hello there,
i am trying to convert a bunch of friends to using Debian GNU/Linux as
opposed to the unmaintained Redhat... a major selling point being the
constant maintenance and security updates by FTP and HTTP.
unfortunately all of the would-be-converts are in a university network
which has
Steve wrote:
I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I
can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also
installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either doesn't exist
or permission denied - it tends to vary).
What the hell do I need to do to
Steve Hargreaves wrote:
Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required modules
no need to do that... just add the modules you want to load into the file
/etc/modules (no need for the insmod command) and the debian bootscripts will
load them and their dependencies automagically.
Adam Aube wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2004 04:23 am, David Baron wrote:
The new kernel image would not boot up because of missing modules.dep
references. Does one need to build the whole thing or is there a way to
simply use the newer kernel with the modules that are already on the
Haines Brown wrote:
When I migrated to debian, I lost my ability to print LaTeX files. No
information is sent to the printer.
The printer driver is dvips, and I assumed that it was included in the
LaTeX package, for that was the case with my LaTeX installation under
RedHat. Under Debian, is
Mark Healey wrote:
When I boot knoppix it uses via82cxxx_audio and works. I have that
module installed so I added the line to my via82cxxx_audio to my
/etc/modules. Still no sound.
does it work as root? if so, you need to add your user to the audio
group
hope that helps,
cheers,
Sam
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Haines Brown wrote:
I stayed clear of CUPS because I'm running a stand-alone work station,
and it seems to open a range of hurdles to overcome. What I'm using is
just the default printer system (woody).
uuh... i thought CUPS _was_ the default printing system? try installing
it... honestly you
Mark Healey wrote:
I have a question about this list. How do I prevent my messages from
being forwarded to usenet? Spammers harvest there.
i also have a question: why do debian not obfuscate email addresses?
like the way mail.gnu.org does. for example, browse
Cristian Gutierrez wrote:
Sam Halliday writes:
i am trying to convert a bunch of friends to using Debian GNU/Linux
as opposed to the unmaintained Redhat... a major selling point being
the constant maintenance and security updates by FTP and HTTP.
unfortunately all of the would-be-converts
hi there,
there are many ways to list all the packages a system has installed, but
unfortunately i cannot find how to get a list the way i want.
i would like to get a listing of all the packages i have installed, with
the branch tag beside it.
dpkg -l
seems to come closest, but lists the
Hank Marquardt wrote:
I've added experimental to list.sources, I've update and even upgraded
today so the system is current, here's my current X inventory:
[ snip lots of 4.2.1-16 stuff ]
What I'm concerned with is that if I enumerate all those in a 'apt-get
--simulate install' statement I
Hank Marquardt wrote:
you should _really_ ask yourself why you are going to X4.3: unless
it has better support (or in my case... the only support of my
card), there really isn't much benefit in the upgrade.
Well, I've had this darned Radeon 8500DV for over a year now without
really being
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Paul Morgan:
You must also be referring to the almost constant stream of
infantile antiM$ remarks with which I am heartily sick and tired.
I use several OSes,
This is an attitude of which _I_ am sick and tired. Microsoft
software sucks, bigtime! Anyone
Nate Duehr wrote:
Damon Chesser wrote:
This is the first time I have to disagree with you S. Keeling.
Users of CAD (espe. AutoCad) realy have to use windose. No maker
of professional CAD is porting to linux. I know a shop here that
builds buildings and they all use Autocad. Their
Derrick Hudson wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
| Cristian Gutierrez wrote:
| Sam Halliday writes:
[ftp/http is bandwidth limited on university network, ssh isn't
limited]
| May be they can use an external proxy via ssh. Say, they have ssh
| access to host X where X is outside their university
Nate Duehr wrote:
While you may be very intelligent regarding CAD software, you sure
seem willing to attack people like myself who are only pointing out
alternatives that ARE Linux-related on a Linux mailing list, and then
claiming that *I* took the conversation off-topic? Wow. Quite bold
Brian Nelson wrote:
Sam Halliday writes:
i just had this exact same problem... i got around it by using
aptitude and pretty much adding every X4.3 package i could find
before hitting`g'...
Er, why? The only 4.3 package you really need is xserver-xfree86.
DRI etc etc... and the newer
Cristian Gutierrez wrote:
[ftp/http is bandwidth limited on university network, ssh isn't
limited]
[idea: tunnel ftp/http via ssh and a remote friendly proxy]
[step by step instructions]
excellent! thanks for the help... i think we can probably sort something
out for them! :-D the
Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:29:35AM +, Sam Halliday wrote:
varicad is a joke for serious work... speak to an expert, and they
will tell you the same thing. even autocad is described as too
simplistic by a few mechanical engineers i know, and architects
(REAL
Matthias Hentges wrote:
Am Di, den 10.02.2004 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 10:49:
Bonjour tout le monde,
je viens de faire un dist-upgrade sur ma woody (noyau 2.6.1) pour passer en
sid. Tout s'est bien passé jusqu'au reboot.
En effet, maintenant je n'ai plus accès au réseau (via dhcp)!
hi there,
ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed)
applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it
in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if
someone could help:
i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always
hi there,
did anyone else do a system upgrade yesterday to find out that
mozilla-tabextensions/testing has been updated... and now you get really
annoying coloured tabs when you open a new tab in mozilla? if so, could
they please let me know how they turned it off? as there seems to be no
option
Sam Halliday wrote:
did anyone else do a system upgrade yesterday to find out that
mozilla-tabextensions/testing has been updated... and now you get
really annoying coloured tabs when you open a new tab in mozilla? if
so, could they please let me know how they turned it off? as there
seems
Harland Christofferson wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
[snip]
i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a
hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname
[snip]
can't you do this in /etc/dhcpd.conf? i think you have to assign
a fixed ip addres ... something line
Sam Halliday wrote:
[snip]
i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a
hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring
instead to use the hostname debian which it set up during the
initial install.
[snip]
apologies all!
/etc/dhcpc/config
allows me
hi there,
does anyone know if thunderbird 1.0 is going to make it into unstable
anytime soon?
cheers
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Ralph Katz wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
does anyone know if thunderbird 1.0 is going to make it into unstable
anytime soon?
Alexander Sack, the debian maintainer, has what you want on his website:
http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/index.html
thanks!
by the way, i installed the enigmail plugin, but i am
Ralph Katz wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
does anyone know if thunderbird 1.0 is going to make it into unstable
anytime soon?
Alexander Sack, the debian maintainer, has what you want on his website:
http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/index.html
drat... no powerpc builds...
cheers,
Sam
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for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you
search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you
to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same
feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to
Ralph Katz wrote:
And Sam, to clear the search bar, Ctrl-J, Delete or just type new entry.
thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard
it is quite tricky to send Delete. the little X box which thunderbird has is
preferable to any keyboard shortcut to be honest.
Ralph Katz wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
by the way, i installed the enigmail plugin, but i am having real
hassles trying to get it to work with GPG signing/encryption. has
anyone got a HOWTO or some advice on how to set this up?
Make sure to turn on hushmail support. It passes
Sam Halliday wrote:
i think i will install gpg-agent and see if that makes a difference.
i cannot find gpg-agent in the debian package lists, so i guess that isn't the
problem...
cheers,
Sam
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http
Steve Lamb wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
but upon sending any mails, there is no signature made and it doesn't
even ask for my passphrase! if i go into the Security menu when
Composing a message and ask to encrypt or sign the message, it gives
me some speil about Personal Certificates. so i do
Steve Lamb wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
i don't care for any of this Personal Certificate stuff... i just want
to use it with GPG. and in fact, Thunderbird is *ignoring* all the
PGP/Mime attachments for all the emails i have looked at which i
*know* have signatures (over IMAP). it is also saying
hi there,
i am quite familiar with setting up iptables rules in an initscript, or via
iptables-{restore,save}. i could easily set up my own initscript to do
this, but i was wondering what the correct debian way of setting up an
iptables firewall is. is there a file where i should place my rules
Paul Gear wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
i am quite familiar with setting up iptables rules in an initscript, or
via iptables-{restore,save}. i could easily set up my own initscript to
do this, but i was wondering what the correct debian way of setting up
an iptables firewall is. is there a file
Paul Gear wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
...
Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a recent
version from backports.org, and you're laughin'!
cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know
how to do that. i just want to know
Sam Halliday wrote:
Paul Gear wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
...
Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a
recentversion from backports.org, and you're laughin'!
cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know
how to do that. i just
John Summerfield wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know how
to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian way of
loading up a firewall on startup... like a file i need to dump my
(customised) `iptables-save` output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -sport ssh -j ACCEPT
try
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 \
-m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
cheers,
Sam
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hello,
i know this is probably somthing which is discussed often on the list... but i
was unable to find anything in the archives, the apt FAQ or several google
searches... so i'm posting to the list.
i have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with a package list i
am very happy
hi there,
while i was trying to set up my keyboard's map by hand (which is a new mac
layout), i suddenly became very confused with how debian handles standards
compliant console fonts.
the default setup was SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 in /etc/console-tools/config. this
confuses me. i have been
hi there,
while i was trying to set up my keyboard's map by hand (which is a new mac
layout), i suddenly became very confused with how debian handles standards
compliant console fonts.
grrr... sorry i missed the if you are using a framebuffer, make sure you apply
this to all the virtual
Bob Proulx wrote:
Simon L wrote:
When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can
startx and when I open a terminal, the PATH is perfect.
Now, if I start the computer with KDM and that I run a terminal, the
PATH is only:
hi there,
i was wondering, on a 2.6.7 linux kernel, i have the chance to compile-in fonts
and keymaps.
i wish to compile in fonts which have a full iso-8859-15 (Latin-9) compliment.
is there any way i can do this? there is also no kernel option for the character
mapping either. could i maybe
Michael B Allen wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Simon L wrote:
When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can
startx and when I open a terminal, the PATH is perfect.
Now, if I start the computer with KDM and that I run a terminal, the
PATH
Bob Proulx wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
By starting a login shell. Create ~/.xsession with the following:
#!/bin/bash --login
exec x-session-manager # or gnome-session or whatever.
RG! you can't be serious!! .xsession as a LOGIN shell??
repeat after
Tom Allison wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man passwd
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Reformatting passwd(1), please wait...
I can get the man pages, but how do I fix the locale error?
I seem to run into this from time to time and ... sometimes are worse
than
the way debian's firefox is set up, is that if it sees a file of a certain MIME
type, then it will try to opem it in a program suitable for that format.
however, sometimes this is just stupid. if i want to load a LaTeX .tex file,
firefox spawns Emacs (as with some other text files) and it was the
cecil wrote:
Ok, yet again, my prof wants us to use Visual C++. I have not yet talked
to him about this. I have decided that I will HAVE to use X, so I guess
I'm looking for a IDE that will approximate this. I know of anjuta,
kdevelop, and motor(console mode app). Any ideas, suggestions, or
William Ballard wrote:
Oh and your professor is an idiot.
thats a very brave thing to say about a PROFESSOR
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Sam Halliday wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
William Ballard wrote:
Oh and your professor is an idiot.
thats a very brave thing to say about a PROFESSOR
Very brave indeed.. One would think someone with at least 8 years
Stephen Le wrote:
Being educated does not make you a good teacher.
yes, but it doesn't make you an idiot either.
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hi there,
i was wondering if somebody could help me set up udev to make symlinks in a
specific way...
i have 2 mouse input devices... one is always connected (/dev/input/mouse1) and
another is a usbmouse and appears as (/dev/input/mouseX), with X increasing
every time i remove and reconnect it.
hi there,
when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages using
`dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and starting afresh.
but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a memory of
all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is
Thomas Adam wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have a
memory of
all apps i originally wanted to pull over... is there any way i can
Yes, that was meant to be run *after* you --set-selections!
yeah... i know, but at the time (2 weeks
Thomas Adam wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
may i ask how this would suggest that i have a broken system? i fail to
see the
reasoning.
You said to purge all un-installed apps. I mis-read that. Mind you, it
wasn't well written anyway. :) What you mean is, you remove'd a package
but did
David Fokkema wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
hi there,
when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages
using`dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and
starting afresh.
but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it seems to have
John L Fjellstad wrote:
Sam Halliday writes:
i would very much like to have a symlink set up by udev
(/dev/input/mousemain or similar) which points to the /dev/input/mouseX
unless it has been removed, in which case it should be pointed to
/dev/input/mouse1.
unfortunately the /dev
John L Fjellstad wrote:
Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
however that only solves half the problem... how can i make this
/dev/usbmouse link (or whatever i call it) point to /dev/input/mouse1
(the touchpad) when the usb mouse is not plugged in?
You don't. In X, what you do
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
John L Fjellstad wrote:
| Sam Halliday writes:
|
| however that only solves half the problem... how can i make this
| /dev/usbmouse link (or whatever i call it) point to /dev/input/mouse1
| (the touchpad) when the usb mouse is not plugged in?
|
| You don't
John L Fjellstad wrote:
Sam Halliday writes:
i would very much like to have a symlink set up by udev
(/dev/input/mousemain or similar) which points to the /dev/input/mouseX
unless it has been removed, in which case it should be pointed to
/dev/input/mouse1.
unfortunately the /dev
John L Fjellstad wrote:
Sam Halliday writes:
however... there is one major problem! instead of creating the link to
/dev/input/mouseX, it is creating to the link to /dev/input/ts2, which
does not appear to be a valid mouse device. how can i fix it? (ts2
appears only when the usb mouse
Matthias Czapla wrote:
I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login
at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs
inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx everything
from thereon and including the shell that is executing the
Ralph Katz wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop
keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete.
Tricky to hit the delete key?!
yes its a laptop keyboard, so Delete (unlike Backspace) requires a two-key
combination, which is just a pain. when
Ralph Katz wrote:
perhaps you might see the same as i do if you temporarily move your
.mozilla-thunderbird folder out of the way, and set up a new account.
Ouch! You're right. Fresh install ain't working for enigmail. You
should file a bug report. Alex is very good with the fixes. (I've filed
Ralph Katz wrote:
perhaps you might see the same as i do if you temporarily move your
.mozilla-thunderbird folder out of the way, and set up a new account.
Ouch! You're right. Fresh install ain't working for enigmail. You
should file a bug report. Alex is very good with the fixes. (I've filed
hi there,
has anyone ever used this tool:
http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php
it claims to do what expose does in Mac OS X. i'd like to see this debianised
and in unstable... but i guess i'll just have to compile it myself until then.
cheers,
Sam
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Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when
you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears
which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to
firefox which enables the same feature in its search
Ralph Katz wrote:
For searching *within* a web page in firefox
sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that
requires search engines, like google.
cheers,
Sam
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Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:
Ralph Katz wrote:
For searching *within* a web page in firefox
sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one
that requires search engines, like google.
OH that one!
If you mean the one just to the right of the basic url textbox
hi there,
i have been a long time blackbox user, but recently decided that maybe a full
blown desktop would be nice for a change. so i installed gnome-2.8 from
testing/unstable. it looks very sweet, but i have several issues which i hope
some people can help me with:
- gnome overrides .Xmodmap
hi there,
i have my panel to show a main menu applet in gnome. i wish to edit the
entries here... specifically, i wish to remove the Run Application, Search
for File, spacers and Recent Documents entries and have my own custom
Applications.
while googling for the answer, i came across this
Hi all,
I have a license for the Intel Math Kernel Library which has a file
/opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so
that provides a lot of interfaces, such as BLAS/CBLAS (i.e.
libblas.so.3) and LAPACK (i.e. liblapack.so.3).
I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point
On 3 January 2015 at 17:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Sam Halliday wrote:
/opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so
I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point at
this file, without having to manually create symbolic links
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