Quoting style

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, I think we took on a lot of newbies, or the regulars are getting really bad about this. Your MUA puts the cursor of your editor at the top of the message because people tend to read top-down to edit, not as an excuse to top post. Trim what you're not responding to, and respond conversationall

Re: cdrecorder and IDE burners

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Wood
Bob Nielsen wrote: I'm running the Debian 2.4.19-686 kernel, which does include the ide-scsi.o module (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m). Put ide-scsi in /etc/modules and you should have no problems. On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:35:14AM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: I just acquired a Lite-On burner, IDE UDMA/

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:23:02PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from > blackdown. My understanding is that realplayer may be removed from future Debians if the zlib dependancy isn't fixed. But that's why there's mplayer. -- .

Re: setting up internet connection

2002-11-29 Thread sean finney
heya, it's strange that it didn't ask you about this. are you sure that it's recognized your network card at all? what does ifconfig eth0 say? if your kernel isn't recognizing it, you might have to load an extra kernel module for it. if your box does recognize your network card, you just need t

[OT] Help with cdrecord

2002-11-29 Thread bob parker
Hi debian-users, I'm running debian Woody. I've burned the final track on a multi-session cdr without the -multi option because the desired outcome was to finalise it. The result has been that only the first recorded file is visible when I mount the cdr like so: bob@debian:~$ ls /cdrom/ bob2002

TV output, and my new project

2002-11-29 Thread cobb
Hello, I am going to be setting up my Linux machine, which is currently only being used as an Internet gateway/firewall and FTP/HTTP server, as an entertainment "server" as well, as seen in this crude diagram: http://tinyurl.com/33tb My question is, will TV output on, say, a GeForce 4 MX

setting up internet connection

2002-11-29 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I just finished installing the base system for debian. Even though I don't have anything on it right now, it's still better than Redhat. OK, unlike what I thought would happen, when I was installing debian, it never prompted me if I wanted for internet configuration. I figure that t

Re: how to make a boot disk??

2002-11-29 Thread vanillicat
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:52:39PM -0800, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time > in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system > in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in > Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to d

Re: cdrecorder and IDE burners

2002-11-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm running the Debian 2.4.19-686 kernel, which does include the ide-scsi.o module (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m). Put ide-scsi in /etc/modules and you should have no problems. On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:35:14AM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: > I just acquired a Lite-On burner, IDE UDMA/33. > > I installed c

Re: Subject: Re: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Helmut Steinwender wrote: I had the same problem. Mozilla.org states that JRE 1.3.x may not work. See http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2/#java Try JRE1.4 from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian It works for me ___

Re: Subject: Re: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
Helmut Steinwender wrote: I had the same problem. Mozilla.org states that JRE 1.3.x may not work. See http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2/#java Try JRE1.4 from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian It works for me

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you let fetchmail process incoming mail via smtp and put "|usr/bin/procmail" in your ~/.forward file (or specify procmail as your MDA in .fetchmailrc) fetchmail will use procmail. Bob On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:51:37AM +0100, chainy wrote: > > I see this two packages are made for procmail, ar

Re: xauth or xhost no longer required?

2002-11-29 Thread vanillicat
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:48:13AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > P.S. Oops!! I must apologize to Karl I hit the "Reply" button instead of > the "Reply to list" button and by accident sent my reply to him personally. Do they have two buttons for these functions in Sylpheed now? -- To UNSUBSCRIB

apt log

2002-11-29 Thread Matt Price
hi all, does apt-get/dpkg keep a log somewhere? the debian FAQ says dpkg does, but I don't see it in /var/log or with locate (dpkg|apt) | grep log I've messed up my system and need to figure out what to uninstall. thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-11-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > not sure when it happened, I guess it was during dist-upgrade, but > suddenly sawfish was the x-window-mananger (I definitely did not run > update-alternatives). > > is this a bug or intented behaviour? If it's a "feature, can it

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:59:59PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > I started looking through the HOWTO. I'll need some better > visualization of how it works before I really "get it". Anyways, I > found the "linux-lvm" mailing list, so I think I'll try learning some > stuff there. Mind

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Derrick 'dman' Hudson said... > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with > | > the legacy DOS/Windows partition tabl

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:35:01AM +, Chris Lale wrote: | Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' | thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most | ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows | users. Why not i

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread chainy
I see this two packages are made for procmail, are there any others for fetchmail directly? Or am I asking a very stupid question? Thanks a lot. Chainy. On Friday 29 November 2002 18:21, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 29 Nov 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb N

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with | > the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. | > Since I have no need

Re: How to escape "find" result

2002-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Try KDE said... > Hi, > > I'm trying to run the following script: > for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done > ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if > the found file names contain a space , for example "part1 part2.txt" > will

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Caitrin Torres
On Friday 29 November 2002 08:14 pm, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Don't trust me on any of this, I have no clue what a bpck6 module > is :-) It's the module required by some Microsolutions Backpack cdroms and cd burners. Thank you for the help. -- Caitrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

cdrecorder and IDE burners

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Wood
I just acquired a Lite-On burner, IDE UDMA/33. I installed cdrecorder but the man page says it will only work with a SCSI drive. The kernel must be built to simulate this. According to the 2.4.19 kernel docs, this feature is not built into the deb. I have not actually tried it, as the bundled s

Re: How to escape "find" result

2002-11-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Try KDE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run the following script: > for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done > ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if > the found file names contain a space , for example "p

Re: Spammassassin errors

2002-11-29 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:01:46PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > I am getting the above errors. Roommate tried to setup spamassassin on > my system last week. I think it was bouncing everything back cause I > stopped recieving emails, so I removed it. (I had to re-subscribe to > deb-user list afte

Anyone got the RealTek ALS650 sound to work?

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Wood
I just upgraded my system to one with this sound chip. As far as I can make out it needs a kernel patch. "sndconfig" recognises the Via VT8235 Southbridge and audio controller, but assumes that the associated sound chip is the Via one. Has anyone had any success with this under Testing/Unstable

RE: OT: Major screwup in multiboot - Fixed

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, for anyone interested my problems were: Missing boot.ini - restored from floppy. Incorrect partition for W2K - whilst Win98 and Linux see the partition as 10, W2K sees it as 8. Once I changed that in the restored boot.ini, I was able to boot all 3 OS. eventually worked that out using MAP fr

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Caitrin" == Caitrin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Caitrin> Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel Caitrin> building that'd be suitable for someone who's never built Caitrin> a kernel before? I have an external CD burner that is Caitrin> supposed to use

Re: cannot use left alt key for @ etc in x

2002-11-29 Thread vasco figueiredo
vasco figueiredo wrote: hi there after installing debian it worked fine but after upgrading some package(s) (don't no which) it stopped working in console(tty1-6) everything works fine but not in gnome-terminal mozilla etc in gnome-terminal both alt keys do the same this a pt keyboard deadke

incongruent auto-loading of modules

2002-11-29 Thread Oleg
Hi How come vfat and fat modules get loaded automatically when I mount a fat32 partition, while ide-scsi doesn't get loaded when I try to mount /cdrom (which only works after I modprobe ide-scsi). This behavior of the sytem seems incongruent, as neither ide-scsi, nor vfat and fat are mentioned

How to escape "find" result

2002-11-29 Thread Try KDE
Hi, I'm trying to run the following script: for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if the found file names contain a space , for example "part1 part2.txt" will be interpreted as "part1" and "part2.txt". I'm

how to make a boot disk??

2002-11-29 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in Debian? Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for root disk, please ad

X-terminals

2002-11-29 Thread Eduard Titov
Hello, I've got the following question: There're 2 hosts with static Ip's. Both running Debian woody 3, both have Xfree-4.2 installed and one of them uses KDE-3.0.4 as desktop manager. What do I have to do to connect from another computer with pure Xfree to one with KDE and get a remote X-session?

cannot use left alt key for @ etc in x

2002-11-29 Thread vasco figueiredo
hi there after installing debian it worked fine but after upgrading some package(s) (don't no which) it stopped working in console(tty1-6) everything works fine but not in gnome-terminal mozilla etc in gnome-terminal both alt keys do the same this a pt keyboard deadkeys work fine thanx for a

anti-aliased fonts [with xterm]

2002-11-29 Thread Oleg
Hi How can I see what anti-aliased fonts are available (xlsfonts doesn't seem to list them [1]) BTW what fonts does konsole refer to as "large"? I enabled anti-aliased fonts in KDE 3.0.5, and the konsole text looks incredible. Oleg [1] /usr/bin/X11/xterm -fa 'Andale Mono' works (albeit "m" l

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 00:44, Caitrin Torres wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building > that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? I > have an external CD burner that is supposed to use the bpck6 module. > A search confirmed that it's a pa

Spammassassin errors

2002-11-29 Thread Michelle Storm
Nov 29 16:44:14 dragon fetchmail[1026]: awakened at Fri Nov 29 16:44:14 2002 Nov 29 16:44:19 dragon fetchmail[1026]: 2 messages for jade at ursine (5707 octets). Nov 29 16:44:19 dragon fetchmail[1026]: reading message jade@ursine:1 of 2 (1883 octets) Nov 29 16:44:20 dragon fetchmail[1026]: flu

kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Caitrin Torres
Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? I have an external CD burner that is supposed to use the bpck6 module. A search confirmed that it's a part of the kernel-image and kernel-headers packages, but I'

Re: german ispell with mutt

2002-11-29 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> Ispell german and english dictionary Is it possible to mutt to pass to ispell the language from within information in mail, or a user's choice. If I type in english, french, german and russian, sometimes spanish, I'll have too many macros, I feel... Curiously, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with > the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. > Since I have no need to support a legacy OS,

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 29 November 2002 1:37 pm, Kai Großjohann wrote: > > I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating. But it also > > looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch. So maybe someo

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 November 2002 1:37 pm, Kai Großjohann wrote: > I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating. But it also > looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch. So maybe someone > else has done it already? > > I'm using sarge and

Re: configuring vga16fb

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Hamster wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to configure the vga16fb frame buffer device thats compiled into > the 2.4.18-bf24 kernel that comes with Woody. > > Reading Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt suggests I need to do this via lilo > using the option append="video= " >

Re: Mouse Jumping

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Worrall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:16:16PM -0500, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >My mouse is jumping all over the place in X. any Idea on how to stop >this. I ve tried changing the device in the XFree86Config file to Imps/2 >and that didn't work. It still jumps a round in X. -- > I found that hard

Re: WindowMaker Menu

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed OpenOffice on my desktop. I downloaded the tarball, I > didn't use the apt-getable package (I tried, it didn't work...). > > After I installed it, my menu in WindowMaker doesn't include > OpenOffice in the submenu Apps (ev

Re: How to get compiler changed to gcc-3.20

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, John Foster wrote: > I have set the variables in /etc/environment to the following > > ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf > # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved > # by debconf. Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SEC

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my > previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good > reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. > > I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-29 Thread Russ Cook
I have recompiled my kernel, including SB support as a module. Using modprobe SB esstype=1869 now gives me sound. However, when I play a wave file, I get choppy, repetitive cuts. I'm using the program wavp. It seems to play each portion approximately 4 times before moving on to the next segment

Re: how to make hda become hdb? (not a hardware question)

2002-11-29 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 29, 2002 05:12 pm, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > I dont know much about the windows bootloader, but it wouldn't suprise > me if it didn't have the capability to chain boot to another MBR. It may > expect to have the secondary boot loader inside a partition. I also don't know, but it would

Re: Webmail question

2002-11-29 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:00:40 -0500 "David Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! I'll look into procmail.. > > I'm assuming its an MTA (replacement for exim)? > > - David > - Original Message - > From: "Gerald Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "David Ellis" <[EMAIL

RE:OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Hell.Surfers
I CARE NOT, as you wont be reading this, I dont mind calling you a dickweed. Regards, Dean. On 29 Nov 2002 16:43:44 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 16:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Look freak, I do intend to help him, if you wish me t

Re: how to make hda become hdb? (not a hardware question)

2002-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Levi Waldron said... > > Before the switch, > -change fstab references from hda to hdb > -in lilo.conf, change the root filesystem to root=/dev/hdb1 but leave > boot=/dev/hda > -run lilo > -Put the HD in the secondary position and the win HD back in its primary > position. Set

Re: Color setting of GTK-programs

2002-11-29 Thread David Mccowan
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:10:20 +0100 Setyo Nugroho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do NOT have gnome installed. I use a.o. gdm, gnumeric, > sylpheed-claws. So I think the setting must lie somewhere in a GTK's > shared library. Is it correct? The most painful thing is the colors of > sylpheed-claws i

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. Sure. Put sed in place before the file is written : s/@/ AT /g s/\./ DOT /g Ok, so now the addresses are munged. They're also a royal pain for honest p

Re: RE:Re: RE:OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 16:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Look freak, I do intend to help him, if you wish me to be polite PAY [company fee >$79 an hr or $3880 per quarter]. Otherwise stay away from my wit. > > Regards, Dean. Very easy to stay away from wit that has not been demonstrated. In 20 y

Sound (SBLive) | Gnome Problems

2002-11-29 Thread Andres Guedez
Greetings, I've been having trouble getting sound to work in my Debian unstable setup. Environment sounds seem to work well in KDE (I get a sound when I open and close windows and that kind of stuff) and I was able to get sound when playing MP3s through XMMS. However, I cannot get any sound when p

Re: [OT]: is this crap? best os? Yep, It's Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Hell.Surfers
I once sent a registry script to a sysadmin of a company who I was hardening their systems, it stopped frontpage server from loading. As long as you are good with an os, it is secure. A stupid Sysadmin should be terminated at birth. Regards, Dean. On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:53:17 -0800 Paul Johnson

Re: how to make hda become hdb? (not a hardware question)

2002-11-29 Thread Levi Waldron
> > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive > > to > > become /dev/hdb? > >  > > What I know: > >  > > edit lilo.conf, run lilo > > edit fstab > >  > > What about the partition table though? Apologies for my vague question. I know how to do the physical switch, but

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-29 Thread Geek Assault
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:01:47AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Please help. I have loaded Debian on a Compaq Presario. X windows is > working fine, but I have no audio. The motherboard has an integrated > ES1869 chip for audio. Can anyone tell me which driver I have to use, > and how to get it se

Re: RE:Re: RE:OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread David Ellis
Is that all? Most of us here do make more than that (myself included), if you must communicate to a list, try to remember your manners. Bringing up your hourly rate is just plain ignorant. Be an adult, or at least try and act like one. Regards, David - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-29 Thread csj
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:19:57 +0100 (CET), ernst wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Nick Hastings wrote: > > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021129 16:53]: > > > > > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to > > > become /dev/hdb? > > > >I'm anything but

RE:Re: RE:OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Hell.Surfers
Look freak, I do intend to help him, if you wish me to be polite PAY [company fee $79 an hr or $3880 per quarter]. Otherwise stay away from my wit. Regards, Dean. On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:58:03 -0500 "David Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- Don't let this arrogant little git

Re: RE:OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread David Ellis
Don't let this arrogant little git twig ya, he's been unquestionably rude and unhelpful. He keeps promising to unsubscribe to the list, and I for one am looking forward to the conclusion of his threat. As for you problem, there was one helpful response earlier that I think sum's it up: CDR suppo

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-29 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:01:47AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Please help. I have loaded Debian on a Compaq Presario. X windows is > working fine, but I have no audio. The motherboard has an integrated > ES1869 chip for audio. Can anyone tell me which driver I have to use, > and how to get it se

RE:Re: Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Hell.Surfers
also you seem to be a irritating git. Regards, Dean. On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:05:02 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:21:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > STOP TROLLING. Trolling == pointing out important flaws in someones' reasoning?

Re: what's loading stv680?

2002-11-29 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:11, Laura Conrad wrote: >> >> I have a cheap camera that connects to a USB port. One of my problems >> getting it to work with debian (woody) is that when I plug it in, the >> module stv68

RE:OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Hell.Surfers
Im supprised you stopped there. Have you tried to wash caked on grime off with a little gasoline? ;) bullet points of each problem please. Regards, Dean. On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:21:43 +0800 Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- Hi, i mainly run Linux - testing/unstable - a

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 29, 2002 11:11 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I > > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. > > How can I do that in Debian? mk

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is irrelevent bullshit, and its getting on my nerves. SHUT > UP. Anyone, someone take me off this list. > I guess this means that you still have not figured out how to unsubscribe? "From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

Webmail question

2002-11-29 Thread David Ellis
My Configuration: Mail Server: Pentium 166, 128MB of RAM 9 GIG scsi Cyrus, and exim for IMAP and sendmail. Web Server: Pentium 166 256MB of RAM 18 GIG scsi Apache and Apache SSL Squirrelmail 1.26 This works great for reading 100-200 messages, but my Debian folder times out (1000+ messages), squi

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive > to > become /dev/hdb? > > What I know: > > edit lilo.conf, run lilo > edit fstab > > What about the partition table though? I am surprised not to have seen this among all of the answers about s

which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. Since I have no need to support a legacy OS, I am wondering what sort of partition table would be best to use. I intend to create a lot of little partitions on t

Re: Any updates on Bonobo/unstable?

2002-11-29 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: I saw some messages about part of Bonobo (iirc, bonobo-activation) being, ummm, less than entirely compliant with smoothly functional software (aka microsofted) recently on Sid, and was wondering if it is still *to be avoided*, or is it safe now? I was going to pull in somethi

Re: OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tim" == Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Hi, i mainly run Linux - testing/unstable - and a part of the Tim> saga not mentioned below (posted to alt.os.windows.2000), was Tim> the trouble I had getting X to work. I was running kernel Tim> 2.4.17-686 and was only able t

Re: VIA P4X333 CHIPSET

2002-11-29 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to herv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > i think i have a little prob.Could some one help me?? > i have those message from dmesg...: > . > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdaf1, last bus=1 > PCI: Using configurati

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:01:33PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: ... > A weird thing came up on #debian today, which maybe someone else can > explain to _me_: a guy was trying to setup CD ripping with ide-scsi > emulation enabled, and had enormous trouble since cdparanoia claimed it > couldn't find a gene

Any updates on Bonobo/unstable?

2002-11-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I saw some messages about part of Bonobo (iirc, bonobo-activation) being, ummm, less than entirely compliant with smoothly functional software (aka microsofted) recently on Sid, and was wondering if it is still *to be avoided*, or is it safe now? I was going to pull in something from Unstable, it d

Subject: Re: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Helmut Steinwender
I had the same problem. Mozilla.org states that JRE 1.3.x may not work. See http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2/#java Try JRE1.4 from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian It works for me ___

Re: 2 ?'s -- tkseti colors not showing & 3-4 tcl/tk libs installed?

2002-11-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:39:25PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:07:17PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is this normal? Or can the lower libs be removed? I did a dry dselect run > > to see what would happen, and got warnings on different things for each of > > the tk libs.

sooyo 7vca

2002-11-29 Thread Miguel Griffa
anyone has this mainboard? can anyone help me configuring (onboard) sound on this ? I'm using unstable and 2.4 thanks! (reposted due to date mess) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb Nicolas SABOURET: > > Hi, > > > > I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward > > and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. > > How can I make sure whether it is

spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi, I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. How can I make sure whether it is used by spamassassin or not ? 1/3 spam messages still go through spamassassin. man razor tells to use a procmail r

WindowMaker Menu

2002-11-29 Thread f . holler
Hi there, I installed OpenOffice on my desktop. I downloaded the tarball, I didn't use the apt-getable package (I tried, it didn't work...). After I installed it, my menu in WindowMaker doesn't include OpenOffice in the submenu Apps (eventhough I apt-getted install menu). So I tried to add it w

Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-11-29 Thread Brian Stults
Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about the others. I suppose in

ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-29 Thread Russ Cook
Please help. I have loaded Debian on a Compaq Presario. X windows is working fine, but I have no audio. The motherboard has an integrated ES1869 chip for audio. Can anyone tell me which driver I have to use, and how to get it set up? Thanks much for any help. Regards, Russ -- To UN

Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-29 Thread csj
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:02:41 +1100, Russell wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:19:20 +1100, bob parker > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Docs are very much a personal-preference item, but I must say > > I find the info pages awkward. Jumping about between nodes in > > a

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"pop" == pop n fresh0 0 writes: pop> now im assuming that there is a command to access the debian pop> window and actually get into it, so do you know what it is? pop> Please can you help, i want to get this up and running asap. You need to install the X window system and some d

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Kai Großjohann
Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai posts : > >>> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, >>> could they be pilfered for my purpose? > > The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff. Ah, and there are even Debian packages for this! Cool. > They can

Re: trying out 2.4.19 w/pcmcia+DHCP debian woody

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"debian-user" == debian-user writes: debian-user> woah! yes it's true! I am trying 2.4.19 on my laptop! debian-user> I figured what the hell, I mean worst case my system debian-user> gets hosed and I lose everything. nothing on the debian-user> laptop I need so, screw it, why

Free Check Recovery

2002-11-29 Thread NSF
Title: NSF_Mass

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. > How can I do that in Debian? Normally, you don'

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2002-11-29 Thread Jacob Bøsling
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Re: recompiling kernel with just one change?

2002-11-29 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > When I need to recompile my kernel I usually erase my /usr/src/linux, > get a fresh version copy in my old .config and start working. > Compiling the kernel only takes 10 minutes, so it's no big deal. But > still... I'd rather just reco

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 01.39 schrieb damar thapa: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do > not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can > I do that in Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/v

How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in Debian? Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for root disk, please

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb Nicolas SABOURET: > Hi, > > I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward > and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. > How can I make sure whether it is used by spamassassin or not ? 1/3 spam > messages

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > The realplayer contrib installer had a bucketload of bugs and was > > recently removed as a result. > > So there's a need for a new one. As ever, it'll happen as soon as a developer is interested. -- Col

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
> > > Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from > > > blackdown. > > > > I can't find RealPlayer... > > The realplayer contrib installer had a bucketload of bugs and was > recently removed as a result. So there's a need for a new one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

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