Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 31 August 2006 04:29, Yang Sheng wrote: Hi These days I found I almost can't work with my KDE, because it seems there are some terrible error with text rendering engine(pango?). Just when I writing this post, the text I inputed would disappear after I changed lines or insert

Xorg 7.1 stuff

2006-08-30 Thread David Baron
Debian unstable 1.7.1-dsf3 versions are showing up on apt. Is it now safe to use them or ... better safe than sorry. The xbase-clients produced ABI version errors and disabled all the fonts in KDE last week. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

openVZ

2006-08-30 Thread David Baron
This is locked into a 2.6.16 kernel version. No fun if one keeps up-to-date kernel versions around. Problem having both recent 2.6.17 and their desired 2.6.16, besides disk space is nvidia's driver install not liking mutliple kernels. I would prefer modules that will be modprobed be

Re: Applying Patch to Kernel Source

2006-08-29 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 27 August 2006 21:10, Matej Cepl wrote: Matej Cepl wrote: zcat patch.bz2 | patch -p1 sorry, this should be bzcat patch.bz2 ... Neither this nor a CLEAN make-kpkg --added_patch will work because the patch itself is not compatable with 2.6.17. Will not apply cleanly. -- To

Starting Openvz

2006-08-28 Thread David Baron
Startup of Openvz, which I assume populates /dev/vzdev, fails with an error message unregistered protocal family 17 Doing a grep on dmesg for such yields: NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Unregistered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Yes? No? Any ideas? Should I move

Re: Starting Openvz

2006-08-28 Thread David Baron
On Monday 28 August 2006 15:35, John Kelly wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:22:33 +0300, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Startup of Openvz, which I assume populates /dev/vzdev I don't have a /dev/vzdev fails with an error message unregistered protocal family 17 Doing a grep on dmesg

Re: Starting Openvz

2006-08-28 Thread David Baron
On Monday 28 August 2006 16:32, John Kelly wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:59:28 +0300, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( do not know what you mean by set -x here. ) set -x in a bash script, can help you debug the script. man bash I have no such modules: vzdev, vzmon, vzdquota

Applying Patch to Kernel Source

2006-08-27 Thread David Baron
I am using make-kpkg to build custom kernel. I want to apply the openvz patch. Placing the command line option --added_patches openvz shows this as a selected patch but with no indication of it having been applied. How does one do this correctly? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Applying Patch to Kernel Source

2006-08-27 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 27 August 2006 15:03, Matej Cepl wrote: David Baron wrote: How does one do this correctly? I don't know how to do it correctly, but in unpacked kernel tree doing zcat patch.bz2 | patch -p1 would apply the patch. Then run make-kpkg without any --added-patches stuff and it should

Configuring Prelink (repost)

2006-08-27 Thread David Baron
(Excuse me if you've seen this already. I have not seen it nor has anyone responded so I'll post it one more time.) I am trying to use prelink. The cache file is a year old and incorrect. I changed the /etc/default/prelink to prelinking yes. The cron.daily script (or any other wet-run) yeilds:

Re: Error opening security policy file

2006-08-24 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:56, Marco wrote: Mathias Brodala ha scritto: Could you help me to fix this error message? What is the SecurityPolicy file? Maybe a reinstall of „xserver-common“ is enough? The mentioned file belongs to that package. I simply symlinked the requested

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-24 Thread David Baron
Went through EVERYTHING including downgrading the ABI culprit (xbase-clients), playing with all the apparently duplicated fonts paths, etc. to no avail. Today there was a new xorg module upgrade on Sid. This fixed it! Yes, I know ... it's unstable. However, posting something that will render

Configuring Prelink (repost)

2006-08-24 Thread David Baron
I am trying to use prelink. The cache file is a year old and incorrect. I changed the /etc/default/prelink to prelinking yes. The cron.daily script (or any other wet-run) yeilds: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 53:  6925 Aborted                 /usr/sbin/prelink -a

mysql / logrotate startup error, sql server questions

2006-08-23 Thread David Baron
Getting this: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: line 26: /etc/mysql/debian-log-rotate.conf: No such file or directory run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server exited with return code 1 I recall seeing something in the changelogs awhile back but since I am not actively

Configuring Prelink

2006-08-23 Thread David Baron
I am trying to use prelink. The cache file is a year old and incorrect. I changed the /etc/default/prelink to prelinking yes. The cron.daily script (or any other wet-run) yeilds: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 53:  6925 Aborted                 /usr/sbin/prelink -a

Re: Double-clicking Windows .exe's (was What apps work in Wine)

2006-08-23 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can't double click an exe, you have to run it with wine, ie wine game.exe. there is a way to make it so that you can double click exe files, but that way makes your system vulnerable to windows virii, so you should really stick to

Re: mach64 module missing

2006-08-19 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 19 August 2006 07:21, Mark Grieveson wrote: The mach64 module wasn't found so X can't run on this machine that one was fatal. I did tasksel and selected desktop environment so as to have a few things for X to run but not quite enough things apparently. If you're talking about

Re: wxWidgets versus gtkmm

2006-08-19 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 19 August 2006 05:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:13:29PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If you want the best cross platform library, then I would argue that it is wxWidgets. It has bindings for C++, Python, Java, Ruby and

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-18 Thread David Baron
OK, got it to build. WIne: Can run whatever I choose. If it fails, se la vie. Cedega CVS: Can run some things, but not as well. Will fail to load application's dlls that wine finds and loads just fine. Wine: Will follow symlinks. Cedega: Will not. Wine: Customized controls, directory

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-17 Thread David Baron
Downloaded the WineCVS script and ran it, asking for the bleeding edge user install (so I will not override my Sid wine). They are using some sort of funny (flex?) preprocessor and the file ppl.l pops out of this preprocessor prematurely so the c gives errors of stuff being undefined,

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-17 Thread David Baron
I commented out the error lines.According to googled postings, they are obselete. Needed to comment the two declarations and where the variables would be used (error condition). I should probably put an assert in this place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:16, Jabka Atu wrote: Hello.. i know i can compile it from source but it have to be that somebody already did it. i tried apt-caching but it won't find one. Don't you need to pay for this one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:43, Jabka Atu wrote: David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:16, Jabka Atu wrote: Hello.. i know i can compile it from source but it have to be that somebody already did it. i tried apt-caching but it won't find one. Don't you need to pay

Re: where can i get cedega package ?

2006-08-15 Thread David Baron
Downloaded the WineCVS script and ran it, asking for the bleeding edge user install (so I will not override my Sid wine). They are using some sort of funny (flex?) preprocessor and the file ppl.l pops out of this preprocessor prematurely so the c gives errors of stuff being undefined,

The New Virtualizer on the Block

2006-08-13 Thread David Baron
Now we have four. 1. Vmware: Proprietary. I installed their free version and could not complete bootup afterwards. Booted up knoppix and removed the vmware. Problem was with those ip numbers. 2. Qemu: More of an emulater, very safe and very easy. Requires a non-free ko to run acceptably.

The New Virtualizer on the Block (corrected package name)

2006-08-13 Thread David Baron
Now we have four. 1. Vmware: Proprietary. I installed their free version and could not complete bootup afterwards. Booted up knoppix and removed the vmware. Problem was with those ip numbers. 2. Qemu: More of an emulater, very safe and very easy. Requires a non-free ko to run acceptably.

Re: The New Virtualizer on the Block

2006-08-13 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 13 August 2006 11:33, Derek wrote: win4lin also Yup. You pay for this one. I believe it is based on one of the others (qemu?) qemu is based on bochs good old dosemu is around as well the newer dosbox will let you mount and use real drives (dangerous?) On 8/13/06, David Baron [EMAIL

Re: dynamical IP address

2006-08-07 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 06 August 2006 22:50, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi, My ISP uses dynamically assigned IP addresses for their clients. How can I discover my IP in each session? (I am trying with asp, but I am not successful...) You might pick out a free domain name from the like of dyndns.net. You

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-04 Thread David Baron
On Friday 04 August 2006 00:22, Bill Thompson wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:11:32 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try it all and let you know how it works out. The problem is that the partial burns are now useless except for scratch. Are you using DVD-RW disks? I

Exim 4 on Sid, error message

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
Since the upgrade, I get this in my system emals: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on d_baron has non-zero size, mail system might be broken A check of the paniclog in question shows items of form: 2006-08-03 15:15:17 1G8bRy-0001hg-ES User 0 set for address_file transport is on the

Re: driver for lexmark x3300 series

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:36, Jabka Atu wrote: David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:51, Roger Leigh wrote: Jabka Atu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i own lexmark x3330 printer and cups reconze it as lexmark series x3300 but i can't find any driver wich will make it work

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:37, Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I got

Squash-fs

2006-08-02 Thread David Baron
Zucchini or Acorn? No dodumentation around. Should be useful for backups since I do not have the contiuguous free space and continuous patience to wait for 4 gig files to be made up to burn onto the DVD. I could probably use squash-fs to backup individual first level directories and burn one

Re: driver for lexmark x3300 series

2006-08-02 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:51, Roger Leigh wrote: Jabka Atu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i own lexmark x3330 printer and cups reconze it as lexmark series x3300 but i can't find any driver wich will make it work. after googling for almost two weeks i know that the driver for x3350

Re: Sound specialists,help appreciated.

2006-07-30 Thread David Baron
Cannot say much, but ... is jack indeed started before you try ardour? An item can be placed in env to do this automatically if you so choose. Audacity does NOT require jack, however. Plays just fine for me. So ... check your alsa configuration. Typing cat /proc/asound/cards should yield a

Re: dma errors

2006-07-27 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:38, Daniel B. wrote: Greg Madden wrote: ... John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I have two IDE drives ... the motherboard is quite old. ... I get the following error messages from dmesg: ... hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete

Re: cups problem

2006-07-27 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:53, Roger Leigh wrote: David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Newer CUPS apparently defaults printers to stopped. IF this be your problem, go to http://localhost:631 and start the printer. No, it stops the printer on failure to communicate with it (a backend

RE: Just a thought

2006-07-25 Thread David Baron
Actually: XP can run games written for it a some but not all games written for previous windows version. One can of course boot up CDs for self-booting games. Linux, on the otherhand: Can run games written for it. These include knockoffs of most windows classics such a solitaire and freecell.

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:59, Arthur Marsh wrote: Carl Fink wrote: This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is clearly there and which other programs can print to just fine. On the other

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 23:21, Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:11:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:59, Arthur Marsh wrote: Carl Fink wrote: This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page printed, and it says that it can't

Re: cups problem

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 July 2006 14:41, Paras pradhan wrote: Just removed , purged and re installed cupsys. same problem. Paras. On 7/23/06, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several people (including me) have had to purge (apt-get --purge remove cupsys) and reinstall CUPS to make it work. --

Re: help

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 July 2006 16:57, rajesh rajesh wrote: Hi this is rajesh i have a problem in linux, everytime i install linux , it starts in command prompt how can i start linux in gui mode my debian verson is sarge 3.1 please help me out i have just downloaded 16 cd's

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
Port games to linux and the adoption rate would skyrocket (IMHO). Linux has a wealth of games and my daughter uses it every day. The only thing for which I boot up windows is music production because of all the projects already on windows software. I look forward to discarding the windows even

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-23 Thread David Baron
OK, here is the current status of this: I have two printers, both use /dev/lp0 and I have one of those switchboxes. One of them is listed as idle, the other is stopped. To print to the latter, I need to go to http://localhost:631 and start this printer. This stops the other one. So I must do

Re: dma errors

2006-07-20 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 20 July 2006 16:52, Ralph Katz wrote: Greg Madden wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:29:51 -0600 John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3

Union FS

2006-07-19 Thread David Baron
This may well be the most useful and powerful new puppy around. Used by Knoppix and others to merge the CD image file system with the operational ramdisk FS and with a user's FS (no longer restricted to a /home/user). Magic. A normal mount replaces the mount point's visible contents with what

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-18 Thread David Baron
I went into http://localhost:631/ and started the printer. I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen automatically? If you put lp in /etc/modules and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permissions? My /dev is static. I am not using udev. I have set the

Re: [deb-user] startup strangeness

2006-07-18 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 18:47, Greg Folkert wrote: These seem totally unrelated, but they started with the exact same boot: 1) double Jack connection kits on startup- one seems to be well before the other, so maybe a link is being visited twice? Never used jack, sorry can't help you. I

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing.

2006-07-17 Thread David Baron
On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote: David Baron wrote: Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid Happened to me too. Reinstalling foomatic modules fixed it. Did that, does not help. Some more info: NO lp module was installed

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread David Baron
On Monday 17 July 2006 15:17, David Baron wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote: David Baron wrote: Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid Happened to me too. Reinstalling foomatic modules fixed it. Did

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread David Baron
On Monday 17 July 2006 18:50, Arthur Marsh wrote: I went into http://localhost:631/ and started the printer. I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen automatically? If you put lp in /etc/modules and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permissions? My /dev

CUPS (Sid) not printing.

2006-07-16 Thread David Baron
Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CUPS (Sid) not printing.

2006-07-16 Thread David Baron
Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid I purged and reinstalled cupsys as recommended by poster. It will not start now, complains that 127.0.0.1:631 is already in use. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing.

2006-07-16 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 16 July 2006 20:46, David Baron wrote: Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid I purged and reinstalled cupsys as recommended by poster. It will not start now, complains that 127.0.0.1:631 is already in use. Actually, if I

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing.

2006-07-16 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:12, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 20:46:53 +0300, David Baron wrote: Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid I purged and reinstalled cupsys as recommended by poster. It will not start

Nvidia Driver Problems

2006-07-02 Thread David Baron
After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run any DRI application, I returned to the same version number from Nvidia. Works fine ... until the next bootup in which case the X simply does not start up. The log reveals a nearly complete sequence, no errors. The bootup

Re: Nvidia Driver Problems

2006-07-02 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 13:41:22 +0300, David Baron wrote: After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run any DRI application, I returned to the same version number from Nvidia. Works fine ... until the next

New i2c Error on Bootup

2006-07-01 Thread David Baron
kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-3: SMBus Quick command not supported, can't probe for chips Never saw this one before. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-29 Thread David Baron
On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote: Then installed the nvidia-glx. Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is updated. Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile. dpkg -L nvidia-glx should

Re: Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
Are they better or equivalent? Probably updated with Xorg changes, etc. which is better. However, the manufacturer must also know what they are doing? Files inside are exactly the same, except maybe cases where certain modifications are needed to make them work in Debian. OK. Folks were

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:48, Angel L. Mateo wrote: El mar, 27-06-2006 a las 18:01 +0300, David Baron escribió: 1. Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running together, or are there some other really interesting uses? Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You can run

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
David Baron wrote: OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card? Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages. ( compile my own kernels so the 2.6 kernel meta-stuff is probably not appropriate since I always have full source. Still leaves a lot

Customizing Key-strokes for Flightgear

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
Ones defaulted are not convenient. All for controlling the flight and the view should be single keystrokes on one hand, leaving the other free for the mouse (stick). Shifted, alted, etc., should only be for switch things. Is there a way I can set up my own? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 22:34, James Westby wrote: On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote: Then installed the nvidia-glx. Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is updated. Reinstalled

Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-27 Thread David Baron
When I choose to reinstall the current Nvidia driver on my Linux box, their .run program correctly first removes the existing version and then procedes with all the steps which successfully install (reinstall) the Nvidia graphics driver. GEforce 440. Now, I had it working on a 2.6.16 kernel. I

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-27 Thread David Baron
1. Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running together, or are there some other really interesting uses? Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You can run one version of linux or such inside your installed version. Useful for testing the new version out, running things in a

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-27 Thread David Baron
First, it now incorrectly removes the driver from the 2.6.16 modules and then nicely installs the driver onto the 2.6.17 modules. If I want to keep more than one kernel around, the installer.run does not cooperate :-) First of all, I highly recommend using the Debian packages and not the

Re: 2.6.17 Kernel Sources/Headers module.h MODULE_PARM

2006-06-26 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:16, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:06:58PM +0300, David Baron wrote: This was listed as deprecated but define anyway in 2.6.16 It is gone!! in 2.6.17 Yep, true. I placed a #define MODULE_PARM(a,b) No, I did that just to get a compile and see what

Re: 2.6.17 Kernel Sources/Headers module.h MODULE_PARM

2006-06-26 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 25 June 2006 23:16, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:06:58PM +0300, David Baron wrote: This was listed as deprecated but define anyway in 2.6.16 It is gone!! in 2.6.17 Yep, true. I placed a #define MODULE_PARM(a,b) No, I did that just to get a compile and see what

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-25 Thread David Baron
Missing python-twisted-core upgrade breaks all the other python-twisted packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.6.17 Kernel Sources/Headers module.h MODULE_PARM

2006-06-25 Thread David Baron
This was listed as deprecated but define anyway in 2.6.16 It is gone!! in 2.6.17 realtime.lsm needs it. kqemu needs it. I placed a #define MODULE_PARM(a,b) This might not be correct. Might need the whole #ifdef/#else/#endif sequence but I go loads of errors with this. What to do? -- To

Xine playing DVDs

2006-06-21 Thread David Baron
Works fine but the menus on the DVD are not active. On VLC they are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:52, Bill Thompson wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I have been having this problem as well. If you take a look at your

GUI for MySQL

2006-06-21 Thread David Baron
Mysql workbench looked cool but I cannot compile it. Is there anything else of this kind? Also need to import Excel type data into MySQL, selected columns into differing tables and set the relations. Any .debs or tarballs available? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. dar

Re: Googleearth

2006-06-19 Thread David Baron
David Baron wrote: Mine runs just fine ... if I run as root. Otherwize, I get a: That's *extremely* bad form. symlink permission denied. Where did you install it? I installed in under $HOME, use an NVIDIA card, and it works great. ./opt/google-earth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: DRI Broken On Recent Sid

2006-06-18 Thread David Baron
Here is what happens with flightgear and its family: freeglut (fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for window 'FlightGear' This may hurt performance. fgfs: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertion `a != ((void *)0)' failed. Aborted Other programs,

RE: Googleearth

2006-06-18 Thread David Baron
Mine runs just fine ... if I run as root. Otherwize, I get a: symlink permission denied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-17 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:16, Daniel Johnson wrote: Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue until

Re: DRI Broken On Recent Sid

2006-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 06:07, David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:30:29 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other programs, ppracer, work in software mode and are unusable. Ysflight actually seems to be using DRI though this program works nicely in software mode as well

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 03:57, Daniel Johnson wrote: On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DARomizer:

DRI Broken On Recent Sid

2006-06-13 Thread David Baron
Here is what happens with flightgear and its family: freeglut (fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for window 'FlightGear' This may hurt performance. fgfs: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertion `a != ((void *)0)' failed. Aborted Other programs,

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-12 Thread David Baron
On Monday 01 May 2006 22:31, Bill Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:32:13 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive

Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT

2006-06-11 Thread David Baron
The problem is that recent Xorg upgrades have moved a whole bunch of stuff around and therefore need to change xorg.conf appropriately. The first few times, it saved my old one and made a new one. Xorg did not work so I simply put back the old one after messing up trying to hand merge them.

Re: xrog upgrade borked ALOT

2006-06-10 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 10 June 2006 05:34, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Debian testing. After doing an upgrade earlier this week, and having xorg upgraded, the following; ical Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black mrxvt mrxvt: can't determine colour:

VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread David Baron
Installed this without a hitch. On next reboot, bootup hung up on or after registering ppp. Logchecks for the reboot showed ppp successfully registered and no indication of what died. VMware does set up a network device of its own. Anyware, booted the Knoppix CD, chroot and uninstalled the

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-06 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 19:20, George Borisov wrote: George Borisov wrote: Plenty of memory and fast disks also helps. ;-) As does adding elevator=CFQ to the kernel options in the boot loader. elevator=cfq These things are probably case-sensitive. :-$ What is this? I am running a PIII

Re: proftpd startup error ipv6 getaddressinfo

2006-06-03 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:41, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: On Sun 28 May 2006 20:50, David Baron wrote: Now I get an error ipv6 getaddressinfo. It is testing my machine name and finds no such address or service. I was not able to find and config file requesting such with my machine name

Mondo

2006-05-30 Thread David Baron
Tried for first time, going to DVD. When I finally go it to actually start the backup seriously, it redid all its cataloging, called mindi, etc. A nice long gzip2 operation. Then it started cycling through task/DVD lines. I am 12% done, task and DVD. Of course, nothing has gone to that DVD at

Mondo ,PS

2006-05-30 Thread David Baron
Tried for first time, going to DVD. When I finally go it to actually start the backup seriously, it redid all its cataloging, called mindi, etc. A nice long gzip2 operation. Then it started cycling through task/DVD lines. I am 12% done, task and DVD. Of course, nothing has gone to that DVD at

Re: hda: lost interrupt

2006-05-29 Thread David Baron
I was getting this also. The smartd daemon would trigger it but that would simply time out. Trying to mount the thing hung the system up--big red switch time. The Western Digital drive would click click click when this problem was occuring which was not always but enough to be annoying. I

Re: [Debian user Digest]does it exist?

2006-05-29 Thread David Baron
On Monday 29 May 2006 20:04, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 06:01:12PM +0200, JB MORLA wrote: Hi, I just read a thread mentioning this digest, so I wonder if it really exists, or if it's a joke. Could someone a href me to this digest in case it's for real?

RE: Environment and Sudo

2006-05-28 Thread David Baron
Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or aliases. Example would be the alias vi=vim. Invoking normally will run vim, invoking using sudo vi will get the other vi. Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or some .bashrc? So for security reasons, the env is

proftpd startup error ipv6 getaddressinfo

2006-05-28 Thread David Baron
I finally changed that /var/lib line to /usr/lib so that error message is a thing of the past. Now I get an error ipv6 getaddressinfo. It is testing my machine name and finds no such address or service. I was not able to find and config file requesting such with my machine name. This is

FlightGear, Terrasync, Atlas/Map

2006-05-28 Thread David Baron
Flightgear is a great, though resource hawging, flight simulator. Terraync will enable it to download scenery as you fly. Map will convert this scenery to maps and Atlas will show you where your are (note that their site is quite specifitic--these maps are for entertainment purposes only and it

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-27 Thread David Baron
On Friday 26 May 2006 11:23, Chris wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 02:41, Limin Wang wrote: Chris, The latest sudo will reset the env default, so you need add below line to /etc/sudoers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo more /etc/sudoers # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:16, Chris wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem. I have sudo setup so that I can sudo apt-get, to update for instance. In one network when I have an http_proxy set in the environment apt-get update can connect when I use su, but not when I use sudo. env shows the

Environment and Sudo

2006-05-25 Thread David Baron
Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or aliases. Example would be the alias vi=vim. Invoking normally will run vim, invoking using sudo vi will get the other vi. Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or some .bashrc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-24 Thread David Baron
In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt insert or replace does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last character) of the line, and the direction keys give (escaped) characters instead of positioning the

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Monday 22 May 2006 21:24, Digby Tarvin wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0300, David Baron wrote: On Monday 22 May 2006 17:32, Digby Tarvin wrote: The first entry in the table might be your Linux root, but the first partition on the drive is your FAT. So if you want your

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