Re: Apache 2 Debian 3.1 ManhatVC

2006-08-12 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:20:11PM -0400, Cary Pembleton wrote: > Simo my friend, > It seems there is no other Linux Disto. this computer will allow me to > install. Hmm, what voodoo magic did you perform to make this happen I > wonder? I swear it's true! I have tried, Fedora 5 and Slackware 10.1,

weird ls behavior after ln/rm of dir from other user

2006-08-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
While trying to make a mounted directory containing images available to my wife on another computer, I created a soft link in her home dir, to the /usr/local/film subdirectory (which I had already mounted through a soft link in my own home dir). She could not read the contents from her computer.

Re: Howto debug udev hal gvm

2006-08-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Mirko Scurk wrote: I know it's not polite to answer your own post, but this problem realy makes me angry. I compared my main desktop comp (where cd automount is not working well) and my laptop (where everything is fine) with almost same sw packages and only difference I noticed was that dbus-la

Re: Burning a video DVD

2006-08-12 Thread [KS]
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> What is the size of your ISO image? > > > $ ls -lh image.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 rodolfo rodolfo 6.6G 2006-08-10 23:05 image.iso > Your data is 6.6GB so you will need a dual layer DVD as the single layer can only write about 4.46GB of data. > >> What are the specs of the

Re: bittorrent application

2006-08-12 Thread [KS]
Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Wei Hu wrote: > >> µTorrent is a good one, but I have to use it with wine. This >> BitTorrent client is fast and powerful. Hope native linux and FreeBSD >> versions will be release soon. >> >> >> On 8/11/06, Margiolas Christos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Select email client to mail stuff from konqueror?

2006-08-12 Thread J F
>> Probably in a menu somewhere. >Is KMail installed? I was hoping to find a place to select thunderbird as the official email to call up when forwarding a webpage, if possible? ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal o

Re: Delinquent maintainers?

2006-08-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:40:07AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > Do you mean by un-migratable that it isn't in etch? ... Yes. > If so I have sympathy for you, but it is possible to get it by other > means, and the bug that is keeping it out of etch means that it shouldn't > be in Debian at all in

Re: Select email client to mail stuff from konqueror?

2006-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J F wrote: > How do I select email client to mail stuff from konqueror? > > Like if I see an web page I want to email to myself? > > Probably in a menu somewhere. Is KMail installed? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" reall

Select email client to mail stuff from konqueror?

2006-08-12 Thread J F
How do I select email client to mail stuff from konqueror? Like if I see an web page I want to email to myself? Probably in a menu somewhere. Thanks in advance j ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! --

Re: Delinquent maintainers?

2006-08-12 Thread James Westby
On (12/08/06 22:07), Carl Fink wrote: > How long does a package have to sit with unfixed bugs before the maintainers > are considered to be inactive? I mentioned on this list wanting to use VLC, > which has now sat un-migratable for almost one year. There is a team of developers who try and weed

Delinquent maintainers?

2006-08-12 Thread Carl Fink
How long does a package have to sit with unfixed bugs before the maintainers are considered to be inactive? I mentioned on this list wanting to use VLC, which has now sat un-migratable for almost one year. Since nothing was happening there I figured I'd install checkinstall and then install VLC

Re: dmesg and bootlogd log sizes

2006-08-12 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/12/2006 07:23 PM, Rico Hauke wrote: Hi list, It seems that my dmesg and bootlogd log sizes are not big enough. This is at least what I suspect, since not everything is logged in /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/boot, but only the last lines. So does anybody know if it's possible to increase

Sound repeats three times with snd-via82xx

2006-08-12 Thread Mumia W.
Until recently, I was able to get my sound-card working using the ALSA driver snd-via82xx. However, after a kernel upgrade about a month ago, this no longer works. I'm using 2.4.27. I upgrade my kernels by downloading/upgrading the kernel-source-2.4.27, unpacking it in my home directory and u

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:47:19PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio (0x6770) which can't > > be played by any of totem, avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would > > have thought that Free players would support a Free codec. >

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:44:29PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I use the symlinks /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/initrd.img, /boot/vmlinuz.old > > and /boot/initrd.img.old to point to my current and previous kernels. > > These are listed in my menu.lst. Whenever I update the ker

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I use the symlinks /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/initrd.img, /boot/vmlinuz.old > and /boot/initrd.img.old to point to my current and previous kernels. > These are listed in my menu.lst. Whenever I update the kernel, if > /sbin/update-grub is run, it helpfully replaces those with

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Carl Fink wrote: > I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio (0x6770) which can't > be played by any of totem, avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would > have thought that Free players would support a Free codec. install ffmpeg package (or you may have it already installed) and the

dmesg and bootlogd log sizes

2006-08-12 Thread Rico Hauke
Hi list, It seems that my dmesg and bootlogd log sizes are not big enough. This is at least what I suspect, since not everything is logged in /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/boot, but only the last lines. So does anybody know if it's possible to increase the maximum log sizes somewhere? And is it pos

Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-12 Thread Nick Wright
Hi All, I have been using the proprietary driver from ATI to run my radeon 9600 in a dual-screen setup. Unfortuantely the computer occasionally locks up (no kernel panic or anything helpful to go on here). I realise there are any number of reasons (hardware, software) that might be the cause of t

Urgent Equity Alert

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MRTG

2006-08-12 Thread Alejandro
Hi all, I have a Debian box with the MRTG package in order to monitor the bandwidth of my dedicated Internet connection. The problem is that the router connected to my Debian is managed by my ISP and not for me. So I have no data about the SNMP read community from the router. Is there any alte

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2236 +0100]: > martin f krafft wrote: > > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight > > text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone > > know what I could use? > > > > Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight > text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone > know what I could use? > > Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux)

Re: VNC

2006-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:47:38 -0400 "Chuck Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I only been using debian a short time, and I am wanting to know what > would it take set up X so that it running VNC or a VNC like program. > When I start kde on my SuSE box, it running with out me doing > anyt

Re: VNC

2006-08-12 Thread Derek
add it to your ~/.xsessionOn 8/12/06, Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I only been using debian a short time, and I am wanting to know what would ittake set up X so that it running VNC or a VNC like program. When I start kdeon my SuSE box, it running with out me doing anything. Payne--To U

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2039 +0100]: > Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you? Thank you for taking the time to reply, Hubert! Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, bu

Read-only CF-card based Debian?

2006-08-12 Thread Stephen G
Hi there, I am looking to build an always-on, low-powered Debian server for a small home-office that will support Asterisk for VoIP, files, scanner, fax, print server. I hope to base it on a VIA EPIA mini-ITX fanless motherboard with the Debian OS installed on a CF card, then the operating sys

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-12 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:14:51 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight text > therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone know what > I could use? Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you? -- Hubert

DCC++ Hub software

2006-08-12 Thread Chuck Payne
Does anyone know... 1) Does debian have DCC++ hub software? 2) If there is hub software, what is called? Thanks, Payne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any recommendations on open source MUAs that can allow to read Microsoft Exchange Server e-mails?

2006-08-12 Thread Stephen
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:28:21AM -0400 or thereabouts, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to look for an e-mail client that can allow me to check > Microsoft Exhange Server e-mails. I googled the topic and XFMail was > suggested, but when I tried it, it didn't work for me.

VNC

2006-08-12 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I only been using debian a short time, and I am wanting to know what would it take set up X so that it running VNC or a VNC like program. When I start kde on my SuSE box, it running with out me doing anything. Payne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

2006-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 16:38:53 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:44:54 +0200 > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present > > in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following > > lines: > >

Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-12 Thread martin f krafft
I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone know what I could use? Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux), the only way? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the li

Re: apt-get/aptitude update failing [solved]

2006-08-12 Thread Bill Wohler
Nathan Laredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a bug in the 2.6.8 version of rsync. I've installed > a patched older release of rsync, and things may improve in the > next 24 hours. Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks to me like it worked just fine. The warnings below are

Re: bittorrent application

2006-08-12 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Wei Hu wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:15:51 +1000 From: Wei Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: bittorrent application Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:16:27 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org µTorrent is a good one, but

Re: how to get package list

2006-08-12 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 12 August 2006 10:34 am, Jabka Atu wrote: > H0wdy... > > i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the > progs (i need only the package list). "dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > /path/to/output/dpkg-filelist" Sample output looks like : Status=Not/Installed/Conf

Re: how to get package list

2006-08-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:34:36PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the > progs (i need only the package list). Debian makes it nice and easy to get a list of all installed packages: # dpkg --get-selections aalib1

Re: Howto debug udev hal gvm

2006-08-12 Thread Mirko Scurk
I know it's not polite to answer your own post, but this problem realy makes me angry. I compared my main desktop comp (where cd automount is not working well) and my laptop (where everything is fine) with almost same sw packages and only difference I noticed was that dbus-launch on workin system

Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

2006-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:44:54 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present > in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following > lines: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contr

how to get package list

2006-08-12 Thread Jabka Atu
H0wdy... i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the progs (i need only the package list). all the configuration (/etc) i have allready copied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread Katipo
Jon Dowland wrote: At 1155335188 past the epoch, Carl Fink wrote: I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio (0x6770) which can't be played by any of totem, avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would have thought that Free players would support a Free codec. totem-xine or

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:47:51PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1155335188 past the epoch, Carl Fink wrote: > > I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio > > (0x6770) which can't be played by any of totem, > > avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would have thought > > that Free pla

Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

2006-08-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following lines: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free , then

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155222171 past the epoch, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I'm a little confused why, when I enter: > Hammertime:/home/chuckk/Desktop/kernel/new/linux-2.6.17-mm6# > patch --verbose -p1 ../2.6.17-mm6 > > the terminal sits idle, apparently indefinitely. As other(s) have mentioned, you need to add -i or

Re: bittorrent application

2006-08-12 Thread Wei Hu
µTorrent is a good one, but I have to use it with wine. This BitTorrent client is fast and powerful. Hope native linux and FreeBSD versions will be release soon. On 8/11/06, Margiolas Christos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ktorrent is very bad I have spent hours on its settings. The download is sl

Re: Will encrypted partitions slow down preformance?

2006-08-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:29:09PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I will test beta 3 tomorrow. I am considering also testing the > encrypted partitions. Will having encrypted partitions slow down > performance? If so how much? Thanks. The question rephrased by me: I see benefits in having encr

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:43:08PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > I've wanted to have the automated tools to work for me, so I backed up > /boot/grub/menu.lst, then read the manual page for update-grub before > running it, observing the differences between the backed-up copy and the > automatic

Re: Space to install all packages

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155390631 past the epoch, Jon Dowland wrote: > Xiyan Lon wrote: > >I plan to make partition, > >20GB / > >10GB /usr/local > >1GB swap > >rest-GB /home > >Is this enough? > > At 1155316885 past the epoch, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > This is more than enough. We have an installation of all >

Re: Space to install all packages

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Xiyan Lon wrote: >I plan to make partition, >20GB / >10GB /usr/local >1GB swap >rest-GB /home >Is this enough? At 1155316885 past the epoch, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > This is more than enough. We have an installation of all > your office, kde, gnome requirements, different sets of > compilers

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155335188 past the epoch, Carl Fink wrote: > I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio > (0x6770) which can't be played by any of totem, > avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would have thought > that Free players would support a Free codec. totem-xine or totem-gstreamer? Do you

Re: mp3 players with Debian (samsung and iriver)

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
H.S.: > > Thinking of getting an mp3 portable player. Options are > iRiver t30 and Samsung YP-C1Z. The latter also a radio > tuner in it so this appears to be the preferred one. The > main deciding factor for these was that they play OGG > files. I have an irivier H140 which appears as a normal U

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread George Hein
Carl Fink wrote: I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio (0x6770) which can't be played by any of totem, avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would have thought that Free players would support a Free codec. There is another vid-aud-player which I tried "VLC" which worked for me.

Re: tar and filesystem characterset problem

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155388608 past the epoch, Erik Persson wrote: > I guess the filenames are stored in iso-latin1 in the > tar-file, but I don't know. The extract the files from > the tar-file on OS X 10.4 as well, but this fails for all > files containing the national characters. I want to > preserve the file

Re: Possible bug in apt-get

2006-08-12 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:55:49PM +0200, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > Nils Erik Svang?rd writes: > > > Hi! > > Im running unstable with swedish locale. > > apt-get upgrade ask me something in swedish and a reply is necessary > > to continue. > > Ja=Yes and Nej=No in swedish, so the dialog look

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-12 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:07:43AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Friday, August 11, 2006 10:39 PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > I also don't like > > it when people completely ignore the accomplishments of Microsoft > > with Windows and rip them to shreds as if their operating system i

tar and filesystem characterset problem

2006-08-12 Thread Erik Persson
Hello! I have a tar-file cantaining a large number of files. Some of the files in the tar-file have my national character in the filename. I guess the filenames are stored in iso-latin1 in the tar-file, but I don't know. The tar-file extracts nicely on debian. Anyway, I want to extract the fil

Re: mp3 players with Debian (samsung and iriver)

2006-08-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:50:34 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >Thinking of getting an mp3 portable player. Options are iRiver t30 and >Samsung YP-C1Z. The latter also a radio tuner in it so this appears to >be the preferred one. The main deciding factor for these was that they >play OGG files. > >Has anyon

Re: FW: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

2006-08-12 Thread Simo Kauppi
Just one more posting on the subject :) I noticed, that the syntax of the file had been broken (by M$ Outlook?), when posting/mailing back and forth. This is what the file originally looked like. /etc/apache2/sites-available/manhat: -8<-cut here-- # Remo

Re: FW: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

2006-08-12 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:23:59AM -0400, Cary Pembleton wrote: > Hi Simo, > Thanks for the help. I am just going to back up to an old RedHat 9 and > Apache 1.whatever. I have wasted far too much time fooling around with > Debian and Apache 2, it's a matter of how much lost time is really costing >

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-08-12 Thread Serban Udrea
Mertens Bram wrote: Serban Top-posting is considered bad netiquette so please see my response below. Mertens Sorry, but I was never told this before. On 2006-08-10, Serban Udrea wrote: [...] Johannes Wiedersich wrote: ... See the thread entitled "mess" from yesterday/today. aptitude

FW: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

2006-08-12 Thread Cary Pembleton
Hi Simo, Thanks for the help. I am just going to back up to an old RedHat 9 and Apache 1.whatever. I have wasted far too much time fooling around with Debian and Apache 2, it's a matter of how much lost time is really costing me. I just do not have the luxury to do it. I have rebuilt Debian 3.1 4 t

RE: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-12 Thread Seth Goodman
On Friday, August 11, 2006 10:39 PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > > That's a reasonable goal, even a good goal, if you are > > > > willing to remain a small, exclusive club. > > Actually, Debian is one of the fastest growing distribution > according to Netcraft: > > http://news.netcraft.

(solved)Re: booting sarge from a scsi card that has no bios

2006-08-12 Thread Serena Cantor
I think loadlin.exe can boot sarge. During installation, open a console, copy vmlinuz and initrd to a dos partition, and reboot to dos to run loadlin. It should work. Thanks anyway! --- "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > Are you sure sarge installation CD can boot a > > installed syst