Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK seperate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

2004-10-08 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 08 October 2004 02:50, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: Hello, I'm running Sarge/SID. I want to build and package the gimp plugin Seperate [3], which relies on the CMM of the little-cms [5] and seems to make a first step toward the needed CMYK seperation in the GIMP. To compile gimp2,

HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread gimmy tang
Just like solaris. gimmy _ MSN Explorer: http://explorer.msn.com/lccn/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-08 Thread Kent West
Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:16:17 -0500, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with gallery is that it requires Apache; not all of us want to run a web server just to edit some pix. Of course - but OP has said he is running one. Ah; missed that. -- Kent -- To

Re: overiding KDE graphical login

2004-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 08 October 2004 12:22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Setting up woody on my system, wondering if you all could point me to a faq or howto to try the following things. Make KDE graphical login allow logins to root Control Centre, System Administration, Login Manager Come up on normal run

Re: Installing the xfree86

2004-10-08 Thread Kent West
Asim Jamshed wrote: Hi, I recently installed xfree86 and kde in my computer. On booting the machine, it failed to start the xserver and hence xdm/kdm. I have changed the init level to 5 from /etc/inittab but I cant figure out which soft links I have to add in the rc5.d directory in order to start

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:22:59 +0800, gimmy tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just like solaris. gimmy Which window manager? In ion, its MOD1+t to tag, MOD1+k a to attach tagged, by default. I bet you're not using ion, though. :P -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: HOW to change the theme of the window?

2004-10-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:03:04 +0800, gimmy tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a new ueser. I am currently using the Apple style of windows. How can I change it into Windows or other styles? gimmy You'll need to let us know which window manager you are using. Or, which graphical environment

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- gimmy tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just like solaris. If I told you to go and assemble a 20-ft greenhouse, and only gave you a hammer... do you think you could do it? I doubt it. Similarly, you have provided _nothing_ by way of information as to: * Which Window Manager/Desktop

RE: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread jano kupec
Subject: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another? Just like solaris. gimmy it depends on what display manager you are using (gnome, kde, windowmaker, ...) and how it is set up - some of them can be set so you can just drag the window between workspaces with your mouse jano

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:59:20 +0200, Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC FAT32 lacks user/group and the default attributes (rwx, correct me if i'm wrong), so IMHO not a good idea to use for home... You should find some windos programs to read (only?) ext2 partitions (never used

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Kent West
gimmy tang wrote: Just like solaris. gimmy Most window managers have a control on each Window that will allow this. For example, in KDE, just left-click on the top-left corner of any window, and a pull-down menu will appear. On this menu is the option To Desktop, which will let you move the

(sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
You're right, I'm sorry... With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower with debian, let's say less reactive to the user... Is there a way to optimize the performance of the graphical environment (i.e. high priority

installing on an older machine

2004-10-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
I am trying to install debian on an old hp vectra. The (testing) install goes along fine, finding the nic and downloading stuff from the network but then it reports that it can't find any partitionable media. Well, there is a 1.7 gig hard drive that currently has a stripted win95 on it. Could

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olav
Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:22 schreef Scotty Fitzgerald: Hello, I got an official woody set and am now setting it up, and am wondering if this bright idea of mine is actually advisable. I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as the /home directory, as well as

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olav Lavell
Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:59 schreef Andrea Vettorello: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:22:13 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I got an official woody set and am now setting it up, and am wondering if this bright idea of mine is actually advisable. I thought

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Beans
gimmy tang wrote: Just like solaris. gimmy _ This function is depended on your window manager. You could identify your window mananger and others can tell you how to do case by case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 08 October 2004 07:22, gimmy tang wrote: Just like solaris. gimmy from one desktop to another - function of the wnidow manager from one display to another - use xmove utility -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /

Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?

2004-10-08 Thread Brendan
On Thursday 07 October 2004 13:16, Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:06:41AM +0530, Rishi wrote: The output of dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo appears to have recognized the 2nd CPU. Any ideas if (a) the 2nd CPU is being used OR (b) it's not being used This is the test that I use

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread David Dorward
Riccardo Tortorici wrote: You're right, I'm sorry... It sounds like you are responding to something, but there doesn't seem to be any clue as to what in your mail headers. With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower

Re: 3c575_cb missing from debian install

2004-10-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:53:53 +0100, Ketil Froyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install debian testing on my laptop, but I need the 3c575_cb for my PCMCIA network adapter, and for some reason it is not included on the boot, root, net-drivers or even cd-drivers images. I don't

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
It was an answer to another user on another debian ML (as I said), i forwarded my question also here cause i wasn't able to find the solution... Unfortunately I already configured my video card, i don't use a generic driver... Someone told me to upgrade from XFree 4.3.0.1 to Xorg and do not use

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:53:10 +0200, Riccardo Tortorici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, I'm sorry... With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower with debian, let's say less reactive to the user... Is there a

Re: SCP problem

2004-10-08 Thread Jule Slootbeek
I figured the problem out. I had bashrc execute 'date', whenever i opened a new shell, somehow scp woud read the bashrc, execute date and quite. not sure why it didn't copy. -JSS Nate Duehr wrote: Jule Slootbeek wrote: Yes, there is enough space, all the other users i talk to have no problem

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
Andrea Vettorello wrote: The prelink command will only try to reduce loading time of programs (for details look in the prelink documentation). I read the documentation and it will be sufficient to reduce te start time of any application (just a first goal, let's say..), unfortunately i didn't

Re: Switching between two network cards

2004-10-08 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: After my system starts, I want to switch to the other network card (the sk98lin one), but I only want its module loaded, so I do: ifdown eth0 rmmod fealnx modprobe sk98lin ifup eth0 I'm no expert in networking. Might be

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:34:48 +0200, Riccardo Tortorici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea Vettorello wrote: The prelink command will only try to reduce loading time of programs (for details look in the prelink documentation). I read the documentation and it will be sufficient to reduce te

Re: woody: boot fail after upgrade

2004-10-08 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 08 October 2004 02:40, Howard Chin wrote: I installed woody using the stable distribution a few weeks ago. Recently I decided to upgrade to the testing distribution because the packages are more up-to-date in that distribution. So I changed the apt source in /etc/apt/source.list and

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-08 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 07 October 2004 17:09, Ian L wrote: At 10:43 AM 10/7/2004, you wrote: On Wednesday 06 October 2004 16:33, Ian Lipsky wrote: [snip] Hi Ian, This link may prove useful. http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/f10errors.html After reading the man page on fdisk for Linux, I

Re: 3c575_cb missing from debian install

2004-10-08 Thread Ketil Froyn
On Fri, 2004-10-08, Andrea Vettorello wrote: Mmh, don't know if can help, anyway try to look here (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html) if you find a Debian netinstaller that seems good enough for your laptop. Thanks for the tip, but I had a look, and I couldn't find any floppy

lockd: cannot unmonitor

2004-10-08 Thread VSJ
Hi, I've an NFS client running an up-to-date Debian sid, kernel 2.4.27 (not vanilla, but supplied by Debian). If someone tries to shut down this machine, the machine doesn't power-off! These are the last fews messages printed to the console: 1 lockd_down: lockd failed to exit, clearing pid 2

Re: installing on an older machine

2004-10-08 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:52:06 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I am trying to install debian on an old hp vectra. What version and distribution are you trying to install Debian??? The (testing) install goes along fine, finding the nic and downloading stuff from the network but then it reports

Re: Switching between two network cards

2004-10-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: ... I've got two network cards: one integrated on my motherboard (uses the sk98lin driver) and a PCI card (fealnx driver). Both drivers are compiled as modules and upon startup I'm loading only fealnx via /etc/modules (I'm not

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 08 October 2004 13:53, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: You're right, I'm sorry... With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower with debian, let's say less reactive to the user... Is there a way to optimize the

solved debconf corruption problem

2004-10-08 Thread briand
My previous google/groups attempts just didn't have the right keywords: And the answer is : /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl Worked ! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous download, some 500 Meg... Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? Will it check these downloads for errors with an md5 or

Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?

2004-10-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/10/04 09:42), Brendan wrote: On Thursday 07 October 2004 13:16, Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:06:41AM +0530, Rishi wrote: The output of dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo appears to have recognized the 2nd CPU. Any ideas if (a) the 2nd CPU is being used OR (b) it's not

Re: installing on an older machine

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 08 October 2004 13:52, Rick Pasotto wrote: I am trying to install debian on an old hp vectra. The (testing) install goes along fine, finding the nic and downloading stuff from the network but then it reports that it can't find any partitionable media. Well, there is a 1.7 gig hard

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous download, some 500 Meg... Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? If apt-get is interrupted, it'll continue from where it left off. Note that you might find:

RE: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread jano kupec
Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? apt keeps downloaded packages (usually) in /var/cache/apt/archives, untill you decide to remove them with apt-get clean, so the are not

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous download, some 500 Meg... Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Usually not, eventually you'll find them in

Compaq LTE 5400/Debian stable - Xfree86 configuration.

2004-10-08 Thread Ian McCall
I'm trying to set up a Compaq LTE 5400 on stable (Woody), and as ever the dreaded XFree86 set-up is driving me up the wall. It's a Cirrus Logic CL5478 card apparently, and has an LCD with 16bit colour 800x600 native display. Card is just a 1 meg video card. I can get a normal'ish looking

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2004-10-08 Thread Baker, Bill
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Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK seperate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

2004-10-08 Thread gerhard
Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 14:22 schrieb Tim Kelley: On Friday 08 October 2004 02:50, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: Hello, I'm running Sarge/SID. I want to build and package the gimp plugin Seperate [3], which relies on the CMM of the little-cms [5] and seems to make a first step toward

Reverse ip lookup does not use /etc/hosts

2004-10-08 Thread halbtaxabo-debuser
I am investigating a problem on my LAN - some operations seemed very slow. There are 3 machines on the LAN. Two (leo.galaxy and orion.galaxy) are only connected to the LAN. The third (ursa.galaxy) is the firewall/gateway and also has a connection thru a cable modem to the internet. The test: on

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Friday 08 October 2004 13.22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as the /home directory, as well as using the same partition for storing documents and user files from my Windows 2000 Pro (the other side of my dual boot system,) that I could

appendix Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK separate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

2004-10-08 Thread gerhard
Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 18:43 schrieb gerhard: Now I started a download of an rpm which contains libgimpcolor-1.3.so.24 http://lisas.de/~nils/yum/fedora/0.95/i386/extras/RPMS/gimp-beta-2.0- 0.pre2.1.i386.rpm 20-Jan-2004 09:28  8.8M I don't know how to handle that, because I already got a

Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?

2004-10-08 Thread Brendan
On Friday 08 October 2004 12:18, Clive Menzies wrote: Why not just run top, then hit 1 to show both procs? You will see if one or both are being utilized. Good trick ;) Yoda said it best: Pass on what you have learned. And then he said something about there being another Sky Floater or

[SOLVED] Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK separate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

2004-10-08 Thread gerhard
Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 19:46 schrieb gerhard: Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 18:43 schrieb gerhard: Now I started a download of an rpm which contains libgimpcolor-1.3.so.24 http://lisas.de/~nils/yum/fedora/0.95/i386/extras/RPMS/gimp-beta-2. 0- 0.pre2.1.i386.rpm 20-Jan-2004 09:28  8.8M

Re: opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

2004-10-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Weil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it take to get hardware accelerated open gl working? Try using the radeon driver instead of the ati driver and see what happens. I believe that the Mobility series of Radeons use

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-10-08 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:57:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible. I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file system errors

Re: 3c575_cb missing from debian install

2004-10-08 Thread Joey Hess
Ketil Froyn wrote: I'm trying to install debian testing on my laptop, but I need the 3c575_cb for my PCMCIA network adapter, and for some reason it is not included on the boot, root, net-drivers or even cd-drivers images. I don't know why, the net-drivers has over 200kb free space. It's

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Graham
Olle wrote: BTW, I don't really see how backing up the home directory would be enough, at least for me. I tend to make lots of changes system wide so that I get the same settings for root as my ordinary user account, and half the time it is just easier to make the changes in the existing

Re: Compaq LTE 5400/Debian stable - Xfree86 configuration.

2004-10-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:26:05PM +0100, Ian McCall wrote: I'm trying to set up a Compaq LTE 5400 on stable (Woody), and as ever the dreaded XFree86 set-up is driving me up the wall. It's a Cirrus Logic CL5478 card apparently, and has an LCD with 16bit colour 800x600 native display. Card

New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread JW
Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Debian environment and need a little advise. I have been using SuSE for a long time but recently my job has required me to start administrating a Debian server that was set up with

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
#secure method=pgp mode=sign -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jano kupec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? apt keeps downloaded

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
#secure method=pgp mode=sign -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Not really, no. Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got?

Re: opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

2004-10-08 Thread Richard Weil
I took a quick look at the dri troubleshooting and I couldn't find anything specific to the Mobility series. The dri pages made me think, though ... should the kernel be loading any particular modules as opposed to XFree? Looking at lsmod, I have: radeon intel_agp agpgart There is no drm kernel

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Don Parris
-- Original Message - Subject: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing? Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 From: JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Debian

RE: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Roozemond
Hi, I am wondering what the best way is to go about staying up to date. If I run apt-get -s upgrade I'm told that apt wants to upgrade about 15 packages, most of which seem to be related to X (we won't ever be using X on this server. it wasn't originally installed and Id like to get

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip - new user administering Debian co-lo I was reading the security FAQ and am somewhat alarmed to find (if I understand correctly) that Testing is not actively supported by the security team. Youch. If I could put stable on it

how to recover data even when unable to mount?

2004-10-08 Thread tripolar
It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. my hard drive 3 partitions I wish to make backups of. After googling I have found several options- one being dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=noerror,sync I have a new 160G

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread JW
DR If anyone has advise on how to keep a Testing system secure, DR I'd really like to hear it. DR DR If security is really an issue to you: lots of websites exist on how to make DR a linux system secure, involving very strict SSH settings, firewalls, etc. DR DR For the average user (such

RE: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Roozemond
The only thing that might cause a problem would be if it updates a large package (say Apache or Perl) and has a small configuration bug that makes you run around and pull your hair out trying to figure out what's changed and how to fix it. This is when reading the Debian-user list

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:13:15 +0200 Dan Roozemond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing that might cause a problem would be if it updates a large package (say Apache or Perl) and has a small configuration bug that makes you run around and pull your hair out trying to figure out

Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?

2004-10-08 Thread John A Chaves
Take a look at e2salvage http://e2salvage.sourceforge.net/. It worked well for me in similar situations. John On Friday 08 October 2004 03:04 pm, tripolar wrote: It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. my hard

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-08 Thread Don Jackson
On Sunday 26 September 2004 09:11 am, Don Jackson wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 09:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote: I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard

Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

2004-10-08 Thread Andrew Carter
I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest is my DSL provider. I have three Macintoshes, an XP box, and a Debian/FreeBSD dual boot box.

Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

2004-10-08 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting my mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are copied into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, this makes them quite useless for me, as I don't have the recipient's private

Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?

2004-10-08 Thread Paul E Condon
I suggest that you first remove the old hard disk. Then do a complete new install of Sarge on the new hard disk. In Debian, dd-rescue is in the ddrescue package. Don't try to operate from knoppix, if you have a brand new HD on which you can install quickly all the packages that you need.

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 08 October 2004 21:18, JW wrote: Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Debian environment and need a little advise. I have been using SuSE for a long time but recently my job has required me to start administrating a

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 08 October 2004 23:21, Andrew Carter wrote: So, I have three questions: I make it 4 1. Should my router's ip address be in the resolv.conf file? You should be running dhclient - it will put it there when the dhcp server in your dsl router/modem answers the request. But if you

Re: Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting my mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are copied into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, this makes them quite

Re: Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

2004-10-08 Thread Martin Dickopp
Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting my mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are copied into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, this makes them quite useless for

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Silvan
On Friday 08 October 2004 12:18 pm, Eric Dickner wrote: For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous download, some 500 Meg... Painful, innit? I did that when I upgraded from Woody to Sarge. Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-08 Thread Silvan
Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. I'm sure my client thanks you too. Linux, Debian, and all the others who contributed to open source software have given this lady her window to the world in her meager mobile home in the backwoods environment. Kind of nice timing coming back

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

2004-10-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 08 October 2004 04:21 pm, Andrew Carter wrote: I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest is my DSL provider. I have

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 08 October 2004 03:22 am, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Hello, I got an official woody set and am now setting it up, and am wondering if this bright idea of mine is actually advisable. I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as the /home directory, as well as using

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

2004-10-08 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:59:21 -0700 (PDT), Sergio Basurto wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:21:51 -0700, Andrew Carter wrote: I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network has an ActionTec wireless

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-08 Thread Ian L
At 08:07 AM 10/8/2004, you wrote: The point is, did you ever use a Dos / Windows utility to partition the disk, or did you buy it new and partition it with the installer? No, no windows or other non-linux partitioning tool should have been used on this disk. Linux is the only thing thats been on

Re: CUPS to USB printing no longer working

2004-10-08 Thread Robert S
I should check, but yes, probably you'll find a kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6 on Woody. Should I use kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 or kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6? Sorry about basic questions. I'm quite new to debian. Also - my life would not be worth living if I screwed up the office system. -- To

Re: Grub won't timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:23:51 +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:00:38AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: (I would have sword GRUB started numbering at 1, not 0, but perhaps I'm mistaken. I believe you are wrong. It starts at 0. This should be documented. I would have

Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for GIMP. However, xsane is not able to see the scanner. I just get a less than

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Jeff Golden
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for GIMP.

Samba, part duex..

2004-10-08 Thread Peter Quackenbush
I am still having difficulty using samba on sarge. Samba 3.0.7 As a reference, here is my smb.conf # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.0.104 (192.168.0.104) # Date: 2004/10/08 22:05:09 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MSHOME server string = %h server

Re: Display Set-Up

2004-10-08 Thread Beans
Vijaya S wrote: Hi, You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. stop X server and then type # dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file insteead of 'dpkg-reconfigure'. After all, this way need more

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Brian Pack
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 23:06, Scarletdown wrote: I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for GIMP. However, xsane is not able

Re: Display Set-Up

2004-10-08 Thread Beans
Vijaya S wrote: Hi, You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. stop X server and then type # dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file (/etc/X11/XFree86-4) insteead of 'dpkg-reconfigure'. After all,

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Jeff Golden
Don't have one personally so I dont know but: http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/ was produced, as the first result, to the following google search: parallel port scanners linux avision I apologize I read that wrong apparently they haven't been succesful at a paralell

sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

2004-10-08 Thread Arjen Dragt
I am trying to determine the best category under which to file a Debian bug report. The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not work, insteat causes my screen (console - Gnome session) to go really wierd.command line starts

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Scarletdown
Jeff Golden wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane

Re: sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

2004-10-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Arjen Dragt: I am trying to determine the best category under which to file a Debian bug report. The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not work, insteat causes my screen (console - Gnome session) to go really

Re: Display Set-Up

2004-10-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Beans: Vijaya S wrote: You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. stop X server and then type # dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file (/etc/X11/XFree86-4) instead of

Re: strange disk corruption - cables

2004-10-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion concerning this thread tells me that my own understanding of the issues at play is far below that of certain other posters. However, I will humbly wonder aloud if the IDE cable is firmly seated in the connectors at both its

Re: sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:41:40 -0400 (EDT) Arjen Dragt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to determine the best category under which to file a Debian bug report. The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not work, insteat causes my

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