2004-09-08 Thread Marcos Carneiro da Rocha
try the following: - apt-get remove - dpkg --purge go to samba's sites and download version 2.x and install it with: dpkg -i Marcos On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:04, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I'm getting the same problems as the original author. > > Whilst we are investigating the problem/waitin

Re: Stopping kernel 2.6/discover loading Alsa and OSS

2004-09-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:30:38PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: > John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > >i've not used discover, but hotplug may be what's loading your sound > >drivers by their pci device. you may need to blacklist the one you > >don't want automatically loaded by creating a file in > >/etc/hot

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing"

Re:[SOLVED - for me at least] Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

2004-09-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Andrew Pritchard wrote: I'm getting the same problems as the original author. Whilst we are investigating the problem/waiting for the next bug release - how do I go back a step to the previous version of samba? I've just been looking at the Samba website for the solution: http://lists.samba.org/ar

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:10:07 +0200, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I have 2 machines on a local network, both running Debian/Sarge. One has > a printer (Epson SC 660) attached to it's parallel port, and I have that > printer set up with CUPS so that I can print to it from that machine. > That machine is a CU

Re: Re: Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

2004-09-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I'm getting the same problems as the original author. Whilst we are investigating the problem/waiting for the next bug release - how do I go back a step to the previous version of samba? Regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the response, but it's not working. > > The docs don't help much. A simple example is needed there. Did you check the location entry in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? I have this as my location entry to allow systems on my network to print: Ord

Re: clearing out old /dev/* nodes

2004-09-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
David Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been running old style legacy /dev/ system for a while and i recently > installed udev. > After having read the udev documentation i realised that my system shouldnt > have 1600 files in /dev, i am wondering how i can safely remove all files >

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks to all that helped. What worked was rm -- filename -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

expat.h

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi everyone,   Indeed I am trying to compile my structure editor, but I have one more failure and then in works. Now during make I get the message that I have not got expat.h. I believe that this is a Debian library file? If so (or not) how can I get this file?   kind regards   Paul Akkerman

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > >>I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating > >> > >Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" > > > > --Understood -

Printing From Browser Uses Ugly Font

2004-09-08 Thread Jacob S.
I'm not exactly sure when this started, as I've done a couple of updates recently. This is on a box running all of the latest updates to Sarge. Whenever I print from Mozilla, Firefox or Galeon, all using the 'Postscript/default' printer option, the html is printed using a really ugly font nothing

Re: gtk package

2004-09-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Akkermans (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am trying to install a structure editor in my debian system. When I > am trying to configure this tool I get the following message: > > . > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Package gtk

Re: gtk package

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Pene Chamuscado del Caballo wrote: > From what you have mentioned, it sounds like you are actually trying > to compile the editor, and you ran ./configure which gave the > mentioned errors? If so, try installing the GTK+ development library: > > apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 I think you need "apt-

Mouse Wheel not working.

2004-09-08 Thread Eric Dickner
I am using XFree86, but I'm not sure if the problem isn't with the Debian (2.4.27) configuration. Or is it a problem with how I've configured XFree? The KDE control center seems to think that the wheel is there and working fine. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Wi

Trouble mounting floppy with 2.4.27

2004-09-08 Thread Eric Dickner
I didn't have any trouble mounting my floppy drive as file system type "auto" with 2.2.x, but since my upgrade "mount" insists that I provide a file system type. I tried "msdos" but it tells me the kernel doesn't support that type. What might be going on? __

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
Patrick Moroney wrote: CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" --Understood - but I've successfully installed other machines. system on a

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" --Understood - but I've successfully installed other machines. system on a 200 gig drive and not

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