Re: HELP - apt-get - sorry

2002-11-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:09:56PM +0100, Setyo Nugroho wrote: > Hi, > I apologize for sending you previously these mails *inadvertently*, i.e. two mails, >each three times. I am really ashamed of it. > > Am still trying to fix the problem. the ~/.profile file has disappeared. How to >obtain

Re: from GIF to PS

2002-11-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:34:39AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:57:45AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > > Hi All. > > How can I convet gif file to postscript file? > > I use: > > cat file.gif | giftopnm | pnmtops > file.ps > Or convert file.gif file.ps convert is par

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:14:53PM +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > with the message: > >"kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > > I rebooted and tried typing the following at the lilo prompt: Hi, It

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
[I'm responding to several cut-n-pastes from different letters, if it's bad behavior flame me (one time is enough though) or read the original posts, then it should make sense.] mdevin wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 16:16:57 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > So are the read times as

Re: from GIF to PS

2002-11-18 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:57:45AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi All. > How can I convet gif file to postscript file? I use: cat file.gif | giftopnm | pnmtops > file.ps You need netpbm. I just checked: It's available. Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-1

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:56:33AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > First time I heard my friend from South Africa refer to a floppy as > a "stiffy" I nearly coughed up a lung laughing. USAmericans > (particularly males) tend to conjure up a different image by the > word "stiffy". :-) That makes me won

Postscript printer help

2002-11-18 Thread Gerald Livingston
I was given a postscript (level 2) capable color laser printer (HP Color LaserJet 5M). What should I use as a print spool setup? I've installed CUPS but it doesn't seem to be offering a plain postscript dump option. I located a .ps file on my system (/usr/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps) and just

docbookx

2002-11-18 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Everytime I install some packages, I usually have the same things as the following: Unpacking replacement gnome-gv ... OMF file [/usr/share/omf/gdm/gdmconfig-C.omf] does not validate against ScrollKeeper-OMF DTD: /usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd Unable to register /usr/sha

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-18 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:37:36 +0700 Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:51:48PM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual" > > notice of an event regardless of what window you happen to be > > looking at? I am us

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Kent West
Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:39:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote: If the machine will boot off CD, you can pop in a KNOPPIX CD and use it to get to the network and save your data off the hard drive this way. If it won't boot off the CD but will boot off the floppy, Tom's Root B

Re: Ripping a DVD to Divx on linux

2002-11-18 Thread Travis Crump
Din Tuck wrote: hello I was wondering how I could go about ripping a DVD to a Divx file under linux. I only found a few guides on google, and was hoping that one of you debian users might share some info on how to do this. I am sorry if this sounds bad, or evil or something. But I will not h

Re: calendar formats

2002-11-18 Thread Travis Crump
Alan Shutko wrote: The cyclic event might be every 13 days instead of every other Thursday or every third Thurday. I am not sure yet on the exact details of my cyclic events. If it's too tricky, you'd need to do programming... in Emacs, you can use lisp expressions for the "date" of an item.

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:39:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > If the machine will boot off CD, you can pop in a KNOPPIX CD and use it > to get to the network and save your data off the hard drive this way. If > it won't boot off the CD but will boot off the floppy, Tom's Root Boot > might be of

Re: HELP - apt-get - sorry

2002-11-18 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:09:56PM +0100, Setyo Nugroho wrote: > Am still trying to fix the problem. the ~/.profile file has > disappeared. How to obtain the old file showing path configuration > etc? Take look at /etc/profile. But if you don't have the backup of your ~/.profile, then you have to

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a > client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to > move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some > cuffing around the BIOS. The passw

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Kent West
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-18 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:51:48PM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual" > notice of an event regardless of what window you happen to be looking > at? I am usually in X now and always run apps maximized so changing the > root background

Re: Train simulator

2002-11-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Forgive me father, for I have sinned. > > I got really addicted to Microsoft Train Simulator on my roommate's > box, and I'm wondering if anybody's had any success in either getting > VMWare to use the full capabilities of my graphics adapter, or got it >

Re: Train simulator

2002-11-18 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:47:22PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:32:36AM -0800, Paul Johnson insinuated: > > I got really addicted to Microsoft Train Simulator on my roommate's > > box, and I'm wondering if anybody's had any success in either getting > > VMWare to use the fu

Visual notice for X

2002-11-18 Thread Gerald Livingston
Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual" notice of an event regardless of what window you happen to be looking at? I am usually in X now and always run apps maximized so changing the root background with xsetroot won't work (had considered that). Audio is out because I usu

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Irvine Russell wrote: > Gary Turner kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 03:44: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > > > > > > > > > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > > >with the message: > > > > > > "kernel panic: No

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:24:22PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:11:23PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:38:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > > > At 2002-11-18T18:12:13Z, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > ...if secu

Re: Ready to take the plunge...

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Hunt
On 18 Nov 2002 21:48:36 -0600 ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've pretty much decided to take the Debian plunge, but now I need some > direction. > > Is it better to wipe my partition clean (it has SuSE 8 right now) and > then install? My /home partition is on another physical

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:11:23PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:38:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > At 2002-11-18T18:12:13Z, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > ...if security is *the* major concern in a DNS installation it's probably > > >

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-18 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Doug" == Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> If you want to have it loaded every time you boot up, add a line to >> the end of /etc/modules that just says "af_packet". You could >> instead try adding a line "alias net-pf-17 af_packet" (at least >> that's what the kernel d

Re: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread Jeff
Charlie Reiman, 2002-Nov-18 18:07 -0800: > Did you try the find command I suggested? > > Try something like (in a script, run as root): > > sleep 310; find / -mount -type f -mmin -5 > find /usr -mount -type f -mmin -5 > find /home -mount -type f -mmin -5 > > Run it, then leave your computer alon

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread nate
mdevin said: > So I did the following: > Created a short ldif file to add user mark to the ldap directory > Used ldapadd to add the user and group. And it worked! cool! that was easy, huh:) > So you would expect ssh to fall back to pam_unix.so etc. yep, which is useful for doing host-based ACL

RE: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >-Original Message- >From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:35 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password > >On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, nate wrote: >> Mark L. Kahnt said:

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Irvine Russell
Gary Turner kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 03:44: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > > > > > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > >with the message: > > > > "kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > > > >I rebooted and

RE: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >-Original Message- >From: Michael Heironimus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 6:38 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password > >On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:17:24PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wr

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-18 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 18 Nov 2002, 16:10:25, Hubert Chan wrote: > Doug> In the 2.4.16-SMP prepackaged kernel I'm using, CONFIG_UNIX=3Dm > Doug> is what's set in the config-2.4.16-SMP file . . . I don't know > Doug> what the m means . . . > > The m means that it's compiled as a loadable module i.e. you can > dynamica

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread John
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:54:43 -0800, nate wrote: > did you restart SSH after making the change? Yes. > I have priviledge speration set to no, just because I haven't had a > chance to test it with yes yet, I don't think it would work with the > strict permissions on the pam_ldap.conf. maybe yo

Re: Train simulator

2002-11-18 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:32:36AM -0800, Paul Johnson insinuated: > Forgive me father, for I have sinned. > > I got really addicted to Microsoft Train Simulator on my roommate's > box, and I'm wondering if anybody's had any success in either getting > VMWare to use the full capabilities of my graphic

Ready to take the plunge...

2002-11-18 Thread ZephyrQ
I've pretty much decided to take the Debian plunge, but now I need some direction. Is it better to wipe my partition clean (it has SuSE 8 right now) and then install? My /home partition is on another physical drive (for now) so it will be fine, but what about other packages I have

Re: ide-scsi emulation fails due to missing module sr_mod in kernel2.4.18-bf2.4

2002-11-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Donald R. Spoon [Sun, Nov 17 2002, 06:31:16PM]: I just had to go through this here, so I had better reply while it is "fresh" in my rather ancient mind! . The 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel is a "special" kernel that has been stripped of Please? It is the most fat kern

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > I just want to get his key data backed up, figure out how to get Windows > restored, defrag, repartition, and get Linux and GRUB installed, and then > pray that he proves to be naturally adept at KDE or GNOME (he did catch on > to many things quickly, only uses this box for e

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread nate
mdevin said: > Another thing: I just noticed that everytime I send and email now, the > log screen for slapd spews heaps of stuff. I guess postfix is already > communicating with it for some reason, although I am not sure what. There > are is far too much info flying off the screen for me to figu

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:53:44 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > === CAUTION > > > === playing will hdparm options -- you risk losing data on your disks > > > > Yeah, I have read that and it worries me. > > you're supposed to do hdparm testing on your spare disk that you > dont care about >

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? > > this is very vendor specific, some bios's have backdoor passwords > too. > > > > Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS > > password, and I've forg

Re: lost cursor w/fbi

2002-11-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:51, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Whenever I use fbi or fbgs in a console > I lose my cursor. Anyone else have this > problem? How do I get the cursor back? > > Lance What do you mean - while the image is still on the screen, or after you return to the command line? -- Mark

Re: SMTP error in fetchmail fetch

2002-11-18 Thread Pigeon
>On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:21:39 -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:34:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote.. > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:45:38AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:38:37 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > >On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:08:4

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Another thing: I just noticed that everytime I send and email now, the log screen for slapd spews heaps of stuff. I guess postfix is already communicating with it for some reason, although I am not sure what. There are is far too much info flying off the screen for me to figure out what is happen

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Friday 15 November 2002 15:25, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms? > > > If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywher

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor

lost cursor w/fbi

2002-11-18 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Whenever I use fbi or fbgs in a console I lose my cursor. Anyone else have this problem? How do I get the cursor back? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian installation: monitor/videocard problem

2002-11-18 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021118 17:11]: > run: > cd /root ; X -configure > > that will attempt to identify all your settings, when it exits > run > > XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new Just as an aside, the Debian way here would be: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Cheers, Nick

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On 18 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS > password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the > battery and disconnecting the power supply, and hoping the CMOS is > static RAM rather than EEPROM - which one guy I

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? this is very vendor specific, some bios's have backdoor passwords too. > Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS > password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the > battery a

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:17:24PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS > password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the > battery and disconnecting the power supply, and hoping the CMOS is > static RAM rather than E

[OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor of the box, who then w

Re: Gnome2 and SID ?? HOWTO

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > When I do a apt-get install gnome I get a dependency error about x-screensaver- > gnome. Hmm too bad heading back to Windowmaker I guess. 'gnome' is just a meta-package that depends on a bunch of other stuff, and IIRC, it hasn'

Re: from GIF to PS

2002-11-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Egor Tur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 18:02]: > Hi All. > How can I convet gif file to postscript file? > Has Debian any utils? ImageMagick can do it. The command-line utility is called convert. good times, -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- #include int main() { puts("Reader! Think not that

RE: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread Charlie Reiman
Did you try the find command I suggested? Try something like (in a script, run as root): sleep 310; find / -mount -type f -mmin -5 find /usr -mount -type f -mmin -5 find /home -mount -type f -mmin -5 Run it, then leave your computer alone until the script complete. It should list all files modif

Re: from GIF to PS

2002-11-18 Thread nate
Egor Tur said: > Hi All. > How can I convet gif file to postscript file? > Has Debian any utils? imagemagick should be able to do it, see the manpage for convert. also gimp can do it too, open it in gimp, and tell it to print to a file, this will be a postscript file. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Ripping a DVD to Divx on linux

2002-11-18 Thread Brian Stults
Din Tuck wrote: I was wondering how I could go about ripping a DVD to a Divx file under > linux. I only found a few guides on google, and was hoping that one of > you debian users might share some info on how to do this. I use dvd::rip. It works quite well. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ -- Br

from GIF to PS

2002-11-18 Thread Egor Tur
Hi All. How can I convet gif file to postscript file? Has Debian any utils? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread nate
mdevin said: > You are a legend. I don't know how you figured out all that stuff but > after copying and pasting from your howto I can finger user aphro (which > doesn't exist otherwise on my system). ok thats a good start :) > > I still can't get the pam_ldap working with ssh, despite copying

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ay mark On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, mdevin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:04:44 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > thats a good option, you might also wanna try > > > > hdparm -c3 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > > -u1 allow the system to process other systeminterrupts > > while waiting for the disk > >

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops >with the message: > > "kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > >I rebooted and tried typing the following at the lilo prompt: > > "linux init=

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:04:44 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > thats a good option, you might also wanna try > > hdparm -c3 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > -u1 allow the system to process other systeminterrupts > while waiting for the disk Yep, tried that too but each time I see errors in syslog and

Re: locating the source for hdd activity

2002-11-18 Thread Jeff
Charlie Reiman, 2002-Nov-18 11:19 -0800: > I've got my hd powering down just fine on my laptop with ext3. Use noatime, > as noted. You will also need to disable syslog marking (see > /etc/init.d/sysklogd, add "-m 0" as an option) and enable noflushd > (/etc/default/noflushd). This is with debian si

Re: pptp vpn

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
I have two question about pptp vpn: 1. Is pptp+mppe any insecure? Why? Since the pptpd server can force the connection to use mppe encryption with the client. How come pptp+mppe is insecure? Is it because the encryption algorithm or lack of the public key infrastructure? 2. I can easily insta

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:38:51AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would backup any data you really want if possible before attempting > > this, technically I don't think its supported, but it is possible at > > least in my experience. > > I've successfully do

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi mdevin > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 16:16:57 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > So are the read times as expected for an IDE ATA133, 7200RPM, 40GB drive? > > > > Certainly not. Bellow is what I got from my IBM 7200 rpm disk, (using > > UDMA66): > > > I only just got this computer and hard drive

Debian reference - Three Cheers for Osamu

2002-11-18 Thread John Griffiths
Just finished printing the Debian Reference to dead-tree (i'll need it most when the computers aren't working won't I?) www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.pdf Wanted to say Three Cheers for Osamu Aoki's brilliant work with this magnificent guide. I'll allow myself a moment of van

Re: Problem in installation debian on the Raid :((((!!!

2002-11-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi brama ultra 66/100/133 is NOT a raid controller... its just extra ide ports fastrak 66/100/133 is a hw raid controller ... promise does have some chipset that does support hw raid http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html whether it works or not seems to be dependant upon the users ins

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:45:56PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He > encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former > .deb).

Re: Computers

2002-11-18 Thread Gene
since everyone is joining in, and before someone close this thread, i would like cash instead, i'll build my own : ) Vikki Roemer wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Steve Waterman wrote: Glenn: Are we going to purchase two computers for Kim Wallace and Jim Vanderslice? Steve

Re: Computers

2002-11-18 Thread Mailing List
On 11/18/02 6:17 PM, "Vikki Roemer" wrote: > I don't know, but while you're buying computers for people, can you > get me one, too? I only want one computer, so I'm cheaper to buy for > than them. *grin* Dude! Your getting a Dell :O -- Thanks!! David Thurman List Only at Web Presence Group Net

Ripping a DVD to Divx on linux

2002-11-18 Thread Din Tuck
hello I was wondering how I could go about ripping a DVD to a Divx file under linux. I only found a few guides on google, and was hoping that one of you debian users might share some info on how to do this. I am sorry if this sounds bad, or evil or something. But I will not have access to a

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread John
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 18:14, Tim Dijkstra wrote: Hi, Is there any reason to stick with bind8 other then convenience? I'm asking this because bind9 seems pretty mature, but the default bind is still bind8 I think... bind 9 works for me great for over a year. it serve

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frisurf said: > > A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > > upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He > > encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former > > .deb). A conflict

Re: Computers

2002-11-18 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Steve Waterman wrote: > Glenn: > > Are we going to purchase two computers for Kim Wallace and Jim Vanderslice? > > Steve > I don't know, but while you're buying computers for people, can you get me one, too? I only want one computer, so I'm cheaper to

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread nate
Frisurf said: > A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He > encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former > .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . > > I read in an old forum

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:47:09 -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, mdevin wrote: > > > # hdparm -i /dev/hdc > > /dev/hdc: > > Model=WDC WD400BB-32AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6R3707054 > > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 > > > > # hdparm

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > How do I watch the fifo? > >  > > The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help. > > Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) > >  $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw w

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > How do I watch the fifo? > >  > > The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help. > > Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) > >  $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw w

Re: ide-scsi emulation fails due to missing module sr_mod in kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4

2002-11-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Donald R. Spoon [Sun, Nov 17 2002, 06:31:16PM]: > I just had to go through this here, so I had better reply while it is > "fresh" in my rather ancient mind! . > > The 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel is a "special" kernel that has been stripped of Please? It is the most fat kernel. > a lot of

downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgr

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Nathan E Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps > > > you meant to say _DF

Re: Sorry

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > I tried removing some packages of kde that I don't want on my > system. like kab and karm. However dpkg --purge tells me that there is daa > dependency problem. apt-get remove kab shows that it is removing kde > too.daapt-cache kde shows that it is a meta pa

Re: Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port NIC and Linux

2002-11-18 Thread J. Bobby Lopez
Here is my current system configuration. BTW, I was able to "$ modprobe e100" and "$ ifconfig eth0" to get this machine online just now, but if I do the same with eth1, the system will most likely halt. Bobby OUTPUT FROM "$ cat /proc/pci" PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, functio

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps > > you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ? > > No more than Microsoft's "shared source" i

Re: ide-scsi - can only read with root access

2002-11-18 Thread Bill Moseley
At 05:51 PM 11/18/02 -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: >cdparanoia requires access to /dev/sg0 as well. Make sure you have the >right permissions set for that too. Argh! Thanks. That's why I'm trying to keep better notes this install. IIRC, I remember using strace to find that solution last time >(BT

Re: Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port NIC and Linux

2002-11-18 Thread J. Bobby Lopez
Well, basically it just halts. I can do nothing but cold boot the computer. No error messages, nothing. What driver did you use exactly? I am actually trying to get this card working on an IBM XServer 300 Series (1 U Rack mount) machine, running Debian. But as a testing machine here at my offi

RE: Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port NIC and Linux

2002-11-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Is there anyone out there who is currently and successfully using the | Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port Server Adapter (NIC) with Linux. I've been | trying to get it working first under Kernel 2.4.19, then Kernel 2.4.18 | (thinking that 2.4.19 was too new and therefore not supported by the | driver on

Re: ide-scsi - can only read with root access

2002-11-18 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> This will be obvious, but I can't see the difference: I've got two Bill> debian machines -- one is "bumby" and the other is "burn". "burn" Bill> needs root access to read the ide-scsi cdrom where "bumby" will Bill> work as a normal us

Re: ide-scsi - can only read with root access

2002-11-18 Thread Bill Moseley
At 02:18 PM 11/18/02 -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: Where it works: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Mar 28 2002 /dev/cdrom ->scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Feb 21 2002 /dev/sr0 ->scd0 brw-rw1 root audio 11, 0 Jan 24 2002 /dev/scd0 -rwxr-xr-x1 root

Re: calendar formats

2002-11-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using calendar and I am creating a ~/.calendar/calendar file. > The man file does not address this directly so I am not entirely sure. Oh. I didn't really realize that was still around. No, you can't seem to do this in calendar. I think you c

Re: calendar formats

2002-11-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
check pcal, beautiful output, highly customizable Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to create a calendar file where one can imply "Every other Thursday" or "Once every other Wednesday"? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port NIC and Linux

2002-11-18 Thread J. Bobby Lopez
Hi, Is there anyone out there who is currently and successfully using the Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port Server Adapter (NIC) with Linux. I've been trying to get it working first under Kernel 2.4.19, then Kernel 2.4.18 (thinking that 2.4.19 was too new and therefore not supported by the driver on

[Semi-fixed] Re: Gnome Panel won't load

2002-11-18 Thread Johan Ehnberg
I created a new session and got my panel back. So I guess this solves the problem. But it was true, that the diskusage_applet was the problem. Just in case anyone else has the same problem. Johan Ehnberg wrote: Hi! What can I do when my gnome (1.4 as in woody) panel won't load anymore. I get my

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps > you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ? No more than Microsoft's "shared source" is open source. I can't redistribute either of them, regardless of what bugs

Re: why does it look at xdm and kdm while shutting down?

2002-11-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matthias Hentges ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 08:27]: > Am Mon, 2002-11-18 um 13.52 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: > > hello all > > > > my inittab sets the runlevel to 2. > > > > in /etc/rc2.d, there were links referring to files in /etc/init.d > > directory. > > > > i did not want xdm, kdm, gdm t

Re: CUPS/HP/lp printer errors

2002-11-18 Thread nate
Laura Rudmin said: > Hi, > I have a Sid system with KDE 3.0, and CUPS with lp, tied to a HP > Deskjet 1120C. when you print a test page from cups does it print out OK ? You can access the admin interface from http://localhost:631 do you have the cups version of lp installed ? does printing fr

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread tjm3
thanks. I'm trying it right now. nate wrote: tjm3 said: Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but I haven't come across one lately. Just looking to get it r

Re: calendar formats

2002-11-18 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> > Anyone know if there is a way to create a calendar file where one > > can imply "Every other Thursday" or "Once every other Wednesday"? > > In what program? Generally, you could do it in nearly anything by > making a cyclic or repeating event which repeats every 2 weeks > starting on a Thursd

Re: ide-scsi - can only read with root access

2002-11-18 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This will be obvious, but I can't see the difference: > > I've got two debian machines -- one is "bumby" and the other is > "burn". > "burn" needs root access to read the ide-scsi cdrom where "bumby" > will work > as a normal user: > > here's on bumb

Re: Redoing the rescue floppy...

2002-11-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 11:53]: > On 2002.11.17 18:29 Vineet Kumar wrote: > >* Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 15:16]: > >> I want to upgrade my boot floppy to support 2.4.19 kernel and Ext3. > >Can > >> someone point me to a HOWTO for doing so? > > > >I think mk

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