Re: ndiswrapper for the best distro?

2006-03-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:58:17PM +, Doofus wrote: > > In this case it hadn't occured to me for a second that something as > impure as a wrapper for a windows device driver would be found in the > debian package repository so I didn't even look. I'll be more > open-minded in future. Hi Doofu

Re: 2.6 debian boot floppies?

2006-03-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:24:40PM -0500, Nathan Merritt wrote: > I've recently been trying to install Debian on an old ThinkPad. The > laptop has an external floppy drive but no CD drives or USB ports. > Unfortunately, the driver I need to use for my wireless card does not > agree with 2.4 series

Re: Debian X.org 7.0 experimental packages

2006-03-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:31:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 23:09 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:15:52PM +, Michael Ott wrote: > >> > >>>Hello guys! > >>> &g

Re: wajig upgrade problem for a Newbie

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:26:44PM -0500, Mario Frechette wrote: > I have benn trying without succes to upgrade my system ( i am using > Debian sarge testing distro) > > and i always get this error > > > > debian:/usr/local/Program/OpenOffice/OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_fr.8990/RPMS/desktop-inte

Re: Debian X.org 7.0 experimental packages

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:15:52PM +, Michael Ott wrote: > Hello guys! > > Does anybody tested the new x.org packages from debian experimental. > > How do they work? Are there any problems with installing and using this? > Does anybody tested it on a T43? And can I play tuxracer with them? >

Re: Debian DVD Cebit-Edition: What is the password for root ?

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:31:51AM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello dear maintainers, > > I have got a Debian-DVD at the Cebit in Hannover. Installing went fine, but > it > does not ask, what password root should have. However, I saw that there > already a password for root exists. What i

Re: kontact delete contact file

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:28:49AM +0100, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: > Hello, > I have the following problem with kontact. I have 2 files containing > contact > data (vcf files). I do not know exactly the circumstances, but those files > are eventually emptied. Does anybody have the same

Re: Q about debian based specialty distro

2006-03-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:44:20AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Specifically the distro is BDI-4.30, which is optimized for computer > numeric machine control, uses kernel 2.6.12-magma as its realtime kit. > > The problem is one of gfx speeds, DRI is not being enabled for some >

Re: any body successfull ap??

2006-03-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:13:39AM +, Pelusa Vali wrote: > hi people, greetings everybody. > well i have a problem since 1 year ago. i'm trying to develop an ap using > debian sarge, now with kernel 2.6.15, madwifi-ng-r1457, freeradius 1.0.5. i > want to add security so decided to use tls.

Re: my sb16 works with my *foolish* method

2006-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:42:15PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have complain sb16 not working several times on the > list, now I manage to solve it on my own, it works!!! > The method is a little foolish, I'd like to seek your > advice. Below is my foolish method: > > 1, compile 2.4.27, but un

Re: Outsider's observation upon the pros and cons of Debian

2006-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:21:28PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have endeavored to maintain a helpful tone in this message. > Please forgive me where I may have failed. As more-or-less an > outsider here, I have an observation to make concerning the Debian > distribution, and considerations which

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:41:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Starting to get into topic drift here... > > >On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > [snip] > > >>>7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very > tempted to just hit cancel now... > > I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump > on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me cl

Re: installing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2006-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:32:11PM +0200, Judith Retief wrote: > I have to get a backup for one of our production boxes installed. Someone > else had set up a basic debian installation on the new box, I just have to > get our own binaries working on it

Re: Webmin themes

2006-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:36:36AM +, Martynas Brijunas wrote: > Hello, > > after installing webmin on my sarge server, I tried to download and > install a few themes for it. Even though the webmin confirms a > successful install into /usr/local/share/webmin, none of the newly > installed them

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the > system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at > the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that > gnom

Re: poff script problem

2006-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:12:25AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If a user account is added to the dip group that user on reboot can use > pon dsl-provider. That same user though cannot use poff dsl-provider, it > has to be used by root. I just found this out so those using roaring > penguin w

Re: dh_python module dependencies..

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:36:31AM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote: > Hello, I am trying to build a debian package. I have some python > scripts in my package. Now when I run dpkg_buildpackage it doesn't > show the python-module dependencies. I mean to say that, Some of the > scripts are importing beau

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:52:46PM -0500, pinecone wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Slink loads and finds the nic. I want to upgrade the version and get a > text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house. > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > d

Re: test

2006-03-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 01:11:05AM +, peter lener wrote: > test Hi Peter, nice to see you again in cyberspace and on NYLUG x-) Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating Syste

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:00:11AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since none > of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for guardog? > I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it alone. > ap

Re: xorg sdk

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:27:23AM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > which packages i need to install to have 'xorg sdk'? i need it to build > wacom_drv for graphire4 tablet (btw, does anyone have experience with > making this to work under linux?), however i cannot find it anywhere. Hi L

Re: MacBook Pro and Debian

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:47:00AM +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a very naive question: > can we install Debian on a MacBook Pro (IntelMac) laptop ? I think I read about someone installing windows someway. And its an intel duo core which is in the x86 family. So odds are tha

Re: question about sb16 module

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:23:06PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have woody and ISA non-PnP SB16 card, but the bf24 > > kernel of woody can't use it. It seems to me that bf24 > > try to use ISA PnP module before loading sb16 module. >

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:35:18AM -0900, Britton Kerin wrote: > > I would like to buy my non-linux girlfriend a ready to > use laptop with: > >wireless scan, falling back to CAT5 DHCP Hi Britton many new lappys have this so: this is a driver support and configuration issue >open offic

Re: Automatic download from camera.

2006-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:50:27PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to have my photos downloaded > automatically when I plug in my camera/memory chip. After looking > through the hotplug scripts for a week, I am still no closer to a > solution. The most irritating thi

Re: No xterm window by default?

2006-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:11:44PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > >Other than that, you can install a WM: wmaker, openbox, kde,gnome, > >And an display manager: wdm, xdm, gdm, kdm... > >Cheers, > >Kev > > > >

Re: No xterm window by default?

2006-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:14:56PM +0200, Sammy wrote: > I ran aptitude install x-window-system and successfully installed X-Windows. > When I run startx I get a gray background with an X in the middle (mouse > pointer). > My mouse is not working, but I don't get any errors (EE) lines in > /var/l

Re: How long must a bug report be ignored before I escalate?

2006-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:18:31AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-02-26 16:36:07 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > this scene is repeated often is seem amongst a few debian package > > maintainers: unresponsiveness. It could mean that are just REAL life > > is involving

Re: Hotkeys utility for Acer Travelmate

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:32:57PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there a utility available for an Acer Travelmate 2410 series to make the > hotkeys work? Especially the LCD/Monitor switch and the battery status. > There was something like "i810 switch" thing availble for some Sony Vaio > laptops. Is t

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:05:12PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > On 2/26/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:44PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > On 2/26/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 2/22/

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:29:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [..] > > > > package

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:44PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 2/26/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/22/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > new udev suggests to remove hotplug. However sequence of activities by > > > So if hotplug is no longer suggested (where

Re: UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:48:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > http://home.no.net/david/i18n.php and locale -a says use LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf-8 > but /etc/locale.gen and /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED seem to say zh_TW.UTF-8. Hi Dan, I recently needed to get utf8 to work and used 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'

Re: How long must a bug report be ignored before I escalate?

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:12:16AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:15:00AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > } Carl Fink wrote: > } >I know Debian now has a system to report non-responsive maintainers, but I > } >hate to jump on someone. > } > > } >I submitted a bug (#35407

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:01:52PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Alex Nordstrom spake thusly on 02/24/2006 10:06 AM: > >Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:38, Kevin Mark wrote: > >>Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. > >>It seems mutt users will be t

Re: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:14:20PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have been attempting to get CUPS working in a mixed Sarge/MacOSX > environment. > Actually, I have it working but my current solution is not to my liking. > My question is: > > Is there anyone out there who has Mac running OSX sha

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:47:50PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:38:00AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > } Hi spam-killers, > } Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. > } It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. > >

MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi spam-killers, Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Cheers, Kev - Forwarded message from Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:03:31 -0600 To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hallo!

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:31:40AM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > Or is there really a kernel bug? > > Replacing the network card won't solve the original problem however as > there should be no networking involved, only USB file transfers. > > Karen Hi Karen, those message refer to some sort of n

Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:13:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1828 +0100]: > > i am thinking half-hour timeslots and stuff like this: > > > > madduck:2006-02-28:-1000:0 # sleeping still > > madduck:2006-02-28:1000-1030:5

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:15:55AM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > Thank you for your response and any help you can give. You undoubtedly > saw my later post with a different subject of "after upgrade backups > cause machine crash" which had some additional information but no > respondents. > >

Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:28:47PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > For regular meetings of several Debian project groups, we are > looking for a simple platform that allows a group of <20 people to > easily coordinate a time for a meeting. The tool should be > timezone-aware and ideally not require

Re: TTY and structure request for further reading.

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:18:54PM -, Demon News wrote: > > During the course of my work I have recently come across references to tty. > In ps, /dev/ and others. I realised that although I see this all the time > I don't actually know what it means. I searched the usual suspects and > al

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:43:48PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:07:15PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:41, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>>Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>> > >>>[

Re: nagios-pgsql requires mysql?

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:22:51AM +0100, Jan Huijsmans wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to install nagios without mysql support (as I really don't want > to use another DBMA just for 1 package) and I failed. > > When installing nagios-pgsql it still requires mysql installed on the system. > What a

Re: Changing locale

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:42:47PM +0530, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: > I am changing my locale to "ta_IN". I have "export LANG='ta_IN'" in my > .bashrc, '. "$HOME/.bashrc"' in my .bash_profile, and > '. "$HOME/.bash_profile"' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using "Default > System Session". > > 1.

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:07:15PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:41, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Thanks, again, for your quick response. It's working now, which means I get > to sleep tonight and don't have to be at the computer

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:06:35PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > Does anyone know of a good overview of how all these programs work > together and what function they serve? I'm just looking for a very > coarse look at the programs so I can better underst

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:08:22 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > some folks see the idea of suing bar owner or gun owners and wining > > damages as liberal

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:53:01PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > >>>I dont understand the supreme court, they are powned! > > Anyway, I read what the EFF has to say, and it's odd what the > Supreme Court ruled. Alot of FLOSS folks agree, it odd! > > I see the same argument used repeatedly now,

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:21:06AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:52:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > >>Baron Christophe wrote: > >> > >>>What is usenet? > >> > >>Mike McCarty writes

Re: OT: xfig and maps

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:03:27AM +, debian wrote: > Please, > > I need to draw some simple maps. My initial idea is to use xfig. > > Canals/rivers are no problem, I can use thick lines. > > 1. how can I indicate roads using parallel curved lines ? > 2. how can I create re-useable object

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:39:11PM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Let me clarify a bit. > > I know I should not put testing on a production server, but testing at > that point (January a year ago) was almost the stable sarge and I took a > chance. Woody was just too old

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:52:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Baron Christophe wrote: > > What is usenet? > > Mike McCarty writes: > > A collection of open post groups. > > Actually, it's the original peer to peer network. hi John, several people in a discussion amongst some Free software folks

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:12:31PM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > A dual CPU Intel machine was installed with Debian testing on 1/14/05 > with a 2.6.8-1-686-smp kernel. Security updates were applied over the > next year as they became available. Machine was backed up to an > unpartitioned USB ex

Re: OT: recommendation for a USB SD memory card reader

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:37:31AM -0800, grover mitchell wrote: > Howdy debianistas, > > Does anyone have any recomendations on a good USB card reader? I am thinking > about getting a Nikon D50 camera, and it uses SD memory cards. If anyone has > any advice, good or bad, about which card reader I

Re: Introducing myself and ATI+Toshiba problem

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Ciao Mirto, On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:20:54PM +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed etch on my Toshiba Satellite P20 (with an ATI graphic > card), and now I'm triyng to put at work the hardware components. While you can get general Debian help here, I'd also suggest jo

Re: Could you do me a favor?

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:47:07PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I am in mainland China, can't visit the site below: > > www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org > > because the government block it. Could you visit it > and get the latest issue and sent it to me (about 6 > pdf files, about 100k in total)?

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:42:49PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I use sarge. > > I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do > I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. > > Thanks in advance! Hi Serena, DHCP means dynamic host control protocol, thus no, you have a changing i

Re: mono for debian

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 06:06:54PM -0500, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > I'm using Debian Sarge (stable) and searched for a mono package to install: > apt-cache search mono. > I didn't get any packages related to the mono project back. How can I > install mono and run .NET applications > on my debian

Re: Midi editor

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:09:29PM +, Pooly wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create some midi file. I'm using etch. > - If I try to install noteedit or Kguitar, apt-get want to remove few > useful packages (amarok and half of KDE...). > - If I add sid in sources.list (with the prefered version t

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:53:23PM -0500, Amadan Korvin wrote: > hi > > OK i'm not a package maintainer or anything. but i've been watching > the status of etch and sid for a couple weeks now because i've had the > same problems as you - each time i try for an aptitude upgrade i get > depencency

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:29:04PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > amor eyesapplet fifteenapplet kdetoys kmoon kodo kteatime ktux kweather > kworldclock xmms > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need

Re: Debian Jam, Seisure, Notch ...

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:17:58AM +0100, AUTOHK wrote: > I install debian on TravelMate 245LC. > Starting is normal only to start server X, > and in this time jam. > > ERROR MESSAGE: > > Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). > It is likely is not set up corretly. Would you lik

Re: long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:42:52PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave > this way. Hi Matt, you should google about firefox issue because as of late I saw an article where they exmplained that its memory uses was a 'feature' and not a 'bug

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:48:00PM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > [webmin & webmin-* package] > > Any takers are welcome! even non-debian developers can do it! > > Ok, let's say I'll try to take it. &

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:17:24PM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I cannont "apt-get install" webmin anymore on a Etch/Sid. > The package is not found. I use ftp.fr.debian.org mirror and tried with > some others but it's the same. > What happened? > http://www.apt-get.org does not co

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:23:18AM +, David Jarvie wrote: > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more than > once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet > dependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, but > in the la

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I > use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to > learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported > ac

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:27AM -0800, Levi Waldron wrote: > So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up > into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of > each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing > hda7 as a mountabl

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:08:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > >On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > >>2.4.26. I would like to use a script to

Re: linux add afghan (dari, pashto, usbek) keyboard layout

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:58:42AM +0100, M. Emal Alekozai wrote: > Dear all, > > as far as I could figure it out there are no afghan keyboard layouts > available on my Debian/Linux (3.1) system. > > In Afghanistan there are mainly three languages (dari, pashto, usbek) > used. The "United Natio

Re: Debian on Dell N02132 Inspiron 1300

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:23:37AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-15 06:03]: > > thanks for your answer, > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:15:06AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > Dear all, > > >

Re: mounting usb device

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:33:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > My usb voice recorder used to mount automatically. It no longer does > (probably some gnome change). I can find the device in > /proc/scsi/usb-storage (it's the only one) but how can I mount it so I > can access the files on it? > > H

Re: Debian on Dell N02132 Inspiron 1300

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:15:06AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > for a small home-server, I plan to replace my good-old P1 > 200MHz with a Dell Inspiron notebook. The reason for this > intention: 3years warranty, low-price, low-energy consumption. > > However, for my personal work, I h

Re: recipe program

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:42:24AM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > Is there not a recipe program in the debian repositories. Trying to get > wife "hooked". :) > > -- > Highest Regards, > > Rodney Richison > RCR Computing > http://www.rcrnet.net > 118 N. Broadway > Cleveland, OK 74020 > 918-35

Re: recipe program

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:42:24AM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > Is there not a recipe program in the debian repositories. Trying to get > wife "hooked". :) > > -- > Highest Regards, > > Rodney Richison > RCR Computing > http://www.rcrnet.net > 118 N. Broadway > Cleveland, OK 74020 > 918-35

Re: help with quoting/expansion in bash

2006-02-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:23:47PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list of > directories and runs a command. I can't seem to get the quoting right > though. Most of the directories have spaces and they are making > things difficult for me. Here is w

Re: help with Debian

2006-02-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > Hello, my name is Sandra Holden, > > We are in the process of creating a website for our company. We have a > domain name cuthbertsmith.com which we aquired through Roger Rendek at > Caisnet. > > So, when I type in t

Re: Pictures, music = video

2006-02-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:43:53PM +0100, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: > Hello, > I want to combine some photgraphs with music to obtain a movie that I can > record in a video CD or a DVD (I plan to play it in a ordinary DVD player). I > am wondering is there is a software to do it easely. >

Re: debian-user and mutt...

2006-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:37:31PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > Most other lists either have something inserted in the subject line > to idenify the origin, or they appear to come from the least such > that selecting messages from 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' would > suffice... Hi Digby, in

Re: Installing Debian from a DOS partition

2006-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:45:52AM +0100, M. Maas wrote: > Hello List, > > I recently got my hands on a Toshiba Libretto 110CT. Which is a very > small laptop, with no cd player, just a pcmcia floppy disk that only > works under DOS, because the Linux kernel does not have the drivers for it. > >

Re: Newbie wants KDE

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:47:55AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just did a more or less default install of Sarge usin the mini-disk > and download method. Now the system fires up in Gnome instead of KDE. > How do I convince the system to start up kdm instead? > My previous experince is with

Re: Sid/Unstable AMD64 where to find

2006-02-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:43:33PM -0800, Kees de Koster wrote: > >> I want to try Debian Sid/unstable on a AMD Athlon X2 64 computer but > >> can't find the download location, only for I386, I tried that one with > >> downloading with Jigdo but that doesn't work on that machine. > >> Can somebody

Re: Debian equivalent to service?

2006-02-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Under RH, to type "service sensord restart" will kill and restart sensord. > > I can't find an equivalent command. Is there one? Otherwise, how to I kill > and > restart a service? Can I find a list of running services, the same as

Re: Pagode - Samba System Manager

2006-02-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:09:10PM +, Anahuac wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is my first message to this list. My name is Anahuac and I live in > Joao Pessoa - Paraiba - Brazil. > > > I have this project named Pagode [1], developed in Shell Script with PHP > interface [2]. > I'm working on i

Re: System administration question

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:33:47PM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > hello > > As I'm very new in system administrating and not an old Debian user > either, I would like to ask you for some suggestions about system > administration. > I have six identical networked computers running Debian. All the

Re: What have you created with Debian?

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:14:28PM -0800, Jacob wrote: > Debian has been used for many types of systems. > > Our system design team is currently designing a Book Exchange System for > students. > This system will be used for exchanging (buying & selling) their used text > books, however > we also

Re: alternative to packages.debian.org

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:55:06PM +0200, icmp wrote: > Hi, > > is there packages.debian.org alternative anywhere ? > http://guitar-tabs-lyrics.com/ Hi, while it may not be an exact copy, and of course it's not 'Debian', there exists 'http://packages.ubuntu.com'. Other than that, apt-file is close

Re: Photo collection management

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:22:52AM +0100, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > Dear list, > > > Couple of days ago I decided (evidently too late!) that the amount of > pictures on CD-ROMs and on my disks has attained critical mass and I > no longer am able to get any orientation whatsover in

Re: net boot file for potato?

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:04:30PM -0600, J.Moore wrote: > I need a netboot file for Debian 2.2 (potato); i.e. a file that I can > use to bootstrap a Soekris box. > > I understand (think, not know) that current versions of Debian contain a > file called 'netboot.tar.gz' that can be used for this

Re: Package with config files - best practices?

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:52:28PM +0100, Przemysław Wegrzyn wrote: > Hi ! > > To simplyfy my everday's life I sometimes create custom deb packages > containing only dependencies on other packages so I can quickly set up a > system for i.e. mail server. It would be a great thing if I could use

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:04:32AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] > > Well, you-all steered me right :-) for my needs - thank you. I feel so > much cleaner now that there is no Windoze system in the house. > > If one does their homework and

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:09:46PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? > > > > Ron, > > I know that you know better than that :-) > > You've been around long enough to know that it takes a while for things > to

Re: Am I Compromised -- Some interesting findings

2005-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Ritesh, my guess is as follows: you were hacked between 2005-11-20 and 2005-11-25. this installed a perl script. those .fuhrer* files are related to the hack and maybe useful as a signature of the attack. someone hosted on maple.phpwebhosting.com is the at

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:56:00AM -0500, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated > computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are > intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software an

Re: gtk+extra package

2005-10-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:37:37PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >libgtkextra-dev - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ (development files) > >libgtkextra16 - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ > >libgtkextra17 - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ > >libgtkex

Re: gtk+extra package

2005-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:30:41PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to compile a package which says the following during configure: > > linking with GTK+ 2.x > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > configure: error: Cannot find gtkextra-2.0 package > > Where can I ge

Re: creating multiple databases with updatedb

2005-09-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:33PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is it possible to create multiple databases with updatedb and which can > coexist on the same system? I want to have two databases of which the > first is indexed from / and the second is indexed from /home/user . > Reading t

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