Re: Using of RedHat drivers in Debian

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:37:34AM -0800, Brandon High wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 03:22, Vladimir Kozlov wrote: > > We've just bought the Promise SX4000 ATA RAID card, but there sre no drivers for >Debian. Is this one of those Promise "It's hardware RAID, we swear! Just ignore the large bina

Re: nvidia drivers conflicting with mesa opengl drivers.

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:15:10PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:50:16 -0800 > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:43:31PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > I have on my system the nvidia drivers installed, and these provide > > > the(propietar

Re: freeamp don´t work

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM -0300, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > Hi there, > > I did all you guys said to me to make my freeamp work (chmod 666 > /dev/mixer; chmod 666 /dev/dsp, Yuck. Change it back to 600. > adduser user audio), That's the actual solution. > but it still > complains

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:45:49AM -0500, Scott Nanni wrote: > yes, rsync is "the bomb" > > and it uses some sort of digest algorithm to pull out the most > significant bits and formulate a checksum which is usually just > like a 128 bit string or so.. then I imaginge it would exchange > the check

Re: Using new Apple displays on Debian/Intel box?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:42:42AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am looking at the new Apple displays (the 23" 1920x1200 display). > > What would I need to make this work on a Intel Pentium III box with an > ASUS P2B-DS MB? > > Am I crazy to try this? I would clearly need a new graphics car

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:09:40PM -0500, Johan Kullstam wrote: > "S Yuval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, > > KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I > > could find was QIDE, which is a

Re: Bug? - Boot disks and Kernel Source

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:19:03PM +, Dave Whiteley wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:34:19PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > > > I see that the boot floppies use a kernel 2.2.20. > > > > > > There is not a stable package for kernel 2.2.20! > > > > ? > > > > Yes there is! Ther

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 08 Feb 2003 01:01:48PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > how can i create a cron job to rsync to a remote system? i use > > > ssh-askpass, but since cron

Re: TLS and Exim on Sarge

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:45:25AM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > This is an exim question but I post it to this group because it is > installed from a testing Debian package on Sarge. It starts with the > script in /etc/init.d. I had exim installed then decided I wanted > exim-tls and installed tha

Re: configure devices

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:22:23PM +1100, Russell wrote: > soap_suds wrote: > >Hi there.. > > > >I have installed debian woody on my PC recently. I was using RHL7.1 > >till now. All my devices (graphics card, sound card etc) were > >autoconfigured in RHL is there any way to do the same in debian

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 12 Feb 2003 02:13:19PM +0100, Jeff Elkins insinuated: > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 7:12 pm, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > i havent read all of this thread, but why not just using testing > > > or stable, why use all three?

Re: sndfile.pc ?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:33:40AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:41:07PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:00:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:07:21PM -0500, stan wrot

Re: Compaq Eco N410c modem?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:25:08AM -0500, stan wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the built in modem in a Compaq Evo N410c is a > Winmodem or a real mode? > > If it's a Winmodem, is it one that can posibly be used under Linux? I know > there _are_ a few of these. 99% of internal modems these days are

Re: Installer that supports 3ware raid

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:20:13PM -0500, lloyd wrote: > Hello - > > Can someone give me the URL of a Debian install

error libproc.so.2.0.6: cannot open shared object file

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Ryan
Hi, Whilst running w (/usr/bin/w) on Debian Stable I had the following error "w: error while loading shared libraries: libproc.so.2.0.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" I found (via groups.google) a similar thread on this list from 2002-12-17 12:10:12 PST with same er

Re: Unreal Tournament

2003-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:50:06PM +0200, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > Can anyone help me, or where can i read something about it ? You also need to own a copy of the game. I think it asks for this, it looks like it didn't install properly. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:33:01PM -0800, S Yuval wrote: | Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? UNIX (debian) is the best IDE I've seen. I won't go into more detail now because this comes up every couple of weeks or less. More details are in the archives. -D -- If your company is not involve

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Johan Kullstam wrote: >"S Yuval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hello, >> Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, >> KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I >> could find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C. > >I like em

Re: Soundcard es1371

2003-02-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:23:36AM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello! > But when i start xmms and i want to play a mp3 file, i get this error: > > 1. You have the correct output plugin selected > 2. No other Programs is blocking the soundcard > 3. Your soundcard is configured properly > >

Re: Soundcard es1371

2003-02-12 Thread Brian P.D. Smyth
Mario Ohnewald wrote: Hello! I am very new to debian, but not to linux. I build myself a new kernel with the es1371 sound module. I can insert the module, oder remove it, so it seems to work. But when i start xmms and i want to play a mp3 file, i get this error: 1. You have the correct output pl

Re: checking the OpenGL installation

2003-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:12:01PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Thanks for your reply: > > `glxinfo' gives a fine output: > neverthelss I have still troubles with `geomview'. > > Note that I tried with success to run GL screensavers. > > Any more idea ? > >Are you trying to get on as many filt

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
(Conserve bandwidth, trim quotes) On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:20:33PM -0200, Barry Rab wrote: > That said, is there anyway of backing out of this type of situation i.e. > getting back to Woody? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: You can work out downgrading by hand or reinstall. -- .''`. Ba

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:12:56PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > i havent read all of this thread, but why not just using testing or > stable, why use all three? Well, handy when you need to get an older version of package foo, in which you can apt-get install foo/testing or foo/stable -- .

Snort installation

2003-02-12 Thread Jacob S .
I've been working on installing and setting up snort-mysql on a server tonight, and noticed that the default apt-get installation leaves snort unable to run. It appears that when I did a chmod o-rwx /etc/snort/snort.conf it made it so that snort couldn't read it's own config file. (I ran the chmod

RE:

2003-02-12 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
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RE:none

2003-02-12 Thread Cadiladda
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Re: /cdrom -vs- /dev/hdc

2003-02-12 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory. > Before I start talking about the problem, here are the files that are of > use to this problem. [...] > I can actually load audio files through /dev/hdc and /dev

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-12 Thread David Turetsky
Western Digital indicated that they only used the e-z bios for the first production runs of the Promise controller which did not have 48 bit addressing capability. If it was in use, it would be posted in the bios startup sequence -- David -Original Message- From: David Turetsky [mailto:[

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread p
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:06:48PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > I've just done a quick internet search/google, looking for machines > with Debian preinstalled.I've found a number of places that sell > Debian disks, very few with Debian preinstalled. > > Does anyone have experience or even k

Re: compiling programs from src

2003-02-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Srinivasan Ranganathan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030212 17:06]: > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > >You'll need to make sure the -dev or -devel files for each of the > >libraries you need are installed (libqt-dev, libgtk-dev, etc). Once > >those are installed, compiling will be a cinch. > Yes, they ar

ArgoUML

2003-02-12 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to run ArgoUML, but I'm having the following instead: okidz@okidz:~$ argouml Unable to load configuration /home/okidz/argo.user.properties SAX Parser Factory org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl will be used. Package: org.argouml.application Component: ArgoUML, by: University

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-12 Thread David Turetsky
New development: (in some quarters, called Progress) I chatted on the phone today with WD. Apparently the ~120GB limitation is a consequence of my using native Windows drivers which do not have 48-bit addressing capability and thus cannot address beyond the 120GB limit (I trust you guys on the ari

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Re: cfdisk not working!

2003-02-12 Thread Michael West
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:55:30AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > I want to repartition my hard disk, but when I try running cfdisk (and yes, I > am root), I get an error message saying: > > "Cannot create logFATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 7: tended partitions >

Re: xserver in chroot with nvidia?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:08:45PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Presumably you can still see it in a 'lsmod' from within the chroot? > > Have you created the /dev/nv* devices? Do they have reasonable > > permissions? > > argh! that's it -- I didn't create the devices. But now I don't know > how

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread Johan Kullstam
"S Yuval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, > KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I > could find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C. I like emacs. -- Johan KULLSTAM --

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-12 Thread Sheldon E . Auerbach
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:08:54 -0800 pinhas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive > into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install > several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens > error. I

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 03:18 pm, A.J. Rossini wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you're really that desperate for preinstalled Debian boxes, just > > let me know how many you need and when you need them and I'll put > > them together myself. Just don't expect a "deal

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread Srinivasan Ranganathan
http://www.eclipse.org S Yuval wrote: Hello, Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I could find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C. HTH Srini --

Re: compiling programs from src

2003-02-12 Thread Srinivasan Ranganathan
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: You'll need to make sure the -dev or -devel files for each of the libraries you need are installed (libqt-dev, libgtk-dev, etc). Once those are installed, compiling will be a cinch. Yes, they are installed. Now what do I do? TIA Srini --

Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread S Yuval
Hello,     Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I could find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C.

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread John Hasler
René Seindal writes: > There was no way of eliminating a process in an uninteruptable sleep. It > might have changed in later BSDs, but it not only a Linux thing. It hadn't as of BSDOS which I switched to Linux from. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Russell
Jason Pepas wrote: hello, when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". is this a bug or a feature? Try using $TERM set to xterm-color if you have xterm installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: SCSI emulation

2003-02-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
Fixed. It was a stupid mistake on my part. When recompiling a kernel, I deselected SCSI cdrom support. Thanks for your suggestions. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread A.J. Rossini
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're really that desperate for preinstalled Debian boxes, just let > me know how many you need and when you need them and I'll put them > together myself. Just don't expect a "dealer" warranty on them. :) That would be one of the advantages over

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread A.J. Rossini
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:06:48PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote: >> (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, >> and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really like to save time at this >> point...). > will customisng each of the st

openssl ca

2003-02-12 Thread okidz
Hi, I'm trying to setup MySQL's SSL using openssl command. The following works OK: 621 openssl req -new -keyout $DIR/server-key.pem -out $DIR/server-req.pem -days 3600 -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf 622 openssl ca -policy policy_anything -out $DIR/server-cert.pem -config /etc/ssl/openssl.c

Re: mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:52 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > hello, > > when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I > have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. > > $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". > > is this a bug or a feature? > > thanks, > jason pepas it gets wierd

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

2003-02-12 Thread Gemini
Hi again, I admit I did not even try the RealTek website for the drivers. It is so rare to find Free drivers on its manufacturer web site that I did not even try. Well, so as far as I understood, in fact they are just using the drivers provided in the ALSA project. So I guess the drivers are fr

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:28, A.J. Rossini wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > also sprach A.J. Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2306 +0100]: > >> (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, > >> and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really l

/etc/network/interfaces & IPv6

2003-02-12 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! I have set up an IPv6 tunnel. And I would like to assign IP addresses to my network devices. I have two, eth0 and eth0:1. How can I assign an address to the virtual device? I have successfully assigned to eth0 but I could to eth0:1. How can I add an entry into /etc/network/interfaces for IPv

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:06:48PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote: > (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, > and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really like to save time at this > point...). will customisng each of the stock installations take less time than a clean insta

/cdrom -vs- /dev/hdc

2003-02-12 Thread Bruce Park
Dear debian users, I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory. Before I start talking about the problem, here are the files that are of use to this problem. == [brock@parker brock]$ ls -l / | grep 'cdrom' dr-

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread René Seindal
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:04:04AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jeffrey L . Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2215 +0100]: > > AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting. > > one more proof that Linux is actually flawed. going BSD... > it seems that popularity

kt3 ultra2 mobo and nfs problems (dma)?

2003-02-12 Thread Andreas Leitner
Hi, I recently bought a kt3 ultra2 mother board and I keep having problems with it. The computer is running debian/testing (kernel self-compiled from unstable deb 2.4.20). The issues are not easily reproducible but here is what I learned so far: (The machine is acting as a nfs server and has an i

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread A.J. Rossini
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach A.J. Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2306 +0100]: >> (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, >> and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really like to save time at this >> point...). > > I can install Debi

RE: Problems with Quake 3 Arena

2003-02-12 Thread dbalder
>You either want to kill artsd or do an: >artsshell suspend; quake3. I tried this. output in shell still shows that /dev/dsp is not available. Note that I can listen to mp3s. Q3A can run without sound but not with. Still need to try Q3A 1.32 point release though. >Do you have any output from the

Re: Broken Symbolic Links in /etc/alternatives

2003-02-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > Hi, > > I just removed and purged emacs21 and emacsen-common since I didn't use > it. Looking at the folder /etc/alternatives, I find out that there is > broken symbolic link which is linked emacs21. > > Is that a normal behavio

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach A.J. Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2306 +0100]: > (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, > and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really like to save time at this > point...). I can install Debian from CD in 11 Minutes, with the fastest net connect

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey L . Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2215 +0100]: > AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting. one more proof that Linux is actually flawed. going BSD... it seems that popularity of a software is indirectly proportional to its correctness. oh my lord. -

Re: Setting up Courier-IMAP at Home

2003-02-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op wo 12-02-2003, om 04:52 schreef David Raeker-Jordan: I have the same setup, fetchmail, procmail and exim. My procmail ($HOME/.procmailrc) PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir # You'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR #LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-02-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 08 Feb 2003 01:01:48PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > how can i create a cron job to rsync to a remote system? i use > > ssh-askpass, but since cron runs as root, i get > > ssh-askpass is just a frontend to ssh-add, whi

passing mem= with a bootdisk, mkrescue

2003-02-12 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I have a box with hda=30G and hdb=854M. The 30G is not recognized so I boot from a floppy and mount root on hdb (history and changing plans, soon to be fixed). I would like to move either of these drives to a different box, which one gets moved depends on if the box they are in can see more t

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 18:39]: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:41:16PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 17:26]: > > > debs, > > > > > > in mutt, when i save an email to a > > > file, how do i save the headers, too? > > > > How do you _not_ save the headers? >

cfdisk not working!

2003-02-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: I want to repartition my hard disk, but when I try running cfdisk (and yes, I am root), I get an error message saying: "Cannot create logFATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 7: tended partitions Press any key to exit cfdisk" Any ideas on what this means? or any

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:20:33PM -0200, Barry Rab wrote: > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > >If you did "apt-get update" after changing sources.list, then the > >subsequent "apt-get dist-upgrade" has you running unstable, which is sid. > > > That said, is there anyway of backing out of this type of sit

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-12 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:54:47AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > Pigeon, a postscript. WD has their own BIOS on the Promise controller. > It gets hooked in by the system BIOS and then does it's own thing > without leaving any fingerprints elsewhere > > I will email Western Digital and see if I ca

Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread A.J. Rossini
I've just done a quick internet search/google, looking for machines with Debian preinstalled.I've found a number of places that sell Debian disks, very few with Debian preinstalled. Does anyone have experience or even know of companies that preinstall Debian? I'm just looking for Woody + sec

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:20:32AM +1300, Srinivasan Ranganathan insinuated: > Scalar wrote: > >This isn't about debian but about the list.. > > > >Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few letters at > >the beginning of the subject to distinguish the list from other > >email? > > Thats w

Re: compiling programs from src

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Srinivasan Ranganathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 09:15 AM +1300): > Howdy list > > Im a debian newbie. Installed from knoppix and haven't run apt-get > dist-upgrade (yet). I tried to compile ksim and gkrellm from source. > Running ./configure fails when trying

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 12 Feb 2003 02:13:19PM +0100, Jeff Elkins insinuated: > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 7:12 pm, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > i havent read all of this thread, but why not just using testing > > or stable, why use all three? > > Initially, I was confused as to exactly what I was running. > > I

Re: SCSI emulation

2003-02-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Jeff Elkins [Wed, Feb 12 2003, 12:28:13PM]: > When running redhat, cdrom1 is actually a link to /dev/scd0. When I try that > under debian, mount attempts result in invalid block device. I've tried scd1, > sr0, etc, w/o luck. > > I am able to write cds with cdrecord, just can't mount

Re: Broken Symbolic Links in /etc/alternatives

2003-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > I just removed and purged emacs21 and emacsen-common since I didn't use > it. Looking at the folder /etc/alternatives, I find out that there is > broken symbolic link which is linked emacs21. > > Is that a normal behaviour that sy

Re: vim undel

2003-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:47:20PM -, Hugo Portela wrote: > note: All the delete commands use a default buffer. But since it's > always the same, any copy or delete command will overwrite the > previous one in the buffer. You can use a different buffer if you like, though, and there are sev

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread Jeffrey L . Taylor
Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist > anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping. > i want to get rid of it, but kill -9 doesn't do anything, the process > remains. > > what must i do to kill this

Installer that supports 3ware raid

2003-02-12 Thread lloyd
Hello - Can someone give me the URL of a Debian installer CD that will detect and install onto a system that has *only* 3ware IDE RAID storage? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unreal Tournament

2003-02-12 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:39:37 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why the maps are still compressed ;-) > > Run the following script in your ut INSTALLDIR: > ---other deleted by myself:-)) I did that, but now it says : ovserg@debian:/usr/local/g

Re: dpkg inconsistency

2003-02-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the spirit of "don't re-invent the wheel" this is what I use: > > #!/bin/sh > > # Written by Larry Holish, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # As customized by Gary Turner for his own use > > # Script that writes current list of packages installed > # from /var/lib/d

O_DIRECT to read files

2003-02-12 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, has anyone used O_DIRECT flag of open to read files bypassing the buffer cache of the kernel? I am trying to read using this option but the read command always returns 0, indicating that zero bytes were read. The buffer I am using is aligned with the block size, as also the size of the buffer

Re: Windows XP to Woody/Cups Printer? How?

2003-02-12 Thread Thomas H. George
Progress Report: Wimp came home. Following a suggestion in the "Sharing a printer with SAMBA" string, I put "load printers = yes" in the [global] section of smb.conf. Next, I told wimp to add a network printer and, in the appropriate box, typed

killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping. i want to get rid of it, but kill -9 doesn't do anything, the process remains. what must i do to kill this process? it can't be that i can get a process to lock in

am_tool (mgetty-voice) error

2003-02-12 Thread Rick Pasotto
The am_tool program (included in the mgetty-voice docs) returns rcmd: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known There is no source, just a binary. Where should this be reported? -- "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -- Winston Churchill Rick Pasotto[EMA

Re: noteedit für kde3?

2003-02-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [CC'd to the Debian NoteEdit maintainer] > > Norbert Preining wrote in debian-user: > >> Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen? > > I'm guessing this means, "When will sid have NoteEdit rebuilt for > KDE 3?" > > That's a good qu

Re: /cdrom directory

2003-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having some difficulty regarding accessing an audio cdrom > through /cdrom directory. "You don't." Audio CDs don't have filesystems (typically), and so there's no way to mount them. > Currently, I can access the audio cd through /dev/cdrom. He

Re: vim undel

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:21:33 + Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, i use vim to weed out large chunks of email so can quote > [hopefully] the relevant bits. My method is :x,yd this is fine until i > get one of the values wrong, then i may have deleted 10 more lines than > expected

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internal machine using our external IP

2003-02-12 Thread Wilfried Essig
Dear Jerome, looks like you have two problems : First : Ping works - tracroute not Are using your Wxx and Linx-Boxes same DNS? If yes, try "traceroute -n EXT-IP" on your Linux boxes. (Ping doesn't a try to get the name for the given ip-address, but traceroute does - and DNS-timeouts are rather

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-12 Thread Srinivasan Ranganathan
Scalar wrote: This isn't about debian but about the list.. Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the list from other email? Thats what I thought when I joined this list a few days ago. If the listserver appended something

Help needed w/ PLIP connection

2003-02-12 Thread fbrian
Hi all: I am having trouble debugging my plip connection. I get clean kernel messages on bootup to the fact that the plip modules are loaded etc. On machine is euler and the other is gauss. I have some out put from both boxxess. I have used the plip cable before at work so I know that it is workin

compiling programs from src

2003-02-12 Thread Srinivasan Ranganathan
Howdy list Im a debian newbie. Installed from knoppix and haven't run apt-get dist-upgrade (yet). I tried to compile ksim and gkrellm from source. Running ./configure fails when trying to compile a small kde program or Qt program. How do I find out where they are installed and how do I tell th

Re: upgrading consequences?

2003-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And actually, what is going on with libc? why haven't it upload to > testing yet? There's a concise explanation at http://packages.qa.debian.org/glibc; essentially, it boils down to there being hard-to-fix release-critical bugs. > (to my understanding, it

Re: gcc 3.2 + gcc 2.9?

2003-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if I give either stable or unstable as target release, it wants to > install gcc 3.2 (the following NEW packages will be installed: > gcc-3.2-base libstdc++5 transcode). > Is it possible to install gcc 3.2 besides gcc 2.95 currently installed > on my system? or

mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". is this a bug or a feature? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Broken Symbolic Links in /etc/alternatives

2003-02-12 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
Hi, I just removed and purged emacs21 and emacsen-common since I didn't use it. Looking at the folder /etc/alternatives, I find out that there is broken symbolic link which is linked emacs21. Is that a normal behaviour that symbolic links in this folder aren't removed although the packages are

Re: ide-scsi cdparanoia permissions

2003-02-12 Thread Robert Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003 16:12 schrieb Nicos Gollan: > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 15:49, Robert Ewald wrote: > > robert@debian:~$ cdparanoia -vd /dev/scd0 10 test.wav > > > > > > > > Checking /dev/scd0 for cdrom... > > Testing /dev/scd

Re: /cdrom directory

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 01:59 PM -0500): > Debian users, > > I'm having some difficulty regarding accessing an audio cdrom through > /cdrom directory. I was hoping that someone could help me with this problem. > Currently, I can access the audio

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internal machine using our external IP

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: >Summary: If I try to connect to an internal server given its dyndns.org >hostname, it works from the outside world, but fails if I try from >within our intranet. > >I have this network configuration > > E > | >Internet > | > | (EXT-IP) >** R ** (Firewall) >

lprng works but doesn't print

2003-02-12 Thread George Georgalis
What's going on here? # netstat -ptunl | grep lpd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:515 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 30209/lpd Waiting # lpq Printer: lp@trot Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: job 'root@trot+331' saved at 14:03:48.390 Rank Own

Re: SCSI emulation

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 12:28 PM +0100): > I'm using SCSI emulation for my cd writer via the kernel options and > append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. > > When running redhat, cdrom1 is actually a link to /dev/scd0. When I try that > under debian,

gcc 3.2 + gcc 2.9?

2003-02-12 Thread Thaden
dear list, I had to uninstall video-dvdrip and many of its related programs (transcode,...) when I upgraded from kde3.0.5 to 3.1. I recently tried to reinstall transcode (for a start) and am somewhat puzzled by the result: if I give testing as target release, apt-get finds unmet dependencies: Sor

Re: vim undel

2003-02-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:41:54PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 the mental interface of > Hugh Saunders told: > > > hello, i use vim to weed out large chunks of email so can quote > > [hopefully] the relevant bits. My method is :x,yd this is fine until i > > get one of t

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