Re: Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 17:54:23 -0800, Lee Ann Spalteholz wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Roger Spalteholz Jr. I dont see my last name too often, You sure it isn't Groucho? Sorry, but this does sound like a line out of Animal Crackers... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apache2

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 8:50:38 +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > > Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See > > http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ > > There is an italian too? There is a debian-italian list, but I am not sure whether an FAQ exists. The parall

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 0:27:12 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > >Touche', I had indeed momentarily forgotten that. I had also at the > >time spoken rather pointedly to my senators and rep

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-12 Thread jlquinn
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks again! Now I just need to get my Dlink DWL-G510 WiFi card working and all my dreams will have come true... Check the chipset: do an lspci and report back to the list what it outputs. If it's an Athero

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. > > The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat > /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The > system is a c

Re: mozilla + mutt

2006-01-12 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:03:17PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: > > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives > > > you s

lpr: lp: unknown printer

2006-01-12 Thread Dexter
Hi, i have succesfully instaled network printer HP-Color-LaserJet-4650. When I go http://localhost:631 to administration of printer, theere the name of the printer is "HP-Color-LaserJet-4650". I`ve had stupid idea to remove lp printer from system through webmin. Now my problem is, that on some pro

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
Just one last point in case anyone is interested... The file does not have to be called /etc/modprobe.d/local It can be anything you like... such as /etc/modprobe.d/psychopath if you like. It seems that modprobe functions in such a manner as to scan and process all files in the /etc/modprobe.d/ dir

Re: kernel-2.6.15 cannot compile

2006-01-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday 12 January 2006 03:14, Brian Nelson wrote: > Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error: > > [snip] > > http://bugs.debian.org/347487 > Thank you, the workaround worked (downgrade kernel-package 10.031 to 10.030

sarge UTF-8 problem with ssh with USEPAM=no

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Börnert
hi list, i've a sarge default install. cat /etc/environment shows - snip --- LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -- snip -- sshd_config has USEPAM=no after ssh login locale -- snip--- LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_N

sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh ...wouldn't be executed

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Börnert
hi list, i've installed a default sarge, with additional partitions e.x. /usr # mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,nosuid) /dev/hda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,nosuid) /d

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
Well, must modify that last claim that the modprobe.conf idea worked. It did but the very presence of the /etc/modprobe.conf/local file (even if empty) caused some other drivers to fail to load properly (or at all, maybe). I discovered this when trying to access the floppy and the system informed

problem with snapshot.debian.net: solved

2006-01-12 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
On 01/10/2006 04:14:34 PM, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: I tried to get it from snapshot.debian.net, but while it says packages since 2005/03/13 are available, I couldn't access packages earlier than 2005/11/01, and couldn't grab versions earlier than 1.8.4-2 (current is 1.8.4-3). snapshot.debia

Re: camera and mounting

2006-01-12 Thread Linas Zvirblis
I get this message when I try to open: mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly. Any sugestions? Well, does it exist? Post output of "ls -al /dev/sd*". Also try installing "hal-device-manager". It gives you a great deal of informat

電腦維修、網頁設計、網絡安裝

2006-01-12 Thread support
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Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-12 Thread Vegar Åsmul
Oliver Lupton wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: I vaguely recall there is a utility to capture input to the terminal to file. To record the entire session; $ script -f file Exit the shell with Ctrl-D when your done, then read "file" wit

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-12 Thread Mauro Sanna
> The next release of Ubuntu Server, which is scheduled to have > five years security support, isn't due out until October. > Debian "stable" / Sarge shuld be fine for most purposes - > _you_ need to assess _your_ risk, look at the applications you're > running and, potentially, screen apt-listbugs

Problems with Softdog...

2006-01-12 Thread Mat
Hi all. I need to use Softdog in my system. I'm doing some tests to get it working... I have an old Debian machine [ kernel 2.4.21, Debian 3.0 ] I start my app ( see test.c ), if I interrupt it I get: SOFTDOG: WDT device closed unexpectedly. WDT will not stop! and the machine reboot within 60

camera and mounting

2006-01-12 Thread Embrik Kaslegard
I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media)  /dev/sdc1   /media/mmc  vfat    rw,user,noauto  0   0 This is probably not enough, though it is anough to mount an MP3-player.

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
Just a further note to Adam Porter in addition to my response on the why and wherefore above, I discovered that the wierd behaviour with not being able to access the status port appears to be specific to the combination of Debian Sarge with the particular PC I was using. The difficulty does not ap

Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

2006-01-12 Thread scanda
==> update i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge, kernel 2.4 if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem afther the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" udev find the sda1 partition and everything went ok any idea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
Well, that works brilliantly! I created /etc/modprobe.conf/local and added to it the following lines... install parport /bin/true install parport_pc /bin/true install lp /bin/true and lo and behold, the drivers did not load. Thank you, Marc and one and all for your responses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
Just a question to Marc Perrudin... In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ directory as indicated in your response and place the 'local' file in that one instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:25:24AM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > > I'm not trying to discourage you from using Debian, it's great, but > > you may want to look at the next release of Ubuntu Server, which will > > have security support for five years. > > But using debian sarge for servers is secure

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
Thanks, I'll try that. Please excuse the 'disorder' of my replies - something funny happened when first loading the web page and I missed Marc's response. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-12 Thread Joshua Lee
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:55:46AM -0500, Gabriel S. Farrell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > > Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for > > the direct reply Andy. > > Are you Grring because you wish you were using Mutt? It's the

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-12 Thread hillbilly
I have a completely different use for the parport. However, 'why' is irrelevant. If modules are only loadable, where's the flexibility? What if you're fiddling around with various PCI cards or some such experimentation? My application was previously run on RH9 and it was easy to rmmod the lp, pa

Re: ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:41:33PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). > I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1. > Google for DWL-G510 wireless card Linux chipset The second entry suggests that you don't use ndiswrapper. It's l

Kontact/KMail problem in sid

2006-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
After today's apt-get dist-upgrade, I can't check mail anymore. Checking my IMAP settings in KMail, I find that the path to IMAP folders has changed to some incomprehensible nonsense about namespaces that I can't make heads or tails of. So, big question: How do I point contact back at ~/mail/ fo

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-12 Thread Mauro Sanna
> I'm not trying to discourage you from using Debian, it's great, but > you may want to look at the next release of Ubuntu Server, which will > have security support for five years. But using debian sarge for servers is secure or not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

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