Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > # Make it! You'll be asked to configure it first--here's where > # other documentation like that mentioned can help; another > # helpful thing if you have a working Debian kernel image > # already installed is to load the configuration for the > # current kernel

where'd my mouse go?

2003-03-05 Thread sean finney
hey -user, so i just upgraded my laptop's kernel, threw in devfs, apt-got devfsd, and booted back up with minimal hassle[1]. everything is completely functional and happy, with the exception of my touchpad mouse. the device /dev/psaux no longer exists. what i do have is /dev/mouse -> /dev/gpmd

Re: Mouse Cursor Offset in X

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Paul" == Paul M Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> It seems like I've read about this problem before, but I can seem Paul> to find it in the archives. Paul> I have Debian testing running, with the X 4.2 statically linked Paul> binary. I'm running a Cyberblade i/1 video card, and a g

To get GNOME2, should I Upgrade or Dist-Upgrade or... ?

2003-03-05 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, I kept getting wonder and never be sure about this whenever I'm reaching this step. The thing is, I finally want to upgrade my GNOME1.4 to GNOME2. I know that there's woody backport of GNOME2, but I wanted to have the latest version of it, and continue to watch it. My current lap

Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Sorry this is pretty OT but can anyone running KDE 3.1 check this out? Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html and then view source in Konqueror. For some reason it looks really wonky on my system. Every other page works just fine... theres a space between each character (or ki

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Kent West
Donald Spoon wrote: That said, you can install a perfectly workable version of ALSA using apt-get on the pre-compiled debs in the Debian package repository. All you have to do is match the pre-compiled ALSA version with your kernel. Not all available kernels have matching pre-compiled ALSA d

make-kpkg, stock kernel, and alsa

2003-03-05 Thread Kent West
I've compiled a kernel or few, but mostly just stumbled through the process. Question 1: Currently I'm running a stock 2.4.20-k7 kernel (apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.20-k7). My sound card is not supported yet by the kernel drivers, so I have to fall back to using alsa, which does su

RE: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
>Before I go off experimenting with modconf, I wonder > if anyone has >been over this ground. If I add a driver using modconf > and get no >result, how do I remove it? >-- >David That's an easy one... remove it the same way you added it. You could also do: bash$ rmmod MODNAME

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Donald Spoon
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as kerne

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi all, > > Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that > I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone > tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4?

Mouse Cursor Offset in X

2003-03-05 Thread Paul M Foster
It seems like I've read about this problem before, but I can seem to find it in the archives. I have Debian testing running, with the X 4.2 statically linked binary. I'm running a Cyberblade i/1 video card, and a generic wheel mouse (IMPS/2). Sometimes when I go into X, the mouse cursor will sh

ppp as normal user

2003-03-05 Thread Gandalf the Grey
well, that, the interfaces are not usable as a normal user in default instalation.. i add my user to the groups: dialout,dip ok.. pon is ok but poff NO.. in fact i use the gnome applet modem lights and it can start the conectios but not stop it, i have to stop it from console but is posible to d

delay for the initial session data to be persisted to DB2

2003-03-05 Thread John Joe
sorry, this isn't Debian specific, but i have no channel to seek help, except this. could you explain the following? On the same project, we thought we were seeing an unexplained delay for the initial session data to be persisted to DB2 in the test environment. or EMs persisting data to a DB2 d

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
>On Wednesday 05 March 2003 9:23 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >I'm running a mixed network of i386 and ppc boxen and have been working on >building cross-compilers. The i386 side is completed and working well. The >ppc side is crashing with the final step...compiling glibc. > >/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386

Re: please help! multi-boot problem, i think

2003-03-05 Thread nate
Wesley Harris said: > I was running windows me, used partition magic to partition linux > partitions, then installed debian 3. Unwisely, I let it boot from the mbr. > Now windows won't load at all, saying system files are missing or > corrupt. more info is needed: fdisk -l /dev/hda mount each

Re: HELP

2003-03-05 Thread nate
Ricardo said: > hi. > i'm having a problem with my asus dvd-rom under debian 3.0(woody). i was > installing a few things from the 1st cdrom(after the basic > installation of the system). when i finnished installing, i reboot the > system but i could no longer access the dvd-rom drive. every time i

Re: Sound

2003-03-05 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:25:41PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or > whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install > to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound infrastructure or > so

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Fraser Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > What I would usually do (and there may be a better way) is on the new PC I > would add the appropriate URL to /etc/apt/sources.list for retreiving the > debs and then run an "apt-get update" to make the computer aware of the > available updat

please help! multi-boot problem, i think

2003-03-05 Thread Wesley Harris
I was running windows me, used partition magic to partition linux partitions, then installed debian 3. Unwisely, I let it boot from the mbr. Now windows won't load at all, saying system files are missing or corrupt. lilo.conf looks like this for where windows should be: other=/dev/hda2 label

Re: annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop

2003-03-05 Thread nate
Shri Shrikumar said: > The first is that every second time I load linux up, it shrinks the screen > size to the center. I have a 15" screen but it only uses the center (maybe > 12" or something - looked like 640x480 or something). When I reboot, the > bios post screen is *also* this size and so is

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 9:23 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >I'm running a mixed network of i386 and ppc boxen and have been working on >building cross-compilers. The i386 side is completed and working well. The >ppc side is crashing with the final step...compiling glibc. > >/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-

Debian, Putty and home and end keys

2003-03-05 Thread Agustín Fernández
Hi, I've been a long while trying to figure this out and I thought that this might be of use to others. If you want to connect to a debian box from Putty you may notice that the home and end keys don't work, and just write "~" to the terminal. In order to get them working you must set the termi

Sound

2003-03-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound infrastructure or something? I have a soundblaster audigy. - Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop

2003-03-05 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I have spent the last few hours installing debian testing on a brand new dell inspiron laptop and have managed to get it very close to working properly. I am however, having two problems that are throwing me off both to do with the display. The first is that every second time I load linux up,

OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
Hello list, I'm running a mixed network of i386 and ppc boxen and have been working on building cross-compilers. The i386 side is completed and working well. The ppc side is crashing with the final step...compiling glibc. /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/../../../../i386-linux/bin/ld:/h

HELP

2003-03-05 Thread Ricardo
hi. i'm having a problem with my asus dvd-rom under debian 3.0(woody). i was installing a few things from the 1st cdrom(after the basic installation of the system). when i finnished installing, i reboot the system but i could no longer access the dvd-rom drive. every time i try it reports this m

information

2003-03-05 Thread Ricardo
hi. i was wondering if the book "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed" is useful for Debian 3.0 users or if there are many changes or diferences? i'll be waitting for your answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-05 Thread nate
Jerry Van Brimmer said: > >>tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/the-file-system-you-mounting >> > Does it have to be done this way? Isn't there a config file somewhere > with a number in it I can change? Say, from 20 to 30, for once a month? -c # = number of mounts before forced check -i #d = number of days b

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-05 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Wilfried Essig wrote: Am Son, 2003-03-02 um 03.54 schrieb debian_newbie: Hello Everybody, How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20 times. Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized fs?

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:13:24PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030305 12:23 PST]: > > (Note that the above requires that root has access to your X > > display, because it uses 'xconfig'. Now, this is probably goin

apt-src question

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Eilting
Hi, hope this is the correct place to ask. Why is it, that when I install a package with apt-src, and do an apt-get -u upgrade after that, that the package is to be 'upgraded' to another package of the exact same version from the debian server? Isn't it only supposed to upgrade if the version

Re: USB device detection problem

2003-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:02:41AM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > After either rebooting from windoze to linux, or even with > a complete shutdown/poweroff, my two usb mass-storage > devices aren't detected unless I boot Linux twice! Loading > and unloading modules doesn't help. > Everything USB w

Re: How can I power down the computer?

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Melnick
> If there any way to configure debian so it does everything in one step and > I don't need to press the power bottom after all? You can configure your kernel to use power management - either APM or ACPI depending on your hardware. I don't know how it's done with the debian packaged kernel, but

Re: getting the initrd to load

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Melnick
> You can use romfs or even ext2/ext3. Check out the MKIMAGE setting > in mkinitrd.conf. Okay, I used genromfs (i think) according to the example in your man page. Lilo doesn't load it, and on startup, I still get a message: "RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid ram disk image starting at 0." It's still

interlink versapoint rf?

2003-03-05 Thread Cliff Draper
Has anyone gotten this wireless keyboard/mouse combo to work? The base receiver has a single USB connection that handles both the keyboard and mouse data. The keyboard works easily enough, but the mouse refuses to do anything for me. Thanks for any help you can provide. -Cliff Here's some data

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as kerne

How can I power down the computer?

2003-03-05 Thread Didier Caamano
Greetings: I was wondering if there is any option in which I can setup Debian to automatically power down my computer. So far whenever I issue the shutdown -h now command it does all what the OS needs to do but, it stop with a message of Power Down, like Now is save to turn your computer off, a

Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Melnick
> I think it depends on your specific framebuffer driver. It does. I use the rivafb driver on this computer, and it doesn't support kernel arguments at stat-up, so 'vga=whatever' doesn't work with this driver. Instead, you need to edit the fbdev.c file in linux/drivers/video/riva, and change the d

kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as kernel.org and on Google

Re: OT: EchoLink equivalent for Linux

2003-03-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: As an amateur radio operator (ham), I've just been introduced to a very neat little program called EchoLink, which is an interesting marriage between the internet and radio. The only problem is that it appears to be Windows only. Does anyone know of a similar program for Linux

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:05:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > the new safe signals implementation has caused some problems which mean > > that the next upstream release will allow them to be turned off. > > Argh. > Do you know if that is a compile-time switch or a run-time

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your DebianKernel

2003-03-05 Thread Travis Crump
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: # make sure you've got the bzip2 package; the comment in the # article confusing 'tar' and 'gzip' also confused me, BTW... apt-get install bzip2 not necessary since kernel-source depends on bzip2 it will be brought it automatically when you install the kernel sour

formail help

2003-03-05 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, Which fields should I place at least to this list to get correct mailbox? I use the followings but I've got an error message in mutt "this is not a correct mailbox" (or similar) in my .procmailrc :0 * | formail -k X From: -X Subject: >> inbox Thanks Attila -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Mozilla and TrueType

2003-03-05 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Hi, To enable TrueType support for Mozilla at work I configure my /etc/mozilla/prefs.js as follows: // TrueType pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6"); pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true); pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); pref("fo

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:42:33 +0100 Martin Kacerovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:17:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > So, try this: > > > > rxvt*background:black > > rxvt*foreground:white > > > > I don't know for sure what class name rxvt

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030305 12:23 PST]: > (Note that the above requires that root has access to your X > display, because it uses 'xconfig'. Now, this is probably going > to show you how clue-less I am, but one simple way I do this on > o

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:17:41 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:45:11PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt contains the following two lines: > > background:black > > foreground:white > > Yet rxvt is allways loaded with background white and

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Setting up the loopback and pingin it works fine, pinging into the :machine also works fine (tried from an old win95 machine). But :pinging out of the machine dosn't work, I'm getting the error message :"Unable to connect to remote host: N

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > the new safe signals implementation has caused some problems which mean > that the next upstream release will allow them to be turned off. Argh. Do you know if that is a compile-time switch or a run-time switch? I've had some very fun debugging sessions based on perl's signa

RE: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread David Turetsky
>>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:07PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: What packages are out there which facilitate editing? >>> sean finney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:14 AM a good one that you can run from the command line is sox. it has a bunch

Re: lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

2003-03-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:07:26PM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: > Perhaps you could be more specific? uhm indeed the image shown me on the start of xdm is a pixelized chaos, i thus disabled xdm in fact a strange mix of old images somehow still stored in the grafic card buffer started wi

RE: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread deFreese, Barry
Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Network config help needed > > > > Yep, read Net-HOWTO, but still I

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread David Gaudine
Here is a link to a pdf file that contains everything I know about running remote X clients with and without ssh, and with and without xdm. Since it contains everything I know, it's a very short download. http://annette.concordia.ca/~david/X.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-sourcepackage

2003-03-05 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to build a cross compiler using the toolchain-source and dpkg-cross packages, along the lines of what is described at http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html But I'm running into problems: 1. When building binutils the scripts complain about dh_split not found. I thought t

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread chris1622
Yep, read Net-HOWTO, but still I can't get it to work. ... Setting up the loopback and pingin it works fine, pinging into the machine also works fine (tried from an old win95 machine). But pinging out of the machine dosn't work, I'm getting the error message "Unable to connect to remote host:

Re: VIA Tahoe onboard LAN

2003-03-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Gabriel Granger wrote: > I'm looking into setting up a 1U rack server, I'm looking at getting a > board with LAN ie saving the 1 pci I will have for something else, Epox > do a motherboard with onboard LAN which is VIA Tahoe. Does anyone know > if this supported und

Help please - KDE GUI won't display

2003-03-05 Thread Marsha Petry
I did a dist-upgrade this morning, and now my initial KDE screen comes up with an OK background but a black box where the user login should be. I can figure out where the text input boxes are for logging, but when I log in the desktop shows my wallpaper with some icons scattered around and that's

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-05 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:19:09 +0100 Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus, > > so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and when > it does not? I would be very interested especially concerning Debian > ... > > Michael Sorry, late reply - technical problems. Basicall

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread John
Have you checked the config files for ssh, here theyre located under /etc/ssh ( debian unstable ) cheers Gary Turner wrote: I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I c

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread David Gaudine
> I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home > machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. > Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will > some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? Here are

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hello! I had the same problem once, and it turned out you need to compile in some extra functions. At least CONFIG_FILTER (Socket filtering) was required. There might have been other options too, but I don't remember which right now. hth, /johan Curtis Vaughan wrote: When I recompiled the kerne

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 7:03 pm, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > If you want to set up your server as an apt source then I'm sure that can > be done as well (I'm just not sure how). Set up apache to serve a directory such as /var/www/debian as http://y

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread nate
Gary Turner said: > I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home > machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. > Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will > some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Curtis" == Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Curtis> When I recompiled the kernel for one server, dhcpd would not Curtis> work. According to the error I didn't compile the kernel for Curtis> certain aspects of dhcpd. However, when I went through all the Curtis> configuration items

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-05 Thread nate
DOUGLAS RIST said: > I boot up and get the message that "No hard disk drives were detected". try the compact kernel it's on the debian 3.0 install CD. view the help in the boot loader to figure out how to load it. Last I checked the stock kernel did not support adaptec SCSI cards w/o loading modu

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Haralambos Geortgilakis exclaim: > spotted the above titled article & it seemed to me some of us & me might > find it of use, so here is the url > > http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=2949 I was very excited to see this link, but after scanning the article concluded that t

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:03:28AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > > > don't match the ou

Re: kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Curtis" == Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Curtis> Has anyone created a file that shows all the options available Curtis> in menuconfig when doing a kernel compile? //.config? Curtis> It would be handy so that I can note on it what options I Curtis> absolutely need for various

ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread Gary Turner
I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? tnx -- gt

Re: kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:12:09AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone created a file that shows all the options available in > menuconfig when doing a kernel compile? how about /usr/src/linux/.config ? or maybe i misunderstood you? you can also see what kernel options are compiled into yo

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > However, if you trust people enough to enable > XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot > the machine. Uh... No. X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may rely on a

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:05, Sharninder wrote: > I have been using kde 2.2 which comes with woody since a long time > now. But recently i downloaded all the 250 MBs of backported debian > packages of KDE 3.1 from ftp.kde.org. And i have them on a comp. > somewhere on my network. Now, i want t

kernel compile for ide modules

2003-03-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I have tried compiling my kernel twice now, but the ide modules that would appear in modconf don't show up. What do I need to check? And by the way, if I just download a kernel and install it, it will have all the modules with it. Surely there's a command that can be issued when compiling a ker

Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-05 Thread DOUGLAS RIST
I am trying to install Debian 3.0rc1. My system is: AMD K6-350 ASUS Motherboard Adaptec AHA-294x/AIC-78xx Seagate SCSI HD (9Gb) Intel Pro/100+ ATI Tech 3d Rage Pro PCI Hitachi CDR-7930 I boot up and get the message that "No hard disk drives were detected". Everything else can detect th

Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
When I recompiled the kernel for one server, dhcpd would not work. According to the error I didn't compile the kernel for certain aspects of dhcpd. However, when I went through all the configuration items in menuconfig I couldn't find what it seemed to be requiring. What in fact do I need to c

kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Has anyone created a file that shows all the options available in menuconfig when doing a kernel compile? It would be handy so that I can note on it what options I absolutely need for various configurations. Curtis Vaughan North Pacific Corporation WashTech (CWA Local 37083) IWW x353203 -- To U

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread Craig Dickson
bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > > don't match the output of > > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom > > Not really an expert on what happens on

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Travis Crump
Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: 4) why a simple hello word program in java, that works fine on windows, return this error on linux (java.lang.NoDefFoundError) bash$cat test.java public class test { public test() {} public static void main(String[] argc) { System.out.print

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > However, if you trust people enough to enable > XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot > the machine. Uh... No. X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may rely on a

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to "shutdown -r now" than holding the > power button.. To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to `/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now`, per /etc/inittab. -- The freedoms that we

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:53:16AM -0500, stan wrote: > Is it possible that some mechanisim could be set up such that a package > which has recieved a security related update in stable, could become the > latest package for testing? > > I'm trying to think of a way to leverage the fact the securit

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:44:07AM -0500, stan wrote: > I agree thta it is not -the only_ measuer of stability. However in this > case, the stated uptime includes all apps (including X). So I think it's > still a valid indication of the stability of the entire release (as used in > this particular

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > don't match the output of > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom Not really an expert on what happens on cds but I belive it has something

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Vineet Kumar (Wed 05 Mar 02003 at 09:17:47AM -0800): > * Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 19:15 PST]: > > By-the-by, where does a bash session keep track of command history while > > that session is open? > > > > How does it know whether to use ~/.bash_history or this e

Re: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-05 Thread Brian Dockter
Eduardo wrote: > Did you set the DNS ? > I always get this... my dns server doesn't work full > time :(, but what I > do is: > change to other console i.e. alt+F2 and edit > /etc/resolv.conf and put > the new dns in the file Since I am behind a firewall, I can't directly access the mirror, so I w

howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread Ray
how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they don't match the output of md5sum -b /dev/cdrom i used x-cdroast 0.98+0alpha9-9 and didn't get any error/warning messages, and it all seemed to go fine. and the cd m

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 19:15 PST]: > By-the-by, where does a bash session keep track of command history while > that session is open? > > How does it know whether to use ~/.bash_history or this elusive memory > pointer? It always performs history search/substitution fr

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 05/03/03 Gilberto Garcia Jr. did speaketh: > Hey guys... > > 1) How can I make some commands available to all user. (i.e.) shutdown (only > root can execute this, what can I make to other user do this too?) man sudo Sorry, I don't use Java. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

2003-03-05 Thread Mark Schouten
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > the start option for the xserver tcp isn't anymore wanted, but even > after removing it, i am far from a usable system. > some graphical stuff starts up, but stops somewhere leaving me > basicly with the background that exis

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread csj
At Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:10:59 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 3:16 am, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > Hi Yall, > > > > spotted the above titled article & it seemed to me some of us > > & me might find it of use, so here is the url > > > > http://www.osnews.com/print

USB device detection problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
After either rebooting from windoze to linux, or even with a complete shutdown/poweroff, my two usb mass-storage devices aren't detected unless I boot Linux twice! Loading and unloading modules doesn't help. Everything USB works fine in linux afterwards (and beforewards). There are no error messa

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Regarding the former, I am speaking of the general sense, in which I > frequently change terminal sessions, and I know that I typed out some > complex string in last couple of days, but I'm really not interested in > foraging all open sessions to find that one (1) exquis

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:49:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson insinuated: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 05:13:33PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt insinuated: > > > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's qu

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz insinuated: > On March 4, 2003 07:51 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated: > > > IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works > > > to reboot the machine. > > > > so, say you

lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

2003-03-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! after the last update of my unstable distribution on my laptop, the whole X system is out of order the start option for the xserver tcp isn't anymore wanted, but even after removing it, i am far from a usable system. some graphical stuff starts up, but stops somewhere leaving m

some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
Hey guys... 1) How can I make some commands available to all user. (i.e.) shutdown (only root can execute this, what can I make to other user do this too?) 2) which is the easiest way to upgrade jdk 1.3.1 to jdk 1.4.1? 3) how can I get a new ssl certificate? I have apache-ssl installed and now t

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread David Z Maze
Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On March 4, 2003 09:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: >> > I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm) >> > implements a menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot. >> >> Hmm, doesn't the v

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Is there a way to coerce bash to behave as my old ksh? I like the different histories myself. But I have been recommending this to people who have asked who wanted it. In your .bashrc file. This syncs the histories between shells in the same way as ksh did. PROMPT_

Re: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:07PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > What packages are out there which facilitate editing? a good one that you can run from the command line is sox. it has a bunch of basic effects and filters you can pass the sound through, i've used it in the past and been happy wit

VIA Tahoe onboard LAN

2003-03-05 Thread Gabriel Granger
Hi All, I'm looking into setting up a 1U rack server, I'm looking at getting a board with LAN ie saving the 1 pci I will have for something else, Epox do a motherboard with onboard LAN which is VIA Tahoe. Does anyone know if this supported under debian, and if so how good it compared with say

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