Re: Where'd my debian menu go???

2007-09-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 13 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running sid. In Gnome, I've gotten used to having a Debian menu under Applications where all those non-gnome apps go. However, it's disappeared!!! Not only that, but when I go to the Edit Menus option, it's not there either.

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread David Baron
Using nvidia's own installer will likely work first time every time. (You will have to restore the symlink on xorg updates if you do not change the directories). The first time I tried Debian's modules, it did not work. Later on, they did but with a lower frame rate. In any event, use m-a

Re: WYSIWYG editor

2007-08-29 Thread David Baron
Actually WYSIWYG is VERY BAD for web page creation. People can resize their windows etc - and then what?  All your WYSIWYG has gone to waste. In addition your WYSIWYG is probably not even rendering the same as your favorite browsers. As annoying as it may be at the start, the best way is

Re: nvidia-glx under Debian 4.0r1

2007-08-29 Thread David Baron
Finally, do not use nvidia's own installer since it overwrites existing debian files on your system and will eventually make a hash of it. 1. Nvidia's installer can be run with options to avoid this problem. If you do not do it thus, every time you upgrade xorg, you need to check the

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread David Baron
On Monday 27 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to change it. Subject closed. ;-) Thank you for your help. Regards,     Another thing you could try before replacing the harddrive is replacing the IDE

Re: Renice long-running user processes

2007-08-24 Thread David Baron
I run a shared system where I'd like to automatically lower the priority of user processes that consume more than a specified about of CPU time. I could hack something up with Perl, ps, and nice, but before I do, does anyone know of a ready-made utility to do this job? Would reniced be

Re: Exim4 and authentication

2007-08-23 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 23 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My new provider requests authentication to send mail, so I found a problem with exim4 / mutt. For the port to send mail is 587, I put the line nel configurare exim4 smtp.tele2.it::587 configuring exim4. In in /etc/exim4/passwd.client

Re: Renice long-running user processes

2007-08-22 Thread David Baron
I run a shared system where I'd like to automatically lower the =A0 priority of user processes that consume more than a specified about =A0 of CPU time. =A0I could hack something up with Perl, ps, and nice, but = =A0 before I do, does anyone know of a ready-made utility to do this job?

Nicing Boinc_client

2007-08-03 Thread David Baron
After having a problem with clamd interfering with too much CPU load, a posting suggesting place a -n ## in the start-daemon line and that works. Boinc_client starts up with start-stop-daemon --start and the -n ## has no effect. How might I nice this? (Problem is that the child process such as

Re: Boinc Clients Niceness

2007-07-27 Thread David Baron
On Friday 27 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's setiathome nice and prio : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/donnees/programmes/BOINC$ ps -o pid,cmd,nice,pri -p 5219    PID CMD                          NI PRI   5219 setiathome-5.12.i686-pc-lin  19   5 So : 1) Prio does not mean what I thought ;-)

Boinc Clients Niceness

2007-07-26 Thread David Baron
Is there any way to control the niceness of boinc_client processes? Setiathome, for example, will initially come up niced. When it restarts, for example a new work unit, it comes up not nice. It's options, controlled from their site, include nothing to control this and it has its own system of

Correct networking startup

2007-07-24 Thread David Baron
I have: /etc/rc0.d/S35networking /etc/rc2.d/S99networking /etc/rc3.d/S99networking /etc/rc5.d/S99networking /etc/rc6.d/S35networking /etc/rcS.d/S40networking and the S99 apparently is what gets done. Kind of late on for many 99 functions which must now wait on it! Is this scripting correct?

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-07-10 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings us back to my original point; why not RTF? It's apparently a fairly open format, and apparently virtually all word processors can read and write it. I do not know if it is the format itself, or the limitation of the

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-10 Thread David Baron
There is only one virtual machine that can do such a thing and that is Parallels and that on an Intel Mac. This is because both the Mac and Windows OS's have the same hardware installed. Not opensourse. VMs and Emulators (Qemu and VirtualBox are emulators) present their own hardware

Danguardian Problem?

2007-07-05 Thread David Baron
Takes a long long time to start. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

2007-07-04 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 04 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google has a Debian version of its desktop: http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it again. Did

exim macro DEBCONFstringOK_config_adapted (repost)

2007-06-27 Thread David Baron
I want to keep my config files for exim4 for now. Where do I place this macro and how? Just says to do it :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. If you install kqemu, QEMU will run faster. Make sure to modprobe kqemu major=0 first. QEMU will use kqemu automatically if it is installed. Run QEMU from a terminal window and you will get a message if it is unable to find kqemu. I need

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-26 Thread David Baron
OK, OK. RTF is Microsoft's SQL is IBM's JavaScript is Netscape's (Jscript is Microsoft's knockoff, beware) HTML, CSS and their children are from W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) XML? PostScript is Apple's (really a FORTH derivative, huh?) PDF is Adobe's. Word, XSL, etc. are from Microsoft. and ...

How Should MTAs Upgrade?

2007-06-25 Thread David Baron
The recent DEBCONFmacroDEBCONF problem with exim upgrades brings up this question. Yes, I know it's Sid, unstable, and things can break. In such a case, though, do they have to break? What happened in this case was those not accepting all the maintainer's files (and having to start over) got

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread David Baron
I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange with non-Abi users.  I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open standard.  Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary.  This article [1] points out that it has the same status as PDF.  I can't imagine that Abi would

exim macro DEBCONFstringOK_config_adapted

2007-06-24 Thread David Baron
I want to keep my config files for exim4 for now. Where do I place this macro and how? Just says to do it :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fail2ban application

2007-06-24 Thread David Baron
I get sporadic and not uncommon failures to authenticate sending email using exim4 smarthosting to my provider. Is there a way to get fail2ban to give me immediate notification when this occurs? Such occurances get to /var/log/auth and other logs as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [SOLVED] kqemu on Sid

2007-06-23 Thread David Baron
On Friday 22 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So qemu hangs in kernel 2.6.21 if you turned off paravirtualization and are using kqemu. End of story. I am running 2.6.21 with no PARAVIRT and kqmeu works just fine. Might be that my old pentium-III clunker has no relevance for

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1824

2007-06-23 Thread David Baron
On Friday 22 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard From: Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian users debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Hagar de l'Est [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1815

2007-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. Hebrew characters show as '?' TexLive Hebrew is installed. So how do I get it to be used? Do you need some

Re: First Outing with MusixTex

2007-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. Hebrew characters show as '?' TexLive Hebrew is installed. So how do I get it to be used? Do you need some

First Outing with MusixTex

2007-06-20 Thread David Baron
Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. Hebrew characters show as '?' TexLive Hebrew is installed. So how do I get it to be used? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: kqemu on Sid

2007-06-19 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed qemu on Sid. But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18 kernel. You can built the correct module for your kernel at any time using the following commands: # apt-get install module-assistant

Re: kqemu on Sid

2007-06-19 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed qemu on Sid. [snip] The debian installation of kqemu places a /etc/modprobe.d/kqmeu file with a major=0. This apparently will not be overridden by specifying this in

Re: kqemu on Sid

2007-06-19 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed qemu on Sid. But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18 kernel. So I compiled/installed http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz and that went uneventful.

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 10 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done. Since my logs have this

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-11 Thread David Baron
On Monday 11 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through /var/log/auth.log periodically and add the offending IPs to /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in future, the

Find out host of IP

2007-06-10 Thread David Baron
Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done. Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is? -- To

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-10 Thread David Baron
Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done. Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is? SSH is not

Re: Find out host of IP

2007-06-10 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 10 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done. Since my logs have this

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

2007-06-09 Thread David Baron
Place the following in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ They have images, sources, headers, various modules for current Kernels with Ingo Molnar's realtime preemption patches. I would use the 2.6.21-rt1 version for now (avoid the rt4, the rt7 works fine

Changed mirrors in Israel?

2007-06-07 Thread David Baron
I am getting loads of missing files doing upgrades from mirror.hamakor.co.il. This started with 404 but now is 301, permanently moved. Apt-spy finds a debian.co.il and this one works. Is the hamakor site being phased out? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-02 Thread David Baron
Try booting up a Knoppix CD and poke around from there. Check /etc/profiles for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.## or such. This will murder recent bash versions (including static). If you have anything like this ANYWHERE, delete it. (Old versions of jackd and, according to a poster here, Oracle!! wanted

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you test TED? Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character codepages (for a Windows Hebrew document). Probably decent for good old

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread David Baron
Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread David Baron
Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1649

2007-05-27 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 27 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a problem we have all had, I think. Something goes wrong in a print job, paper jam or whatever. Instead of the printout, one will now get raw data numbers and stuff. So one turns off the printer and removes the job from the queue.

Get Rid of Messed Print Jobs

2007-05-26 Thread David Baron
This is a problem we have all had, I think. Something goes wrong in a print job, paper jam or whatever. Instead of the printout, one will now get raw data numbers and stuff. So one turns off the printer and removes the job from the queue. Problem is that as soon as the printer is turned on, the

Offline TexLive Installation

2007-05-24 Thread David Baron
This stuff takes at least 600m and is not used every day. Is it possible to install it offline, i.e. to a CD or DVD, and then insert this when I am using Tex with these language/font options? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

TEST

2007-05-24 Thread David Baron
This is a test so please ignore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TEST

2007-05-24 Thread David Baron
This is a test so please ignore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System freeze recovery

2007-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 23 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quote from Debian Reference 8.5.2 Alt-SysRq Insurance against system malfunction is provided by the kernel compile option Magic SysRq key. Pressing Alt-SysRq on an i386, followed by one of the keys r 0 k e i s u b, does the magic. Un`r'aw

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, upgraded, removed. How does one

Blacklisting genrtc

2007-05-22 Thread David Baron
I want rtc to load rather than genrtc. I had this blacklisted somewhere but that has vanished. Putting this in /etc/hotplug/blacklist did not help. Where must it go? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread David Baron
/etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, upgraded, removed. How does one clean up this mess conveniently? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Clamav-deamon Bug

2007-05-21 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007 05:17, David Baron wrote: I usually cannot find any dmesg entry for this problem. ONE time I did see one and the complaint was about permissions for opening the log file in append mode. The logfile's owner

Re: Clamav-deamon Bug

2007-05-20 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really.  The only way I could get it to start at boot was to configure using dpkg-reconfigure clamav-base and set it to run as root. Ugly, Ugly... Ouch!  No way to set it to a group with adequate permissions to start, without having it

Clamav-deamon Bug

2007-05-19 Thread David Baron
Known and submitted bug. Recently started happening on my box: On bootup, the daemon fails to start. A little later on I can manually run the /etc/init.d/clamav-daeamon start and it does work. Is there a proper work around for now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says Linux infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now there must be a reason why Microsoft browbeat and legally harrassed Robertson until he gave up the name Lindows. Certainly. They _paid_ him.  The reason being that it had become quite clear that the court was not only going to allow

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says Linux infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread David Baron
On Monday 14 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to kill Linux. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/1000338 67/index.htm But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic.

Re: Clamd Nicely

2007-05-13 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 13 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way (and would it be desirable) to nice clamd? Probably best in the init.d script. Just modify it according to your needs? Other option would be to open a wishlist bug against the package to discuss it with the responsible person.

Re: KDE login manager?

2007-05-13 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 13 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does KDE have a login manager similar to Gnome?  When my laptop boots up it first enters a login manager if you will that is Gnome.  Then when I login it brings up the KDE desktop.  Does KDE have anything similar? kdm. (What else?) I guess both

Dansgardian Antivirus Fuctionality

2007-05-12 Thread David Baron
I more than occasionally get a big warning on bootup about dansgardian virus database not being up-to-date. I have an up-to-date clamav working on my box. Is there a way to set dansguardian to make use of clamd rather than its own stuff? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Clamd nicely

2007-05-12 Thread David Baron
Is there a way (and would it be desirable) to nice clamd? Probably best in the init.d script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Purging bad exim4 stuff

2007-05-09 Thread David Baron
I have a non-zero panic log and other logcheck item show frozen messages and stuff on permanent non-deliver status and such. A lot of these items are old. If I try to remove them using webmin, often they are locked. How might I flush the queue and get rid of all the junk? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: Upgrade Sarge Etch: segfault upgrading libc6: system hosed

2007-04-28 Thread David Baron
That libc6 requires recent 2.6.* kernels. Even if your running kernel were such a kernel, there are other factors. I doubt whether you had anything like this, but read my posting about LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=#.#.# in the environment. If for whatever reason, i.e. certain software running on a 32meg

New libc6 problems (SOLVED)

2007-04-26 Thread David Baron
Libc6 is upgraded on Debian Sid and other distro updates. This set of objects is the very heart of our linux. If it ails, well heart failure can be fatal. The new libc6 is fine. It requires newer 2.6 kernels but I assume we are all onto these kernels already so no problem here. Or is there? A

Re: [LAU] New libc6 problems (SOLVED)

2007-04-26 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: On 4/26/07, Fons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:23:58PM +0300, David Baron wrote: A while back, jackd audio users were recommended to place a LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in their /etc/profile or environment

Re: More Nvidia Problems (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After accidently losing the (proprietory) kernel module, I rebuild it with their .run program (after having downgraded a lot of stuff to the lib6c from stable/testing since the Sid one produced unrunnable results). 1. Kicks about its own

More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-24 Thread David Baron
After accidently losing the (proprietory) kernel module, I rebuild it with their .run program (after having downgraded a lot of stuff to the lib6c from stable/testing since the Sid one produced unrunnable results). 1. Kicks about its own libnvidiatls files. It puts them there. 2. I can no

More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-24 Thread David Baron
After accidently losing the (proprietory) kernel module, I rebuild it with their .run program (after having downgraded a lot of stuff to the lib6c from stable/testing since the Sid one produced unrunnable results). 1. Kicks about its own libnvidiatls files. It puts them there. 2. I can no

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-23 Thread David Baron
Which drivers are you using?  On my system, the nv drivers are very sluggish, and the new xorg broke my 97.55, so I upgraded to the new beta 100.14.03, and performance is back. This happens (and will happen) again and again and again. /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions will have the nvidia glx

Re: Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade, more

2007-04-22 Thread David Baron
If one tries to place all the env iterms in /etc/environment, then csh fails with unable to load lib6 objects. Live and learn! I can run sh successfully from csh but not as the user's default shell. Bash is having problems with [ experssion ] syntax in /etc/bashrc, /etc/bash.bashrc and

Re: Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade

2007-04-21 Thread David Baron
David Baron wrote: Sid is now in its post-release fun state. After upgrading libc6, locales, system was entirely broken. I booted up knoppix and made a few symlinks and could now boot. Also saw most apps worked just fine ... if I was not in bash. Bash gives errors about accessing the new

All that new tetex stuff

2007-04-19 Thread David Baron
Upgrade will eat a half gig. Maybe all this text-live language modules should be installable to a different partition or burnable to an offline CD or DVD. Why? How often will they be used? Nice to have them available but too much disk space for some of us. Shoud I file a wish-list? -- To

Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade

2007-04-18 Thread David Baron
Sid is now in its post-release fun state. After upgrading libc6, locales, system was entirely broken. I booted up knoppix and made a few symlinks and could now boot. Also saw most apps worked just fine ... if I was not in bash. Bash gives errors about accessing the new library symlinks.

Re: DeLi Linux, results

2007-04-17 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Baron wrote: I installed it in a qemu session. The ISO downloaded is an installer, not a live CD. !. The installation is finicky and I doubt any first time user will get it right. Instead of offering to make partions, it says run

Making Custom Kernels

2007-04-16 Thread David Baron
I compile my own to dispense with initrd and use realtime-lsm, also a version with the real-time preemptive patch or ovz and such. I am not making the kernel to be a universal package so I guess I really do not need all those modules, do I? I have already dispensed with OSS. I have a normal

DeLi Linux, results

2007-04-16 Thread David Baron
I installed it in a qemu session. The ISO downloaded is an installer, not a live CD. !. The installation is finicky and I doubt any first time user will get it right. Instead of offering to make partions, it says run cfdisk. I did it and made a linux and swap partition on one disk image. Cool.

Re: DeLi Linux

2007-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Friday 13 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not have a look at DeLi linux. http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/ DeLi Linux stands for Desktop Light Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, from 486 to Pentium MMX 166 or so. It's focused on desktop usage. It includes email

Re: Nvidia-OpenGl Library not found problem, but not as root...

2007-04-12 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 12 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as a normal user, I can't start googleearth (all version, incl. the newest). but, if I make: xhost +; then start googleearth as root, it work correct. Is your regular user in the 'video' group?  In order to use OpenGL applications

Re: new kernel problem

2007-04-03 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only reason I need a new kernel is because when I compile modules and try to install them it says: FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-amd64/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format. Can you compile tis module

Re: Mach64 - Etch - Xorg DRI

2007-04-02 Thread David Baron
On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody gotten direct rendering to work with the legacy mach64 Rage Pro Mobility card .. with the etch version of Xorg? The ATI web site does not provide drivers for this antique so I'll have to use the one that's provided with Xorg.

Re: Lilypond

2007-04-01 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 01 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dfeuer wrote: This comment is very late, but I thought I'd mention that LilyPond is another program for engraving music.  I don't know how it compares to MusiXTeX (although it apparently grew out of a MusiXTeX addon, eventually leaving

Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread David Baron
Most recently, how much of the heavy traffic on this list has had anything to do with Debian? With Linux? With computers? The price of bread, love or hate Wallmart or Sponge-Bob, Ubuntu or Dell (ok U is a Linux distro and Dell makes computers, but...) Endless threads filling my mailbox with

Re: Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 01 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree and disagree at the same time.  Some of this off-topic stuff is quite educational, and sometimes quite funny. Yes, I enjoy the first couple of posting sometimes. But after that ... You don't have to read it you know.  You see an

Re: partitions do not end on cylinder boundaries

2007-03-29 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 29 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, I would recommend that you request your money back and use a decent free program like gparted to do the partitioning.  Explain that the product is defective because it creates invalid partitions, and show them the error you see. This

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems (OK)

2007-03-27 Thread David Baron
I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more will time out with a failed HTTP Get. Worked last week. What gives? Seems to be working now. SIte problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Apt-listbugs Problems

2007-03-26 Thread David Baron
I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more will time out with a failed HTTP Get. Worked last week. What gives? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Older Software and Hardware (was Re: NVIDIA i2c adapter?)

2007-03-23 Thread David Baron
On Friday 23 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the idea is that the legacy driver as they are calling it will continue to be updated to keep supporting the older cards at least that is what I have read on the site whether they do it or not is another thing... Their legacy

NVIDIA i2c adapter?

2007-03-22 Thread David Baron
Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 1 at 1:00.0] forgot to

Re: NVIDIA i2c adapter?

2007-03-22 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 22 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel:

Kqemu module and realtime, rt-patches

2007-03-20 Thread David Baron
Is there any conflicts here? Keep getting failure to open existing /dev/kqemu (regardless of permissions) with an rt-patched (Ingo) kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 18 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will be ok for me. Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers using the nvidia-installer every time I update my kernel or mesa libs (eg. when I update mesa development packages, which are

Repartitioning, difficult and easy.

2007-03-13 Thread David Baron
Since some of my linux partitions were getting full up, I had to change things around. The linux drive is no longer editable with parted, et al, because of overlapping cylinder boundaries which somehow got in there (this was all legal-steven when I set it up). I had loads of room on my windows

Re: NTPDate Broken? (SOLVED)

2007-03-11 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 10 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? Fix, Workaround? Cannot find suitable server. Works for me just fine with these NTP servers. I have not seen any error about it over here. My trusted server, cited

NTPDate Broken?

2007-03-10 Thread David Baron
Has anyone had a problem with the more recent ntpdate from Sid? Fix, Workaround? Cannot find suitable server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Readable Bash Primer

2007-03-10 Thread David Baron
Anything on line. The man is unreadable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-07 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 07 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to deal with spam with embedded graphics? I cannot use greylisting on a home desktop machine. I believe using a DNSBL's provided by spamcop etc., could be effective in this case. You can either reject with 5xx or

Re: 2.6.20 and IP_CONNTRACK_FTP (Success)

2007-02-28 Thread David Baron
Got 2.6.20 running, connected. fine. Did this on advice of posters here: 1. Delete network (netfilter, iptables stuff) from .config. 2. Do make, answer questions. 3. I realized I still had no conntrack stuff so ran make menuconfig and selected these module. 4. Compiled. It boots up fine.

Re: 2.6.20 and IP_CONNTRACK_FTP

2007-02-25 Thread David Baron
So playing with make menuconfig: I can get this module and be missing half of what was around in previous kernels or get the rest back and still be missing ip_conntrack_ftp.ko. Either way, the thing will boot but will not connect. It may not work with nvidia's driver either at this point. So

Latest Nvidia Drivers

2007-02-24 Thread David Baron
Just installed their 9631. End of the line of my older GEForce. Latest 9700 series drivers are only for newer car OK, they want us to buy their latest and greatest but the older GEForce is perfectly more than adequate for the most resource hungry stuff like flightgear. Runs everything just fine

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