Re: PCI ATA card support - fun stuff

2003-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:08:15PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > G'day Alvin/All, > > | - why do you want raid??? > > I'm setting up a file/print server. does NOT justify raid ... but if you mean its a home server or mail server or webserver, you can u

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-24 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > > Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my > > Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). > > > > The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably > upgrade

Re: Can't find NIC module

2003-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:21:19PM -0500, Jason Kaza wrote: | | I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated March 22 and attempted | an install with it. While setting up network hardware, it | successfully detected my sis900 network card, but 'modprobe -v | sis900' returned 'cannot find module s

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:37:59AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: | Hello everybody, | | I have the following question: | I have four partitions: | /, /tmp, /usr, /home | | Is it possible to change the situation so that the | /tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the | /tmp is a normal f

Re: Gnome 2 user guide--how do I read it.

2003-03-24 Thread James D Strandboge
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:09, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: > On 20 mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote: > >>I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in > >>general. And a few things just plain didn't work . . . > > > >Are we talking abo

Re: Error message from install of python packages

2003-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:35:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do these messages mean...?? | | Setting up python-gtk (0.6.11-7) ... | 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback | 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback When the python interpreter starts up it imports the "site" modu

pam_limits behavior on woody

2003-03-24 Thread James D Strandboge
I am using woody and had this in /etc/security/limits.conf: backup hardfsize 1 * hardfsize 10 The idea is that backup should have a file limit size of 100Gb, with all other users have a file limit size of 100Mb. The problem is the above doesn't work. I can't get bac

Apache problem:mod_unique_id

2003-03-24 Thread Terry Milnes
Apache no longer starts after apt-getting some files.  I now have the following error in my error.log: mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("ATHEOS")   Any help would be appreciated. TIA!   NeoFax

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:30:10PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > | Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not > | being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it > | will do no good to make Debian less easy because he was annoying. > > I'v

Re: X

2003-03-24 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Pigeon said... > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > > > > > Sorry this won't help you but I've always

splitting/editing avi/video files

2003-03-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hi - I have a 1.5 Gig video that I want to put on CD's (700 Mb). What is the best way to do this? I searched briefly on the internet but I think I can save a lot of time with experimenting by asking the list. What I already tried: 1) mencoder to copy the file to different sizes. it fa

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:07:24PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:03:24AM -0800, nate wrote: > > hopefully this time around there's enough time for them to get it > > working, though I don't know if we'll see an official X11-based installer > > for the next revision, I hope

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Lindsay Yardley
| Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not | being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it | will do no good to make Debian less easy because he was annoying. I've looked after windows boxes for many years, windows users find it quite di

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:13:04PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:06:12AM -0800, Larry wrote: > > I must say, however, that compared to a number of > > other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to > > get installed and configured. I suspect the poor > > fellow was

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-24 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). The glibc issue is resolved, if you upgrade now than you will probably upgrade on the order of 100-200 packages depending on how many were al

Re: Status of Testing

2003-03-24 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my > Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). I said "Damn the torpedoes" and went ahead and upgraded. So far I haven't noticed any problems. I run a testing mach

Re: X

2003-03-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > > > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does > > > this. You

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:08:15PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day Alvin/All, > | - why do you want raid??? > I'm setting up a file/print server. > | > | - sometimes you cannot boot off hde/hdg > |- did you test that you cn boot off hde/hdg > don't want to boot from it. > > hda1 - /b

debian 3.0 connection oddity

2003-03-24 Thread Josh Bauman
Battled long and hard today with a very strange problem on my Debian unstable 3.0 box. I had my internet connection working fine and then went to go use mozilla again and found name resolution not to be working; that is, i could not reach any sites. I then tried Lynx and i could access most

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dm

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have the following question: > I have four partitions: > /, /tmp, /usr, /home > > Is it possible to change the situation so that the > /tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the > /tmp is a normal folder in / )

Re: Bug reports and the incoming queue

2003-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:53:44PM -0500, John Ashley Burgoyne wrote: > Evolution having been non-upgradeable/uninstallable in sid for a few > days now because of a missing dependency on libgal23, I looked to see > whether anybody had submitted the bug. I saw that somebody has indeed > submitted it

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0100, Hans Wilmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > THX for your suggestions! > > > delete libnullplugin.so in the mozilla plugin > > ROTFL, this produces just another popup: > > > "Mozilla cannot find the Plugin Downloader Plugin ..." That's what I thou

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:58:25AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:04:04 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a manifestly clear policy on shared libraries. Shared library > > packages must include the soname's version number, for good reasons. > > Whi

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Monday 24 March 2003 10:06 am, Larry wrote: > I don't condone the outburst, and am not fully tuned > in on this incident. > > I must say, however, that compared to a number of > other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to > get installed and configured. I suspect the poor > fellow w

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:10:19PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > > > So, make a proposal already. I have, and it will work if used. > > Where can I find a description of your proposal? I'd like to consider > these issues in a less

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-24 Thread Jorge Santos
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > I have the following question: > I have four partitions: > /, /tmp, /usr, /home > > Is it possible to change the situation so that the > /tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the > /tmp is a normal folder in / ) ? It's

Error message from install of python packages

2003-03-24 Thread fbrian
What do these messages mean...?? Setting up python-gtk (0.6.11-7) ... 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Setting up python-glade (0.6.11-7) ... 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Setting up pyth

Re: CONFIG_FILTER

2003-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:01:54AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This issue comes up periodically on this list & on my local LUG list also, > from the debian users anyway. If you select to use dhcp during an install > the dhcp client used is dh

Re: Gnome 2 user guide--how do I read it.

2003-03-24 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On 20 mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote: >>I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in >>general. And a few things just plain didn't work . . . > >Are we talking about gnome2 or the gnome2.2 backport? I'm using the gnome2.2 backpor

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > [snip] > > So, make a proposal already. I have, and it will work if used. > Where can I find a description of your proposal? I'd like to consider these issues in a less adversarial setting. I bet I'm not alone in this. > [snip]

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:16:37PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Last post on this. > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:24:24 -0600 Jamin Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just as I have never claimed that the example you've given doesn't > happen. You gave an example of why a resolution is needed.

Re: Bug reports and the incoming queue

2003-03-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, John Ashley Burgoyne wrote: > message from the maintainer, however, is a curt request never to submit > such bugs because libgal23 is already in the incoming queue. The maintainer is being boneheaded. He should have either closed the bug knowing he would have to close more un

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > Importance: High > > > A typical Windows user > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject

Re: [OT] boot CD from grub?

2003-03-24 Thread Jens Grivolla
Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 00:17, Jens Grivolla wrote: >> So I guess I'll just have to work around it (which can be a pain), >> apparently booting from a CD without BIOS-support is not possible. > > Have you tried xosl from http://www.xosl.org I havent used

Status of Testing

2003-03-24 Thread Bill Moseley
Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??). On my desktop and development machines I have a mix of testing and unstable packages. I've needed the unstable versions of a few packages for my hardware or for

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Larry
I was just making the observation, one I can verify with other folks I know (none of which would be classified as idiots in any forum I'm aware of) that compared to other systems, Debian is not as easy to install and configure. As an example, when installing Potato on a computer that had held Wind

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Marc! On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:06:12AM -0800, Larry wrote: > > I must say, however, that compared to a number of > > other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to > > get installed and configured. I suspect the poor > > fellow was ready to

Bug reports and the incoming queue

2003-03-24 Thread John Ashley Burgoyne
Evolution having been non-upgradeable/uninstallable in sid for a few days now because of a missing dependency on libgal23, I looked to see whether anybody had submitted the bug. I saw that somebody has indeed submitted it, and moreover, it has been resolved. The "resolution" message from the mainta

Re: Fwd: Re: X ---> console switch puts monitor out of range...

2003-03-24 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:57, Tom wrote: > I don't log out. I press Ctrl+Alt+Del. It's just my monitor that > goes blank; the system still functions. I can type commands and > all, but don't see a thing :-) Mine's a laptop, and it acts like all the interrupts have been disabled - nothing has any e

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > Andrew Pritchard said: > > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've > > seen a lot of these types of messages: > > > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > > SeekComplete Error }

[OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread JOSEPH A NAGY JR
A typical Windows user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232 > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Last post on this. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:24:24 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Epochs currently serve a different purpose, one that is needed. Doing > what you propose would remove that functionality. Bleck, you're right, brain fart. > > > Actually, it was. You seemed to

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 17.06 schrieb Larry: > I don't condone the outburst, and am not fully tuned > in on this incident. > > I must say, however, that compared to a number of > other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to > get installed and configured. Amen to that. I'm running Linux

Re: PHP4 conflicts with libc6

2003-03-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:09:53PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > When you're running anything later than stable, you should read > debian-devel-announce. Why? Then they'd actually learn something, or at least not be able to blame their own stupidity on the software. Can't have either one... that

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:06:12AM -0800, Larry wrote: > I must say, however, that compared to a number of > other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to > get installed and configured. I suspect the poor > fellow was ready to tear his hair out (assuming he had > some hair). Yeah, you h

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread nate
Andrew Pritchard said: > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've > seen a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > Unc

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:03:24AM -0800, nate wrote: > hopefully this time around there's enough time for them to get it > working, though I don't know if we'll see an official X11-based installer > for the next revision, I hope that they have the backend and a > ncurses-style installer done for t

Re: my helvetica looks ugly

2003-03-24 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 19.28 schrieb Roman Joost: > I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. I attached a > little screenshot of my helvetica, but i don't know why? > > I tried to start the X server with 72 and 100 dpi, looked, that all my > fonts are installed and available, but

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-03-24 um 23.16 schrieb Andrew Pritchard: [...] > Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine > till now. Hate to say it, but yes it looks like you'd better get a backup done. Or try to mkfs the entire drive (delete and recreate all partitions). That

Re: Fwd: Re: X ---> console switch puts monitor out of range...

2003-03-24 Thread Tom
Hey, > And I thought I was the only one... Heh. Me too :-) > How do you log out, just pull the plug? I don't log out. I press Ctrl+Alt+Del. It's just my monitor that goes blank; the system still functions. I can type commands and all, but don't see a thing :-) > Where does your system write >

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 ori

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Daniel, I'm going to try and do something else today, I'm suffering information overload. BUT, I have partioned them as FD but cannot see how to make them RAID, I have 2 FD partitions where I want 1 83 partition mounted and initialised as /home (mirrored of coarse). If I continue the install

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Nevermind that my "change X" or "rework X" is at the exact same level > of the explanation you've given your solution. Difference is, it is > already coded. I've thrown out several ideas. > > Modify the behavior of epoch. > Inclu

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Larry, I'm surprised to hear that. I'm a relative newbie to linux and chose debian cause the others tend to dictate what u can & can't install and often (on the systems i've tried) stuff up whereas debian allows you to choose what & how it's installed but stops you from stuffing it up, so it

Re: X ---> console switch puts monitor out of range...

2003-03-24 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:34, Tom wrote: > Debian runs smoothly as long as I use X. The system boots fine, I > land at the prompt, enter 'startx' when I feel the need to do so. > When I want to switch back, however, from X to console, my monitor > blanks, reporting it's "out of range". > > Indeed,

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:43:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:35:34 -0600 Jamin Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because epoch's already have a use, which is different from what you > > describe. You're suggesting tacking new functionality on to them > > that is comp

Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439,

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-24 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, THX for your suggestions! > delete libnullplugin.so in the mozilla plugin ROTFL, this produces just another popup: "Mozilla cannot find the Plugin Downloader Plugin ..." Mozilla should have some protection against plugins built-in, as it has for blocking images and scripts opening window

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-24 Thread csj
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:02:16 -0500 (EST), Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 at 7:34am, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...] > >BTW, my understanding of emacspeak was that it required a > >voice card -- hardware to actually generate the output. The > >nice thing about festival is that it wo

Re: CONFIG_FILTER

2003-03-24 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > My guess at a solution would be to enable this option in the kernel > source .config files, as long as it didn't create more issues than it > solves. That's probably a good idea. You should file a wishlist bug against a kernel-source package if there isn't one already. C

IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-24 Thread David Roundy
Hello everyone. I've been getting the following error message (repeatedly, but with different sectors): hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2620329, sector=2620256 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 26

X ---> console switch puts monitor out of range...

2003-03-24 Thread Tom
Hi all, Debian runs smoothly as long as I use X. The system boots fine, I land at the prompt, enter 'startx' when I feel the need to do so. When I want to switch back, however, from X to console, my monitor blanks, reporting it's "out of range". Indeed, the refreshing rates it then mentions are t

Re: X

2003-03-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > > > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does > > > this. You

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:35:34 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So far, you're the only user I'm aware of that has become "frustrated" > by it. Sure, there are probably more out there, but I hardly think it's > a problem of the magnitude you claim it to be. Well, it's hard to tell

[no subject]

2003-03-24 Thread netbrain
hi. wondering if anybody have a thinkpad 760EL. with X configured 800x600 16bpp??? no matter what i do it doesn't work..

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:35:34 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because epoch's already have a use, which is different from what you > describe. You're suggesting tacking new functionality on to them that > is completely different from their existing use. Thus, existing > packages u

A beautiful Russian treasure

2003-03-24 Thread Lavone Altay
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Re: possible IDE hard disk problem

2003-03-24 Thread Tom Pfeifer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:29:04AM -0500, David Roundy wrote: > Hello all. > > I am getting the following error messages on my thinkpad (along with > nasty crashes): > > hda: dma_intr: Status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error } > hda: dma_intr: Error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error }, LBAsect=3505

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:30:44AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:36:29 -0600 > Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great, I'll get right on that. Oh wait, there no indication of how. > > Sure, we can just "change" the packaging system. However, there's a > > *lot* mor

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:28:41AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:26:38 -0600 Jamin Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No it's not. Version number indicate a progression of an > > application, they have no indication of "major differences between > > two releases". Just b

repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I have the following question: I have four partitions: /, /tmp, /usr, /home Is it possible to change the situation so that the /tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the /tmp is a normal folder in / ) ? It's usually hardly used and I could use some space for my person

[SOLVED] Re: KDE not working in sid

2003-03-24 Thread GBV
Thks... my problem was with kdelibs4 - Original Message - From: "Dan Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GBV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: Re: KDE not working in sid > How about apt-get install kdebase or kdelibs? What version of

please help - can't get Open Inventor demos to build - missing /make/ivcommondefs

2003-03-24 Thread Lukas Latz
.. on Debian Woody Testing. Have installed inventor, inventor-dev, inventor-clients, inventor-demos, inventor-data from dselect. The many demos in /usr/share/doc/inventor-demo come with GNUmakefiles that all start roughly like this: IVDEPTH = ../.. include $(IVDEPTH)/make/ivcommondefs where the

Re: KDE not working in sid

2003-03-24 Thread GBV
i have kde***4 should it be 3? thks? - Original Message - From: "Dan Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GBV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: Re: KDE not working in sid > How about apt-get install kdebase or kdelibs? What version

Re: Installer - Was: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Alfredo J. Cole
El Lun 24 Mar 2003 12:03, nate escribió: (...) > hopefully this time around there's enough time for them to get it > working, though I don't know if we'll see an official X11-based installer > for the next revision, I hope that they have the backend and a > ncurses-style installer done for the next

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "Alfredo J. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Lun 24 Mar 2003 10:06, Larry escribio': > (...) > > On the other hand, I've found the system to > function > > extrememly well, and be marvilously stable. Once > > installed, it is easy to upgrade and install > > applications on. So the big h

Re: apt-get to unstable

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:55:43 CST, "Irish, Jon D BAE Systems" writes: >This is probably a silly question, but how do you add unstable to >apt-get? I went into //etc/apt/sources.list, and added: > >deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable unstable main non-free >contrib change that to deb htt

Re: Cisco VPN Client.

2003-03-24 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:12, Vicente Ferrando wrote: > > Lan1--->Linux box ---> Internet --->Cisco 3005 --->Lan2 > > I want Lan1 to access Lan 2 using the tunnel stablished between Linux > box and 3005. > I believe I have made this work by using NAT on the linux box, but what you really

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:36:29 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great, I'll get right on that. Oh wait, there no indication of how. > Sure, we can just "change" the packaging system. However, there's a > *lot* more to it than just waiving a magic wand or hacking a few lines > of cod

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Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:26:38 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No it's not. Version number indicate a progression of an application, > they have no indication of "major differences between two releases". > Just because a package moves from 1.x to 2.x or 3.x gives no indication > of

my helvetica looks ugly

2003-03-24 Thread Roman Joost
I was wondering, that my X fonts are looking very ugly now. I attached a little screenshot of my helvetica, but i don't know why? I tried to start the X server with 72 and 100 dpi, looked, that all my fonts are installed and available, but i can't find any hints. If someone has the same problem (m

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread nate
Alfredo J. Cole said: > (Putting on my anti-flame suit) > > Mandrake copied the RH installer at the early stages. Even the RH 5 > installer would be a big advancement. How hard would it be to "debianize" > that installer? the big issue with debian is all the architechtures it supports. I think

CONFIG_FILTER

2003-03-24 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This issue comes up periodically on this list & on my local LUG list also, from the debian users anyway. If you select to use dhcp during an install the dhcp client used is dhclient. I am not sure what the relationship is between dhclient & CONFI

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:16:05 -0800 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, but 'man apt-cache' followed by 'apt-cache search ...' is. Ya know it was years of using apt before I learned about apt-cache. Darn that dselect, deity, aptitude, et al. Point stands; it isn't sensible. --

apt-get to unstable

2003-03-24 Thread Irish, Jon D BAE Systems
This is probably a silly question, but how do you add unstable to apt-get? I went into //etc/apt/sources.list, and added: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable unstable main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates main contrib non-free All this does is give me a b

Re: KDE not working in sid

2003-03-24 Thread Dan Owens
How about apt-get install kdebase or kdelibs? What version of konqueror is actually installed? What version of kdebase and kdelibs? Knowing these may help. Dan On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:29, GBV wrote: > i tried, and my output was > > apt-get install konqueror > Reading Package Lists... Done >

Re: Cisco VPN Client.

2003-03-24 Thread nate
Vicente Ferrando said: > Good afternoon, > > I'm using Cisco VPN client to connect a Debian box to a Cisco VPN 3005. > I've got the client configured and working for this computer. But I want > this linux box act like a router, making the tunnel available to the rest > of the LAN connec

Re: Cisco VPN Client.

2003-03-24 Thread Jeff
Vicente Ferrando, 2003-Mar-24 16:12 +0100: > Good afternoon, > > I'm using Cisco VPN client to connect a Debian box to a Cisco VPN 3005. > I've got the client configured and working for this computer. But I want > this linux box act like a router, making the tunnel available to the > r

Re: opera browser

2003-03-24 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Blake Covarrubias wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 23:38, Alex Togstad wrote: You can get the second preview of Opera 7 for Linux here: http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/intel-linux/365-20030307-7.0.0-P2/ I have not tired this yet, as I'm eager to see the results of someone try it first. :-) Let me kno

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:15:56AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:37:54 -0600 Jamin Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you've got another viable option, I'm sure we'd love to hear it. > > U, update the packaging system to handle this not uncommon > problem. Gre

Re: KDE not working in sid

2003-03-24 Thread GBV
i tried, and my output was apt-get install konqueror Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, konqueror is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. any hints? - Original Message - From: "Dan Owens"

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Jamin Collins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:14:28AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:35:17 -0600 Jamin Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is not just about version numbers, it's about handling major > > differences between two releases, regardless of the change in > > version numbers

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030324 08:47 PST]: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:35:17 -0600 > Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is already a mess. We don't need more of the same. > > > Could have fooled me, seems to be working pretty well.

Re: System wont boot up, help please.

2003-03-24 Thread Kent West
Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi everybody, I messed up my system this weekend and hope one or more the kind souls on this list will help me fix my mistake. Previously I was running Debian 'Potato' on a P100 with 24Mb RAM, 540 Mb Harddrive, 16 Mb Voodoo3 video card and a Packard Bell 14/15 inch monitor

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread donw
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:06:12AM -0800, Larry wrote: > I must say, however, that compared to a number of > other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to > get installed and configured. I suspect the poor > fellow was ready to tear his hair out (assuming he had > some hair). > > On the

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Lindsay Yardley wrote: [...] hda1 - /boot hda2 - / hda3 - swap hde/g raid set - /var hde/g raid set - /home that's why i asked if it would be possible/advisable to first install debian to hda1,2,3 then add the RAID1 set, format/mount it and move /var & /home over to it. So far I've found out I nee

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:04:04 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a manifestly clear policy on shared libraries. Shared library > packages must include the soname's version number, for good reasons. Which is about the only package I would say that it is needed for multiple

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