Re: Please add support for Broadcom 440x NIC to sarge release

2005-05-27 Thread David Goodenough
I think it may just be a problem of adding the right PCI ID to sarge. I had this problem with a broadcom chip in a laptop, and raised a bug against debian-installer and they added the ID. b44 is certainly available as a module, it just need to be recognised as the right module for this ID. So

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Dowland
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Thanks for sending the file. I tried it on sid and it is not giving any root access for an ordinary user. Guess it is a problem with woody or a particular kernel version then. Strace it - what is it trying to do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xen Virtual Server

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Dowland
Timothy Spear wrote: Before I try the Xen Virtual Server from unstable, on my Sarge based desktop, is there anyone out there running Xen on Sarge and can give some pointers or howto information? I will be starting to try this out today, in fact - I imagine by mid next-week I

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

2005-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 26 May 2005, SA wrote: You know what they say, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers ;-) Anyway, First thing, I wouldn't count on the release date of sarge, on the other its rather stable at the moment. As for releases, when its not near its release date (as sarge IS for

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
Steve A wrote: Hm shouldn't be. In '/etc/news/leafnode' there is a filter file. Try adding alt.test to it and fetching again. I've never used this filter, I'm not sure if it filters on fetch or afterwards -- Hopefully it works. I'll try it and report back. Is this the current version of

Re: Terratec TerraTV+ doesn't work

2005-05-27 Thread martin schmidt
Jim MacBaine wrote: On 5/27/05, martin schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm using a terratec terratv+ card with kernel 2.6.10 and the sarge distribution. I own the same card and it used to work without any problems with all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels I ever used. What messages do appear in the

X.org 6.8.2

2005-05-27 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello List I was installed from the source the last X.org version, 6.8.2. My computer is laptop Toshiba Portege R100 with Trident Graphic Card. After to copy the XF86config-4 to a new file xorg.conf the system was up. I have currently two problems: 1:- From the x.org.log I get the next error:

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Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
Adam Funk wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. My recent prize-winner was this # ifdown -a over an ssh connection. Fortunately the computer I was^H^H had been logged into was in the same room as the one I was typing on. If I had typed #

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
I am a newbie to Debian, a Slackware convert, but not a newbie otherwise. I compile my own kernels since I use a set of kernel patches to support speech synthesizer to the console, called speakup. A precompiled kernel for 2.4.27 package got me started with an installation disk, but I quickly

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/05/05 18:06), noc-ops wrote: Hi, I know which kernel images are available. I'm asking for recommendation for which kernel-image should I upgrade to. Anyway, I went w/ 2.6.8-2-386 :-) Depending on your processor, you may want to upgrade to the 2.6.8-2-686 kernel. '386' will run

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Oh well. I will just have to live on the edge and keep an eye out for problems. (okay, an ear!) and keep a free finger floating around too :-) always best to be on the leading edge with new problems than to be on the trailing edge with known

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Sean Davis
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:55:50PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:41:18PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege escalation] - kernel-source-2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.11-4

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2005-05-27 Thread Lazarus
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Re: Not able to start X

2005-05-27 Thread Ms Linuz
Kent West wrote: Software Development Group wrote: I already tried that and still does not work. If I try loadind X I get an error saying: Fatal server error: no screens found Just double-checking; you already tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, not dpkg-reconfigure xdm, right?

Re: thread indicator symbols in mutt

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:50:37PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: My mutt installation isn't displaying the character symbols used in thread mode to show relationships between messages; I'm seeing other special characters instead. What do I do to fix this? apt-get install locales US users will

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:44:19AM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: That was somewhat helpful. The relevant bit on that page was right near the end: ogmmerge -o My_Video.ogm video.avi audio.ogg Additionally, the ogm file seems a little too large:

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:31:20AM +0100, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy my harddisk? I'll run e2fsck to check on defragmentation

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
Steve A wrote: The previous messages since increasing the verbosity indicate the same problem with alt.test. Is that group just too big for leafnode/fetchnews to handle? I think I've identified the problem -- but not how to fix it. The last fetchnews cron job started at 11:08 and

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Chuck, Please be sure and don't top post. It is considered bad list ettiquette :-) Sorry. My bad etiquette was not deleting the prior pieces of the thred. If you are running a regular desktop, chances are that: 1) You are behond a

Re: thread indicator symbols in mutt

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:24:05PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: US users will want to add export LC_CTYPE=en_US to their ~/.bashrc. also add export LC_COLLATE=C to your ~/.bashrc. This will keep the output of 'ls -al' etc sane. That rules. I always hate setting LANG since I end up with

Knoppix .config

2005-05-27 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Knoppix kernel .config file? I like using it for compiling my own kernels and I've lost both the link to it, and the copy of the file I had in a hard drive crash. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Knoppix .config

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Freddy, Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Knoppix kernel .config file? I like using it for compiling my own kernels and I've lost both the link to it, and the copy of the file I had in a hard drive crash. Wouldn't it be possible

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:59:08AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, a Slackware convert, but not a newbie otherwise. I compile my own kernels since I use a set of kernel patches to support speech synthesizer to the console, called speakup. A precompiled kernel for

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess said: Well to choose one security hole at random out of dozens to hundreds that remain unfixed in woody's kernels, this one allows anyone to go from a normal user account to root: CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-27 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:57:58AM -, shatam bhattacharya wrote: Volla !! Its working !!!. Thanks a lot Ionut and others. I have installed the new image and alsa modules, ran alsaconf, tuned with alsamixer and xmms is working :-) But in doing so some how the newly installed kernel

Re: make-dpkg w/ 2.6.11.10 UML+SKAS+SELinux (no modules)

2005-05-27 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:41:04PM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: First time posting, long time follower :) Running into a very odd error with make-dpkg. Honestly, I usually compile manually, however I'm following a wonderfully detailed HOWTO[0] for creating a SELinux enabled UML system

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-27 Thread Steve A
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:21:04AM +0100 or thereabouts, Adam Funk wrote: I think I've identified the problem -- but not how to fix it. The last fetchnews cron job started at 11:08 and /var/log/syslog contains the stuff below. I think the problem might be that so many articles in

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-27 Thread shatam bhattacharya
Congratulations!! It may be that your driver is not loaded upon boot. And if it is not loaded, /etc/init.d/network has nothing to configure. Reason ? with 2.4.18 8139too might have been already compiled into the kernel, with 2.4.27 it is definitely a module. A quick way to check it: load

Re: Configuring Squid

2005-05-27 Thread Romulo Sousa
Hi there, I'm trying to access my proxy from my job. Some configurations were made but I'm not sure about the acl configurations for solve this error message: While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/ The following error was encountered: Access Denied. Access control

Re: make-dpkg w/ 2.6.11.10 UML+SKAS+SELinux (no modules)

2005-05-27 Thread Matthew J. Harmon
(Reply at bottom) On Fri, 27 May 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:41:04PM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: First time posting, long time follower :) Running into a very odd error with make-dpkg. Honestly, I usually compile manually, however I'm following a

Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX100-S2

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Jolly
Hi, Does anyone knowif it possible toDebian (woody or sarge) on the Fujitsu-Siement Primergy RX100-S2? I have read an earlier post where a solution is to disable the Promise SATA RAID controller and use an added 3ware controller instead:

Re: Knoppix .config

2005-05-27 Thread Robert Vangel
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Knoppix kernel .config file? I like using it for compiling my own kernels and I've lost both the link to it, and the copy of the file I had in a hard drive crash. Thanks What about booting the cd grabbing

Re: alsa problem

2005-05-27 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:49:59PM -, shatam bhattacharya wrote: Congratulations!! It may be that your driver is not loaded upon boot. And if it is not loaded, /etc/init.d/network has nothing to configure. Reason ? with 2.4.18 8139too might have been already compiled into the kernel,

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-27 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:13, hacker wrote: I don't know all the particulars of glxinfo, but if gears is 300, you probably have it. The proof is in the use .. try running tuxracer or chromium and see if they work. For me, the die when I'm not accelerated. Hmm, so glxgears says it has a high

Re: Ghost windows on my graphic display

2005-05-27 Thread Kent West
olivier henley wrote: Hi to all, I have a small problem with my display under Debian (woody). My X server is 4.1, but as I installed from vanilla I am still running on a 2.2 kernel. The computer is an old laptop with a trident 9385 chipset (2mb of ram). Everything goes fine except when I

How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-27 Thread David Witbrodt
I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on the motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller card. I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI controller, but the installer didn't recognize the card, so I was forced to

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:01 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: Adam Funk wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. My recent prize-winner was this # ifdown -a over an ssh connection. Fortunately the computer I was^H^H had been logged into was in the

Re: Leafnode timing out on news server that works with a news client.

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
Steve A wrote: Dunno. Might want to ask on the leafnode e-mail list. You're rapidly getting beyond my level of expertise. I appreciate the advice. Discussing something often helps with thoughtful debugging. I don't use anything beyond the default settings in my config file. I've

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-27 Thread Matias Rollan
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:49:21AM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on the motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller card. I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI

OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Thomas H. George
For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following message printed on it: Only in the World of Microsoft are Options Required Go Linux! I don't want to wear it until I can explain it and I don't know what

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-27 Thread Matias Rollan
bash# mount /dev/hdg5 /mnt; mount /dev/hdg2 /mnt/boot/ and so on then.. bash# tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -) Change the root of the system. chroot

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:00:56AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote: *: Linux LOVES to swap. I swap all the time on my 1.8ghz Athlon XP with 1GB ram. However, my NetBSD machine with the same amount of ram running at the same frequency NEVER swaps, due to the ability to tune the VM, and the better VM

USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Software Development Group
Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Dowland
Sean Davis wrote: I can tolerate the Debian environment, but when they can't decide whether or not to actually release Sarge Well the RC bug count is still 0, but it has dropped nearly 2/3 since the last BTS, from ~90 to ~30. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:41:35 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following message printed on it: Only in the World of Microsoft are Options Required

Re: X.org 6.8.2

2005-05-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
gustavo halperin wrote: I was installed from the source the last X.org version, 6.8.2. My computer is laptop Toshiba Portege R100 with Trident Graphic Card. After to copy the XF86config-4 to a new file xorg.conf the system was up. I have currently two problems: 1:- From the x.org.log I get

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 27 May 2005, David Witbrodt wrote: I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on the motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller card. I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI controller, but the

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Tucker
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:50:19 -0400 Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Put this line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1/media/usb-key vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 then:

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:41:35 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following message printed on it: Only in the World of Microsoft are Options

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Tucker
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:50:19 -0400 Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Put this line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1/media/usb-key vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 then:

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.27.1738 +0200]: While I haven't used any Microsoft product for more than 10 years, some googling suggested a very different meaning of the term options to me. An option may be what movie you choose to watch, or what music to listen to; what

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Andy McKay
open a command prompt and type dmesg after yopu plug it in that will let you kinow which device is is /dev/sda1 (for example if you have no other usb mass storage devices plugged in or scsi devices) and then you can just mount /dev/sda1 /mount/point/wherever/you/like On Friday 27 May 2005

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-27 Thread hacker
On 5/27/05, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:13, hacker wrote: I don't know all the particulars of glxinfo, but if gears is 300, you probably have it. The proof is in the use .. try running tuxracer or chromium and see if they work. For me,

make-kpkg without modules

2005-05-27 Thread Matthew J. Harmon
Ok, so let me rephrase this question since I think I have the answer, just need to find the method. How can I use make-kpkg to compile my kernel, -WITHOUT- having it try to build modules? The kernel I am building is very minimalist and has a very specific purpose, it does not need LKM or

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:38:13PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:41:35 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following message printed on it: Only

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:41 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following message printed on it: Only in the World of Microsoft are Options Required Go Linux!

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread John Hasler
Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of Unix and Linux as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Shreyas Ananthan
Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=126 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Mage
Software Development Group wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Thanks. You need kernel with usb support. If you have kernel from Debian distribution, you have kernel modules for usb support. Type as root: modprobe

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Sean Davis
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:43:11AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:00:56AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote: *: Linux LOVES to swap. I swap all the time on my 1.8ghz Athlon XP with 1GB ram. However, my NetBSD machine with the same amount of ram running at the same frequency

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
John Hasler wrote: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of Unix and Linux as well. In my mind there is a distinction between options and

Re: Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX100-S2

2005-05-27 Thread Toens Bueker
Simon Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if it possible to Debian (woody or sarge) on the Fujitsu-Siement Primergy RX100-S2? I have read an earlier post where a solution is to disable the Promise SATA RAID controller and use an added 3ware controller instead:

Re: sarge 3.1 kernel

2005-05-27 Thread noc-ops
You are correct (sorry typo) it was 2.6.8-2-686 and not 2.6.8-2-386. regards, /virendra Clive Menzies wrote: On (26/05/05 18:06), noc-ops wrote: Hi, I know which kernel images are available. I'm asking for recommendation for which kernel-image should I upgrade to. Anyway, I went w/

Re: Which fonts a program uses

2005-05-27 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Arago
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:58:03PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: xlsfonts will tell you which fonts are available for use by X, from the listed FontPaths in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Its probably a good idea for you to install cfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, gsfonts-x11 and

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of Unix and Linux as well. Can you cite a Unix or GNU/Linux command line

Re: ia64 available packages

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Majer
Rick Pasotto wrote: I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 machine. Is there an easy way to see if all the packages I currently have installed are available in the ia64 distribution? It is easier to see which ones are not available. Anyway, AMD64 uses an amd64 port, not the ia64. ie64 is for

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Dickopp said: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of Unix and Linux as well.

Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; Well, I went through the thread earlier this month about this subject, because I have EXACTLY the same issue with make-kpkg, and I was disappointed in the outcome (which, as far as I could tell, just wandered off into the weeds). I'd like to restate it and see if we can close it out:

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp said: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of Unix and

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sean Davis: disk I/O. If I understand your argument correctly, an accurate analogy would be leaving your car running 24/7 just so that you don't have to start it the next time you want to drive somewhere. Would you do that? no. I'm not sure how relevant it is, but this is how

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Dragan Cvetkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them.

fsck on /dev/hde1 during boot,

2005-05-27 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Just installed Sarge on a server with 3 SCSIs and one IDE drive on an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200 A card. The system starts booting otherwise fine, until it gets to apparently running fsck on the IDE drive. Then it errors out with: fsck.ext3: No such device or address while trying to open

Re: Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:44:28PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: Hi all; Well, I went through the thread earlier this month about this subject, because I have EXACTLY the same issue with make-kpkg, and I was disappointed in the outcome (which, as far as I could tell, just wandered off into the

kernel panics

2005-05-27 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey guys, so i'm having trouble w/ my backup server's kernel panicking every few days... i get no information on the screen about why, but from googling around, it seems that maybe it is the combo of this dell hardware and my scsi card: scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev

Re: Sound in Ppracer

2005-05-27 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Jacob S ha escrit, a 27/05/05 00:00: | On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:50:21 +0200 | apt/dpkg is right in wanting to remove libsdl1.2debian-oss to install | libsdl1.2debian-esd. They are both sdl sound libraries, but one uses esd | and the other uses

Re: mouse scroll wheel ZAxisMapping

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Hardy
On 27/05/05 08:25nbsp;Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La Adam Hardy ha escrit, a 26/05/05 23:01: | Hi List | | I'm having problems setting up my mouse in x to scroll properly with the | wheel. | | I followed advice from http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ | which looks useful but gives the

Debian IBM

2005-05-27 Thread Sinval Jnior
Olá amigos, Fui contratato para instalar 6 servidores IBMs, estou pensando usar como sistema operacionar o Debian...gostaria de dicas em geral...principalmente relativo ao sistema de RAID. Obrigado Yahoo!

Re: fsck on /dev/hde1 during boot,

2005-05-27 Thread Marty
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Just installed Sarge on a server with 3 SCSIs and one IDE drive on an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200 A card. The system starts booting otherwise fine, until it gets to apparently running fsck on the IDE drive. Then it errors out with: fsck.ext3: No such device or address

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Phil Dyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess said: Well to choose one security hole at random out of dozens to hundreds that remain unfixed in woody's kernels, this one allows anyone to go from a normal user account to root: CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel

Re: Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Smith
%% Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I need to do to use make-kpkg to build my kernel packages, but avoid having to run make-kpkg clean between every build? I'm upgrading to a 2.6 kernel and I'm tweaking and poking at my config. Running a build after a clean takes

eclipse 3.0 don't start up on gnome 2.10

2005-05-27 Thread David Roguin
I have eclipse 3.0 installed in my debian sid; it always worked great, but now after installed gnome 2.10 from experimental, eclipse fail to start up. It shows an ugly window with that: JVM terminated. Exit code=1 /usr/bin/java -cp /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main

Intelligent Threat Scanner

2005-05-27 Thread Oscar
Protects your Internet Explorer browser from unwanted popups and iframes. http://www.antispywarecash.com/bill/ For NASA, space is still a high priority. REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation. Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

gnome and kde conflicts?

2005-05-27 Thread Lei Kong
I am using sarge, both kde and gnome are installed. I chose to use kde style and font for gtk application in kde (kcontrol - appearance themes - gtk styles and fonts), then I found kde wrote the following into .gtkrc-2.0: include /usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc style user-font {

Two internet connections

2005-05-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have a slight problem with a mailserver. The server is accepting mail for four domains, all of which have their MX records hosted with different ISPs. The mailserver is being moved from one line to another, so at the moment it is connected to both, with the gateway set as the

Re: Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Garside
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:44:28PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: [snip] * Don't use make-kpkg; do it by hand. Yeah, I did that for years. I'm interested in having my kernels be .deb packages now. If you don't want to use make-kpkg great: you can ignore this thread. [snip] You could

interesting boot problem

2005-05-27 Thread Serkan Calis
Ok. Here is the story. I have Debian Sarge CDs. I can boot the first cd on my laptop and install Debian easily. But when i want to boot that cd with my old pc which is P2 i cant boot it. But, i can boot other distro's cds with that machine, Slackware and Knoppix is an exapmle. So i cant figure out

Re: mouse scroll wheel ZAxisMapping

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Hardy
On 27/05/05 21:25nbsp;Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, | This is what I've got in my XF86Config-4 | | Section InputDevice | Identifier Configured Mouse | Driver mouse | Option CorePointer | Option Device

Re: Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:57:33PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: %% Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I need to do to use make-kpkg to build my kernel packages, but avoid having to run make-kpkg clean between every build? I'm upgrading to a 2.6 kernel and I'm tweaking

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-27 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 09:37 -0400, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:13, hacker wrote: I don't know all the particulars of glxinfo, but if gears is 300, you probably have it. The proof is in the use .. try running tuxracer or chromium and see if they work. For

vesafb-tng

2005-05-27 Thread Gutemberg A. Vieira
Anyone is using the vesafb-tng[1] for framebuffer? I am trying to patch the kernel-source-2.6.11 but I can't do it right. Have anyone succeded? I get something like this: # cat ../vesafb-tng-0.9-rc6-2.6.11-rc1.patch | patch -p1 --dry-run patching file Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt patching file

Re: make-kpkg without modules

2005-05-27 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:10:49AM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: Ok, so let me rephrase this question since I think I have the answer, just need to find the method. How can I use make-kpkg to compile my kernel, -WITHOUT- having it try to build modules? The kernel I am building is

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:10:53PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of

Re: Avoiding make-kpkg clean, redux

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Smith
%% Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rcs I'm sorry, but this is wrong, as I have I done it. As long as rcs your invocation of make-kpkg uses the same append-to-version as rcs the previous invocation, then it will work. You may be rcs experiencing trouble becuase you are

Re: interesting boot problem

2005-05-27 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:17:08AM +0300, Serkan Calis wrote: Ok. Here is the story. I have Debian Sarge CDs. I can boot the first cd on my laptop and install Debian easily. But when i want to boot that cd with my old pc which is P2 i cant boot it. But, i can boot other distro's cds with that

Re: interesting boot problem

2005-05-27 Thread Lei Kong
Ok. Here is the story. I have Debian Sarge CDs. I can boot the first cd on my laptop and install Debian easily. But when i want to boot that cd with my old pc which is P2 i cant boot it. But, i can boot other distro's cds with that machine, Slackware and Knoppix is an exapmle. So i cant

Re: OpenOffice Writer and Bold text.

2005-05-27 Thread Glenn Meehan
Thanks, the problem was resolved after an apt-get upgrade. The fonts seem to have changed in firefox. An improvement I think. Cheers, Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: interesting boot problem

2005-05-27 Thread Marty
Serkan Calis wrote: Ok. Here is the story. I have Debian Sarge CDs. I can boot the first cd on my laptop and install Debian easily. But when i want to boot that cd with my old pc which is P2 i cant boot it. But, i can boot other distro's cds with that machine, Slackware and Knoppix is an

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday May 27 2005 9:50 am, Sean Davis wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:43:11AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:00:56AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote: *: Linux LOVES to swap. I swap all the time on my 1.8ghz Athlon XP with 1GB ram. However, my NetBSD machine with the same

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