Some kernel compile questions

2003-03-06 Thread Sukrit
hi listers, i have some kernel related questions, i have read the fine manunal (kernel-howto) but didn't get answers to these. 1. How do i decide which modules to load at boot time, which file is to be edited? (i am thinking that i'll compile support for lots of devices - cd-writer, different ne

SNMP stats

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Quick Q: If I'm collecting SNMP stats using mrtg and have the following setup eth0: 192.168.1.1 eth0:1 192.168.1.2 Does linux keep stats for the interface and aliases and just the combined total on the interface? Cheers Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAI

Re: pinfo from testing or unstable.

2003-03-06 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Can people who run testing or unstable verify the following? > > I have a non harmful bug with pinfo on testing or unstable. More > specifically, I can scroll past what was supposed to be the bottom of > the top dir page and get a

Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-06 Thread Carla Schroder
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:54 pm, Andrew Hurt wrote: > Dave Selby wrote: > > I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics > > tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with > > woody ? > > > > If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? >

Re: no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Hurt
praveen kallakuri wrote: hello i tried this on debian laptops but dint get any useful responses. hopefully someone here can help me. here's my setup; woody -- 2.4.17 customized for acpi - gnome2 - gdm2 i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts were smudgy. the font-H

Re: Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:01:21PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > yes, thanks. err should have probably skimmed man exim > first. mainlog gave the following info: > > 18r7I2-A7-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=1533 > 18r7I2-A7-00 failed to open database lock file > /var/spool/exi

Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-06 Thread Roman Joost
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 06:18:16PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. > Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? > > If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? > > Dave > > I don't kn

Re: HP cd-writer locking up my system hard!

2003-03-06 Thread Andy
> Now if I do a command line cdrecord, I get this error (but at least I don't > lock up my whole machine!) > steelhead:/home/andy# cdrecord -speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -data paperport.iso Responding to my own post here as I got a command line cdrecord to work. 2 things I just found searching the web. Firs

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 19:04 -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI > CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and > playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I > would just change my fst

Re: KNOPPIX and it configure.

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:22:12AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > I want to use KNOPPIX for create my LaTex documents. But I can not > reconfigure LaTex distributive because files of tetex are on CD. Can I > do this. (Now I need reconfigure hyphenations). Thanx. Note: I've never used knoppix.

Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Hurt
Dave Selby wrote: I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? I compiled Wacom and USB into the kernel, and my Wacom 6x8 USB does the job.

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:20:09PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > > > > > >Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge > >disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line. > > > >You asked for that one :-) > > > > Wow, > > you're in a charming mood today dude. I see your mail

Re: GNOME-2.2 backport

2003-03-06 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 00:42, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > I am trying install gnome2.2 on my woody system. Running Kernel 2.4.20 I > use the command apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines* and all I > get is sorry broken packages and all the depends that everything needs > any insight on t

Re: HP cd-writer locking up my system hard!

2003-03-06 Thread Andy
> >I can't kill X and can't even ssh into my box from another box. > >Using Debian 3.0 kernel-2.4.18-bf2.4 > >I have read that burners need to be the master device. > >So the HP burner is master on IDE2. I don't know what the deal is. > >Whenever I start xcdroast and/or mount the burner to look at

KNOPPIX and it configure.

2003-03-06 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I want to use KNOPPIX for create my LaTex documents. But I can not reconfigure LaTex distributive because files of tetex are on CD. Can I do this. (Now I need reconfigure hyphenations). Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread John Griffiths
Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line. You asked for that one :-) Wow, you're in a charming mood today dude. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: can't connect to mysql on debian

2003-03-06 Thread nate
Joyce, Matthew said: > > > I have a debian woody box running mysql from apt-get. > > PHP4 on the same box can connect ok, but I cannot connect from another > machine on the same subnet. > > Do I have to specifically allow other non localhost connections ? debian by default last I checked had the o

Still struggling with my modem(s)

2003-03-06 Thread Teilhard Knight
It seems the installation of my USB modem drivers went OK. At least I didn't get any error messages. I think I made the mistake of installing the drivers for my Win Modem just after that and before testing USB. Here (when installing the Win Modem drivers) I got error messages. Apparently both devic

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > > Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > > > > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > > > > > What does this mean - I can confirm

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:06:31PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thanks for answering. > > > > > > I am afraid that this is not what I want: > > > The problem is

can't connect to mysql on debian

2003-03-06 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have a debian woody box running mysql from apt-get. PHP4 on the same box can connect ok, but I cannot connect from another machine on the same subnet. Do I have to specifically allow other non localhost connections ? Thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independen

Re: Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-06 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 6, 2003 02:15 pm, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:33:55PM +, cirrus wrote: > > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 6:06 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html > > > and then view source in Konqueror. For some reason it looks > >

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:36:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > 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 >

Re: sendmail security flaw & fix

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:43:22PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > I've been looking for the Debian response to the recently found sendmail flaw > and corresponding fix (http://www.sendmail.org). Can someone point me to > where I can find this information? You are subscribed to debian-security-announce,

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:58:37AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > > > acn be used in production> For ins

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:50:40AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:44:41PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:11 PST]: > > > My point is that the testing release ahs proven to be stable in a > > > production environemnt (for me at least), and has,

Re: OpenOffice and imagined compiler conflicts

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Pytel
You can have multiple versions of gcc on the system with no problems at all. Plain old "gcc" will always refer to 2.95, and nothing will get confused. If you want to use a newer gcc, like 3.0, you'll run "gcc-3.0" instead. So everything is kept nice and clean. --Todd On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 03:22:31

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:58:41 -0500 "Victor Stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I want to make sure that I use the new one, will your > instructions or anybody's instructions of doing something with vmlinuz > going to assure that whatever that command of option or flag > (whatever) that is going

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-06 Thread Sharninder
> > 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 updates. > > Next I would copy all of the debs to /var/

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Sharninder
> because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via what do u mean by "via the web with kmail" ... anyways mostly root is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Cal

Audigy 2 problems

2003-03-06 Thread Mathieu Ducharme
Hi. I couldnt get any sound working under Debian (from a knoppix install). When I start KDE it says it cant find /dev/dsp I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum... Thank you, -- Mathieu Ducharme [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

OpenOffice and imagined compiler conflicts

2003-03-06 Thread Steve Webster
Hello I'm unsure about this question but feel the need to ask it anyway. I am running Woody and wish to install OpenOffice.It seems I also need to install gcc-3.0-base, libgcc1 and libstdc++3. I have gcc-2.95 etc. and am a little concerned about possible conflicts. Need I be? Can't seem to fin

XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-06 Thread Lonnie Sutton
I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I would just change my fstab to point to the SCSI burner and use that for the CD's I wanted

Re: Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
yes, thanks. err should have probably skimmed man exim first. mainlog gave the following info: 18r7I2-A7-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=1533 18r7I2-A7-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spoo l/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8) 18r7I2-00

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
"dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192" Ok, I see something here that I have seen before and I need some clarification (the nubie that I am) everyone saiz vmlinuz, but currently I run and boot into the old one, the new one is vimlinuz-2.4.20-686 or something similar and is located in the boot folder,

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Brian Clark
* Victor Stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 06. 2003 13:52]: > Actually I WANT something that only does one thing with no options > whatsoever, as long as it boots my new kernel that is all I care. If you don't mind using syslinux, something along the lines of: fdformat /dev/fd0 mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-06 Thread debian_newbie
On 06 Mar 2003 16:59:04 +0100 Wilfried Essig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard and wrote: > Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 14.41 schrieb Jerry Van Brimmer: > > > tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/the-file-system-you-mounting > > > > > When I run #tune2fs -i 30d /dev/hda > > > > I get: > > > > tune2fs 1.27 (8

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for answering. > > > > I am afraid that this is not what I want: > > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - > > either in rece

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Mike M
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for answering. > > I am afraid that this is not what I want: > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - > either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. > So I want to somehow "reset" in

Re: How can I handle this situation?

2003-03-06 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:43:34 -0600 "Phil Sager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb:/# iptables -L > Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > init_module: Device or resource busy > Hint: ins

Re: How to gather information about a open port?

2003-03-06 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:44:48 +0100 Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As this is not known to me as a standard service, it could be either > > Dell's monitoring software or a trojan. There's a VB trojan that > > uses this port. > > > > Fiddling with 'telnet host port' can also help in such c

Re: HP cd-writer locking up my system hard!

2003-03-06 Thread Brad
Andy, First of all, I don't think the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel has all the modules you need for scsi-emulation. Find out for sure, and update ur kernel if necissary (apt-get) (or u can compile ur own with the below modules). Once you have done that, try the following (along with what you already ha

EagleTec ET-WL322 PCMCIA

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Cheng
Anyone have any experience with the EagleTec ET-WL322 PCMCIA wireless card? Is it supported by the Linux kernel and Debian? I went through all the documentation and could only found stuff on the ET-WL300 Any advice will help. Thanks! Jeremy -- HK Tech. Research Group Linux developement pr

Re: annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop

2003-03-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 20:21, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > 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

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:00:21 -0500 "Victor Stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple > kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, > no frills. OK, easy provided that your kernel has filesystem support for th

cookies

2003-03-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
can anybody tell me for sure whether lynx-ssl in debian has exp_persistent_cookies compiled in or not. If so, can anybody tell me where my problem might lie. right now, in the lynx.cfg, I have it configured to accept all cookies, set_cookies is TRUE, and so is persistent_cookies. My cookie file and

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Mouse Cursor Offset in X

2003-03-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:25:55AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "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 statica

GNOME-2.2 backport

2003-03-06 Thread Harley D. Eades III
I am trying install gnome2.2 on my woody system. Running Kernel 2.4.20 I use the command apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines* and all I get is sorry broken packages and all the depends that everything needs any insight on this ? Thanks hde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pinfo from testing or unstable.

2003-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
Can people who run testing or unstable verify the following? I have a non harmful bug with pinfo on testing or unstable. More specifically, I can scroll past what was supposed to be the bottom of the top dir page and get a 2nd copy of that page. For example when I run pinfo and scroll toward

HP cd-writer locking up my system hard!

2003-03-06 Thread Andy
I can't kill X and can't even ssh into my box from another box. Using Debian 3.0 kernel-2.4.18-bf2.4 I have read that burners need to be the master device. So the HP burner is master on IDE2. I don't know what the deal is. Whenever I start xcdroast and/or mount the burner to look at a cd, I free

Re: Epson 1200U and Sane - not quite

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 at 3:43pm, Ian Melnick wrote: :I have an Epson Perfection 1200U scanner. I used mknod to make the :scanner0 device node in /dev/usb as noted in the documentation, and I :turn it on. xsane can't find any scanner devices, so I run :sane-find-scanner and it finds it just fine. /et

PPP error

2003-03-06 Thread Aedificator
What does this error mean and What can I do to solve it? The internet is not working as a consequence. I've used pppconfig to set the connection settings. I'm using kernel verison 2.4.20 . I attach the lines relative to the message from the systemlog. JZidar Mar 6 23:53:16 diablo chat[874]: se

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
On Thursday 06 March 2003 6:20 pm, Dave Selby wrote: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant > find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? > > Any help appreciated > Dave Many thanks

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > I set my printer ablaze, and did not get this message. > > Am I doing something wrong? yes: arson hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conflicts in upgrade.

2003-03-06 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:11:45PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing. > > Are you very sure that you don't mean "from stable to unstable"? > Using "apt-cache policy debianutils coreutils" reveals the ugly

Re: Epson 1200U and Sane - not quite

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Hargrove
I fought this exact same problem two nights ago with a 1240U. You might check /etc/sane.d/epson.conf and make sure the parameters are set correctly. I ended up having to install everything from source. On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:43, Ian Melnick wrote: > Hello, all > > I have an Epson Perfection

Re: External MySQL NAT Problems

2003-03-06 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:53, GBV wrote: > Hi all, > > I using Debian 3.0r1 2.4.19 > > When I try to access an external mysql host on internet by a windows > MASQUERADE client using either MySQL-Front or Access ODBC, the > connection is lost many times making windows crash. > > I´m using Iptab

RE: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:10, Narins, Josh wrote: > > Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > > > > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > > > > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there i

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jack Pistachio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just comment out the corresponding line for GLcore and dri. > ie: > > # Load"GLcore" > # Load"dri" > > Then change the driver line in Section "Device" to: > Driver "nvidia" > > Also, make sure you have the NVIDIA-GLX

How can I handle this situation?

2003-03-06 Thread Phil Sager
In trying to set up iptables I get the following messages. Can someone please tell me what I have to do to correct it. Please don't tell me that I have to compile the kernel (unless you have to ;]) I have been trying to get a working copy of Debian Linux up for over a week. I have had everything w

Install over plip (was Re: switching between CUPS and PLIP?)

2003-03-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:36:46PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote: -SNIP- > > I'll need to unload lp before loading plip, so that plip can > > 'own' the parallel port. > > Right? > > Yes. The only way it can't work is if lp is compiled into the kernel,

Libranet to Sarge

2003-03-06 Thread Keith Winston
Hi, I am new to this list and new to debian (but not linux). A few months ago, I installed woody on my laptop, but was disappointed in the shape the install left things. There were too many things left to configure manually. So, over the weekend, I wiped it and decided to try the free versio

PHP cookies

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've just installed php but am finding that its not sending cookies to the browser. Is there something I've got to turn on in php.ini? Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-06 Thread Brian Clark
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 05. 2003 15:27]: > 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 > modules. Not certain why I can only assum

Re: Blender menu problems

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:45:30PM +, John Stevenson wrote: > I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with > the application 'blender'. > > On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems > to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no windo

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:05, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All, > > > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual

XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-06 Thread Bob Paige
I am trying to set up a XDMCP server and client. The client is a hacked Compaq Internet Appliance with 32MB RAM and an on-board flash disk holding the Linux image. Problem is, about 45-seconds into the session, the client freezes. Could it be that the client doesn't have enough RAM, and crashes

RE: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Narins, Josh
> Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All, > > > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual > fire as of > > yet but it does have me worried - a

Re: Conflicts in upgrade.

2003-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:11:45PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing. Are you very sure that you don't mean "from stable to unstable"? > I am running into problems with files shared between packages. > Examples are /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg, shared by dpk

Re: Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:33:55PM +, cirrus wrote: > > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 6:06 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > 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 jus

RE: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-06 Thread Brian Dockter
--- "Narins, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I were you I'd try instaling with woody sources, then, once > everything is > set there, change sources to sarge then apt-get update && apt-get > dist-upgrade I had thought about that, but I was hoping to save myself some trouble (boy was I wro

Re: APT Mirror WAS: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-06 Thread Jason Chambers
On Mar 6 9:31, wrote: > The catch comes when an apt repository just provides a sources.list line > and nothing else. No readable directories, no rsync, only Packages will > give you an idea what is there. > > Has anyone know of a method for mirroring through apt? I'm aware of > apt-mirror, bu

Blender menu problems

2003-03-06 Thread John Stevenson
I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with the application 'blender'. On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no window decoration) and most importantly the menus are drawn (when selected) ab

Epson 1200U and Sane - not quite

2003-03-06 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all I have an Epson Perfection 1200U scanner. I used mknod to make the scanner0 device node in /dev/usb as noted in the documentation, and I turn it on. xsane can't find any scanner devices, so I run sane-find-scanner and it finds it just fine. So I run scanimage -L but it can't find anythi

Re: Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:45:12PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Never got the message, or a warning mailed to root, or a > log in /var/log/mail.log. > In fact, /var/log/mail.log is completely empty although I > do receive messages in my user account sent occasionally to > root.

Re: Degraded fonts

2003-03-06 Thread Jorge Santos
daniel huhardeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list, > > yesterday I updated my unstable and since fonts in some programs like > mozilla (menu, folder list, mail list but mail viewer is ok!) or gaim > are degraded which means not regular. KDE or console, mplayer... fonts > are ok. Any idea? >

Re: Gnome locking up.

2003-03-06 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:16:59PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hello, > I recompiled the kernel to kernel-2.4.20 it compiled fine > but every other boot the screen shrenks buy 3inchs or so > on every side any ideas on what this might be. My laptop > is a Dell 2650 Inspiron

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

2003-03-06 Thread Jorge Santos
arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 lates

Re: Debian, Putty and home and end keys

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Epting
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:22:30AM +0100, Agust?n Fern?ndez wrote: > 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 terminal-type string (under > connect

Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem (was: Newbie bull ...)

2003-03-06 Thread crash
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:06:06 +0100 Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > 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?

Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
I just set up exim for my outgoing mail server using eximconfig. I gave the following responses: Select a number...2 Visible mail name...Enter Other system names...Enter Domains for relay...Enter Local machines for relay...Enter RBL...Enter Smart host...smtp.myisp.com User...myuser Then I tried (

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
Just comment out the corresponding line for GLcore and dri. ie: # Load"GLcore" # Load"dri" Then change the driver line in Section "Device" to: Driver "nvidia" Also, make sure you have the NVIDIA-GLX package installed to. That should work for you. -jackp >

Conflicts in upgrade.

2003-03-06 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing. I am running into problems with files shared between packages. Examples are /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg, shared by dpkg and dselect, and /bin/readlink shared by debianutils and coreutils. The error message is" trying to overwrite '/bin/readlink', which

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of > yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? > Ahh

Unable to mount cd burner as read device

2003-03-06 Thread K. Matthew Victor
Greetings, I need advise as to what might've become bollixed after a kernel upgrade. Problem: Unable to mount the scsi (real, native, scsi cd burner for reading). Symptoms: mount /dev/sr0 will immediately spool up the cd-r/w after 3-5 minutes of running a message is printed: media not found. Or

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 19.20 schrieb Dave Selby: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant > find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? Yes. That's the directory for local delivery. I

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Carla Schroder
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:06 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of > yet but it does have me worried - any thought

kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? Shri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 4:00 pm, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > For sound blaster audigy you have to visit > > http://opensource.creative.com/ or > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 > > and download the source to the driver that supports sb audi

Re: apt-src question

2003-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Eilting wrote: > 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

Re: Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

2003-03-06 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton: > Please help- > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) > using my network. I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic that the setup utility > is not recognizing. I enabled pcmcia support for the kernel (and the > led's on the

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:54 pm, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > It looks like an error when it was making the file (or else it has >error messages embedded in it); specifically, unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.o >references the abort function but it was not resolved. Thanks for the tips! Jeff -- To UNSUBS

no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread praveen kallakuri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello i tried this on debian laptops but dint get any useful responses. hopefully someone here can help me. here's my setup; woody -- 2.4.17 customized for acpi - gnome2 - gdm2 i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts we

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Dave Selby wrote: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant > find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? By default, mail ends up in /var/spool/mail/(username), but typically mail t

Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-sourcepackage

2003-03-06 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: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread nate
Dave Selby said: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I > cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. > > Is it supposed to be posted to ... > /var/mail/ ? depends... by default debian uses exim for MTA, and on install I believe it pro

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix SUCCESS

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:39:34 -0500, > > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam > > > powered dial up connection. > > > > > > I started on 27 January. >

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:57:08PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > > > Here is what I get if I do mkboot, a lost and found folder and a vmlinuz > > file. I tried this before, it doesn't work, but in the man it says something > > about if lilo is in use it

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
Actually I WANT something that only does one thing with no options whatsoever, as long as it boots my new kernel that is all I care. -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murder

where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. Is it supposed to be posted to ... /var/mail/ ? Any help appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

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