Re: Diff in update?

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:45:39AM +0200, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi, Six month ago, I used testing, and used to learn packaging for Debian on a testing box. I have been out for some mounths. I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly different. Something

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:43:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:35:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:08:08PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I have the following line in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local: ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11

Re: tleds

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:06:04AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I just started running 2.6.18-ck1 with Debian Sid and I noticed that tleds 1.05beta10-10 is not blinking the leds when in X although

Re: Debian GNU/Minix?

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:22:29PM +0200, HXC wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) ) Hi HXC, with FLOSS, there is nothing preventing

Re: Supported Hardware

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:09:44PM -0700, Jeffrey Chu wrote: =urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags xmlns=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC- html40 To Whom It May Concern: I would like to verify if the Debian Linux will work with our hardware platform. Hardware Spec: VIA Eden-V4 Realtek

Re: tleds

2006-10-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I just started running 2.6.18-ck1 with Debian Sid and I noticed that tleds 1.05beta10-10 is not blinking the leds when in X although xorg.conf has: ... Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0

Re: Group audio

2006-10-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:28:29PM +0800, Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I had a little problem with the sound control in gnome today with my newly installed debian (sid, using debootstrap): The Volume Control button in gnome is invalid (with a red cross on it), I then googled and found some

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:34:06AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi, I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like to set up a situation where I can log in to my main x session

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: All, I am looking for a basic X-Windows setupI have tried several things but I am just not getting it. Does anyone have some sort of package list which will get me a BASIC/MINIMAL X setup. Anytime I do anything with

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-09-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:06:51PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: Hallo, dear developers and users of Debian. I actually didn't care to search much of www, because i fed up with all of it, this is just my opinion. Mile stone, we are now is man gcc: nothing found. Next mile stone C-h i: nothing

Re: Etch new install can?t see my serial mouse

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:47:21AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg won?t load complaining 'no core pointer'. I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good. I also tried to locate my mouse, doing:

Re: bash scripting q

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:02:38AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:22:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: how about b=`$a` echo $b or echo $($a) Bingo!!! Thanks! Is that in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide? H Hi Hugo, A is used

Re: Custom package fails to install as a dependency, works otherwise

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:20:35PM -0700, Atle Veka wrote: This turned out to be an issue with permissions, not quite sure in what way, but I chown'd all the package data for both packages and it installs fine now.. Hi Atle, I remember seeming

Re: Evolution, a Maildir style mailbox, and folders

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:34:31PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 15:09 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/27/06 14:05, Owen Heisler wrote: I think I've figured out how to get Evolution to work without using imap. Using IMAP is definitely useful, though, since it

Re: ISSUE: unifont crappy non proportional georgian glyphs.

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:00:58PM +0200, Vladimer Sichinava wrote: Hello All, My friend Gia Shervashidze provided Georgian range of glyps... It would be great to include them , first for testing...(so we can correct if there is som problems) and after definitely. Here is Georgian

Re: bash scripting q

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:22:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: how about b=`$a` echo $b or echo $($a) echo `$a` -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System| go to

Re: [Solved] Re: ISP has screwed up smtp for me...

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
: Kevin Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:03:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi folks, I hate writing this from my school's web access page, but I suddenly lost the ability to send emails from home. Receiving is fine. Nothing had changed at my end

Re: How do you include orig in pbuilder?

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:25:54PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: I usually just build packages in unstable, but I am trying to learn pbuilder. I need to build a package and include the original source in the upload. With dpkg-buildpackage I just pass in -sa to do this. How do I do it with

Re: Debian Proxy Server

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:47:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian Support, Our K-8 elementary/middle school is considering the use of a Debian Linux machine as a cache proxy server and web filter. We have a strictly Windows environment at this time and have No Linux experience.

Re: Can only burn coasters now

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hello list members, Today I noticed that I was having a problem with CD burning. Basically, all I could burn were coasters. I am running Sarge with pretty much everything stock, except for a few backports (oo2, gphoto2,

Re: ISP has screwed up smtp for me... what to try? New ISP?

2006-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:03:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi folks, I hate writing this from my school's web access page, but I suddenly lost the ability to send emails from home. Receiving is fine. Nothing had changed at my end from the night before, when I had no problems. My

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:58:36PM +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: i've switched to opensource ati drivers as proprietary ones are broken in sid (conflicts with xorg 7.1). whatever... but you didn't answer ? is aiglx now part of debian ? will there be a compiz package soon ? I didn't find

Re: Program to draw chess boards

2006-09-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:01:00AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: [Sorry about the late post] On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:45:58PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [Maybe a little offtopic] I need to draw some chess boards, starting let's say from the FEN description of the board, in an

Re: WTF is binding Control-O key in Gnome apps?

2006-09-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:27:54AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/23/2006 06:45 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can remap keys using xmodmap if you have to, but it might be your keyboard layout that needs fixing. When I type grep XkbLayout /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:31:58PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:52, Scarletdown wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies while travelling internationally that

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:41:29PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the initramfs stage,

Re: install on compact flash

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:49:20AM -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: I bought a single-board computer from Soekris Engineering that uses a compact flash card instead of a hard drive. I would like to install Debian on the CF card while it's in the USB card reader attached to my laptop, so that I

Re: '/dev' nodes not getting populated

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:59:24PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian unstable kernel: 2.6.17-2-686 SMP udev: 0.100-1 hal: 0.5.7.1-2 I updated my system last night (remotely so did'nt monitor what all changed). after reboot, X does not start. says:

Re: kernel panic when trying to netboot ixp425

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:45:37PM +0530, Vinod L R wrote: Hi, I am facing an kernel panic issue with ixp board,when trying to netboot it with a custom ramdisk image. The board works fine when booting from the Compact flash. when netbooting with custom ramdisk image(with the same

Re: Compiling CPU-optimized packages

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:42:48AM -0500, Adam Porter wrote: I'm sure this has been covered before, but I've dug through Google and /usr/share/doc and I can't find a solution. Forgive me if I missed the answer. Hi Adam, while someone here may answer here, you may want to search

Re: Writing to vfat /media/sda without sudo

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:43:43PM +0100, marc wrote: Hi, I have a mount defined in fstab as follows /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfatdefaults 0 0 All fine and dandy, but I would like to make this partition universally available for writing; currently it's

Re: window manager not picking up Xresources?

2006-09-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:52:51AM -0400, Ian D. Leroux wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:03:23 -0500, Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 09/15/2006 07:50 AM, Ian D. Leroux wrote: I'm having a strange (to me) problem where xterms launched by the window manager are clearly ignoring my

Re: number of machines running Debian?

2006-09-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:57:14PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Somebody estimated Ubuntu to be installed in over 6 million machines*. Are there any estimates for Debian? * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue13 Hi Tshepang, one of the issues with tracking FLOSS machines

Re: mkdir on dvd+rw

2006-09-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:53:18AM -0700, Fred J. wrote: Hi using debian/testing 2.6.15 cannot I use a dvd+rw as a hard drive? I mean, to make directories, move files around, change content of a file, ...? I just copied or should I say burned some files using growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom1

Re: alternative for rdiff-backup

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:34:30PM -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Mark wrote: --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer

Re: alternative for rdiff-backup

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
... Kevin Mark wrote: Unless someone has the desire to possibly do a 'friendly' takeover if the maintainer is MIA. I know you said it without knowing, but I'm anything else than mia, I'm even reading debian-user ;) Hi Daniel, I didn't realize that the OP was referring to Sarge and that sid has

Re: Etch: can I install xorg without all of those drivers

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:26:47PM +1000, Robert S wrote: I've just tried to install xorg using # apt-get install xserver-xorg I get prompted to install a huge number of input and video drivers (see below). I want this to be a minimal installation. Is there any way of avoiding

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: (I'd like to back up diffs of modified files, as opposed to a full dump of /etc). Not

Re: Protection against SuckIt rootkit

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:43:49PM +0200, Markus Wetzel wrote: Dear NG, last week my server got infected with the SuckIt rootkit (Debian with 2.4 kernel). Fortunately I have discovered this rootkit (chkrootkit) and reinstalled the system because I didn't know what else has been

Re: udev fails to start at boot with my kernel.

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:48:54PM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: Dear List, This is my first mail to the list. I am trying to get udev started automatically. I need this in order to enable automounting of thumb/pen drive. It doesn't start automatically. (It gives following error while

Re: Etch keyboard mappings

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:12:10PM -0400, Wolfe, Robert wrote: Good evening everyone! Installed Etch on one of my 2 Sun Ultra 5 boxes and even though the computer boots up and gives me a GUI login as it should, whenever I go to enter something in on the keyboard I get something different

Re: purge hot plug

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:54:57PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Earlier I tried upgrading from kernel 2.6.12-speakup-686 to kernel 2.6.17-speakup-686 and was told I'd need to purge hot plug. The kernel upgrade failed one of the things that ended up happening was all of the kernel's

Re: intel imacs

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:16:51PM -0500, Greg Harris wrote: Is there a port of Debian to the new intel imacs? will i386 Debian work? Currently I run PPC Debian on my (old) Mac Cube. Sorry if this is mentioned somewhere on your website. I looked and didn't see anything. Hi Greg,

Re: Can't boot stable/sarge on new Intel D102GGC2L mainboard while USB is enabled

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:31:10PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: For the archives: The local company I've been purchasing workstations from has recently begun using a newer model of mainboard, the Intel D102GGC2L mainboard. As best I can tell these are pretty new. They use the LGA775

Re: Crashed: Booting not complete.

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:01:50PM +0530, H S Rai wrote: Due to UPS problem (as it looks), Debain loaded PC crashed. It's booting process is not completeing.It starts and complaint as: Starting Munin-node: Could not open log file /var/log/munin/munin-node.log Checking for crashed

Re: flash problem? with Battle Star Glactica webisodes

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:21:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running sarge here. Have the flash plugin installed. Try to access the Battle Star Galactica webisodes (from www.scifi.com/pulse). It happily starts up a new window and stops, with the message Waiting for

Re: chkrootkit: Warning: Possible Showtee Rootkit installed

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:12:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello. #chkrootkit -q Warning: Possible Showtee Rootkit installed True or False or some package(false positive)!? I guess it?s the latter. You can see which files are being checked for this test in the

Re: alternative for rdiff-backup

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: Hello! rdiff-backup crashed every second use. Hi Michael, it seems a wiser thing to do to try to help the maintainer of rdiff-backup as both of you have an interest in seeing it work, that is if you have the inclination, time or

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:33:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored in the installed system somewhere? (Other than

Re: New Intel-board / MMCONFIG-Error

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:06:45PM +0200, Michael Schröder wrote: Hi, I have a new Intel-board DG965SS with 965-Chipset and want to install a fresh Debian Sarge, but my computer won't. Some tests: a) after booting the sarge netinst-cd the installation ends with no cdrom-drive found

Re: Installing from source a la Gentoo / BSD

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:23:44AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Rickardo Branco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060911 08:34]: I'm a FreeBSD/NetBSD user wanting to run Linux using the same sources that I'm using on these two systems. I discarded Gentoo for being so unstable. Is it

Re: gcc-4.1

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:32:09PM +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, Thanks for your reply but it still not doing the work. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc good.c gcc: good.c: No such file or directory gcc: no input files [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Can any of you help me please? Hi Rocky, just to

Re: trouble with an old Packard Bell monitor and an ATI mach64 card

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:52:44PM -0700, Alex Gould wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge as a lightweight X desktop (fluxbox an a few programs) on a HP pavilion 6355. It has an ATI mach64 video card with 2 MB ram, connected to an old 13 or 14

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:12:30AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reinstall the OS and any apps. INSANE! I know there exists a company that makes a live-cd based on windows which could be modified to provide

Re: Etch, Xorg, reconfigure

2006-09-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:33:23PM +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: Hi, trying to make a clone, I have problems reconfiguring Xserver using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg lspci on target reports: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies,

Re: Etch, Xorg, reconfigure

2006-09-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:54:36PM +0200, B_Kloss wrote: snip Hi, Kev, thank you, but I did not succeed. Cloning: find -depth ! -path ./data/* | cpio -a -o -H crc -V | gzip -f | split -b 4000m --verbose - ./sicher/hda1-09-09-06B.cpio.gz hmm. that is something I have never seen ;-)

Re: Problems with AllegroCL SETI Server

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:08:40PM -0500, Sandra L. McGrew wrote: I'm trying to clear up at least two things... 1st. What directory is AllegroCL located in??? 2nd. Everytime this Debian computer loads or unloads a package it tries to contact an alien server at berkley.edu... at some IP...

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:39:24PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 September 2006 15:09, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: If we are talking about unstable breakages I always remember the yaird issue (about one year

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: You say you reinstalled from zero twice. What's the best way to get into unstable? Installing the stable version and then doing a dist-upgrade or installing unstable right-away, I mean when debian installation asks you which

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: Testing cannot get very unstable as it wouldn't follow Debian rules. Everything that's in testing must be tested in unstable for some time. So, I don't think being in testing will be such a mess in two months. Hi Jordi, yes its

Re: Problems with latest sid update - udev and other services not starting

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:21:04PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:36:12 -0400, Scott Reese wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: That might be caused by a missing S36udev-mtab link in rcS.d. The root of the problem seems to be a bug in sysv-rc, which made

Re: invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:05:27AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, In order not to invoke thunderbird and firefox manually when gnome starts, I tried to save the current settings when I log out. But gnome says it can not save thunderbird and

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks existed,

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:15:59PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: If packages go from unstable to testing in just 10 days then it's not worth going to unstable, is it? I mean, you can live in the bleeding edge as well being in testing. On 9/8/06, TThhiibbaauutt PPaauummaarrdd

Re: Please help

2006-09-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:51:53PM -0500, Vilches Martin wrote: Hello, first of all I have no idea about Debian but Im working on a pretty nice software base on Debian so I need to work on thisJ The software I use is Pluto Home, which is a home automation software. The thing is that I

Re: Blury fonts in OOo

2006-09-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:03:58AM +0200, Morten O. Hansen wrote: Hi, I have my font-hints set to Subpixel smoothing (LCDs) in GNOME, and everything looks fine, but when i start OOo (oowriter), the fonts there looks blury and doesn't seem to use the same hints. Is this a known bug? (is it

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: Every time I shutdown, I have to unplug power cord. Other distro, such as mandrake can poweroff. How should I do? Thanks! Hi Serena, these are related to apm/acpi support for power management. You need to load the correct kernel

Re: problem with switch

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:33:35PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hello everyone, I've recently encountered an odd problem with a switch and a Dell PC running Debian. I'm using it on a cable modem. When I plug the machine directly into the cable modem, I can get on the net (the cable modem

Re: Migrating from i386 to amd64

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:44:51PM -0700, Shane wrote: Hello all, I've installed the etch amd64 distribution before but now I have an install i386 machine which is getting its board/cpu changed out for an em64t unit. I'd like to migrate to amd64 on this machine if possible but is

Re: pc and notebook networking

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:22:24AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 8/6/06, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:00:02AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! At home I have a PC and a notebook. Both are connected at the same time to my internet provider

Re: Apt sources for deb-src packages in Etch

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:31:28PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: Hi all, I have Debian Etch and I have this in my /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib But I need the deb-src sources

Re: pc and notebook networking

2006-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:52:11PM +0530, Rishi wrote: I could work with ssh and fish. But rpoblem was with unison for file sync. Different versions of unsion doesn't sync files in bth m/ cs. Why are you running two different versions of unison. you mean his unisons are not in sync -)

Re: installation guide

2006-08-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:45:46AM +0400, Nasi wrote: I already installed Debian in my systiem. when reboot asked login name passward after entering this a promt coming like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ what is next -- Hi Naseem, Debian is designed to install the bare minimum so as to allow you

Re: pc and notebook networking

2006-08-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:00:02AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! At home I have a PC and a notebook. Both are connected at the same time to my internet provider (dynamic IP for both) trough a switch. I need to transfer data from the notebook to the PC. May be ssh is an option?

Re: Temperature Problems

2006-08-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:07:58AM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:44:10PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have all the time a temperature around the 50 C or more.

Re: VMWare for Debian?

2006-08-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:49:28PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:45:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: The acroread packages are not legally redistributable (at least in the US). They are not official packages and are hosted from a server outside the US. All the

Re: Bash scripts and multi-word filenames

2006-08-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 03:45:26PM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: Hi, I keep running into this particular gap in my scripting, and hope someone can clear it up for me. FILES=$( ls SOMEWHERE ) #or find or grep, etc for FILE in $FILES; do SOMETHING; done I often find that if there are

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:20:21PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:20:38PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For the alsa behaved apps (like libao) you set alsa_card=1 or 0 and ao_example.c plays on either one soundcard or the other. Just a small tip. On machines with

Re: why sarge's default kernel does not support scsi disk?

2006-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:01:04AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! Then, how to pass options to initrd in grub's menu.lst? I mean scsi disks parameters. My scsi disk is not automatically recognized by sarge installation program. Hi Serena, the initrd is a sort of mini linux system that

Re: Can't install debian on my and ststem

2006-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:44:56PM +0800, dan connors wrote: Hi I bought the debian bible sarge 3.1 I have a AMD x2 3800 socket 939 CPU Asus a8n-e socket 939 motherboard A sata2 hard drive I try to install linux debian 3.1 from the boot cd It fails all the time the dvd and cd that came with

Re: mysqld is being killed by the kernel (in the parlor with a candlestick)

2006-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:14:48PM -0400, Roan Horning wrote: Hi, I've recently installed mysql 4.1 on my debian stable box. It is being used with a php4 application running on Apache2. Mysql installs fine. I can use the command line client to log into mysqld. Create databases,

Re: adding a package to debian tree.

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 07:39:55AM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: there is an old package known as IWIZ that is maintind by z9u2k. i see that it is not in debian tree how can i add it ? i have both the source and the copmiled package. im not the maintiner/creator of this package but it is very

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:44:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how dh_make works from the dh_make manpage. Is there any step-by-step guide to doing this? Hi

Re: Install problems

2006-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:51:15PM +, Harold D. Skank wrote: People, I'm attempting to install Debian 3.1r2 on a Dell - Optiplex GX400, and I'm not progressing very fast. I should say that I already have CentOS 4.3 up and running on this machine, which leads me to believe that the

Re: webinterfaces.......

2006-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:06:25PM +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: Hello to everyboby! I have an imptortant problem for me. I install debian etch manually and now I can't open from noone browser the webinterfaces of mldonkey and lynksis. What I have to do in order to use these interfaces?

Re: webinterfaces.......

2006-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:20:19AM +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: Sorry but I have a system with kde. the problem is that firefox and konqueror can't show me the interfaces of linksys and mldonkey Christos Hi Margiolas, I am not sure how a web broswer is required to use these.

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:08:38AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous

Re: wireless network card

2006-07-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:17:35PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I'm currently visiting Salt Lake from out East (Chapel Hill, NC), through the middle of this coming week. I've been trying to find locally a wireless network card that works with Linux to install on my host's

Re: Virtual PPPoE

2006-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:36:33PM +0300, Yura wrote: Help please to connect the internet. I in a local network. Connection to to the internet goes through a modem, or service which works on a sluice. Type of connection of pppoe. In Windows such connection is done through Connect of using

Re: Installationsfehler

2006-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 10:34:03PM +0100, Angelo Zehr wrote: Hellomy name's angelo zehr and i'm from switzerland. i just tried to install debian on my computer, but it doesn't work!i downloaded the debian cd's by ftp-servers (binary i386 nonus 1, 1, 2 ,3 + source nonus 1, 1, 2, 3)i only can

Re: Old versions

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:34:42AM -0400, Godless Infidel wrote: Is it true, as I have heard, that you must run testing or unstable in order to run the recent versions of applications? Hi $NEW_USER, Debian has many streams and each has a goal. Stable is meant to be 'released' and has 'release

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi $USER with an idea about a linux distro, On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:03:48PM +0100, crank u. say wrote: You could promote Linux, and even sell Linux I believe with this approach: 1. You need a reliable group of Linux experts who have internet access 2. They will need to have technical,

Re: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 - hotplug

2006-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:31:55AM -0700, lakili wrote: Hello, I'm glad I've bumped into this Nabble website to browse all kinds of Debian forums. I'm a fairly new Debian user -- moved from Libranet to Ubuntu and now to Debian. I have a PII. I made a minimal install of Sarge

Re: postgresql linux-windows

2006-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:00:16AM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I'm learning PostgrSQL 8.1, looks very good. As all of us, I prefer work and develop under Linux, but my mother have Windows like around the 90% of the world. Any way I need develop for she a Data Base, I just want

Re: ICQ with Linux (was: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux)

2006-07-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:24:37PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I've been following the various suggestions come from this list about the possibilities Linux offers to chat: my family want to use `messenger' and ICQ, and before resigning myself to use MS Windows I wanted to check all the

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:55:08PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: Hello! I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created during initial install of the system. None of the users created after install (more

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:01:53PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: hope this helps Kev H, for some reason, it seem to only accept users with a UID 1000. I changed the UID of mythtv from 108 - 1003, and then all was well. This sounds like some kind of security check where low UIDs are for

Re: soundgrab

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:44:04PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 13:16:27 +0200, Jirka H. wrote: oh - thx, I was really very blind :) - and it means, that this package will be only in Sarge (stable) and not in Etch, Sid...? I use Etch. It was removed from testing

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:58:39AM -0700, mike williams wrote: is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a normal OS to do things like browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a problem logging in,but then all i get is debiaamike~$, what do i do from there to browse

Re: Need help to file installer bug

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:18:14AM +0100, Chris Carr wrote: Hi folks, I'm wondering where to file this bug - last time I filed it against debian-installer, but it got reassigned to kernel-source, so I want to get it right this time. snip Grateful for some confirmation that kernel-source is

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