Re: Matrox G550DH and XFree86

2002-06-19 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > I have a Matrox G550 DualHead video card and I'd like to run XFree86 on > it. I seem to remember having read somewhere that XFree 4.1 dos not have > proper support for it but XFree 4.2 does... Well, XFree 4.1.0 raw doesn't, but you c

FIXED - Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

2002-06-19 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:25, Michel Loos wrote: > Did you format (mkfs) those 2 partitions before trying to mount them? > Seems the kernel sees your old formatation on hda2 and no formatation > on hda3 D'oh, THAT'S what I was missing :) mkfs'ing the partitions solved the problem. Thanks to

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:42:12PM +1200, Jones, Steven wrote: > i think i might just shut apache down until a patch is out there. Or shutdown system for the matter :) But ... > -Original Message- > From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2002 3:29 > To: debian-user

digital camera recommendation?

2002-06-19 Thread Henry House
Can anyone recommend a digital camera for use with Linux? My goals (in no particular order): * Good image quality * Uses compact flash (the little wafers, each as large as an air-mail stamp) * Complete Linux compatibility with OSS drivers * Linux-friendly manufacturer Any experiences that you can

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:19 pm, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > > * AKDT]: [snip] > Make sure you've got very clean power, excellent cooling, and a good > high-wattage power supply. I've had trouble with most of the dual > Tyan boards s

Personal Letter

2002-06-19 Thread Col. Abraham Makoko
FROM: COL.ABRAHAM MAKOKO. (RTD) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Dear Partner, SEEKING IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. Greetings to you, I wish to seek your assistance in a project I will reveal to you shortly. My name is COL. ABRAHAM MAKOKO of the Democratic Republic of Congo. I was a close friend of the fo

Replacing a new HD

2002-06-19 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hello, I just bought a new hard drive for my system. I pan on using it and taking the disk that currently in it and using it on another box. I want to totally replicate what is happening on the disk. Is there a pretty painless way of doing this? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-19 Thread Jones, Steven
i think i might just shut apache down until a patch is out there. regards, Steven -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2002 3:29 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody? There's now an

Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-19 Thread John
There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 We need a version > 1.2.12, and are running 1.3.23 from woody. Is there any idea where a patched 1.3.23 for woody might be? Or should I install from source from apac

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 * AKDT]: > > I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any > > comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply > > anyway off the list. Thanks! > > I'm running mixed Woody/Sid, home-cooked 2.4.18 kernel on

Re: Printer Recommendation Requested

2002-06-19 Thread csj
On 18 Jun 2002 18:08:00 -0400 Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've also searched for past recommendations. The webpage > > seems to push Epson C80 the most. I've seen some complaints > > of reliability for other Epson models, but nothing specifically > > for the C80. > > > > Any recent

Woody CD for installation on IBM T20

2002-06-19 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I would like to install Woody on a T20 portable with a 3Com 589 PCMCIA network card. I have a "net install"-type CD dated March 2002 that I have used on all my machines to date. This does not have the right drivers for the network card, so I'm stuck. I tried a Xircom PCMCIA card that someone else

Re: help

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:59:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I am in the middle of upgrading to 3.0 and while apt/dpkg > was installing th enew version of debconf > I got these errors and not sure how to fix > > > Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... > perl: warning: Setting local

Re: see shutdown messages without hitting alt ctrl F7

2002-06-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020619 15:15]: > I notice upon shutdown -h now I miss all the neat messages about what > its shutting down, because I am sent to tty1 instead of remaining on > window 7, the xwindow, and I must manually do alt ctrl F7 to go back > and see them. > > I suppose thi

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 10:11 am, John Foster wrote: > I have decided to build a new workstation and am asking for users > input as to the best mainboard for the money available. I can go > pretty much any direction i.e. AMD,Intel or possibly Alpha but I do > not have any experience with Alpha. I

Re: Can't reach master.debian.org

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:14:22PM -0400, Tom Zych wrote: > Does anyone have any idea why I can't reach master.debian.org, > aka bugs.debian.org? It works fine at work (Win95). At home I'm > running woody and I can't so much as ping it. The address resolves > ok. Can you get there now? brainfood.c

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:03:56PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:23:10PM -0400, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > | Following this I would need a way to configure > | DHCP so I could connect to net via my cable modem. Is there a script > | that does this setup? Thanks f

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-19 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 21:32, martin f krafft wrote: > it might be a problem. the 2.4 kernel has the most embarassing > virtual memory management i've seen. quite possible it's the cause. > 2.2 still had fair (not good) virtual memory management. I hope you aren't talking about that pre-2.4.10

Re: xemacs background won't show an .xpm file

2002-06-19 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 01:07 am, Glyn Millington wrote: > Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://members.fcwm.org/glen/fvwm/fvwm2.jpg > > Nice - but do you LIKE those icons?! It's a matter of priorities. I have to work on functionality first. I worry about looks when I have

Can't reach master.debian.org

2002-06-19 Thread Tom Zych
Does anyone have any idea why I can't reach master.debian.org, aka bugs.debian.org? It works fine at work (Win95). At home I'm running woody and I can't so much as ping it. The address resolves ok. Don't know what to say about my network setup - ask me. (Please be specific about how to find things

Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Please be careful about your attribution lines. I did not write any of what you attributed to me. All of that was written by Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Bob > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:22, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); > > > and

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:44:34PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | > I believe that putting the following in the authentication | > configuration section will allow you to use PAM. You will just | > need to add a file named /etc/pam.d/exim with the appropriate PAM | > config options | | I have made /e

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:23:10PM -0400, Nicholas Parsons wrote: | Hi all, | | I have a similar problem as Matt. | The only difference with me is that I forgot my ethernet card was smc | and so bypassed the network configuration screen during installation | process of debian. My question is: Do

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:18:02AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: | | I got Debian installed through through the net install version, but | it never connected me to the network. | | There was a point at which it asked me if I wanted to setup a point-to-point | connection, but I just want to connec

see shutdown messages without hitting alt ctrl F7

2002-06-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
I notice upon shutdown -h now I miss all the neat messages about what its shutting down, because I am sent to tty1 instead of remaining on window 7, the xwindow, and I must manually do alt ctrl F7 to go back and see them. I suppose this is for my own good, in case I want to type any last words or

Re: hostname in dhcpcd

2002-06-19 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:22:13 -0400, Andrew Biggadike wrote: >I am running Woody and kernel 2.4.18 and installed dhcpcd from potato >(because it was recommended). I am properly pulling an IP from my DHCP >server, which is nice, but now I cannot use an entry in /etc/hosts to >map my IP to my hostna

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > I believe that putting the following in the > authentication configuration > section will allow you to use PAM. You will just > need to add a file > named /etc/pam.d/exim with the appropriate PAM > config options I have made /etc/pam.d/exim with: #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_unix.

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread David P James
Grant Edwards wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards >> wrote: > > >>> The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is >>> using "potato" packages and apt-get is using >>> "stable". The "available" list in /var/lib/dpkg >>> show

hostname in dhcpcd

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I am running Woody and kernel 2.4.18 and installed dhcpcd from potato (because it was recommended). I am properly pulling an IP from my DHCP server, which is nice, but now I cannot use an entry in /etc/hosts to map my IP to my hostname (since it's no longer static). When I try to ping my hostname

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:02:24 +0200 Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thank you very much for the answer. I've compiled my kernel with the > > sb module, and the problem remains the same, I cannot get sound as > > root (I think that if I get sound as root then I can modify the > > permi

Re: Problems with bcast_2000 package

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:05:21PM -0400, stan wrote: > I'm trying to install teh bcast_200 package and it's failing with: > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/cjpeg.1.gz', which is also in > package li

RE:generic ps2 mouse driver

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Agno
Raffaele Sandrini writes: > "nonwheeled" mouse to logitech ones. I ask you now if there is a > 100% way (99% are enough :-) ) to sucessfully run all mice on all > systems with the same config --> is there a generic ps2 Driver? I > search something like "Standard PS/2 Mouse" on M$ Windows wich c

3Com Modem + Realtek Network

2002-06-19 Thread dckrinke
I had trouble at first getting a 3Com 5610 modem to work with Debian Woody, but I was able to solve that for a while. It turns out that the 5610 wants to work on /dev/ttyS4 and Woody does not create this, by default. I read the Serial-HOWTO from TLDP and it told me how to create /dev/ttyS4. T

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
> thank you very much for the answer. I've compiled my kernel with the sb > module, and the problem remains the same, I cannot get sound as root (I > think that if I get sound as root then I can modify the permissions in > order to get sound as normal user). Everything is OK with the cdrom, the > d

Problems with bcast_2000 package

2002-06-19 Thread stan
I'm trying to install teh bcast_200 package and it's failing with: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/cjpeg.1.gz', which is also in package libjpeg-progs If I go inot dselect and unselect libjpeg-progs, I ge

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> I have just tried Jerome> Jerome> ntpdate 17.254.0.26 Jerome> Jerome> and I got exactly the same error message Jerome> (17.254.0.26 is the ip btained via ping for ntp.apple.com) Jerome> Jerome> Very strange ! Really! Let me see if I have this str

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Brother. I must be pretty tired. See my corrections below --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:29:13 -0400 From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles Bill> Okay. It works okay at boot time? Jerome> No ! Jerome> It is why I debg it: I get exactly th

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
So I would guess this means that you cannot get to the machine you are ntpdate'ing against. You showed that it worked when you did it against ntp.apple.com. I assume that it also works when you debug it by hand? If so, I would guess that Joris' suggestion is a good one: Joris> on my machine

information

2002-06-19 Thread ZBenjudah
Hello was wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on the dosemue I have not been active in my LINUX OS for a while have been busy. I just cannot get it to work right I have kernel 2.2.12 #2 at least thats what it tells me when I install the operating system. When I installed the

Re: mirror, the perl script mirroring package

2002-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 15:02, Walter Tautz wrote: > > I am attempting to setup a local private mirror of debian using the perl > > script package. It has run for several days. It quits from time to time and > > waits for the next initiation event from crontab, but it can't seem to clear > > its qu

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Bill> Okay. It works okay at boot time? Jerome> No ! Jerome> It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in Jerome> `/var/log/syslog'. Bill> Bill> When you ran it by hand to debug it, the command looked something Bill> like this, right? Bill> Bill> ntpdate -b

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 15:18, Mike Mimic wrote: > Hi! > > > | How can I set that user should login for SMTP the > > same > > | as for POP3? So he should use the same username > > and > > | password as for POP3 (that is the user linux > > account > > | username and password). > > > > Instead, exim

generic ps2 mouse driver

2002-06-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I need to set up a large amout of systems with Debian. While the systems are more or less the same (or ordered in bigger groups) there are many different ps2 mice around. They are "randomly" atached to a system and we don't care about wich mouse is pluged to wich system. The range goes from

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Helgi Örn wrote on Wed Jun 19, 2002 um 08:10:17PM: > I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't accept emulated > scsi drivers (if I've understood this right). I doubt, ide-scsi is not your problem here. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wenn einer träumt, bleibt es ein Traum. We

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Derek Gladding wrote on Wed Jun 19, 2002 um 12:37:12AM: > I've seen this happen, and although I can't shed any light on the > underlying mechanics, I've found that using both update options > (i.e. apt-get update and dselect menu option #1) before doing an > update seems to make it all

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:29:38 +0200 Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:02:43PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > > the nearest option in the xconfig menu is the support for Ensoniq > > Audi

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > | How can I set that user should login for SMTP the > same > | as for POP3? So he should use the same username > and > | password as for POP3 (that is the user linux > account > | username and password). > > Instead, exim supports SMTP AUTH. Yes, I would like to implement that. The problem

Sleeping X

2002-06-19 Thread Jeremy Turner
I am running Debian Sid with XFree86 4.1 and a USB keyboard and mouse. When my display power management kicks in, I cannot awake my display with the keyboard or the mouse (both USB devices) but only with a PS/2 keyboard (haven't tried a PS/2 mouse). Is there a way to tell XFree86 that my mouse sh

Re: mirror, the perl script mirroring package

2002-06-19 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am attempting to setup a local private mirror of debian using the perl > script package. It has run for several days. It quits from time to time and > waits for the next initiation event from crontab, but it can't seem to clear > its queue of reques

RE:what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Agno
How about creating a local woody mirror (using apt-move) with the stuff you'll install plus a woody install CD? Just check out the thread on "Woody install insists on using Potato packages"--basically, either skip both tasksel and dselect in the install (which I always do) and install other packa

Matrox G550DH and XFree86

2002-06-19 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I have a Matrox G550 DualHead video card and I'd like to run XFree86 on it. I seem to remember having read somewhere that XFree 4.1 dos not have proper support for it but XFree 4.2 does... Is this true? If yes, what's the best way to go? Look for unofficial XFree 4.2 debs or to compile it fro

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-19 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
+ Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19.06.02 10:57]: > The current md driver is broken-by-design in the autodetection issue. > You have to compile the driver into the kernel and mark the partition as > type 0xFD to make it autodetecteable. When using modules, you will be > forced to reconstruct the

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Joris
>> Okay. It works okay at boot time? > No ! > It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in > `/var/log/syslog'. on my machine, I haven't got ntpdate to work out the hostnames of any ntp server. I just pinged them, copied the ip's and dpkg-reconfigure'd ntp to look for the ip's. It

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Rox de Gabba
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 20:55, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would > be the best debian install for those who want it? Any chance of woody > being officially released by then? I think woody is stable enough, so i suggest you jst use wood

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-19 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
+ Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19.06.02 11:14]: > + George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19.06.02 10:18]: > > Have you got it all working normally before simulating failures? Can you > > boot into the RAID from either disk, using the BIOS setup to select? > > I am not sure if I tri

Printer problems in x

2002-06-19 Thread Rox de Gabba
I just installed cups and have configured my printer through cups web interface. Have a problem configuring the printer in x, so that i could print directly from kmail or openoffice. Here goes the problem... The printer i have added is working, command lpr -P is working perfectly. But when i

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach tvn1981 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.19.2104 +0200]: > I tried swapoff -a and reboot with Debian's default 2.2 kernel (Woody) > and it turns swapoff immediately, no problem. it might be a problem. the 2.4 kernel has the most embarassing virtual memory management i've seen. quite possib

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: >> So it's normal for an install done with woody floppies to use >> "stable" as the source for packages? > > Unfortunately so, as far as I know. Ouch. I've probably got another system using old packages and I didn't even know it. >> Should I really use dsel

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Dave Price
Rick, I have been installing woody from iso's for some time now, and recomend it (even to newbies). In fact there has been enough discussion here and elsehere re: potato->woody .vs. woody from cd that I would suggest the woody out of the box option as preferable for anyone except thos who absolute

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-19 Thread tvn1981
> it is probably okay actually. after all, when you deactivate swap, all > swap files have to be emptied and writting into memory. > unfortunately, memory might not be able to hold it all, and swapping > occurs. until all is swapped in, it takes a while. > But it never get passed that stage ...

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bill Benedetto wrote: Bill> (2) Did you use Bill> /etc/init.d/ntpdate start Jerome> at boot time Bill> or did you run ntpdate directly? Jerome> only to debug Bill> If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell Bill> ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or s

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 10:55, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would > be the best debian install for those who want it? Any chance of woody > being officially released by then? Woody, if you have the resources the DVD is very nice. You can c

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:54:41PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is using "potato" packages > >> and > >> apt-get is using "stable". The "avai

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 14:10, Helgi Örn wrote: > Hello all! > > I got a CD-ROM and a CD-burner the ide-scsi module makes both of the > drivers emulate as scsi, I don't want the CD-ROM to appear as emulated > scsi driver how can I avoid that? > I can't install the VMware tools because VMware does

what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would be the best debian install for those who want it? Any chance of woody being officially released by then? -- "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is using "potato" packages and >> apt-get is using "stable". The "available" list in /var/lib/dpkg shows all >> packages are from potato, and apt-

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Bill> (2) Did you use Bill> /etc/init.d/ntpdate start Jerome> at boot time Bill> or did you run ntpdate directly? Jerome> only to debug Bill> If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell Bill> ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or something Bill> outside

2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! I got a CD-ROM and a CD-burner the ide-scsi module makes both of the drivers emulate as scsi, I don't want the CD-ROM to appear as emulated scsi driver how can I avoid that? I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't accept emulated scsi drivers (if I've understood this rig

RE: Need to compile gphoto2 from CVS and install into packaging

2002-06-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2002 David Richmond wrote: > Hello! > > Having just switched to Debian (woody) from SuSE 7.3, I recall that, under > SuSE, I had to download and compile the CVS snapshot of the gphoto2 digital > camera library to get my Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera recognizable > under Linux.

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your answers Bill Benedetto wrote: Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': Jerome> I get the message Jerome> Jerome> "no server suitable for synchronization found" Jerome> Jerome> when lauching with no option. Jerome> Jerome> But

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:02:43PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > the nearest option in the xconfig menu is the support for Ensoniq Audio > PCI (ES1370), so I compiled this one into the kernel. But I am afraid > that this is

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': Jerome> I get the message Jerome> Jerome> "no server suitable for synchronization found" Jerome> Jerome> when lauching with no option. Jerome> Jerome> But when I add the option "-q" or "-d" everythings

Need to compile gphoto2 from CVS and install into packaging system

2002-06-19 Thread David Richmond
Hello! Having just switched to Debian (woody) from SuSE 7.3, I recall that, under SuSE, I had to download and compile the CVS snapshot of the gphoto2 digital camera library to get my Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera recognizable under Linux. The version of gphoto2 that ships with SuSE 7.3 wa

SOLVED: Soltek sl-75drv4 dma problems....

2002-06-19 Thread D.J. Bolderman
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:45, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 17:21, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 17:13, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > > > Does anybody have a clue how to fix this ? > > > > > > The board use

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I have a similar problem as Matt. The only difference with me is that I forgot my ethernet card was smc and so bypassed the network configuration screen during installation process of debian. My question is: Do I just have to insmod the correct ethernet card driver into my running kerne

Re: ntpdate troubles (fwd)

2002-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles hi ya i think you are outside the range of ntpdate to fix it will only allow a few sec

Re: Ifconfig !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2002-06-19 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Elcio Mello em Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:40:31PM -0300: > Não tem a necessidade de instalar o dhcpd, a não ser que a máquina seja > servidor de dhcp para sua rede interna. A saber: dhcpcd != dhcpd. dhcpcd é o cliente, dhcpd é o servidor. -- []'s, fr

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:25 pm, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > > in effigy. They won't blame Red Hat. After all, it was my > > > decision to upgrade to 7.3. Not Red Hat's. > > > > Glen, could I interest you in apt-rpm ?? It's a rather sweet > > package fo

Re: Kernel Panic - ext2 vs cramfs

2002-06-19 Thread curtis
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:54, curtis wrote: Now, on my personal computer after updating to 2.4.xx, I made the same changes, but I notices that during the boot there is a line entry: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Look closer. There should be at least two

[Fwd: Re: ntpdate troubles]

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:03:29 +0300 From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > is ntpd also running whil

Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Matthew Tedder
I got Debian installed through through the net install version, but it never connected me to the network. There was a point at which it asked me if I wanted to setup a point-to-point connection, but I just want to connect to the network and the gateway server for Internet. So I said "No" and

Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-19 Thread Steve Juranich
> As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am > sending this to "debian-user". This is a good place to hang out for Debian users of all levels. I encourage you to stick around. > I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); > and then I run "tasksel". I selec

Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread John Foster
I have decided to build a new workstation and am asking for users input as to the best mainboard for the money available. I can go pretty much any direction i.e. AMD,Intel or possibly Alpha but I do not have any experience with Alpha. I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any co

Re: SOLVED! Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-19 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:00:21 -0700 "Steve Juranich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Travis and Dale. The umask argument did the trick. I changed it to > 000 instead of 007, because I didn't want to have to fiddle around with group > ownerships as well. > > Now to get wine working. I'd like

ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I've compiled a new 2.4.18 kernel for my woody system. However, the sound system doesn't work. The installed sound card, as showed by the lspci command, is: 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) the nearest option in the xconfig menu is the support for Ensoni

SOLVED! Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-19 Thread Steve Juranich
Thanks Travis and Dale. The umask argument did the trick. I changed it to 000 instead of 007, because I didn't want to have to fiddle around with group ownerships as well. Now to get wine working. I'd like to play Magic: The Gathering online without having to boot windoze. ;)

aptitude vs. dselect

2002-06-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hi, I'd heard that it's better to use "dselect update" than "apt-get update" because the former also updates dpkg's available database (which seems to me is pretty important). I've started using aptitude, but have gotten myself in the habit of running "deslect update", and wonder if this is still

Re: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

2002-06-19 Thread James Green
On Monday 17 June 2002 12:44 am, Rick Commo wrote: [ large snip ] > So... Before you used the caddies, were you running a 40 wire or 80 wire > (40 signal/ground pairs) cable? I would then wonder how adding a caddy > might affect the ground return paths for the signals. The problem could > potenti

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread Steve Juranich
Since you're having to rebuild your kernel, check out the reference docs at http://www.alsa-project.org. If memory serves, you'll need to build the alsa modules as part of your kernel build. -- Stephen W. Juranich

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Regarding your third question, there's a mini HOWTO on how to use the NT loader to boot Linux that still applies to Win 2k: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html >From reading this, I have been able to use the NT loader to boot Debian on a different partition -- I'm not sure if havi

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya is ntpd also running while you manually invoke ntpdate ?? ( you have to kill ntpd first ) what does ntpdate -v ntp.foo.com give you ?? - should give lots of info if it connected ( i pick on ntp.apple.com since they're up the street ) sample ntp testing commands o

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 06:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK lilo will also overwrite win2k boot manager in a way that will make > poor little win sulk and not ever be found again. So answer to any of the > three below will solve my problems, II. or III. being more robust I suppose. Not entire

Re: building Postgresql

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:40:28AM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | > I would start over with a clean 'apt-get source', then next time if | > you want to restart the build, first remov

Re: Soltek sl-75drv4 dma problems....

2002-06-19 Thread D.J. Bolderman
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 17:21, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 17:13, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > > Does anybody have a clue how to fix this ? > > > > The board uses a VIA Apollo KT266A chipset. > > Try this: > > in lilo.conf, in

Re: SCSI parity errors

2002-06-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Thomas Good wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem with my SCSI harddisk/controller which occurs more often > > lately. The errors have the form: > > > > (scsi0:A:1:0): parity error detected in Data-in phase. SEQADDR(0x7c) >

ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour, since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': I get the message "no server suitable for synchronization found" when lauching with no option. But when I add the option "-q" or "-d" everythings look right: I quess I have missed something, but I do not know what. Any idea ? Thanks in

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:59:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For some time now I have had nothing new from testing; I assumed this > was because of the freeze. However, the same seems to be happening with > unstable. I do an "apt-get update" and get the list of packages, but > nothing is sch

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >When you run a script in a subshell, it can modify the environment of > >that subshell, then that subshell terminates (when the script is done) > >and you get the prompt from your original shell again. Unl

Re: Backup utilities

2002-06-19 Thread Jorge Santos
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 06:00, Jorge Santos wrote: > > > [...] > > > > [...] > Thanks to all, I'll think I'll go with one of the scripts from linux-backup.net, I knew I would be reinventing

Re: building Postgresql

2002-06-19 Thread Jorge Santos
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: > | So, I was building postgresql from source (via debian/rules build) > | when it failed due to a missing header file, so I apt-got the package > | which contained the file reran the

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