Re: Own kernel doesn't work

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:28:24PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0100, Michael Schlottke wrote: [ snip - the old way ] > Why don't you compile the kernel debian way: > > make-kpkg --revision=your.kernel.name.1.0 kernel-image > dpkg -i your.kernel.name.1.0

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's an interesting argument: if the problem is widespread people > > shouldn't have to do their homework? > > Or maybe, the software is buggy. At the very least, the error > messag

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:19:57PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > These seems to be coming up about once a day on the list, isn't *anyone* > > > > searching the archives or at least googling? > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:46:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > >> > I think so many Debian-i

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:37:12PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > > > Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions > > but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on > > Debian. I keep an older version around whic

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, try removing libglide2 (i think that it actually was detrimental to me in the past--i'm not using a voodoo right now tho, so i can't check my settings). also, have you checked your XF86Config-4 to make sure that it hasn't been overriden? Cam On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:32 pm, [EMAIL

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: ... > testing system. I followed the same steps as above, except replacing > the string 'stable' with 'testing'. Nevertheless, nothing got > downgraded (see below for details). > > I know that I previously installed perl-5.8.0 from th

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:03:07AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:22:47PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:28AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > > Question a

RE: Own kernel doesn't work

2003-01-22 Thread dbalder
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0100, Michael Schlottke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have following problem with my new kernel I compiled myself: > > Making the kernel was perfectly ok: > > I got the kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 with dselect, bunzip2ed it, > u

RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-22 Thread dbalder
>Hey everyone, >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows >system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at >least taht's what the string listing the supported car

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread briand
name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No *sigh* Linux soggy 2.4.20 #1 Wed Jan 22 20:04:49 PST 2003 i686 unknown Any other ideas ? Brian > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:32:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread John Hasler
Brian Nelson writes: > These days, I think the installer is minimalistic because it has to be > ported to so many arches (11 for woody). It's significantly more > difficult to write a fancy installer that also works on all the arches > Debian supports. That's one reason. Another is Debian's insi

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:22, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: >> >> >> >> [ ... ] >> >> >> >> here's my /etc/apt/preferences >> >> >> >> Package: * >> >>

Re: GeForce4 MX

2003-01-22 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote: > I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at > least

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I am seeing something similar (but no LSR safety check message) sometimes on my SuSE 7.1 system. Sometimes it does a system shutdown 5 seconds after the power fail. Other times it works fine. I had been attributing it to my abusing the UPS by holding the off switch down to keep the TV powered up

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > debian parisc wrote: > >Hello, > > > >although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't > >actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP > >Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to ins

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > > > making such a huge version leap in almost

Re: Own kernel doesn't work

2003-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0100, Michael Schlottke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have following problem with my new kernel I compiled myself: > > Making the kernel was perfectly ok: > > I got the kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 with dselect, bunzip2ed it, >

Re: ppp

2003-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:37:03PM +, Gee Law wrote: > On 2003.01.21 20:15 Matt wrote: > >I'm lost with ppp, while trying to startisdnutils i get: > >"Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support.", i've > >next to own compiled the woody 2418bf24 and ppp is compiled > >as module. lsmod shows hi

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: > stick an rs232 into it and run minicom/seyon ?? > > and if one powers down during POST... it might go into bios mode > and sit and wait for ya > > c ya > alvin > I even have a pair of IBM 3151's VT's somewhere, never did get them working right though, alway

Re: cups foomatic problem - New Problem

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas H. George said: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:23:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > As yet no help on the old problem. In the meantime: > > I have a third box in which I just installed Woody from the CD set, > went on line (DSL) an ran dist-upgrade, then c

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > Last I checked, nut and apcupsd didn't support talking to it via network, > so I'm stuck with using powerchute. I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get java workin on some of t

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread briand
Ok - I'll give it a try. Thanks for the info. Incidentally how are the mere mortals supposed to know this ? I spent a lot of time at the dri site and didn't see this mentioned anywhere. Brian > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:32:57P

GeForce4 MX

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Burns
Hey everyone, I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at least taht's what the string listing the supported cards sa

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:46AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Should it be? I can understand a desire to ease the installation > > process. However, I for one feel it is tremendously benificial for

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's an interesting argument: if the problem is widespread people > shouldn't have to do their homework? Or maybe, the software is buggy. At the very least, the error message should be changed. Why _should_ people need to tweak this value? (Perso

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread John Griffiths
> >I strongly suspect that at least some of the confusion is the result of >the environment. Legacy MS Windows *doesn't* let you know what's going >on, it *does* change arbitrarially between versions, and often a given >system will change its behavior unexpectedly, for unknown reasons. But >there

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > > > never tried installing a system w/o a video card at all though if that's > > what your attempting. .. > > I ran a slackware machine without a video card many many years ago, and > it worked. Pain in the r

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:56:22PM +1100, John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >I strongly suspect that at least some of the confusion is the result > >of the environment. Legacy MS Windows *doesn't* let you know what's > >going on, it *does* change arbitrarially between versions, and o

Sendmail problem

2003-01-22 Thread steve
I am using a single mail account to download mail from a different server and then forward it to a group of people.  For some reason I keep getting 25 of these in error messages in my mailbox everyday.      Reporting-MTA: dns; somewhere.somewhere.comReceived-From-MTA: DNS; localArrival-Date

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [ snip ] > >> > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long >> > time that they've forgotte

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:22:47PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:28AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't > > > corres

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > Thanks for the other tips. APC currently says Debian is not one of > their (semi)supported systems. And neither is Windows 95/98. :) I tried to get APC to fix their security holes in PowerChute Plus, they denied there was a problem. As well, the softwa

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions > but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on > Debian. I keep an older version around which works fine on debian 2.2 > and 3.0 just incase I need to test. I put i

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread Florian Bachmann
Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all > > Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should > I point my sources to install it? > > I'm using woody 3.0r1 > > TIA and sorry for my english > > -ejg > > There are a number of choices, but the best IDEs are not in Debian: - The

Re: Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Aryan" == Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aryan> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 14:02, Colin Ellis wrote: >> >> append="hdd=ide-scsi" >> Aryan> Maybe I didn't clear my self. I have done the above, and I Aryan> can burn CDs indeed, but after adding the followi

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > My point was how Mandrake is focused on making everything as easy as > > possible to install and use -- so it's possible for the "average > >

Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

2003-01-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > > - try using syslinux to make your boot floppy > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/ > > ( see the Boot.syslinux section ) > > yep made a boot floppy, but made it manually, the system pukes when > it tries to load the scsi driver. lots of bus timeouts, an

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > never tried installing a system w/o a video card at all though if that's > what your attempting. > > nate I ran a slackware machine without a video card many many years ago, and it worked. Pain in the rear to diagnose when something went wrong, consisted mostly

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Jack O'Quin
> > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > These seems to be coming up about once a day on the list, isn't *anyone* > > > searching the archives or at least googling? > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Perhaps the default is set too low, and many people are seei

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread mobtek mobtekl
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:51, Hanasaki JiJi banged a keyboard: Idea rocks for java dev http://www.intellij.com/idea/ cheers pvdm > www.netbeans.org > > not in a .deb and very easy to install > > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:56:36PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > >

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:22:51PM -0800, nate wrote: > Ross Boylan said: > > My UPS, an APC BackUPS 650, seems ineffective under Linux. Originally I > > thought this was because it could not cope with the load, but it works OK > > under MS-Windows. > > > > That is, when I pull the cord from the w

Frozen cursor-no /dev/psaux

2003-01-22 Thread alex
I've installed Debian 3.0r1 4 times (from scratch) trying to get things the way they should be and each time the install ends up with a frozen cursor in KDE and Gnome. I could move the cursor with the numeric keypad but not with an ordinary mouse. The first three times the cursor froze, I tried

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:32:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a voodoo3 using X DRI which _was_ working just fine > until I "upgraded" to testing. > > Now it's broke. > > Everything I know to check is OK, but when I do glxinfo, dri is NOT > active. > > ~ $ glxinfo > name

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Isaac To
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> This is why I went back to windowmaker. I thought gnome looked Nathan> really cool, but between fixing the breakage caused by fast Nathan> moving development, bugs, interesting packaging (by debian Nathan> maint

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I disconnected the serial cable from the UPS to the PC, and apt-get remove apcupsd. Now when I pull the UPS plug from the wall the computer keeps going. Progress, though of course it no longer has a way of knowing the power has failed. When the system was on with the cable connected the green LE

Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Crump
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:10:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, the reason I write this is that I have also been faced up to another type of problem, namely a problem with installation of the new system. I attach the dbg_log.tgz file to ease the resolution of my problem

Re: cups foomatic problem - New Problem

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:23:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: As yet no help on the old problem. In the meantime: I have a third box in which I just installed Woody from the CD set, went on line (DSL) an ran dist-upgrade, then configured a 2.4.18 kernel, used apt-get to install cupsys, cup

Re: Ctrl+Alt+1 not generated in X11, but Ctrl+Alt+[2-9] is

2003-01-22 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:09:06PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > I had a dell technician come out to a datacenter because a box wouldn't > come up. the cpu and mainboard were eventually replaced. somehow it was > discovered that it would boot fine if that $2 keyboard was not plugged > in! the te

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Ross Boylan said: > My UPS, an APC BackUPS 650, seems ineffective under Linux. Originally I > thought this was because it could not cope with the load, but it works OK > under MS-Windows. > > That is, when I pull the cord from the wall under Windows I get an alert > the UPS is on battery. When I

RE: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Jay
Headless??? What part of the machine constitute the 'head'? - Jay ~-Original Message- ~From: Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ~Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:23 PM ~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Subject: Installing on a Headless PC? ~ ~ ~can debian be installed on a headless pc? and if so, a

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Ray said: > can debian be installed on a headless pc? and if so, anyone know where a > nice howto is? I have read that it's possible to install off the serial port, by passing the standard serial port options to the kernel(there are serial port HOWTOs which describe this). But you need a way to g

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
www.netbeans.org not in a .deb and very easy to install Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:56:36PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: | Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? It's called "debian". :-). I use vim as the editor, make for build management (a

Invalid Archive Signatures

2003-01-22 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
eterm and feh, on sarge, are reporting invalid archive signatures of their dependancies. I have tried the US and Japan mirrors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Alvin Oga said: > did you make a boot floppy w/ the same kernel you're using in lilo.conf > - try using syslinux to make your boot floppy > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/ > ( see the Boot.syslinux section ) yep made a boot floppy, but made it manually, th

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 17:22, Ray wrote: > can debian be installed on a headless pc? and if so, anyone know where a nice > howto is? Well, the easiest way would be to stick a head on it, and then take it off after installation... Barring that, there's a HOWTO out on tldp.org regarding serial cons

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Re: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:12:31PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: >> From: Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: 22 January 2003 17:54 >> To: Colin Ellis >> Cc: debian user list >> Subject: RE: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII >> >> >> Hello Colin, >> >> I ha

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock > sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing > this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that > the main offen

Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

2003-01-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > Alvin Oga said: > > > i'd make sdb1 also "raid autodetect" > > so you can boot even if sda or sdb dies > > sd[ab]1 is my /boot partition, currently I have LILO installed into the > MBR of sda, lilo can be a real bitch to install on anything but

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [ snip ] > > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long > > time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the > > install

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These seems to be coming up about once a day on the list, isn't *anyone* > > searching the archives or at least googling? > > Perhaps the default is set too low, and many people are seeing this

hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
My UPS, an APC BackUPS 650, seems ineffective under Linux. Originally I thought this was because it could not cope with the load, but it works OK under MS-Windows. That is, when I pull the cord from the wall under Windows I get an alert the UPS is on battery. When I do the same under Linux, the

Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Ray
can debian be installed on a headless pc? and if so, anyone know where a nice howto is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla won't start

2003-01-22 Thread Kent West
James Hughes wrote: This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the command line generates no output. I can see several instances of mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before just dying. I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same results

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread Michael J. Denton
> Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should > I point my sources to install it? http://people.debian.org/~erich/packagebrowser/devel-editors.html has a nice listing of IDE's for Debian. Specific Java IDEs it lists are: motor and vide. Both have versions in stable/un

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> > I also tried installing Mandrake about a month ago to see what it was > like and found one of the best installers I've ever seen. I now carry > the 1st Mandrake install CD around with my laptop anytime I need an > emergency boot disk for someone. (Primarily because of the partitioning > tool.

Re: Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

2003-01-22 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Crawford wrote: I would like to try out the new GnuCash 1.7.7. It has some small business features I'd find helpful, and is supposed to have an easier way to handle foreign currency exchange, among many other new features. I want to install it on a PowerPC woody system, a Mac 8500.

Re: Ctrl+Alt+1 not generated in X11, but Ctrl+Alt+[2-9] is

2003-01-22 Thread George Georgalis
I had a dell technician come out to a datacenter because a box wouldn't come up. the cpu and mainboard were eventually replaced. somehow it was discovered that it would boot fine if that $2 keyboard was not plugged in! the tech put in his notes, must use factory keyboard. :) just a thought... //

Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread nate
> Hello, > > I've just tried to install the new Debian Woody Linux > over the old Debian Potato. Having backed up my important > files I decided to install from scratch as I encountered > problems when trying to upgrade certain packages (there > were too many dependencies on old libraries and packa

Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Alvin Oga said: > i'd make sdb1 also "raid autodetect" > so you can boot even if sda or sdb dies sd[ab]1 is my /boot partition, currently I have LILO installed into the MBR of sda, lilo can be a real bitch to install on anything but the first disk(usually get the dreaded LI message when try

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:56:36PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: | Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? It's called "debian". :-). I use vim as the editor, make for build management (and either javac or jikes for the compiler), ctags for convenient jumping through the sou

Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:10:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But, the reason I write this is that I have also been > faced up to another type of problem, namely a problem > with installation of the new system. I attach the dbg_log.tgz > file to ease the resolution of my problem. File: hda.

I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread briand
I've got a voodoo3 using X DRI which _was_ working just fine until I "upgraded" to testing. Now it's broke. Everything I know to check is OK, but when I do glxinfo, dri is NOT active. ~ $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No

RE: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> >- > -- > > >--- This message is intended only for the personal and > confidential use of > > > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not > the intended > > > recipient of this message you are hereby notified

Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

2003-01-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux i'd make sdb1 also "raid autodetect" so you can boot even if sda or sdb dies > /dev/sdb2 3 2213 17759857+ 5 Extended > /dev/sdb5

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:36:42PM +, James Tappin wrote: > The third DE; Xfce is well worth a look, V3 is quite usable if a bit too > much like CDE in looks and will run happily on a PII 266 with 64MB. V4 > doesn't yet have a session manager but is starting to look very nice, I've > not tried

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Wed Jan 22, 2003 at 05:56:36PM -0300, the boisterous Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should > I point my sources to install it? deb http://people.debian.org/~tora/deb ./ Eclipse is the choice... so l

Slow keys

2003-01-22 Thread csj
Does anybody know what key combination triggers slow keys? From time to time I find myself stuck in slow keys mode. To disable this "feature" I have to go to the Gnome2 accessibility controls and uncheck the option for "Enable Slow Keys", which is sometmes not possible if I'm in the middle of a Gno

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread David Z Maze
Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should > I point my sources to install it? I tend to be perfectly happy with Emacs (and in particular I generally use XEmacs 21). What features do you want out of it? -- David Maze

Debian and the LSB issue

2003-01-22 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: Today, LWN wrote: "The Free Standards Group has sent out an announcement stating that every major Linux distributor has applied for and received Linux Standard Base certification. The one notable absence from the list (which includes Conectiva, Mandrake, MSC.Linux, Red Hat, Sun, SuSE,

Various random errors

2003-01-22 Thread Paladin
Hi to all! >From some time now I've been experiencing some problems with my sarge debian box, ranging from gcc crashes (any of the three versions I have installed), to corrupted files (in particular the /var/dpkg/status), and I don't know how to discover where the problem is! I've even used the me

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Craig Dickson said on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:49PM -0800: > > Heh. If I weren't lazy, I'd throw away most of the GNOME stuff... I > > don't use any of it anymore, and sawfish is unfortunately buggy. > > Really? I used sawfish back in the Gnome 1.x days and was happy with it. I was too... but

Re: KDE 3.0 Package Issues

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:50 am, Curtis Spencer wrote: > I am trying to install the new kde3 from > deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/sid ./ > > And I get this output > apt-get install kde-base > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: C

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2003-01-22 Thread Ron Rancourt
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:25:42 -0600 (CST), debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 231 > > Today's Topics: > Re: Recovering /var (package status [ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: apt-get dist-upgrad

Mozilla won't start

2003-01-22 Thread James Hughes
This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the command line generates no output. I can see several instances of mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before just dying. I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same results. Nothing shows up in

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:45, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux, > > but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just > > at the "user" (or just abov

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread burningclown
check out jde (now called jdee b/c of copyright reasons) in devel. it's an emacs add-on, so if you don't like/use emacs ... well ... g On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all > > Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should > I point my sources to in

Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread pbox
Hello, I've just tried to install the new Debian Woody Linux over the old Debian Potato. Having backed up my important files I decided to install from scratch as I encountered problems when trying to upgrade certain packages (there were too many dependencies on old libraries and packages that I ga

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Conrad Newton
>From debian parisc on Wednesday, 2003-01-22 at 14:51:35 +: > Hello, > > although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't > actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP > Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to >

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux, > but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just > at the "user" (or just above) level? Back when I started with Debian (Dec

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-22 Thread David Z Maze
Eric E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Eric G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In C, statements are executed in order. I'm not too up on >> functional languages, but I seem to recall they need special syntax >> to execute statements sequentially. > > Not really. top level forms in a s

Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:38:34PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > --- > >--- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of > > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the

Re: Ctrl+Alt+1 not generated in X11, but Ctrl+Alt+[2-9] is

2003-01-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Maciej Kalisiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I discovered a bizarre problem with my XFree86 (xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-3): the > Ctrl+Alt+1 combo does not seem to be generated. Under "xev" I see an event for > the Ctrl key down, Alt key down, but not for the 1... pressing 1 at that point > generates

Solved: Share HP840

2003-01-22 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
It all works fine now, thanks to you all guys Willem-Jan Meijer -- <-- alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mails worden op virussen gescand --> <-- all incoming and outgoing e-mails are scanned for virusses --> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

KDE 3.0 Package Issues

2003-01-22 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am trying to install the new kde3 from deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/sid ./ And I get this output apt-get install kde-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package kde-base thorin:~# apt-get install kdebase Reading Pa

Logrotate LOTS of Apache Logfiles

2003-01-22 Thread Daniel Fabian
Hi, I'm trying to find an easy way to logrotate apache logfiles. The logfiles are created by cronolog, one in a day. CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /wwwhome/customer1/logs/www.customer1.tt-%Y-%m-%d.log" combined ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /wwwhome/customer1/logs/www.customer1.tt-%Y-%m-%d.err"

IDE for java

2003-01-22 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should I point my sources to install it? I'm using woody 3.0r1 TIA and sorry for my english -ejg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread James Tappin
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:10:48 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > > > So I'm wondering if I've got some binaries that aren't optimized for > > my system somehow, or this is just the state of GNOME. If so, I'm > >

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Kent West
Alex Malinovich wrote: Other than that, I was an absolute newbie. I thought mounting was what you did with a horse And when I was a newbie I thought it was . . . oh, uh, never mind. . . . (I gotta learn some social skills . . . .) curt, uh, I mean, Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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